skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow someone finally went ahead with the server rendered js in Go ! Looks great. I have been experimenting various ways to build web apps in Go: https://github.com/adnaan/gomodest-template. I have landed on pursuing one approach more deeply: server rendered html templates over websockets. Don’t have a lot of documentation right now but here are some examples: https://github.com/goliveview/examples.
Most of the other ones in Figure 12 there are France. But now France can't replicate what it did before (the EPR cost overruns have been frightful) so the validity of those earlier points is called into question. As I understand it, the accounting of those cost of that earlier buildout is sketchy, with military nuclear rolled in in a way that can't be untangled.
In all post-Soviet countries they will tell you "Nas Mnogo" (lit. "there's a lot of us") is THE Russian strategy. It used to sound scary when we thought manpower is everything. Today, with drones and things like Javelin... Seems more funny than anything else.
GP here. This is a late reply, but I wanted to thank you for pointing that out. It was an inappropriate choice of word and I should’ve spent a little more time thinking before writing.
>Recently, industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted on Twitter that the iPhone 15 will have a USB-C port instead of the now decade-old Lightning port, making the iPhone 14 the last of its kind.

Probably makes sense. I am pretty sure they were working on iPhone 14 when the last one was released.
Link to the official notification: https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2022/235784.pdf
Looking at 2007 was a peak in both income earned and taxes paid. Comparing it to today, income earned (as a %) decreased, yet taxes paid (as a % of total) is about the same.

So we can at least say from 2007 to now, tax burden increased.
Local maxima of the fitness function
You’re right, I edited the comment shortly after posting it. Most boomers don’t have 3M in housing. But many do and owning a house on the coast is not considered remarkable.
5T Digits of Pi – New World Record (2010)
I feel nostalgic: Don’t charge for too long takes me back to 1990s RC cars.
Got it. So nothing short of a true rout will indicate Russia could be losing the war.
For context: I was at a company that was trying to roll out OpenStack internally (don't do this). Lots of stuff got thrown at the wall in an attempt to find a unified provisioner, nearly all of it terrible. Thankfully my role was that of a consumer.

My recollections were that BOSH and CF exposed a ton more complexity than I wanted, and I don't remember there being a great story for deploying Rails apps. But all of these abstraction layers are just like cross-platform GUI toolkits – you're never going to approach the native look and feel or integration. And I don't like the terminology(!) it's all relatively unintuitive to me (e.g. stem cells, deployments, releases).

For contrast the Hashicorp stack for our AWS environments (tf+packer+vault) generally felt much more pleasant to deal with, and that's where the comparison to GUI toolkits falls apart I suppose.

But… look at all the integrations and enterprisey features that CF+BOSH offer. That's way more of the sort of thing that I'd expect to fit in at Salesforce.
Secure analytics platform for NHS electronic health records
> It is very natural for ponzi schemes to collapse even without any government involvement.

I read it as government involvement would stop the collapse of ponzi schemes by regulating them out of (legal) existence rather than by somehow propping them up.
I think it's not much different than shipping refined petrol or LPG... The main issue is always the need of transports, unless we can scale toward mass distributed small productions to built as much as possible locally so to avoid the scale of eventual accidents, not much differently than the concept of coming back from big ships to smaller one for petrol, hyper-giant plane trend to smaller ones etc

Accidents/incidents can always happen but at smaller scale means smaller issues...
I agree the technical foundations aren’t like that but the social structure is. The incredible ease of setting up a new server is a strict requirement for discord being successful. I don’t think we’re at a point where you can have people self host this stuff easily.
> Airplanes crash...but nobody seems to care

If you think that nobody cares when airplanes crash, that signals that you likely want to:

1. Re-evaluate the evidence. Boeing was fined $2.5 Billion[1] over the MCAS debacle after it was a major news story.

2. Talk to someone about burnout. Cynicism is one of its major symptoms[2].

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...

[2] https://alifeofproductivity.com/remember-burnout-and-cynicis...
Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Youngsters
The real effects of a deflationary currency are unknown. The side effects of a change of this nature are, likely, so vast that they are impossible to anticipate. That's the general problem with revolutions of this nature, they sound good on paper but it's mostly first level thinking. Ok, you got your change. What next? I see things like communism and anarchism the same way. It's laser focusing on a very small number of the ills of the current system without considering any of the good things that come with it and how to, at least, maintain them.
No cell phones on the battlefield seems like operational security 101. Deployed soldiers should not get cell phones, ever. I wonder if this happens more because of bad military policy about cell phones, bad enforcement of said policy, or because even for deployed soldiers it's next to impossible to survive in the modern world without a cell phone. I suspect it has a lot to do with the latter. Cell phones are completely inescapable.
So, so you have definite proof that nobody could figure out these problems on their own?
You ask for usenet, with scoring etc like Emacs/Gnus for client :-)

Perhaps a day people will realize that we have had all we need and demolished that...
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The OG version of this idea is of course the Super Dimensional Fortress: http://sdf.org/
> to not have a NATO supply line run straight up to a massive land border marching distance from Belgorod?

