skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like chatGPT generated rubbish. And based on your post history (historically short comments, and then lately more longer-form content like this) I guess that is the case.

While I do agree on most of the points, the conclusion "Tell People That All They Have to Do Is to Not Listen" does not follow and is borderline offensive. Are you really saying that the solution to racism and discrimination is to just ignore it?

Here's some points I grabbed from ChatGPT.

Complexity of Speech: While the idea of 'just don't listen' might sound simple in theory, it does not consider the nuanced complexities of real-life situations. There are circumstances where hateful or harmful speech can incite actual physical harm or can propagate harmful stereotypes.

The Impact on the Vulnerable: Telling people to simply 'not listen' can be especially problematic for vulnerable groups or minorities who are often the target of hate speech. For them, it's not just about ignoring the speech; it's about navigating the real-world implications and potential threats that come with it.

A Shared Responsibility: While individuals can choose to 'not listen', it's important to note that platforms, corporations, and societies also play a role in moderating and guiding the discourse.
I marvel at Houses where walls are kind of an optional thing (the link to private islands)
Discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694154
> So would you agree with the statement that all attempts failed?

Yes, to the extent there were none, really. And if we consider all the regimes calling themselves communism, yes, sure, failed in every possible ways too, of course.

> you're mockingly

No no no, I wouldn't dare making fun of you / mocking you. I have no interest doing so and I would not find this funny. I'm sorry I made you feel I'm mocking you, in any case that was not my intent.

> There's a reason why communism failed all attempts.

You didn't address the hypothesis I exposed in my first comment and that I will restate: any regime calling themselves "communism" were set up by huge assholes using the noble name to call their totalitarian views and misusing the concepts to make it look more legit. Maybe they even liked the idea but still wanted the power.

I feel like I won't convince you and that's fine.

On my side, I haven't discarded the hypothesis that communism can't actually work. We don't know either way.
Yes! Their articles used to be famous for real scientific content, of which this has none.
Titanium is only the outer band. The back is glass.
> Each experiment will need ~$500

Woah, do you really need to spend this much on 1 experiment to get quality data? That kinda sucks
Given that the "First Amendment" is purely a US thing, and applies only to the Government curbing speech, I am not sure how much of this really applies anywhere else and in any other context?
A cookie used solely for counting anonymous visits without storing individual identifiers generally wouldn't be considered personally identifiable information under GDPR.

At least that's what I was told. Having said that, this is obviously a complicated and nuanced topic with a lot of grey areas. I guess it's a good idea to talk to a lawyer in any case.
FWIW, this has been one of the worst seasons for mobile phone sales in a decade. [1] It may be telling if the latest from Apple will change that or not.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/17/global-smartphone-market-to-...
What’s your secret for LinkedIn?

Everyone I know who’s ever tried Ads there has gotten little or no conversions at all, while spending a ton of money (LI advertising is expensive!)
Having had quite a few decades of experience with both (1) some of the bizarre things that computers with slowly-failing power supplies can do, and (2) the daily behavioral cycles of "normal" small children (between fresh-in-the-morning and bedtime), I have extreme doubts about any but the least-sensational claims being made in this area.
The 6502 Song [video]
I used to believe this - and even advocate for change - then I watched my children become teenagers.

There is truth to the idea that, whether due to life experience or brain development, teenagers struggle with proper decision-making.

I don't like the arbitrary nature of age cutoffs, but I would no longer support the idea of giving more political power to anyone under 18.
He says in the video that it is a "type of lymphoma".
Probably what's happening is I'm doing a poor job of communicating what I mean. To me if I say 'they aren't always right' that's enough and I have clearly articulated that Reddit can be and is on a regular basis, completely idiotic, absurdly wrong and all flavor of other bad things. But evidently not as people keep saying things like you just did.
Yes I agree. A phone should never be allowed to get unpleasant to touch. Maybe apple went to generous with their temp limit, or their sensor has too much play between devices.

