skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I was able to use the website to sign up. I spent half an hour on their signup flow entering all the fiddly numbers, then got an email saying for some integrity reason my order was cancelled and there was nothing they could do.

I called support and they said the website just didn't like me and I had to sign up by phone, loosing the significant online signup discount. So I spent the next hour and a half repeatedly spelling things out with a phonetic alphabet to someone who only understood a specific kind of formal English before I gave up.
Defeatist? Elon is the one wanting to give up on this planet and start from scratch.

> And why is it the pro space people who need to stay on earth and save it, what about everyone else?

If we limit "pro-space people" to the billionaires sucking up all the oxygen in the room with their dick-waving, the "why do they need to save it" is obvious - they have the money to make a positive difference. Failing that though, if Papa Musk wants to blast himself off to Mars and die of radiation sickness, he's welcome to do so.
.NET and Java are hardly competition.

If you're the suit'n'tie engineer that is Corpo through and through you might not notice the baggage but from the outside looking in, both of those stacks have this sheen about them that is just too much architecture. Too many factories of factories of generators of memoized factories. Hell I even tried Kotlin, and got pretty far but it didn't take long to get smeared with some Java stuff.

Compare that to Go thats lean and you can write the code with nothing but a text editor and a compiler -- it's very compelling for non-Corpo engineers.

It's why I use Elixir and Nim - I can use both stacks with a simple text editor and terminal. They are built with that perspective. I don't have to fiddle around with MavenASPNetResource.xml digging into 14 different nested folders.

With all due respect to the thousands of man hours that went into these technological marvels, I just don't have it in me to dive into this kind of stuff again: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/c...

Look at it! And weep!
Significant portion of kernel code is written by FAANG, for example. There are other companies that also pay reasonably well. You can check some statistics of contributions to Linux kernel here https://lwn.net/Articles/909625/
The only thing this does is make people invent new slurs.
It depends on the actual numbers.
The death rate above 64 is much higher.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...

So one in eight could be massive exaggeration.
Are you saying people won't want to travel and won't need internet outside of cities?

Space is already paying for itself.
Probably closer to a Butlerian Jihad than a AI winter as per se, assuming something dramatic does happen
> Tesla is a famously consumer-hostile company.

The Tesla owners I know are all happy with their Teslas.

> whether he's just been lucky

Being successful once might be luck. Being successful twice looks like business acumen. Being successful 3 times is business genius.

Bill Gates was successful 3 times, so was Steve Jobs.

Being successful in three unrelated industries: paypal, rockets and cars, is very very unusual. The number of successful new car manufacturers from scratch in the last 100 years or so is about zero (Delorean, Tucker, Bricklin, etc.) which makes Tesla all the more impressive.

> Now he's waded into one of the most difficult lines of business

Harder than car manufacturing or making rockets? Twitter is nothing compared to that.
There's "overhead" in every profession: time spent in cars and airports, time spent in boring meetings, time spent writing grant proposals, time spent on the day job while auditioning, etc.

If you can spend 20 hours per week doing the thing you love, year after year, you're doing well.
What a gross way to put a surgery.
More recently, in an episode of Modern Family, Jay keeps discovering there are more floors on the hotels he's staying in, where he thinks he's on the most exclusive top floor only to be denied some service or other which is reserved for the tier on the floor above.
Regular people aren't buying ASML equipment either. Aren't customers of Maersk. Wouldn't buy A330. They benefit from their products every day, though. And yeah, regular people are increasingly using Starlink, especially in my country. Turns out even good fiber infrastructure is quite vulnerable.
Demand for manufactured goods on Mars is at an all-time high, but I fear still not enough to make the economics work.
> During the pandemic, knobs were turned. They continue to be turned. Where's the price stability?

well, it kinda turns out the market is so highly consolidated and inefficient (in a market sense) that a couple oligopolists control most markets, and they pretty much all colluded to increase margins at the same time.

the only knob the fed really has to put a stop to that is to hurt the economy so badly that people can't afford to pay it.
The losses certainly are not negligible, they're >> 10%.
Im not sure if Crystal had hit it's 1.0 release by the time they selected ruby for this project, other than a ruby-like repl, it seems like it hits all the marks
You lose all your followers. It's like going from blacklight@aol.com to blacklight@gmail.com. It's on you to go to you 1M followers and beg them to refollow you. The goal is to go from tmobile to verizon and your grandma can just call you.
OpenSSL is part of the OS as far as users are concerned. It's right there after installation, in /usr/bin/openssl and in /lib64/libcrypto.so.3. Applications normally just pick it up. And indeed it does not prevent applications from shipping it separately.

But, depending on the OS you're using, the organization is not necessarily well-funded. Even those who are and use OpenSSL (Red Hat) haven't caught this one.

