skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phabricator is no longer maintained, from what I remember and is used most of the time with svn. I 'm curious why they opted for it in the first place, instead of a more modern platform.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and it seems to apply to a lot of things; serving a HTTP request on cheap EC2 instances won't come close to doing it on a dedicated server with great single-thread performance.

So even though you can more easily horizontally scale and handle infinite requests, the latency of each request will be much poorer than if you were just running on better hardware.
Wabeco's Portable Precision Drill Stand
Authoritarian is forcing a mother to have a child she doesn’t want! It’s her body! If you force your opinion on something that should be exclusively her concern then you are the “authoritarian”
What you are describing as the good parts sounds to me as what you get from a traditional monolith.

Why build libraries and separate services if an update on some part of the codebase needs changes across all the platform?

This trend of microservices + monorepos sound to me like taking the worst part of everything.

If you do microservices, then let each team have their own stack, their own tools, their own libraries and be independent and just agree on the APIs.

If you want everything super consistent and share as much code as possible, etc then just do a traditional (well architected) monolith, maybe deploy it with different configurations for different scaling needs, etc.

Monorepos are to me a symptom of worse problems.

I worked for a.company where they had a rule that "every repository should be a monorepo". They didn't even understand everything that was wrong with that rule.
In my home-town there is a garage/factory which mainly recruits all kinds of disabled people. They produce e.g. wooden chairs, cup holders and the-like but also purely artistic decorative stuff. All on very different levels i.e. some people nail some wooden sticks together as they have been told, some have complex jobs (if they are able).

For sure, all of the tasks they do during the day can be automated and in-fact are automated at the big facilities. However, people like to buy their products - not only because they like to support them and to give them the chance to contribute to the community (like it was said in the video: they pay taxes and everything) but also because there is a general market for hand-made stuff.
There is always a small niche of consumers who prefer hand-made stuff because of its individual charm etc. over the soul-less mass-manufactured alternative. I believe that this demand exists precisely because of the rise of automation (and thus is unlikely to vanish is automation is pushed furhter).

I'd also argue that working in a woodworking shop - being able to actually create something and (if the handicap/IQ allows for it) even be creative - has a much better effect on overall quality of live than working on a assembly-line bullshit job.
I don't know of a handicap which does not allow you to work in any of these kind of jobs but does allow you to assort plastic from paper within reasonable amount of time (but I'm sure someone can give me an example; in that case I'd argue that its up to us to find or "invent" a suitable job or some helper-device to enable them to do so - we have the money to do this).

So yes, maybe getting rid of that particular job is the best thing that could happen to the guy in the video - provided there is another job-alternative available that does not only let him add value to the consumer-society but also to the intellectual and creative parts of it as well as of himself (relative to his level of disability).
I think you need accountability and regular rotation of leadership.

There must be some reason that global sports organizations so often attract corruption. I'm thinking of UEFA, FIFA and many of the other less well known sports associations - FIDE for chess etc, and many more. They usually don't have a democratic governance structure and let interests of the involved people entrench themselves.

I don't think total surveillance is enough.
Here is an example of the effect straight from the article:

> The ion trap was then regularly "measured" by applying a sequence of ultraviolet pulses during the RF pulse. As expected, the ultraviolet pulses suppressed the evolution of the system into the excited state.

Not sure why this parent comment is bothering others so much.

If applying pulses of UV light is considered as an example of taking a measurement then I don’t see how I could be surprised when someone wonders whether or not the measurement itself is more than just an observation.

Atoms are sensitive to changes in electric and magnetic fields. Wine glasses are sensitive to being struck with a hammer. I can detect whether I just smashed glass with a hammer by listening for the sound the glass made when it was smashed to a billion pieces.
> From the U.S. to Japan to Brazil, if you’re one of the people or projects we identified
> then you will get a confirmation about the sponsorship before the end of June.

How will this work for the Japanese? I've tried donating to Anki, maintained by someone in Japan, and it seems that accepting donations there is so problematic that he actually prefers just not to accept them.
> I need to learn how to write code in short segments of as little as 15 minutes.

This, i.e. short cycle time, is one of the effects which TDD reportedly has. Write a tiny bit of test – write a tiny bit of code – test passes – refactor while all tests still pass – repeat.
Yeah in my original post (before the edit) I made a similar simplification with immutable vs mutable (since that's how they are commonly used), but the correct distinction is str vs String. You can have &str and &String and you can have &mut str and &mut String, and Box<str> and String. All cases exist.
Yeah as soon as I got to 'who are also signed up with GitHub Sponsors' I thought 'hmm, this came out of the marketing budget didn't it'.

