skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imperialism against people with abominable ethics is still imperialism.

When the southern states used their democratic institutions to secede, and then the North invaded 'to preserve the union', that was imperialism. Waging an imperial war and then freeing the slaves of the conquered doesn't retroactively make your war a just, non-imperialist one. It just makes you an imperialist whose moral views on slavery are superior to those of the people whom you conquered. But you're still an imperialist.

Now, if the Yanks had actually engaged in a moral crusade to free the slaves, that'd be one thing--but they didn't. If you think they did, then I'm guessing your understanding of the civil war comes from your education by said Union, or from movies. If this is the case, read a history book (Battle Cry of Freedom is a good start) and you'll find it impossible to believe that the Union fought the war to free the slaves. That the "moral crusade" nonsense is still peddled throughout the United States is a simple matter of the winners writing the history books (and nobody wanting to be seen sympathizing with slavers).

And since I'm certain you'll follow up with that tired old canard about the South starting the war at Ft. Sumpter, I'll provide you with the relevant history in advance:

0) Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 presidential election on November 8, 1860.
1) On November 10, the South Carolina General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the people of S.C. to elect a commission to determine whether the state should secede.
2) Convention delegates were democratically elected on December 6.
3) These duly elected delegates convened in Columbia on December 17th.
4) They voted unanimously for secession.
5) The South Carolina General Assembly declared their independence on December 24.
6) At this point, American troops occupy Fort Sumpter, which at this point is foreign soil.
6) On Jan 9, the US attempts to reinforce the fort. They are prevented from doing so when Confederate artillery fires on the resupply ship.
7) On Jan 31, 1861, Governor Pickens demands the surrender of Fort Sumpter.
8) Lincoln sends multiple ships, with hundreds of soldiers and sailors, to reinforce the fort.
9) On April 11, knowing Lincoln plans to reinforce the occupying force, the Rebs once again demand the surrender of the fort. The commanding officer refused (then tried to play for time by making up conditions, which were refused).
10) At this point, American troops have been occupying foreign soil for ~4 months, and are effectively signaling their intent to stay indefinitely.
11) On April 12, the Rebs start shelling the fort. They shell it for 34 hours, then the Americans surrender.
12) After their surrender, before the Americans took down their flag, the Confederates allowed them to honor the flag with a 100 gun salute. One of the Yanks' guns misfired, killing Edward Galloway--the only American soldier who died.

You should feel free to say "well they were slavers, so fuck them". That's perfectly valid! But facts is facts, and the Civil War was imperialism.
I think this applies to a lot of types of data. Selling "insights" is really just selling a filtered version of the raw data. If the client's needs match up with your filters, then you've saved them a lot of work. However, if the filters don't match up perfectly with the client's needs then they'll need to do filtering and processing themselves. And in that case, they'll likely get better results just working with the raw data, instead of whatever data you think they need.
Hahaha and why’s that?
Indeed, the dark forest hypothesis (from the book The Dark Forest, the second in The Three Body Problem trilogy) talks specifically about this:

> The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them.

If we posit that beings must kill each other, then we must also kill others, lest they kill us first. It may not even be the case that anyone wants to kill another, but simply because the possibility is there, this then becomes a tragedy of the commons, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The rational course of action, then, is to hide as much as possible, and if you notice anyone, eliminate them before they do you.
same story here. Next year!
Google is a monster that people should know not to trust. Better to not use a Google account for anything serious or unless you really have to. Even then, expect and prepare for the worse. Way too many, "Google locked me out.", stories.
Meh. You often reply prolifically in threads that mention Java, defend/praise it profusely, and also seem to be very knowledgeable about the language as well as the JVM. So it's not entirely an insult when I call you a "Java guy".

But you're over-reading into my defense of Rust. My point is that the specific things you criticized as taking a long time for Rust are not actually taking a long time. My point with poking Java, specifically, is that Java is going on 30 years old and doesn't yet have an analogous feature. Moreover, since we're talking about Kernel dev, do C or C++ have a standard async runtime? Considering that there's little-to-no prior art for doing the kind of async API Rust wants without active garbage collection, I'd assert that it's hard to criticize how long it's taking. Do you know how long it "should" take? If so, how?
Interpreted languages don't necessarily have to be distributed as source code, as a few of them support being compiled into byte code, which can then be distributed and interpreted.
"Independent polls show the US Govt has misaligned priorities to what the people want"

are you saying you think people in power care about the people they rule over?

