skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Musk is certainly more entertaining - which coincides with your point about dopamine - I would not call him more decisive. The argument that the "CDC flipflops but Musk does not" doesn't really hold water.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776
Laws that are bad because of abuseability didn't somehow transcend from good to bad the first time they were abused, they would have already been bad before that event.

But you still have a point in so far as that you can't look at a law ignoring the legal conventions and processes of the environment where "the code is run", something that would be perfectly fine in one environment could be terrible in another.
But If I am paid to make a case this German law I would honestly do a better job then "some dictator somewhere said that he likes this law", dictators like a lot of things like music,sports,cars and they also lie a lot. I would probably find or if I am a fake journalist invent some story about a poor child, mother, freedom fighter hurt by this law.

Edit, don't want to give a judgement for this specific law just saying the article did not convinced me, gives me a feel of bad reddit,HH comment.
I don't necessarily agree with giraffe_lady, but I can see the argument where leaving the planet fundamentally changes what we currently consider "human" society to a point where it no longer can be a considered a continuation of the general earthly society. Evolution maybe, but less star trek and more belters from the expanse but taken to an absolutely extreme extent. Maybe closer to something like Seven Eves.
gocryptfs uses file-based encryption that is implemented as a mountable FUSE filesystem. Each file in gocryptfs is stored one corresponding encrypted file on the hard disk. Filenames are encrypted as well.

https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/quickstart/
A domain name can go away just as easily, maybe more easily than a popular URL shortening service.
Oh I had one of them a number of years ago on a well known e-commerce company’s back end ERP. Financial values were stored in int64 with the decimal position offset stored in a byte separately. The library that handled these values was poorly implemented so if you added values with different offset sizes without converting them and checking for overflow possibilities it’d do all sorts of undefined shit.

I put a simple assertion in as a precondition check and this fired over 20,000 times within an hour of deploying it leading to several months of fixes, horrible discoveries and cheques written.
For a few decades we enjoyed one of the great periods of peace and prosperity. That was surely doomed to end eventually, but I wish it could last a while longer.

You mean Ukraine? I would hardly say that the current situation threatens the post-ww2 peace. Compare now to ww2 and the differences are huge. ww2 claimed vastly more lives, in addition to Stalin and Hitler.
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I don't think it's obvious this was done in bad faith, even if the author is at times flippant.
It's the nationalism, totalitarianism and dictatorial control that make fascism. The obsessions are a means to an end or just quirks by example and do not necessarily fascism make.
“Languages are just tools.”

This is the most healthy take.
They were also drinking water every day.

That doesn't make water bad.

I wish for people to be strong, just like I wish them good health, because it's a quality that makes for a happier life.

If one has the strength of character not to be pressured to do bad things, you get less fascists, not more.
Of course there are exceptions, like non-celebrities are in the news. I mean like if 10,000 people knew where you just had dinner, it’s cause you were in a tabloid.
Fair points, I'm just saying if you can trust the founders (e.g. you knew them before they started the current company) then it's in your best interest to join before the next round.

If you're joining as employee 400 and don't know the founders, then yes, joining before the round is risky.
> 1. We eventually found out the truth.

Yes. Narrowly. After decades of suffering and deaths, which I personally suffer from today. And we were helped by putting legal limits on the lies presented by bad-faith participants.
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This has happened to me just today.
Okay, now do soda.
I have vastly more experience with punishment than anyone should, thank you, and an excellent memory. My teenager has literally never been punished; he’s healthy, happy, respectful, responsible — and he trusts me, because I’ve never hurt him on purpose.

Obviously one’s advice must be age-appropriate, and of course a three-year-old would need some supervision. That’s not an argument in favor of punishment, only parenting.

And if the three-year-old does learn that drawing on the walls is a “cleanup game,” so what? They’ll get better at cleanup. My house isn’t a surgery. After a while they’ll get bored of washing walls, and then have a direct and visceral connection between “1 minute of fun drawing on the walls” and “30 minutes of cleanup afterwards.” That sounds like a great lesson to me.

Punishment apologists lack imagination, and are usually more interested in protecting their own ego and authority instead of providing a safe and useful environment for their kids. There is no “underuse” of punishment; it is always the lesson of sadomasochism: teaching kids that they must love someone and fear them at the same time.
No non-alphabet-based language support.
My Informix 4GL days were simply the most productive of my career. We were able to do so much, so quickly using these systems. Along with the domain expert, I was able to, single handedly, create an entire distribution system in less than a year. Order Entry, Credit/Debit memos, Inventory and planning, shipping and traffic, the gazillion reports, custom forms (let's hear it for dot matrix printers and their myriad of escape codes), and workflows, posting to AP, AR, GL, all of the exotic (and ever changing) pricing, discount, and royalty models. It was not uncommon for a typical order to hit 50 different accounts in the GL.