Which is nice for the recipients of course, but otherwise is what it is.
all the points you list about flying, I believe was the norm in the pre-ww2 world.. I think we lost something because our system is so resilient and comfortable, you fear nothing really
while you probably can do this with dependent types, i'd imagine GP means something along the lines of typescript's structural typing, i.e.

const post = {
id: 123,
content: "...",
published: true,
}
// TS infers the type of `post` to be an unnamed "map-ish" type:
// { id: number, content: string, published: boolean }

JS objects are map-like, and this one is "heterogenous" in that the values are of different types (unlike most maps in statically typed langs, which need to be uniform). this just "structural typing", the easier way to do stuff like this.

now, dependent types allow you to express pretty much arbitrary shapes of data, so you can do heterogenous collections as well. i haven't read about it enough to do a map, but a list of tuples (equivalent if you squint) is "easy" enough:

[
("id", 123),
("content", "..."),
("published", True),
]

in Idris, you could type it as something like this:

-- a function describing what type the values of each key are
postKeyValue : String -> Type
postKeyValue k =
case k of
"id" -> Int
"content" -> String
"published" -> Bool
_ -> Void -- i.e. "no other keys allowed"

-- now we're gonna use postKeyValue *at the type level*.

type Post = List (k : String ** postKeyValue k)

-- "a Post is a list of pairs `(key, val)` where the type of each `val` is given by applying `postKeyValue` to `key`.
-- (read `**` like a weird comma, indicating that this is a "dependent pair")

more on dependent pairs:
https://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/tutorial/typesfuns.htm...

in general if you want to learn more about DT's, i'd probably recommend looking at a language like Idris with "native support" for them. backporting DT's onto an existing typesystem usually makes them much harder to read/understand that they actually are (and don't get me wrong, they're mindbending enough on their own).

if you don't want to bother with that, i'd look at Typescript - it's combination of "literal types", "type guards" and "function overloads" can get you some of the power of DT's. see this article for some examples: https://www.javiercasas.com/articles/typescript-dependent-ty...
NASA to Launch Capstone, a 55-Pound CubeSat to the Moon
It's amazing how good Switzerland is at having their shit together.
That's already happening and they call it "body positivity". It's mostly about overweight women (obesity rates are skyrocketing and women consume more fashion advertizing) but occasionally includes other forms of unattractiveness, like being old, saggy, or out of shape (rarely more than one at a time though).

This underwear ad is from 2015: https://hips.hearstapps.com/cos.h-cdn.co/assets/15/42/4000x2...:*
Counterpoint: Abortion is murder. All countries that don’t respect that should pay huge fines.

See how silly you’re being? The parent comment already shared that large parts of the world have different values.

I’d be curious of your take when your proposed value isn’t chosen and there is no recourse.
But isn't something like SQLite fts (full text search, not full table scan, arf arf) more efficient than grep?
I'm pretty sure we do have world government. May be not a single person, but something like a council of few most powerful persons. I bet they include Rothschild, Rockefeller, may be someone else. And most powerful governments are controlled by that council.
sounds a lot like Russia
It is authoritarian to tell people, it is authoritarian to tell women, they do not own their body?

But yes, the basic problem remains, humanity remains divided on very basic things. And enforcing unity would be ugly.
This article is just a summary of an interview. You're probably right that the person writing it isn't really qualified to present their own novel ideas on software engineering management, but that's not what they were attempting to do.
I can assert that from what I have seen during the last 30 years, I rather bet on multi-repos and binary libraries than monorepos.

The processes you describe are great to make teams think twice how to go at a change, instead of "let's change everything and see how it goes" attitude.
what about the childs body?
Numbers that are expressed using Knuth's up-arrow notation can be difficult to compare. Say you have a number N such that 10↑↑15 < N < 10↑↑16. 10↑↑15 and 10↑↑16 look like they should be pretty close, because 15 and 16 are pretty close. But really 10↑↑16 is way way bigger than 10↑↑15, so the given bounds on N aren't very helpful.

This article proposes a notation to improve the granularity of up-arrow notation.
It is 8bit. It takes 8bits of input at a time, and then outputs an 8bit byte (well depends on what the protocol is)

It is more of a switch board though
Underpasses are terrible for coastal cities that receive a lot of rain. I am thinking in particular of places like Mumbai in the monsoons, where the water accumulates much faster than you can pump it out (enough to keep it dry-ish at all times). There is also the problem of where to pump it to, esp. if the tide's up and all the drainage is already full.
The mother decided to have unprotected sex. There’s a reason women get pregnant. This isn’t some magical thing that is forced on women. Cause and effect.

The body inside her body is not hers. Unfortunately biology does not conform to our fantasyland.

Forcing those who are against this to pay a fine is against their will.
how can you patent something with prior, public art?
Blake Lemoine Interview on Sentient AI
> what would be the global policy on abortion?

