skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of the article here. I totally agree with you on this. There are definitely tradeoffs. However I think the risk of this approach is arguably better than the risk of having every team implementing their own IaC from scratch.

With the CSS example you can have a bunch of very junior developers using Bootstrap and Tailwind with minimal knowledge of CSS and get great results precisely because they don't actually have to change the CSS classes inside of the CSS framework. Junior devs don't make "1px margin shifts" as often because the framework has good margins out of the box. Additionally if needed any "1px margin shifts" that they do make could be enforced by linter or other code policies to happen as a new class, with visibility and limited impact, rather than a change to an existing underlying CSS framework class.

The same could be true for our infrastructure as code if we had similar prepackaged configuration mix-ins. It actually lowers the risk of junior developers making "1px margin shifts" because the IaC framework has sensible config mix-ins out of the box. Most modern IaC just hands the full API surface area to a junior dev, perhaps provides a few examples, and then hopes that they do the right thing with it.

I think modern frameworks like AWS Cloud Development Kit are doing the right thing by implementing higher level methods like `database.connections.allowFrom(service)`, which automatically configures minimal access security groups with the default port of a stack construct, etc. This prevents juniors from making mistakes like opening up every port to every IP address on the internet. However, I think we need the underlying infrastructure as code language to also gain an understanding of mixin methods and traits that can be reused like that, and it needs to be more general purpose.

The "CSS" analogy is a starting point for introducing people to this idea of building reusable resource configuration bundles and resource mutation methods that can be plugged into multiple infrastructure resources and reused, instead of having every IaC stack be its own special hand crafted thing.
Yes, it's easier to study just one language. But it limits your ability to make universal, language-independent, conclusions about the mind.
I think we’ve seen enough other decision-making from this crew to know that most of it was flippant, surface level, and bad. So this aligns with their usual modus operandi.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of vertical farming. Yes, some of the startups in vertical farming say that they can print money right now, and I am with you that this is stupid.

However I think the actual value proposition is different.
Agriculture does have very thin margins. The current approach is only viable by achieving scale through enormous monocultures.
Unfortunately this is very bad for the soil and the surrounding eco-system.
We try to mitigate this by using fertilizer, but this is a stopgap solution and it won't work forever.

One example of this is that there now exists a thriving industry for rentable beehives, because all the bees living in the areas where we grow food that needs to be pollinated are dying. So instead we truck dozens of hives across the country, let them pollinate the fields and then pack them back up for the next one.

We are currently forced into ever more complicated counter measures, just to keep the output we have. This will get more expensive until it ultimately just won't work anymore and output shrinks.

Meanwhile, vertical farmings biggest expense is electricity, which will get cheaper over time. It uses way less water, does not have to rely on huge amounts of fertilizer, can grow anything year round and can be set up in dense urban spaces so that the output does not have to be shipped all over the place.

This isn't better than traditional farming right now (and for some food it probably won't be for a loooong time), but the balance will steadily shift in favor of smaller, more localized agriculture. Eventually, with ever growing citys/urban areas, vertical farming will be more economical.

However that day is not this day and the startups that burned through their stacks of vc cash while drinking their own kool-aid deserve to crash and burn.
It isn’t independently copyrightable.

Its a mechanical copy subject to the copyright on the original, though.
Many companies expressly avoid Microsoft products, particularly given its well exposed history of embrace, extend, extinguish.
>It's not that you get N hours free per week if you don't need to learn English, isn't it? English-speakers probably fill those "English as a second language hours" at school with something else. So, all in all, more or less kids in western countries spend the same time in school.

The difference is, in my opinion that you don't have to care about other languages as hard as you have to care about english.

So yea, other kids can have french language lessons, but their life isn't kinda dependent on it right? unless they pick specific career

Meanwhile: tutorials, books (tutorials), research, discussions on the internet - almost all of it is english-driven,

business is english-driven, international communities around topics e.g programming, gym, etc, etc are mostly about english

then it is pretty close to being necessary
>The limit was 150 MB (I think per month? This was 1995, but even for back then, that seems awfully low…)

150MB in 95 was a huge amount.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Internal_deve...

In 2004, 9 years later the idea of 1GB of email was though of as insane

>Advanced search capabilities eventually led to considerations for providing a generous amount of storage space, which in turn opened up the possibility of allowing users to keep their emails forever, rather than having to delete them to stay under a storage limit. After considering alternatives such as 100 MB, the company finally settled upon 1 GB of space, compared to the 2 to 4 MB that was the standard at the time.

So yea, no surprise your host kicked you.

