skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IME complexity is mostly a feature of intention and business logic and will usually creep in all the same, it just manifests as tons and tons of for loop spaghetti, duplication and code generation. You may not have to actually learn any "hard" language features, but instead you get a large amount of moving parts that can't be abstracted away cleanly and that you need to mentally track. I've just ported a relatively complex bit of business logic from Go to Scala and while the result is definitely not as "simple" in terms of language features used, it's a lot less code in a structure that I can actually keep in my head a lot more easily than reams upon reams of low-level imperative details that are kept consistent only by the implementer's self-discipline. Forcing code to be easily digestible by limiting the language feature set doesn't seem to work too well outside of a relatively limited space of straightforward applications.
> In reality I wish there were more tech-forum sites than just HN and lobsters.

How about Reddit and IH?
Thanks for these. Everyone else seems to be theory-crafting what will and could happen, but this is a practical, more grounded take.
Hah, is this some type of meta commentary about bad UI/UX in the service industry?
Money lets you put weight on the scale to tip it in your favor, but it doesn't let you fully control the outcome. Especially because in this case Musk screwed over other rich people.
Tesla is stolen and only saw success because of endless amount of government subsidies and a tremendous amount of fraud on Musk’s part and SpaceX was a shitshow until he went hands off.
> Is the merger agreement public?

Yes [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000119312...
The people who insist AI is impossible seem just as (or more) ideological to me.
I have MBP 16 with M1 Pro for six months now. I’m yet to experience the sound of fans running, it’s incredible. Battery life is so great it’s not something I think about anymore aside from checking whether it’s charged.
15x is digital zoom, which is useless. The iPhone 13 only has 3x optical zoom. Previous iPhones only have 2x optical zoom.
So basically it’s like buying a house and finding faults with it that the seller had hidden?
Theoretically yes, but that’s not how courts view it.
Well that and to prevent the forced addition of a third rail to their existing trackage in any future expansion.
Aren't they "INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS" if they are trying to film while an officer is trying to get them to stop filming?
At least once, in 2012? I remember because just two days before we had fully switched over to AWS and hadn’t done multi-region yet. We got our first downtime in 10 years and there was nothing we could do, unlike when we had the servers in a colo. We were at the mercy of Amazon. After that, we moved everything back to real physical servers.
The article really doesn't claim to briefly explore more than precisely that one thing. People just jump on the title plus some weird hate for Go.
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/researchers-fin...

Honestly this is such a common thing in PR it's silly posting more examples, for social issues and elections most content is bots.

The only thing new is gpt which allows huge scale.

Where groups like this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

No longer have to hire people to make comments they can just shotgun influence with GPT type language models.

This video is has pretty good sources

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0TrA8oXXo

It only talks about politics, but the same campaigns exist for other topics like reputation management and social issues.
WOW THANKS.

Er, uh, I mean, thanks for that link! I have a DSP (audio and MIR specifically) background and... (huge paragraph removed)

I'll just say thanks again.

(and your GLASSTONE submission, 6 years ago, is also the sort of link I enjoy)
What's IH?
For the record, I noticed at 1:50 PST or so - meaning a network upgrade would actually line up exactly.
I think the Memex is the post-Wikipedia way to save things, especially those that need to be resistant to censorship. A browser (or proxy for one), that downloads everything, and stores it locally in a giant buffer.

If you've decided what you saw was interesting, and want to save it for later, you simply bookmark it, and perhaps annotate it. Doing so will increase the reference count from 1 (seen it) to 2 (seen it, and noted something about it)

Once disk space gets tight, anything with a reference count of 1 can be purged, oldest first.

Sharing something with someone will simply involve a dump of the content and the annotations, as with the original Memex and dump to microfilm.
In that example, I agree that it is probably deliberate.

I still do not understand why designers don't like checkboxes.
A combination of taxes, tariffs and an extra middleman.

