skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the sort of thing that represents what it's like to actually not have freedom of speech. Not "everyone thinks you're wrong or an asshole, so they use their own speech to call you out" or "oh no, I can't spread misinformation about covid or the election on a private company's platform".
Realizing that my focus and attention are limited resources and that situations/environments/platforms where they are treated as something to exploit are at best merely wasteful and more likely dangerous.

If you don't fight to direct that energy into things that are genuinely important to your life, it'll get drained out in useless ways by scrolling through Twitter/Reddit/HN, obsessing over the (national/international) news, getting into futile arguments with strangers on the internet, trying to have an "informed" (but actually shallow) opinion about everything, etc.

Intentionally spend time (and money) on good resources and practices instead. Read books, not Twitter threads. Learn to draw, or write, or make music, or any other creative endeavor and do it for yourself, not because other people will appreciate it. Surround yourself (physically, if you can) with thoughtful people who respect both you and your boundaries.
Also, why os this post already voted off the front page when it has more posts than first five?
It would be if there was unambiguous proof that roundup was unsafe and that the manufacturer knew it. The health risks of glyphosate are ... not well determined and nobody has made a conclusive case. There was a lot of noise in the past done by scientists operating not in good faith.
If few people want it, why are there multiple cases in front of the Supreme Court this term to determine the legality of it? Why does every Fortune 500 company have DEI policies, and how are they enforced?
Not really, it was 'just' sheer largely-unhinged capitalism.

Plus ça change.
From a product management perspective, all bugs take 2 hours. Or 4. Or 8. But you just pick a number and roll with it. Because if you are looking at how bugs will impact a roadmap, then you can take them in aggregate and not give a hoot about one specific bug. Most bugs will be quick, and they will balance out with that one nasty one that takes a week. You do need to leave space in the project for bugs... so experiment a bit to find out how much space any specific team needs, and just know that much time will be spent on non-feature work.
Do you still have that program? Would love to read it.
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Every time I look at cloud offerings I can’t help but remember, “there’s money in confusion”.
The agile manifesto does not dictate any team or organisational structure.

SAFe prescribes a bunch of structures, councils and processes. It is by design anti agile.

Edit: this image highlights the paradox: https://www.agilest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/scaled-ag...

Just try to count all the roles and processes prescribed.
They now have instructions that would allow them to assemble their short list.

Just pick a couple that look interesting from the larger one.
> My point was just that I think it's statistically extremely unlikely for a consistently honest person to become obscenely wealthy because the cost/benefit proposition gets worse and worse the richer you are.

From experience this completely lines up with what I have seen, in my almost 40 year career. I've watched serial entrepreneurs to things I would never dream of. It was then I knew, I'd never be rich.

The only quibble I have with your idea: it's not just billionaires. Of course, there are more millionaires who are still honest, but the percentage compared to the non-millionaire working population is much lower.

When you own and run a business, you are constantly confronted with decisions that have a good and bad path. The bad path, for me, is when I answer "yes" to the question "will this make it harder for me to sleep well at night?" Those decisions came up so often early in my career. I pride myself on how well I sleep at night, but I'm not rich.
> You shouldn't care what most people think of you. Ones that matter: your boss, your spouse, (if you are religious) your Maker.

I agree, but even those can be limited. I care about my boss' opinion when it comes to my work and what I do while paid.

For a spouse, there are limits as well, hard to think of specific examples, but I guess it depends on the couple.

For my creator, he wouldn't care whether I prefer Angular over React, or .Net over Java. As long as the choice is not made out of malice, for example I pick Rust for a greenfield project with a deadline even though I don't know Rust and hoping to learn it.
I think they are referring to this comparison repo, rather than the framework
The issue with Peterson is that anything outside of socioeconomics and psychology are drivel.

He has two tendencies which make him frustrating: first, he will state a statistic and follow up with an opinion, and when challenged he will reply that it’s not his views it is simply statistics. This can be very disingenuous, as you can infer many things from the same statistic.

The second, and much more egregious crime, is that he’s a climate change denier and proposes appeasement towards Russia.

His life advice is very good, and he talks about many interesting societal things, but when I see videos of him claiming himself to be a prophet: I am left with a sour taste.
The thoughtworks case study is repeated. Otherwise wholeheartedly agree. I have delivered plenty of software during 10 PIs, but that was in-spite of SAFe, and the whole thing was harder and slower because of it.

