skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on growth generally means taking on debt and risking large sums of capital on projects with the hope that it brings a return.

Some projects will work out, and some won't. When you're a company this is largely fine -- the worst case is that the company goes under, dissolves, and employees move on to new positions at new companies.

When you're a city, failure is not an option. Chicago officials can't simply say "welp, that investment didn't pay off like expected", shut down the water lines, and ride a golden parachute into the sunset while its citizens fend for themselves.

What's more, at the local level, the city's revenue is largely unaffected by successful growth-targeting projects. Any revenue that comes from GDP is largely in the form of sales and income taxes, which largely go to the state and the fed. So if a city is tracking GDP as a key metric they're in for a rough time. It means they're getting saddled with 100% of the maintenance liability of projects, and (usually) 0% of the revenue.

Unless a project is bringing in more citizens and growing the tax base, it's going to operate in the red no matter what. Most commonly, the project will be a road or highway that ends up displacing people, spreading them out, and diluting the tax base.

So at least at the local level, focusing on growth, specifically as measured by GDP, is a recipe for disaster (e.g. Detroit). I'd much rather my city focus on some other metric that's tied to sustainability.
Should probably be switched to the official project page rather than a subpage on an unrelated party website: https://www.nushell.sh/

It’s a lot better at introducing Nushell and feels like a proper landing page.
No one is forcing you to listen to or even use these tools. You are causing your own stress here.
I really don't want to start up a separate Linux VM just to open up a shell. (I already crossed out Cygwin / MSYS on the list because of performance issues...)
Benevolence that favours me, might not be particularly advantageous to thee
If the question is why a reload is not allowed to be handled by JavaScript, so you can fetch updates, the answer is that it's not mean to be a regular navigation event, but a hard reset that unloads the document and it's resources.

Some users use it to fetch updates even when they don't have to, but they still get what they want. A site that automatically fetches updates can be unreliable, so you reload it, which also let's you check your internet connection and the server. If reload would be handled by JavaScript you would have to close the browser and open it again to be sure.
If people were good about doing it by hand and keeping track of what was done to the box, and ensuring that changes only happen via the documented pipeline, then we wouldn't have a cottage industry of configuration management tools. Maybe you are an outlier and are able to keep good notes, but I think its obvious that the general population is not diligent enough.
It's also worth mentioning that the Steam Deck uses systemd as well.
Signal is American, they are are forced by the law to let law enforcements spy them [1]

[1] - https://www.aclu.org/other/surveillance-under-usapatriot-act....

If you are a foreigner and use Signal for your buisness for example, if you compete with an american company, they'll spy you

It happened in the past with Alstom for example:

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-07-14/Huawei-Alstom-A-tale-o...
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Lets not forget that simply using any given build system doesn't magically solve all the issues.

If a `make install` invocation gzips manpages instead of the package manager or distro hooks, then you won't have reproducible manpages unless the upstream uses the `-n` switch as well. This is just an example of many small and obscure issues that hide inn different upstream projects.
@dang, we need a URL change or merge.
1. If it's too hard to come up with an objective benchmark for AGI then we should rethink what it is we're doing talking about progress toward that's goal.

2. You could also rework this list and say that an AI which can fulfill three tasks even badly is one step forwards. An AI which can fulfill three tasks from three separate categories is another step, etc. But I think it's a categorical mistake to count progress in specific AI as progress in general AI, there's not a very good reason to believe they are in a continuum with one another.
Dang, this describes many interactions I've had over my life.
It's not an open or competitive market. It's a fractured, locality-heavy market that's actually operated more like a cartel in many (especially small to mid size) areas. You are never free to just buy a building and do what you want with it - the City has to vote, approve use, permits, etc. All of which conspire against a 'free' market in any sense.
As an example, of the ~30 or so large scale commercial buildings in my local downtown, there's a total of 3-4 owners. You only know this if you know the lawyers who put together the property deals, as each is hidden behind it's own management company and rented through one of 2 commercial real estate management firms (conveniently owned by the same 3 people).

There is no 'rush in to build', as there is no land at all remaining in the city to build new on - any construction requires demolition first. Again, permits, historic district permits, etc. all conspire against the newcomer.
I think we’re talking past each other. You’re talking about getting the lagging sigmas of the distribution on today’s fastest retail computers, and I’m talking about advancements and discoveries that will require more than our current leading edge retail capabilities. Distribution of our leading capabilities will always be uneven, and will not push out an old computer at a 1:1 rate, so hard to measure via global mean/median retail computer speed in any middle or lower percentile.
I think a lot of them would pay a small amount to keep the cash flowing. They many not like it, but the leverage is on the platform's side until the audience moves.
Many of his supporters are in agreement! Perhaps becuase they have been influenced by the words of their not elite leader ...
I'd guess the engagement driven by high-profile users is worth a lot more to Twitter than $20/mo. It seems a not-good move to drive them away.
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You say "powerful", I hear "complicated".

