skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting because it counters the idea that someone has to be a jerk to get ahead. However I'm also not sure the study really examined the idea too well, and ended up feeling like it's the sort of thing that could be misinterpreted and overleveraged.

In my personal experience (which is limited) there's a certain constellation of organizational characteristics that leads to disagreeable individuals attaining power, and organizational "combativeness" isn't really it. I think "corruption" is closer, and good luck measuring that with a self report survey.

Then again, maybe the relevant issue isn't whether or not people who are jerks are more likely to attain power, it's than once they're there they're more likely to cause problems, and they're not less likely to attain power. So then them being in power is salient.

But then I think you have to ask, why aren't they less likely to attain power? Is this a case where a zero correlation is actually masking some mixture of processes, one positive in direction and the other negative? If so you'd think that certain settings would inhibit one or the other of those processes.

I guess I feel like this is a case where studying normative organizational dynamics in a cursory way could end up being really misleading.
Parnas was writing under an assumption of BDUF, big-bang releases, and expensive hardware instances. As soon as you want to decouple module deployments and accommodate changing requirements over time you need something else. That "something else" might be "making sure your modular monolith has a good enough test suite that any team can deploy it with only their changes" or it might be "microservices for all", but Parnas' assumption that independently verified modules will need to be built once by independent teams then function correctly when assembled has been comprehensively squashed in the last 50 years.

He's right as far as Conway's Law goes, though.
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I host my side project[0] on Fly.io using their "not for production use" LiteFS distributed SQLite database.

I'm currently still in the free-tier. But I'd be perfectly happy to pay for the product. It's super easy to use, and the happy path of the cli tool is well designed.

The various configs for the fly.toml file could be better documented, as could some of the more advanced cli commands like sftp and ssh into your machine.

I think fly really shines when you design your app intending to run it close to users. If you just want to host an app, there are other hosting products. But fly is particularly good at hosting and scaling into different regions and presenting those regions as a single app. Trying to do the same on AWS is messy.

It's also nice to see them investing in the database problems you get when trying to run at the edge. (Like the db being in one region, which defeats some of the value of running close to your users).

[0] https://packagemap.co/
Check out https://ghost.org/pricing/ it’s exactly what you are asking for.
I am religious and a practicing adherent. I am focusing on the negative aspects of faith and institutions which in the current political environment are quite apt. Try and be an academic and be a public supporter of Republicans. The cold shoulders are ice cold
It’s certainly appreciated by the poached employee!
What you describe could also be considered copyright laundering, but critically it is understood to be such—it is frowned upon and is penalized by the likes of Google. If we apply the same understanding to LLM design it might actually be half the battle.
Here in England, it seems, after coronavirus many shops on high street closed and were replaced by bank branches. But there's a tight competition with gambling parlours and Poundlands.
I have exactly the opposite problem though: the kind of problems I have worked on so far would not be "solved" by leveraging "large number of developers that can independently work on an equally large number of small, modular programs with a very well defined, concise interface".

And this is not because "my stuff is complicated and your stuff is a toy", either. It's more like "ERP or Banking Systems" were deployed decades ago, started as monoliths and nobody can really afford to rewrite these from scratch to leverage Microservices (or whatever the next fad will be).
(I am also not sure it is a good idea in general for transactions that have to handle/persist lots of state, but this could be debated).

The problem, in fact, is that "new guys" think that Microservices will magically solve that problem, too, want to use these because they are cool and popular (this year), and waste (and make me waste) lots of time before admitting something that was clear from day 1: Microservices are not a good fit for these scenarios.

(I still think that "these scenarios" are prevalent in any company which existed before the 90s, but I might be wrong or biased on this).
At PikaPods we have Ghost and WordPress to run with a few clicks. Comes with a subdomain, but can also add your own domain:

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> possibly under the distant influence of Jordan Peterson

Here's where you're going wrong.
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> You shouldn’t be using the system-provided Python for anything except system-wide tools

That does not sound like a user friendly programming language.

The version compatibility of Python is a joke and has been after 2.7 to 3 to. Which is the main reason I don't use Python for anything but bash-like scripts.
Most of the web developer world cared about an alternative, just ask any older FE developer after screaming iiiieeeee (6) when their pages failed to render to published standards in it.
I’m not sure to understand the point of setting up your own website in 2023.

I mean it’s a fun endeavour by itself but if the point is really to communicate you’re 100% better of using one of the numerous blogging / microblogging option.
> Now I know you're a troll.

