skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't, unless you're feigning stupidity. But in case you're not and actually attempting a point, let's review some current social issues and see if you can notice any trends:

Climate change: the GOP more or less does not acknowledge this reality; former POTUS removed US from the Paris Climate Accords.

Abortion / healthcare: attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act have almost all come from GOP affiliates; abortion is not allowed even in cases of rape and incest for many GOP-led states. Attempts to reign in pharmaceutical costs have been countered by GOP representatives.

LGBTQ+ rights: again we have GOP-led states that are not only banning gender-affirming care for transgender kids, but proposing statewide registries for these children. Additional efforts and talking points about overturning Obergefell v Hodges, as well as Loving v Virginia have already surfaced.

Immigration: GOP representatives and appointees authored a policy of intentionally separating children from families in a disgusting attempt to deter lawful migration and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, GOP officials lied to legal immigrants and transported them across the country for a political stunt.

Drug policy: no evidence supports the notion that increasing incarceration decreases drug use or recidivism. Democratic-led states were the first to make moves toward medicinal and recreational use of cannabis, massively offsetting the amount of people being unnecessarily jailed (which costs society in two ways: taxpayer money, and, if the charge is a felony offense, the individual can no longer vote).

The "but BOTH SIDES..." arguments may work on reddit or 4chan, but this is HN! We're better than that!

Hope this helps.
It seems odd that Microsoft hasn’t added whatever this feature is.
>from the ever-increasing essential complexity people like to foist on us every year

From my perspective, the Jedi are evil.

I think I understand and sympathize with how you feel, but, from my perspective: read the man page this thread links to. Look at the (what is to a relative Linux newcomer like me) extreme, byzantine complexity of best practices you should follow to make a traditional daemon. I've made systemd ("new-style") daemons already, but I still don't have the know-how to make a traditional daemon; 85% of the terms in that list are still mysterious to me. And, after all that investment, I'd have something that's more difficult to operate and less cross-platform across distros.

To someone focusing on the UX they have to deal with, that's complexity, while systemd represents "simplicity".

It's complicated, of course. The externalities of convenience and centralization are problems, if rather ethereal ones.

Rational actors don't often incur tangible pain for ethereal gains, though. In tangible terms, centralization is simplicity (compare SVN...); decentralization is bought with complexity (...with git). And it shouldn't be surprising that people want to be able to do things in the most painless way possible (especially when the deltas of tangible pain are so huge).
if you throw a frog in boiling water it will die immediately. If, instead, you heat up that water slowly, the frog will eventually be unable to maintain homeostasis and will leave, just like you would if it got too hot.
> everyone would be paid in gifts and donations.

That's literally fraud and tax evasion which comes with enormous fines, prison time, revocations of licenses and so on, which is why people don't do that.
Drug sniffing dogs that alert to please their handler when he gives them a cue that he wants them to alert.
Are these scientific predictions (with citations) or sensationalist predictions plucked from headlines?
The biggest problem is that there are no stockholder rights in Meta (just like Zynga, Google and many other ones).

Zuckerbergs owns less than 50% of the company but he can do whatever he wants and no activist investor has any say.

Owning these Class-A shares (why not call them class Z?) is worth 1/10 as much as owning class B shares that Mark and his cronies own.

The multiple voting share structure is an abomination and perversion of stock market.

The old way was at least more honest.

Regular shares -> most risk, most profit, actual voting rights

Preferred shares -> less risk, some profit, no voting (what Class A should be)

Bonds -> least risk, set yield, highest preference at liquidation
Perhaps it's because right wing extremists are significantly more likely to use violence? I think it's understandable that the default image of a terrorist is someone who espouses right wing values in that case. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/post-911-dom...

I might be in a bubble but I very, very rarely learn about left wing attacks, while right wing ones pop up here and there.

Edit: Also, about that link GP posted above about the Congressional baseball shooting: The perpetrator attacked Republican lawmakers, who have the most power to implement right-wing policies. In contrast, the attacks mentioned in my link mostly affected random people who probably did not have much political power, and were just members of groups that are often disliked by right wing extremists.
> $85-$158/MWh is not theoretical, this is real life utility scale installations

Do you have an example? The actual cost in 2019 in the U.S. was $300 to $500/kWh [1]. The cost for the batteries alone was $190, but that’s akin to counting the cost of nuclear power by the fuel alone.

[1] https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_battery_...
"Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.
From this moment on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now."

