skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make valid points.

I cited problems with hosting something on-site, but didn't list the problems of integrating with a service too.

When you integrate with a service you need a member of staff to maintain that integration too. Of course we hope that the integration is easier than maintaining a server but that is not always the case.

You also take on the risk of the SaaS being flaky, like we see with CircleCI.

The SaaS can always raise their prices or go out of business, requiring your company to switch off of that service.

Maybe the SaaS is a security risk. What happens to your company data and builds if/when they get breached?

There's no silver bullet, there's just a set of trade-offs. You get to decide which is best for your use-case.
Impact? They're talking about providing a universal global currency. The geopolitical power and capabilities there are enumerable.
For a non senior engineer it is very likely the truth to be fair
The English-language podcasts I listen to have dubbed it the "electrify everything" movement.
Good point! In the mobile space, a certain walled-garden platform traditionally killed off any app 10 minutes after you left it, and even to this date does not guarantee that your app will be allowed to call home on any semi-regular basis. This makes it impossible to guarantee delivery without using the officially sanctioned push system. And if we're doing push already, why bother doing it differently on other platforms? (even if they support cross-app coordination to make the polling battery-efficient)
I also feel you there.
It's not the US's fault that Russia's past imperial subjects are now seeking protection from Russia in NATO.
Parts of the US are able to put itself in those shoes. The DOS isn't staffed by morons, it fully understands why Russia felt threatened by encirclement, even if the press didn't.

It pursued that direction anyways, because what (aside from nuclear war) is the worst that could happen..?

(A full invasion of Ukraine, as it turns out is the worst thing that can happen - so far. But that's no sweat off the backs of anyone on this side of the Atlantic.)
Wow I'm sad I never found this while working at my previous company. I've wanted a lot of what this provides, and considered building it myself.

I wonder if the emphasis on task management is a contributing factor in it not taking off. Anecdotally, most places have a task management system already, switching systems is a heavy cost, and building a good one is actually a ton of work in the long term.

I'd be interested to see an app that focuses more on the culture aspects here – kudos, user profiles, events, search. Most companies don't have solutions for these, and bringing them into one place could be valuable.
They are not trying to patent what's shown in the figures, those are just given as background information. A patent for a screwdriver will most certainly also describe screws, regardless of whether screws are prior art.

Patentability is solely a matter of the claims made at the end. Those claims will of course be interpreted in the context set out by the method description, but it is entirely normal for a patent to describe the state of the art before discussing a novel method (about which actual claims are then made).

(IANAL)
You're right. As I read in 1984, surveillance by the citizens, on the citizens, was a very effective tool for maintaining control.
There's also moodgym which is less focused on any particular issue than a dedicated CBT therapist, but might be better for someone having an issue going to appointments.

https://moodgym.com.au
I guess in some sense I agree that "MUDs weren't the future" but they are in fact all that anybody keeps building. Facebook's "Metaverse" is just a shitty MUD, likewise for various "Blockchain" projects that produce some sort of virtual land where you... sort of stand around. The art project I visited at the weekend with a friend had a VR environment which was too limited to really be much of a MUD, but it certainly wasn't anything more than a MUD.

Science Fiction isn't necessarily about "a version of what we have" but it is about the What If? question and fantasy stories don't address that. Unexpected consequences are the story seed in good SF. Asimov in the 1950s notes that a good SF story predicts not the automobile but the traffic jam. That's where I think Stephenson is good and Gibson has nothing to tell me.

Star Wars says Space Wizards fighting laser sword battles may not vanquish Evil and I'm like OK, cool, but so what? Diamond Age (in some sense a sequel to Snow Crash) has a bunch of interesting things to say about society, about what parenthood means, about Cultural Imperialism, and about what we/how we teach children.
> notorious Khmer Rogue apologist

After accusing the "Khmer Rouge" (whatever that is) of genocide up until 1979, the US began arming them and fighting for them to keep their UN seat, which Chomsky opposed.

So who is the Khmer Rouge apologist - Chomsky, who did not want the US arming the "Khmer Rouge", or the US government?

> No such promise was made, ever, it was floated but it was never written down in any treaty or even publicly announced. It's putins propaganda

In 1995 the New York Times reported that former US ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock said "we gave categorical assurances" that "NATO would not be moved eastward".

