skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rails or not, in any platform/framework, if you do an API request inline in a request that could take max time N, then the total request time could take max time N+m, so if you don't want requests to take >N, you don't do requests inline.

What am I missing, how does Rails make this especially bad?

Or is it that in another platform/framework, it's easier to allow requests to take long N+m to return if you want? True that would be easier in, say, an evented environment (like most/all JS back-ends), but... you still don't want your user-facing requests taking 5 or 10 seconds to return a response to the user do you? In what non-Rails circumstances would you do long-running I/O inline in a web request/response?
Yes and yes.

Just note that there are two ways to install it. Follow the instructions exactly as described.

Edit:

Specifically, connect the link at the bottom of the chain, put the link on the front of the right hand side link and the back of the left hand side link.

Otherwise, shifting to the lowest gear will not be smooth.

https://connexchain.s3.amazonaws.com/website/downloads/bedie...
Fully agreed re: Apple from first-hand knowledge, and IMO this is a large part of the company's "secret sauce".

Which is both a high compliment to Apple and a damning indictment of other companies like Google: the secret sauce is having your senior leadership and executives live and breathe product! Huh. It seems like an obvious observation, but clearly not obvious enough because most large tech cos do not do this!

Your senior leadership should have encyclopedic knowledge about the product and its roadmap. They should be able to describe, in detail, the major features that will be shipping and why the company is pursuing them. They should also relentlessly question product proposals because most product proposals are absolutely not good enough at inception to be worth building, and refuse to greenlight projects until they pass muster.

This is how you ship good products in big companies.

[edit] Another salient point worth bringing up: there is a deeply-held belief at Google (and from what I hear, also at FB) that product viability cannot be tested except with the public via rigorous A/B testing. The result of this poorly substantiated belief is that trying new ideas requires building out (at minimum) a full MVP. The execution costs for trying new ideas is extraordinarily high, and more than that requires commitments to the public.

This is distinctly unlike more functional product orgs where ideas can be validated in a number of ways short of building the actual thing (user research, focus groups, simplified prototypes tested with selected members of the public under observation, etc.) and are much faster and much cheaper. You can get a lot of understanding of what products and features work without committing to a full buildout.
Not sure if bait but I'll bite. Flip phones in this day and age? Nobody even uses sms to text each other anymore. You'd be isolating your kid by not giving them access to WhatsApp and other messaging apps.

I pray you never have kids because from your other comments it seems like you had painfully low self esteem in school and now you've tricked yourself into believing that that's the norm.
Replying to my own comment... the Senate represents the States who are the parties bound by the laws of the U.S. Government. The House represents the People who would ultimately have to pay (taxes) to fund the U.S. Government. Other than direct crimes against the U.S. Government (think treason) U.S. laws were not meant to apply directly to people, just states. The 14th Amendment created the U.S. Citizen (as opposed to citizens of a state) which was/is a subject of the U.S. Government and is why/how the U.S. Government laws now get applied directly to people.
Are you saying that GR has been contradicted by experimental observations?
Yup - an indication of how to trigger/what it would look like if successfully triggered might actually help with troubleshooting?
Okay, so you think it’s all circumstantial? What’s the mix? Are there no people that just like to skate by?
> Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems that degrowth is fundamentally misanthropic. And the core of the misanthropic philosophy is the belief that mankind and nature are two different things.

I don't believe that one follows from the other. Humanity is part of nature. Humans are sentient, and groups of humans can decide that society and/or group systems should ideally behave in one way or another, e.g. that an economy can be organized in one way or another. Humans can also make models about the future, and make statistical predictions based upon current (sophisticated) understanding of how systems work. This sets humans apart from other organisms in nature which also operate un(or less)consciously in groups, such as ants, viruses, etc, and which have growth that is unchecked to the extent that resources permit.

Therefore, it doesn't follow that humans being part of nature implies that unchecked growth is inevitable; humanity recognizing that there are in fact finite resources on this planet which we're currently bound to, and attempting to tailor the systems which affect rate of growth to ensure sufficient runway with those resources, is a very pro-humanity thing to do. That is, some control of population and resource-usage with the goal of preventing resource and environmental exhaustion and subsequent mass calamity is a tradeoff that attempts to promote the longevity of reasonable living standards with the possible expense of some liberties and the possible reining in of some unthinking consumption patterns. That doesn't equate to misanthropy, any more than preventing a 3 year old from eating a fourth bowl of ice cream does.
How about all three of yours, plus:

(4) An HTTP header that websites can use to explicitly opt out of being rendered in embedded in-app browser, reinforced by App Store policy that requires apps to respect and not to work around that header
Little does OP know, a lot of businesses would take 10% of the revenue (as pass through from Verizon) on 5x the subscriber base at 20x less churn (since the subscriber has no incentive to cancel).
... but I'm so damn excited they did!

