skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this is satire or not

In addition to including multiple things that are way above what the average person can expect (a BMW, for example - and 18k in charitable donations) they include 36k in 401k contributions and 60k in mortgage payments with 7k left over (after miscellaneous expenditures).

That's 100k invested per year (either in home equity or the market) at the most cost intensive time of their life (having children to care for).
There isn't a real alternative. Many content creators have created their own sites (like corridor crew), and there are theme specific sites like nebula or masterclass, but nothing with the broad appeal and audience of youtube
Personally, I don't think that the system being rigged is the problem, but the path to justice being obstructed. Thus, there is no correction and no remedy.

And, why are people still on YT? Well, because it's where everybody is. I.e., critical accumulation, out ruling any other considerations. It may turn out that having a viable path to justice on such a system of critical mass may be as important as having anti-trust clauses.
Video consumers / watchers >>>> Video / content creators. YouTube makes money monetizing eyeballs. There are a LOT of eyeballs, much more so than content creators. Every time one content creator gets smashed, another one pops up. So who does YouTube care about? The creators? No way. They want the eyeballs that they sell the advertisers. The content creators are the inconvenient intermediary. If Google / YouTube could realize their fantasy, they'd automatically create all the content themselves with ML or some super amazing generator and get rid of the content creators altogether.
Does a false copyright claim qualify as Tortuous [spelling correction: Tortious] Interference with a Business Relationship, or Slander of Title?

(IANAL, so I may be totally off base with those terms.)
Amazon uses outsourced drivers do it would be surveillance of their partners.
Nuclear has important limits and constraints.
Every Rails developer knows what “deleted_at” means. I’m absolutely repulsed at the thought of turning the users table into a view. What’s next? No code and we only use triggers?
All it would take is Youtube randomly banning a few of said big Youtubers to really cut morale into an organized effort like this. That's precisely what makes them so powerful, they can cut you off at any moment without a legitimate excuse.
Here's the "motivation" for htmx, from it's main page:

Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?
Why should only click & submit events trigger them?
Why should only GET & POST methods be available?
Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?
By removing these arbitrary constraints, htmx completes HTML as a hypertext

I think the first three items are minor issues, at best, which in no way justify yet another DSL.

The fourth is a reasonable point -- it's quite common that you only want to update a portion of a page.

But it's very unclear that HTTP requests are the way to do it.

For one thing, using HTTP requests as the transport for app event handling adds nothing conceptually. It seems nice to use something that people are widely familiar with to build an event model on top of, but HTTP isn't a good fit for everything. So you either need something else (javascript or another language/api/framework) or you awkwardly fit everything into this model anyway.

But more importantly, it implies a strongly hierarchical structure to your app UI, which I think is overly rigid and unrealistic. Content tends to be largely hierarchical, but frequently important cross-cutting concerns pop up... maybe not on day one, but maybe on day 100 or 1000. Now you're swimming upstream.

Also, it's not like there aren't a very high number of HTML-centric options available. It has an interesting low-level approach, but in the end we're developing apps and UIs. It's very unclear to me whether htmx really offers advantages that other approaches don't meet or exceed.
It's becoming a carbon source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03629-6.epdf

But if those cities dry up then what? Economic loss? Not everything is reducible to a price tag.

The species in Amazonian ecosystems have as much of a right to exist as any other, including humans. Brazil should save it because it's the right thing to do.
Thanks

Your list sums up why I find it tedious ;), since you mention Clojure, in Clojure one doesn't have to think about those things and go through hoops(except for when doing Java interop). Unfortunately I don't think Clojurescript is worth the hassle(or even immutablejs or immer) and just prefer writing JS and applying your list.

Functional programming languages spoil you in this regard.
The primary goal is clear from the P2137 document: Performance. There are optimizations both in the standard library and the language that the C++ committee will either adopt too slowly for Google’s needs or not at all.
Anyone who knows what they're doing would describe it as a probabilistic model, which necessarily includes likelihoods and confidence bounds with probabilities other than 0 or 1. There is a certain probability that it is a part of one distribution, and an inverse probability that it is part of another distribution. Statisticians worth their salt will not state certainties as you seem to demand.
I don't know what CDN Nebula uses but it's borderline unusable for me. Videos reliably stop loading halfway through and the only fix is to refresh the page. I haven't experienced this with any other website.

Also, it's not like Nebula's front page isn't filled with chum. And the worst part is you can't dismiss suggestions.
Large container ships are already larger than football fields. As in 61.5m wide and 400m long, though not a rectangle they are surprisingly boxy. You might get 4MW in ideal conditions and average a little over 1MW over the day, but those engines are putting out 58MW, these ships need a lot of power 24/7.