*I realize this is space versus bandwidth, but they do correlate. Your ISP at that time may have only had T1 connectivity
On some level it does seem reasonable for Universities to pursue their own goals, and let industry find or sponsor some means of training their own workforce
I think that might be a vast oversimplification of what a lot of people experience...
I was going for "set up some code once and don't think about it again" to maximise the odds of the idea sounding tempting.

Proofreading would set up an expectation on the part of readers that it -had- been proofread and corrected and therefore a commitment to perform a repeated "boring but important" task going forwards for whoever's doing said proofreading.

That way would likely lie either delayed transcripts or never getting to initial activation energy to provide anything at all.

So I think "add a quick bit of code to your podcast publishing workflow and a CAVEAT IN BIG LETTERS" is better to do first.

If it turns out enough people care about the transcript, doing it a more labour intensive nicer way later is something they can decide, well, later.

Shipping is feature zero, as ever.
> With great power comes great responsibility.

And in an environment where staff are a cost optimization and not everyone is a 10x coder or engineer, there will be individuals in power who are not as responsible as you would like.

So it's better to have a system where you limit one individual's ability to cause harm rather than amplify it.
> Making the defense aspect completely moot

The biggest defense aspect (for the US) is preserving supply in the face of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, not beating China in chip capacity?
Labour shouldn’t demand more money, because otherwise owners will automate them out of a job! Makes sense, but meanwhile, owners are frantically automating us out of our job regardless of how much we ask for.
My understanding is that Sapir-Whorf is not nearly as strongly favored as it was at one point, though?

And I see nothing wrong with saying something doesn't make sense. If anything, I find the idea that we shouldn't allow folks to express doubts on things as a terrible path to go down. I am emphatically not claiming that, because it doesn't make sense to me, it must be false.

In my post, do you have a counter to why I would not be able to distinguish two colors that I use the same name for? It is not at all uncommon to where mismatching clothes that are both blue, as it were. If asked to say what color someone's clothes are that are cyan and blue, I fully expect I'd just say "blue." As would the vast majority of people.

If that example bothers you, what color would you say the sky is? Noting that it typically has strong gradients that are clearly visible to people.
What about preparing for when the house of cards that was FTX crumbles?
I could have been the person that sent that email (but I wasn't). In college getting my CS degree in the mid-90s, I had a job as the sole sysadmin at a small in-town ISP at a company that had the ISP as a side-business of its main business which was embedded systems development.

The ISP consisted of two PCs running Slackware, a Livingston Portmaster, two dozen Hayes 56K modems and a single T1.

I would have been the person reviewing access logs each morning and would have noticed someone connected for 20 hours that hadn't been sending any traffic.

Yet, I don't recall every having to send such an email. We _may_ have auto-disconnected sessions after a period of time to let other callers connect, but I don't recall.
The history of the island is pretty much a condemnation of the modern the world - massive environment devastation, money laundering hub and finally a concentration camp for refugees.
> Worrying about censorship and job losses is so myopic my eyes are cringing just thinking about it.

Why?

I'm not concerned about censorship, but I am deeply concerned about the potential economic fallout. Why shouldn't I be? I would genuinely love to have one less worry on my plate.
Remember, the side that is banning water breaks in lethal heat for blue collar workers are the party that's here to protect the little guy from coastal elites!
BTW,

> 1) The recipient needs to download the app and sign up. How does the Payor know whether the recipient has Zelle app or not

This is not strictly true. You can still send money to bank accounts directly, but it's not instant.
If i'm stuck on an island during a world ending event SBF is not one of my desired companions
Composable Provider Pattern for Vue.js
Worth pointing out that we recently discovered an RCE in RestrictedPython that affects Redash: https://github.com/zopefoundation/RestrictedPython/security/...

This should further emphasize the need to isolate these tools and ensure they are only accessible to people who need them.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36815902
Something under the GPL is also copyrighted. The GPL is a copyright license.
It all comes down to motivated thinking and rationalization.

The pizza place doesn't sell peperoni I want à la carte, so I steal them. This is OK because I sometimes pay for food elsewhere.
Fasting increases insulin sensitivity, which in turn helps to prevent dementia. Fasting activates growth hormone, which in turn helps to heal damages that might lead to dementia. Fasting activates autophagy which eradicates marginal tissues, thus helping to prevent dementia.

So fasting has quite a few cards upon its sleeve and the effect is enormous. But, a therapeutic fasting should be done right and should include water, minerals and vitamins. So it's not quite a full fasting per se, it's more about creating the right conditions for an organism to reboot the broken parts.
I tried to leave a comment on the article but it's down due to the hacker news hug of death. I wonder if the author plays new games and what their opinion is on Diablo 4.