One on one interviews with the users, direct user support ("Yea, hang on, I'll be right there"), seeing their face light up when you showed them something they liked, getting yelled at when things got rocky, the whole kit. The back office staff was about 50 people. The IT fellow knew the business, so I interacted directly with him, and coded everything up. The GL/AR/AP system was pre-existing, I didn't have to write that.

We were a small consulting firm that customized an existing accounting package. Most customers didn't need anything as big as this. But even then, we had another fellow do essentially the same thing for a warehouse company. Hook up with an internal domain expert and pound out their entire system.

We're talking green screen, and green bar paper here. So, "UI" was trivial. UI discussions centered around how best to abbreviate field names or codes to cram more on particularly loaded screens, and what field order to use.

CRUD screens and reports in an hour. Thank heavens for decimal math.

A simpler time to be sure, but we got so much accomplished.

Informix 4GL was imperfect, as are all things, but we rarely had to say "no" to something because of it.
> For what it's worth, the decline of trust in institutions is primarily among "Republican/lean Republican" respondents, who are a minority of American voters and likely a minority of American non-voters as well.

The problem with this line of thinking is that "Republican/lean Republican" is not a fixed trait. People can switch to that category instantly, overnight; so dismissing them just because the last time there was an election the other party managed to curry more votes after having every advantage possible - that's quite dangerous from a societal coherence standpoint.
Not all pensions are well managed; some have needed bailing out from public coffers. Other companies have shuttered completely, and the lack of incoming money to the pension funds made them insolvent (again, not especially well managed).
What is your new role? How much more remunerative do you find it compared to coding?
Golang has the most hilarious approach to date formatting
>read from multiple queues at the same time

That's a trivial thing in javascript.
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I've been working on a little thing :) https://leopard.sh/
But he doesn't dive deeper! If anything, he's more shallow. This just doesn't read like an honest appraisal of Go's pros and cons to me, he already has his mind set from the beginning (ok, we knew that two years ago already) and is just heaping on invectives: "one really good bit does not a platform make", "Evidently, the Go team didn't want to design a language", "Go is not adequate for production services unless your shop is literally made up of Go experts (Tailscale) or you have infinite money to spend on engineering costs (Google)" etc. etc.

What makes me angry about all this Go-bashing is that it might influence decision makers against moving from things like PHP or Node to Go - which I think would be an improvement, no matter how many flaws Go may or may not have.
Line 105-781: https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow/blob/1.0.57/src/ensure.rs#...
Doesn't seem like you can "travel" (just jump around), and it looks like just (low poly) models of Earth/Moon/Mars (so not quite 'space'). The relative sizes and distances are wrong.

Are you sure you didn't want to spend a little bit more time on it before showing it off?
Minor feedback: please remove password requirements, it's annoying.

My case: I couldn't care less if my recipes account gets 'hacked'. I just want to use my usual 9 letter password for services I don't care for securing. Heck, if I could just enter my email and anyone else could too that'd be fine by me.
Virtue is not what survives hard times, it's grit and brutality. Raw strength. Morals and virtues are what arise during good times once we've secured survival.
I sort of agree. A lot of the normal people, like neighbors, tend to be more empathetic and are accepting of people who are more or less affluent than themselves. But the normal people aren't the ones that run the country.
Except the city has been increasing funding for the police every single year with just a small appeasement drop in 2020.
Everybody has internalized the idea that if you ask for twice what you really want, meeting in the middle will give you the thing you actually wanted. So if you notice that the other side is doing the same thing, you double it again...
Just today I pondered how you can resell old content as new.
One example was a song that I heard as a young teen, strawberry fields by some random Brit on MTV.
I liked the song to only find out years later that it's a song by the Beatles.

A bloody song by the Beatles with some new drums and some spaz spazzing to the music...

Well there you go again... the 12factor app from 2011. A few years ago when I was browsing job offers that was a hard requirement in job ads I saw.
Now it's forgotten, but since k8s and cloud hype all I see is bs cloud hype job ads. Microservices and cloud hype agile scrum blockchain ai machine learning devops bs bs bs. When will they ever learn when will they ever learn...

Why can't we get away from hype driven development and recruitment?

For the record, I'm not saying 12factor is a bad idea, it actually great, refined by experience.
But in the newsosphere it was forgotten. I see it as a standard that makes sense, but I'm getting annoyed that that 11 year old site is something that makes the hacker news. And how the memory of us humans is so limited.
Of course young people starting out likely never heard of 12factor. So it's new and shiny for them. Goto 10.
Amazon stockholder here too - 31% decline from peak, been holding for 7 years, last two years flat. I think you're confused.
They deserve every bit of failure they cultivated. We all know when it's 'free', that you are the product -- but a LOT of people who didn't realize that had a very expensive eye opening experience Jan 2021.