If I buy an imported product here I pay local sales tax, import tariff (indirectly) and the overhead of a local importer/shop. If I buy on ebay, especially if its second hand, I pay little to none of that.

(actually, in practice, the govt here has figured it out and sales tax and tariff are usually collected on incoming shipments - stuff acquired in person overseas are more or less not paid. Depending on your country ymmv.)

But local importer & retail alone can add plenty to the overhead, and hence retail price.

Of course buying from the US this way is still very expensive, the real value is in buying direct from China.
It's also not a HN specific phrase....
> voip.ms

> redundancy

You do have a point in general. I wouldn’t put VoIP.ms and redundancy in the same sentence though. Unless they’ve drastically changed their infra, they had a massive 15 days (yes) outage not that long ago because of no redundancy and a poorly architected infra.
Quaker Gun
not only clickbait, but 'clickhate' - sampling social media posts from 1/5th of the worlds population, in order to demonstrate how monstrous Chinese people are. Cherry picking is a form of propaganda, well done
whats cGMP,GMP ?
By the time I finished reading the articles already opened in other tabs, HN was back up.
X=100
A feature of modern finance is the blockbuster leveraged buyout signed right before the market crashes: RJR Nabisco in 1989, Hilton and Harrah's in 2006. Now Twitter, in 2022.
wtf. which jurisdiction is this? so strange you can't take the final ruling and go to a collections agency and get your money :o
Russian Debian-derivative Linux distributor plans IPO
Conversely though, if you can make do with a single data store and data layer (orm or just simple queries) the libraries can use that.

The schema and generated classes could be a shared common library that different teams can work on (maybe with some architecture obersight)

Or if using schema-less each library “knows” it’s own json formats

Then you get nice things like atomic transactions across multiple “services”. You also have no network concerns.

You can pull out microservices for things that need special attention. Such as a spikey-load service that might need to run as a lambda.

Version management is a solved problem. Use your languages package manager and semantic versions.

I concede you need to stick to one language. Ish. You have C FFIs. A .NET app could reference a dll written in C++ or Rust. But yeah not as flexible as services. Although there are inbetween things like RPC.
Well having a double server failure would definitely make me think about going back to the same solution..
Really?

Well... This could be trusted or not. It is just on our decision if we trust in information that is given to us or not. Or why even bother in first place if most of the news are actually irelevant for me?
Reddit is decidedly a scrotum cesspool (tech-centric subs), and the culture tends towards toxic. It's the everyman forum.

There are exceptions, but they are few and far in between. I totally still add "reddit" to google searches to cut down on spam, but that's about it. Again, there are exceptions (homelab), but in general the discourse is lower quality than HN.

What is IH?
Based on the “great rebuild” [0] (was it about a decade ago?), my understanding is that the database is text files in the file system hierarchy arranged rather like a btree.

Comment threads and comments each have a unique item number assigned monotonically.

The file system has a directory structure something like:

|—1000000
| |-100000
| |-200000
| |-…
| |-900000
|—2000000
| |-100000
| |-200000
| |-…
| |-900000
|-…

I imagine that the comment threads (like this one) while text are actually arc code (or a dialect of it) that is parsed into a continuation for each user to handle things like showdead, collapsed threads and hell bans.

To go further out on a wobbly limb of out of my ass speculation, I suspect all the database credentialing is vanilla Unix user and group permissions because that is the simplest thing that might work and is at least as robust as any in-database credentialing system running on Unix would be.

Though simple direct file system IO is about as robust as reads and writes get since there’s no transaction semantics above the hardware layer, it is also worth considering that lost HN comments and stale reads don’t have a significant business impac

I mean HN being down didn’t result in millions of dollars per hour in lost revenue for YC…if it stayed offline for a month, there might be a significant impact to “goodwill” however.

Anyway, just WAGing.