I assume that you're not mixing up "OS" and "kernel", because adding more attack surface to a monolithic kernel is never a good idea.
Too much time thinking about how to prevent a 250g bottle from flying and not enough time thinking about how to prevent the 85000g accompanying said bottle from flying. Maybe a large airport like SFO should be doing 25k aircraft movements a year instead of 250k, since we're in a climate crisis, and should not support burning anything. I guess flying is the last resort.

The environmental impact of resource extraction and refinement includes its CO2 output, by the way, not just the effects it has on the immediate surroundings which you efficiently hand-waved away. And maybe LA doesn't have as good handle on things as you think[1].

[1] https://theconversation.com/los-angeles-long-troubled-histor...
Perhaps it’s about responsibility. It’s not the compilers fault if you chose to compile and run malware. But you could blame the compiler if it ran malware during the compilation process.
I'm guessing the reason you waited 20 minutes is because you know a call isn't a casual form of communication these days. I think people would say the norm should be that after 10 minutes you text the parents. In most case you will get a response sooner and if the didn't pick up you wouldn't be left wondering if something went wrong or they just dont pick up unknown numbers.
I am really surprised that there haven't been even more malicious packages distributed in the past couple of years considering the rise of cryptocurrency. Seems like a determined and malicious actor could score big by targeting the more popular wallets.
Asked to see the books. Level with co-founders and make a logical decision. Funding seems to be harder to achieve currently
For sure, but the point is that breaking that cycle is sometimes the single most important thing to focus on.
> current high level, highly distributed world

That's one area it's well-suited for. Also in error-handling and prevention, and in refactoring, and configuration management. All personal pain points for me previously.
Why should this decision not be left up to the mother?

Why is this unethical?
Do what allows you to afford your hobbies.
> Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components

I don't get it. Bridge is open source does not imply it should relies upon open-source components.

> Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library.

Why building an IMAP library from scratch instead of fixing/forking go-imap?
Even a temporary fix to go-imap when you are developing gluon?
Another repetitive work which does not guarantee the mentioned issues will be resolved completely.
CERN is backing CentOS Stream

https://mobile.twitter.com/passthejoe/status/144693144711837...
Launch rockets where, and for what?

If you want to do science, then I wager it is better to do more of the work on Earth and head straight for your destination, avoiding the Mars gravity well entirely.
corporate backer/owner on oss project is a bit different from a language as far as scope of users. and to wit minus java (arisen from its oak roots at a time where c/c++ were the primary alternatives), and golang, most languages don't have a corporate oss backer imo [1], at least not one in pole position over the language vs other contributors.

[1] perhaps Erlang, but that seems dated as a ref to its origin versus contributions and expanded field of endeavor.
It is important to understand that "the western world is conspiring against us" is a major tenet of state propaganda in Russia, China, Iranian and other totalitarian countries.

Moves like this only serve to confirm it.
Interest rates make things requiring financing (cars, homes, stuff bought on credit) more expensive and out of reach. People either buy less, or buy the same but pay more interest, meaning they have less money for the next purchase.
haha but then I have to learn the entire .NET / windows ecosystem which is a huge jump considering i've only ever developed on mac/linux. I am using wsl now though

and running circles won't matter because for most web apps the DB is usually the bottleneck anyway
If someone is looking after my child, I have their number. I block calls from unknown numbers adn and some prefixes, and silence calls from numbers not in my contacts. This is pretty normal I think (because of spam).

I've only once had the problem that someone from the school used their personal mobile to call me and didn't get through, but I was already calling to let them know I'd be late.

There's no reason for parents to be able to contact you socially unless you invite it, but surely you should contact them from a school/shared number?

I'm suggesting this not for the sake of others, but for your sake. Given that people will block unknown numbers, I would think using a known number makes your life easier.
> Understood what it was but either didn't have a CPU with a built-in TPM, which is a fairly recent feature, or didn't have a motherboard with a TPM socket.

Or, like me, understood what it was and realized it is not what they want on their machine.
I wish that were the case for me. Most calls and most resulting voicemails I receive are from scammers.

It's frustrating because all we'd need is some way to trace calls back to source providers and then let us apply client-side filtering akin to UBlock Origin. Easy.
What are you talking about? Look at 27 seconds into the video. Many of the zip codes are wrong.
Oh, so they meant neither the lifetime of the device nor the lifetime of the offering... That's messed up. Small claims?
Imagine sacrificing your health and time with family for Twitter of all things, and then doubling down on it publicly.
There are many communities in a huge military force, and obviously there are many Catholics too, both devout and lapsed.

