skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So you want regulators to decide how much of a profit corporations should have for a non essential service like smoking cigarettes?

Yes I want regulators to dictate how a behemoth corporate entity like Alphabet uses a platform like Youtube in ways that they both unduly profit from and are unacceptably detrimental to society as a whole.

Entities like Alphabet continue to grow and grow and the corrosive effects of their growth need to be checked some how. If you don't advocate for regulation than what mechanisms are you anticipating will mitigate the negative aspects of these kinds of entities?
I'm no expert— but from what I understand, the only really risky part is in the remelter where lead oxides form. When just handling lead type— an alloy of tin, elemental lead, and antimony— unless you actually ingest it (where it can mimic calcium in deleterious way in larger amounts) then it's not very dangerous, so handwashing before eating, etc. is good enough.
> In truth, I've never met anyone who likes Elixir except people who were already Ruby programmers.

This was the purpose of the language (or if not an explicit purpose, the primary effect.) Elixir created an environment that attracted Rails people (and other people repulsed by languages that don't look like C/Algol), and behind the Rails people (Rails been long established as a safe choice but aging and scaling badly) comes management of safe companies and consultancies, and with that comes a sure way of making a living for people who love Erlang and are willing to play the Elixir game.

Elixir is the same as Erlang, except with bad syntax and loaded with various ways to make your programs indecipherable, and with a cleaned up standard library and lots of nice little affordances/templates to help with processes and OTP. While Elixir (in my experience) takes a lot more debugging due to the weird javascripty syntax and pseudo-mutable variables, it's the same thing in my book (and the error messages are great.)

Happy to do the one that provides the most work, and thankful that they created it.
But the question was about little things, not utter travesties.
The corollary holds true as well: schools are loathe to hold anyone back, even when the teacher & parents want to because of developmental delays or even a really late birthday. This is criminal.
Yes this!

I had to recently compile some documents for court, they were in several different PDF's and I did not necessarily want all of it. The ability to easily copy specific pages from one document into one large document. Made life so easy.

There are so many small features in Preview that just makes it such an underrated tool
I like that people seem to be re-discovering Martin Fowler and the decades of thought that have already been put into the application development space.

Originally coming from a Java rich client world and moving into JS in ~2013, it always surprised me how much historical context the JS world was missing.
Can you provide some details on the industry and team, and how you found them? This seems to be somewhat rare so I'm curious how to find such roles myself.
Doppler Effect
You find the nearest parking garage and go on foot from there?
Correction: Turksat 5A
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrksat_5A
I wonder what pcwalton and raphlinus thinks about this.
Pathfinder was a SDF SVG renderer after all.
Those are both in my top 10, but IMHO "A thanksgiving miracle" ("Hello from
the outside" Adele sendup), Cowbell, Taco Town, and United Way (Peyton Manning beaning that kid in the back with a laser pass), Kristen Wiig's Christmas Morning, and -- omg, best for last? -- Kate McKinnon's Paranormal encounters (really any of her Ms Rafferty skits) are all up there with Papyrus and Grouch.

I'm sure there's recency bias at play, but those are the ones I can think of now that just HIT.
>I have always been disturbed by the dehumanizing portrayal of Russians in the >West. Now with the war in Ukraine, that popular tendency has exploded into a >vicious mania. Russia is full of people who love their family and are just >trying to get through life. If 80% support Putin even with all that is going >on, something is going on with them that Westerners clearly don't appreciate.

The West is a conglomerate of more than 30 to 40 countries, with free and independent press in most of them, and open and fierce debate in multiple forums. There is no "dehumanizing portrayal of Russians" in the West, other than the one, caused by the open reporting of the unspeakable actions done in Russia's name in Ukraine.

So far, most of the West, has given the majority of the Russian population the benefit of the doubt under the argument that they live under a totalitarian regime. However it is also a common consensus in the West, that even if Russia had free and fair elections, Putin would probably be elected again.

Several independent Russian sources, reported that during the first days of the Ukraine invasion the common sentiment on the street was one of jubilation. A small minority, at great personal risk, protested on the streets but the core foundations of the state still look pretty stable.

Russia is not North Korea, and it's not an African underdeveloped country. It has a great educational tradition and most Russians have access to the Internet
even if strongly controlled. This Internet control is nowhere near levels like China or North Korea.

We have also heard of multiple stories of divided families. Mixed families in Ukraine with blood relatives in Russia, being called Nazis, while calling their Russian relatives under the noise of the shells of the Russian army.

Despite all the control, news have a way of spreading. I have strong doubts that the majority of the Russian population by now, has not heard of the the massive casualties of the Russian army and their horrifying actions in Ukraine.

