skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that there are multiple people in the mind is likely a reflection of its malleability just as is the (typical) conception that there's a single person with a single concrete, tangible identity in there. The fact that different groups of humans plausibly claim to experience one or the other state of being likely tells us something about the flexibility of the substrate we're running on. Moreover plural self-conceptions seem pretty compatible with some well-regarded (while very speculative) theories of mind, e.g. Dennett's multiple drafts model.
> The license makes it very difficult to use modern fork-and-pull-request workflows unless you write all your code to be a quine.

What do you mean? AGPL means that you have to open source your server stack, which of course proprietary server-software-based companies don't want to do.
Someone in 'frisco told me it was fine to use "Cali" whenever I want.

[ducking]
She's correct, but Etsy is also doing similar stuff.
Ahh c-u was the one I tried so that explains why it didn't work.

Thanks for the link, that will come in handy!
Anyone dismissing access to Swift network as superfluous makes it clear their opinion should have no bearing in analyzing strategy.
The manual proof style was nice to see for pedagogical purposes, however it should be noted that the statement is just a intuitionistic tautology, so much so that the entire proof can be automated with the built-in firstorder tactic:

Theorem impl_trait_transform: forall (Trait: Type -> Prop) (Result: Prop),
((exists t, Trait(t)) -> Result) <-> (forall t, (Trait(t) -> Result)).
Proof.
firstorder.
Qed.
But most of that waste is very low level. It's called "nuclear" waste but it's mostly stuff that is at best mildly contaminated.
I think the reason why you're getting some pushback is because we've heard all these before with another aircraft that had similar teething and development problems: the F-15.

The F-15 project was supposed to be a small and light fighter but feature creep" blew the project up into a massively expensive boondoggle. Some of this was due to the fear of the MIG-25; an aircraft we later learned wasn't so scary.

Yet today, the overpriced, chronic cost-overruning F-15 sits at an impressive 109:0 kill to loss ratio, making it the best performing aircraft in the United State's history.

But you would be correct in saying the F-35 is no F-15. It has a stealth coating that is expensive to maintain (this is true for all stealth aircraft). It also flies with a ton of electronics to function as a "sensor network in the sky".

But in many ways, this is similar to the complaints about the F-15 and its (For the time) dizzying array of modern technologies: An advanced lookdown/shootdown radar, support for BVR missiles, IFF, EW and ECM systems all linked to a central computer. Technically other aircraft had these technologies in the 1970s, but none until the F-15 had them all in the same aircraft. Fast-forward a few decades and that "feature creep" doesn't even quality as "bare bones" for any air superiority fighter.

Anyway, if you want a multi-role aircraft without the stealth or sensor network gizmos of the F-35 there's the Gripen E series. Its purchase price is greater than the F-35 but its operating costs are much less. If you don't envision your country's airforce performing too many SEAD missions this tradeoff might make sense... but there's no free lunch!
It helped to identify friend-vs-foe yes, but not formation, as formations were distinguished by the lining of their uniform, which wasn't very visible!

Also red was just an easy colour to get hold of and to dye with, and it hid blood.

The red mass of undistinguished soldiers created an imposing sight on the battlefield. It's not about wanting to hit individuals (why would you?) it's about the shock factor.

This is only infantry as well - where shock action was even more important - cavalry - and distinction didn't apply - you had less uniform more elaborate uniforms.
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Imagine if all the people who write millions of words on the internet about issues channelled their energy into just helping others in their community.

(I am aware of the judgemental hypocrisy in the statement above.)
'Build' is commonly used both ways, and not just in software.
> I think it's trivial to see it "works" in the sense that it costs nothing and generates at least some positive revenue.

How does it cost nothing??
Not the OP, but I think you bring up a great point and just wanted to chime in...

IMO cultural compatibility is valuable and worth paying a premium for, both within an employer's team, between an employer and their customers or their marketers, etc.

The support culture can be vastly different between cultures, as can design sense, time prioritization, team dynamics, etc. It's hard to work effectively with someone who barely speaks your language, doesn't get your jokes, doesn't like the same food, isn't used to communicating the same way -- whether in body language or slang or powerpoints, etc. (And it goes both ways -- I'm not just talking about American companies offshoring, but also Americans trying to work overseas, or people moving to/from China for opportunities, etc.)