If you're on Twitter and you get targeted by, say, Ben Shapiro, the horde that comes at you isn't trivially filterable/blockable. There'll be thousands of them, and they're creative; just like spammers/phishers, they make a game out of evading mitigation measures.

At volume, this is a very tough problem to solve.
I can think of lots of ways I would design a twitter that was a better user experience. I can't think of many ways that improve it while also being profitable. And that's the rub.
This will happen as with World of Warcraft - there will be years of talk about a "Twitter killer", and nothing will match that, but lots of alternates will appear. Twitter will be the Twitter killer as it fades away, not to nothing, but to a fraction of what it once was, still populated by some people that enjoy it, but will become less and less of a cultural mover. Which is really a good thing.
I really like the minimal design of Nicheless. I made my first post - https://nicheless.blog/post/learn-one-thing-well

Two questions come to mind.

1. It appears that url for a post is simply based on title of the post and not connected to the user. Wouldn't this mean that no two posts can have the. same title? As in if smoother user tried to write a post titled "learn-one-thing-well", they can't?

2. One of the reasons I keep my personal website+blog is because I'm wary of services that offer a nice place to write and then write a blog post "It was a great journey..... but now we got $$ from VCs or company X , so Byeee.". Nicheless looks very nice almost wanting me to suppress that concern, but it still is a legitimate concern. Do you have any thoughts for users like me?

Cheers on a nice project! You must be very proud of your work!
Switzerland is but one country, but so is China. To claim that authorianism is "more efficient" based on one single example is not a very strong argument (and even there - while I won't deny that China is very efficient in some respects, it's also hard to deny that it is and has been doing poorly in many other respects).

As for Switzerland's moral failings (you could also cite WW2 and Nazi gold, and a couple others), they are well-known, but so are China's (Maoism, Tibet, Tiananmen, Uyghur internment camps, and so on).
> But we already have a "public town square": it's called DNS, Domain Name System, and it's great. With about $20/year you get "verified" and everyone knows you own "foo.com", or .whatever [1].

A public square is "an open public area in a city or town where people gather". DNS is far too abstract to even remotely resemble a public square--just like "capitalism" or "zoning laws" are too abstract to resemble a public square.

Nor is foo.com a digital public square (just like your house isn't a physical public square). Public squares (digital and physical) are places where people already gather.
When the shortest path lies on some sphere around the singularity where the circumference of that sphere is “quantum scale” but chords passing near the center are not.

In the 2D example, is there some area where quantum effects happen in an annulus rather than in a disc because that central stretched region is “too big”.
As long as you can get documentation and development tooling.

An MCU costing a dime is useless if all the documentation is only in Mandarin and it requires proprietary tooling including porgramming/debugging dongles that work only for one specific PC configuration. And that you need to buy/download from some obscure vendor website in China.

That's very much why you don't see Chinese parts in Western designs much. Cost per part is not that relevant if the component is impossible to do R&D with and/or support it long term. Microchip still sells even chips like 16C54 - 25 year old designs. Is the Chinese vendor going to be here in two years? And for how long are they committing to supply their parts? E.g. the first SiFive RISC-V micros are obsolete and EOL already ...

Also, the Qualcomm/ARM dust-up is not about microcontrollers (Cortex-M) but the higher performance cores. Those are licensed differently. So even if the Qualcomm claims were true (a big if!), they likely still wouldn't apply to micros.
Thanks for writing it, though.

Maybe our brains need idle time between intense bouts of thought and flow. And if that bit of writing doesn't contribute to, say, a certain 50k novel challenge for the month, well--now it's really wasted!

Let's go create something today. Or nothing. It's totally up to us.
STOP! DON'T CLICK SUBMIT! DID YOU INSTALL GRAMMARNAZI?!!?

No, the adverts are going to go in your private posts and messages, so you have to see the advert before you get the message.

Like this one.
The Veteran Affair's legacy system is still written in MUMPS.

I believe the VA has poured literally billions over the last decade to fully modernize it. It hasn't happened yet to my knowledge.
which set of RFC's is "xmpp"
Yes it is more advanced, but actually if you just think of the nix configuration language as an advanced JSON then that goes a long way in making it feel a lot less awkward IMO. Attrsets are basically JSON objects, and your final configuration is basically a huge, merged attrset.
Just to be clear though: are you kicking them off, or telling them to go fuck themselves? Because your comment above indicates that you wouldn't kick people off for simply having different political opinions.
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This was my grad school mentor's main advice to me. I'm a quiet sort of introspective, very deliberative person.

