skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> With that being said, the actor model has a lot of inherent complexity. If you don’t need it, don’t use it. But if you really do need lots of concurrency and lots of mutable state, it’s often a great choice.

I kind of disagree with this. I mean, it's kind of correct, if you literally have a sequential problem with immutable state you're gaining nothing from it, but you're also losing nothing (you...will have one actor, no messages being passed, so the only cost is the syntax of the language; the actor model isn't adding any complexity because you aren't using it).

But, a lot of problems we've historically learned to view as sequential are in fact concurrent. Deeply concurrent. We've created entire concepts specifically to impose sequential processing upon innately concurrent activities.

As an example, almost everywhere we use queues we could instead model as unrelated processes able to be run concurrently. You still may have a bit of queueing/scheduling for unbounded processes, but I know from production experience that that is far, far simpler to do and get right using actors than a traditional queue/priority queue and worker(s).

And that's where it shines. It encourages you to start thinking about what in fact -should- be done concurrently, by making that easy rather than a chore as it is in most other languages, and that leads to -less- complexity.
We love in Golden. Beautiful small town area. 25-30 from most of down town. 25-30 from myriad nature access. A couple hours gets you almost anywhere. We are in the suburbs so I don’t know about the. Menver meme
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For metal I can just listen to EHG because even with lyrics no one can tell what the hell Mike IX Williams is saying.
> I'm guessing follow-on Mars copters have a 50% chance of being COTS

It's surprising considering that Mars radioactivity is 12 times that of Earth, and occasionally 50 times, because it doesn't have a magnetosphere. How are they hardened against cosmic radiation?
It might be interesting to generate simulation data that attempts to project how these systems and transitions to them might actually play out. It is great to play around with systems thinking and alternatives, but big changes need to have serious analysis up front and robust metrics for judging progress and success.
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Many who buy on Coinbase never own Bitcoin. They deposit money, make some transactions, and perhaps pull out their fiat. If they don't see it touch the blockchain, it's never Bitcoin, but little more than a row in a database that can presumably be exchanged for Bitcoin (which doesn't exist until it's sent to a BTC address)

At the same time, those users don't care. As long as they feel confident that their account balance is valid and safe, the rest is just noise to them, regardless of how purists feel.
Honest question, why? Do you sit in direct sunlight often? Are you looking for extreme battery life?
I won't edit my post. Maybe I did use bad wording. I will contemplate that.

I don't think Go is "bad". The important point to me is the expectation that Go will adapt to its user community.

For example, I am not at all surprised that Go has bad abstractions for files under Windows. I would not expect Pike or Thompson to care about Windows. I would not try to make Go work as a cross platform language.
Amusingly, I once had to file a small() Illinois state income tax return because I earned income from a consultancy based there. At the time I lived in Texas and the work was done on a server in the UK for a European client. I suppose perhaps some of my ssh packets went through Illinois?

So I'm a bit tickled to see someone living there bitching about tax agency overreach.

() it cost more in additional tax prep expense than the final return amount was, additional salt on the wound
Interesting. That appears to explain why the review has a strong, "quirky, 'hip' campus Christian newsletter" vibe.
I keep seeing this article posted on HN and then deleted...
Except in this case the 'shop' is in Illinois. A California resident commutes his bits to Illinois and somehow in all it's wisdom California wants to exercise itself outside of its jurisdiction into the shop in Illinois.
We sold a house for 2x what we paid for it in a desirable suburb. Bought in 18’, sold 22’.
Languages with "linear types" would, but there aren't any mainstream ones.

(And, to be extra clear, it only lets you ignore a Result if you don't care about the Ok value, if you want to use it, it does not.)
Completely agree, and I can always tell when someone reposts a Snap video to IG.
Neat to see them mentioned a few times. I found them randomly through Spotify a while back and tonight they were pretty good.
Agreed. This is an oversimplification. We'd attempt to tax away the value of the rent of the unimproved land which is less than the value of the improved land.

Of course, taxes will actually be set in accordance with what the government needs for revenue since this is supposed to be a single tax. Elsewhere in the thread I've tried to estimate Georgist land taxes based on current revenue needs and found them to be quite high.
> But another issue is that being a stockholder doesn't feel like ownership. It's just an investment; you don't get meaningful control.