So what you call "Putin's propaganda" is what the former US ambassador to Russia said, as reported in the New York Times.
I guess it started with Cold War, and Chomsky is just part of the generation that distrusted goverment due to internal issues (racism, womans laws, etc), but later started beliving that information about USSR are also fake.
What is weird from my perspective is shifting this perspective to modern Russia. When USSR tried to push pro-feminist, pro-international propaganga against USA, current Russia and pro-Russia movements are not hiding their disgust with LGBT+, abortion, multiculturalism and such. Which looks like minorities in this countries should be sacrificed on altar of anti-USA sentiment.
Didn’t he have an at least mildly impactful academic career in linguistics?
>> Germany really screwed the pooch on their energy policy for the past 15 years...

Why? Russia, and the USSR through the entirity of the Cold War, delivered reliably all the gas ordered. If you have a stable relationship with suppliers stretching decades and through all kinds of conflicts you have zero incentive to change. The infrastructure is there. And being in business with your "enemy" keeps channels open and results in intet dependencies.

Putin, in a bout of insanity, through all that out of the window. Once it was clear that's gonna happen, and no that was NOT clear a year ago, it was too late to switch (infrastructure).
Check out MAGMA for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699776
That's true, my bad. I've just only ever used it with evil (I find the chords even harder to remember!)
Seems like they had a good attempt, and the team learnt a valuable lessin on the importance of validating the business (not just the product) ASAP.

I wish them luck on their next enterprises!
well if we broke our app to 80 small services we might as well use a robust tool like k8s I guess? idk.
And this is another fine case demonstrating how very very wrong that criticism is.

All in all extremely few systemd subsystems require systemd. Systemd's pid1 requires only one subsystem, journald, which one can mostly disable/defang if they really dislike it.

It's much more like a monorepo than monolith. There's standard practices & libraries between the projects- unit files, ability to ask for machine readible outputs, others. But these cross cutting concerns mostly get compiled in. The actual interdependencies between subsystems are few & far between. Feels like the critics dont really understand what they are trying to criticize.
Appreciate the response. To answer your question

>Is "better off [economically]" you're guide on ethical labor practices?

No. But live in reality. I know people have to make hard decisions. If the choice is "Family starves to death" or "Child labor results in survival of family", I would never try to stop this family from having that opportunity to survive. Whether it is better to ban the job so the family starves to death? My inclination is to say no. Clearly some better alternatives would be superior, but in the end you work with the options you have available and not the ones you wish you had. If superior alternative exists, we don't even need to ban child labor because the hand of free will will go towards the superior option.

I've also seen a number of circumstances where child labor is just genuinely what works for a family. Our neighborhood chinese restaraunt, even the 6 and 7 y/o or so work EVERY NIGHT for HOURS, basically when they get home from school until bed. These children are so young, they can barely enunciate clearly most of the time. They do their homework while taking phone orders and even ring you up at the cash register. I'm not even sure they get weekends off. Is it ethical? I don't know, but that family made the calculus it's right for their family and indeed I think it would be unethical for me to stop them. Who knows, their family may be better off for it and it may even be saving them from bankruptcy and losing health insurance and eventually even their lives (especially depending on their immigration status). Maybe the children will end up successful businesspeople as a result of their child labor and donate billions so 1000 other children DON'T have to work.

At the end of the day your situation may have been more iffy (you don't know whether it was actually beneficial). That indicates to me you weren't going to starve to death or anything if you didn't work, because if you were you'd have said right away you were better off than not earning any money. You may have a different outlook if it wasn't so iffy, like if the alternative was much worse.
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I think the entire point of the past ~6 weeks has been to demonstrate that such a sentiment is clearly false. Something the world forgot after the US demonstrated it in 2001...and again in 2003.....and again in 2011 (Libya, after taking over from France's lead). Next we'll be waiting for the Chinese to remind everyone, probably 2025-2030 (after they finish taking notes on Russia's experience and incorporating lessons learned).
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LOVE Squad! I could not imagine that game with OWI hosted servers. Especially with the mod scene that game has.
The extension is pretty good, they're free to sell my PII in exchange for its use.
At Stabilize we support companies to run enterprise software securely and access it via a web browser. We use various emulators on the back-end https://stabilize.app/.
> live through this climate "disaster"

Because this is not a disaster that stops at any point in the foreseeable future. There is no other side to get "through" to.

This isn't like an Earth quake or even a nuclear war where a single event happens, the world is changed but then stasis begins to return.

Next year the impacts of climate change will be notably worse than they were the previous year. This will be true for the rest of your life. Positive feed backs and the geological history of the planet both indicate that after a (currently unknown) limit, things will start escalating rapidly and irreversibly until the surface of the planet is no longer recognizable.