But also some programs shouldn't be allowed to go full blast when they are stuck in a self inflicted loop while waiting for something (instead of doing actual compute). And that is what I meant with activity monitor. If such behavior from popular software was more obvious, CPU waster could be helt accountable. Maybe you may even delegate a program to only use a single core or only e-cores. But instead, I guess, we have to settle with a thermal limit of 30°C so we won't even notice if an open app eats through our battery in the background.
>...most heat escapes through the glass front and back of the phone, even though they have poor conductivity.

Some does, but given glass' very poor thermal conductivity (1.38 W/(m·K)), heat dissipation by the band around the outside is probably a very significant factor in total heat dissipation.
https://subgenius.com/hwbw.htm
The problem here is that a fundamental question has not been answered, and as far as I can tell, has not been addressed by any of these visual environments:

What does an algorithm look like?

Herman Hesse alluded to this in his novel _The Glass Bead Game_, but despite decades of discussion and work, no one has made a convincing pysical representation of that system.

I love the concept, and have made some moderately complex attempts, e.g.,:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1430644

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

it always devolves to screen size being out-paced by problem complexity --- one gets something of an inkling of this at:

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

Alternately, one can just break a project down into modules, but then the top-level view becomes the wall of text representation (albeit w/ nice lines or captured into pretty boxes) which one is ostensibly trying to escape.

I'd love to see someone succeed in this, and I've been using:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

quite a bit, and put a bit of money towards:

http://nodezator.com/
Bus rapid transit exists, is much cheaper than rail, solves nearly all these problems while making the infrastructure far cheaper (due to ability to climb grade, etc). They’re often lighter than trains, they can be much more granular (so you don’t need an entire train at low rider volumes), so the efficiency can be closer to a wash than people would like. Especially with trolley buses or battery electric buses (or BEST, the combination ones).
Ohh, I'll check that out!
i don't find all-in-one frameworks attractive at all.

the frontend/backend split is the easiest way to separate concerns, and ever since the first frontend frameworks i never wanted to go back to the old way of having them integrated.

the pros of keeping them separate are that i can often reuse the backend for multiple applications/websites, or replace the frontend while keeping the backend, and inversely, i can replace the backend if needed without changing the frontend, and therefore without affecting the user experience. i find this flexibility invaluable.

i also prefer to write frontend code in native javascript, although that depends on how well the transpiler/framework works in helping me find errors browser errors in the original code.

using an all-in-one framework almost always means that i have to start from scatch for a new project because the reusability is much more limited.
Starshield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Starshield_program
"You mean GNU/Linux."

:-)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721.
It's worth noting that the pattern you describe here is an emergent property of programming languages that changes with the era:

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Sadly, the culture of programming language choice in commercial contexts has changed a lot in twenty years, but you can replace python with rust or elixir because programming language choice is a good proxy to understanding insight, intuition, and intelligence.

I like python, but if the broad preference mattered, we'd all be running J2EE apps today. My reasons for choosing python around Y2K were as philosophical then as they are now.

Where your argument goes awry is that what matters is how the programming language catalyzes better interdisciplinary team communication. Code tells a story that, the easier it is to read, the clearer the story gets, and that pays unforeseen dividends in development, deployment, debugging, and distribution.

Computer optimization is straightforward by comparison to scaling human commercial endeavors.

“Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.”

― Donald Knuth
Depends which BMW engine you go with. I've got the N52 (inline 6) with 200k miles on it.

If I'd gone with the twin-turbo, I'd probably have thrown it away twice by now.
Derivatives are not the same thing as paper gold and conflating the two is just a sales tactic to push the oversubscription meme.

Paper gold is something like the gold ETFs where a share represents gold in the fund’s vault. If those were actually fraudulent in reserves, then you would have a point.

Every commodity that has a futures and options market will have a huge ratio of derivatives to the underlying. That’s the nature of producers and consumers locking in prices and speculators getting in between.
Modern management of side effects can help a lot, but it's not a surefire thing for any given patient on any given chemo.