Since then, I reorganized a team of ninjas away from the trains and have delivered at 3x the velocity using kanban methodology.
Direct link:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-100-most-valuable-brand...
The passing of Kathleen Booth, writer of the first Assembley language.

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

She passed a month ago

It would have been nice to of known of her before her passing.
THere's a classic paper where somebody cloned brazil nut genes into soybeans. Unfortunately, the genes they cloned were the ones that code for protein allergens... making the resulting soybeans cause brazil nut like allergic response. I don't think this work was ever followed up, or repeated, but it's an entirely plausible mechanism by which genetic modification could cause allergies.

(are you a biologist? this stuff is pretty obvious to biologists)
money. the answer is always money.
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As a concatenative language lover/designer I just thought I'd put it out there how much of an inspiration Om has been to me, I absolutely adore your language! Om is one of the most beautiful programming languages I've ever seen, and surely one of the most unique too.

Most other concatenative languages are Joy/Factor-esque stack languages, so to see an entirely different vision with your prefix notation is an absolute delight . Your panmorphic type system is also genius (the only other language I know of that has something similar is TCL). The way you treat whitespace separators in your syntax is also very clever, I love that it basically enables one to encode strings without a dedicated literal syntax element.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your design and implementation efforts. I hope your rewrite is going well, and I look very much forward to its eventual release...
Do you not like the government doing things you agree with by force? Can you provide an example?

I think OP is correct. People like authoritarian rule as long as they like the rules that are being enforced.
You should post this comment on the article itself, on Substack.
Sri Lanka tried wholesale banning of everything and it was a disaster.

>small agriculture and local permaculture … feeding the world

Requires a major restructuring of civilization and economic upheavals involving an enormous number of people returning to food production. It might be a yuppie ideal to go start up a hobby farm but a few rich people having fun is a lot different than changing world economies.

It’s not so hard to do for the Whole Foods and farmers market crowds willing to pay high prices. It’s quite hard to feed the poor by throwing out industrialization and replacing it with lots of labor. This makes food much more expensive.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2022/7/15/23...
I just read this article recently that said something similar with asbestos:

https://www.propublica.org/article/asbestos-poisoning-chemic...

Its 2022. If you have inert ingredients and unpronounceable ingredients in your diet (untested junk science), known harmful chems external from that are just par for the course.

Dead soil from herbicides and pesticides just mean that junk science is "busy as bees" :p
I had to search for "gimp.org" to get the ad to be the first result; just searching "gimp" doesn't return the ad.

The scam ad says "gimp.org" but if you follow it, the landing page is hosted at gimp.monster. It's a clone of the proper gimp.org with a the download instead pointing to who-knows-what .exe on Dropbox.

WHOIS gimp.monster has WHOIS-guard, but the Icelandic "privacy" address turns up a bunch of Reddit links about scam sites. Namecheap is the common thread, but that's hardly a lead.
Abstract: In World War II the United States spent 330 billion dollars. An American businessman on the staff of the Reader’s Digest, WILLARD R. ESPY proposes that by spending 100 million dollars a year on engineering projects in China, India, and Palestine we can increase the irrigated areas of the world by a sixth and add to the world’s electric energy an amount equal to all the hydroelectric power produced in the United States. The projects he blueprints would be self-liquidating: in time they would result in a steady flow of orders for American goods.

Archived link:

https://archive.ph/2022.10.29-160610/https://www.theatlantic...
It matters when it’s significant, eg. Python can indeed be an order of magnitude slower than a native, compiled language. But much more than 1% can easily accumulate from all the things that are forced on you by not writing assembly so I don’t think it is a fair cut-out point.

Especially that research OSs were written in managed languages, often with better performance!
> At the moment, there are no plans to add any more variants ever.

https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/issues/11660#issuecommen...
Nice. Get two birds stoned at once.
Posts that get a lot of comments in a short time fall off the front page by design. I think it's meant to calm overheated discussions.
Please just stop. The person who attacked Pelosi's husband was a leftist.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-dep...

You need to get outside and stop going on the internet so much.
Agreed. The decision makers at my company would not read this.
We can also stop enriching the Saudi government by reducing dependence on oil in general.
I've talked to one of my senators, three of my congressman, and my mom's congresswoman. I'm not that rich and I certainly don't make political donations large enough for them to notice. Your cynicism might be warranted in certain states/districts, but my representatives have been reasonably responsive to this fairly average constituent.
Routine retrospection coupled with accepting failures and viewing them as learning opportunities.