It's interesting to me that hacker news has become a place for this kind of niche content about old video games. Who would have known there is such a large audience that is willing to pay for magazine length / quality articles about the history of games?
$0.08-$0.12/word is the rate for a quality short story in a moderately respectable science fiction magazine like Clarkesworld or Asimov's Science Fiction.

This is also a generally-quoted rate for blogspam.

The blogspam rate will crater in response to ML but still I expect the short story to become a dead format. Many good ones will be written but there will be nowhere valuable to share or find them.
> Sorry, but if it's doesn't have abstraction it's not readable.

This is why i very carefully wrote "legible" instead of "readable".

> You get smothered in details. No forest, just trees. People will just create a framework that generates the file like Sass does with CSS.

That ... is exactly what i was suggesting?!
If you were spying, surely you wouldn't need that much area?
And if you were doing something nefarious, wouldn't you use more than one company to make the purchases?
This story and many others are captured really well in the Game Developer Conference (GDC) post-mortem talks, heartily recommended if you want to know about the human aspect behind game dev!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc
Jimmy Maher's writing on old PC video games continues to be some of the best around, at least if you are of a similar age to Jim. When the site recovers, I highly recommend reading his back catalog - one of the best collections of articles on 90s PC gaming I've seen. The site is especially great because Jimmy writes so well and he has obvious passion for the period.
It's referring to myself, and I know you'd never use that wording normally, I did it for comedic effect (specifically, to keep the phrasing in line with the preceding parts). But you know what they say about German humor …
What percentage of meat and dairy is free-range vs industrial feedlot-raised?
There's a more "dramatic" retelling of the origin story in a video titled Samurai Noodles "The Originator": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbb9qixsRQ
Yup.

As much as SBF and his crowd touted "effective altruism", it was really about nothing but polishing their own image to get away with maximally selfish aims.

Maybe the best solution is to compensate and relocate the people of Nauru, and build a penal colony there, with SBF & co as the first permanent residents. Let 'em eat phosphate dust
Interesting - thanks dahart (hi again!) for pointing out these references. They do seem to be missing in the Cornell report.
Corporations should have no business policing their citizens. Even in the forms of cutting service for non-business reasons.
Because it's not about building a Bunker, it's about owning an island nation.
Russian forces have been attacking civilian targets since the start of the war. We don't need newly-created sock puppet accounts on HN trying to justify their war crimes.
It probably wouldn't go underwater in his lifetime. I presume he favored that location because it's inaccessible without a plane or a large boat, neither of which is likely to be available to Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic raiders.
And yet, look what he's doing anyway. His concern about the dangers doesn't seem so deep in practice.
This farmer claims it's about 50% of his costs. There are more steps before it hits store shelves. And price-charged is necessarily over costs for any non-failing business, so 50% (let's say) of costs won't equal 50% of the wholesale price even before shipping, storage, and all the profit and overhead of those are factored in.

Plus, the same farmer said stuff like:

"After all, he says, he cannot raise his price on a box of asparagus by 50% just because it was cut on a Sunday."

Which makes me inclined to take anything he says about his business or this law with a grain of salt(ed & peppered grilled asparagus... mmm, delicious). Because that's both a blatant math fail, and a business-sense fail.
it does now :)
Towards the end of the article is this depressing nugget:

" Nearly one in five homes were purchased by investors in early 2023, including LLCs and other corporate entities, according to data compiled by real-estate firm Redfin of more than 40 of the largest U.S. metro areas. "
It's insanity (literally, if you speak to some therapists, but that's a longer story).

My thermostat automatically keeps the temperature at the temperature I set. How much smarter does it need to be? My doorbell rings so I can hear it an answer the door, like the fully abled person I am. My fridge keeps things at the temperature I set. Where are the problems these smart devices are solving?
I've never used Terraform. So HCL is the low-level language i talk about; what does a human write to generate it?
I already said he made many insane decisions. This is not one of them.
It's a problem across all subjects.

Out of necessity, academia historically selected for students who could learn from being read to just once without much context, and there was little pressure to fundamentally change the education format. It's very easy to better serve most modern students by actually designing the program for those students for a change.

Debates over this get muddled by zero-sum concerns. E.g. catering to the average student hurts the top performers; putting applications first replaces rigorous education with training.
So I take it you buy exclusively free-range grass-fed meat and dairy?
I love Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, I don't care much for what the genre has become though (Diablo 3/4, Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, etc). The genre of loot focused ARPGs really took after the worst aspects of Diablo 2 LOD end game. An extreme focus on grinding and optimizing builds to maximize your ability to grind, so you can get gear to beat end game content that is otherwise impossible, to repeat the process. The genre took this and ran with the concept and brought it up, but also kind of killed the simple parts of the game. A lot of older 90s / early 2000s games had this game first, that then maybe had this end game aspect which some communities played towards. But now the industry plays towards the end game aspect, and neglects the person that just wants to sit down and fight into the dungeon for a while.
I feel like we've seen this any time that the tools are new and powerful enough - the folks unburdened by hierarchical structure can and do move fast, so when there's a sea change they can get in there and do some good damage until the behemoths catch on and steer their resources towards shoring up what they perceive as defects (frequently identified as anything that reduces their control over any system or it's connected parts).

