skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if the intention is to divide, then in the alternate scenario where those divided are united, the question becomes united for what and against whom?
How imprortant is elixir in all this? Is it merely the frontrunner of a useful new pattern? E.g., do erlang, BEAM or functional programming play a critical role or will other stacks effectively replicate this and how are they doing so far, which would be the next more mature?
If I may ask, what happened?
> American is so rich and powerful precisely BECAUSE it maximizes efficiency and capital.

> I bet you also think that cutting executive salaries would somehow make major corporations like McDonalds be able to pay all of their workers a living wage. I would encourage you to do the math on that -- it literally never works out.

So what you're saying is that capital's big brain move is exploitation of the worker a.k.a maximizing efficiency? Why's the reasoning that the mom and pop store shouldn't be opened if it can't "afford" to pay it's workers a living wage but when corporations like McDonald's do it it's hailed as maximizing efficiency and capital.

You said it yourself: "paying workers a living wage literally never works out".

Not only is that not true (as pointed out by another comment regarding McDonald's in Denmark) you're admitting that part (at least some of) the "efficiency" is really just theft from the worker.

I find it hard to believe that that's what you're stating, trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, so what am I missing here?
Band: Bouts of Gout.

Song: I thought I broke my toe.

Album: The last 3-ish years.
AI Won't Cause Unemployment
It was added back to Prometheus.

https://github.com/prometheus/docs/blob/main/content/docs/in...
Because the cards are so expensive, you really do want them running 24/7. The electricity is not a big deal for these really expensive chips
I also got that impression, but was curious to know why. PE firms like Blackstone or large corps exclusively buying up 1000s of SFHs I understand. But why would HN take issue with small mom & pop investors?
"the Polgar sisters are proof that training is the key and not genetics"

Look, I don't have a dog in this fight but the idea that the Polgars "prove" that training is more important that genetics doesn't make sense. Evidence maybe, "proof" is just a silly assertion.

They were all born at different times and had different experiences and have different genes!

Here on HN folks are always going on about genes with confident assertions but the number of people that understand the difference between "heritability" and "genetics" seems to be very small.

"Football and basketball do have a "innate talent" component--at the highest levels the competitors are genetic freaks."

This is not a thing you have actual evidence for, and there are players at the highest levels of these sports that don't fit the mould of what you would expect it takes to succeed - it is too broad an assertion.
Surely you're aware that children and debt exist.
That’s what scares me. Putting in all that time and taking out all those loans to find out you actually hate it.
I live in a Western culture country and truthfully criticise stuff all the time. Be honest with us here. What ‘dissenting’ opinion about a hot-button topic do you hold? Because it really feels like you’re talking about some people calling your opinions stupid online, but you’re generalising / exaggerating it to the point where you’ve deluded yourself into thinking that it’s equal to censorship enacted by an authoritarian government that has a habit of disappearing people. The mere fact you’ve written this in the first place, and the fact that you can write it at all, both proves you wrong and is a fantastic illustration of how deep inside the weird libertarian tech bro bubble you are. Get some perspective.
Because handwriting only requires a pencil or pen, and a medium to write on such as paper.

Contrast typing which requires an entire machine instead of a simple pencil or pen.

Note that as far as I'm concerned handwriting is different from cursive. We should absolutely teach kids how to write by hand. Teaching cursive as part of general curriculum, however, is a waste of time. Cursive is better relegated to being a hobby.
>i suggest thinking about the why behind the why. why did you get into programming? for me my why behind the why is "i like to make things"

thanks, this is a good clue

>btw: after 12 years doing software, much magic is also gone.
I understand that the magic goes away as you get disenchanted and gather an expertise around a skill. I think I may have put a bad title as it is not that I wanna recover that magic as much as transition into a state where I get things done without hating my guts. I am stuck hating software engineering maybe as a combination of my studies, the pandemic and plowing through 4 years non stop of sacrifices.

I just wanted to see how people in my situation got away from it, maybe not to absolutely loving software again but transitioning into a healthy relationship to it
I opted for surgery on my 2nd stone and it was a terrible mistake IMHO I should have tried to let it pass. The first was painful but not THAT bad. Worst experience I've ever had.

Now when I get a tinge of pain I immediately take Chanca Piedra and it seems to have helped for past few years, no reoccurrence, but could just be anecdotal & conicendental.
One of the reasons I break code down into smaller pieces ( microservice ) is to have fast edit and compile times.

The versioning hell is why so many went to mono repos. There is only one git version and that’s it.

Also what about runtime version difference and schema evolution?

So many thing come into play.

I would rather just buy the bullet and use protobufs with NATS from day one . No load balances and heavy expensive gke / k8 stuff

Then deploy of fly where I have regions with auto scaling based on metric feedback loops.

Then use nats client on all client to get geo physical load balancing out to the nearest region.

