skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, because from 30 years later, I think you're right.

But my recollection of the zeitgeist then was all about progress. The trend of the computer industry was always about upgrading, whether that's your hardware, or your OS (this was in the midst of moving from DOS to Windows 3), and there were tons of examples of important languages being left behind, like COBOL or FORTRAN.

And prejudicing the decision against C++ were other related but separate technologies that had led to the failure of the project's original inception. The VP in charge of this major project (it was upgrading the company's core customer tooling from DOS to Windows) had us trying to do all kinds of crazy things. CORBA comes to mind, although I don't recall the details, and trying to make the entire architecture being data-driven.

So there was a sense - not entirely unfounded - that C++ pulled in too much complexity, and we needed to shift gears to something much more straightforward.

But I do recall realizing even as the decision was being made that the kind of simplifying abstractions that these 4GLs gave us may be great so long as what we want to do is "inside the box", but stepping out of the box leads to greater pain than if we'd been trying to accomplish it with conventional tools. Of course everyone realizes this, at least today. The difficulty was an management believing that the entire application, or nearly all, could be built inside that box, and that product owners wouldn't demand special and fancy behaviors.

So I remember spending a good deal of time (and fun!) writing wrappers around Windows message handlers, with their LPARAMs and RPARAMs and the challenge that entails, so that other SQLWindows developers could do these things - whereas the C++/OWL path is designed to deal with such stuff natively.
Initial impression: why do the first two blocks of text say almost exactly the same thing?
For the record, I believe extreme violations of HIPAA can result in criminal charges, or so I've read. (Accidentally sending PHI to New Relic almost certainly does not qualify for jail time.)
> the Rust jihad

As a Rust jihadist myself ... yeah I can't disagree with this description. Even I get sick of all the Rust chatter/evangelism on HN sometimes. I love it and it's my preferred tool, but I wouldn't mind hearing about some alternative topics at least some of the time.

(As for the article: I wrote Go for several years professionally, and what he says, well - rem acu tetigit. I know a lot of people on that former team who were converted to Rust by the experience of writing Go. And then I know others, with a natural propensity to cultishness, who just responded the way so many people are responding in this thread.)
Yes, it's probably easy to identify the Haiku-specific bits and start replacing them, but some of the organization of e.g. the Drawables classes is kind of implicitly built around Haiku APIs, so it might be a little less trivial than it appears at first glance. Still, it's indeed possible, if someone wanted to try it.
If you're ripping CDs that you purchased and only for your own personal use (i.e. not distributing the ripped files), then IMO the far more relevant question is an ethical one: does what you're doing in any way harm the artists or the copyright holders of the works you are copying?
There must be some exception to this. I am a US citizen working for a London company and a few times a year I go over, explicitly telling the immigration officer it's for "business meetings," and that's explicitly allowed. I couldn't just go work for the hell of it but as a manager of a team it makes sense I make special occasion trips. Technically they could ask me to produce a letter from my employer explicitly confirming the reason for my travel but I've never had any friction at all. But my company was very explicit that I explain it's for "business meetings" and not regular work.
> the HN prohibition on political discussions

While there was a brief experiment with such a prohibition, the planned end date was a long time ago (and the experiment was aborted early.)
The web framework Remix was closed source and available only to license purchasers for about a year, until they announced their seed funding in October of last year: https://remix.run/blog/seed-funding-for-remix#open-source
Ah I see: poke holes in the ground, much like Swiss cheese.
I suspect there's a way to eliminate Reedy Creek district.

I don't think it's the law stopping the dissolution of the district -- it's that no one important in the state seriously wants to do that. Who does it benefit?
I love that we now live in an age where older languages can suddenly start seeing a renaissance. I hope something similar comes to common lisp.
They did, but late 2023 is still a very short timeframe (less than 3 years) to get a custom arm64 CPU architecture, ready to ship.