It has incredibly reduced the amount of stress I used to impose on myself. Now I take each week one at a time and try to focus on small improvements.
I'm old so people ask me for advice from time to time. Most often the first thing I hear myself saying is, "Try to give yourself a break". Usually what people have related to me when asking, is so needlessly hard on themselves. Anyway I think you're on to something positive.
In terms of diversity, nope.
In Cyberpunk 2077: you can go from one end of the open world to the other, without ever seeing a loading screen, you can even install a mod that allows your car to fly and you can see the whole city from the top, I haven't seen a game like that in UE5 at that level therefore there is a possibility that it would struggle with something like that if it's not designed to cope with it.

Video games use a trick called Level Of Detail, which means if something is far away, you only render a very low definition version of that object, UE5 has it as well, however we don't know if it's capable enough for something like Night City, obviously the RED engine was built with a very hardcore LOD system that might be a massive pain to do in UE5.
1. Agreed on risks to human health (which is closer to my expertise), but;

2. I do believe there are serious environmental concerns (which unfortunately is not really my expertise-- I rely on my colleagues and on what I see in journals for this judgment).
weird use of "would" in their article titles:

https://www.americanpost.news/
So your claim is that there are much worse things people should focus on but you refuse to point out which these are?

This whole discussion seems extremely hyperbolic…
I fly FPV so I deal with exploding batteries from time to time. Fully charged batteries explode much more violently than discharged batteries which tend to smolder instead. I suspect the additional electric discharge is adding ‘fuel to the fire.’
I'd replace 'an ally' with 'our henchman' for reasons of historical accuracy. The whole BCCI story - a CIA front, a global drug-money-laundering center, and a financier of Osama Bin Laden (back when he was also 'an ally' in Afghanistan) is a good example:

> "the story of this bank—the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or BCCI—takes place decades ago, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/07/the-dictator-run-bank-t...

https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-bcci-202850
Uniform error handling, smart retries, application independent tracing, load shedding, layer 7 based traffic splitting, etc. are benefits not included in the stock l4 based machinery.

If all your micro services use the same base libraries, then it is true you can implement these things there.

Also, the overhead of service meshes are rapidly reducing, with more happening in the net filter layer.
Asteroid mining for catalyst medals might pencil out one day.
[possibly spoilers, beware]

> What I've loved about Sanderson is the plot turns are never Ex Machina. Every new development fits inside the rules of the world and deepens your understanding of what can be.

YMMV. I quite like Sanderson's books and magic systems, but IMO, the typical situation where key rules of the world are unknown to the reader and the characters until the end, when they are revealed in order to facilitate the ending, runs pretty close to Deus Ex Machina (in some cases literally). See conclusion of Mistborn 1 and 3.

more spoilerful commentary:
Mistborn 3 - main characters all die. We learn that the main character suspected to be the hero of prophecy was not in fact the hero of prophecy, and the side character left standing is the real hero. Ok so far. Then we learn that the side character is not just a hero, but in fact is able to become a literal god and remake the world however they want, and this new god resolves all the problems just by wishing that they were resolved.
My tongue in cheek joke is that CPython is C. And if you write long enough in Rust something that needs plenty of flexibility, you’ll end up inadvertently writing a language.
So at what number of attendees does my house become public space?
If he's buying dinner it's bribery. In other coutries giving money (or things that cost money) to politicians is just called corruption.
> disagrees with you

Good for them.

The problem with crap like that is saying that praying outside an abortion clinic is considered harassment which is considered violence. They say if people are outside that scares people from going into the clinic which means they are blocking access. It is nonsense.

Second, some of the attacks outside of clinics were from pro abortion people. That site is bias and making it look like they were all pro lifers.
I don't know anything about this project, can somebody explain what the (nonmalicious) use case would be?
This is all correct, but in my not so humble opinion all the BSDs profit from having a more compact and cohesive base, which leads to less cognitive load for the sysadmin. Which you can learn and understand without having to resort to searching crack overflow, or whatever else, if you're so inclined. Which in turn can lead to a better understanding of the 'big picture', and the additional services running atop of it, no matter if they are coming from the base, or have been added afterwards. Not necessarily, but it eases the path to that sort of mindset.

I don't see that in any mainstream Linux distribution. There are alternatives, but then you're more or less on your own, necessitating work which could be avoided if some BSD satisfies your needs regarding hardware driver support.