"Let's start by making voting days holidays"

if voting could change anything they wouldn't allow you to do it. they literally shot JFK, the elected president, almost 60 years ago. the idea that everything is not completely fucked at this point, is so incredibly naiive.
I don't want to do excessive overtime (or overtime at all if I can help it, but I'll make an occasional allowance). But I also don't really want to be sitting around during the workday without things to do. That's its own kind of unpleasant experience, to me.
Yea... you're stretching this one
So Turbo tax spending less than $2 million was more powerful than the agenda of POTUS? Boy, Amazon with their $20 million in annual lobbying is getting taken for a ride.
Regulatory capture of the industry by invested interests. It's completely legit, it even says so in the regulations.
Most of the countries you are referring to have a higher economic freedom index than the US and even tighter shareholder control of corporations. They have nationalized industries that are mature and run at a loss, like railroads and postal services. If you put Twitter in the category of "mature industries that should run at a loss" then you might have an argument.
> Artemis Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson confirmed that there is a 20-day timeline once the flight safety system is armed. (This is a range safety mechanism used by all orbital rockets that destroys the booster in case it veers off course.) After the system is activated, it will take about a week to make final preparations in the Vehicle Assembly Building and a week to roll to the launch pad and make preparations there.

That seems crazy, they arm the fts before they roll the vehicle out? I would think that's the last thing you do before evacuating the pad to begin loading fuel.
You shouldn't [0]

You should blog because you want to - or for fun (or because you have to for work) ... not because a bunch of randos on the internet told you they wish you'd write about building device drivers in bf[1]

My blogs fall in that broad category - they're there because I want to put something there (whenever it is that I decide to write/publish)

All of them have my "real name" attached, too ;)

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30967851

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
you're describing an engineer that isn't taken advantage of. In my view, a 1x programming == average IQ.
I'm not familiar with the OP content but curious about DSLs in web dev. Is there a whole ecosystem of these that I simply didn't know about? Only one that comes to mind is CoffeeScript but that feels long gone at this point. Going to read about your Hyperscript which sounds interesting
by the time we are able to move from planet to planet, i don't think we'll need lithium anymore
To be more than a 1x programmer, you have to work on things that are not the most immediate goal all the time. This isn't necessarily more effort, it's just different effort, and will not have immediate positive outcome for your company.

All the biggest and most important productivity and outcome enhancing things I've done at work have been done without management knowledge or approval.
I find these stereotypes very reductive, and having a bit of prejudice.

Being unproductive is not a guarantee of having good communication skills, and likewise being being highly-productive is not a guarantee of being bad at communication.

If communication is part of the job, in the case of seniors mentoring juniors, for example, then lack of communication skills would definitely prevent someone from being a "10x".
Heard of https://1x.engineer/ ?
I'm not an early person, and similarly to some other posters I do have a history of abusing snooze button into oblivion.

What I found out worked for me was a bus. At some point a few years ago I decided it is good for my day routine to have a desk outside of my flat. I found reasonably priced desks 10 minutes on the bus from where I live (this was 10 minutes before rush hours so I had to catch early bus, otherwise this trip was taking 30 minutes). I wanted to start early so I could finish early - and so I wanted to catch early bus which was going every 15 minutes. First few times I was literally 30 seconds too late and had to wait 15 minutes for another bus to come, this made me to avoid hitting snooze because I did not want to waste 15 minutes standing on the bus stop.
> 40 pills in 5 years

But how would you do if you took one every day?
Federal return is always free
No, the bureaucracy is not why it didn’t fail. Cost overruns and delays due to reworking stuff I can buy but I’ve seen tons of projects fail with plenty of bureaucracy (see the initial healthcare.gov launch).
I had it on T-Mobile, switched to Verizon, still have it.
Well, Cash App is part of Square
Not the person you originally responded to but you are literally doing the exact same thing you accuse the original poster of. You are using one example in western Europe while ignoring a whole bunch of countries throughout history that support the original posters point.