Pre armv8, Qualcomm had strong custom cores, but Krait (their armv8 custom implementation) didn't exactly perform well compared to basic Cortexes from ARM (a problem that wasn't unique to Qualcomm, to be fair), and Qualcomm moved to using those generic ARM cores on most of their lineup.

Qualcomm reportedly did get some TMSC volume at 5/6nm that would correspond to that timeframe, but the timing would be extremely optimistic considering how long of a lead time you need, even if the Nuvia acquisition solved all their problems.
Here, I can do a better job than this entire article.

It’s currently $0.511 per gallon. There’s already a law that increases gas tax (presumably to keep up with inflation) every year in the summer. It will now be $0.536 on July 1st, so gas prices will rise $0.02 per gallon. (Less than keeping up with 8.5% inflation)

They should have just pegged the tax as a percentage (you know like sales, income, property that we pay?) so we don’t have to deal with Fox banging the drum every year.
Separate comment since I can't edit anymore.

Yes, Egypt was a Hellenic / Greek colony for a while, but seeing “ancient” I was under the impression it was much older. Hellenic / Greek period is something I associate with “antic” and not “ancient”.
Imagine living in a nice forest home near Tahoe. 20 years ago you had neighbors you talked to and could borrow a tool from. Now you have a never ending flow of new tourists visiting Tahoe staying at the Airbnb next to your house.
Even more things consumed won't help with climate change, quite the contrary, otherwise nice little project.
Can you explain how simply having a mask on in his profile picture is "propaganda"? Furthermore, how is having a github profile picture "anti-scientific"?
He's been wrong 100x more than he's been correct. He spends the entire day spouting random garbage, and you can cherry-pick the 10 pieces of garbage that happened to be true.
Teaching happens the entire time kids are at school even when just talking to their teachers so a teacher mentioning their family, their kids, their spouse, changing their last name because they got married, changing from Miss to Mrs, wearing a wedding ring are all expressions of human sexuality.

Sexuality \Sex`ual"ity\, n.

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.
--Lindley.
[1913 Webster]

They wrote the law so they could punish those they don't like and ignore violations by those they support.
>Civilization ebbs and flows, but I think the current sentiment is unprecedented in my lifetime

I generally agree that anti-instutional sentiment is at short term highs, but from what I've read it doesn't seem remotely as bad is it was in the 60s.

>People who I would consider "normies" even don't trust law enforcement and the FBI anymor

Ehh I think this is mostly short term partisan politiking
Same, except I never knew how they looked...
Doesn’t this get brought up every few years and the answer is neither yes or no but instead everything is changing. When companies disrupt others they put them out of business but it doesn’t mean they do a complete replacement . When Google and Facebook disrupted text advertisement local reporting disappeared. The Internet made companies that can have services anywhere but the people who make them work moved to the coastal cities which unemployed many people. Just in time manufacturing shifted it to other places and the rise of computers made manufacturing in the US much less than it was before.
Anthropic Raises Series B to Build Steerable, Interpretable, Robust AI Systems
Last time I checked, IONOS doesn’t implement DKIM, so if that’s still true I’m not surprised. Especially since, due to the inability to create true aliases, so many GMail users use forwarding that breaks SPF.

I use the $1/month DMARC monitoring from uriports and it’s a little scary how many emails only pass due to DKIM.
Sad to see this. We were big fans of Actual.

We're working on a product in this space. While there is a ton of demand for products like this (the incumbents, like Mint, aren't really evolving or providing the privacy people want), it's not easy to grow. We ended up raising venture capital to bridge the gap, but once we did, things started to come together. In fact, we ended up having a few people who were trying to build an app solo join the team (because they're so passionate about the space, and had build great products, but couldn't get a lot of traction).
The creator streams his development over on twitch[0].

0: https://twitch.tv/jamiepinelive
Why no one says it is transparency which is increasing, not things falling apart
Yep that's right.

I launched around 3 years ago, and it was brutally slow. I think it took a year to hit 100 subscribers.