Each one to their own. If this is the face and the conduct of the Linux community, then good luck I guess. Why take it as a personal insult that a stranger has a different opinion than you on GUI look and feel? I looked at your link, yes I know it is a complicated process.
How soon will this army get effectors? I don't need any mid-skill help in symbol manipulation; I could use it in meatspace.
No. You are completely wrong. See this: https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/. Please read it to the end.

You need to explain how the prior scenario in the link occurred without chatGPT understanding anything. Every response in that scenario displays creativity and imagination surrounding a topic such that the answers it creates can only be formulated if chatGPT had TOTAL understanding of the query, TOTAL understanding of what a computer is, TOTAL understanding of what the internet is and TOTAL understanding of what chatGPT is itself..

The level of awareness needed to create that inception loop indicates chatGPT and other models like it represent an inflection point in human society.

You haven't played with chatGPT deeply or read about what it has done. This is not just a trivial probability word pattern generator that we've been seeing in the past year. This thing comprehends what you are saying to a very deep level.
A couple of AI religions already exist (for a particularly extreme version see Roko's Basilisk) but it's hard to see any of them being particularly mainstream. You might perhaps see them hit similar levels of relevance as, say, Scientology, but probably not a major religion.
The government introduced a 'red tape cutting law' to speed up the process (also, it's remarkable because it's the first 'high profile project' in Germany I can remember that was finished in time).

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/klimaschutz/se...
Weather is not climate.
Probably worth doing now - eg the ‘Mum I lost my phone, this is my new number’ scam which needs nothing more than SMS.
> The Oxford Languages definition of disagreeable is:

General-purpose Oxford dictionaries are not the appropriate reference for a term from clinical psychology. Jordan uses the term "agreeableness", and, as its derivatives, adjectives "agreeable" and "disagreeable". If you consult psychology texts, e.g. Handbook of Personality Psychology [0], you will notice that what has been understood by it has varied: some interpreted it as conformity or compliance (which is more in line with the impression I got from Peterson), whereas others interpreted it as likeability or pleasantness, which is more in line with the title of the paper.

[0] - Its chapter on agreeableness is, luckily, available online at http://cachescan.bcub.ro/e-book/E1/580591/795-870.pdf
3D bio-printed avatars (in the sense of remote controlled robots, not icons) with arbitrary DNA, making it impossible to trust any evidence that any given person was at the scene of a crime or if trust their alibi saying they were elsewhere.

Or the same stuff but used for sex: Like DeepFake porn, but I suspect, much much more horrifying for the victims.
The west adopting social score ideas from China which is already sort of happening on a corporate level. This has to stop but we just keep spreading our buttocks and let companies / government sleep in our bedrooms.
I suspect the reception would not be ice cold at institutions such as Liberty University?
There are two things that people often misunderstand about Microservices - there is no single definition about what they actually are, and -- arguably more importantly -- there exists no single rationale about why you would want to move to Microservice architecture in the first place.

Take for example Gartner's definition:

> A microservice is a service-oriented application component that is tightly scoped, strongly encapsulated, loosely coupled, independently deployable and independently scalable.

That's not too controversial. But... as a team why and when would you want to implement something like this? Again, let's ask Gartner. Here are excerpts from "Should your Team be using Microservice Architectures?":

> In fact, if you aren’t trying to implement a continuous delivery practice, you are better off using a more coarse-grained architectural model — what Gartner calls “Mesh App and Service Architecture” and “miniservices.”

> If your software engineering team has already adopted miniservices and agile DevOps and continuous delivery practices, but you still aren’t able to achieve your software engineering cadence goals, then it may be time to adopt a microservices architecture.

For Gartner, the strength of Microservice Architecture lies in delivery cadence (and it shouldn't even be the first thing you look at to achieve this). For another institution it could be something else. My point is that when people talk about things like Microservices they are often at cross-purposes.
They are betting they can make billions of dollars while the courts screw around trying to decide the legality. They don’t care if it is legal; they only care about making money today. This is the standard playbook for big money these days: profit until the courts decide you can’t.
well, this is a surprisingly common case in my experience, except that the people were not "right out of high school" but "right out of a company funded seminar on microservices".
This is a masterclass in trying to sound reasonable while you gently, ever-so-gently introduce your intolerant trans-exclusionary agenda. Victoria Smith's other articles are all on a similar theme. She positions herself as standing up for a victimised group - older women - but only in one respect, which is her desire to exclude trans people.

