skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. And you should be skeptical of anyone pushing an agenda.

I’m pro nukes (best phrasing), but it’s understandable why people are scared of it. I hope that the costs can come down and we can start doing some small scale experiments to show the reliability and safety. Most people just don’t have experience with the recent tech.
Sounds like ambergris.
Men don't marry because they can.
Women don't get pregnant or when pregnant, choose freely to give birth or not, because they can.

A lot of stuff in life is hard to explain if you look for reasons why people are doing it, but becomes a lot easier if you look for reasons why they didn't do it before, or don't do it in other place we are comparing with. A lot of stuff happens simply because it becomes possible, because there is no need to look for motivation: there was always a motivation, it's just there wasn't a possibility.

Changes in people's migration patterns is even a brighter example. Almost all of the change is defined by possibility: the will of people to move from where they are going from to where they are going to, always existed, it's just until a certain point they couldn't do that.
Do you think that any of it is acceptable?
Yes, there's a whole movement around Risky Play and not coddling your kids. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/parenting/risky-play.html
When I worked technical support for some big routers and switches we had very defined rules for various ticket priorities:

P1 - Entire network is hard down, I can straight up power cycle all your gear at will. Oh I can't? Not a P1...

And so on.

Obviously as Engineering manager things aren't as solid but having defined rules about "urgent" and so on really do help.

Our sales team used to have to fill out a form before they got their VP to start pulling chains. Way too often they'd get their VP calling everyone up demanding action and ... nobody would even have a point of contact with the customer. Like how urgent can it be if the customer doesn't want to work on it?

Solution was they filled out the form. VP "signed it" (digitally) and sent it to support. If I called that phone number for the customer contact and they didn't answer ... it was no longer urgent.

Sales VPs actually liked that process too.

The good thing was if it was urgent I had good contacts and data in front of me to ACT quickly.
They were not comically evil, not sure from which hollywood movie you take your persuasion (apocalypto?)
Surprisingly it wasn't Noah the neighbor from Silicon Valley.
Logistics are invented during ww1. Same for canned food. Boxing material and more.
Would you be able to recognize your colleagues if you passed them on the street? Or would you treat them like a stranger?

It's not necessary to have the camera on most of the time but there's something a little sad about the lack of human experience in never even seeing who you work with. Vision is our most powerful sense and deeply rooted in our social psychology.
There still isn't an APM for the Node ecosystem as good as what Kadira did so economically and easy to set up.

My startup interacted with everyone in the Meteor ecosystem. Positive selection because the technology was so good compared to everything else at the time. But recruiting was horrible, getting support from community investors was horrible, getting support from MDG was horrible.

The problem was, how did a Meteor consumer align with Matt and Geoff's goals? What were those goals, exactly? I'm sure people who worked at MDG felt the same way. They were too young to articulate it at the time. My company didn't align with their goals. Did anyone's?

It's a microcosm of Y Combinator's serious, persistent cultural flaws. The Meteor technology wasn't perilously flawed, that's a red herring. They know how to write useful web frameworks. But I didn't live in San Francisco - let alone Sri Lanka - and I had no desire to volunteer at the Burning Man airport or drink rare cases of beer or cavort with people who lose elections. Those were their most visible goals!

Like Jesus fucking Christ, a reply to an e-mail we sent to Matt or Geoff would be nice. We used and promoted your (Matt's) thing - we were first class evangelists with a fast growing product. But it seemed there was a missing cultural alignment. Too bad.

How did Kadira have better relationships with Meteor customers than MDG did? This guy whom I'm commenting on answered emails and made phone calls.

And maybe this is why React is big. Their goals were: find people to work at Facebook. Great, crystal clear. You knew what the deal was. Punchline to every conversation: "Oh, thanks for contributing to React, this is good, do you want to work here?" They didn't give a fuck if you met their overarching theory of affirmative action for libertarians or whatever. They just want good developers.