[0] before the great rebuild I think all the files were just in one big directory and one day there were suddenly an impractical quantity and site performance fell over a cliff.
It's for the sake of the shareholders that they're not giving in to PC nonsense. From what I read, the objections to content were not coming from shareholders but from ERGs (special interest groups of employees organized around identity politics... which is a bad idea in the first place).
Same thing happens in the other direction too e.g. Rust coders trying to use Python without familiarity with dynamic scripting languages and dismisses the whole language as a footgun (despite Rust’s learning curve being harder, for instance).
> If you're the subject of activity, e.g. they deem you as a suspicious person and move towards you, you may record.

You may record, but you will not be able to after they handcuff you. So, they'll claim they were establishing a perimeter for the initial activity, that you refused to move away or stop filming from that perimeter, making your recording up to that point illegal, and then they'll detain you for this offense, handcuffing you to prevent you from filming.

Or they'll just take your phone under civil asset forfeiture laws, as it was involved in illegal activity (filming a police officer from too close by).
They've been offering people hardware keys for free.

https://pypi.org/security-key-giveaway/
How did that work with HTTPS?
Not as deep as Elon Musk.

When it comes to court battles, relative depth matters.
It’s so crazy to me that the purchase price was determined by a weed joke and people are surprised that in the cold sober light of our recent correction, Musk is trying to get out of this.

His whole M.O. is degrading the power of the SEC and DoJ by pointing out they have very little enforcement power. This is just another example in his long journey of “what are they going to do if I just don’t follow the rules?”

Weird way for the richest man in history to live his life, but that’s probably just sour grapes on my part.
I'm wondering if we would still have the incredibly powerful "I can't breathe" recording if this law was in effect.
But even if we cannot detect the original plutonium, we could detect the product of it’s decay - right?
He could be paying effectively 150% more, right now the presence of the offer is propping up the stock - we have no real idea how far Twitter might have fallen if left to its own devices.
For many situations, yes. In a crowd, not really. In something like a concert crowd, clubbing, etc. next to impossible.
I'm curious what would happen if Twitter stock price goes above Musk's offer price of $54.20 during this legal battle.
There’s also Pomsky which is a language alternative to regex.
> disparage the institutions

Can't we just call it post-structuralism or post-modernism?
You can't demand anything from a random person, can you?
Twitter is a great LBO candidate but Elon Musk tried to buy it as a consumption good rather than an asset investment. Not that surprised that the deal he made in a fit of pique did not seem so good without the beer goggles and with the market having fallen 30%. I hope courts compel him to execute the transaction but I also know that he probably has a million ways of getting out of it.
I use SF Mono
There are no footpaths (tunnels?) that let you go there? They are surely reachable, right?
Does it actually work? I haven't managed to make it produce anything but empty pages.

Also, I didn't appreciate that it downloaded models behind my back.
I can invite you, let me know if you want me to?
Nothing quite that strong, it's just a substitution cypher, so there is a 1:1 correspondence between cypher text characters and plain text characters.

This table is at the bottom of TFA:

Standard characters

Code abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789

1 icolapxstvybjeruknfhqg;dzw >FAUTCYOLVJDZINQKSEHG<.1PB 523406789-
2 torbiudfhgzcvanqyepskx¢1w; RC>GHAPND<VUBLIKJETOYXM2QF 63405789-¨
3 hrnctqlpsxwogiekzaufyd+b;¢ SARYO>QIUX<GFDLJVTHNP1Z3KC 7405689-¨§
4 sneohkbufd;rxtaywiqpzl%c¢+ E>SPNRKLG1XYCUDV<HOIQ2B4JA 805679-¨§£

The most basic frequency analysis should allow you to crack the code even if you don't have the device or the keys.
Mmm, it produces an expression matching the input? You should put some examples. I'm a noob but AFAIK there are different regex engines out there, which one is this output? I remember trying other regex generators in knime and not working.
You be surprised at how few young people, including coders, see a contradiction in stopping speech they don't like and being "for free speech." That whole First Amendment thing is "problematic" because their professors taught them so. They're for free speech... that they agree with.
There have been perovskite cells over 30% for a long time. Some have approached 50%. They can be radically lighter and cheaper to make than Si or CdTe cells.

