skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(as the twitter picture is getting a bit of thought)

The depiction of the right remaining where it is from 2008 to 2021 is misguided at best. The party of George Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney is the same as the GOP today is incorrect.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-04-20/geo...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/27/politics/mitt-romney-gop-ukra...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/john-mccain-donald-t...

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I believe that this depiction only makes sense for Elon if a different right endpoint is used - where the right is closer to Ron Paul and the left is instead the caricature at the extreme that the comic portrays.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Democratic Party has shifted to the more authoritarian end of the Y axis of the political compass - increased regulation in the wake of corruption and the increased power of corporations.

If you draw a line from where Ron Paul to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2008 and put Elon on that line... then ok. 2008 make sense. Then you draw it again on 2012 https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012 and it makes sense. And again 2020 - https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020 it makes sense (note the change of where Biden was in 2008 to 2020 though this is hardly scientific measurements).

However, that completely ignores the shift of the the majority of the rest of the Republican Party to the top right corner.

This chart only makes sense for Elon if the right end is held constant at the libertarian and the left end changes, but ignores the rise of the authoritarian right along with any of his changes.
I feel like most modern languages are so uninspiring. I wish there was some popular Lisp or something (I guess Clojure is pretty close, but JVM).
> Pension funds inherently depend on population growth to avoid shortfalls.

Pension funds inherently depend on increases in production. Population growth is one factor, but technological development can also increase production.

> The other near-ponzi scheme is the real estate market. In my city of Toronto, average real estate prices have gone from 2x average income in 1972 to 16x average income today.

Hello from a Vancouverite! I broadly agree with this point, and I'm not sure how to work our way out of a housing bubble beyond popping it and dealing with the aftermath. Too many people are invested in the status quo, so any politician who tries to pop it will be crucified for destroying the savings of a large portion of the population.
The author doesn’t fundamentally misunderstand programming language design, but rather misunderstands programmers.

Most programmers don’t need someone to tell them which tools to use. Of those green enough to need it, they certainly shouldn’t look to the internet for advice and they absolutely shouldn’t look to HN or random blogs for advice. Instead they should find a local community which can offer them support when they stumble and point them to interesting job opportunities. Because those people are real and they can build relationships and connections which will be much more valuable than some measly programming language.

Many online authors - even if technically skilled - have quite an over-inflated sense of importance. What makes somebody think that their experience in domain X and country Y apply in any way shape or form to the hundreds and thousands of industries, countries and cultures all over the planet?
Crypto Is Winning, and Bitcoin Diehards Are Furious About It
How much performance overhead does the microkernel design impose? Or is it actually the opposite these days (there's got to be a reason people keep moving network stacks into userspace for performance...)?
What if the facts or basic-ness of them are disputed?

You can see this clearly in pro-choice/life debate for example.

One side is saying it is murder and the other side is saying everything from it is not a murder to society doesn’t support the born kids, so this should be allowed.

What are the ‘basic facts’ here?
Yeah. It's almost like everyone is being brainwashed.

"The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors
'Cause they know that if we get along, we'll probably go against 'em"

"Fake news, fake woke, distract, and divide
You're either right or you're left or you're black or you're white"

"So the conflict is between us and never with the system"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCBNwGHPZ2M
But no anti-personnel mines.
If you want backups, Restic or Borg. I use Restic.

If you want file encryption, gpg -c (AES 256) or gpg -e (cv25519, optionally signed with ed25519). Frankly, there are tons of choices for file encryption.

If you want file system encryption, ZFS native encryption. There is fscrypt for other Linux file systems, but it doesn’t support authenticated encryption AFAIK.

If you want disk encryption, LUKS. Better yet, use file system encryption with a better mode and authenticated encryption.

If you want per file encryption of a directory, consider rclone which uses secret box from NACL (or gocryptfs which uses OpenSSL). There are many other options such as cryptomator (written in Java), but I can’t confirm them!
I think the innovation is the removal of manual handling involved in transferring goods to a train or between trucks at a logistics hub. By making the modules small enough that they will ultimately be able to trundle autonomously at low speed from the loading bay at a small factory to the hub and then travel at relatively high speed to the end destination without requiring sophisticated AI to guess what the humans around it will do. The modules can pop then pop up in dense city centre environments and postal workers can distribute parcels the last few hundred meters or the module can trundle autonomously for the last few hundred meters at very low speeds on battery power. Or likewise trundle around and between manufacturing areas at low speeds transporting parts along a supply chain.
Sources/reading?
A piddling price to pay to regain control of the proles.
"Lessons of Darkness": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/
This may be semantics, and I am not sure what counts as Apple Music versus iTunes these days, but you can download all files for offline listening in Apple Music. I assume if you can download a lossless file from Apple Music that you can also buy that same file in the iTunes store and then download it.