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐒
My take-away from "missed analysts predictions at 27.5%" is that analysts need to make predictions more firmly based in reality, rather than AWS needing to grow more.
What is the top speed of a escape goat?
I didn't say anything about your so-called 'LGBT movement'. I talked about 'the struggles that same sex attracted people have faced', struggles that span millennia and cultures. Your so-called 'LGBT movement' is highly western culture oriented (particularly US American / New York culture, see the other commenter's reference to Stonewall), historically recent and ideologically constructed. That is very different to my formulation, which is non-ideological, non-identitarian and consequently universally inclusive (for all same sex attracted people).
this is a nice piece of music by Nuages which features some passages from Alan Watts https://youtu.be/9RMHHwJ9Eqk
> the idea that performance in the platform does not matter is wrong.

But nobody said this. Maybe we're too deep in the thread for anyone to remember, so let's refresh our memories. The claim was not that performance doesn't matter, or that 1% never matters, but that any language 1% slower than D is currently could categorically not be considered a systems programming language.

That's even more absolutist and absurd than "performance does not matter".
> is there anything better

Yes. Not doing SAFe.
Ask HN: Did early hobby programming take the excitement out of your CS degree?
Would you have enjoyed your CS degree more if you knew less about programming and CS before you started university?
Somali Law (2013)
maybe heroku and fly and others could start shelling books and shoes to help out...

it's been 12 years, but they had a decade of other business units helping to fund their service, and can afford loss leaders like few other businesses.
That is a common mistake, malloc()/free() aren't deterministic, specially in threaded code, heaviliy loaded system, ISO C doesn't even provide guarantees of how deterministic they should come back to the caller across C implementations.
What other sources?
Just curious about the mention of persistent data structures. Is this about the FP notion of persistent data structures (which I suspect) or on-disk data structures? Or both? :)

I find that (FP) persistent data structures are like a super-power in lots of ways. (And it only costs a log-N slowdown in the worst case.)
I would bet real money that a negligible amount of Google's bottom line is scam and malware distribution.
We have a Factor Discord if you want some help starting out!

https://discord.gg/QxJYZx3QDf
Oh, like Greenspun’s tenth rule:

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
Elon Musk has recommended this book several times.
Same. I found it to be very effective, especially having a bunch of release trains in sync. Obviously this applies to large organizations.
I wasn't aware of SAFe until one new manager got our director to loose his head for it and institute it in all teams.

It was a total disaster.

The idea of Agile is for each team to be responsible to improve their processes. Because improvement loops involving higher management are taking forever to complete and because each team has its own needs. "Agile" (quotes intentional) as practiced today is bad enough -- teams are not really improving their process, only implementing something taken from a book.

SAFe is taking it one step further by absolutely obliterating team's ability to influence the process.

At least with "standard Agile" it was possible for some teams to do the right thing, as long as they had a manager that understood what Agile really is.

With SAFe that was gone.

I was told that we can't even modify our t-shirt sizing because "It has to be standardised, otherwise there would be too much chaos. BTW, we are definitely not creating a new request form to change t-shirt sizes in Jira"

Forget about changing any other part of the project. We had a bunch of testers and business analysts which did absolutely nothing but had to stay on the team because they were required in the process by higher management. We did not need them. I spent time hiring people who could do the work from discussing requirements with the business people through design, implementation up to deploying it to prod, but that did not matter.

Talk about crazy projects...
In general, yes. In this case - no, they're quite clearly defined.
And yet, battery costs are still rising: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Battery-c...

Ingenuity can't change thermodynamics. There's a minimum amount of lithium necessary to hold a charge. Realistically the only reliable path of grid scale battery storage is a different batter chemistry, but none has proven as effective as lithium ion so far.
It's kind of odd, when put together, that the Apple "profit" section looks a lot smaller than other "profit" sections, but is in fact the largest.

I guess the scale is only within the individual diagrams, but then placing them together side-by-side makes it look a little misleading to me, YMMV.
I think about 2 ton battery is closer to truth for a truck that has about 400-500 mile range. Less, if you consider all the heavy diesel engine and transmission parts an electric truck is not going to need.

Charging at the starting point while loading, at (mandatory) breaks and at the destination should be enough; a BEV truck done right shouldn't require extra waiting time.
Similar situation with Brave browser from a year ago: https://therecord.media/google-shuts-down-malicious-ad-posin...
It's not allowed. It'a a violation of Google advertiser policies.
"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." - Hugo Rossi

https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/quotations...
There is an interview with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS on the CoRecursive podcast here: https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/
they used to have a yellow background, then a blue button with a white "advertisement" text in it, and it just got more and more subtle over the years. Now it's two characters of text
We just shut down our last Heroku dyno. Kudos to all the people who worked there, there were a lot of talented ones but lately the service has been a joke.

As a Heroku user, you pay a premium for AWS instances, essentially, with the premise being that things "just work" and that you get simple deploys.