Remember for scale those 20,000 little boxes stacked up are the exact same thing you see semi trucks carrying.
Not a huge Mongo customer, but the startup I work at uses MongoDB exclusively as our database across our different services. As someone who worked as an SRE at a database company with a DBaaS product, MongoDB Atlas is by far the best DBaaS platform I've used. From an operations standpoint it's fantastic.

From a developer standpoint it's alright, we're getting to the scale now where we're thinking about migrating to a more global architecture and I'm glad we're using something like Mongo over trying to hack this out with Postgres.

The standard issues with trying to use MongoDB like a regular ol' SQL DB still apply though, and our developers (me included) still fall into using anti-patterns and have to speak with solutions engineers once in a while.
Similarly, I managed a Solaris build of arch for a while. arch/larch/arx/tla/baz was pretty cool. But Tom was in denial about its short comings. Particularly speed.
It's interesting what you say about supervillains being in short supply.

I generally don't think of people as evil, as others have pointed out, it seems more of a societal/group miasma that envelops us. Lots of people are misinformed, and this misinformation hurts. Lots of people are trying to protect their own interests because they have their own believes on how the world should be and they generate and spread misinformation. Is that evil? I would say it's rather irresponsible.

We can't ignore that actually there are people out there purposefully creating and spreading misinformation, none of them are supervillains. But together? This sort of bad-faith acting compounds quickly and harms society a great deal.

And then as you go up the chain of power, what starts happening when powerful people put their interests and world view above everything? Would you say when Bill Gates actively campaigned against laws in Africa to lower AIDS medicines prices (through the abolition of intellectual property for these) that he was being "evil". What kind of world view will put the lives of thousands below intellectual property rights protections? This behaviour was repeated with the COVID vaccine. What about politicians that spread misinformation through social media or tv-shows such as Fox News? Would we consider these people to be "supervillains"? Maybe not... but again... together?

I think the world is full of bad-faith and it's eating itself. But to me the real evil comes from individuals acting in their own self-interest without respecting others. Everyone is contributing a little bit, some contribute a lot more. But this situation is much more dangerous, in my opinion, than having a super-villain because evil seems to be hiding in everyone's best intentions.
As an aside, it's bad practice to use @@ variables (IMO), they're easily clobbered. Class instance variables are much better[1].

I might also add, if you create getters for an instance variable then you don't need to use the @, except in the getter itself (and you don't even need to do that as there is the `attr_reader` helper for that).

[1] https://maximomussini.com/posts/ruby-class-variables
moving deleted objects to their own table* (not column)
Thank you for this. I had no idea this existed either and it may solve some points for us on MySQL where we've really been yearning for materialized views... which I'm now reading my be a foot gun.
What happens when we run out of Lithium?
Democrats arrested at abortion rights protest
I'd say that these qualifiers are much more useful in informal communication, like HN, and inappropriate for long-form stuff like essays. Essays are longer, more coherent, and denser.
If it is stolen, are you financially responsible for it?
Honest answer: it really just depends on how much money you can throw at the problem in a legal sense.
> If 1000 big youtubers put $100/month toward an association or union of some kind, they could afford a $100,000/month legal team to combat this.

Millionaire youtubers can already afford high-priced lawyers if they want to, I'm not worried about that.

Who I am worried about are regular people who create content but don't have large followers and don't make to it to the frontpage of HN, but still get hit by copyright trolls.
I'm currently fighting with pip and and some particularly brutal dependicies related to Kerberos (Windows build tools are exhausting and such a pain in the ass to install) on two different projects. Number one on my Python wishlist is a significant overhaul to pip to make it more like Cargo.
arch has a legitimate claim to have been the first ever distributed version control system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control

Not particularly popular though; that probably had something to do with Tom's dogmatism.

He was an interesting and entertaining writer though! I had various interactions with him on irc #arch and related mailing lists.
Also: you may be a kinaesthetic learner, and that’s pretty weird
Indeed, that is what I meant. I would like to see Qt allow some sort of language-abstracted moc so I can just install Qt and a set of Qt bindings and then use them. Just because I can work around the moc doesn't mean that I can easily and productively use Qt from D.
> Using views, stored procedures and other features lets you implement things like soft delete trivially, without it infecting all your application code.

That’s great but some of us actually like to write code. Especially Ruby on Rails where soft delete is a breeze if you don’t overthink it and build something the business doesn’t need.
This has always been true. However, the way that you should distinguish fact from opinion is analyzing the content. You should not rely on other people to explain to you which things are facts and which things are opinions.