He told me that I would have a very difficult time in my field because of it. He said to expect to feel like I was constantly trying to struggle uphill, just because I am a very introverted person. (educational consulting and leadership).

Ooooo boy was he right. I hate it, but being extroverted would've 1000% helped me early in my career to make connections that would help me later in life.

That being said, I wouldn't trade who I am for the world, and understand that, while I may never make it rich and form a massive consulting firm, I can do good work for the people I do help. And that's okay with me.
Zucc knows what he's doing. No investor was ever going to love the $40B capex on metaverse, they would happily ride the Facebook cash cow into the ground and suck the life out of the company dividend by dividend. Zucc just doesn't care about the quarterly reports, he's going to execute on his vision regardless.
> It does not work universally. It won't take long to find a bank / FAANG / service provider that refuses to accept anything but a bona fide mobile SIM talking to a base station.

How does a SMS sender know this? Is there some mechanism in SMS to only deliver if by certain criteria?
I mean, I think it's relevant still. My time to move on from this particular instance might be different than someone else's, and there may be people out there that did not hear about that particular story. Personally, I feel everyone should have the opportunity to make their own decision on what I believe are poor actions made by a company.

We do it every day, whether we realize it or not. As a people we should support the companies that do good, and we should be aware of the companies doing bad. There's room for grey in there, it's not a one size fits all. But if you aren't aware of the bad then you aren't informed in your decision making.

If it bothers you, sorry. But I see it as a pro. I had a really bad experience with Remarkable, every time it comes up, I point out my experience so that others who might be making their own decision can use my experience in their decision making. When a company performs poorly. I guess by the metric you've provided above, this would be a low effort comment by your definition.
I think the issue is when everyone has a platform, not everyone is heard. Loud, controversial minorities win over other content. The critical thinking level of the global population, on average is terrifyingly low. We forget this in engineering circles.

There's also the issue of accepting that what we find distasteful, offensive or horrific is a cultural artifact of the time we live. Generally accepted common sense today would've had you at the gallows not that long ago.

I think the only way forward is with compassion. Compassion for people who hate, who are racist, who think the world is flat, who have views that we can't stand. These people are maginalised BY us. Their opinions do not reflect cultural norms, and our varied norms fail to co-exist on a global level.

Compassion. Tolerance and kind acceptance of those we dislike. We don't have to agree, and we should certainly control those that do physical harm to others.

The rest is compassion and education as the river of culture winds around.

If we can't build that into a system, the system will just be either a repeat of Twitter or echo chambers of toxic agreeability.
Exponentially less.
Decentralized, signed and/or encrypted messages. Search and topic management done on different providers. Use Activity Pub. Bridge to others - at least to read/view.

Been working on something but it's not ready to release.
I'm truly sorry to hear that you are disappointed. And I really do get it! The full story is long, but I can sum it up with: our number one request, by far, is support for more languages. Even since this release, we've still gotten requests for yet more not yet available.

The hope is that an open source extension system will make it much easier to add new languages and improve support for existing ones.

But, I also want to be really clear: if you aren't happy, contact us and we'll try to make it right. If you are willing, I'd also love to hear from you about problems and/or missing features. We prioritize requests from license holders over all others.
What if we let people design their own content filters? That way the platform itself doesn't have to. You can easily select popular filters from a marketplace and the number one option will probably be "hide hate speech" or "hide all politics".
> and supports bridging to other types of networks which aren't matrix-based

https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge/

Turn any XMPP client into that fancy multiprotocol chat app that every cool kid want.

> Signal, Telegram, Discord, Steam, Mattermost, Facebook, Skype

https://spectrum.im/

Spectrum is an open source instant messaging transport. It allows users to chat together even when they are using different IM networks.

https://github.com/louiz/biboumi

Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.

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I'm using all of those daily to connect to all my other accounts, Slidge is the most modern one and is having lots of features ported to the modern XMPP extensions.
Its very much down to your workload and how you want it to work.

Short answer: k8s/fargate/ECS/batch will do what most people want. Personally I'd steer clear of k8s until you 100% need that overhead. Managed services are ok.

Long answer:

K8s has a whole bunch of scheduling algorithms but its a jack of all trades, and only really deals with very shallow dependencies (there are plugins but I've not used them). For < 100 machines it works well enough. (by machine I mean either a big VM or physical machine). Once you get more than that, K8S is a bit of a liability. its chatty, slow and noisy. It also is very opinionated. And let us not start on the networking.

Like most things there are tradeoffs. Do you want to prioritise resiliency/uptime over efficiency? do you want to have batch processing? do you want it to manage complex dependencies (ie service x needs 15 other services to run first, which then need 40 other services) are you running on unreliable infra (ie spot instances to save money) do you need to partition services based on security? are you running over many datacentres and need the concept of affinity?