You could use their thing, and if you wanted to get to know them, that's what it was. Kubernetes? They (Google, Amazon, Microsoft) want you to pay for their cloud services. Clear as day. You contribute to it? Their deal is to copy it and sell it. They're not going to hire you. Fine.

These sound like business transactions. That's great. I didn't see a business relationship with MDG. They cared about other shit that didn't matter. It made developing for the platform as an evangelist suck.
Isn't it more along the lines of whoever found the shipwreck + financiers are the ones who accrue most of the value? The original holders of said assets long ago lost claims on them. Why isn't this the case? I realize my take is a bit trite and I do realize that the estimate value is large enough to bring in many varied interests.
This is fair.

I've used both comcast and google fiber while running my basement cluster. I think on google fiber I would have said production usage would be fine - I would pretty reliably get 1gbs down and ~800mbps up.

I wouldn't have redundant net, but the upload speeds are fine.

On Comcast... Comcast is really kind of a joke. Even on expensive business plans they cap upstream at 35mbps in my area (down is 1gbps) and the fastest way to get throttled to actually try using that upstream capacity.

Comcast does give me redundant failover to 5g by default now, which I guess is nice, but it's not worth much when I can't send a ton of data over the line anyways.

So point taken - if you're going to have to rent a room in a major metro for fiber access anyways, you probably want to be paying for cloud services (sadly - you'll pay a lot, since outbound traffic costs are high, and if 30mbps upstream isn't doing it for you, you're gonna blow through the free 100gb fast)
Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for?
One nit:

"Fake News" is now exactly as you describe: "a term to allow a blanket dismissal of anything made public that political leaders don't want to be heard."

However, IIRC, the original coinage of the term was about disinformation and/or news organizations that consistently traded in misinformation or disinformation.

The speed with which it got co-opted by political leaders as a blanket dismissal was impressive. I'm not sure it even lasted months in its initial meaning.
https://archive.ph/WDMhO
Dumb question: if something is being manufactured on 60nm today, can you not just take the same design and start manufacturing it on 28nm? Or do you need to literally redesign the entire circuit?
> authoritarian regime saw facebook in 2012 and said

What a weird statement. Facebook has been taking all of that data for a long time. Some of the protections in Android and iOS were specifically added to inhibit Facebook from recording the surroundings in the background. TikTok just does more of the same partly because they just have more audio and video data to work with. Remember how Uber showed how cool they can track hookup dates? All of that is potentially blackmail-able information.

Are you somehow insinuating that Facebook is somehow okay because they are in a "democratic" country?
The quality of this experiment was terrible. They made zero effort to study subjects acclimatized to high heat.
Apparently so, as it's been the standpoint of the Green Party in the UK for many years: https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/safe-climate.html
It's interesting how it's not even Chinese, just "pro-China", as in, lobbying for things that _also_ benefit China.
It’s all to feed the AI training database. The more data it has, the more insights the AI can provide.
Yes, its absolutely beautiful.

And remember, it only has the artifacts that Spain _didn't_ successfully steal.

Museums in Barcelona and Madrid still proudly display the bloody artifacts stolen from the hundreds of years they raped, pillaged, slaughtered and enslaved indigenous Americans.
I'm not sure why they aren't treating this as a possible embezzlement? It seems to me like anyone familiar with this system could take payments for someone apparently without tracking and the result would be clawed back from later paychecks. Who is to say if 200k illegitimate bank accounts are receiving transfers every month?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_absence#United_States