If 80% still support Putin, then I think its fair to start talking about collective responsibility.
NY State lottery advertising -
Then: “Bet with your head, not over it.”
Now: “All you need is a dollar and a dream.”
Having worked in healthcare up until very recently I can assure you a bunch of unpatched XP machines connected via LAN will still be rampantantly infected regardless if they have access to the internet. Wannacry was just absolutely rampant on these systems for years. At the same time the publicly inbound accessible servers in the DMZ never had an issue because we were actually able to manage the security controls on those.

The LAN is a much more used attack vector than the internet. It has nothing to do with some hacker sitting there banging at your door users just share files and reuse devices as part of their day to day effort. The instant someone in the college brings in a compromised USB, intentionally or unintentionally, all of the isolation in the world from the internet doesn't save you from ransomware.
I think the key is not to make the services too small. If you are a startup with one team, you should probably end up with a handful of services. And do not let the services talk to each other.

Individual deployment of services is the single best thing with microservices. If the services are not highly coupled that is. For example. To be able to fix a bug in the search function in a system without affecting anything else speeds up things. Such a deployment can take minutes instead of the hours as some of the monoliths I worked on takes to deploy. It also gives the possibility of rolling forward instead of always having to rollback.

EDIT: replied to the wrong comment.
Is a trucking company a defense company if they ship something for the military? Or the same with air transport?
Do people not consider SpaceX a defense company? At the very least I thought people always considered it dual-use
Those aged/distressed fonts with little nicks / chunks missing / broken bits, look fine until there are two or more of the same letter in a sentence. Then I cant help but notice that the same letters are aged/distressed in exactly the same way.. It seems like a really obvious issue that clearly undermines the effect they are going for.
Because of scale? Tech is an insane force multiplier. Instead of deceiving ~100 people by talking to them face-to-face you can now deceive ~10k, 100k, maybe millions. The cost is also so low to allow pretty much anyone to engage in this behavior.
There is plenty of water in the south west, we just use most of it to grow animal feed in the desert. Even worst, much of that water is subsidized by the US Government which allows farmers to grow that animal feed in the high plains where it would be economically infeasible otherwise. We have engineered this problem to the benefit of a small number of ranchers and farmers and seem determined to blame it on everybody else.
Well. In all honesty, I should have written "definetly not yet" instead of "probably not yet". But I see it from my own perspective as someone who grew up in Bulgaria and spent his adult life in the Czech Republic. Neither country is considered an example for the world (understandably lol), but in both, current US state of affairs would be considered extremely worrying. For example in both countries we have a multi-party system, so the average Bulgarian/Czech doesn't hate half the supreme court justices as it is in the US, but 8/9. Yet I don't think that harrassing them at their homes would be an acceptable behavior no matter the case.

So, I made this statement based on low national self-esteem. Later on I compared in my head current US with places such as Lebanon and Venezuela and realised that it is still doing pretty well, even though the strong downwards trend simply cannot be denied. So yeah.
The point they made was some insurance companies consider state sponsored cyber attacks as "acts of war" under their terms and not covered in their policies. It was part of a larger segment on how insurers do or don't insure catastrophic events, like pandemics or war.
Livestock are largely fed dried grass/grain which consumes a ton of water to grow but doesn't provide much to the cattle. Cows drink 9-12 gallons/day, 30-40 gallons/day for milk cows. Probably more in dryer climates.

For comparison a 20'x20' lawn uses about 120 gallons/day.

One acre of alfalfa requires ~12k gallons/day and sustains 0.4 to 0.8 heads of cattle.
Reincarnating the 6502 Using Flexible TFT Tech for IoT
No, but if they truck a bunch of equipment into warzones and have huge government contracts they might be considered one
Maybe? The remote firmware update is non-disruptive.

In the best case, I risk bumping cables while futzing with a USB stick. In the worst case, it wants a power cycle to update via USB.
I agree, and at this stage let them read whatever they want. It's a huge bonus for the kid, independent progression, life-long and fun.
Sounds like one of my favorite shenanigans when the stakeholders tell you it needs to handle billions, so you engineer it that way. Reality: it needs to handle thousands. Sounds like you got the reverse shenanigans.
Or even more simply:

These solutions are often solved in environments that are running at a scale not most companies operate at, BUT think they will, so they invest in them early for future, potential, needs. It's no surprise many of the core contributors / founders comes from Facebook/Google/etc.
You can also hover over the title to get the proxy to appear.
I signed up for Premium before the situation got as bad as it currently is. The worst ads I had seen by that point were either 5-30 second unskippable, or 15-120 second skippable. Even at that point, signing up for Premium felt like a fantastic deal. I never felt gaslight or manipulated into it, it just felt like paying an acceptable price for a very attractive set of features. It feels like you have a counterproductive set of principles if they keep you from paying a reasonable price for a good set of features. Premium also gives a much bigger chunk of money to creators, which makes the situation seem even better to me.
See also, this popular Ukrainian song about the Turkish Bayraktar drone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXVu_DeB4wo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayraktar_(song)
Ahhh... I just read the first paragraph. Then I took a deep breath. Exhaled. With a little smile on my face.... "Thank God, I don't live in North America."
If I'm reading correctly, Lake Powell has a capacity of 25M acre-feet. They're going to release an additional 0.5M acre-feet that feeds into it. That sounds pointless.
> Id trust my own intuition over the internet liable state of scientific research on the matter

Sorry to call you out, but this is incredibly selfish. Your own intuition leads to negative externalities for others that you simply ignore, even when presented with evidence.