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are NATO members. Russia already has that massive land border on the west, marching distance from Saint Petersburg.

I don't believe what Russian officials are saying about their justifications and goals is true. Russians are simply trying to expand their empire, like they were doing for centuries.
What is this doing on HN? The author probably paid bots to get on front page and get traffic for their ads...
It's great at generating clicks-per-blogpost though.
So by spending thousands of dollars on developer time we can save dozens of dollars on server costs? ;)
I’m pretty sure back in the days when you couldn’t do this, people were complaining about their MacBook sleeping when they closed it.
We're All Living in OK Computer Now
A picture of a black hole would be always artificial, for color don't really exist as it's only the brain interpretation of a part of the EM spectrum heavily averaged, that's why we don't see green stars even if there are many stars whose strongest light is green, like our own sun.

Taking a real picture of a black hole like with a cellphone camera would likely be just like a bright white star.
Yeah this is a good point. Maybe it’s solvable with simple tech like this: https://www.amazon.com/brotrade-Hanging-Jewelry-Organizer-Je...

Get a similar soft display case with compartments big enough to hold cell phones, and have it displayed at the front of the class where everyone can see them. You put your phone in one of the “pouches,” you can see it the whole time you’re taking an exam, you pick it back out once you’re done.

I’m not sure what a practical method of ensuring you get the right phone back would be, but I can think of a few schemes. For example, each pouch has a uniquely numbered card, and when you put your phone in there, you take the card. Then you put the card back when you pick your phone back up. It would probably be helpful to have 1 or 2 visual indicators that you got it right, like the coordinates from the card also printed on the clear plastic in a way that’s easy to see them match, plus maybe a color scheme where a stripe or sticker of some kind on the clear plastic matches the color of the card itself. (This all to prevent accidental mix ups, not theft. The main benefit I see is letting the people still taking the exam feel confident that their phone is visible to them and it’ll remain where it is until they pick it up.)
Thanks for the comment!

I haven't actually used generics in any serious way yet. I haven't needed them. That being said, I'm happy they're in the language now and I'm really looking forward to seeing what the Go community comes up with during this period of experimentation.

I'm aware of the "anti-framework" ethos in the Go ecosystem. I think it comes from a good place, but there's room for other approaches. Go was created to build large-scale networked applications. The Go community deserves tools that are specifically designed for building web applications. Tools that are just as productive as Laravel, Rails and Next.js.

If this puts me at odds with some Go developers, I'm okay with that. We're probably just focused on different areas. Go is a big tent with plenty of room for different perspectives.

One thing I like about the code generation approach that Bud is taking is that there's more flexibility in the API design.

Need to break out of Bud's Controller conventions? Just pass a http.ResponseWriter and *http.Request and Bud will generate the glue code to wire everything up. You can go high or low-level depending on the problem that's in front of you.

I don't think this will appease the "just use the standard library" faction, but these kind of escape hatches will at least put a dent in their argument.
A likely answer is that as historically Luna was trading at 50-100$ it had a minimum price specificity of $0.01 or something, so the exchange might have converted lower buys/sells to $0.01 when it was trading below that
That's not a million miles away from how Second Life operated (and still does). Where the 'Land' & 'Estates' (and parcels within them) were servers. Each has their own limitations to how many user avatars they can support at one time.

People flock to places they identity with. Buy parcels. Build their own space and communities within communities.

As far as 'voting' and governance goes, I think there's room for development with blockchain login/identity/ownership and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) which support that.
Why would i.e. fiber infrastructure not be among these?
"But it's a dry heat" is an old saw:

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/69689/yeah-but-it...

I've been in Cape Town on 40+ Degrees C days.

It is dry there in summer. Parent comment about the mountain catching fire is "joking but also true(ish)".

There's sea on 3 sides of Cape Town but somehow, the summer heat is bone dry. I suppose it would be worse if it was damp.
Zombie Processes
case in point: https://www.engadget.com/2018-03-13-after-exposing-secret-mi...

Strava exposed unmarked US bases since soldiers were using the app for fitness tracking, and suddenly unexpected parts of the globe had activity in their heat map that Strava chose to publish.
This was such a good and interesting book. There aren’t many solid novels I’ve found where the protagonist is a programmer and the novel is about software itself.

Ullman spends a lot of time talking about Conway’s Game of Life and I’ve regretted not spending more time playing with it IRL.
Maybe schools should not then demand that students carry cellphones. Let them register for courses oldschool, using paper forms. Let them submit work in hard copy. And give up on all those emergency/amber alert/active shooter notification schemes. Stop asking for personal phone numbers on every form.
Ask HN: Do you have much friends in real life? How do you define friendship?
To be completely honest I'd have a hard time calling any of the people I know in real life my "friends". It's just never been a useful construct for me.