My hope is that things get faster and more chaotic as we move forward. The best stuff happens when the empowered are scrappy and in it for the love and not the money.
This sounds like a nightmare to me. With petrol, you just pull into a spot. Rare that you even need to queue. Extremely rare to have to queue for more than a few minutes. Once you're in, you're back on your way in a couple of minutes. No conflict.

Having to fight for a charger spot, and potentially queue for 10s of minutes, and then wait tens of minutes for your car to charge, and be ready to leave when you're told to... Nightmare.

Hopefully the situation will improve quickly. If not, my next car will be a plug in hybrid.
whoa there, you're forgetting the tan suit scandals, terrorist fist bumps and a couple of dick pic incidents. clearly both sides have their issues.
Setting aside the national security question, more broadly it's pretty insane that the USA lets companies hide who owns/controls them. When you decide to hang out your shingle and profit at the expense of the general public, I would say the general public has a genuine right to know who you are.

Reminds me of how Disney used aliases and codenames and shell companies and secretive ownership structures to buy up all the land for Disney World in Florida[1], so that sellers didn't know who was behind it. This should be illegal.

1: https://www.wesh.com/article/disney-world-beginnings/3780786...
Sounds very... altruistic
From my understanding the cost is in the technology and energy required. Essentially, you burn more fossil fuels trying to inject it at any level than the carbon you put in. And something like this couldn’t be run on renewables as is, you’d need a rather large amount of batteries which is so incredibly expensive at this point in time.

So cost and carbon output make geological sequestration impractical. However, when used for “enhanced oil extraction”, it easily covers the costs and carbon output worries. They wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t profitable, and despite the article’s claims they are not in the business of carbon neutrality.
This quote resonates with my experience playing Diablo (though as a teenager I definitely couldn't put my finger on it):

> One nice thing about getting older is that you learn what makes you feel good and bad. I’ve long since learned, for instance, that I’m happiest if I don’t play games for more than a couple of hours per day, even on those rare occasions when I have time for more. But I want those hours to have substance — to yield fun stories to tell, interesting decisions to remember, strategies or puzzle solutions to muse about while I’m cooking dinner or working out or taking a walk, accomplishments to feel good about. For me, Diablo is peculiarly flat; I went, I saw, I clicked on monsters. For me, it feels less like a time waster than a waste of time. I almost find myself wishing the game wasn’t so superbly polished in every particular, just to relieve the monotony.

[edit]

And it's not due to an inherent grindy-ness of Diablo either (as one comment on TFA suggests). I have enjoyed other games that were about as grindy before and since.
Startups are producing real dairy without a cow in sight
It’s some Dr Strangelove shit lol
Divorcing a smartphone in this day and age is counterproductive, given all kinds of useful applications they run, like photo/video cloud backup, banking, home alarm/cameras, solar panel status, and a long etc.

I think it would be more productive to find out your time waster apps, and divorce specifically those. Social media, messaging, games, and news are the usual time devourers, they know hot to push our buttons.
I don't see how that's relevant to the point.
Why on earth would it be illegal to pay people by lbs of produce at harvesting. You have to pay them at least minimum wage (including minimum wage at 1.5x after overtime hours kick in), but you can pay them the maximum of minimum wage -or- lbs of produce.

Not only is it possible, it's common: https://www.croptracker.com/blog/farm-labour-should-i-pay-my...
I would like to know the same thing. In the case of JPEG and similar schemes in particular, an impossibility result that isn't unrealistically narrowly scoped (again assuming non-adversarial user) would be highly surprising.
You should be able to edit it for another 15 min.
Yeah, when I was thinking about the hash, I thought of it as stuffing to fill the unused portion of the number that would look better than using zeroes.

TIMESTAMP010111101010101TSC "looks better" than TIMESTAMP000000000000000TSC even though they contain the same information.

I would drop the hash, it's deceptive.

I don't believe it breaks the monotonicity, though? I mean, it would if it weren't already broken. If you're taking the low 16 bits of the TSC, then a rollover in those 16 bits during the same timestamp will already go backwards. TIMESTAMP0...0 follows TIMESTAMPf...f.
It's so hypocritical, it's insane.

"Yes, we train our models on a good chunk of the internet without asking permission, but don't you dare train on our models' output without our permission!"

And OpenAI also has a similar restriction.