> Based on the 2018 U.S. Census Bureau 11 million single parent households, 80% of them are fatherless, breaking down to 1 in every 4 children born; totaling a percentage of 81.5%. Out of that 81.5% that were raised by single mothers, 34 % were poor, 26.8 % were jobless the entire year, and 30.3 % suffered from food insecurity; ⅔ of theses families were white, ⅓ were black, and ⅓ were Hispanic defined. It did not take into account the 53% of American Indians and Alaskan Natives as well as the 17% Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders children recorded within these single parented homes.
Not a fan of the subscription model. Features that don't incur ongoing costs (e.g. server costs) to the developers should not be locked behind a subscription IMO.
said it before, but I love magic links. One more site where I dont have to create an username/password (and yes its a hassle, even with a password manager)
I guess it could be used to create social graphs and perhaps also run machine learning (i.e people using a specific accent may like watching some specific content). More data is almost always better.
> My 2 cents: One of the reasons why I left is that there was no longer any symbiotic relationship between product management and engineering. Product makes unilateral decisions, throws them over the wall, and engineering is expected to quit whining and just do what they're told.

Ex-Mozilla PM here, I completely understand what you mean by this and I generally agree. I'll go a step further and say that as a PM I often didn't have a choice, either, decisions were being made above me and I often found out from the engineers that they'd been told to do something different than what I'd just expended significant effort on documentation to support doing. A primary reason why I left is that I felt like my wings were clipped as PM, and that I was unable to effectively build symbiosis with engineering. I'm more technical than most PMs at Mozilla were and had a better relationship (I think) with engineering than most of the PMs did, but it was a fundamentally untenable situation to be in, where I ended up just being a middle-man, which is not what a PM is supposed to be, and it doesn't create good products or user experiences.

Somewhat ironically, I think that Mozilla needs a stronger Product organization to succeed, but that wasn't happening. If PMs are doing their job right, they are there to advocate for the users/customers and ensure that the direction of the product aligns with how people are using it. At Mozilla, it felt to me like there was a very heavy top-down approach and with some exceptions, most product features or projects were focused on enabling alternative revenue pathways without regard to how this alienates existing users. Very little of what I was asked to work on had any chance of moving the needle on market share, which was and is the fundamental issue for Mozilla existentially.
Yeah you are right. English is not my native language.
Having recently gone though all of netflix's "Love Death & Robots", it was quite common for me to initially dislike some of the art styles, specially when going from a hyper-realistic episode to something artsy.

By the end of it, that never impacted my enjoyment. The story is always what did it. And I realized later that some stories would have been hard to tell in the realistic setting.

The point being that art and story are intertwined somewhat, I'll reserve judgement till I experience the full thing.
Ideas are a pretense in war, not a cause.
Since the study concerns itself mostly with ancient civilizations, a better title would be "_Did_ warfare make societies more complex".

We can't extrapolate the findings about the ancient societies to the post-industrial age.
My understanding of Turchin's argument from Ultrasociety is basically that for very early civilizations people were generally worse off individually giving up autonomy to absolute rulers, and that it goes against most people's and similar primates feelings about fairness/egalitarianism.

As a result there must have been some very large advantage to centralization, which he argues was likely war in order to defend against external threats or raiders.
> Is this collection different from, say, Meta? I believe they collect all the same information via Instagram.

Who's doing the collecting often matters much more than what is actually collected.

The important context here is we seem to be transitioning away from the era of kumbaya free market globalism into an era of tenser geopolitical rivalries and more conflict.
Take a species that’s got a high reproductive rate due to high infant mortality

Jam them into a small enclosure that dramatically changes the infant mortality rate

Watch with glee as overpopulation makes the ecosystem a toxic hell

Great science /s
I searched for some foods to increase Indole-3 Proprionate and this page is pretty good. [1] It tells what to eat (fermented foods, fiber, sprouted seeds) and what to avoid (sugar, simple starches, omega-6-heavy oils). It also introduced me to fermented bean curd. Can't want to try it.

[1] https://go.ixcela.com/metabolite-library/ipa
It should be unacceptable regardless of country of origin.
I kinda wish, as it stands it feels like decades of different protocols and technologies awkwardly stitched together. In theory everything would be connected on a central bus to a centralized RTOS computer able to read every sensor and adjust everything that needs it 1000x a second (or more), so that anyone could easily hook up a new device or software and subscribe to an event bus, but alas.
>>Yeah, no thanks. A good manual transmission is a core part of the driving experience.