How do you define friendship? Do you have much friends in real life? What about online?
This might be a purely stylistic criticism, but it's hard to take articles seriously when they lack professionalism: "Why all cryptocurrencies should die in a fire". I can see the editor smiling and rolling his eyes when making that title. It was cute at some point, but now it's painful, and it's unprofessional.
It wasn't a Ponzi.

Yields came from outside investment. It's closer to Ubers incentives in new markets than Ponzi
I see IQ tests like the NFL combine. A battery of tests to demonstrate ability, but at the end of the day it doesn’t mean a whole lot beyond one’s ability to excel at specific tasks. Sure, someone who runs a 4.4 40 yard dash is fast, but sometimes they end up not having the same “game speed.” Likewise if someone is a genius IQ, but can’t turn that high test score into productivity then what does it matter?

The tests, like the IQ, can flag potential problems that have gone over looked, but beyond that it doesn’t matter if someone runs a 4.3, 4.4, or 4.5 40.
This guy calls Elon Musk a "walking talking Dunning-Kruger syndrome". That's the level of discourse you can expect from him.
But hacker news isn’t representative of the general population.
That’s what your business phone is for.
If the instructor had announced, a few weeks before, "Absolutely no cell phones in the exam - leave it at home, or it will go into a box in the front corner of the classroom during the exam, or else you will automatically fail the exam"...would that work (both operationally and psychologically) for you?
Is there an alternative copy, I only get https://railway.app/error-pages/project-error?domain=www.cur... ?
Not arguing about that! Parent described a mechanism, I provided a counterpoint (and clearly marked it as anecdotal).
> It’s not Ukrainian propaganda that the Moskva sunk.

If you are interested in some backstory on the Moskva, Michael Kofman covers some in an interview[1]. It seems to be true that two Ukrainian missiles struck it and it sank sometime later, but the rest of the story is uncertain. Kofman describes the Moskva as an antiquated rust bucket, with its defensive systems likely not even functional.

[1] https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/ukraines-military-advantag...
Do you think it seems "more funny" to the grieving relatives of dead Ukrainian and Russian sons?
It would seem it’s to remove the need for a port to connect to it.

My guess is that this is a scaling up trial for further deployment, but I’ve heard very little on it.

This article refers to MacRumors:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/23/apple-watch-60-5-ghz-wi...

Which in turn refers to the FCC filing:

https://www.scribd.com/document/527108597/Apple-Watch-Series...

This is new tech, and I’d love to learn more about it all.
Ukraine is just as corrupt as any other post-Soviet/Eastern European country, but they've got multiple things on their side.

It's easier to defend than attack, it's easier to defend with gigantic Western support via weapons and information, Ukrainians actually understand what they're fighting for and so on.

I was recently back home in my Eastern European country and saw LOADS of young Ukrainian men in flashy cars driving through my city, while men are supposedly not allowed to leave the country.

There is no black or white.
Windows? Ew.

I'm a professional dev and I learned on a Chromebook that I installed Linux on. You can get away with much less computing power if you use Linux.

I don't know any devs who use windows except those specifically developing for the windows ecosystem.
No offense, but that sounds like a poorly funded company.

We had the opposite experience, we paid for IAR since that was the only compiler to generate binary compact enough to fit in the 256KB version of the chip and not have us spend extra to upgrade to the more expensive 512KB SKU.

If you're laughing at this, do note that at scale, costs add up significantly even if we're talking about $.50 and a license to a good compiler and debugger can have an amazing return on investment.
Bilocation
Proposing children are kicked out of family homes isn't necessarily more politically palatable, and deferrals introduce revenue issues (especially if LVT causes land value to fall over time, which is often mooted as an advantage by Georgists...)

But that's a minor issue compared with the second part of my post, which is that if a proposed tax reform reduces the tax burden on almost every corporation and high net worth individual (bar a few land speculators and domestic oil well owners), ordinary people have to pay more to the government or get less from the government. LVT might be perfectly viable as a tax, but as a Single Tax replacing the existing set of taxes (which arent exactly optimal from the point of progressitivity to start off with) it's a wealth transfer on an unprecedented scale from people whose wealth is mainly the property they bought (including the land it sits on) to people whose wealth is mainly the shares they own. The latter category is much richer than the former.
It’s popular in games now because of Unity and il2cpp. Even though it started as a Java ripoff, it’s infinitely better because it has value types.

But my impression using it in school was the standard library was even worse than Java. Where Java buries things under six namespaces of reverse domain name, C# buries them under what looks like random technical terms chosen to impress people.

ie there is no reason for System.Console.WriteLine() or System.Collections.ArrayList to be where they are. It doesn’t make your program work better.
That’s… a lot of sponsors.