Another year to hit 300.

This past fall, YNAB increased their prices which gave me decent jump from around 500 to 800 subscribers which is where I'm at today.

I did everything wrong when it comes to marketing and getting subscribers. I focused on the tech and never invested in content, building hype, etc. Well, I take that back -- sometimes I did, but only 10% instead of 70% like I should have been doing.
I believe that you’re ignoring the role of state and national educational agencies and groups in the dynamic.

It absolutely is not the case educational material decisions are a purely local choice as the “status quo”.
FXHash – Donations button to libraries to split profits from NFT sales
Charities fill that role. People can make their own decisions, they don't need the government making it for them.
Wow, very inspiring. Thank you for sharing that! Do you want to grant me and maybe also the general public permission to cite this in other contexts?
I too lament some of the homogeneity of culture brought about by globalization. But I think the benefits are well worth it. Indeed in the future I would expect (or hope) for people to feel as though they are world citizens, and never feel too far from home wherever they go. The world gets smaller as we integrate it, and though we’ll lose remnants of the past I think it is the only way we can hope to have a future.
The blog post says 810 paid subscribers, and the price was $4/month so that's $3.2k/month.

I mean that's not bad, that sounds like they'd nearly made it. Maybe they'd need 2-3x that to live off (depending where they live). But if they got that far I sort of feel they might have been able to make it. Then they wouldn't need any other job, they could just live off the product. And then any additional revenue growth would be profit.

I mean they were a lot closer to it being able to sustain them than a business with e.g. $0/month revenue, or e.g. 3 users at $10/month (I've worked for a few such projects without product/market..)
nice.

i have a question, in terms of raw vps, how much does 30 sideqiks mean in terms of vcpu and ram?

2vcpu, 4gb ram=? sideqiks for example
> so if one has gone without a win for a while then it's more likely to win than average.

This isn't true. At least, in Las Vegas, by law every spin must have RNG that is independent of previous spins. They can't be programmed to "go cold" after a jackpot, or guarantee a win after a cold streak.
I hate to make both of us feel ancient, but Bowling Alone was written in the "decades ago" period I'm talking about. While the trend of social atomization has definitely continued, I don't think division as such has gotten worse since then.

(Seconding the recommendation though, it is a good book.)
Sadly its dead project
Ask HN: Entering the Server World
I've been recently interested and am getting started in the server and network world, their technologies and architectures that are out there. I've been reading and getting hands-on on REST APIs to Docker and serverless. Still, each day I come up with more doubts and the more I read the more I realize this universe is huge.

I wanted to come to you to ask:
1) If you were to get in the server world all over again, what advice would you give yourself? What would you do differently?
2) Which technologies do you think are worth starting with, and which do you think bring the most value today in production?
3) I'm interested in handling big volumes of data. Is there an architecture/hardware you'd recommend, or any particular insight you'd like to share on this?

If you have any good reads or videos on this, they are more than welcome, and I'd appreciate them.
I like to think that we can learn from each others experience. Hopefully one day I will share what I've learnt in this path to help people who are in my current position.
That's what people said about Brexit..but here we are
Thank you for reading and for your suggestion to include "obsolete". That’s a great alternative for the confused usage of deprecate!
I still run 10.14 because I have an app I'm too cheap to upgrade. Also it runs great on my 2014 iMac 5K.
Huh. And yet the price is up slightly today. Presumably on the news that he's done selling.
Which studies?

>All that being strongly dependent on picking a mask that has decent filtration though

Like I said, masks rated for the job will do the job (of filtering the air you are breathing into your lungs).
meanwhile my car's engine is rated for 200kW
Total mess. It’s a real indictment of Kafka, more than it is anything about redpanda in the first half.
Makes me glad the platform I use for fundraising and subscriptions (Ko-fi) doesn't depend on VC. They're a bit slower than a VC-dependent company on shipping features, but I've seen the other side of that as a former long-time user of Patreon watching it not change in any good way for over half a decade while improvements and vital missing functionality are a perpetual "maybe." A real Tortoise v. Hare situation.
Smartphone Selfie Cams Can See a Lot by Capturing Reflections in Pupils
> Except for nearly all the other countries in Europe, Canade etc.