They both use the same app for playback, so this is a tad confusing.
My 5-minute version:

- Get the overall system structure in Python. Get the architectural design right, and the big-O stuff right.

- If there are bottlenecks, re-code those directly in C, cython, or similar. Or better yet, find libraries.

Python is great for expressing high-level operations and system design. It is also very easy to integrate with native code. I've never had much happiness in optimizing Python itself beyond that. Broadly speaking, code falls into three categories:

- Most code: Instant. Performance doesn't matter. Python

- Some code: Big-O(lifespan of the universe). Not worth building.

- Narrow slice of stuff in between: Don't do in Python, but use Python as the glue.
>Illumos

Well illumos is just the kernel and userland (bit like BSD without ports/packets), Omnios is a really clean "server-distribution" with illumos at it's core but well same problem, not enough eye's and hand's (aka packets, documentation etc). I decided, that FreeBSD is the "more worry-free" solution for me...and still happy.
The crisis that was invented is the perception that it was government stimulus that caused the inflation. The pretension that millions of deaths didn't cause the economic problems, it was the stimulus that caused the economic problems.
> Safe to assume when a parent screams / hits that the other options didn't work.

Most of my life experience contradicts this - parents gets angry and emotional, ignore needs of their children, do not think through their actions and do not realise possible alternatives.

I have witnessed parents 'giving away' kids to grandparents, spensong no time with them, and threatening physical punishment for poor gradea instead of offering any help

Lastly, you example is of a kid acting like a feral animal - by the time you get to the point it seems something has already royally fucked up
> One hint: just imagine using your digital signature (NFT or whatever you call it) and traveling in space with your VR devices in your browser? Sounds cool?! This is where this project is heading to.

I have no idea what this means...
Yes, the 60s was far, far, far more disillusioned than this.
What do you think Voat, Gab, Parler, Rumble, WeMe, Truth Social, Gettr and numerous other "alternative" platforms formed in the last few years were all about? Conservative safe spaces are a whole market segment now.
Every Shop Is Messy
People also want a programming language they can easily read and that has enough market share to work well in team environments.
It's fundamentally a difference about the economy and the value of material change vs. cultural change. The left proper wants liberation for all oppressed groups, including the largest, the working class. Leftists recognize that groups that are more marginalized under capitalism/imperialism (national/ethnic minorities, etc.) will benefit disproportionately, but want a rising tide for everyone (except the bourgeoisie). That is to say, leftists have a commitment to intersectionality and the liberation of those with marginalized identities, but the fundamental, sine-qua-non thing that makes one a leftist is anti-capitalism.

The woke "left" is different; it's largely a phenomenon of the petit bourgeoisie, and is not opposed to capitalism, or oppression more generally; the woke instead want representative members of generally marginalized groups to be proportionally represented in the existing power structures, without any significant change to those power structures. The reason the woke come off as so strident and belligerent is that membership in the professional-managerial class (PMC) is increasingly precarious, and US educational/cultural institutions overproduce people with the qualifications for entry into/maintenance of that class position, relative to the dwindling size of that class.
I have an alarm system connected to various sensors in and around my house: PIR sensors, IR beams and mag switches on all doors.

The alarm system is armed when Im not home, or at night when I'm in bed.

This system is connected to an armed response agency via a dedicated radio link. No cellular or internet connection.

If something trips the alarm, then their control room phones me immediately. If I dont answer the call, then they dispatch an armed guard to my house, who is there within 5 mins. The guard has access to my property and they can then conduct a search for the cause of the alarm.

The personnel working for this company os significantly better trained and equipped than the local police.

I get all this for less than $2 a month.

And this is pretty much the norm in South African capital city suburbs. Definitely not reserved for the wealthy.

Just thought I'd add my 2 cents to this conversation.
Anything can be turned into a business. Whether it's a profitable one you can make a living off of, is another matter.

none of those sound that good, imho. too much competition or not profitable. There is a reason why hobbies tend to be hobbies, but work is work.
So it sounds like you're saying things have just been getting progressively worse. That doesn't sound like much of a different perspective. There was a time when people were optimistic about the future, but granted that was a long time ago.
I'm currently living in a 3 month airbnb rental and have a 6 month airbnb rental lined up next...
I use mostly Python, with a little Golang in my job and my reasoning is:

1. Most of what I am doing is calling other programs, often over ssh. The speed difference between the two is going to be tiny (where it is not, I use Golang)

2. Python is a more ergonomic language to work in a lot of the time. Wrapping a series of steps in a try block and then handling the errors in one go (very common in the things I am doing) is just easier to write, easier to maintain, and easier to read than what I have to do in Golang. And there are a ton of modules in Python that are just easier to work with than in Golang. And the resistance to the 'while... else' and 'for... else' patterns just saddens me. And the 'for' implementation in Golang often makes me want to tear my hair out... why make it hard to do this by reference?