Engineers doing engineering for the sake of engineering.
The author thinks he's being clever not providing docs.
I hate it when people play games - and yes dev, you have failed.
I didn't see it as negative as well. Rather, it's not special. Not exceptional. It's just a job. It sounds like all the other jobs out there.
Are you suggesting that all of the plausible hypotheses about the nature of dark matter have been tested and falsified?
> their tiny population of a few hundred thousand

California and Texas, the obvious examples, would be the ~37th (around Ukraine and Canada) and ~51st (around Nepal and Venezuela) largest countries by population in the world.
Theories, sure, but knowledge is not confined to theories, i.e. isn’t there positive knowledge, a.k.a. “facts”?
Which means nothing. Is 10 people collecting acorns and trading beads more economic activity than 9 people making and selling jet planes?
> developer from embedding their own replacement webview implementation

Well in the case of Apple they would be kicked off the store so fast it'll make the devs head spin. Human problem, human solution I guess.
Yeah, Europe also bets on it.

I have hopes it builds up to the hype.

But it's not a guarantee, naturally.

Let's cross fingers. Lol
The CDC employs 10,000 people for $1.1 billion and a total annual budget approaching $10 billion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/02/29/106...
Looks like gas went down and other goods went up
I think that's absolutely fine.

The creators of Python still released Python, even though people could use it to build insecure software.
So that would break text browsers too, right? :(

And users with JS disabled for privacy reasons.
Single desktop machine ML up to scales of 176B params
Use them to measure how well people will perform in the tasks that you need them to do. For coding interviews, Square's is really good. [1] I am not sure if they have sample questions written anywhere in the linked blog posts, but very simple things with added complexity.

Example - Write a rate limiter that takes in a timestamp (integer) and returns true if it hasn't hit a rate limit. Ok, now what if we make the rate limiter per user. Just simple things to see how you represent data, store it, create interfaces to it, and how you refactor to deal with change.

Most likely, you want to be having someone write tests for some code and review some code. Then speak to them about their experience. Depends on your organization though, maybe you are small and people need to produce a lot more than the large tech companies.

1. https://developer.squareup.com/blog/ace-the-square-pairing-i...
I was on a rollercoaster at Netflixland, but I couldn't enjoy it because an employee was sitting next to me the whole time listing all the rides I should try next.
>The profit from the crypto that they stole or received as ransom payment. I thought that was very clearly implied.

Tornado Cash is not the only way to launder ransom payments, so wrong again.

>That addresses one of the two problems with paying with BTC, remaining worse than tradfi payments.

Worse for some conditions, and not for others.

>That's nice that you trust the vendor, but fraud costs are about whether vendor trusts you. If you pay them in stolen goods, those will be seized, and the vendor will be out bullion plus transaction costs.

The vendor chose to charge me a lower fee for crypto than for credit. Perhaps the vendor failed to charge the appropriate amount to cover their fraud risk, but nevertheless in the transaction I found crypto advantageous. If you think they're wrong, feel free to offer your consulting services to APMEX and your expertise on selling bullion.
He was ahead of the curve on minimalist 'normcore' -the whole point was a drive to efficiency: Nobody needs to care if Steve wears polo shirts or Donna Karan Designer jeans. They need to care whats in Steve's head. Steve doesn't now need to care what colour he wears because he knows when he opens the wardrobe door its clean, and its black. he simply puts on the most clean items, and goes to work.

It was the emphasis on function, not form. Do not look at Steve's nipples, they aren't on display.

In many ways, it reaches back to the 14th and 15th century. Black was expensive, and sumptuary laws limited who could wear black (and purple). Black was not only expensive, it was a signifier of wealth and success. But also, people really only had one suit of clothes, oftentimes. What we call "motley" is people piecing together a suit of clothes from hand-me-down rags, you would have sleeves separate to bodice, and piece them together to make new clothes from old clothes. Steve is saying "I am rich, and I don't care about having to be a peacock, and this is my work, my persona, and also this is functional, and also.. this is simple"

He might have chosen a white tee shirt and Jeans. Same same.

I can't personally carry this off. I live in my conference tee shirts, I am riddled with designer logo, and I have colour choice issues every morning. But my dad did make it work, long long before Steve. My dad back in the 70s settled on a range of three hues of turtleneck, and wore them to death. We found about 10 in his wardrobe, along with 4 pairs of the hush puppies he liked. I recall one memorable instance when he appeared on BBC scotland to talk about the new Edinburgh University computer wearing one of the turtlenecks inside out and back to front: I suspect the BCC producers knew, and liked the "mad scientist" schtick and went with it.