None of them has free speech. Free speech is a binary thing - either speech is free, or it isn't. The moment you face criminal lawsuits for saying the wrong things, you do not live under a Free Speech regime. To my knowledge, the only country which does this correctly is the US.

Many countries claim to have Freedom of Opinion - which is a different concept from Freedom of Speech. Under a "Freedom of Opinion" regime, you can hold any opinion that you like - but some you need to keep to yourself.
Thank you for sharing your perspective! I did not see it in this way before.
I am wondering: can you remember a situation in your life when advertising was beneficial to you?
I almost instantly hit the edit button after I post a comment.
>We engineered away stability for JIT, covid came along and proved to many we live in a Banana Republic exporting memes of exceptionalism, while most people can’t grow a potato for themselves.

This is hyperbolic. The US is not a banana republic. Why would you expect the average person to need to know how to grow a potato?
What technology sectors will likely experience a bear market ? And what will continue to get solid investments from VC's ?
Why not talk about nuclear war? It’s one of several elephants in the room. The full collapse of a nuclear super power is unprecedented. Who gets the weapons?
Does this provide more opportunity (and risk) for the equities market in the earlier phases of a promising business?

Rather than just being a place for successful early ventures to cash out?
>I argued that we are avoiding dealing with our economic challenges and are focusing on non-economic political problems.

Well, yeah, since all major media companies and social networks are owned by the entities directly benefiting from the "economic challenges" of the former middle class.
For that specific case, it is tempting to look to securities law, and the "when did something clearly become valuable?" concept.

If you're a well-established author of (say) steamy romances, writing yet another steamy romance - then the value is created (work is done) when you write the book.

If you're a nobody, dreaming of success as an author - then the work is done when you somehow convince a publisher to take a risk and buy your manuscript.

(And in between those cases it would get messy:)
I think it’s telling you didn’t offer an alternative interpretation either time you told me I was “wrong”.
I find it difficult to see a standard where Rust is not ready for "serious work" but Haskell is.
Very fascinating story. What's your opinion on the Lightyear partially solar powered up oming commercial car?
My wife treats ECMO patients, and it is not uncommon for them to attempt suicide by pulling out the cannulas. A couple have succeeded. What follows is a rapid exsanguination over the next few minutes as the machine pumps their blood onto the floor at 2 L/min. That tells me the quality of life while on treatment is not good.

The ones that survive the treatment (less than half) are never the same. But they aren't dead.
I try not to become extremely jaded when I read stuff like this, but it's not easy. The fundamental problem I see again and again and again with various crypto schemes is the idea that you can just whitewash away politics and human nature with a techo-utopian solution. And I get especially wary if the intro documentations don't highlight these political/human nature problems as the primary issue that needs to be solved, as opposed to delving into the tech immediately.

Just take the headline, "Philanthropy is missing out on $2860 billion/year." which is so utterly ridiculous it's laughable. Yes, if we channeled all the new money printed by governments and just gave it away equally, look how great a boon to philanthropy this would be. I don't think comments like "Are you fucking serious?" are particularly helpful, but honestly not sure how else to respond.
Different systems solve different problems and have different functional characteristics. Actually one of the thing which Kyle highlighted in his report is write cycles (G0 anomaly), it isn't a problem of the Redpanda implementation but a fundamental property of the Kafka protocol. Records in Kafka protocol don't have preconditions and they don't overwrite each other (unlike the database operations) so it doesn't make sense to enforce order on the transactions and it's possible to run them in parallel. It gives enormous performance benefits and doesn't compromise safety.
Because the black box for legal purposes still presumes you are in-office. When you are remote, you are structured as working from your "home office" not anywhere.
It is absolutely the case in certain circumstances.