3. Even in places where Golang should be much better, sometimes it is a challenge. For example when I am trying to parallelize something, but want to only have N number of workers going at a time. In Python I just use the worker pattern and I am done, I can even feed from one set of workers to another. In Golang I have to use a limited channel, and be careful that I block on that channel before I do anything that is going to eat a lot of memory (otherwise I have protected the CPU, but not memory resources). It feels like I am fighting the language there.
"Basically, showing empathy towards animals signals you would be empathetic to people too, which makes you a more desireable peer today."

Pointing this out not against you (because I know this is rhetorical on your part), but to highlight the issue for those who scoff at using anything other than "logic" to decide things: There's also no logical reason why empathy to humans is desirable.

People might say "but what about an orderly society" or something, but then you can always keep asking the basic question of why x is desirable. If you follow it down the chain, it will always come down to subjective normative judgments. "Logically", human society need not exist. Logically, the earth is harmed by humans. Logically, the earth doesn't matter either. Logically, neither the happiness or safety of any individual human nor of human societies as a whole matter. Logically, maybe only math exists, but if nothing else existed, would math even really be said to exist? Is there any "logical" argument for that math and logic matter even though they are logical?
Yes! My friend just launched Avvinue (https://www.avvinue.com) to solve this exact problem.
> ...peacefully express ideas which might sometimes be abysmally stupid, ignorant or even malevolent. As long as they can't extend these ideas into coercive force against others, this should be fine.

That's also a fairy tale.

> The fairytale idea is that by "fighting misinformation" large gatekeepers can somehow forcibly rid the world of bad ideas or make it a better place.

I don't think anyone thinks they can actually "forcibly rid the world of bad ideas," the best case is that they don't spread as quickly or as widely.

> These same gatekeepers of media are themselves some of the biggest misinformation culprits out there, and have been for a very long time.

And QAnon/Pizzagate, "Stop the Steal," and Ivermectin are the answer? The only truth there is a view into the id, otherwise it's only as correct as stopped clock.

Enjoy the crack-up and decline, I guess?
> I think everyone wins here.

The airline industry surely will. The environment likely won't. (But who cares about a few polar bears if you can just work from Shanghai for a few weeks, right? /s)
As people have remarked, Amos's style can be grating and hyperbolic. That doesn't make a lot of his complaints about Go as a language incorrect.

I do think he's misunderstanding that the design intent is "networked C" and that Go + Protobuf is much better than he thinks. A lot of his complaints with the language and runtime boil down to:

- It's got a primitive type system (yep, nobody disagrees)

- It leaves a lot of problems to you (yep, just like C)

- you can't integrate it into existing binaries (yep, distributed systems connected by RPC)

He comes to terms with the last one and admits it, but it is not only the thing Go is good at but it was the design intent. If you start from "we want a language and runtime for writing distributed systems that would otherwise be written in C or Java" then Go is pretty good!

I'm a happy Go, Rust, C, and C++ person. They're each for different things. That Rust worked out (is working out?) despite being an incredibly powerful and complex language (compared to C) is awesome. In the mid-2000s, it's not clear that you'd bet on a language like Rust. It is clear you could do better than Java or C++ for distributed systems programming, and Go hit that pretty reasonably (I do wish the language had a better type system, and I'm glad to see Ian finally land generics, but I'd absolutely reach for Rust when writing code in a small group that can handle the "language complexity" in exchange for the benefits).
Shitty JavaScript on the "mommy blogs." They are text with a few pictures - JavaScript should be extremely minimal on that sort of site.

I wouldn't very much mind all the extra text if the JavaScript didn't interfere so much.
Swedish TV live streaming the annual Moose migration
Do you have a source? I wonder if that covers all pensions or just public pensions? Or if that requirement is newer and didn't exist when the companies went under 50 or so years ago.
The point is I was trying to be neutral. Because depending on who you ask Putin is the definition of true "strong men" or he's a tyrant desecrating the phrase.
> your only option is to run all of FCP in Rosetta emulation.

Apple has out of process plugins nowadays for that use case, through the XPC infrastructure. It's more 3rd-party SW that doesn't use XPC out of process plugins that are affected.
One of the disadvantages to democracy that Thomas Paine actually highlighted in "Common Sense" is that when things are off the rails in a monarchy, the cause (and remedy) are obvious. In a democracy, far less so.