The trick is getting them to last long enough to be saleable. At first they lasted only a few minutes, or only until they got wet, or dirty. Now they can be made to last at least a few years, and to shed rain.

Satellites often are built with perovskite panels because it doesn't rain much there, and weight and efficiency can be pretty important.
As a kid first learning about programming flash was amazing. The ability to draw or sequence sprites together into animations and then easily stitch those together into simple games is really powerful.

I'm not saying that we should bring back flash for entire websites as was trendy for a second, but I do think we lost something special that had a low barrier to entry for kids, artists etc to create interactive experiences
When does a decisions stop being impulsive? Probably at point when enough lawyers are hired to write a contract...
I'm not sure why the author thinks that his posts were on topic because 'it's in the article'. It's clearly not what the article is about. I won't comment on the moderation (banning), but clearly that comment thread was going off the rails.
Go helps devs by creating extra work like checking for inner nil and outer nil, hitting the "if err != nil { return nil, err }" button on their keyboard, using reflection to instantiate unexported structs written by library authors who decided nobody should ever be able to make an interface-compatible wrapper that adds capabilities to their library, and relying on the language to enforce the checking of error return values, which it won't actually do if you don't assign any of the return values to variables.
Great! I think the good companion "GNU Solfege" should be mentioned, for those who do not know it.
Musk never wanted to buy Twitter, anyone who thought so was deluded. The guy is a psychopath and is playing with people's money by manipulating assets.
I won't speculate on what the damages might be in a trial, but yes, he owes them $44B but they owe him the whole company after he pays.
Dorsey is also naive, so perhaps he just didn't question Musk's stated position much.
It is telling that rather then define what "Fit" means, we get a an arbitrary list of counter examples.

Executive coaches ...
If a payment provider makes definitive statements about the status of a payment they should be required to carry full liability for correctness.
This isn’t about firing guns. It is about hearing a gun fired some distance away from you in an open-air urban setting. Has that ever happened to you? I have unfortunately been in that situation multiple times due to the neighborhood I used to live in. It really does sound like a clap, not a bang, but much louder. But not deafening loud as Hollywood would have you believe (unless it goes off right next to you).
This doesn't seem that unreasonable. You don't need to get closer than 8 feet to record police misconduct, and getting closer than 8 feet to an active arrest is definitely pretty goddamn close. The 8 foot perimeter seems perfectly reasonable.
And all of these problems are well documented, researched and have viable solutions (if anyone from Apple needs help, hire me :)

So either the design team is ignoring 20 plus years of research or they just don’t know what they are doing.

My go to design manifesto is making any screen idiot proof. Mistakes can always be made, but you can safely back out from it and you always understand the consequences (aka you learn)
Getting banned without warning is harsh. Mods here uses it as a last resort. I say this as someone who has formerly triggered warnings around here: appealing to rationality, shared goals, and positive intent can work wonders in some cases.
Mars landing of objects is now a TRL9 problem that has been solved already, and the science has moved forward greatly [1]

Recent rover landings happened at what, < 1 M/S ? which is well within the capacity of the human body.

Considering that Mars atmosphere is substantially thinner, and gravity there much weaker, landing there would be different from Earth anyways.

We are not currently employing any of the more cost efficient methods of getting things to orbit in the first place, for large scale missions of epic size, nor are we currently employing the most efficient propulsion types.

The way I see it, the biggest problem is not one actually being discussed which are the longterm effects on the human body of living on a planet without a protective atmosphere, and protective magnetic field [2]. If getting mass to space becomes less of a financial constraint due to more efficient launch mechanisms, then, shielding would much less of an issue because mass in space would be cheaper [3]

I think that much of these problems come down to the huge capital cost, and unsolved problems around low cost launches; the novel technologies that need to be developed & turned into a new space launch system, and no, i am not talking about traditional rockets.

[1] https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/safe-landi...

[2] https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-engineering/radiation-...

[3] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-nasa-protects-...
Seems like a really complex system to get your money. Here in Finland you would just start bankruptcy procedures by filing a claim in the court and with the court order saying they owe you it would go through in a day or two giving the other party 2 weeks time to pay or the court would take over all their assets and get you your money (and sell those assets if they don’t have it in cash)

A single verified unpaid bill is grounds for starting the bankruptcy procedure here so it is actually good tool to force big companies to pay. Though you can say goodbye to any future business relations with them if you do that.
Goodness!! Thanks for articulating this so well!!
That's not that wrong though.

What does it do for queries like "all male English names" or "comfortable temperature range"?
Is it clear that Elon is more liquid than Twitter? Twitter has several billion in cash. Musk is reported to have only 3b cash. Tesla and SpaceX may need his capital to survive the downturn. They both have an arsenal of options to raise further cash.

I realise Elon is a bigger fish but he is a highly leveraged and constrained one…if anyone has more insight into this dynamic I’d interested to hear it
Logging Performance Comparison
Rating Martian and Gattaca above Contact?

We clearly have very different tastes.
Using a forward proxy and mapped addresses instead of doing DNS lookups is just a phase in a long series of steps to eliminate the use of third party DNS service, i.e., shared caches,^1 then eliminate unnecessary DNS queries,^2 and finally eliminate the use of DNS altogther. However there are other reasons I use the proxy, namely control over TLS and HTTP.

1. This goes back to 2008 and "DNS cache poisoning". Easiest way to avoid it was to not use shared caches.

2. I created a fat stub resolver^3 that stored all the addresses for TLD nameservers, i.e., what is in root.zone,^4 instead the binary. This reduces the number of queries for any lookup by one. I then used this program to resolve names without using recursion, i.e., using only authoritative servers and RD bit unset. Then I discovered patterns in the different permutations of lookups to resolve names, i.e., common DNS (mis)configurations. I found I could "brute force" lookups by trying the fastest permutations or most common ones first. I could beat the speed of a cache for names not already in the cache. I could beat the speed of 8.8.8.8 or a local cache for names not already in the cache.

3. Fat for the time. It is tiny compared to today's Go and Rust binaries.

4. Changes to root.zone were rare. Changes are probably more common today what with all the gTLDs but generally will always be relatively infrequent. Classic example of DNS data that is more static than dynamic.
Can this ownership exercise improve how you work with others?
For that to happen, the market would have to (1) believe there is a very very high probability that the deal won't happen, and (2) believe Twitter is suddenly going to grow significantly.

Neither of these seem very likely, especially in combination.
This requires an exception mechanism to handle allocation failure. This issue pervades C++ when exceptions are disabled. Important error handling goes unhandled.
Key words were “indoor range” and firing the gun yourself (so right next to you). A shot fired down the block in an open-air city with trees and fences and irregular sonic shapes will be so loud.
It sounds like junior employees are not coming in, and some are struggling. Anecdotally I’ve seen that too. Maybe some in this company do not know what they don’t know. Is the right thing to do just to let them fail? I don’t think so. The right thing could be a compromise.
That's currently a problem, but I don't think it's the central problem. The central problem for DT is some combination of inherent complexity and very low volumetric power density.
Myprotein is one of bigger brands in the UK and many other countries. Wonder if it can be included?
yet another anti China post. terrible and wrong.

just to put things into perspective: how would people react to Trump's or Putin's death?
The other odd thing about Florida is "the more north you go, the more south it gets".

By this I mean the northern part of FL (for Caucasians) has by far a lot more confederate flags waving on pickup trucks, from unashamed racists, people who are serious about the birth certificate conspiracy theories about obama, and people who get really pissed when a monument to a conference general is town down.

As compared to the urban population centers in the south. It's more like part of MS/AL/GA.
Same with the last one, it should be \d instead of d. Seems like an escape character issue.