skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sorry for ranting, I really wish the best for V and its maintainers.

I appreciate you posting this. I like the premise of V and really want for it to suceed, but this is a good summary of why I think so many people dislike V: the lead dev and community do not engage criticism in good faith.

I'm sure V receives its fair share of unwarranted criticism, but a lot of legitimate criticism and questions are either met with a) hostility or b) incredulity, which causes people to dislike the language for fundamental reasons.

Both the creator and community members gaslight (for lack of a better word) and act as if they're happy to receive questions or feedback, but even in this thread you can see people being treated like I mentioned above.

E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947510, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947121, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947212, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947014, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31946715, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947977
That 4% turnover is already 'priced in' and these layoffs are in addition to the regular management out, etc. they plan. If these were just rolled into the regular attrition they wouldn't even mention it or make news about it.
The post is unnecessarily hostile. Created by a new anonymous account, with the goal of attacking V and "not recommending to use it". Also with referencing the notorious ridiculous "V is vaporware" articles, it's pretty clear what the goal of the author was.

It'd take 10 minutes to submit github issues, instead they spent a month on this.

Null is only allowed in unsafe code.

Overwriting of len was never fixed, because it was never an issue in the first place. The author made it up. It's always worked like in Go.

Included libraries, you mean the json library that's part of vlib. So each Go program that uses net.http also has library dependencies by this logic.
The point of analyzing structural incentives is that you don't need a conspiracy. Everyone involved actually believes they are fully and truthfully discharging their duties and fighting the good fight. None of them are walking around plotting how to pull the wool over the public's eyes. They wouldn't be hired if they believed otherwise; there's a famous clip of Chomsky making this point here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8
It’ll be curious to see how that goes as their real estate sector continues collapsing
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Unfortunately there's nothing in the article that gives you an idea of the magnitude of the risk. Only two incidents are mentioned: 1 death from a very rare microbe in 2021 and 2,000 kids getting mildly sick in 2005.
The issue is that low voltage is guaranteed not to shock, can burn of course.

High voltage is inherently dangerous.
Thats definitly the problem.

I'm a founder myself, the biggest step for me was realizing that I suck at marketing so I sought out cofounders who are the exact opposite. my cofounders are incredible marketers. they've been aggressive about meeting potential clients, sittng down with them, demoing the product and either getting them to sign up or come back with a list of features we need to get them to sign up.

Our product may be good but its because they put it in front of potential customers that we are currently in 114 restaurants and growing.

Your product seems like something university students might want. ever thought of actually jsut going to a university library and offer free coffee to anyone who signs up and trys the product while giving you feedback? The'll probably tell you its either what they need or tell you what's missing.

Also, as echoed by the other guy. if you have a cmo, ask him what his strategy is. At your stage, a CMO is also doing Product development. that means sitting down with customers and getting the info required discover compelling features to implement. if He's solely relying on adwords and not currently sitting down and getting feedback, fire his ass. Going to individual customers and asking them to sign up doesn't scale? exactly, thats what doing things that don't scale means. It was good enough for stripe, its good enough for you! Half of the features my startups has came from restaurants asking for them. That doesn't mean you build everything restaurant owners ask for but if you keep hearing the same request come up from different sources, maybe thats a clue to prioritize it.

anyways, thats my two cents.
Given that they are losing power in Asia, Europe and even Latin America, they need new low-wage modern slaves to maintain the neded economic output.

China is stepping out of that role and will likely make them take a loss at their own game.
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"Almost immediately after installation, Akita provided all the endpoints’ requirements, as well as some examples of expected values, which allowed us to better understand the service that the contractors had built. Once we could understand the data flow (including not only the request body, but also headers and authorization), improving the system became a lot easier. After we had the mapping,"

Interesting... could be cool to see a value-add service on top of Akita or another Obs vendor that just inspects req/res payloads and generates OpenAPI specs based off what was observed. I can't count how many times I've dropped into teams and tried to piece together their API contracts just to realize... they don't have specs! Having to then turn around and reconstruct them backwards based off code spelunking and maybe some design docs is... frustrating.
Yeah this is absurdly high, and a really bad sign if that's what the industry is asking for. My real hope for the law is that small-scale home growing will be allowed, but I'm not very optimistic.
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Missing a very important "say they" between "employee" and "won't".
Funding police is not having a police state. Having police abuse power over visible minorities is bad, but is not a police state.