Italian nonnas adopt black polka dot when the husband dies. I have friends who made the same choice when their partner died. It's surprisingly common to decide monochrome suits you and stick to it, and it removes decision-choice-panic delay in the morning.

If I can wean myself off conference teeshirts, I really do think I might be there one day, before I die.

Turtleneck is why Sid (my dad) chose them: No tie. he hated ties. Steve hated ties.

There is an alternative: Graph paper shirts. Most engineers will have at least one graph paper check shirt in their wardrobe, major axes 1cm with a 2mm sub-grid in contrast colour.

Most runway designers eschew complex clothes. Karl Largerfeld is somewhat of an anomaly with those ridiculous collars.
I would definitely give it a try if google play services are not required.
The acquisition was two years ago so I was a bit puzzled as to why this blog post just appeared -- and doesn't talk about what it _has already meant_ for Clojure, over the two years since it happened?
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> I paid $18 per feet to have a private fiber optic line of 1000 feet installed

Are you saying you paid $18,000 for fiber optic installation at your house?
> Or has that improved in the last decade?

Yes. Starlink satelites are at low earth orbit, much much closer than the geosyncronous orbits communication satelites a decade ago had to be at.

Distance is latency because the radio waves can “only” propagate at the speed of light. The shorter the trip the faster the signals can make it.
Forget the compan(y/ies) for a moment. In a decade or two when you look back will you feel your time was well spent?

The companies, much less corporate America in aggregate, will have assuredly not noticed your protest. But will you notice your lack of professional accomplishment?

Being wronged extracts a price, through vengeance you can pay it twice.
Perhaps this is mainly to try to please Wall Street. But I think the jig is up, so to speak. It should now be painfully obvious if you are a "tech" worker for an advertising-supported "tech" company that this "business" relies, indirectly, on the abundance of cheap capital, i.e., super low cost debt. To me, that does not signify "essential" services. It signifies "optional". The web will not die if these companies disappear, but these companies _will_ die without sufficient web traffic. In the absence of "venture capital", Facebook could vanish and people would still find ways to use the internet to stay in touch. That is what I think. The only way to know for sure is to let them fade away and see what happens. To argue otherwise is to underestimate human ingenuity, not to mention how much bandwidth, storage and CPU consumers today have at their disposal. The "tech" worker who argues "You need us" to the public is, IMO, now much less convincing when their employers are admitting they really do not need most of you.
> but a lobbyist can't really see and work with twice as many reps

Wait, what? Is there a constitutional cap on the total number of lobbyists that I wasn't aware of?
Japan’s GDP per capita is similar to what it was in the mid-90s despite sizable per-worker productivity gains because their population is aging rapidly.

However, “no obvious way out” is incorrect. Increasing immigration (with citizenship) and supporting women having long term careers (as opposed to jobs-until-kids) are both quite obvious; they just involve societal changes that are, for now, unpalatable.
The link at the top of the page is a good start.
lol - none of these new POS cars have keys. It's all electronic and pushbuttons. Good luck!
Such a bummer because to my knowledge Netflix is the only streaming service that doesn't advertise crap that you have to sign up for other streaming services by including shows that you can't actually watch on it.

Every time I see a show on a streaming service that I can't actually click on and watch I return to the high seas and with Sonarr/emby.
> but then in the next breath make the assumptions that difficulty forming relationships today is significantly greater than in the past

A pedant would say that a extreme impact on a subset of a group means there is also a significant impact on the average of the entire group. But that's not the point.

This statement calls back to your claim that (excessive) porn use severely impacts their ability form relationships. It's not a blanket statement you now make it out to be. Someone doesn't need to repeat back to you word for word the entire context of the conversation.
There would be media reports and court cases to point to if any of these measures were effective. As a reminder, virtually every school shooter was monitored or on a watchlist.
An interesting security feature would be if you could take the string with you whenever you dismount. The site says replacing the string takes "10 minutes" though, which is way too long for that.
Epicycles aren't wrong. In fact, the Copernican model of the solar system is less correct than the Ptolemaic epicycle model that was being used because Copernicus still viewed orbits as circular.

More to the point, since epicycles are just a Fourier decomposition, they're actually perfectly correct. The problem, though, is that they are a nightmare to compute with unless you have a modern computer.

Once Kepler decided to use an ellipse to model solar orbits; however, things were vastly easier to compute. At that point, the epicycle model got swiftly pushed aside.
> "and in zero of those cases was it laziness of the employees"

Come on! This is straight up impossible. Anyone who has worked for any length of time in the tech industry has come across people that simply don't do anything, and are totally fine with that. It is *very common* and its borderline dishonest to say otherwise.
Well from experience of being an undergrad and going to career fairs, this assessment is spot on. You don't realize this whole thing is bullshit until a few years into your career.
Feel free to consider the parameter file "output" that doesn't count against lines of code.