The focus should be on how to psychologically begin to deal with loss at this scale. But, as anyone can see in the comments here, people are very unlikely to be ever ready to deal with the psychological stress this imposes on them. Instead we'll see subtle but steadily increasing madness consume the population. HN is a great place to observe this.
I'm boring. I know I'm boring, and I'm bored as a result of being boring. I suspect a good part of it is bog standard depression. Tied into that is the difficulty of learning new things; I have a lot of things I WANT to learn, but when I get home at the end of the day I just don't have the mental energy.

I recently moved across the country and currently have precisely nothing happening outside of work; no friends, no family, no romantic partners or dates. I got so bored, I finally setup my dusty, unused piano keyboard, installed a piano learning app on my iPad, and started working through the basics.

It's like a fire was lit in my brain. Or an explosion, or something. I haven't felt that energized in ages. I've been practicing every day since, sometimes for upwards of 2 hours straight (my grade school music teachers would be shocked to hear that). I quickly realized the limitations of the first keyboard (a Roland Go:Keys) and went searching for a "real" digital piano. The first time I laid hands on the keyboard I ended up purchasing (a Korg) I felt an immediate sense of calm and happiness.

I have a couple theories for why I've reacted this way, when I've struggled with so many other things I want to learn:
- Music uses an entirely different part of the brain from my technical day job.
- There is immediate progress.
- Likely related, but I took a couple years of lessons in grade school. I'm likely feeling the reawakening of long dormant brain connections. Which strengthens the above two points.

It has only been a week, honestly only time will tell how long this lasts, but maybe it's jump started I needed to move on to other things I want to learn and be less boring.
Can we use this for sports? How fast are kids skiing for instance?
CircleCI used to be an absolutely awesome way to set up CI. The default images just worked for the vast majority of cases. Sure, it always took a bit of fiddling with YAML, but IMO was way ahead of Jenkins et al when it came out.

Then they reworked their YAML format to enable pipelines (and make everything way more complicated, and break all our existing flows). Then they reworked their images to make them more efficient or something, but now there is almost never an image that has everything I need, so I have to build my own image in docker (with yet another CircleCI job). Now that Github Actions exists, we have been slowly migrating everything off CircleCI. Too bad they lost the simplicity that brought us there in the first place.
That was only part of the Texas issue. Many Nat Gas plants were also offline. For nearly the whole time Nat Gas outages were 2x wind outages according to ERCOT.

Here is their own report: https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/04/28/ERCOT_Winter_Sto...
I think you might like Alejandro Jodorowsk's "Psychomagic", or The Midnight Gospel on Netflix.

Neither of those are super closely linked to your comment. I just think you might get a kick out of them.
It works both ways. I wouldn't want to date someone who did that so it saves everyone time.
This is probably an unpopular opinion but the police should be involved in that case. Now I know they hardly come out for even big crimes but I still believe citizens should not be trying to be the speed limit police.
I think this is really neat, but definitely not on the same tier as DALL-E 2, at least from the cherry-picked images I saw.
How much longer will people continue trusting venture backed startups that are almost guaranteed to go belly up within 24 months?

Instead of building on all of this work we keep blowing it up and reinventing things because VCs only want unicorn outcomes. As an example, YC startup graveyard could be full of flowers if these projects were open source and we had a better user driven funding model to keep them going after the business folds.
You can submit evidence like this to the Police in the UK and they may act on it.

Incidentally, I was involved in a heated discussion with someone the other week about her poor parking. Turns out she sent webcam footage to the police and I received a letter saying I had been reported for a public order offence but there was not sufficient evidence to act further.

Raising ones voice isn't yet an offence I am pleased to report.
this is a hodgepodge of tough-guy "realist" contrarianism. most of your statements do not connect into a thesis except maybe an impressionistic summary would be "since Russia plays chess, US is screwed."

this is just hyper-masculine posturing - because the US seems soft, optically, and yet we are somehow simultaneously hegemons, we are both reponsible for the war and also doomed to lose.

China is choosing a stance of non-neutrality. They seem to think that destabilizing all the regions outside of China is somehow going to help, or that a weaker Western bloc is somehow to their advantage. I obviously can only speculate but that is how it looks to me. I think it is a major error, because I think we could do better by repatching globalism and trying to de-fang nationalism, instead of going back to the dark ages and hoping to simply out-survive the other losers of global war.
This person is using social media as a tool for self-development and improving their mental health. The way to work on anxiety is to learn to focus on, recognize and ultimately let go of idle thoughts.

