skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi purpleidea, I've been following the project for years because of how much I loved the concept and how inspiring I found one of the talks you gave about how the configuration management space is all wrong. I remember when you left your job at RedHat to work on mgmt full-time and was excited for what would come of it.

I was just wondering if you can comment on the current status of the project and its future direction at this point?
Until it can deal with a round of feedback without completely changing the imagine then illustrators have nothing to worry about.
I use this and it's amazing! Starts up so much and looks so good.
26 Sept 2017
Based on both my observations of the space and interaction with crypto people and the crypto market. I know people who work in crypto too.

Your defensive kneejerk reaction doesn't serve as an opposing argument - if you think differently, all you need to do is provide some evidence.
Warning: On my up-to-date Debian with Firefox 99, clicking that link locked up my system and required a hard reset.
Couldn't you replace crypto with "advertising-funded walled gardens that promote addictive rage and conspiracy theories while passing all your details onto oppressive governments" and describe the last decade in the same way?

They were also going to change the world (I'm not sure if they specified for the better).
> In C-like languages pointers are the Maybe/Option type.

I think that's a bit of a stretch, operations on Maybe types can be chained or used with Java streams. You can't do a thing like that with pointers.

They could have dome something like java streams, given that golang has lambdas, but I guess that would not be idiomatic, or something like that...

You do have a point with pattern matching, they don't do that in go. Scala has it, Java is getting pattern matching as some recent addition, but they added the Optional type with java 8.
n steps forward, m steps back?

Recently there was an article about the wife of a deceased coworker who had to use the tech support channel to inform his former colleagues about his death/suicide. There's something to be said about an implicit, unconditional belonging to a community (not to be confused with being a 5$-supporter of a Twitch streamer) and that is something we have lost in western society for the most part.
I guess the Wikimedia community is going for the low-hanging fruit. Don't Let “Perfect” Be the Enemy of “Good”.
Presumably an average Joe watches average movies, i.e. blockbusters which are the movies which attract the largest audience. The articles shows a relatively high correlation compared to the more niche cheaper movies. But yeah, it would be cool to se correlation score for specific genres.
You probably know this, but for anyone else following this thread: the bot is https://gitgitgadget.github.io/.
Dependency Injection does not require a DI Container.

You know, like have an app_init.py and instantiate all services/dependencies manually; providing them as constructor args to other instances as needed.

Use other implementations/mocks in tests setup or dev environments.
>The experiment wasn't even necessary - the Gilded Age was a libertarian'paradise with the gold standard and very little government regulation. What do we most associate with this era? Robber barons, utility monopolies screwing people over with ruthless business practices, confidence men and literal snake oil quack medicine.

The rate of economic growth and improvement in people's living standards was much higher back then than it is now.

Similarly the average adult back then was much healthier than the average adult nowadays, who is likely overweight or obese with some chronic illness. In spite of the vast amount of pills modern people take. So healthcare hasn't necessarily improved much either.
well the danger of depending on technology is that we get stuck when it stops working. i just had this experience today. thanks to covid here it is frequently necessary to have a smartphone with a camera to scan a code at a location that updates your health-status. now i understand the point of contact tracing, but without a phone i would have been denied service. in my case the camera stopped working so i could not scan the code. it was fixed with a reboot of the phone, but imagine if it wasn't. i'd have been stuck. i might not even have been able to buy new phone or get it repaired because those places might not let me in either.

our dependency on technology is so absolute and deep that any failure can have serious consequences for an individual.

we need that minority that refuses or avoids certain technology as a test for our fallback options.

i was also told to pay using the phone, which i would not do either. that was more of a communication issue, the person at the counter asked me to hand her my phone so she could initiate the payment, presumably because she felt that it was to complicated to tell me how to do it. when i refused, she sent me to another counter where i could pay in cash, which effectively caused me to verify that a fallback system that didn't rely on a phone was available and working.
Theoretically. In practice there will be a crispy fried battery thief under the car in the morning.

I'm not seeing a huge market in stealing batteries from EV any time soon. Most are literally built into the frame and would require taking apart the whole car.
open ai has banned nft generations so not possible with dall•e but i hope open-source version comes along in ~1-2 years.

t-shirt is a good idea. many companies will incorporate it definitely.
To any single integration test to be precise. So your builds fails few seconds later if something is wrong.
Sure but you must be very wary that this all may be temporary.

Your government may decide to crack down on crypto, making it difficult to convert to your local currency (as many countries do with USD).

The crypto world in the US may very well be a bubble that will burst at some point.
You're very naive to think that any authority can have power over distributed technology.

BitTorrent is 20 years old, and today you can still download any movie you want from it. Why hasn't any company or government being able to stop it?
Google "crypto bubble".
The Managerial Obsession with 'Busywork'
>If your points are worth making should be able to make them without these ad-hominem guessing games.