In a world where people (in general) are capable of distinguishing fact from opinion (most of the time), you can omit the "I think", "I believe", "I feel" crap. In a world where people are bad at distinguishing fact from opinion, you can't rely on the "I think", "I believe", "I feel" crap because writers wouldn't be able to use them correctly.
It would be a pretty move if they want to continue avoiding antitrust scrutiny by various governments around the world.
> will be exhausted of power very quickly by the continuous load from underwater propellor propulsion.

Sorry, this is your "physics"?

Edit: just to be clear but there's an entire paper published in a high profile journal, peer-reviewed, and and the comment is "nuh uh" while appealing to non-existent physics principles to try to fake authority.
Flying a few weeks ago from North Dakota back to California I noticed as we flew over desert California areas circles where there is farming in the desert. It is like some corporation is tapping into an aquifer and has one circle of crop and these circles are scattered over the area. Some of the circles were no longer green like the water ran out in that area. I don't know how much money could be made from that sort of planting but it feels wrong to wring out the last bit of water in the desert.
Yep, it’s very exciting. The dual potentials are inspiring and horrifying. What might save us is that we, and the rest of nature, have done a lot of unguided or semiguided exploration of the space.
To understand how this situation has come about have a read of "Red-Handed" by Peter Schweizer.

The Chinese "elite capture" program is well-documented. They intentionally ensnare govt & business elites (and family members) in extremely lucrative deals with China to ensure they remain pro-China's interests. And there are some big names in there (Bidens, Pelosi, and McConnell etc).

The media doesnt talk about this corruption as they all have movie studios and want to sell their movies into China.

Its why there may be occasional discussion of the problem (like here) but for some inexplicable reason, simple and obvious steps are never taken.

The political will simply isn't there due to elite capture IMO.
Hopefully you're joking... :-), if not, it means Extended Support Release.

(The first time I saw it, I thought the same)
At some time in the past departments made a distinction between electrical engineers who focused on power engineering versus electrical engineers who focused on digital computer hardware/software. Discussions at one time indicated the numbers of "power engineering" students was dwindling to a worrisome extent.

Is this distinction still made?
Seriously, how many versions of this very video get made that don't ever reach a broad audience? That is truly some Black Mirror s*** right there.
Seems like you forgot what it was like when Internet Explorer was the dominating browser.
She discusses that a little, as well. YouTube often does not share the name of the copyright claimant, and even if they do, it is sometimes a 3rd party who is acting on behalf of the actual copyright "holder".

But the bottom line is that most individual creators could never justify the legal costs of fighting copyright claims.
I'm pretty sure he had a username on HN previous to dasht. Perhaps he burnt a bridge or two?

User tomlord seems to exist but no comments.
I found this article profoundly sad. It's good to be passionate about your work, but this person seems to have been exploited. They had their vacation cancelled by management, were working 15 hour days, and spent late nights working and crying, and to what end? To manage API stability of an online payments platform, making a few other people rich? They are clearly a capable, intelligent person, but have had their energy funnelled into a personally destructive endeavour, and look back on it wistfully.

Imagine if they taken their same zeal and contributed to a real community, creating both personal reward, real purpose, and value for the individuals around them.
This sounds a lot like my experience with the Help menus in Adobe stuff, I haven’t been able to get to my expensive art tool’s menus from within it for years. I miss when it came in a box with a printed brick of a manual.
> If you manage to get the self-confidence at a sky high level you won't care about building something or achieving goals.

I question the idea that a sky high level of self confidence is the ultimate antidote to everything that can go wrong in life.

What you describe does not align with a modern understanding of human psychology and how we experience life.

What happens the first time you encounter a painful failure?

What if the failure was your fault?
Because adults are large children and experiences like Disney are way better when you have adult money, no parents to keep you in line, and no kids to be responsible for.

Like damn, people in this thread are acting like adults can’t like Star Wars and Frozen. Do you feel the same way about music festivals? Seeing your favorite bands and buying merch.

The prevailing line in this thread is that it’s seemingly childish, immature, #cringe to genuinely like and be excited for things.
It's extremely playable. If they had called this a full release, and not early access, I would have believed them.

The district system is a pain at first. It's different than every other city builder and tycoon system out there. But you do get used to it. It does make you think about how goods are distributed across the wide map and plan accordingly.

I never really noticed too much of a problem with the AI. The game seems a bit rigid in how tasks are queued. An emergency with immediate required tasks will require you to pause or cancel other tasks since the AI won't recognize that it's an emergency. But I never really had any problems with beavers not doing what they were supposed to do.

Overall, it's a great game. Structuring the water systems is deeply satisfying. There's no better feeling than when you build a large reservoir. And no better feeling of relief when the dry season ends and the rivers start flowing again.