But in an actually free market, where capital, labor, and customers are all free to pick and choose as they please, I doubt the difference would be as large as it is now, like 5x-10x difference for the same work just based on cultural compatibility. I've met plenty of foreign (to me) people who work harder and are just plain better at my job than I am, but get paid less because of the circumstances of their birth.

In a hypothetical world where people were free to work and live where they please, I don't know what an appropriate value of that "cultural fit premium" should be, maybe 20-30%? Certainly not orders of magnitude. But we don't have that hypothetical world, and our protectionist borders seem to be getting more defined by the day, not more blurred, as the West goes through a cultural backlash against globalization.

The dark side of "equal pay for equal work" is that Americans often enjoy higher pay and a higher quality of life for less work, sometimes MUCH less work, compared to their counterparts in international tech sweat-shops. We have hard-won labor protections that took decades of organizing to achieve, and even then there are horror stories of abuse and burnout.

Ideally we'd be paying all workers the highest wages and letting them move where they please, but doing so would also cause hyperinflation across the world and in turn drive down purchasing power. And cause a horrifying housing crunch in all the desirable areas of the world. The whole system is rigged such that there can ever only be a small % of comfortable people, or else it all falls apart =/

Other options are to pay the lowest common denominator (and lose all your highest paid staff), just don't outsource, or apply a cost of living adjustment, etc. None are perfect or easy solutions.

But salary transparency is a great start, especially while there are still people doing the same job in the same OFFICE, sometimes on the same team, who get paid differently. It at least gets the conversation going so we can start thinking about solutions...
I think NextJS is the best frontend implementation I came across.
I was also a MySpace-era kid (15yo in 2006) and I really don't think there's any comparison to today's algo-driven infinite feed.
Maybe they believe, rightly or wrongly, that the lower cost of labour is their strongest asset in getting hired by a Western company.

If their salary were raised to SV levels, sure, they might go from "well-off" to "fabulously wealthy" - but they might also get replaced with Western or Eastern European engineers. If they're not absolutely confident of their value to the company, it's not a gamble worth taking.
> Finding a middle ground between “what do I want to do” with “what people want” and “which specific niche still has some space available” is a tricky task.

… made even trickier when the hopeful founder is a self-admitted weirdo.

The itches I want to scratch are not the kind most people have.

Over the past decade+ I've been here I've read something akin to "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything" over and over, but I have yet to come up with an idea that would have even modest appeal. Ideas don't seem cheap.
Have you checked if there's a correlation with caffeine? I get these too, and like one of the other replies to the parent mentioned, in my case it's definitely connected to drinking too much coffee.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is not trying to teach you to hide all emotions the way comment I reacted to suggested. You being visibly sad is fine result. There is big gap between overflow and notion that "you are allowed to show feelings" is something bad.
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> To me, a VM in the cloud already feels like a container

This is the mental abstraction I've been operating with for over a decade now.

All of our products are monolithic binaries that can be installed on bare-ass windows or linux machines. For all intents & purposes, basic AWS/Azure/et. al. VM hosting is our containerization strategy. We just pushed the tricky bits down into our software.

95% of our pain is resolved by using a modern .NET stack and leaning hard on their Self-Contained Deployment model. Our software has zero external dependencies at deploy time, so there isn't much to orchestrate. Anything that talks to a 3rd party system is managed purely via configuration in our software.
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There seems to be a trend of covering up and looking the other way on many major political issues right now in the US. I presume it is a different story in Germany itself.
> it didn’t cost you anything

Except the time to sort through 300 photos after just an afternoon with your kids at the beach…
Reading down the answers, lots of people are confusing two things: marketing emails (mostly from e-commerce sites) versus content-driven newsletters.

Open rate and CTR on marketing emails is very low and their production quality (cost) needs to be high to make a dent.

Newsletters are a different beast. If you have some product-market fit for the content, your open rate and CTR can be very high. Scaling them can be tricky, because if your content is niche you hit a ceiling, and if it’s not you hit the general problem of acquiring customers lots of other people are after.

…but, after you solve that, you have a scaled up newsletter that you can both sell ads against and use to activate your own monetization flows. Does it work? Yeah, it does. Very, very well, in my experience.
You are replying directly to GP.
Maybe it is related to dazzle camoflauge used on ships? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

There the goal is less to avoid detection and more to make it hard to determine direction/orientation.
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Well yeah, the turning point was close to the end of the last decade
The commenter could be the wife. Or it could be two men
> The city is optimized to make travel distances as long as possible. No matter how you power those trains, shorter routes are more economical than longer routes.