>Your rhetoric is disgusting and regrettable

This you? Feels like a bit of 'projection'.

The poster you're replying to is making general commentary about class consciousness between the consumer/worker dichotomy. You view yourself as separate from this. Okay great. His points really aren't specific to you, even in statements like "That’s still going to benefit you, in that the people around you are less desperate"

Replace <you> with <higher income worker> if that helps engage with the content. I have a feeling, though, if you view his argument (a very basic 'a rising tide lifts all boats' one) as disgusting, you're probably not very interested in trying to understand his point of view in the first place.
I wonder that Dall E would produce given the input "Michelangelo's David".
> If the mainland decided on a military take-over of Taiwan they would not care about this

All Pooh cares about is being able to put his name against concluding Maos war. “I did what no one else could”
I think there's a combination of both. I'm interested by the concept of the blockchain but I'm also apprehensive of the companies/projects that are created on it (for a lot of the reasons outlined in the original post).

However offering £150K + sign on bonus is enough for a lot of people (maybe even me) to overlook these issues and jump in for short term gain and the possibility of massive long term gains.

If they paid the same as a traditional startup the equation would be different and I think you would see less people making the switch.
My theory it's a payment processor that converts to %LOCAL_CURRENCY% (if necessary, with an additional conversion through USD/EUR) at the time of purchase and thus would never refund anything in croins at original rate (am open to be proven wrong).
Switzerland had for decades all major rail and road infrastructure rigged with explosives [1], to ward off a German invasion. From 1995-2014, they removed the explosive charges, but the tactical holes to place explosives in still remain - so, should Germany or any other surrounding nation ever be a threat again, it will be a matter of days to place explosives in the crucial routes and to blow them up.

No reason to not prepare similar plans in factories.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprengobjekt
There are legit projects. There are many bad projects. HN people generalize and the ones that know the legit projects understand discussing is a waste of time.
plenty of business models. anything that requires designers can be used with dall•e for a monthly cost. designers require $1k-10k a month (assuming you're in us) & dall•e can greatly reduce that cost to $100 a month through scale.

i believe dall•e is even more useful than gpt-3 because as of now, only real business model that worked for gpt-3 was copywriting.

dall•e will have branches under images like tshirts, replacing desingers or providing designers with more inspiration, stock photos, nfts & so much more...
If someone thinks something is a scam, it makes sense for them to be against making money from the scam
Ask HN: How do you handle non-urgent customer email in a B2B SaaS?
Hi

We had the discussion in our team if we should try to reply immediately to customer e-mails and if we should even start to reply outside of working hours (on evenings or weekends). Often I'm working on the weekends/evenings and it would not bother me to reply to the customer.

Do you think it is a good idea or does it look like we are unprofessional? How does your business handle it. We are a SaaS company only doing B2B.

Thanks for your reply. I wish everyone a happy Easter.
The highest transaction fee in the last 100 transactions has been 4c. That's not a lot but very far from "feeless". Monero mines blocks every 2 minutes; hardly "instant". A full confirmation takes ~20 minutes.

Source: https://www.monero.how/how-long-do-monero-transactions-take
Finland and Sweden move closer to joining NATO
WP is reporting that "Finland will release an official assessment Wednesday of how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed its security environment, beginning a process that is expected to culminate in a request to join NATO."[1]

Prime ministers of both Sweden and Finland are holding a joint press conference starting in a few minutes at the time of this writing, just a few hours before Finland's official assessment.[2]

Swedish media is currently buzzing with unconfirmed statements about plans of joining in June of this year at the NATO meeting in Madrid,[3] as well as a previous prime minister of Sweden stating that if Finland joins, Sweden's "main argument" against joining will fall.[4]

Public opinion around one week after the invasion showed that the "No" demographic in Sweden had shrunk from 40% to 27%.[5]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/nato-finland-sweden/

[2]: https://omni.se/1210-andersson-och-marin-om-natofragan/a/ALwb9r

[3]: https://omni.se/uppgifter-andersson-vill-att-sverige-gar-med-i-nato-i-juni/a/ALwbMq

[4]: https://www.dn.se/sverige/bildt-om-finland-gar-med-i-nato-faller-sveriges-tyngsta-motargument/

[5]: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/nastan-halften-av-svenskarna-vill-ga-med-i-nato
Anyone that loses money they wouldn't have lost otherwise is hurt by insider trading. And if you make it legal, people will try anything to gain insider information.
> You're very naive if you think that corrupt governments won't have power over blockchain-based technologies.