I hope when it's over Vlad and all the other people at the top there rot in jail.
Yeah, unfortunately sorta shows that this community is becoming like a lot of communities: anything they don't like == toilet.
Freedom of speech is foundational for other rights. Take that away, and the other rights might as well not exist.
He speaks of "the magnitude of the attendant change in social structure: a movement from national toward international social organization."

This can't work because it is not associated with growing prosperity in developed world but rampant inequality, the decline of good jobs for the non college educated, and growing resentment about this. Particularly in America, labor has been crushed.

The substitution of "international" for "national" elites has worsened the problem and made the resentment worse not better. Because there is a material basis for the discontent it is indeed likely that we will fall apart.
nah, strong but insane men make hard times.
If you're willing to dismiss polling out of hand for selection bias reasons, then why would you put any more weight onto intuitive arguments that rely on an even smaller and less systematic sampling?
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Well yes, the Goodwin point is now crossed very casually, just like people are using superlatives for the mundane things, such as "I ate the most amazing fries yesterday".

This makes for poor debates, where there is little nuance, fuzzy scales and hardly meaningful communication.
> And if I recall correctly, one argument for not banning menthol cigarettes was because it would affect the black community disproportionately!

A narrative cynically bought and paid for by tobacco industry propagandists:

> The disproportionate toll of menthol cigarettes among African Americans compared with the general population is a social injustice. The black community has long been subjected to the predatory marketing of mentholated tobacco products, particularly in lower income areas, where there are not only more advertisements, but more promotions and cheaper prices for menthol cigarettes when compared with more affluent neighbourhoods.7 Tobacco companies also heavily rely on their cooptation of community leaders to defuse tobacco control efforts.8 Black-led organisations with financial ties to the tobacco industry have played a critical role in disseminating misinformation throughout the black community. Such misinformation, for example, includes the idea that local policies prohibiting the sale of mentholated tobacco products are racist and will increase the criminalisation of individuals who possess or smoke them, exploiting legitimate concerns about racist policing to defend the tobacco industry’s targeted predation on the black community.

PDF: https://www.savingblacklives.org/_files/ugd/29e3b2_51eb6e3ea...
Depends on what you mean by efficacy. It's recently taken on the meaning of "Protection against death and hospitalization" which is not necessarily related to infections. But yeah, UK data going back into last fall consistently shows that vaccinated people over 18 even have a higher case rate (cases / 100000), sometimes as much as 100% more, than unvaccinated.
Anyone knows the relation with the swissmetro project (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro though it very much reads like an ad) ?
Yes, the transition would be pretty horrific both for property owners and banks, and therefore for the entire economy (see 2008).

I think that would be true for any reform that's actually effective in driving property values down.
> the CO2 produced by methane is not counted toward methane’s overall climate impact

It definitely is in some contexts. It's often cited in CO2 equivalent over time. Methane start off to be something like 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. Then as it decays to CO2 its impact is that of CO2 but time has to be accounted for. So for every ton of methane, you can estimate an equivalent CO2 tonnage over then next, say, 50 years.

A quick search for methane co2 equivalent reveals a site claiming methane has 25 times more global warming potential than CO2 over 100 years.
> * Getting cheated occasionally is the small price for trusting the best of everyone, because when you trust the best in others, they generally treat you best.*

This is very good advice that my family never follow because of short sighted idea that everyone is out to cheat you. You get so much more out of life by being cooperative and vulnerable than you do by protecting yourself from all risk of being cheated.
Reminder that I'm not part of /any/ Rust teams, not part of the Rust foundation, etc. etc. My site is my space, and it is specifically designed to let me post my point of view without having to bear ( ) the responsibility of speaking for entire communities at once.

It's important for individuals to be able to do that, and it's on everyone else to make the distinction.
I can't speak of all civilizations, but I do think that there can't be any human civilizations that last indefinitely -- human nature will prevent it.
The same ban includes flavored cigars which are enjoyed by the same demographic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6377319/
It's actually simpler than a table of voltages. It's a series of trinary values that indicate whether to use positive, negative or zero voltage. The actual voltage used is static (even the specialized EPDC PMIC (which _is_ a separate chip) doesn't allow changing it on the devices I've seen). The waveform (as they call the lookup table) is sometimes actually stored on a separate flash chip soldered on to the display's built-in cable. Years ago I wrote a tool to decode and convert the proprietary formats used by the E Ink corporation for these: https://github.com/fread-ink/inkwave
>The catholic church has stood largely unchanged for the 1600 odd years

That's a bit of a myth, thrown around a lot but not quite true. It has existed in some form, but by no means remained changeless. The doctrine is substantially similar but then we can say the same thing about Judaism. Here, we're really talking about the organization, which has many issues:

-The East-West schism in 1054 tore the Catholic Church in half.