Then use their postresql multi Region. Cockroach multi Region replication costs big money.

I did like their tooling in Weaver though. Even the converged logging was pretty nice.

https://github.com/ServiceWeaver/weaver/blob/main/runtime/lo...
Same with HoMM2&3, I don't think we ever finished the hotseat game but spend countless hours on it regardless
The Universe Is Programmable. We Need an API for Everything
Did you try using a property manager? For me, it's mostly been hands-off relying on my PMs to manage all my rentals. Every now and then I will have to step in regarding an issue with a tenant though, for sure. But it seldom occurs, so hasn't been much of a headache for me.
This article doesn't actually support the claim that D'Nealian is faster than cursive. It just states the claim, without any references.

D'Nealian is intended as a teaching script, so the claim is dubious to me.

That said, I definitely don't write in stereotypical looped cursive. I remember that I did learn D'Nealian in school, and my handwriting today is something like a hybrid. The main improvement in speed for me came from the ability to write entire words in a single flowing hand motion, rather than having to pick up the pen repeatedly between letters. Cursive provides a consistent method for doing that.
I'm never sure what to do with this class of comment - it reminds me of guys who say they can't get a girlfriend because they're 5'8".

(Also, you forgot people whose parents are able-but-unwilling. This also sometimes makes some things harder than they would be, compared to, say, being given fistfulls of cash each weekend by your rich parents who have a sofa AND a bed.)
Man arrested for blowing up PG&E transformers in San Jose, police say
This is never a very interesting comment. Older styles of insulin that no one wants to use are dirt cheap. The newer and preferred kind is still under patent, and one can quibble about that but it was very expensive to develop and Eli Lilly & Co. just announced a monthly out of pocket price cap of $35. Other countries have different systems that cap prices, so pharmas try to take profits in the US. It's not a very good system, but it has produced a lot of really impressive drugs in the last 50 years. We can do better of course, but trashing any medical advance with a quip about insulin is just childish and boring.
This website just looks like an SEO farm.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you make the switch? I've been writing cursive since early childhood and "chickenscratch" would be too nice a word for what my handwriting looks like.

Every time I've tried to change to print, however, I inevitably get stuck on the fact that I write like a child for months and months before any improvement can be seen. It's just very embarrassing to hand someone a note that looks like it was written by an elementary schooler who just learned their letters.
This is easily explainable if you look at a whole chart for the past 5 or 10 years: https://tradingeconomics.com/hong-kong/exports

HK (and China) export always plunges in the month with the Lunar New Year Holiday. In 2022, that would be February, but in 2023, it's January, hence the large decrease. In fact, HK export this Lunar New Year is the third highest ever, only standing behind 2021 and 2022.
That looks like a good path honestly, any advice for my future career ?
Huh... yea, i haven't really thought about doing urls via argument. I guess i just much prefer a single path. You've really given me something to think about though.
That was roughly my take reading the discussion yesterday. It's possible there is something that's been missed in the criticism, but I haven't seen any compelling evidence that this is actually decoding what we visualize (in the sense of the actual visual) and so the SD angle is just a gag.

Problem is, people see the article, don't understand what it means, and start parroting it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35023642
Intelligence Without Brains
Did you found those IPOs and acquisition startups? That’s very impressive if so!
Exactly this. Real estate is highly localized, and economy has a lot to do with success/ failure. The folks who do well are specialists, and disciplined to be able to surf the ups and downs of any market condition. I second that it would be a cursory curiosity. Plus the home shows have done this ad nauseoum
while i dont find that conclusion unbelievable at all, that article excluding fox news is a smell to me, not gonna lie
Ford’s self-repossessing car patent is a nightmare of the connected-car future
OK, they are approved for the first two primary jabs. Comirnaty, and the bivalent version, are not yet approved for any booster jabs. Those are still under EUA.

And booster jabs are about all that has been happening for years. Same for Moderna.
five kind of "men with some weird weapon instead of arms" doesn't look all that interesting.

I think it would have better reaction if it was steampunk instead of outright "random future things in universe of magic"
Can noise to signal ratio be reduced infinitely with larger radio telescopes? What if an advanced species built a light-month wide radio telescope network?
I am not gonna drop the degree, I am close to the finish line. I'd just like to take 1 semester or even a few months off and try to get from hating coding to a neutral place.

>I'll add that the professional environment might be a welcomed change of pace and you might enjoy it more than studying, so go into the internship with a positive outlook.

Thanks, I will try to look at it this way
> She

It. It's software.
That was an overly simplistic and silly take. But there is a kernel of truth to it that has always bothered me a little.

I've started four startups with two exists and two failures. In every cases there were deals that, if they had come through, would have have pushed the startups to huge success. There were were also deals that, if they had not happened, would have killed that startup.