Perhaps more employee co-ops would further that goal. Mondragón in Spain is often cited as an example of Distributism in action.

https://distributistreview.com/archive/mondragon-revisited
For social media to be social it needs people. While I have hope for the future, current fediverse offerings don’t meet people’s basic social media usability needs.

People use social media because it’s fun, it fosters connection with people they know, delivers information about news/hobbies etc., helps people find communities with shared interests and experiences, and most importantly, does it all in one easy-to-use place. Everybody knows there are better sources for everyday news than Twitter but if they’re already there interacting with people about the game last night… More importantly, it’s all conceptually easy for users to understand. You’re on Facebook, your friend is on Facebook, you find your friend on Facebook and you can interact on Facebook. If there was a bunch of Facebooks and your friends are in a different Facebook that doesn’t talk to your Facebook and the Recipe Facebook your friend likes is kinda janky and doesn’t always show up when you search for it… your average user would stop using social media altogether if that was their only option.

It can be hard for developers to imagine that, but what if it was a different realm of expertise? Imagine you had to have a rudimentary understanding of mail routing to know which post office you needed to use to mail each package and it was only conceptually documented for people who worked in the postal industry and each paragraph required background knowledge you didn’t have? You’d probably just suck it up and use UPS, especially if it was the same price. If someone wants a recipe for French onion soup, they want a recipe — not a culinary school text book chapter on soup. How much documentation or theoretical background knowledge does your average netizen need to use Facebook? Zero. None.

That doesn’t even get into the whole branding aspect. Like it or not, appeal is a prerequisite and not a bolt-on feature for a social media network. People like feeling competent and hip and hate uncertainty. They don’t want to wonder if their friends on the other mastodon and the other friend on the other other mastodon can smell, er, see their toot.

We can’t sell non-technical people on technical capability. While there are technical components to this problem, the solution will not be entirely technical. We need to give them a compelling experience first, and make that work on the tech side. Unless you really only want people in your fediverse who get satisfaction out of wrangling clunky software, that’s just the way it is.
Has there been any 50 year period in the last like 500 years that has ended mostly similarly to how it started?
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The point is that it's not insane to not have omniscient awareness of all laws in 50 states. It's tough running a very small business. If someone doesn't have enough funding to hire a team of lawyers, should they just fuck off and never do business anywhere? Your answer seems to be "yes".

You also completely ignored my point on the legal uncertainty factors. Businesses break laws every day that are just not enforced. Even a lawyer or accountant is occasionally blindsided by a state or federal authority choosing to selectively apply a law.

My sympathies lie with the small business owner here. It's very difficult to make sure that you've got every angle covered at all times, especially at the scale he's running at.
Yes, you just needed to search for Lang NEXT 2014 and Rob Pike.

Enjoy the video, https://youtu.be/YM7QYx-LPSA

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

Or if you prefer reading, https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical."
To dive straight into the low end is viable only for a large corp that can subsidize it and/or the massive marketing blitz. I highly doubt they're making money on the $250 price tag unless they sell several million. Anyone else has to start at the high end / specialty, and work their way down.
You think an $800 barrier to entry is a positive effect on small business in California? Do you think it's a positive effect on remote workers entertaining an out-of-state employer?
This is fascinating to me. 4GB of memory is not enough, on an OS "optimized for low memory devices"? What crazy world do we live in?

I remember browsing the web with 64 mb of RAM, upgraded from 16 MB, and a 100 MHz CPU.

I'm not saying you're wrong in any sense. I'm just marveling at the state of memory use in computing.
Drones are little noisy battery hogs, there's no way around it. Both your worries will absolutely be true.
Which bubble?

A refi bubble? Maybe (but that's more of a fad than a bubble)

Real estate bubble? Sort of.

Housing affordability bubble? Not really. Interest rates move profits from home sellers to banks.

Housing affordability is driven by supply+demand. Housing prices are driven by" Affordability minus Interest Rates: Low Rates + High Price = Monthly Payment = High Rates + Lower Price
It's far worse on Android since they are creating the video from the "preview" window surface instead of directly from the camera interface.
I think it's interesting how much the FAA's 250 gram rule has impacted drone manufacturing. Even if it was technically possible I couldn't imagine a company like SNAP launching a drone like this in the previous regulatory grey area of drones.
Unfortunately it doesn't matter what you want to call the law. If there is a law that requires you to do something when employing California residents, that is de facto an employment law, and the point still stands.
>> Niagara Falls is eroding its way upstream and will eventually reach Lake Erie, at which point Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan will all drain away downstream.