Riding a motorcycle is not a necessity and not a right. You should be more considerate of others and listen to the evidence that loud pipes do not save lives.
So ironically, water usage is higher per household where water is more scarce.
COM was a pretty great tech at the time - nasty to program with but in terms of comprehensiveness of adoption, powerful cross-language interop and component marketplaces, the 90s were the place to be. Microsoft led by example and so lots of apps did expose their internals via COM objects.

For better or worse the shift to cross-platform development killed that all stuff off. The closest equivalent is now the JVM, but it requires everything to share a runtime whereas COM was much less imposing. Also the higher level nature of JVM bytecode makes it less attractive to build commercial components in it, whereas OCX controls were a working market of software components.
> the 'number crunching' bits are offloaded to specialist languages because the underlying language model that Erlang uses does not lend itself for the kind of optimization that JS, Go, PHP etc have available to them simply because their runtime model is so completely different.

Yeah I love Erlang, but often reach for something else when I need to be able to express and optimize compute bound problems.
> We were playing quake on a single thread with clock rates measured in hundreds of megahertz. How much faster is an AMD Rome system compared to the best you could buy in the mid 90s?

Modern games are also have much more detail in their textures, many more particles, and much higher screen resolution; not to mention physics and visual effects. No. of transistors may have risen exponentially, but aspects of games have increased exponentially and quadratically as well.
If you become an integral part of the logistics pipeline for the military, then yes. Even if the company seems relatively civilian, you can bet it will be forced to focus on the military in the event of a military operation.
I already know multiple people who have left southern California in order to beat the rush out. They consider themselves climate refugees.
Using graph neural networks to measure the spatial homogeneity of road networks
Damn this is pretty cool. Kobe
> Yes, the feeding habits of 7 billions people produces

Let's be clear, the "feeding habits" are completely unnecessary for 6 out of those 7 billion people and create the largest cycle of suffering this planet has ever seen by several orders of magnitude. People eat meat for their taste buds to go brr - a plant based diet is fine otherwise.

It's not "whataboutism" when the sheer scales of suffering involved are so different. Crypto barely harms anyone. The meat industry causes over 60 billion beings a year to undergo extreme suffering.

Crypto is not even on the map as an issue in comparison. Complaining about crypto as someone that is fine with meat consumption - or indeed, consumes meat - is simply absurd. But what can I say? People love to throw stones from glass houses.
When threads like this pop up on HN, it is time to BUY.
I agree with this. There was an NPR piece

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/15732097

Where a girl goes to Paris to learn to cook thinking it will be glamorous like the movie Sabrina and instead it's like military drilling to be efficient but even with all of that she says feeding people makes you feel like a god.

I think the concept is similar for software engineering. Not feeling like a god but some people think "how could you possibly stare at a computer screen for so many hours a day. Sounds mind numbingly boring" where as to some software engineers it's the most creatively freeing environment there is and they thrive in it.
Ukraine absolutely has an airforce. According to a recent CNN article, "In early March, about two weeks into the war, the defense official said Ukraine has 56 fighter aircraft, which composed about 80% of its fixed-wing fighters"

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/politics/ukraine-aircraft-spa...
I checked our water bill yesterday (Los Angeles), and found we average well over 82 gallons a day. I'm trying to figure out why. Household of 3, no lawns, lots of succulents (a couple fruit trees but we're not crazy about watering). So our water use is largely: daily shower, dishwasher, toilet, sink, washing machine, and reverse osmosis water faucet. We had a crappy tankless water heater for a few years, so I actually removed the water saving shower faucets and sink aerators. I got a new tankless, so now I want to put back on the water saving faucets and see how that impacts results.

But... I was surprised. I could definitely shorten my showers.
"Starlink helps Ukraine's elite drone unit target and destroy Russian tanks"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-u...
I'm not entirely convinced by this. There is a common pattern in the biographies of the early Greek astronomers in which the biographer says that they traveled to Egypt or the East to learn their astronomy and mathematics. It's enough of a trope that scholars think that at least in some cases tales of traveling to the East were embellished to add credence to the astronomer's ideas.