Anything you used in the process of generating it will be input that does count.
Sifu was with Wonderland

The reputational contagion is what I’m referring to

An autonomous stablecoin shouldn’t really need confidence based on tangentially related persons or an erratic and scattered founder

I recognize the market need for a different stablecoin that takes the learnings from MIM and I’m excited that a more resilient one will come about
You just sound like you don’t quiet people and are trying to justify it. You don’t need to rock the boat if it’s smooth sailing. Do you want everyone complaining and trying to change things?
I run a Haltech, I can run the phone straight through it's USB output. I would assume you'd be able to do similar with a speeduino
Latency is big issue for geostationary satellites - the ones at which you can aim a dish at a fixed point in the sky - which have to be very far away from Earth to be geostationary, 35000 km above surface, unlike Starlink satellites which are just 550km above ground.
Legally you do not need permission, it is considered fair use. Business wise and so on is another matter.
There is some truth to it if you want to think about purchasing power and quality of life.

A TV today is not the same as a TV in 1970.

The groceries a family buys today are not the same Goods or quality as someone would have bought in 1920
Investors value a startup using a whole set of factors. The future “revenue multiple” is unknown at acquisition, so I have never used this as a primary consideration.
>I want free speech. And I want social norms. They're not incompatible.

Yes, they are. and the way you're trying to square the circle here is by creating an arbitrary distinction between censorship (which is the evil government doing scary bad things) and 'moderation' (which is private groups doing the same thing, but in like, a good way).

There is no material difference between the two other than the size of the institution doing the censoring. Social norms, by their very definition constrain and civilize people by telling them what not to do or what not to say, either explicitly or implicitly so we don't all behave like a bunch of monkeys in the banana factory.

If there really was such a thing as an 'innate right to voice your ideas', censorship here on HN would be as vile as the government doing it, possible even more so because you at least elect the latter. Clearly it isn't vile though, because without strict censorship discourse here would not be possible.
You should be careful about being too glad. Starlink is a money sink and won't even have positive cash flow for many years.

SpaceX has used Starlink as a driver for investment rounds and is regularly raising money.

Considering the expenses of Starlink and Starship, both big money sinks, it's entirely possible for Stalink to get scrapped at some point if investment money dries up.

Probably unlikely, since they could stop launching and keep the service running until the sats decay, but still possible.
https://theintercept.com/document/2021/10/12/facebook-danger...
/r/overemployed and Blind are even worse TBH, people in /r/cscareerquestions are often just trying to strike a somewhat tolerable WLB
I'll hear you out, if you cite your sources...

> I think it's better to stop handwringing over pessimistic alarmist models ...

Which climate models are pessimistic in your view?

Which models are alarmist? Please define alarmist as you are using it. What exactly are you measuring when you say "alarmist"? Is there a threshold?

Let's get some common footing. Here's a thought experiment and question: Let's say Organization X finds in 90% of model runs, the global climate is disrupted to the point that the USA will face between $400B and $800B of additional costs starting in 2040 and increasing somewhere around 1% to 3% per year.

* Is summarizing this finding alarmist? Of course not -- it is only describing a model's prediction.

* Is the model alarmist? What would make it alarmist? If the assumptions are unrealistic? But all models are imperfect. So how unrealistic must they be?

On the flip side, What models do you recommend? Please share how your favorite models are funded.

> ... and to focus on solving real, concrete, addressable ecological problems.

According to your definitions of "real", "concrete", and "addressable".

Do you think NASA's writing on climate change does not reflect reality? That is is not concrete? That the problems are not addressable? So is NASA alarmist w.r.t. climate change?

What about the reinsurance industry? Let's take Swiss Re. Are they alarmist?

Please point us to some solid writing (such as a credible report) that summarizes your views.

Two final questions: have you studied economics? built predictive models? I'd like to get a sense of good ways to have this discussion. Perhaps we can cut through a bunch of preliminaries and cut to the chase.

Do you agree that the following framing is a useful way to think about our response to climate change? Technological constraints define what levers can be pulled and at what cost, in the short-run at least. Political decisions drive how governments spend money. Economic factors constrain financial and monetary options. Over the medium-term, investments in science and technology tend to increase expand the option space.
> That's the literal definition of dead weight.

No.

literal definition

> the weight of an inert person or thing.

The metaphor refers to people that do nothing and are only a burden. Dead weight cannot positively contribute.