If you are skilled, you prepare. You plan contingencies. You are ready to take advantage of any opportunity that comes, but after that, a lot is outside of your control and comes down to luck.

The line between success and failure is often razor thin, but the world does not see it that way.

If you are an inch over the line you are a success; a role model. You are expected to share the secret to your success. If you are an inch behind the line, well maybe you had better go work for someone else and let the successful people talk.

Many successful founders give terrible advice, and many failed founders have fantastic insights.
Does anyone know if you can drink something to reduce the size of an existing stone ?

I know it’s likely a “no”, but any novel treatments on the horizon ? I’ve received EWS and it’s not fun, did seem to reduce the size of a big stone I had though, 20mm
> Now I'm not a rapist, and to the best of my knowledge nobody I know is a rapist, or a perpetrator of domestic violence, etc... But these are also things that can and do happen behind closed doors and are secreted away and swept under rugs — fair point

That's the difference between you and the police. The police do have knowledge of the crimes of their co-workers. They stand by and watch it happening. Often there is body cam footage of it happening. If you knew one of your friends was a serial rapist, and you've watched them raping people, and you had video evidence of it, and you did nothing, you'd be the problem.

The "Bystander effect" is a solvable problem. That's what training is for. Training is how doctors, EMTs, and countless others are able to intervene in a crisis. There are even specialized programs designed just for police. One example is EPIC (http://epic.nola.gov/home/) and another is ABLE (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/cics/able/). If an officer isn't adequately trained to do their job, then they have no business wearing a badge. We should be holding police to much higher standard to the rest of the population.
Better Rate Limiting with Redis Sorted Sets
Related video [1] Suspect was a software engineer at Zoox.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC8FnNafMq8 [video][2 mins]
Because the boosters are EUA. Most of us, including me, got the two primaries a couple of years ago.

BTW, this conversation thread is flagged and dead, so no one sees it. And, I'm not going to vouch for the root, because it really is off-topic.
fun story: friend of mine was interviewing at Microsoft Research in the early 90s and too many interviewers kept asking him to design a GC. Finally, he decided to go for it and sketched out the Boehm-Weiser GC on the whiteboard, to the dumbfounded look of the interviewer.

"ok, but you didn't implement free() - how does that work?"

"oh, free is a NOOP"

He got the job.

---

Also, another fun fact: in spite of being written in old school C, PostgreSQL uses automatic memory management in most of its code by using "memory contexts" and users rarely experience leaks. https://www.google.com/search?q=postgresql+memory+contexts
I don't think it's true. Nothing comes up about Dick and laetrile treatments. As far as I'm aware, he never visited Mexico.
A pretty naive question: what is the advantage of garbage collection over just reference counting?

It seems one benefit is handling circular references, but every time I've had that in Java or Python it's been a bug that at best leads to strange behavior.

Another seems to be that you can delay freeing up memory, but you could do that with reference counting.
Yeah hopefully not! But this wouldn't be meant to fully represent you, just a snapshot preview mode.
There is a formal, correct way to write characters, and common "cursive" doesn't follow it.

Reading handwriting isn't quite so bad as the stereotypical doctor's handwriting in the west (or is that just an American thing?) but it definitely takes some practice getting familiar with the differences.
I don't think anyone is using JLCPCB for the quality.

People use it because it's very cheap, good enough, and they have other services (assembly, association with LCSC that make it even more compelling).

In the US, OSHPark's boards are definitely better quality, but you can't beat the JLC price.
I really appreciate the design principles behind Cuis. Great to see it mentioned here.

I'm sure there must be plenty of people (like me) who have heard good things about Smalltalk over the years but haven't had much chance to explore it. If you want to dip your toes in the water, and if you agree with the following quote from Cuis's lead developer (Juan Vuletich), Cuis is definitely worth a look.

"Unbound complexity growth, together with development strategies focused only in the short term, are the worst long term enemies of all software systems. As systems grow older, they usually become more complex. New features are added as layers on top of whatever is below, sometimes without really understanding it, and almost always without modifying it. Complexity and size grow without control. Evolution slows down. Understanding the system becomes harder every day. Bugs are harder to fix. Codebases become huge for no clear reason. At some point, the system can’t evolve anymore and becomes “legacy code”.

Complexity puts a limit to the level of understanding of the system a person might reach, and therefore limits the things that can be done with it. Dan Ingalls says all this in “Design Principles Behind Smalltalk”. Even if you have already done so, please go and read it again!" [0]

[0] https://cuis.st/features
Amazing how much drama that can happen around failed operating systems that no-one cares about beyond a few diehard fans.

Similar thing happened with RiscOS, where weird small companies fought over scraps rather than open-sourcing and benefiting everyone. AmigaOS (and RiscOS) was amazing for its time and still has a lot to teach, so for it to be locked behind such nonsense is a pity.