Well, if by "just", you mean "barely" - sure! We had several hours of outages where Heroku's status page was still green. We even gave them metrics to show that the issue was with their routing layer, and they just told us that it was our apps fault and that perhaps we should get New Relic to see why it's so slow... After several months of prodding they acknowledged that it was their fault. Or, well, they blamed another customer for excessive use of resources or something like that.

As for simpler deploys. We had multiple incidents where our deploys got into some hybrid preboot state. (If you're not familiar with Heroku's terminology, a bit simplified: Preboot enabled = start the new instances, wait three minutes and then reroute traffic. Preboot disabled = stop the old instances, then start the new ones.) In our case, deploying with preboot enabled, Heroku stopped our old instances and then waited three minutes to start new ones... Again, this wasn't acknowledged by support until after several weeks, even those we provided logs showing exactly what happened with our instances. Now they have admitted that it's a bug, but our issue is still open.

Oh, and the Github integration was of course removed when they were hacked, so the DX argument isn't very strong either.

Maybe we were just unlucky, but good riddance...
Because it is more frequent and more aggressive. And also because it has many pretend-to-be-moderate types working hard to maintainstream them.
(I only now noticed the “as of year 2000” next to the ‘1114’—while the number 2161 is from 2019. So presumably the number of un-representable colors grew in the meanwhile, and might be about 650 now if the proportion is the same.)

Also, personally I find that I'd like to have some kind of printed swatches just so I can figure out the color of my stuff at home and find the corresponding paint, sealant or whatever. I could just pirate Pantone and print some of it for like twenty bucks—however, if a third of it is outside CMYK, then I'm rather out of luck. Bit of a weird problem to have.
Good list. I’d add the following:

* Requires virtually no system administration.

It seems like every other piece of technology needs some setup, backups, periodic updates, or fiddling when something inevitably goes wrong.

If I’m not mistaken the 12C doesn’t have a clock. Thus, it doesn’t need to be updated 2x a year for Daylight (Summer) time, nor to have its time zone tables updated. It doesn’t need a clock; there are plenty of other ways for me to find the time, thank you. Not having a clock is a feature! Too many devices have a clock that cannot be disabled. A clock that is set wrong is worse than no clock at all. Thus, a device with an unnecessary clock demands my periodic attention to ensure the clock is set correctly.

About the only system administration necessary for the 12C is to replace the batteries. The batteries last for a very long time. As noted above, the 12C operates for a long time in a low battery condition, so you can choose to change the batteries when it’s convenient to do so.
So how do you actually use this? As far as I know there's no option in photoshop to convert an image from RGB to Pantone/Freetone.
A good thing that CATL is moving on to sodium, then.
While I don't think blindly emulating successful people will necessarily make you successful, I am even more confident that taking life advice from an abusive alcoholic is an even worse idea.
not just immune disorder, i mean that "allergy kids" always seemed to be the 110lb scrawny ones, never go outside, never play sports, and burst in to tears for things that made other kids say "ow". idk but makes it seem like maybe there's as much nurture as nature here, i bet

ngl i think this is just a epigenetic shift from people who have been "raised weak" for several generations. i can't prove it completely but there is some research showing that kids with milk allergies end up runty:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362703/

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(19)31475-7/ful...
>I want to be sympathetic to your position on moral grounds, but I am having a hard time understanding this more technical complaint... I certainly have a lot of downloaded media but it isn't clear to me that it saves electricity?

Oh to be clear, my complaint is that you could download a file once, then store it locally, versus streaming the same file repeatedly uses more energy and bandwidth.

>I also feel like you are making an assumption that people watch the same content over and over again, which maybe is true for a hardcore fan of a show like The Office, but I am a heavy user of these services--watching content (maybe only passively while doing other tasks) almost all day, every day--and it is extremely rare that I watch the same content even twice.

Ok, that's a fair point -- I'm a big fan of the Office, thanks for pointing out that consumption pattern.

>It is sufficiently rare that I can cite a very notable-to-me example: I decided to watch How I Met Your Mother through a second time this month, but since the last time I watched it was a decade ago it isn't clear to me that it would have made sense--with respect to your stated electricity concern--for me to maintain the storage locally for that entire show for a decade--during which time I have needed to replace all the disks on my home RAID array at least once--on the off chance that I suddenly got inspired to watch that show again.

Ah, that makes sense. I actually had HIMYM confused with... a Charlie Sheen show whose name I forget, because both played in a hotel room I got high in ages ago. I'd see people mention it and be like "Oh yeah Charlie Sheen wasn't he in the news" and go off and read gossip about someone who wasn't even on the show.