Seems to me when non socialist countries (western europe) nationalize companies it generally goes better than when socialist countries do.

So both you and the original poster are somewhat correct but you both are trying to manipulate the data to only support the cause you want.
Whether you like it or not, these laws are being passed in your name by regulators, standards bodies, lawmakers and lobbyists. But things can change.

So after this treaty passed at WIPO (with the language you quoted), a bunch of incredibly dedicated activists, including folks at EFF, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Public Knowledge, IP Justice, and many others hidden away on this list https://www.wipo.int/members/en/organizations.jsp?type=NGO , worked to wrench WIPO from being exclusively a policy-laundering venue for rightsholders, and have some representation from the folks you describe. I'd say it's a better place for it -- but of course that meant that the efforts to lock-in stronger IP language moved to more opaque venues, including trade treaties. They're still doing the work, but they need far more support and collective advocacy for those who believe in what they're doing. You might not give a rat's arse, but there's a lot of people on the other side of this argument that do, and employ people to push for these laws in every possible venue.
Does anyone have experience with how this deals with background noise? It appears to be analyzing audio spectra, but can it detect a birdsong against the background of a busy road or a railway nearby? I've seen and heard so many birds near where I live (red-tailed hawks, northern flickers, european starlings, magpies, finches, ...), but audio recordings of them have always been hampered by the sounds of human activity.
ESA's contribution, and that of Canada's agency I believe, is only very minor compared to the overall budget. Makes sense, and I guess it wasn't supposed to be this small, considering the budget was overrun ten-fold or so, and ESA having to explain desires for public money when it wasn't even "their" project.

Anyway, JWST has been such an incredible success so far, I can't wait for the first science results.
> that is, the Copyright Office can allow people to circumvent, but not allow people to publish software that helps other people circumvent

Publish source code in book form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley
Very close personal friends of his have claimed he’s had fairly heavy stimulant usage & we have a few decades of footage that very much appears to back that up.

Not that I have anything against stims. Very useful drugs.
Fear. They make a big deal about punishing leakers to make people fear what will happen if they leak.

Also control. Here is a story I heard from an iPad launch partner, who got an iPad before it was announced:

The device arrived in a large box with little plungers sticking out to press the buttons and the screen. You couldn't actually see the device inside, so there was no way to know what buttons were on it, what its dimensions or weight were, etc. Furthermore the box had to be kept in a locked room with strict access controls. Anyone who had access to the room had to be under draconian NDA that included severe personal penalties for leaking anything (like enough to financially ruin you). Also everything was watermarked so you couldn't release photos without them knowing exactly where it came from.

The box was taken back and replaced with a standard consumer model after the launch. Most people in the company weren't even aware they were a launch partner until after the announcement.
> I personally think Apple has a strong fanbase that overlooks these issues and is quick to forget

Apple has a strong core of two users, in my opinion

- people who couldn't give a shit less about the actual software, the UX, or whatever else it provides, they just know that it can take photos, browse the internet, and that Apple products are associated to "premium" and they want to be premium. This trickles down to the younger generation through their favorite movie stars, singers, tiktok influencers all use Iphones, so they want to use Iphones. The "rich" kids at school have Iphones and if they see you have the green bubble instead of the blue Imessage bubble in group chat, you'll get made fun of. (I just had this exact scenario happen with one of my friend's daughter, who took my old Iphone 8+ off my hands to replace their Galaxy)

- users who have grown to realize all consumer tech is essentially trash, and recognize the marginal utility that Apple products uniquely offer: namely the fact that their products have resaleability, have a pretty well connected ecosystem, and at the end of the day, a physical store near you that you can take your product to.

I am in the latter boat, having used PCs my entire life, modding custom setups, rolling my own linux distros, installing the latest de-googled android OS, logitech, the 40 brands of headphones and headsets, and all of that fun (miserable) stuff. You could tell me right now the latest X1 carbon is 994234% faster than my M1 mac, with a graphics card capable of running the latest AAA games, and I wouldn't give a shit. I just don't give a shit anymore. I want something that will work 99% of the time, and let me do my job wherever. Apple products have done that for me much more often than when I relied on whatever other amalgamations of Dells/Samsungs/Lennovos/Blackberrys/etc, whether its getting frustrated with wifi connectivity, not having my passwords or photos sync across devices, or fumbling with bluetooth headsets and devices from god knows how many vendors and companies. Give me an Iphone, a Mac, some Airpods and I will deal with whatever minor inconveniences like having to charge my mouse upside down.
That's what GPs and experts are for. A full psychological and physical screening can help locate the issue.