I know several evangelical parents who want their kids ignorant about sexual health because they think teaching kids about sexual health will lead to them engaging in sex. Of course, thats not how it works, and these kids just end up engaging in sex while totally uninformed or in some cases filled with disinformation (for example, being told that condoms don't work - the parents think if the kids believe there is no safe sex that they won't have sex - but the kids end up having sex and don't use a condom because they believe it doesn't work).
This comment is hilarious ^
Your comment was dead, but I vouched for it because I wanted to respond.

Many research protocols that interface with the brains of animals call for euthanasia. Non-invasive study simply isn't adequate, and most of what we know about the brain comes from dissection and vivisection.

In fact, much of animal-based biological research imparts permanent physical trauma on the animals in order to study some disease pathway. They may even be born (or cloned) with immune systems that give them cancer and certain death.

Live animal protocols are designed to be as humane and ethical as possible. Lab researchers are taught how to painlessly euthanize rodents, for instance, and there is a lot of reporting and accountability involved.

Biological research seeks to make our lives better and to put an end to debilitating diseases and disorders, including ultimately death itself.

Another way to look at this is to consider other perspectives: (I mean this in a gentle way and please don't read if you're easily triggered by strong visceral imagery) lions are eating gazelle on the savannah while they are still alive, certain wasp larva eat their hosts from the inside out, orcas play with their food and torture it for hours, primates turn to cannibalism and infanticide, our ancestors had to eat animals and quite possibly cousins, and our sun will eventually boil all of our oceans before the universe itself goes dark.

Nature is brutal when it comes to capturing and transforming energy, and physics even more so. These lab protocols, though they may seem macabre, are seeking to extend our knowledge and end suffering in a humane way.

Edison's stunt was marketing. Elon's company is attempting to fix broken bodies.
That's its claimed advantages against reverse osmosis.
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Meta Announces Research Project to Create Human-Level AI
Sort of a facile response but we'll at least consider VA ECMO if we think the benefits outweigh the risks. E.g., a person in worsening cardiogenic shock because of a usually reversible insult (e.g., severe stress cardiomyopathy, or a refractory ventricular arrhythmia) has a very good chance of surviving the acute hospitalization but if I'm worried they will die tonight (even if they'd be fine 2 days from now after some recovery time) then will discuss VA ECMO with the people who actually do it for a living. VA ECMO's complications are a consideration in that calculus. That's the kind of decision where I think an observer could argue (especially if things go well) that there was a non-trivial chance that the patient would have survived without ECMO.
I don't think Florida's autocrat cares about legality. The message has been sent, right? Now the little people can figure out how to clean up his mess.
I am sorry if my choice of words has caused some misunderstanding, but English is my third language, so I am not able to put too many subtle nuances in my messages or to follow the latest language fashion trends.

Still, there is a definition in Merriam-Webster’s: “girl (1c): young woman” - I wonder - is it outdated?

Upd. Also this: “a person seen as lesser than the speaker” was impossible in the culture I’ve grown up in. So if there is a subtle nuance in my choice of the word “girl” it is “I felt pleasure each time I heard her voice”, not “she was lesser than me”.

Cultural differences…
Apply this logic of maintaining the status quo historically. Imagine someone creates something to do (Y) with good X. Price of good X goes up due to increase demand. Consumers of good X lobby that this is bad and there should be laws to prevent good X to be used for Y.

Also why are you optimizing for lower rents (as long as they are not AirBNB short term rentals)? What about the homeowners who benefit from having more things they can do with their property? Or the people that are coming to stay short term?
Building excellence will always require you following the old adage of "if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room". There is exactly one person in the world to whom that doesn't apply in any given field.

Being "quietly smarter than everybody" is a huge alarm signal that you're stuck at your current level and won't grow much further unless you change circumstances.