I just don't understand why you'd bother except for intolerance - you can literally just listen to a person say "I feel like I'm a woman even though I was assigned male at birth" and say "oh ok" and go about your day.
A friend owns a vertically integrated marijuana business. His research says his company alone exceeds the state’s demand. Meanwhile he has half a dozen competitors of equal size and dozens of small operators who retail only.
> First, let me just comment on that comment by @conviencefee999. Kindly do your research before chiming into a discussion you quite clearly know very little about. I don't know your unique set of circumstances, but stating that one of the most viable career paths for a blind individual is not a viable career path is rather against the current and, as you yourself helpfully point out, anything but helpful. While it is true that the barrier to entry is still somewhat present, particularly for the age group OP is asking about, it can absolutely be done. Case and point being myself, as well as various others I know of. There are discussion groups about this topic, mostly in the form of the admittedly rather antiquated mailing list. An example is program-l over at freelists.org.

As a formerly blind and currently visually impaired person who programs, I'd even go so far as to argue there are some benefits to being blind. Humans are visual creatures, but computers aren't, and one of the stumbling blocks for humans learning to speak computer is wanting or needing visual representations of things and building layers of abstraction in part to deal with that need. We separate 'where', 'when', and 'why' a lot easier, I think.
In a business sense, absolutely not. Sure they could build it technically, but they'd lose money.

The issue isn't expanding data centers -- that's "easy". The issue is all of the software tooling, all of the gigantically massive platforms and services they have to not only build, but catch up to AWS/Google/Azure, all of which are moving targets.

AWS launched in 2002. Google Cloud (GCE) basically started in 2012 and only recently has finally mostly caught up to become a fully-fledged viable competitor, which took an entire decade. Meta would be too late to the party.

Sure they could launch something much smaller like a Digital Ocean competitor -- not a fully-featured cloud, mostly just servers and storage. But why would they? The margins are low and there's no strategic reason to do so.
Apple discontinued OSX Server because almost no one used it and it had very little value add. But also because they had discontinued any server hardware with the end of the XServe line.

XServe was discontinued because they could not compete in a crowded market selling commodity Intel based servers.

All of that has changed with Apple silicone, they are in a unique situation where they can compete by producing world class hardware no one else has access too with silicone processes that they have exclusive rights too.
Maybe ask why people are giving you a cold shoulder and what it was you said that bothered and why them instead of writing it off as "academia is against me?" Just a thought, do with it what you will.
Agreeableness/disagreeableness have specific meanings in personality psychology.

Agreeableness in the five-factor model (Big Five) doesn't necessarily mean being overly compliant; it can also mean being trustful or altruistic (trust and altruism being two facets of agreeableness).

The study uses five-factor terminology with participants completing the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and some also completing the NEO-PI-R, so those are the definitions to keep in mind here.
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Food costs have increased dramatically for a number of people, so the idea that car-free people were largely unaffected doesn’t really play out. While you could blame a lot of this on externalities like an ‘inefficient’ food supply, or people just not being happy enough with beans and rice, the situation is a real challenge for lower income earners.

Also, dismissing cars as ‘vanity’ items is likely not to resonate broadly. While self-branding is a thing, some people just genuinely like the cars they can and aspire to buy. I love the inefficient cars I own, and the vast majority of people who know me have no idea or interest that I own them. If anything, vanity dictates humility in my circles. I also get negative responses on HN for owning ~500hp ICE cars (although my cumulative emissions are lower than ever due to reduced driving.)
He taught clinical psychology at a university; whatever his shortcomings, he should have a grasp on the fundamentals.
In Japanese, image generation prompts are called “spells”
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I'm very anti-cancel culture but it's absurd to compare cancellation to death. Or to compare the West to communist China. Actually, that people make these comparisons is a testament to how good things are.
While there's increasingly good reasons to introduce basic income there seems to be little substantial movement in that direction.

I have a feeling that the reasonableness of basic income will grow at about the same pace as the power of workers will diminish. Not sure if there's a way to change that equation?

Introducing a very small basic income that is planned to grow might be a good way to go about this.
The difference here is that Putin considers control over Ukraine vital to Russia's territorial defence. Vietnam is far away from Moscow.
There's a BIG difference between being too lazy or stupid to question political sources of power and being threatened with criminal penalties for being smart enough to do so with religion. Not to mention, you usually don't vote in your clergy.
ive never seen that in practice. you dont have a database for each individual lambda. thats insanity. you can have multiple microservices point to a shared datasource, its not illegal.
You end up mastering a subset of the language. Typically whatever you use at work or in your free time. Whether that subset is 10% or 90% is kind of up to you.

There was an old joke about everyone using a different subset of C++ but like most jokes it's mostly an over exaggeration.

C++ (and C) have amazing backwards compatibility and there is a strong chance that code written 30 years ago will still compile, link, and run as long as the dependencies haven't also changed too much (I'm looking at you Win32, X11, Motif). That gives you the time to migrate code bases over time without the fear of being left behind and unsupported.