To clarify what this is (not sure why this isn’t more clear) it’s an “awesome list” of “awesome lists.”

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27315950
Not OP. But my worst fear with fizzbuzz would be that I'd forget the damn modulus operator. In python % is used for string formatting and I would have to quickly Google it to be 100% sure of any gotchas. Doing that in an interview the people would think "wow, 15 years of exp and doesn't know the modulus operator!!".
Most would certainly want a phone, but the borders one crosses and the government policies around those crossing may disincentivize bringing your personal phone.
very woke very powerful
That's obviously not tactically equivalent to the Ukrainian border. The Lithuanian-Polish border between the gap of Russia and Belarus is a mere 100 kilometers wide, with two viable routes for rapid transit of large armor. It is a chokepoint that Russia has always been confident that it can successfully hold if it came to blows.

The Ukrainian border is over 2200 with dozens.

Maybe Russia is simply doing as you say, I have no comment on that and cannot peer into the inscrutable psyche of Russian elites to know for a fact that they would have still invaded had there been no NATO expansion, but the assertion that the Baltics are strategically equivalent to Ukraine in a NATO-Russia conflict is laughable nonsense.

I love Ukraine and its people and am heavily personally invested in the future of the country. My children are Ukrainian citizens. When people say things that are basely untrue it does not help promote quick conflict resolution or prevent further bloodshed. Circulating falsehoods doesn't help anyone.
> I'm starting to have a hard time believing it.

I am not. Those, like me, that are following the conflict in detail, have overcome the disbelief you're struggling with. I knew before the invasion that Russia was about to fill YouTube will hundreds of blown up tanks just based on the number of Javelins I knew were already present in theater, but what has happened has exceeded all expectations.

Two weeks ago Ukraine began attacking Snake Island. They used Bayraktar UAVs to systematically destroy all of the air defense equipment Russia placed on that rock, publishing video of these attacks in almost real time. Response? Send in a top commander in an MI-8 in full view of the UAVs and zero air cover. Destroyed on landing. Send in assault craft with zero air cover. 2 destroyed and the third chased off. Now they're sending in more equipment -- respawning like NPCs in a video game.

Similarly, last week Russia tried a (minor) river crossing with two battalions of men and armor. They stacked it all up waiting for pontoon bridges to be deployed and delivered a perfect target to Ukrainian forces. They did this under the surveillance of NATO satellites and Ukraine's drone surveillance. Result? 50+ armored vehicles and men annihilated by 1970's artillery.

This is every day. Every. Single. Day. Ukraine pulverizes some chunk of the Russian military that is so farcically inept that they are unaware of basic knowledge about the conditions of this conflict and apparently incapable of learning or adapting to it.

You are observing epic dysfunction in action. Proof that corruption and cognitive dissonance are fatal.

And it's going to get much, much worse. The advanced heavy weapons that Ukraine has received are only just now starting to appear in the front lines. M777A2s started limited operation a few days ago. By the end of May they'll have batteries of these firing. PzH 2000 is weeks away yet. Ceaser still later. Gabriel V/Blue Spear anti-ship missiles are on the horizon. They've just now adapted Brimstone missiles to launch from what is effectively an ice cream van. And the Russians are and will do absolutely nothing to anticipate or adapt to any of this.
I found it informative, Nicholas Weaver knows what he is talking about. He calls these criminal enterprises for what they are.
Try to live a different life? Yes, and I found out that my values are utterly incompatible with society's. I have often put honesty (not in a rude way, but in an intellectual way) and the well-being of other people before my own needs, only to find out that this is a loser's strategy.
Bitcoin can inflate. It's just that in order to change the current agreement on what Bitcoin is and how it works, you need a majority of mining power to agree, but the Bitcoin community has been famously conservative and unwilling to any kind of change. The reason? Probably a small amount of fear, and a huge investment in ASICs that would not be able to work if Bitcoin changes.
It's a way of saying that I haven't reached product market fit yet, but also haven’t given up and believe that I will get to the product market fit I want in the future.

I have customers and revenue of 6-10k MRR (decent churn), but I'd like this number to be 10x.

I guess product market fit can be subjective depending on the founder's goal. My current offering is targeted towards too small a niche and the market is fragmented. So it’s proving difficult to find a viable distribution channel/s for my product in its current state.
I think it still sounds scary, as in a scary disrespect for human life
I dislike the RNA world hypothesis, since actual RNA nucleotides will be vanishingly rare in the soup, vs. other random similar organic molecules. Cells have these monomers because of synthetic chains with enzymes that precisely catalyze the various steps to get to them.
Which regulators? Also their “investors” will get their fair share of that billion, don’t worry about that. There is nothing to account for, don’t underestimate what a bunch of people can set up for a billion $.