But in most cases it does seem that in many cases Greek astronomers really did travel to either Egypt or Babylonia to learn astronomy and mathematics and were quite open about it. There's a story about how Eudoxus, who was very poor for a Greek philosopher, had to raise funds from his friends to afford to travel to Egypt and study with the priests there. After seeing the observatory that the Egyptians used he decided to build one of his own in Cnidos.

Ptolemy was also explicit about the fact that he used Babylonian records to validate his planetary model (though he complains about their quality in places).

None of this is to say that by the early modern era Western scholars had neglected eastern influences. But the Greeks themselves were very willing to acknowledge their eastern influences.
That's not why it failed. It failed because we had an extremely stupid military dictator with racist tendencies that carried out brutal massacres there.
Preview is great. I miss it whenever I'm not on a Mac. Fast, light, useful, tasteful. I dread the day a design team remembers it exists and decides it's due for a "refresh".
Utterly disingenuous characterization of the impact of Musk in his capacity as Tesla's first major investor, first chairman and 14 year long CEO, and of SpaceX on commercial space flight:

But before you point at Musk and Tesla or SpaceX, I need to remind you that he didn't found Tesla, he merely bought into it then took over: SpaceX's focus on reusability is good, but we had reusable space launchers before—the only really new angle is that it's a cost-reduction measure. Starlink isn't an original, it's merely a modern, bigger, faster version of 1990's Teledesic (which fell victim to over-ambitious technology goals and the dot-com bust).

I sometimes wonder what kind of psychopathology motivates this kind of mindset and ideology, that prioritizes the demonization of the most financially successful over even basic integrity and truth.
Have you considered that 9-5 jobs and bills to pay are a choice or at least the result of choices made earlier in your life?

There's no sense in being jealous for the paths other people have chosen.
I've used Erlang and have been interested in Elixir but haven't used it. After a little getting used to, I've generally liked the Erlang docs. I have the impression that Elixir is just Erlang with different surface syntax so the main real differences are in the library culture (Elixir's are more Ruby-inspired, with Rails's inanities mostly cleaned up). From a Lisp background, all these languages are pretty much the same. Erlang/Elixir's concurrency story is far better than say Python's, but that's not really about the language per se.

I'd actually like a statically typed BEAM language. A few of these have been attempted, but I don't think any have gotten traction.
This is exactly right. In huge swaths of the US, your local county's Mosquito Control department is probably a small number of full timers (maybe one or even zero), some budget for seasonal staff, and some commercial F-150s with sprayers in the bed. They probably have six-seven figures a year in budget.

They don't have a PR budget, just trucks and sprayers. But they are absolutely the reason that there isn't endemic malaria in your county.
Turkish drones, but all Ukrainian engines.
> but the perfectionist inside of me just can't accept picking the most available font

This strikes me as significant misattribution. There's nothing imperfect about picking a default font because there's no such thing as perfection in design, only individual preferences which change from person to person, context to context, and year to year.
I totally get it, but the internet hasn't been around that long. How did we handle this 30 years ago?

I imagine students applied via snail mail, and then someone manually entered the information into a database. There's no reason to go back to paper applications, and that database should absolutely be digital—but I think we could do a lot more manual entry.
Countries with mountains are much more vulnerable against climate change and the extreme weather. Last extreme rain took away, via the rivers, many houses in Germany. Whereas The Netherlands is relatively safe as we are more downstream and also more prepared against river floods.
We know that, at various times, explanation was a strictly and vigorously defended priestly prerogative, and encroaching on that was a good way to get oneself dragged behind a chariot all through town.
> Microservices are a solution to organizational problems, not to technical ones.

Which is exactly what separation of concerns achieves:

> It is a nice way of separating concerns.

It's also why Uber got to "thousands of microservices" and found it terrible...for the same reason managing thousands of developers is a nightmare. The overhead eventually catches up.

I upvoted you both btw.
> IMO, everyone should know the basics of a wide range of things from cooking to statistics.

maybe, but the person here is 5 years old, and probably shouldn't be doing statistics nor cooking.

>> teach your kids the basics of reading and math let’s them coast for years.

Why would this be considered a good outcome?
>At some point we need to start calling SpaceX a defense company.

They do themselves. ITAR compliance is a prerequisite to employment at SpaceX.
Go for it, but also admit you’re trying to out-compete a shark.

The bar for success in that case is pretty high, and the challenge significant.
I think it's probably more about job programs and power grabs than about culture. This type of cultural battles let some type of people with some types of university degrees to insert themselves as middle-managers in spaces that before were managed in more organic manners. And their ultimate goal is to maximize their power, not to keep any healthy environment in those spaces.
I would venture a guess that nearly every SiValley darling supports the military-industrial complex in some fashion. The military-industrial complex started SiValley, after all.

If you don't think there's a military application for AI, self-driving whatevers, logistics innovations, or even social media you are uninformed or willfully ignorant.
> some point we need to start calling SpaceX a defense company

What is the real-world outcome you're going for?