Yeah, no thanks. A good dual clutch automatic is my choice when it comes to actually driving in a sprited way.

But you know what? To each their own.
I'm the author and I specifically pointed out that using it to learn and making sure you understand are the best use cases.
Probably the fact it isn't PowerPoint. When you use PP you use it will preconceived notions that it's a piece of junk that gets in your face. It is and it does.
Ask Germany, they take both seriously. They are now dependent on natural gas imports. Guess where most natural gas is coming from for Germany...
The Death of Taxi Hailing Services
Ever wondered why Uber services have dropped down qualitatively? Why is it that cancellations are so rampant with Uber? I have personally experienced this massive glitch which the company doesn't seem to have a way to fix. I dug deep to understand what's wrong with Kingdom Kong and made several revelations. Want to understand why your Uber drivers cancel on your so frequently? Read my blog to know more.
That's an impressively bad article - some of the worst scroll hijacking I've seen, quoting Shiff who's a permabear and stuff like

>Economic Daily has warned investors that the price of leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin is “heading to zero”.

People who were already aware bitcoin is a leading cryptocurrency probably know it's not going to zero.

No mention of the futures. How are they standing then?
adding docs meanwhile isnt always working either as the feature product might change heavily, this is a hard discipline since you need to balance when to doc what.
Except TikTok is operating on behalf of an authoritarian regime with no protection for human rights, freedom of speech or thought, rule of law, separation and balance of power, or any of those quaint things.
I am not understanding your claim at all.

Are you stating that the government should help wealthier people, even though there are poorer people?

If so, we will simply have to disagree. The goal of wealth redistribution should be to close the income/wealth gap, and that means helping poor people more and rich people less.

I oppose bailing out only people who borrowed for higher “education” for the same reason I oppose bailing out only people who have equity in a failed business. Some investments succeed, and some do not. Bailing them out disrupts the feedback loop for properly allocating resources in society.

>Your argument that loan forgiveness is invalid because everyone should get the same instead, is what I don't necessarily agree with.

Two scenarios. A person decides to enter the trades because they evaluate the cost of higher education and probabilities of future cash flow, and determine tradespeople are more needed and will earn a more appropriate ROI.

Another person does not do any research and signs up for tens of thousands of loans and uses them to obtain skills society does not want to pay for.

Why would society reward the second person specifically for making a bad investment and not doing their due diligence?

And I am not indifferent to the fact that 18 year olds do not know the future, and anyone can make a mistake in projecting movement of supply and demand curves. Which is why I want to help all poor people, not just the ones that took out student loans that did not result in decent income paying work.
I think the comment is insinuating that any country that wants deep personal data on a huge subset of the population should make sure it has a popular social network, so its citizens (and in some cases, citizens from around the world) willingly sit there inputting any and every detail about their lives and relationships into the database.
IMSR to be considered for ammonia production
The first app I ever ported to k8s was an existing ruby app that worked as an URL shortener. I could already run it locally. The platform team had put up a cluster in the staging environment to test on and a private docker image repo on AWS. The steps to get it onto the cluster were roughly:

1. Write a dockerfile for the service and test if I can run the service locally in docker.

2. Push the dockerfile to AWS.

3. Cobble together Deployment, Service and Ingress yaml files from reading tutorials and docs, then apply those to the cluster and observe what happens. Repeat until it works.

4. We slowly iterated our tooling and yamls as we learned more.
C# is not based C/C++,
It is based on Java.

In the beginning Microsoft created its own
Java compiler and called it J++.
Then there was a lawsuit by Sun that went
on for a while.

Microsoft decided to cancel J++
and instead, shortly afterwards C# 1.0
was released and the language was
extremly similar.

I was using early C# 1.0 Betas and it was even
more obvious.