And "notable-to-me" is probably a phrase I'll hold onto, I think sometimes I forget it's not 2009 anymore and when I'm out on sites like this there's not the same... shared camraderie... there was when I started this journey. The internet has gotten bigger, and meaner.

(But HN seems to capture something Slashdot never did -- some people piss me off, but I don't see the stupid hot grits rude memery here I did there, just people exhaustively insisting maybe it's OK to use Windows and other miscellaneous bullshit)
> want a citation for corruption at the Texas Railroad Commission

What does this have to do with wind or solar?

The difference is this: installing in California requires reams of permits. Installing in Texas rarely does.
On disk, transactionally-updated data structures
Every time Baizhang, Zen Master Dahui, gave a dharma talk, a certain old man would come to listen. He usually left after the talk, but one day he remained. Baizhang asked, "Who is there?"

The man said, "I am not actually a human being. I lived and taught on this mountain at the time of Kashyapa Buddha. One day a student asked me, 'Does a person who practices with great devotion still fall into cause and effect?' I said to him, 'No, such a person doesn't.' Because I said this I was reborn as a wild fox for five hundred lifetimes. Reverend master, please say a turning word for me and free me from this wild fox body." Then he asked Baizhang, "Does a person who practices with great devotion still fall into cause and effect?"

Baizhang said, "Don't ignore cause and effect."

Immediately the man had great realization. Bowing, he said, "I am now liberated from the body of a wild fox. I will stay in the mountain behind the monastery. Master, could you perform the usual services for a deceased monk for me?"

Baizhang asked the head of the monks' hall to inform the assembly that funeral services for a monk would be held after the midday meal. The monks asked one another, "What's going on? Everyone is well; there is no one sick in the Nirvana Hall." After their meal, Baizhang led the assembly to a large rock behind the monastery and showed them a dead fox at the rock's base. Following the customary procedure, they cremated the body.

That evening during his lecture in the dharma hall Baizhang talked about what had happened that day. Huangbo asked him, "A teacher of old gave a wrong answer and became a wild fox for five hundred lifetimes. What if he hadn't given a wrong answer?"

Baizhang said, "Come closer and I will tell you." Huangbo went closer and slapped Baizhang's face. Laughing, Baizhang clapped his hands and said, "I thought it was only barbarians who had unusual beards. But you too have an unusual beard!"
I really like the way Harrell uses PCA to build regression analysis in Regression Modeling Strategies

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-19425-7
> Because elite media is left-ish, and has great power to focus attention on some things but not on others.

I wouldn't say "elite", just mainstream. And they're not leftish, just left - for a variety of reasons, many of them being valid. Such as respecting minorities, promoting equality, etc. I think the problem happens when some people go to the extreme - and this immediately causes uproar on the opposite side. Unfortunately, social media amplify this conflict between the extremes. But most people are in the middle.
BS. Far right is both openly pro censorship and also works hard at silencing opposition.

They also complained about being treated unfairly even when they are given much more leeway then their opposition
What are you referring to in the article? All taxable income (which would include salary) is public information in Sweden and the majority are unionized and do talk about salaries.
I’m not a SAFe consultant. I’m certified but I consult on a lot of things: Postgres and application performance tuning, DMARC deployment, pipeline automation and organizational process.

I’ve also never certified anyone in SAFe professionally. The principles work but I’m not a believer in adopting it strictly in organizations. Instead I observe and recommend improvements in existing companies once I understand their dynamics.

In many cases, aspects of SAFe are effective recommendations.

Whether you formally follow the PI Planning approach to get everybody together or you find a better fit for remote staff, letting your devs plan 10 weeks at a time instead of 2 is beneficial for everybody. And cuts down on a lot of every 2 week meetings to support it.

And all I’ve shared is my own experience. I constantly see straw men arguments against it posted.

When you scrap the SAFe with Scrum approach and replace it with SAFe with Kanban 90% of the ceremonial meetings go away.

Most devs I talk to don’t even realize there’s supposed to be a backlog that they prioritize without having to consult the business side of the house.

There’s no question that the anti-SAFe crowd has legitimate gripes with bad environments. Their concerns aren’t any more
valid than the concerns of anti-Scrum proponents who have been in bad environments.

It’s trying to solve a hard problem but under the hood it’s just best practice after best practice smooshed together.

Get the scrum ceremony out and SAFe gets a lot cleaner for everyone involved. You’re basically just adding more ceremony if you use scrum within SAFe. If you use Kanban, you trade for much less frequent ceremony so you can focus.

SAFe instructors are taught WITH the scrum ceremony and IMO that is the root of all of the blowback.