The U.N. Human Rights Committee has a recent (2019) publication[1], "General comment no. 36, Article 6 (Right to Life)" that contains an entry that is relevant to this question.

Page two, item eight under "General Remarks":

"Although States parties may adopt measures designed to regulate voluntary
termination of pregnancy, those measures must not result in violation of the right to life of a pregnant woman or girl, or her other rights under the Covenant. Thus, restrictions on the ability of women or girls to seek abortion must not, inter alia, jeopardize their lives, subject them to physical or mental pain or suffering that violates article 7 of the Covenant, discriminate against them or arbitrarily interfere with their privacy. States parties must provide safe, legal and effective access to abortion where the life and health of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, or where carrying a pregnancy to term would cause the pregnant woman or girl substantial pain or suffering, most notably where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or where the pregnancy is not viable. In addition, States parties may not regulate pregnancy or abortion in all other cases in a manner that runs contrary to their duty to ensure that women and girls do not have to resort to unsafe abortions, and they should revise their abortion laws accordingly. For example, they should not take measures such as criminalizing pregnancy of unmarried women or applying criminal sanctions to women and girls who undergo abortion or to medical service providers who assist them in doing so, since taking such measures compels women and girls to resort to unsafe abortion. States parties should remove existing barriers to effective access by women and girls to safe and legal abortion, including barriers caused as a result of the exercise of conscientious objection by individual medical providers, and should not introduce new barriers. States parties should also effectively protect the lives of women and girls against the mental and physical health risks associated with unsafe abortions. In particular, they should ensure access for women and men, and especially girls and boys, to quality and evidence-based information and education on sexual and reproductive health and to a wide range of affordable contraceptive methods, and prevent the stigmatization of women and girls who seek abortion. States parties should ensure the availability of, and effective access to, quality prenatal and post-abortion health care for women and girls, in all circumstances and on a confidential basis."

[1] - https://www.refworld.org/docid/5e5e75e04.html
According to Websters, to generate is:

> : to define or originate (something, such as a mathematical or linguistic set or structure) by the application of one or more rules or operations[0]

Creating something from the application of rules or operations sounds just like what a compiler does. Whereas to process something is:

> : treated or made by a special process especially when involving synthesis or artificial modification

So if anything it sounds like you're asking if processed code is copyrightable. But this is just quibbling over pedantry. My original point stands. AI is just following a predefined set of rules to transform your request into code. It's a program, just like a compiler is a program. So it would be really hard to say that AI generated code is non copyrightable, but compiler/transpiler/fuzzy generated code is copyrightable.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/generate

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/process
These things form when the will or the power to implement is there. I would think the possibility of such a unified cross cultural & properly effective institution would be down to power & strategic interests i.e. game theory. Humans will seek power when it's available and wield it to do things in their interest.

Also a world government making decisions on "immigration" whose effects are distributed unevenly on its constituents. Look at Poland in the EU right now. https://www.bbc.com/news/59348337

"We could replace the war model with the policing model". How? Total fascism or weaker punitive measures? Also does the omission of one correlate strictly with the absence of the other? And over what time scale? Look up "Mediocristan" & "Extremistan" to get an understanding of how the urge to control from a top down level can blow up.

"we could institute the basic human right of mobility on the planet" some ecosystems cannot support free mobility.
I also think I'm missing something in this piece. Loneliness and lack of social connection can be crippling and it's a very serious problem. But I'm not sure I understand why the author thinks they're unique in their circumstances, or goes to the point of comparing themselves to a person whose people were murdered, who was then captured and forced to live elsewhere, who is physically unable to verbally communicate with anyone.

I guess I just can't figure out why he thinks he's the only man in the world going through this (well, him and Aurá) and feel like I missed something in the post. Depression and loneliness are huge, increasingly recognized issues in our society that many people go through. This does not diminish the seriousness of his situation.
We also already have in most countries a hierarchy of governments - a state government, a central government, etc.

In the EU we certainly have regional government, member state government and EU institutions. All of these are different shades of government and in some cases conflict with each other.

In some areas EU has been a boon - a "safety valve" where the member state government is put into a competitive system where it has to align itself with external expectations from the EU institutions. I.e. breaking up their monopoly power in that sense.

Some national governments want/wanted to completely control the sale of medicine, foods, alcohol etc and to some extent EU has broken up that control.
Wondering how they are counting dependencies. GitHub’s current dependency tooling (Dependabit, Dependency Graph) ignores Dockerfiles for eg, and anything installed on the OS level is not easily accounted either.
Is it just me or most of those "monorepo" articles are about how the company switches to monorepo then just has to fight all the problems that come up with it?