The Detroit river, lake StClair, and the StClair river beg to differ. In particular, StClair has a channel cut through it for shipping to be possible as much of it is less than 10 feet deep. Flow would increase, but I think they'd maybe add a dam and lock somewhere to stop it. But Niagara is a long way from that point, especially since diversion for power has dramatically slowed the erosion.
Have you read the 10th Amendment? State's rights are literally enshrined in the Constitution.
I don't think it's a good idea, I also don't think it's greedy. To be honest though, $800 for a business ain't really much.
I thought I'd go with the same method as the article, using examples. I dismissed all the examples the article has given, and asked for better examples where we call a fresh water body a sea. I think we haven't and shouldn't. It's already confusing enough.

Call all salty water bodies seas would be fine with me. But including non salty waters will only add to the confusion.
It's super cool -- so far, I'm not quite through it yet. It does have some similarity w/the story from "ST:TMP" though.
Not sure it matters. This whole thing could be summarized as:

> Consider context when you're hiring and doing work.

I don't think any number of diagrams and attempts at categorization are going to help people who can't figure that out.
Would be curious if anyone has run https://www.mightyapp.com/ on a Pi, had success, and saw the combo as a suitable thin-client replacement for a bigger machine.
They might be able to pair the video from the drone with the microphone on your phone and get something reasonable (if the drone is far enough away).
Thanks, those are great resources!
Despite their "feelings", most of these people use fiat every day for it's inherent advantages that even they can't practically ignore.

In other words, their actions only validate my point.
The crux of your argument was that a state should not have their laws imposed on you due to the state’s definition of a “business nexus”.

I didn’t read the comment above as accusing you of not following the laws, but of being caught off-guard by your business falling under the jurisdiction of the state, and disagreeing with that. You said in the blog post that you were surprised by this, and that implies that you “did not know the employment laws” prior to hiring a person residing within that state.

In other words, you assumed that only laws within the state where your business was registered would apply, which was incorrect.
Many with balances on Coinbase have never used the underlying system.
i have drones. drones are hard to use. the killer feature of snapchat is that it’s easy to get content up. you have to keep posting new content cause it decays fast. phones are especially good at taking photos and videos and making them accessible. you may go somewhere or meet someone and within a few minutes have 5+ pictures you want to post. or a couple videos you think would do well. you may have them posted within 1 minute of taking them

drones you have to set up. find a space for them. link them to your phone. tell people to get ready for the shot. make sure the location is good. probably do this 3-4 times cause it’s really hard to get a good camera angle the first time. or the timing right.

all of this means even getting one “post worthy” image or video might take you 20 mins. or even an hour. or as i’ve done many times you spend an hour or more messing around with it and don’t like the footage and throw it all away
My credit onion sells all loans longer than 10 years - but they keep servicing all the loans normally.

Some places sell off the loan and the servicing, that's more annoying.
GDP is a single number, and reducing the entire economy to a single number is always going to be inherently reductionist.

That said, there are a lot of different signs, indicators, and numbers that suggest that the present economy is not really amazingly wonderful despite how inconvenient that is for the current administration and its boosters like the Times.

Obviously, inflation being really quite high (and going only upward) isn't a great sign.

Low unemployment is a strong indicator, though the fact that the labor participation rate is still at 1970s levels (when the labor force was still much more significantly gendered) is not. Labor participation is increasing slightly, so it's still not all doom-and-gloom, but it's not great. Low unemployment also means that the US is unlikely to be able to get its economy back to growing simply by hiring more people to be productive -- since everybody willing to work already is.

GDP declining is, as discussed, a direct measurement of the decline in the size of the economy.

The widespread "everything shortages" that are plaguing basically all corners of the goods economy is another -- and the fact that a year later the situation is even worse is not promising.

Overall, it's a bit disingenuous to talk about the amazing and stellar economic recovery that's going on. It's much more of an economic teetering-on-the-edge-but-maybe-it-will-stay-on-the-okay-side.
That's a big reason too, but also because their population is declining.

https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+population+growth+r...

What do you think happens to housing units per capita as population levels decline?