And the water system makes for a good puzzle engine. I don't think there's any mods yet, but there are several custom maps from the community which create some lovely puzzles.

There's a custom map with water sources surrounding the map. Which creates a problem of too much water instead of too little. Thus requiring you to find ways quickly to manage the flow, and do much of your building in the dry season when you finally get a little relief. That puzzle essentially reverses the normal gameplay loop. The game is remarkably flexible in the number of different possibilities it offers.
How about a wind-powered boat powered completely without any batteries or oil at all? Let's call it... a sailboat. Are we just going back in time to when sail-powered ships powered commerce? Of course a sail-powered container ship might not be as viable, but I'd love to see a 16-masted sailing behemoth. The Wikipedia article about the Thomas W. Larson makes for interesting reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Lawson_(ship)
And somewhat ironically, flooding is crucial for making the kind of land cities like to form around. Rich, flat tracts of land.
Agree. And I will even take it one step further: 95% of the code you write will be code that transforms one data structure to another. Think about it: even UI code is exactly that. It transformed data in one representation (internal data) to another representation (the UI state). And back again when the user presses “OK’ or whatever.
There are some Rails gems that take care of this by scoping associations (that also have the deleted_at column).
Conda. Back in the day, before docker, it was a poor-man's docker combined with a repository of significantly newer and more compatible software than you could get from distro repositories. Python libraries with external dependencies used it heavily for this reason. Conda tended to Just Work in a bunch of cases where pip effectively forced you to go off and debug a bunch of autotools builds on your own. Yuck!

However, it was pushy. It would put its own header/linker paths in front of the system paths (this is how it made "environments," its wannabe containers), which tended to create inadvertent cross dependencies if you didn't understand or didn't remember that the semantics of a conda environment extended beyond python. These dependencies could get baked into binaries and break far down the road, or they could get sucked in as a transitive dependency and trip over the shoelaces of a different build of the same software installed outside conda. Unfortunate. However, around 2019, the problems started growing beyond mere foot-guns. Conda uses a full SAT solver to provide a highly featured versioning system, and this worked great until the big conda channels grew to the point that it started getting really slow. Installing packages went from taking seconds to minutes to hours to forever. They tried caching, they tried fragmenting channels, but it was all very not-seamless.

Eventually, people started migrating back to pip. It turns out that over the last decade distro repositories had gotten their shit together and now Docker existed to sweep up the last few use cases, so nobody needed conda's "poor-man's docker plus curated 3rd party repos" anymore. Now pip is the tool that Just Works, and it Just Works without any of conda's baggage. Virtualenv environments don't hook your system quite as aggressively, pip never stalls when resolving its version plans, and Docker can be used to reproducibly experiment and find the happy path.

Be glad that you missed out on pre-conda pip and the conda arc.
Isn’t that true of command execution as well? I guess you could use a full path to the pip executable, but similar issue.
>Don’t have them be commercial.

So the proposal here is to... nationalize all ocean freight?
Akami Technologies Acquired Linode
It's pretty clear you haven't even paid attention to the developments of the past 18 months, and made up your mind in the week following Jan 6 as to what the event was. Comparing Jan 6 to BLM reveals you don't really know anything why those people went to DC on that day, and what was going on behind the scenes between Nov 3 and that day. You don't have to take my word for it; top-ranking Republicans including White House officials have already testified under oath as to the facts. They don't support your "protest" theory.

Will you change your mind when the convictions for seditious conspiracy start coming down, or will that just be the result of biased juries and judges?
Amazon is pretty famous for requiring everyone to read memos and provide feedback ahead of time to be able to talk in the meetings
“If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost,” Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said during a meeting with Lloyd Austin on Friday.

“The PLA [People’s Liberation Army] would have no choice but to fight … and crush any attempt of Taiwan independence, safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/10/china-tells-us-it-w...
I feel like all America has to do is pass a law forcing the railroads to respect the passenger time tables, and even if it's Amtrak's fault that they missed a slot, yield to passenger traffic and enable them to run on-time.

If the trains had a reputation for not being overbooked, not being cancelled, and arriving at the time it says on the ticket, they could be a lot more popular.

I take Amtrak whenever possible because I hate the way people are treated in airports and I often meet others on the train that don't fly for one reason or another, but I am also enabled by a life that is unaffected if I arrive somewhere 12 hours late.
Then you don't need to add them to your feed. That's the whole idea, you control your own feed
Would unlimited, free, do whatever you want etc. nuclear power kill more people than our current trajectory?

Not trying to start a fight, just curious.

I guess there's enough people crazy enough to shoot/stab/invade that radioactive material being widely available is a bad thing.
> Don’t have them be commercial

What other purpose do you believe shipping vessels to serve?