I don't think I could characterise any of the USN leadership (O5 and up) as at all left leaning, though they have obviously travelled widely and generally worked with people in far flung places, unlike other branches.
How hard is it to learn only the modern part of C++ coming from a high-level language world?
Plots that devolve into madness as if you zoom in too close? Finally the programmers get to experience electronics class.
> Zuckerberg's biggest mistake - forgivable though it was - was not building a mobile phone

But he did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First:

“The HTC First is an Android smartphone released by HTC on April 12, 2013. It was unveiled on April 4, 2013, as part of a press event held by Facebook. Serving as a successor to a pair of Facebook-oriented devices HTC released in 2011, it was the first and only Android device to be pre-loaded with Facebook's own user interface layer, Facebook Home”

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

“Facebook Home was a user interface layer for Android smartphones. Developed by the company then known as Facebook (now Meta Platforms), the software was designed to be a drop-in replacement for the device's existing home screen ("launcher"). It provided a replacement home screen that allowed users to easily view and post content on Facebook along with launching apps, a replacement lock screen that displayed notifications from Facebook and other apps, and an overlay which allowed users to chat via Facebook messages or SMS from any app”
Chicago Public Schools are hiring, you'd pull in $90+K.
> there's very little evidence that it produces better software in the long term.

Have you used other software? 99% of it is dogshit.

> libraries were full of bugs and performance problems

This is a really wild claim to me. IDK about Scala, but libraries in Haskell, Ocaml, and Elixir are all vastly better than libraries in C++, Java, Python, despite a smaller userbase.
Yeah, that sort of thing is always nice. I think just generally being aware of these issues and having a Ruby person around goes a long way.
Lots of companies make money from the cash flow spread between interest rates and whatever their investment is. And when interest rates rise, entire segments of their business become fundamentally unprofitable. It's not just banks either.

Say a company buys a $100k asset, and they can use it to generate $10k in revenue. That's a profitable investment at 5% interest ($5k), but not at 10% ($10k). So at high enough interest rates, it's not economically viable for that company to expand. That lack of expansion has upstream implications, and can have a cooling effect on asset prices at broad levels.
All else equal I'd agree. But I'm perplexed why people spend a lot of effort on what seems to me like a purely philosophical benefit.
> So... why does Go exist?

Because it does offer an alternative to C/C++ for some projects that need to be fast while learning the language requires very little investment. And I say that as someone that has been criticizing Go for a decade. Go has its place.

It's absolutely faster than both Python and Node.js as a HTTP Server,produces faster tooling for linux/PC , it's easy to distribute programs written in Go...

It is not serious alternative to Enterprise Java development, but neither are Python nor Typescript.

However, I don't think Go's opensource ecosystem is comprehensive compared to Python's or Node.js and it is ironically due to how rigid the language used to be which impaired code generalization since it made polymorphism difficult before Generics. It also didn't have an actual package system for years. The Go team has had hard time understanding that in the past.
How exactly do rising interest rates reduce demand for food?

How does it reduce demand for gas?

This is what I mean.
Gmail's autocomplete already works great for this, and it will only get better over time. The key is to have a human in the loop to decide whether to accept/edit on a phrase by phrase or sentence by sentence basis.
This is an interesting problem for any kind of significant contribution made to a big project. To summarize, you seem to have some expectation that you would at least be notified when your past contribution is undergoing changes, with the intention to provide feedback at your discretion. Personally I find this expectation relatable and reasonable, but I'm not exactly sure why.

To counterpoint, it's pretty easy to explain why you might not have been pinged; if every engineer was pinged every time any of the code they wrote changed I expect they'd be buried in notifications. Also, whose responsibility is it to send the notifications? the org's? the engineer making the changes? This seems like a lot of organizational and/or social complexity that has no chance of actually being implemented.

Maybe the solution is that it's the engineer's responsibility to watch the code they care about. This model is better aligned with everyone's goals, but it highlights the lack of tooling to watch for proposed changes and manage your desired notifications.
I'm not sure that they would become much more expensive. While Microsoft is choosing to sell theirs for a loss, Sony and Nintendo are not and they both seem to be doing fine.

I also don't think that it would cause a landslide of games/gamers to move. E.g. The PC market is as free as they come, and Steam for all its flaws is the defacto game store.

Microsoft doesn't get to charge the 30% fee, but the games outside the store also don't get to use the XBox live network and the current developer support.

And again, while it's great that you get more help and support from Sony/Microsoft in exchange for the 30%, it doesn't change the fact that you're forced to pay it.
How healthy is it compared to regular bacon?
> is that people will cut spending somewhat

Why would people cut spending on food and gas? They need both to survive. That's what the CPI is made of.
Where does capitalism enter the picture here?
The worst torture I've experienced is when I want to use the screen on my phone during a call but the damn proximity sensor keeps blanking out the screen.
Are you suggesting that, before these sanctions, China was not putting 100% effort into industrial espionage because they had access to all of the tech, but now that they have less access they will be more invested in industrial espionage?