When Americans elect bad leadership, they ultimately have nobody to blame but themselves, and that damages the public attitude; I suspect one of the reasons "stolen election" conspiracy theories are so popular right now is that the alternative is one must simply be skeptical of the good judgment of one's neighbors, and people don't want to live like that.

This, too, is a pattern we've seen before. The several Presidents elected prior to Lincoln were known as the "Bumbling Generation." When America gets scared of its own shadow, it tends to elect ineffectual leaders because neither side actually wants an empowered Presidency, lest it reward their opponents.

(One major difference between the antebellum period and now is it's a little harder to see precisely what the cleave-line is that has America's hands around its own throat. In hindsight, slavery was obvious. But the battle lines here are not so brightly drawn... Class? Faith-based conservatism vs. modern cosmopolitanism? Tech savviness vs. technophobia? Possibly enough of all three to make a crisis).
My guess would be portable ventilation equipment - already commonly used for maintenance access to underground utility infrastructure. They will probably need to provide access to the tunnels from above at reasonably frequent intervals for maintenance access (e.g. to "unstick" disabled vehicles) but since these wouldn't be used for evacuation of more than a small number of people requirements would be very relaxed. The same accesses would serve to run blower ducts when work is being performed, and workers would wear gas monitors. This is all pretty standard for telecoms tunnels, sewers, etc.

Safety evacuation requirements are also easier to meet when you limit tunnel access to a trained workforce under a permit system, compared to a situation where you have the general public in the tunnels. Emergency rebreathers, for example, can become part of your plan. A higher level of safety can be assured for workers since a permit system means that a control center will have positive accountability of everyone in harm's way.
"Distribution" isn't a problem solved by programming languages.
Very interesting, and a great description of methane self-feedback.

The perturbation lifetime analysis - the idea that the time constant of the atmospheric response to methane is longer than the time constant of the reaction that removes methane - comes from a beautiful paper by Michael Prather that may be of interest to anyone with some linear algebra. See https://unfccc.int/files/meetings/workshops/other_meetings/a....
>Elons "graph" only shows the left moving away,

Which has been objectively measured.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-polarization-of-politic...

>This entire "blaming wokeism" is just identity tribalism form the other side. How come you fail to realize ...

I never blamed wokeism.
I said possibly less reliable because of some interesting data mismatches, not dismissing it. considering then other comments addressing the flaws in their stats, it seems quite wrong.
I have a Masters degree from UBC and work as a data scientist, not that actually matters…
As an operations person who cares about deploying repeatable systems at scale, Rust's package management (and the toolchain's "packaging" itself) is an absolute nightmare. But at least I with MUSL can I have a 100% statically linked binary, which really should have been easier but that's another argument.

Seriously though, Rust team needs to have its Come To Jesus moment about not piping shit off the internet to sh.
Flagging this post strikes me as shameful censorship of an unpopular opinion.

You may say it's the snark/anger/frustration that got flagged, but I suspect it would not have been flagged if the topic were different.

Presuming the author is making bad-faith arguments for internet blog points goes against the spirit of HN. I prefer to draw my own conclusions, thank you. I normally expect HN to take the higher ground with calm and reasoned counter arguments of the content but not today I guess.
That’s because — by design — the culture war issues do not have a compromise position. The compromise on abortion was Clinton’s “safe, legal, and rare” — and it didn’t solve the problem. The compromise on guns was a ban on assault weapons, background checks and letting states regulate guns. It didn’t solve the problem.

These issues were cultivated by right-wing think tanks over decade with the sole purpose of making it impossible for voters to even think of doing anything but electing Republicans.

I’m not excusing the idiocy of the Democrats here, but you can’t both-sides the fundamentals of the culture war — it’s not a symmetrical problem.
Could there be a link between one's reading skills and empathetic ability?
Defaults matter because friction matters, but friction there is largely removed by having a decent package manager, so I personally don't think it matters (though the topic of "what batteries should be included" has far from run its course).
Honestly I started doing push ups and pull ups and squats at home during the pandemic. Not a ton. 6 sets of 8-12 during the day. A set takes me a minute or two. At this point I rarely break a sweat and just do them during the day whenever I get up for water or the bathroom.

My health is significantly better overall because of this. I would feel very odd doing this in an office. I have lots of other reasons why I don't like going into an office (mostly losing 1-2 hours a day to commuting) but this is at the top of the list of why I wont go back.
Not yet, but I have bookmarked this post and will likely buy a few books from here: Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30497703]
the issue seems to be that it included github pages, which can then redirect wherever.