It is not a police state because:
- You can learn about these issues.
- You can protest against these issues.
- Media reports about these issues.
- You can choose which media to listen to.
- All medias are not state-controlled.
- Media that complain about state abuse don't get shut down.
- You can publicly talk and write about what you want.
- You can get elected while protesting against these issues.
- The internet is not state-controlled.
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I'm tired of people equating China, Russia and western democracies. Imperfection is not tyranny.
Integer overflow works as expected, like in C.
I’m relatively confident 99%+ didn’t either
> up until now

I gave up telling people not to call cryptocurrency "crypto" — I would suggest suggesting a better term, or expect to be disappointed/it to continue.
In the US at least, any refrigeration technician should already have passed his EPA 608 or 609 and be fully aware that venting a unit can cost him his card rendering him unable to buy refrigerants. Before working on all but small self contained units he must have access to a refrigerant recovery unit. This a compressor sort of thing that can move the gas from the installed unit into a tank for either reuse on site or taking to a reclamation center, where allegedly they can be paid for it.

(Yes, my AC units broke and the time to even get a technician to look at them, was so long I researched how to diagnose them and do the easy fixes, ran into the EPA requirement, studied the material and got my EPA certification, bought a bunch of gear off Amazon and refrigerant from a “good old boy” at an exorbitant price (global shortage, plus most is sold in palette quantities), and fixed my own unit in half the time it would have taken to get an appointment with a professional company. The first unit is working. If I succeed at the second unit I’ll even be money ahead. Of course if my yak had already been shaved maybe it could have tolerated the heat.)
It's literally just faster supersonic...

Not to mention that PAC-3 and the like can intercept such targets.
R-134a is being phased out as well. R-32 or R-454b are the new coldness.[1]

I believe R-12 and R-22 were phased out because of their ozone depletion potential. In the states R-134a replaced those.

R-134a was great! No more ozone layer damage!

But its global warming potential is still too high[2] to comply with various climate change pacts and laws (I think California has a law that will limit refrigerant GWP to 750 in 2023 [3] ).

It's a bit weird for consumers though because if you're buying an air conditioner/heat pump right now then it's probably still R-134a.

Who wants to buy hardware that will last for 15+ years but could cost a significant portion of the original unit price to refill in the event of a leak or installer error?

[1] https://us-ac.com/usac-news/r410a-phasedown/

[2] https://www.daikin.com/corporate/why_daikin/benefits/r-32

[3] https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/January%2...
I'm the author of the piece, and this has been my passion project for many years now. I'd love to hear thoughts from the community :-)
Scammers pose as ethical hackers to prey on vehicle theft victims
Someone can have different values than me and not be evil
That's not your man, that's a data register
> Yeah I've noticed this too. It's basically democracy versus a number of disparate countries that have united over their shared dislike of democracy.

Those countries haven't 'united over their shared dislike of democracy', they really can't give two rat's asses about how, say, the US, or France governs itself. "They hate us for our freedoms" is as wrong today as it was 21 years ago.

What they are 'united' over is being to one extent or another, surrounded by US-aligned systems, that view them as an enemy. Aircraft carriers floating around just off their coasts, US military bases a few hundred miles from their borders, global trade and financial markets being fully dependent on the forbearance of Washington - that sort of thing.

(Also, there are countries like, say, India, who have no dog in this fight, and also don't give a rat's ass about how other countries govern themselves, but see it as an opportunity to improve their trade relations - which is why India currently has no issues with forming closer ties with Russia. But, well, we don't want to piss India off, so for the most part, we quietly ignore that.)
> Does anyone else experience this? How are they making money or why is this being done?