At the end of the day it amounts to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

I'm a grumpy old fart and (usually) don't like chaos.
I might be incorrect here, but I thought that AVIF is using same/similar container format as MP4/HEIF. Is there clarity on patent situation for container formats?

Wikipedia article briefly mentions patents for HEIF and it does not inspire much confidence there.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_F...
I found this channel to be a good introduction https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow
I'm not sure what rose tinted glasses you're wearing but this is certainly a take.

Experience, maintaining 1000s of concurrent servers, VMs, for dozens of companies, over 30 years, had shown me how systemd has been a negative, not a positive.

Part of the issue, as I highlighted, is feature scope. In fact, I said nothing bad about core systemd, as an init system.

As I said prior, as an init system, it would have been fine without all the added bloat. But here we have it handling everything under the sun, but again.. poorly.

Which leads to another issue, change. An init system is about stability, and stability is absolutely more difficult with change.

Systemd should shed everything not directly init related, and spend all efforts to stabilize, and keep pace with mainline, and kernel changes. That, and nothing else.

In terms of OOM, there is little point of discussion here, you're too far out in left field, too far from the admin world, to even hear me.
The the old yanking policy was extra work I did with the intent to help people. It was unfortunate that Cargo had that bug, but also I should have been much more diplomatic in how I dealt with it.

I've just returned from a long break and I do have a concrete plan to catch up on the backlog. I have concrete plans for making it easier for people to get their PRs merged, making ring portable to all platforms, and eliminating all the remaining bits of C code in the next two quarters.

Feel free to reach out privately if you want to talk: brian@briansmith.org.
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That doesn't make any sense and has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

But if you need to spend the money now, you sell the stocks now so they become cash, which means the stock value is identical to the cash value. That's the whole point. There's no difference between "paper value" and cash value. They're the same.

I mean it might take a couple of days for the trade to settle so you can wire it, but that not the point. The value is just as instantaneous and liquid as cash for all practical purposes, for publicly traded companies generally.
It sounds to me like you just don't want to believe it could be true that nearly any other thing could be worst.

Other commenters have provided good short lists. Do you want me to repeat them?
While there’s probably no backend functionality, I would bet he has a feed set up to find comments containing the phrase “dang”.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I've only asked a question once on Math SE without hoping for an answer (in regards to compactness of the set of densities of equivalent martingale measures, a very narrow topic), when I was completely stuck on it while writing my PhD thesis.

To my surprise, I got a very detailed response and a rigorous proof that took me a while to grasp and, on its own, was worth publishing in a journal since this hadn't been previously researched in detail and some authors were even making wrongful assumptions about it. This not only let me finish the thesis, but I've eventually met the kind responder in person. (We were even thinking of eventually publishing this together but never got to finishing it as a standalone work, maybe we should...)

// Fun fact: many years later, someone commented on the same mathse topic - "this has been already proven here - <link to the pdf of my thesis>"
Non-pointers, yes. (EDIT: Pointers to non-Go memory are fine, though generally impossible to use in e.g. mmapped file data. Pointers to Go memory stored outside of the GC region will not be seen by the GC, nor guaranteed valid past a single CGo function call.) A common trick is to e.g. treat an mapped file as a large array of structs.
Debugging first or third party applications that are acting up.
Yep, per this comment my optimism was misplaced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384596
Service Discovery isn’t about exposing a directory of services, but mapping a name to an endpoint.
Don't forget the classic parody of SAFe which shows it as the overblown "waterfall in agile clothing" that it is: LAFABLE. https://www.lafable.com/
If hating on Lisp’s parentheses in your spare time is not providing enough joy for you, I present to you Om {with which you can complain about too many curlies}.
> The economics of solar/wind/battery are ...

Its always been my impression that the only practical use of hydrogen is as a pseudo battery to buffer energy from renewable sources. No need for expensive/dangerous transmission or fueling infrastructure if the hydrogen is stored in the same place it was generated, and then passed through a fuel cell to turn it back into juice when demand increases.
If you're talking about the curly braces after the backtick in the syntax diagram for operators, I think that's just a way to escape those special characters so you can use them in operator names. It would be the same as escaping a double quotation mark in a string literal with a backslash, i.e: "\""
Ideas without execution are just that: ideas. Yes, they are valuable, and you can never have enough of them, but without fleshing them out and taking meaningful action on them, they tend to rot, or on a long enough timeline, someone dreams up the same idea as yours and turns it into a million-dollar venture, which you could have done if you took action.