-Then there was another schism about 500 years later when Martin Luther & subsequent Reformation really splintered things, sparking many violent conflicts over the centuries. I'm sure many Catholics felt like things were falling apart then.

In lesser events that still made people feel things were falling apart:

-Rome was taken & Pope Pius was imprisoned in the Vatican during the Italian Reunification in 1870 there was probably a similar feeling.

-After Vatican II from 1962-1965 I know from my own relatives that they felt (and still feel) that the catholic church began to fall apart.

-The last few decades with countless child abuse scandals.
In the early 2000th when I was introduced to Apple Macs (G3 iMac MacOS9) I couldn’t understand who wanted to work with these machines. I tried out macOS-X in the school Labs and the only piece of software I actually liked was iTunes (I know weird). It took years and then I saw a machine running leopard and the coverflow in Finder etc. I thought wow this looks and feels so much cooler than my ugly windows XP/Vista. I convinced my wife to buy a MacBook and bought the Snow Leopard update. Freaking unbelievable. I switched to Mac myself and it was such a joy ride. Everything was just working and I actually felt real joy. Updates later and I don’t feel like this anymore. It started with the 2017 MacBook I got from work (the worst machine I ever had to use) This was only hardware. But the software broke under me as well with the introduction of Catalina. I still run a Mac at work cause the company only supports windows and Mac. At home I switched to Linux and try to become the maker of my own joy.
Chicago didn't defund the police. The current mayor Lightfoot is a former US Attorney who's previous position was chairing the Chicago Police Board and she has increased the police budget consistently.
> So then why do scaled penalties only ever seem to be scaled up with income rather then down with lack of?

The two are equivalent, and many scaled fine systems have lower fines for equivalent severity offenses at low income levels than are common in the systems of fixed fines used in the US.

A lot of people get fixated on, e.g., Norway's very high, even at low income levels, traffic fines compared to the US, but that's a product of Norway being a high outlier in how severe traffic violations are considered (and, also, the US being a low outlier.)
The post specifically calls out the saying as “the modern version of this idea has deep roots in Romanticism (c. 1800-1850), a reaction against the reason of the Enlightenment – which makes it more than a touch ironic that this brain-dead meme is so frequently presented as clear logic.”
> would you frame chewing tobacco as "killing rural white kids" in the same way?

YES

Time and time again, the tobacco industry has been shown to specifically target children. Why? Because children are dumber than adults and are more malleable to advertising. Stop burying your head in the sand.
If your kid is normal. Tantrums can indeed happen regularly and without addressable cause depending on the child.
I'd like to see numbers backing it up either way. I'm center left leaning and I largely distrust journalism these days. I don't consistently read any news source and assume appropriately relevant and significant information will filter it's way to me from my network. It's worked well so far and I've managed to keep my biases moderate. It also let's me more easily filter out bs since I'm not consistently immersed in it.
I have a hard time judging the "actual quality" of the article, but considering the quality of the discussions it generates, I don't think something like that is a good fit for HN.

There's something that I think is important to mention: there's a difference between theorical ways to make bugs and bugs that happen in reality. The author spends more time talking about theorical ways to make bugs than bugs that happen in reality. I'm all for the "we should be using good tools", but there's also a point where you shouldn't use a tool just to use it.

An example of that: at work we have a very huge codebase that's a pile of C++, C#, JS and TS. The codebase is more than 20 years old. Typescript is a relatively recent addition. I've seen part of the adoption, and talked a lot with the people that adopted it. And the conclusion is that it didn't really reduced the errors we have in production. We already have processes to cover for that: being careful during development, pair programming, code reviews, automated tests, manual tests. However, it made the development way easier, since Typescript has a better IDE support. But it didn't lead to use reducing our processes.

A lot of the article seems to be rationalizing bad experiences with Go due to bug happening in production. I don't want to reject the criticism entirely, but I think the language isn't the only thing you can blame here. And my own experience is that processes matters more than the language when try to write good code. It seems like the author has a different experience compared to mine, and I don't want to fall into the fallacy of "it's possible to write bad code in every language". But I think the author should recognize that people can have widely different experiences, and that there isn't always someone that's right and someone that's wrong.

I've read lots of thing about Typescript adoption and lots of people/companies mention a reduction of bugs in production. This didn't happen for us. That doesn't mean they're wrong, and that also doesn't mean that Typescript is useless for reducing bugs in production. It means we have different experiences. I think it would be more productive to talk about our experiences, and try to find out why they are so different. This way we could learn a bit more about software engineering, and develop more empathy for each others.