Am just glad that the various people behind RiscOS did actually manage to get it together and open it properly [0].

(Still sad that Magic Cap got swallowed by IV, never to be seen again.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_RISC_OS
> All you need is for one silly person to assign the C# query to a `var` beforehand and then the behavior's wrong.

That would cause a compilation error. `DbSet<TEntity>.FromSql(FormattableString sql)` [0] does not have a string overload. Therefore, if a user assigned the interpolated string to a SQL query to a `var` beforehand, then there would be an implicit conversion to a `string` [1] which will be a type mismatch for the `FromSql` call. The user would have to assign the interpolated string to a `FormattableString` instead of `var` for the program to compile. There is also no implicit conversion for a `string` to a `FormattableString`.

There is a `DbSet<TEntity>.FromSqlRaw(string sql, params object[] parameters)` [2] method that explicitly documents that it is vulnerable to SQL injection.

> You-the-user can make C#'s safe, you-the-library-developer can make Java's safe.

You-the-library-developer can make C# safe.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.entit...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.entit...
>It seems to be the same people that were convinced NFT's were going to be big that are backing it.

Not at all. Most Nostr proponents are Bitcoin maxis that generally hate NFTs. They are groups of people that are more aware of the limitations of freedom of speech and free markets on a constantly centralizing internet and aim to solve the problem.
> Also communication with less educated people (in my company internal docs and code are riddled with mistakes in both languages)

...but you are still able to make out the meaning without all that much difficulty and without much of a chance of misinterpretation, i.e. these language are quite robust in the face of transmission errors. How does this work for ideographic scripts like Japanese Kanji or Chinese? When people make the sort of mistakes made by those less educated people mentioned above does their writing end up similarly readable, i.e. are ideographic scripts similarly robust in the face of transmission errors?
IMSI catchers should be made illegal in general.

If they want data from mobile users, ask the telcos, they have all the data in their logs. Except for some minor edge cases, using an imsi catcher is only beneficial to the three letter agencies, if they're doing shady stuff and don't want the telcos to find out.

Also, with any matter of surveillance, where a mass of personal info is gathered, everyone involved should be notified about the data collection in some reasonable amount of time (eg. max 30 days, unless the courts prolong it for 30 days more and have to keep manually prolonging that), so everyone gets a letter "on date X. y. 20ZQ, a police investigation done by XYZ gathered your data from X hour to Y hour in location of cell towers QWE and WER, where the following lines from the log have been forwarded to the agency: ..."
RAM chips already use weird numbers of bits all over. For example, DDR4 has 3 bits for chip select, 2 bits for bank group, 2 bits for bank, 18 bits for row, and 10 bits for column. This change wouldn't affect them in any meaningful way.

And in the old days you had arbitrary numbers of address bits too, based on your chip size. I don't see any problems.

Besides, RAM is generally a bunch of chips in parallel, so you could use our world's chips with no change. For example, put 6 on a stick instead of 8.
Similar background, and I think it goes beyond an explicit "ends justify the means" analysis. Most of them think they are the Avengers, and anything they do is definitionally Good and Patriotic because they are the one doing it.

And in most cases, the good they are doing is quite tangible while the downsides (especially around due process, privacy, and other non-tangibles) are often quite abstract.
This strikes me as a political problem more than a technical one.

Few politicians will put their neck on the line to promote a major educational overhaul, besides maybe advocating for the banishment of certain material. And few parents would support an overhaul of our education system for fear that their child would receive a subpar education while we work out the kinks of our new system.

In terms of alternative academies that exist alongside traditional ones, many people will express concern/dissatisfaction with our education system, but when push comes to shove and it's time to go against the status quo and alternatively educate their children, it's suddenly a complicated issue with much nuance.

Many people will tell you that they want their child to be exceptional, but their primary fear is that their child is not normal. And a good way to have your child be perceived as not normal is to alternatively educate them.

If your biggest wish for your child is that they find success and happiness in participating in societies various rituals/institutions, withholding them from one of the most prevailing isn't a great start.

Additionally, the small percentage of the population who are willing to go that route is fractured across what they perceive as being the correct alternative.
> When I'm alone I kind of like... stop existing? It's made me come to the conclusion that our identity hugely depends on social constructs and our relationships with others.

Interesting. Would you describe yourself as more of an extrovert, or more of an introvert?
Doesn’t assigning properties behave differently? Spread creates a new object while assigning reuses the existing. Unless you mean creating a new object and then assigning the properties. I’d be surprised if that performed worse though. Also curious if the properties are primitives?
I just have one level and search function.

C-b s gets me graphical(via rofi + some scripting) searchable list of windows, in rare cases where I'd need tens of them.

But it took me a while to make tmux keybindings that are fast & convenient, screen defaults (aside from C-a that collides with bash/emacs) on keybindings are way better.