In the strictest sense: Yes, with enough coercion, a small blockchain could be influenced. However, from a practical standpoint, it simply makes much more sense for said government to follow the FATF's recommendations & implement a CBDC, no blockchains required.

In fact, combined with AML/KYC, said government wouldn't need to bother with dissidents, as they can simply wipe the balances of anyone they deem a threat towards national security.
>If the mainland decided on a military take-over of Taiwan they would not care about this.

This conflicts with your subsequent statement -

>If anything the push by the mainland to develop its own semi industry is aimed at avoiding 'suffering' from sanctions and loss of Taiwan's production capability.

The reason they are developing their own semiconductor industry is they are acutely aware that Taiwan's production expertise and capabilities are currently irreplaceable. And until they have caught up, it is a massive risk invading Taiwan and destroying TSMC in the process. So the deterrence effect is obviously there, whether how long that is effective for is another matter.
Good background on the situation (2021) for the Taiwan semiconductor industry is here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/taiwan-china-chips-idUSL4N2T...

Which is cited in the CNN Business feature piece on the Taiwan semiconductor situation in light of the Ukraine invasion from last week :

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/06/tech/taiwan-china-conflic...
A better lorem ipsum at this point.
yes, you can read these blogs for more info: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ & https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
hmmm yes in which case calling it "paying in crypto" is a massive stretch. I can also "buy a flight ticket with a used car" if there's a dealership next to the travel agency
You’d all need to evacuate all the employees, and their families, lest they be forced to work for China.
The article doesn't provide someone that understands crypto when their focus is solely on the bad.
Check one of the biggest projects, Polkadot and their Substrate framework. It's an amazing work just from a technical point of view. Lots of projects are non-profit.
> required prospective donors to provide an obscene amount of personal data

Yes, that’s known as KYC laws, which are required if you’re a payment processor of any kind.
> Especially if you need multiple hops, fiber is just faster. In my tests, 0.2ms vs 3ms roundtrip time for 10G SPF vs. 10G RJ-45

ime if your unloaded latency on copper ethernet exceeds 0.2ms per hop there is some form of powersaving involved
Signed up from Norway, did not have to give more than the usual name, address and email. No passport.
https://www.hashicorp.com/products/vault
Keynote is basically a Powerpoint competitor, right? How do you use it to produce videos?
Understanding Software Engineering Salaries in 2022, in 5 Charts
If you make ads a meaningful revenue stream, you will sooner or later optimize your content so that people spend more time viewing ads. Money will find a way.
> It would about as well as making bribery legal.

You mean like how lobbying is legal in the US?
Who would invest in a company if senior management is allowed to steal from investors? You might as well legalize stealing. Markets need trust.
One of the things that came out of climate change was the concept of the "inevitable policy response".

Basically if you recognize that coal is poisoning people for no societal benefit, then it can carry on via momentum for a while, insiders can prop it up for longer than it should, but eventually it'll get crushed and you don't want to be holding the bag when it does.

As far as I can tell, that applies to most crypto. I'm sure there's cool uses, but mostly it seems a way for people to make money from the people who will be caught out when it shuts down.

So the obvious question is, how do you do a 'big short' on this?
California startup sending tiny robots on fantastic voyage into brains
How would this benefit the people living in Taiwan in case of invasion? It would just make them poorer.
I don't know what the Gilded Age was (and too lazy to search) but, I quote "Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020"[1] so please do show some support for the affirmation "the average adult back then was much healthier". Unless you mean they all died healthy around 40 years of age - as in, they were totally healthy until 40 then the first illness killed them clean.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...
You miss the spinners and cookie consent popups? To me it reads better than most internet sites, especially SPA blogs.
Probably not enough RAM. The page isn't doing anything crazy, but includes a dozen or so example <video>'s, which in turn can send Linux into an out-of-memory situation that freezes the system (technically it's still working just really slow). Ran into that issue a lot when browsing around with 8GB RAM, upgrading that helped. Installing earlyoom[1] is another workaround.

[1] https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
Yes, but if it happened to someone else, that person might be on here expressing surprise and OP would be amusedly reading it.

I was in two classes where the birthday paradox was discussed, at different universities. Both times it was my birthday that was shared with someone else. What are the odds?
And also why the world still runs on Excel.
It has largely stopped being common though. The supply has also gone down drastically. It used to be easy to find even confidential movies and download them, even for a non tech family. Nowadays only well informed people keep pirating and non-mainstream supply has gone down so much that it is sometimes impossible to find, which is a shame because that supply is also frequently not available through streaming so you just have some DVD on Amazon.

The crackdown on pirating + streaming together really killed the scene at a point where it's no longer an inconvenience for the market actors.

I would say the same is happening with crypto where KYC and AML rules will progressively apply so that you will still have crypto but the "freedom" or lawless use will be so inconvenient that it won't be a problem for governments and financial actors. It just take time for those rules to be set, but there's really not so many complicated things about it.