Your solution may be healthy for someone who is experiencing burnout or whose anxiety stems from internet overload. Certainly taking time away from these things and living a simple and focused life helped me for several years. Given OP's level of anxiety in the face of the mundane, I suspect this advice taken in isolation would be insufficient at best and damaging at worst. A habit of avoiding idle thoughts leaves one unpracticed and unskilled at handling them.

Edit for OP:

I find that a habit of exercise helps to redirect that restless energy. After a 3-mile run, I feel strong and healthy and ready to focus on the tasks at hand. If you distrust this but don't have that habit in your life, then prove it to yourself with a 30 day habit of cardio. It's worth knowing.

Beyond that learning a meditation practice helped me immensely. I don't keep up with that as I should, but it's in my toolbox now and I use it as needed.
Looking through my /bin and /sbin, none of the files are statically linked.
The jargon file defines this succinctly, and is a generally fun read for those who haven't seen it.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic.html
Have you tried https://codecombat.com? I think it's a YC startup. I think that's the closest to what you're looking for. I tried it back in the day, and it was OK.

It's not exactly programming, but I think https://vim-adventures.com/ is the best example of a game that teaches a skill.

Just making a good game is difficult. Just making good teaching content is difficult. So trying to both simultaneously will be at least doubly as difficult.

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As for my VR scripting idea, teaching programming isn't the main goal. When VR becomes the next social media, the content creators will either need to do a lot of manual work constructing experiences or learn how to program. It's really hard and messy to create an interactive VR experience without knowing how to program.

So my VR scripting tool/platform will solve a painful problem. A lot of creators won't be programmers, so I think teaching them how to program/use the tool via a game would be helpful.
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Nice! I had a break in the connection and couldn't place the commentary. I'll go back and revisit that.
No, I don't believe that would affect my particular impairment. Do you believe that the only valid metric for accessibility is whether a site is actively damaging eyesight?
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> One of the most obvious impacts of a fight against climate change is that plane travel must get more expensive.

I am a staunch defender of climate action and have made many lifestyle personal decisions on that topic but this whole lifestyle 'consumer effort' message is as flawed as OP's claims. We need to look at the 'bang for buck' data.

Air travel is 1.9% of global emmissions. [0]

As a comparison:

- Energy use in Offices and Shops is 6.6% percent.

- The steel industry emits 7.2% of global emissions.

- Residential energy use is 10.9%.

- Road transport is 16.2% of global emissions.

You see where I am going with this.

Before guilting people into catching a plane for Christmas why not:

- Force steel industry into carbon scrubbing + emission mitigation R&D

- Overcharge large commercial/office areas for lighting/AC energy

- Overcharge large households using energy above a given quota per square foot

- Exponentially progressive tax on personal vehicles above 2000cc.

Notice that all of this is policy driven, not 'consumer effort'.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/09/Emissions-by-sect...
Rumor mill is that he travels with a cancer doctor, and that he's dying of cancer.
Airship doesn't actually send the push? That's news to me
No matter how you try to warp the logic or the reality of the situation and regardless of the country or culture, the responsibility of dealing with the effects of climate change (or anything else) should be proportional to the contribution that each nation makes.

Sure if any country starts to contribute more, they should also take more responsibility.

You cannot for example tax someone on the amount of money that they hypothetically can have or want to have which you even claim they are not even capable of having.
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> I tend to believe there are some great ideas embedded in the cryptocurrency world

Name one. Just one.
It can help to have family close. Growing up my parents often gave us to our grandparents for the weekend (one a month?). Both grandparents lived within 1hr. So, my parent were able to take some weekends for themselves. Also babysitters for a night out and they both had siblings with kids they could leave us with.

I know plenty of people who don't have this kind of support group and/or are unwilling to use sitters in any form.
> No such promise was made, ever

This is wrong, and there is ample evidence by now. More details and some interesting links:

https://martyrmade.com/thoughts-on-ukraine/
Hooks are never the solution for state on their own. They're more for localized to a single component state.

That's why I brought up Relay (this is not the same as React, but works with React), cause it's what FB uses to stitch together global state between hundreds of different sub-components.

That being said, Relay does NOT have a simple object interactive state ability. It's an obscure "external store" with weird querying and mutating rules that can feel quite difficult to work with at times.
I see this argument but wonder how true it is. If I'm shopping around, I'm already being fickle, comparing prices, features, etc. $10 would probably often be a breaking point. And me finding out you did this definitely would.

If anything, it seems one should slightly -lower- prices when suspecting a customer is shopping around.
Yeah the LSP ecosystem is so much nicer than the machinations hacked into text editors over the last 20 years. When you get down to it a modern editor is just a process manager for language servers, a global event bus/RPC layer across them all, and a UI layer. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc.