skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with technology trying to be "smart" is that it's all nice and stuff as long as you are within the designed use case of it, but once you step outside, there's an issue. For example, what will the display do if you are a traveller and some other traveller approaches you and asks you which gate their flight is? If there were a non-personalized display, it'd be easy: you would just look up their flight on the table. Now all you can do is to tell the traveller to look at the personalized billboard. But what if they have bad eyesight and can't read it? Maybe also the angular resolution of the billboard is not good enough to show a different thing to them so it shows the same to you as it shows to them, which might be your flight, or might be their flight.

Another such example is the issue of deadnaming trans people. They will probably be not happy at all to see their disliked birth name printed on such a large billboard, even if it's only visible to them. If the name is visible to the people they travel with, it can cause even more issues.
In the US it was 18 million victory gardens out of a population of 140 million people. They really did represent a lot of land and a lot of labor.

In absolute numbers they allowed a 50% increase in total vegetable production over farms alone in the US. Fresh in this context referred to the amount of canning going on. So they made a very significant difference to diets of people domestically.
> somewhat trained workers

Those workers are paid ~minimum wage, and the amortized cost of the vehicle and its equipment is not $500/ride.

The reason they charge $500, $800, or $12,000 is because ambulance firms have monopoly licenses, because you're not going to haggle over the price when one arrives, and because they can charge you whatever the hell they want, and when the dust settles, some people might even pay it.
>30 people died total.

Those are the official Soviet figures, right? My understanding is that these were laughably understated.

I don't disagree with the rest of your analysis, but my experience is that people become more hostile to nuclear power when we fail to be transparent with the numbers. Moreover, even if we assume a liberal 10k deaths from the Chernobyl reactor, the math still works out in your favor.
The Big Tech in question: Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook. I'm surprised that Microsoft is in the list, usually these accusations of "monopoly" don't include Microsoft, and I'm never too sure why, because if you accuse Amazon, Facebook and Google of monopoly, Microsoft has them all beat in terms of market concentration, just not in the same markets, and not in social media.

Ever since the Microsoft anti-trust trial, I've been very suspicious of think-tank and "industry" groups, on any side of these kinds of issues. Wikipedia says "The AELP is funded in part by the Omidyar Network." I'm not sure what that means.
TIL. What kinds of plants suck down humidity?
10, if you are willing to let some Chinese people help you
Facebook engineers know that VK engineers are serious as a heart attack.

It’s 4 because he was prototyping the ID system.

Facebook, as well as VK, have gotten quite fancy since about partitioning 64 bits.
These joints are what I would have expected to be used more often.
Thanks for expressing this. It seems like the share of "meaningless information" significantly increases as I get older. When young, everything is exciting and important. As I get older the patterns are repetitive and even new events are sightly modified renditions of previous events. There doesn't seem as much to store. My only personal exception to the above is having kids, so far this has been a truly new set of experiences, even if exhausting.
Given that property and finance underlie a market-capitalist system, digging to the foundations of the law of each can be ... quite illuminating.

"Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776).

Smith also defines wealth as "the annual labour and produce of the nation".

Market transactions don't generat wealth, a social good, but profit, an accounting fiction, maximised by internalising revenues and externalising costs.
Last time I looked, people were running uranium reactors that were incredibly productive and reliable.
Do you live in the US
Here we go again. Another landing page that tells me absolutely nothing.

"Build beautiful cross-platform applications using Go"

OK this works as the title of the page, but to have it as the only sentence on the page? What exactly are you thinking? How is this supposed to convey any information?

Come on!

The first link is "get started" which again does not tell me anything about this tool. It tells me I need to install Go (I already have it).

Just how many links do I have to click through to figure out what this thing is?

EDIT:

Ironically, the actual useful content is filed under the "Docs" link on the top bar, which is the last place I would expect.

https://wails.io/docs/introduction

"Wails is a project that enables you to write desktop apps using Go and web technologies.

Consider it a lightweight and fast Electron alternative for Go. You can easily build applications with the flexibility and power of Go, combined with a rich, modern frontend.

Wails doesn't hold back with the eye candy either! This is xbar - a desktop application for MacOS written using Wails. It has menus, supports light and dark desktop themes, and the main window uses translucency that gives it that 'frosty' effect of a native app."

Why can't this paragraph be on the landing page?
Totally agree on this.
I've presented documented facts.

You're countering with opinion.

Just sayin'.
-- The government decides how much the healthcare industry is allowed to charge - there is a schedule set down by the government - they won't pay more than it - health care providers are allowed to bill the government $240 per for a basic ride - A005 is the fee code for a general consult - it's set at $77 - that's why most clinics will only do 15 minute appointments - unfortunately -- most doctors are earning about $150/hr - the good ones who are smart go to the states because they can earn considerably more --
Obviously it's early for the tech, but I could see a day where every screen you look at shows you what you want to see. Maybe you already know your flight info, so you tune that screen to a TV network that you like, or news headlines, weather info, etc. It's nothing our phones can't offer, but phones haven't made TVs obsolete. Large screens are convenient when you phone is in your pocket as you're walking through the terminal, or when you're talking on your phone, etc. Content switching is faster and easier when you have two screens, but now you don't have to carry that second screen, you just borrow the ones that are already there.
Uh, I've never had an American property developer say how he wishes the HOA could just be part of the Democrat/Republican party.
I think the idea is that there are error recovery semantics that:

1. Determine the last sane state of the system, and work forward from there. (Read the servo position and try to go from there)

2. Have a the "recovery" routine to reset the system. (Take all positions to "zero")

3. Just stop. (Yes, I know this can be bad). And ask a human for help.
I hate it when someone seems to be trying to get me to have an opinion about something without really informing me in any way.

This is true regardless of how I feel about "Big Tech Monopolies". And I don't really know how to feel. I don't work at one, I don't particularly like or dislike them. I vaguely dislike Mark Zuckerberg - there's all my bias out in the open.

Based on my bias, I should be sympathetic to this article. But I just find it annoying. You don't get my support by making vaguely hostile grunts while gesticulating at Facebook. You don't get it by reciting a laundry list of bad things your selected corporate targets have done or seemed to have done (what about, say, Exxon Mobil?).

Something about this article just screams bad faith and ulterior motives. I think it's the general hostile mood toward "Big Tech Monopolies" combined with a lack of any logic or motivation for that hostility. Like, 99% of the stuff they're complaining about has nothing to do with monopoly behavior. They're just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Who wants to bet that "American Economic Liberties Project" is just a front for some other type of vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity? One of those "Patriotic Americans For Truth And The Children" type organizations that's really just a coalition of a few obscenely rich entities that want a particular policy enacted to harm their enemies?
You can add scripting to handle game logic. The UI will be buttons that appear on the table but it’s got a full API that lets you control everything in the game.
> everything on them is an odd size and made from the worst possible material

I've found that outside of light switches, electrical outlets, and bath tubs, much of the stuff is the same or similar (2x3 instead of 2x4 or 2x6 walls for example, or 1/4 foam instead of plywood sheathing) than regular houses, and can be purchased from Lowe's or Home Depot at regular prices instead of super high prices from the only mobile home parts store around here.
Yeah kinda shocked that people in other comments are ignoring the fact that most of the south west was devoid of people in the US. Same could be said for Florida as well. They didn’t experience massive population shifts until some time AC was invented and had widespread adoption.

As someone who grew up in central Florida, you’d basically go into one AC boxed room into another while driving in an AC car in between. Those that didn’t have this luxury were basically living at/below poverty levels.

Day laboring was even worse. If you didn’t drink enough water you’d get heat stroke. There would always be a few people who thought they were “tough” then three hours would pass and they’d be nearly passed out begging someone to drive them to the hospital (if you left you’d lose your hours and pay).

It’s only gotten worse.
> Any bits of data we can collect to make accurate assessments should be collected.

This is the kind of thinking that got us into this mess. The data being collected may not be accurate, may not be interpreted correctly, and may not even be useful, but fearful people like you will happily use it for a tiny sliver of peace of mind.

Lets say the pilot on your next flight did call the suicide hotline 15 years ago after his wife and child were killed in a car wreak. Would that make him more likely to be a danger for you today than the pilot on your last flight who was currently suicidal but never called the hotline?

Lets say the pilot on your flight wasn't just going through a rough time 15 years ago, but was actively feeling suicidal on the day of your flight. Is it more likely that he would also be a mass murder who wanted to kill everyone on the plane, or is is more likely that he would kill himself later that day while alone in a hotel room at your destination city?

Thoughtcrime is a dangerous thing and our algorithms aren't so good at predicting human behavior that we should support handing out extrajudicial punishments to people based on what they might do. Those are things you should fear far more than what the mental health history of your pilot might suggest.
>don’t trust anyone by virtue of their network location.

Sounds like an impoverished way of saying "ambient authority is bad" ;)

(I do concede the article's point that marketing actually matters.)
You can safely assume that any big company in a G8 country is spilling data to the spook arm of the other 7.
It does look like a Ponzi. Aren't there any regulations to prevent that?

It's pretty similar to Korea until the step 3 but we have some safeguards after that.

Instead of giving money directly to the development corp, we give it to a trust corp. And the dev corps can only use the money to build the building.

And if the dev can not meet the due date and if it is delayed more than 3 months, the contract can be cancelled and the owners can get the money back.

That very rarely happens because dev corps desperately meet the deadline regardless of the quality. That causes hell lot of another issues but that's totally different story.

It seems to me like there are many things missing in the Chinese real estate system. Or is it just because no one cares the regulations?
Not to mention, it's a lot more natural to just walk through a space and look for signs rather than holding your phone up for directions. This could also be really useful when your hands are full, like if you're pulling luggage and holding a coffee. It's not necessary of course, but I can see the benefits.
What you're describing are "known" states; the idea behind "let it fail" is that you shouldn't write code that exhaustively handles every single potential outcome, just the ones that are part of your code's path in general use.

Definitely write code to handle network issues. Don't write code to handle random bitflips, ways to handle garbage coming back from the service you're connecting to, or try to handle OOM errors. Just let those fail.

Do not catch everything you can. That's the whole point of "let it fail". An app crashing is totally fine and expected behavior, in a lot of cases (of course if it's not fine, e.g. someone dies, don't do that but if you're working on that kind of software and taking advice from me, you're super duper screwed).
Some of these points are reasonable, but most are silly and presented completely out of context. Apple Maps doesn't incorporate the latest regional control of the Ukraine War? DoD personnel upload their fitbit-connected GPS data to strava? Apple "refuses" to install back doors for the government?

An intern at a lobbying group was tasked with writing a hit piece to circulate amongst LAs, and here it is. Maybe they should have stuck with the points about colluding with the Chinese government.
I think that's a symptom of the fact that the distinction is really artificial at the language level anyway. Whether something is expected or not is a function of the requirements. Even OutOfMemory can be expected and handled in certain types of applications (esp. since it gets thrown for things like file handles rather than true memory). And then there are all kinds of cases where routine exceptions like file not found are in fact, unexpected errors (as discussed in TFA).

Perhaps some sort of language level solution could have been found (eg: have explicit interfaces to mark exceptions as expected or unexpected and then exceptions are assigned that using generics or something), but that ship has sailed long ago.
I agree, products like the Tesla solar roof and Powerwall are amazing, but mostly for the rich, at least for now.
I think that tools like scratch and code.org really need to expand their ability to interact with 3rd party services. Code.org has a very limited http request API, but it is locked down to a couple APIs (I’ve looked at this feature, and I have… concerns over API key security) while scratch has no such capability. I really think that this type of thing helps ease the transition between block coding and using a written language. I do understand that there are some concerns with abuse, but I think that many of those concerns have effective mitigations.
> One aspect of it is paying a business to gain access to lower pricing due to volume that you would be unable to get as an individual

It only makes sense to talk about volume discounts when there is actual savings from providing volume (for example, less packaging). Many different instances of individual care do not create such savings, for anything but handling the make-work billing paperwork that this system itself generates.

This idea that individuals shouldn't be market participants is a broken assertion that underlies much of our healthcare dysfunction. In the situation you're describing, the "insurance" company has zero market leverage over the ambulance provider, and so you're championing a specious "negotiation". Meanwhile individuals that need a ride to the hospital avoid calling 911 since they have no idea what it will cost, and instead look to markets with price transparency to fill in (ie markets where they're welcome).

A straightforward healthcare reform would be to eliminate this cartel dynamic of providers having a different price for each "insurance" company, and mandate that they charge the same published prices regardless of who is paying. At that point, insurance companies would financially provide real insurance rather than their current function of bundling and obfuscating price signals. There would no longer be this "out of network" nonsense, but rather insurance coverage would be based on percentages of market prices. Insurance companies could then recommend providers that charge lower prices to save money for themselves and their customers, while still allowing their customers to be market participants when their preferences differ.
Hi, I’m the primary author of gazette. Interesting seeing it here, happy to answer questions.

We’re continuing to improve it - it’s a core implementation detail of our current project & company Estuary Flow (https://estuary.dev), which aims to further simplify and democratize low latency data products.
The cheap metal roof types look bad the long sheets with high fastening ridges. But you can get metal rooves that look indistinguishable from slate or other materials.

It's a great idea to get a metal roof first then solar. Even the cheap ugly metal roof since the large ridges are great for attaching solar panels. Then in 20 or 30 years you don't have to remove the solar panels if you need to upgrade the shingles if you have metal roof.
Crypto is doing layoffs? It is a decentralized network; nobody is being “laid off” of Bitcoin or Ethereum.

The value fluctuates but this is where users would typically send USDC or DAI which is pegged to the dollar.

My crypto transfers also arrive in seconds and there is no US company extracting rent, blocking my funds, asking for third party data, or dictating how a payment protocol should operate.
I personally started at age 8, back in the late 2000s. I had fun but it was perhaps a little too much for me. By age 10, it definitely clicked though.
https://noaa.gov. It's the official weather site of the US Dept of Commerce and is entirely free of hype, ads, and BS.
Yes, this was my take as well.

"Apple doesn't help law enforcement unlock phones of suspected criminals"

...what?
For obvious reasons: they want to disrupt society, drop placement in the world, cause internal fractions that divert attention abroad to domestic strive, actively harm populations by spreading dangerous information, move fringes into the center to replace those who are effective with those who are not, cause macro economic harm, replace narratives of foreign adversaries to make them seem friendly or sow doubt that they are in fact doing bad things, rewrite narratives with their value systems instead, destabilize countries and cause civil war, cast doubt on things like democracy to shift the world to autocratic rule, etc etc.

Your question is phrased in a way that would be exactly the kinds of things that foreign adversaries want to achieve online: make people hate their local government so they throw their baby out with the bath water, meanwhile the foreign adversary keeps power with an iron fist and censorship so they don’t suffer the same consequences.
Dr. DOS Betamax's DOS Fansite
I started something like this for a local hackathon to teach kids programming, but then COVID hit, the hackathon was canceled, and the project stalled.

It’s like scratch, but it generates a node script to drive a parrot drone: https://github.com/retrohacker/takeoff
Even sixty years ago, I gather this was fairly common among people that couldn't afford air conditioning (in places including Harlem): https://youtu.be/mS5WYp5xmvI?t=1179
My guess as to why people write their own forths is:

a. It's easy compared to writing a C complier (or even a half-way feature rich BASIC interpreter.)

b. The easiest way to understand some features of FORTH (like tick and var and colon) is to simply re-implement them.

So if you've already reimplemented half of the language, it's easier to reimplement the rest of it than to internalize how someone else's FORTH works.

I worked on a somewhat large FORTH project in the late 80s. My quip was: "The cool thing about FORTH is that it's so easy to extend the outer interpreter to make a DSL. The bad news is that someone on your project already has."
These days Mojang provides obfuscation maps, so you can work with proper class and method names (though no parameter or local variable names). There's also been a lot of effort been put into the tooling. Nowadays there exists Gradle plugins that will download the game jar, decompile it and deobfuscate it using the official mappings. You develop against the deobfuscated code, then the plugin will turn the unobfuscated names back into their obfuscated versions when you compile.

There's also been technology developed that lets you easily modify specific parts of a method in the game, so you can e.g. insert calls to your own functions at runtime.[1] This saves from you having to modify the game jar itself.

[1]: https://github.com/SpongePowered/Mixin
I've said this often specifically in the context of golang, but while you're right that retries and similar are a common case, they are fairly similar to the 'expected' error case in the article, and can almost always be handled at precisely the place where you raise the error.

In python this is

@retry.retry(exceptions=[RpcException], tries=5, backoff=2, jitter=1)
def my_external_rpc_call(...):
....

And RpcException will only be raised beyond this if the backend is unreachable for ~30 seconds.

Similarly, rpc services can abstract over this entirely, grpc (and presumably others) allow you to configure the retry policy per rpc service or method, and have it reflected everywhere that is used, without writing wrappers[0].

Which really all is to say, once you have solid libraries that handle retries of operations that are known to be error prone (file IO, network IO, things that could lock/block, etc.) you pretty quickly get into "any error implies we're totally boned".

[0]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/f601dfac73c9/examples/f...
I’m as anti-monopoly as the next guy, but I don’t think the following are necessary good examples:

> Apple has repeatedly refused to allow law enforcement to access criminals’ devices

Creating a backdoor for government device access enables turnkey oppression against individuals and marginalized groups, from enemies both foreign and domestic. I can see why this rhetoric would be mildly convincing to a senator, but as for me I want my device to be as protected as the contents of my brain.

> Google abandoned a contract to deliver the Pentagon drone AI technology

I absolutely do not want AI in drones, I barely even want drones to exist at all. The US is flying these around the world attempting to dispassionately assassinate people, and they often get it wrong. AI, best case, just makes this more palatable than it already is.

> Microsoft has maintained “strategic partner” status with a Chinese drone and imaging technology firm

Oh really? I thought we liked AI in drones.

> Facebook enables and profits from the harassment of victims of horrific shootings and other violent crimes

This absolutely sucks, but like what do you expect them to do? Is this an argument that FB can’t handle moderation at scale, or are they realistically expected by the author to prevent all harassment (or just this specific arbitrary type)?