I suspect these are trying to build reputation for the account posting them. The bizarre, inexplicable videos will get watched by a lot of users wondering WTF they are, which may cause further content posted by those accounts to be ranked higher in feeds.
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Do you have an example of someone being forced to incorporate GPLed code into their software at gunpoint, or is this a wildly hypothetical scenario?
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And a Perl API :-)
What’s an example of a company that could be so widely considered as evil?
there are services that you can pay for that do this.

leetcode.com has interviews you can pay for
It invokes the reaction of "you must be doing something wrong," but at the same time, wider, lower pressure tires are a widespread preference, even for quite experienced riders.
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What percentage do you think just wants to work and doesn’t really care about corporate social/political justice?
So people calling me a fraud and a scammer are not attacking me?
Nah, I disagree. I work in crypto (coinbase) and was working in tech in the Bay Area in 2008.

As of today, many crypto companies have money from 2021/early 2022 raises and are still hiring. In 2008 the private tech market reaction to the stock market crash was swift and brutal.

It was really hard to get a job in 2008. Today it feels like their is a big lag between stock pullbacks and jobs drying up. None of my colleagues who were laid off are having trouble getting jobs in crypto and have options in other parts of tech if they want it.

To be clear I expect the jobs situation to get worse this year and in 2023.
The solution to this is a legal marketplace.

I was able to start buying lower-potency weed in California as soon as recreational stores became established. Now, I'm waiting around for the same in NY and buying weed that is way too strong in the meantime. A joint as 10-15% THC with some CBD is an entirely different experience than the 25% and up THC that most dealers sell (and that's usually all they sell).
If I were a company in this space, I would try to keep my tests secret for exactly that reason. If I was successful, they would not be available for scrutiny by hacker news.

Public tests are still independently necessary and failing them is still an embarrassment, of course.
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> These challenges are all about edge-cases, and responding safely to changing conditions and misbehaviors from other agents... The response cannot be "let's add a ton of fragile electronics"

Self driving car has failed to detect a person in the dark and killed her. It was demonstrated that Tesla autopilot fails to detect a child crossing the road. It confused a semi trailer and an underpass. You call that an edge case?

> The response cannot be "let's add a ton of fragile electronics in all of the infrastructure"

So instead we will add a ton of fragile electronics in every car. Instead of having 3 optimally positioned lidars monitoring an intersection, we will have 20 poorly positioned lidars on every car.

You don't need electronis, you can use paint. You can put QR codes that tell a car where it is in an underground parking lot. If we add a parrern to all clothing in infrared-only paint, that would help various AI detect people and tell them apart from surroundings. You can put a metal patterns on street signs that are detected by automotive radar.

> will cost a ton of money to build and maintain

And electronics in the cars will cost even more

> will break in weird ways over time and lead to cascading failures

You mean like the failure the main article is discussing right now?

> it's dubious that it would even work at all

And it's dubious this 'individual' approach will ever work. Every single argument you've made equally applies to the approach you are advocating.
Good for Ron. He created the game, not the lookey loo's
Everybody heard of the "National Endowment for Democracy" right?
Windblown “alien things” caused Covid outbreak, North Korea says
"...these gases are 2000x worse than CO2 and altogether this problem accounts for 6% of all global emissions." Says who ? Proof ?
The problem is there is no "formula" for managing software project. People want a formula, which is why Scrum-as-a-product have been successful.
Sure. But it’s Star Wars is still about Jedi more than anything. The fascist take isn’t wrong but it’s not the primary take by a long shot.
Anything Peter Thiel has touched
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Some kinds of deaths are more "media-ready" than others.

Deaths from mass-shootings, terrorism, plane crashes, and shark attacks are given too much weight. Deaths from falls, drowning, and medical mistakes are given too little weight.

Even within categories it's inconsistent. Most deaths by gunshot are suicides. And almost all murders by gunshot are ordinary pistols as part of ordinary criminal activity (not mass shooters).
In the technology sector 2000/2001 was pretty bad. Obviously some large established companies weathered the storm relatively well. But the carnage even at companies like Cisco and EMC was immense. And they were still a lot better off than the dot-bombs. A ton of people were unemployed or underemployed for a long time and quite a few left the industry.

I was laid off right after 9/11 and I have no illusions that I was very lucky to land a job (at reduced comp with someone I knew well) quickly given that I otherwise didn't even have a nibble.
They very much don't want to turn democratic themselves though.
Disagreeing with the art direction is one thing but people are going beyond constructive criticism by being toxic and throwing personal attacks.