Later editions and certainly C# 2.0 which introduced
generics took a different path than Java and
today they are different.
From what I've read the link to China is... somewhat underdocumented, to say the least. What is known is that it's indeed aligned with Chinese interests.
Man of Culture
I've seen code so bad that it was declared to be a total loss after the original programmer was discharged.
> However, I think this just calls out all the open questions about this style of consulting and doesn't answer them. How does one get clients, how does one keep a steady income, how to invest for retirement, how does one convince clients you have the right skills, how do you know you have the rights skills, etc.?

He touches on some of these issues in a podcast interview with Radim Rehurek (of Gensim fame).

https://rare-technologies.com/rrp-2-john-d-cook-consulting/
Some Funny Interviews I Have Done
> I love these first hand accounts from the 80s.

Have you checked out Dave's Garage? [0] He was a Microsoft engineer dating all the way back to the MS DOS days, and he has plenty of stories like this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/DavesGarage
The Vital Afterlife of Chernobyl Cemeteries
> Most JetBrains products are super slow, and resource hogs

Yeah, every time i've tried CLion or Rider, the heap reaches its maximum size (4-8gb) like 10-20 minutes after starting the editor and then it becomes extremely slow and sluggish. My cpu goes crazy any time i start an analysis or any sort of task. I've tried to disable on the fly analysis, plugins and whatever i could find that i don't always need to be enabled, but it's barely better.

On the other hand, I've used Intellij for years and it's never been that bad. It has much lower cpu/ram consumption even while having almost everything enabled. I've used the same configuration for years though, so it's possible that at some point I disabled whatever causes such resource usage and completely forgot about it. Or maybe the editors are actually different, though from my understanding they all share the same core.
I suspect at least a few people displaced by Chernobyl or Fukushima hold the position of anti-nuclear and acknowledge climate change.

I would argue yes, you can rationally arrive at that stance.
That's not the insinuation at all
It is interesting how nihilism and existentialism rose as Christian faith diminished, and how they have so many parallels to Buddhism. Not sure if they were heavily influenced by it or if those ideas rose inevitably to fill the void that lost faith left behind.
The only reason they take up more resources than necessary is that the default VM settings are bad. They use an older GC algorithm with very low RAM setting, but all it does is make the GC run much more than it would with a decent size.

If you happen to try it out again, I recommend setting the heap size to at least 4GB and removing the obsolete GC setting (defaulting to the G1 collector) or even better, changing to ZGC. Hopefully they will fix it in a newer version soon.
I’m a huge climate person. I come from ancestors that laid down the early climate change work. But This methodology seems kind whacky. I think this kind of thing hurts our credibility in the long run.
Same with the green party of Canada
I meant I have to enable cookies in Thunderbird to be able to log into my gmail account via oauth
Do you feel that reaching Point Reyes and other areas in the north does not "serve them in any way"? Bridges have existed for millennia because they're useful to both sides of the bridge.
Just went to the cerbos.dev site-- there is a cookie banner that says you serve targeted ads, and asks me to "accept all". No option to reject tracking/ad cookies.

At this point, why even have the banner? Real As*hole design
Being too ahead of its time reminds me of Google Wave, a similar "reactive" application that was just too much, too soon; performance wasn't good enough.
It’s incredible that the US allowed TikTok (which is by all measures a chinese spy tool) to become such a dominant social network.

India got it right from the beggining by banning TikTok. They saw the immense threat and didn’t hesitate.

China, by principle, has always banned all foreign information technology companies. What seemed hostile for us, it’s a reasonable play if you understand the unmeasurable power of massive information products such as Google or Facebook.

Meanwhile the US is just focused on attacking its own homegrown tech companies and diminishing their ability to compete in global contexts.

We are on a declining trajectory and we willingly paved that road. It’s sad.
Its not truly renewable and the topic of waste is a real issue.

Its a short term solution but ultimately not the solution for sustainable environmentalism.