Use multiple repos. It doesn't hurt you know. And you can have proper granularity

The costs of monorepo seem to be much higher than just dealing with inter-dependencies. And you can always group projects if it makes sense
The major flaw of any centralised entity is that power hungry and corrupt individuals will be attracted to the top and the honest people won't want to do anything with it.

We already see it in our local governments. We even see it in larger corporations. It's even visible, with decreasing rarity based on the size of group, in a building administration group or in a group of friends who pool money to do something.

This reasoning makes me think we should go to decentralisation and federation until the power being wielded is minuscole, ideally being limited only to your person and your private property.

There can be several iterations, the ultimate being a free society where individuals are the only structure and transactions are an voluntary (eg. No governments at all, private everything)
Ronin are masterless. A samurai with a master could also travel. Many of the stories are about perfectly legitimate samurai getting into adventures while wandering. Or they are about chasing down personal vendettas that involve lots of autonomous travel.
The UK's "smart motorways" project does this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_motorway

Actually turns out they're a terrible idea, tbh.
> In my experience, if you rely too much on GPS that tells you exactly where you are and where to go you'll have a much tougher time actually retaining that information.

I think that is not surprising and well explainable. Without looking at GPS and immediately know "ah straight and then left" you now need to switch on your brain: Where am I? Which direction (in terms of compass direction) do I need to go, how am I aligned currently, can I infer from some landmark, sun, prior orientation? And you realize your surrounding for the next time ("ah at that red house or that billboard or that strange looking thing I need to go right"). You even learn street names by noticing them more, and next time can remember when you hit that street at another intersection.. all contributing to build up your inner mental map and orientation... if you know an area well you can just walk unknown new paths, because you know where you should come out and hit known territory from another angle again.

Often I am lazy and use GPS, which is also fine and a nice tool to have for foreign environments.. still this memory&learning effect is soo much compromised, so often when getting there a 2nd time I wonder: Have I been really here already? lol, so definitely sharing and seconding that experience!!

Btw, trying to retrace an unknown path you just travelled on some map only afterwards at home is also superhelpful reinforcement learning!

2nd btw what one said:
> They use Google Maps' default "map turns around you" mode while I always orient my maps with the North pointing up.

Yes very much... kills any "need to orient" brainwork completely.. if you must maps, keep them north-oriented!! Definitely too.
Switzerland never ceases to amaze.

What I specifically like is they always seem to take the long view of time.

Here's a culture that plans, invests and builds not for the next election cycle, for two generations down the road.

And it pays off BIG time:

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.j...

It's also a country that, in spite of its tiny size and population is not afraid of betting on large infrastructure projects, something many other western countries seem no to be capable of anymore.
SMS is the only inter operable messaging standard. If you send a message from iMessage to someone with Android it goes via SMS.
That sounds facetious. I would try reaching out to the thieves themselves to discuss the prior art, or possibly the EFF:

https://torbjornludvigsen.com/blog/hangprinter-is-prior-art/

https://www.eff.org/issues/patent-busting-project

lindrf@ornl.gov

postbk@ornl.gov

lovelj@ornl.gov

chesserpc@ornl.gov

roschliac@ornl.gov
> The mother decided to have unprotected sex

Or she was raped, or nobody taught her anything but religious abstinence bullshit and she didn't even know the ramifications.

> The body inside her body is not hers

So if you take that "body" inside her out of her, what happens to it? It dies unless it's the late stages (what, 6 months in?) It's entirely dependent on her to grow to become a human being.
Those are important design-level tasks, and are in fact some of the tasks discussed by the linked video...
Oh yeah that’s heaps easier than sending a link in a txt!
Or perhaps wolfenstein
As long as people are cheaper than robots, not much will happen anyway. I think a lot of jobs can be replaced by robots with enough money, but for that money (and the maintenance costs etc), you can get so many cheap (and more flexible) human employees that it is not worth it. If that goes up a lot, maybe it will be tempting; think the pressure is not high enough (yet)?
Have people forgotten 2016 so quickly?

The left had a nationwide movement named "Occupy" and the Democrats and most media approved.

The right did it once and the same people all lost their minds.
Sites get hacked all the time, and some either have bad hashing, or get so thoroughly hacked that the clear-text passwords get exposed. You shouldn’t re-use passwords.
I would disagree; they showed the problem they had, how they analysed the data to understand the problem, how they used that data to identify possible solutions, how they selected the solution, and how they implemented an tested the solution. There are other organisations apart from Uber that have similar issues (although they are probably small in number). But there is a lot to learn from understanding their approach.

Having said that it is much harder to learn from others' mistakes than your own. Learning from your own success is hard too. Learning from others' success is the hardest by far. At least we have a glimpse (albeit indirectly) in this article of the mistakes they made.
Buffer overflow exploitation example in vulnerable WebAssembly applications