More detail:

The scheduler/dispatcher is almost always deigned to run the specific types of workload that you as a company run. The caveat being that this only applies if you are running multiple datacentres/regions with thousands of machines. Google have a need to run both realtime and batch processing. But as they have millions of servers, making sure that all machines are running at 100% utilisation (or as close to it as practical) is worth hundreds of millions. Its the same with facebook.

Netflix I guess has a slightly different setup as they are network IO orientated, so they are all about data affinity, and cache modelling. For them making sure that the edge serves as much as possible is a real cost saving, as bulk bandwidth transfer is expensive. The rest is all machine learning and transcoding I suspect (but that's a guess)
The SA forums have been going since 1999.
GDP is a poor metric. Of course it's not going anywhere. They'll be measuring GDP 1000 years from now; but perhaps we have a better metric that gets the spot light instead. It's upon folks like nature to find the new metric. After this movement in 2014, there was a even worse attempt to use 'happiness' as a measurement but that sure fell on its face badly.

To me there are a few immediate problems with GDP that if addressed and measured may start showing a different picture of the world.

RAW GDP in 2021 for the USA is about 23 trillion; an increase from 21 trillion. You have to exclude unfunded debt. Which is roughly 2 trillion in 2021. Then you also have to exclude, NOT include public administration. So a 4 trillion shift. We are roughly at 15 trillion.

Then you also have to exclude inflation; which at these measurement points was roughly 7%. So we're about 14 trillion from the original 21 trillion.

So in 2021, the claim was 6% gdp growth, but true GDP was more along the lines of -30%. This is shocking, but mainly because we're looking at a fake 21 trillion. So we would have to do the same transform on the 2020 numbers.

Basically what I'm illustrating is government deficit spending, real gdp, and public administration are some significant negatives to GDP.
> I'm starting to believe that accepting this is a key experience that comes along with being an introvert.

It seems so to me, too. Being introverted is simply less profitable than being extroverted, in a similar way that being good at creative stuff like art is less profitable than being good at logical stuff like engineering. Which is, again, less profitable than being good at social engineering and salesmanship.

If we view career (i.e. profit) as the primary goal in life, then most of us are probably sub-optimal in some ways.
1. Start with a simple tech stack you’re already familiar with though this will likely change over time
2. Build a few of your favorite features, either because you want to use them yourself or because you like building that kind of feature
3. Get your friends and family to use it with you
4. Listen to their feedback, or ignore it, and build the next few interesting features
5. Get your friends’ friends and family to try it out and give you feedback
6. Keep going as long as you enjoy the process

You may not end up where you set out to go, but at least you enjoyed the ride and learned something new!
> Those issues are common for almost all package management system

Yes, the situation's pretty bad. On the plus side, I'm increasingly of the opinion that "package management" is unnecessary; and usually just a symptom of having a poor build system.
The technical challenges are solved. It's not an interesting discussion to cheer for your favorite tech stack.

What's interesting is what value Twitter gives and what could a new platform target? For me, there's a slice of Twitter users that provide information, entertainment, and context that I can't get elsewhere. This could be something from a mid-level analyst re: market volatility or a college professor at a small Canadian university on Chinese politics. These people aren't consistent enough or polished enough to have established means of amplifying their opinions (a blog, newsletter, podcast, etc.) though they have so much domain expertise. Where do you find them? On Twitter. The low friction posting encourages them to share.

If I could get rid of the celebrities, the thought leaders, the self marketers, the low content hate, and the bots, and only be left with the above in a moderated environment I'd welcome this global town square.
Who would fund those, and where's the potential for outsized growth?
There's a great Dr. Seuss book called "The Sneetches" I think would help you to understand what's about to happen.
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1 hour is a fair measure in my opinion, the average commute time is about 30 minutes in the US:

> In 2019, the average one-way commute in the United States increased to a new high of 27.6 minutes [27.6]

Which would mean the reasonable "maximum" is going to be about an hour one-way. Some will commute further but it'll drop off very fast. You can actually see it in action if you graph house prices on a map around an urban area; once you are outside commuting distance from the center prices start going down. People will still commute to the edges of the metro, but the numbers who want to decreases.

And a train can create "pockets" further away by mileage.

[27.6] https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...
Well, it is a good point, since nowadays PowerShell is also cross-platform, and seems to have more features than nushell does.

Though the true reason is: I haven't really found the time to. Changing a shell is really stressful since you have to unlearn / relearn lots of things from muscle memory, and PowerShell's huge deviance from the rest of the POSIX-y world doesn't help. At least in nushell `rm -rf` works, the same doesn't in PowerShell.