The US and China are on the same path, just some years behind. We can ignore demographics for the next handful of years, but it will become very impactful on a 10+ year time horizon. China will deal with the inverted population pyramid sooner than us, so it will be interesting to see if that affects their GDP surpassing the US.

Anyway, the property sector will be super interesting in 50 years, when everything is overbuilt relative to population size. I imagine eventually rents will naturally become deflationary
Thanks for your detailed analysis. Do the numbers change when using PPP GDP instead?
It will stop adding rows once you reach a solution. But the logic for stopping wasn't great, and it was breaking under some use cases if you went back and changed letters. It should be more robust now, and I've improved the congrats-you're-done messages.
Cash-outs are still happening
That's the whole point. Powerful proponents of small government want to do anything and everything with no consequences. They've duped a lot of less-wealthy suckers into believing that having fewer public services will benefit them somehow, and/or that the only thing standing in the way of personal success is the government. They talk a lot about figures like word count in legislation and other easy to understand concepts (even to folks with low education).
"National governments are allowed to enforce laws outside their own borders, such as intellectual property and copyright."

I believe those are done through treaties.

I'm not sure how the federal government weighs in on this since they have the authority on interstate commerce, which this falls under.
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If you're looking for data, Lars Doucet has written a pretty exhaustive 4-part series going over claims and evidence: https://gameofrent.com/content/progress-and-poverty-review. Obviously there's more to be found out but it looks promising.
Forum culture can be regressive
I feel like forum culture is to blame for creating the scenario where a definite answer = intelligence (news.ycomb is very much a place where this happens).

Which has created a scenario where people think science contains truths as opposed to approximations and best guesses.

It's kinda sad because it bleeds into everything now - it's no longer acceptable for someone to be like "well let's think about it together.. " and have any discourse.

Instead it just paved the way for garbage like CNN and FOX to sell absolutism to idiots.
Yes, but at the same time there are GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles), limiting how much you can change the methodologies, so you can rig only so much.
Half the worlds population wasn’t alive in 1991.
You say, commenting on a website explicitly designed to be minimalist which would be perfectly comfortable running on a 1995 level hardware.

Most of the web I visit doesn’t need to be interactive all that much and the interactivity that is added gets in the way more than it helps anything. We’re just exchanging pictures and text here. The bits where people are writing applications on the web really get in the way of experiences where people are just exchanging content.
Ooof, I knew about filial responsibility laws and the nursing homes abusing them but that sounds downright unconstitutional to enforce them on citizens without some kind of personal voluntary nexus to that state.
The employee is deriving value across the border. The shop itself is in Illinois, where they derive value from bits and bytes within their state. Charge the employee with any tax crimes, not the company.
I really enjoy it because I already knew Ruby (so the syntax didn’t bother me) and the type system, in particular algebraic types, was to my liking.

That said it might as well be a toy language, in my opinion, because I don’t think it has the support or community to power a serious production project
Thanks for that bit of information, I didn't know that. It sounds like it could be true. But being uncorroborated, and considering all the false information swirling around the issue, I'd want some confirmation.

I watch every episode of "Aviation Disasters". On more than one, the pilots would get some warning light and would ask each other what it meant. That implies that simulator training is not required for every warning light.
I didn’t know the logging was responsible until after I burned out two. When the first SD card died, I assumed I had a faulty one. When the second one died, I looked for a cause.

The logs were useful initially to help me determine that the Pi was crashing because the power supply wasn’t stable enough.

Mostly though, what I really want is an appliance that I plug in and never have to worry about it again. I understand that a Raspberry Pi running Linux isn’t that, but I was an optimist. Now I just turn it off.
Okay some things don't add up. You can't have a Georgist tax as a single revenue source for the government and calculate it off something other than what the government needs for revenue. Either you calculate the Georgist tax rate on the unimproved land value, you add other taxes to government or you slash and burn through government spending to deal with the capped revenue.
It's living in fantasy land to say Georgist land value taxes, calculated in precise accordance with this metric and not adjusted upward or downward by revenue needs will be a single source of revenue for all levels of government.
The counterpoint is "your filenames shouldn't be badly-encoded unicode." In other words, "If `ls` can't render it, it's a bad filename. Rename the file."

(This does mean that Go is constraining the set of problems it's easy to solve with it. But that's the nature of programming in general... We decide what problems need to be easier to solve at the expense of putting some problems outside the "sweet spot" and requiring more work to solve them).
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