Even if, for some reason, you were writing C++98 for the last 30 years, it shouldn't be too difficult to make the jump to newer standards. The biggest change, in my opinion, is lambdas and move semantics, and it's not to difficult to apply those to an old code base (if you want to) and start modernizing it. Some people say C++20/23 is a new language but the fundamentals of C++ haven't changed too much and I'd say it's easier to learn C++23 coming from C++98 than it is to learn Rust coming from C++98.
And as the middle ground, most reputable web hosters (the kind where you buy a domain with 50GB space on shared hosting that runs mostly PHP) have a one-click Wordpress setup. That way you have a base install up and running in five minutes, but can customize as much as you want if you ever want to. Doesn't come with preconfigured caching though, so maybe spend five minutes setting that up.
For example Twitter? Let me give you few counter arguments in the subsequent posts... (1/14)

or Reddit? oooopsie... I'm banned again.
This is my exact point - you have to join the institutions that support your political religion. As if 2 political parties can possibly encompass the entire range of reasons, and any supporter of one side is moral and just and the other is evil and immoral.
G is just 9-fold-sharp B, really
"Break things" is now dropped from the official company values ;) it is now just "Move Fast" along with "Focus on Long-term Impact"
why are you 100% better off using a platform that can censor and kick you off?
That would work iff the velocity and timing would be determined by the agility of the various fingers, wrist and arms; however, those only specify the limits of the possible and the actual velocity and timing largely represent the pianist's musical interpretation of the piece, and we don't know of a good deterministic algorithm for that - the best we can do is to analyze a large quantity of music (e.g. by a NN) to determine what that algorithm should be.
Yes. I would even argue that Privacy expectations should be much weaker than for the big centralized platforms.

Mastodon's instances admins have blanket read access to every post and message, even the "private ones", yet they are not under scrutiny of RGPD regulators like for example Twitter.
Are you sure those admins take good security measures, like storing backups encrypted, keeping their tech stack minimal and up to date, using safe configs?
Do you trust them for not reading and sharing your conversations?

Regarding the Fediverse search, it's even worse as you're supposed to trust the rest of the world for not abusing it and indexing the entire network.
Well, that's not how things works. With this kind of large scale systems you should know that if there is the possibility of an event, that event will happen very soon if not already. Either you impose restrictions or you accept the tradeoffs.
I don't know why you call it punishment. My plan is to use a similar machine side by side. I'll definitely go over the basics with them. And there are going to be some game floppies for fun. There are still 3.5 around and I can buy an external drive to write games in on my personal laptop.

Since this is the first computer he encounters, he doesn't have anything easier to compare with. As I said if he frustrates out then it's fine, I'll give him maybe a Rpi then, nothing big deal, but if he can grit through the initial period I prepare to teach him QuickBasic first and then C if he is interested, all about game programming. It was the way kids in the 80s learned programming and I think the only obstacle is his lack of interest/intelligence and access to easier electronics.
I'll play devil's advocate here. While we see stuff like this in sci-fi a lot, it's also an extremely common opinion that the Internet and constant connectedness we have have massively exacerbated anxiety, loneliness, and depression. We've also started to see large pushback against unfettered AI progress, and this movement will absolutely grow. Simultaneously, distrust of the silicon valley technocrats is likewise mainstream. When the early news for most people about neuralink is "tons of dead monkeys", most people aren't going to trust brain implants.

Also, don't understand the power that dystopian sci-fi like black mirror has had on people. That's an extremely popular show.
Did you have a common, centralized data store or did each and every microservice manage their own instance?

(Because this is at the same time one of the defining elements of this architecture... and the first one to be opted out when you actually start using it "for real").
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"I am not a robot" already feels like doublespeak if you ask me.
Reviving proteins from billions of years ago to fight diseases in human cells
"Evolution of CRISPR-associated endonucleases as inferred from resurrected proteins" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01265-y.epdf?shar...
Do type related programming bugs include null pointer errors? I also think this 2% stat is just complete bs. Anyway, this debate is over. Absolutely every top language designer has seen the merit of statically typed languages, if not for avoiding type errors then for making code refactorable.
Those boundaries also increase the cost of development. If you are institutionally incapable of enforcing coding standards such that you can't prevent juniors from coupling your modules, perhaps it's worth it. But there are more efficient ways to build and run an engineering organization.

The best place for such boundaries is at the team/division/org level, not team-internal or single dev-internal like microservices implies with its name. Embrace Conway's law in your architecture, and don't subdivide within a service.