The belief that code would beat laws is absurd, in the end you live in a physical world. Sure you could try to have an underground crypto that nobody can use officially but would that really be useful?
in future, movie posters, t-shirts, & so much more will be generated by dall•e.

whoever is first-to-market with dall•e will skyrocket their business exponentially.
The biggest issue for me was that you have to update widgets from the gui thread. Doing it from other threads still works most of the time, but then you sometimes get weird unpredictable crashes.
Beautiful article by Mark Seemann on composition root [1]. Another one on when to use DI container [2].

[1] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2011/07/28/CompositionRoot/

[2] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2012/11/06/WhentouseaDIContainer/
Even with the network controlled by a "neutral" entity limited capacity means you can pretty quickly reach a situation where additional competition can't happen without actively worsening the schedules of the existing operators.

Timetabled connections are likewise impossible to set up with too much uncoordinated competition, because without making the connection times unattractively long they cannot really be set up between more than one train per relation (maybe sometimes two at a stretch).

Plus connections that aren't ridiculously padded (and therefore result in absolutely uncompetitive journey times) really only work with some sort of through-ticketing so passengers aren't left stranded if they do miss a connection after all.
> The rate of economic growth and improvement in people's living standards was much higher back then than it is now.

During the industrial revolution? I would expect so. At this point we're on the tail end of those improvements.

> Similarly the average adult back then was much healthier than the average adult nowadays, who is likely overweight or obese with some chronic illness.

Life expectancy has been going up for a long time, but on the obesity front the advent of highly sugary foods thanks to food giants is a result of profiteering, not regulation, and people driving everywhere instead of getting exercise is not because of regulation (though it is due to city planning).

> So healthcare hasn't necessarily improved much either.

Are you sincerely arguing that modern medicine isn't much of an improvement over snake oil medicine? The discovery of penicillin alone has saved literally billions* of lives, to say nothing of painkillers, modern surgical hygiene, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, just so so many improvements in healthcare. I can't take this argument seriously I'm afraid, I can only assume it's a post hoc rationalisation.

* hundreds of millions, I misremembered the number.
I'm running postgres and mongodb, disk chatter induces a lot of CPU usage, and after a few ours some of my uses case jumps a few of magnitude order in lagginess.

podman relies on homebrew, which is pretty invasive, and brings all the problems of a distro. Using homebrew solely for podman would do the trick though. That said, a sand box for homebrew would be enough, and there's even an unmaintained experiment to do exactly that: https://github.com/brewdo/brewdo
None of this is true. Don’t compare some shitcoin with nonexistent liquidity to real-world commodities.
F-Droid rejected Gab. A lot of nazi sympathizers and free speech absolutists disagreed with that move. That’s all there is to it.
Why not just code your side projects on the weekend?
They'd be loose TSMC in either case. If Chinese would knew that TSMC is blown up once they start invasion, that'd be one less reason to invade.
> Technology Connections [10] : Hard to describe the style

To the contrary, it is very easy to describe: it is an entire channel dedicated to the latent heat of water.

(For those who haven't seen it, he goes into refrigeration and heat exchangers a lot and this topic constantly comes up, becoming a running joke)
This may not even be necessary. Whether TSMC and high tech manufacturing would survive a military invasion anyway is an open question. It's certainly doubtful if there is going to be heavy fighting for a protracted amount of time. Analysts seem to project a swift and sweeping annexation that could happen within hours and would be confined to military targets, but Ukraine's example has put population resistance back on the map as a potentially deciding factor.

The PRC's strategists have certainly been doing those same calculations for many years now. If there is an invasion, it would not be to capture TSMC "alive". That may be a bonus objective, but it can't be the main objective. The West would also most certainly put an embargo on electronics manufactured there after an invasion, so we're at best talking about a bonus objective that may help China's internal market.

On the cost side, China would not be able to continue trading with the West in any meaningful sense. The Earth's economic sphere would split in two. That's a huge price to pay for a largely symbolic imperial gain.
I really doubt that would be as much of a deterrant as they think it is. If TSMC is destroyed, China wouldn't get it, but the west wouldn't have access either.

The Chinese are very confident in their ability to develop any technology eventually, to them it is just a matter of time and money.
A very nice use of direnv is automatically calling virtualenv's `activate` on directory entry, so you don't need to do that yourself.
What do you suggest instead? new operators everywhere? Service Locator? Global Singletons everywhere?

Honestly, I don't know how you came from "my object needs objects A, B, and C to work" to the "it's cognitive overload". Your object still needs A, B and C to work, just with any other approach it's implicit which is spooky action at a distance in its finest and way more cognitive load.