That seems kind of backwards to me. My read of the sanctions is that intelligence indicated that the presence of this tech was accelerating China's (largely espionage-based) development, so the policy answer was to reduce access to the tech.
> The second is, well, mostly annoying to me because of the vigor of its advocates far out of proportion to either its programming utility or its mind expansion characteristics.

Thanks to closures, map/reduce function callbacks in Javascript are extremely handy.

Please link me to something like a stackoverflow answer with "vigor" greater than this, I'd love to read it.
You sound like a comic book bad guy.
The resources are symbolic, but the messaging is terrible - "We fucked up this planet, but don't worry because Amazon and Tesla are going to ship us "lucky" people off to their interplanetary labour camps, for the survival of the species."
I'm one of those people. I've programmed in a lot of languages, but it wasn't until I was introduced to Go that programming actually become fun rather than more or less a job. Everything about the language just immediately clicked for me, and suddenly I wasn't thinking about the language, but rather what could I build (and I felt like I could build almost anything at that point).

Go is about efficient compilation, efficient execution, and ease of programming.
>Note that there's a number of deleted comments, and neither of us know what those say

Does that mean you get to just create a narrative? Dessalines is the closest in that thread with telling people they can use voat or gab if they want to use slurs, which at least implies some racism but that other dev Nutomic has a pretty inoffensive stance when he says

>If you dont like it, fork it. Stop bothering us about it, we will never fully remove the slur filter.
I realise now that I was not clear on my post. Using TOTP or second factor is useful for those heathens that insist in using cloud based service for password manager (I'm one). Not for local keepass/pass synced by syncthing/rsync/ssh etc.

I treat my kdbx as a single password encrypted backup of my bitwarden vault on my computer and external hard-drive.

I care much less about second factor if it's something offline on my computer than something accessible by a web interface to anyone in the world.
> Elon regularly punches down, not up.

How regularly? Examples aside from "pedo guy"? Which I think all, including himself, would agree was a punch down.
> So AI is already there, just that humans are for harder and tedious jobs ;-)

Increasingly less so ;-)
I'm wondering the same thing. It also looks like while Aegis is actively developed on GitHub, that hasn't materialized into a new release on the Play Store or F-Droid in 7 months.
I don't disagree, but you're, imo, cherry picking. Go started out as a language with many flaws for people outside of Google. The absolute awful GOPATH based dep management was made for monorepos, for instance. As time went by, they added unglamorous tooling and fixes that just makes Go a pleasure to work outside of Google, in more domains than originally intended.

Compare that with C# or Objective C.
> 1. Python is installed by default of pretty much every linux out distro out there.

If you can install a Python script you can install a binary, and you won't have missing modules or version compatibility issues.

> 3. No need to compile Python

Anything on a server better be coming out of your orchestration tools anyway...
There's been all sorts of improvements since then, reusable rockets, better PV, the list goes on and on.

Still doesn't make any sense because alternatives, like ground based solar and wind have also advanced considerably.

In fact, if you use the best available alternative source of electricity as the benchmark, it's regressed noticeably since the 1970s.
Also totally plausible. I had a TPM fail on me earlier this year (fortunately on a machine without anything irreplaceable on it), and it was enough of a hassle to recover that I'm just going to pass on using one for the foreseeable future.
That sounds like such a broken system.
I do not think there is always going to be a practical accompanying strategy for all things weighted impressions can return results for.

‘Intuition’ at times being extremely more practical isn’t a problem to me. But perhaps this is a weird concept for some people who see themselves fundamentally as a machine of reason; that the concept of intuition is simply a result of ignorance rather than a alternative viable method of process…

The important thing to me is that it is predictable, just like universal phenomena we cannot not explain where it comes from, yet can prove through repeated experiment to be a law; or moldable to command like with the behaviour of a paint brush we learn to master with our hand.
You can build wonderful abstractions in Go. Now even more so with generics being part of the language. I don't know where this is 'encouraged' but the language itself cannot do that - only engineering teams or leaders can.
Why does this name cause such a strong reaction in some people?
> Talking about poets, it's interesting that there's not many full-time poets in the world; most poets need a paying job (often in academia) to cover the bills

Why don't they release poems like songs? In South Asia, there are poetry concerts and it is a hit with the older generation who were exposed to more poetry before movie songs became mainstream.
Ok right, but the current Oculus model is $1500.
This has bene going for 15+ years.

One of my friend worked for an IT contracting bodyshop 15 years ago. He was a pretty good dev.

His company would occasionally ask him to "audit" interview processes for their clients. They would give him a new name to prevent client from "finding out". He would go through phone screen, onsite interviews. Then he would need to write up a report about the whole process, interview questions, who he met, who said what, etc.

They would pay him pretty decent money on top of his salary for it.

Of course, he knew what it really was, refusing to do it may end up costing his job, so he kept doing it.