Not true. What's more economical: a train straight up a very steep mountain or a train winding around the mountain? There are many situations where it's more economical to build an intentionally longer route to save money. Imagine a billion person where every single person can take a train directly to every other person. If you arranged every person evenly spaced in a grid you could connect them with less travel than if they were in a very very long line. But the train system would be much much simpler.
With similar logic, we should ban all the cars (say apart from firefighters and ambulances). Think about all the lives we will save, few hundred thousands every year globally, ignoring injuries and damages. Let that number sink.

And once it sank, we can add few other easily bannable cases (random examples - sugar, no exercise) which will put the number of saved lives in few millions, per every year.

Yet suddenly all those internet warriors who feel righteous and know by heart what needs to be done for society and by society are quiet about these. Nobody is arguing government should force people to exercise, yet school showed us how easily it can be done. It would save more lives than any covid measure ever taken, it will measurably improve people's lives, its quality and happiness, and no adverse effect apart from US HFCS industry.

Where do you draw the line? Certainly elsewhere than I do. But I am not showing that line down your throat and forcing you to live by it, do I. Can you please righteous people like you let people like me take a walk in the forest, alone? Is it really that hard to understand?

This is typical internet discussion for 21st century - few people are very vocal, and they give the impression their voice is consensus. Yet reality is a bit more complex.
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Hasn't been mentioned in the thread yet, but the Phoenix Project is also excellent for senior engineers/managers.

I read it once when I was a junior engineer and didn't get much out of it, then again 6 years later and it was _excellent_.
How are the videos and information surrounding all these mental disorders on TikTok not in the same category as COVID-19 misinformation?
At least I don't think domestic heating sources are a big driver of consumption. It's the power production that's the real kick in the pants.
when I was playing paintball, some people would wear that junk. they may as well wear bright orange hunting jackets. I can see them easily.
Note that Cloud Run is not built on Kubernetes, but on Borg. It implements the Knative Serving API spec, mainly for portability reason with Knative and Kubernertes.

Source: I'm the Cloud Run PM and we have commmunicated about that publicly in the past.
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Nothing here isn't solvable, but we have a lot of problems and is this the best use of our limited resources? There are places in the continental us with plenty of water and land that could be used for agriculture. Lots of states like Ohio have returned to forests and probably many other states as well. I like forests, they're cool, but we could totally have less of them. It's also not like we'd need to move all the farms. The west does have water, just not quite enough.

I'm also just very unimpressed by this particular letter to the editor. Maybe it's a good idea, but it definitely doesn't sell it
Because contrary to the site's name, a bunch of those books aren't even about software engineering.
Makes sense, but I can't help but feel it's a solution at the wrong abstraction level. It's a shame the DB can't figure this out for you.
Well, there's nothing I disagree with in your statement, but am also not sure how to fit it within the previous exchange. OP was implying that, because there could be cases where the description of a phenomenon contrasts with the direct experience of it (such as the image being "flipped" due to the law of optics), then we are always deceived. I disagree with that characterization because either we say that mind always deceives itself (I can work with that statement) or you can't exclusively point out world views and beliefs, because in those cases we don't have a physical representation to contrast them with, therefore it's a non-sequitur.
Same weight as the S21 (169g), 3mm narrower (71.x vs. 68.x).

This is not a compact phone. It's on the smaller side of the standard range.

Compare this to the iPhone 13 mini, 140g, 64mm width (and a full 20cm shorter than the s21).
You mentioned large vehicles - is there any support for small, e.g., use in a swarm?
This thing is in service, so conventional wisdom about how long it takes to do stuff before that is irrelevant. From the introduction of my original link:

Despite more than 20 years and approximately $62.5 billion spent so far on research and development alone, program officials still haven’t been able to deliver an aircraft that can fly as often as needed or to demonstrate its ability to perform in combat, which places military personnel in jeopardy.

I would have said the "R&D decade" was the 1990s since JAST began in 1993 and developmental contracts were awarded in 1996, but POGO are conservative in their judgments.
How about: the library gets a few Yubikeys and offers to let people register their accounts with them as backup? So, if they get into trouble they can ask the library to unlock their account for them?

This essentially grants the librarian what they think they should be able to do.

But the next step would be to figure out how to reduce the risk that this system can be abused.
Tuberculosis was once seen as a romantic fashionable disease.