Random anecdata from HN not so much.
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This assumes that aliens building megastructures have as simplistic thinking as us.
I think that is the case. You don't build a nand gate as an actual electrical circuit with +, gnd, and transistors. You only start with a nand gate.
Divide et impera

I am not a conservative. Your attitude itself is an example of the division and political instability.

The SNP (love them or hate them, I don't care): "an independent Scotland would prioritise the speediest possible safe removal of nuclear weapons."

Say this populist party has its William Wallace moment, now what is left of the UK will have to disentangle itself militarily. It will certainly be a politically heated moment in time, I'm sure you're aware of Russian interference in these things if nothing else as agents of chaos - Voilà.

It is certainly easier to agitate an independent small country to force the Brits to move their nuclear subs.

You can be all for Scottish independence conceptually, morally, whatever - and still be concerned about the whole board.
The term "10x engineer" always leads to incongruous conversation. Everyone has a different impression of what a 10x engineer is, depending on who they've met and how much they enjoy coding. There's those who think 10x = not team player, and there's those who've met an engineer who's both extremely productive and likable. There's those who think 10x = no life inevitable burnout, and those who realize there are people who genuinely enjoy programming more than "normal" hobbies, along with people who are unusually productive but otherwise normal.

This author believes that "10x programmers care about the code. Everything else is secondary." That seems even more arbitrary than other definitions.

I say we let the term become a joke meme and nothing more.
I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say
There's still a possibility of that. The company I work for has a small fleet of legacy-model Learjets for both business and certification use.
What are the tools to multiply yourself in a software development setting?
A Man Owns the World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force
Whatever Agile was, it's absolute garbage these days. It largely exists to hold developers maximally accountable to the business, at the expense of technical excellence or even maintenance, which can be expressed in its gun-language of Jira tickets and so get ignored. Fuck user stories, fuck sprints, fuck Jira, and fuck product management (a job in which one defines success by getting into one's boss's job as fast as possible, leaving no concern for quality) in general with extreme prejudice.

If the people who started the computing revolution last century knew that their descendants would be attending daily standups and debating "story points", they'd never have done it--in fact, they'd have blocked it from happening in the first place.
The "More flexible fsync configuration" section made me think of [1]. I wonder how much faster Git would get by using Sqlite to manage the DB instead of using naked filesystem objects.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
Thanks for taking the time to try it out and comment!

We definitely want to make it as easy as possible to do those comparisons and understand the data. For example, adding an additional selector to further tune the comparison as you are suggesting is definitely on the list.
Is there any topic that is not divisive to American socialists? The socialists I know love nothing more than to argue how the other socialists around them are idiots because of minute differences in how they want to implement socialism.

In the coworking space I work at, the Democratic socialist cohort, a group of Maoists, and a group of Marxist Leninists (yeah I get it, not Socialists but close enough that they all feel comfortable debating each other) sit around and get into knock down drag out battles about the correct ways to socialize the means of productions. I think it's gotten to the point where they dislike eachother more than any outside group. They agree on literally nothing because all three of their world views are razor focused on ultra nuanced minutiae of how they will run Socialism/communism once their team wins and they make all the rules.

They have zero interface with reality or our current system so all of the stuff about how you build a stable system where any of this stuff is even relevant in the first place is totally uninteresting to them. Unless it involves them getting to dress in black and protest in a way they can post on social media. Then maybe it's worth a discussion.

It's basically Dungeons and Dragons for people with complexes about ruling the world.

But to bring it back around, nothing seems to be more socialist than telling other Socialists they don't know how to do socialism correctly besides maybe complaining about how non socialists have zero knowledge of Socialism.
The more likely reason is the iPad has software that the laptop does not. If you need to use Procreate or GoodNotes (for example), then it might make sense to find some compromise solution for the rest of the work that you would normally do on a laptop.