When I did chemo, I had cycles with 5 days on - and I couldn't do anything useful during that week, or most of the next week. It was, truly, an awful experience. I completely understand and respect how some people can decide treatment isn't worth it and surrender to the disease.
The argument we're making is she should have retired twenty years ago, when she was "just" 70 years old.
If they didn't have badge data, they could monitor instant message/email and a million other metrics. I have no empathy. Engineers at Amazon actively work on products that track and monitor users. Its a bit ironic. This isn't some civil rights violation - its part and parcel when working for an international big tech corporation.
Sure, but the vast majority of those mods and alternative distributions are based on the sources that are available.

It is a bit like a Linux distro running Steam. Yeah, there are proprietary bits, but the FOSS part naturally happens on the FOSS parts.
Well, as long as Noone ascribes agency to the unwashed masses of eastern Europe, who rejected the antipode to American imperialism. That would be quite unmoral-relativistic. Honestly Chomsky political stances are by now casting in my eyes doubt on his academic works. How can someone who blatantly engages in American - diabolism be expected to produce differentiated results in linguistic research? The Chomsky hierarchy might have layers missed by him , for all I care.
You don't root OSes, you root devices. I learned that the hard way when I got a Samsung Z-Fold 4 and learned that the US version isn't rootable.
Looks like it’s designed to charge EV’s at 400kW. Perfect for racetracks which may need insane charging rates but aren’t full time charging stations. 5 super cars at 400kW each would normally take an insane grid connection, but you can trickle charge these with solar and or vastly smaller grid connections.
> Tracking to detect who is working and how many bathroom breaks they take—that's not the way to go.

Given the way Amazon treats their warehouse workers, I'm more surprised folks don't already assume they Big Brother their office workers in a similar way.
Thanks for this analysis. I feel like there is a big diconnect between what groups of people are assumed to be like vs what they actually do. Point 5 being the most apparent for me
RCV advocates miss the point entirely. It's not that people want to vote for third parties but can't. It's that the candidates that survive the major parties' primary elections have only to pander to their insane bases. In California where no-party-indicateds outnumber Republicans, the top-2 system is effectivley a Democratic primary.

Alaska has the right idea: a jungle primary where the top-4 advance, followed by an RCV general. RCV by itself doesn't do much. You have to weaken the primary electorate, as Alaska does.
If you don’t like it, work somewhere else. I don’t see much in the comments about voting with your feet. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this.

I do empathize, and a productive reaction is to map what leverage you have and what you don’t, and use that. Complaining online isn’t it
> This is only 15 years old. This treatment for people with this kind of leukemia.

Hank Green, the YouTuber, said that the thing he didn't appreciate until he had cancer was, how much you want the 40-year-old treatment and not the cutting edge treatment, because the 40-year-old treatment means that you have a cancer which is well understood and very treatable.
that's some reasonably nice severance
Significant compared to Elixir, alarmingly low compared to languages that truly made it. By the way, the moment when large companies start adopting a language is critical. For a language to make it, it must spread like wildfire inside those companies; if it doesn't, that's a huge negative signal to more cautious observers.
Yeah I agree it is quite invasive, and humans aren't machines. I have a coworker going through colon cancer and has to use a colostomy bag which takes time to deal with.

...Amazon would just fire him for wasting time in the bathroom. Still a great worker, just needs more time than the average. What a great future we are working towards.
This discussion is another great example of why HTTP without TLS can be just fine, even desirable.
No it’s not, that 100x includes cash settled derivatives.
My only doubt is whether you need to design a special "language" to store the queries/configurations. Wouldn't it be easier to leverage existing languages, maybe something like dhall?
>> Autopilots are very good and they are servoing to the pressure altitude.

It would have been cool to use a phone to record a GPS track with altitude and compare them. Pressure != GPS. Also wonder if there would be distinct jumps in the difference if they reset the pressure based altimeter to a different AWOS.

Not sure how it works in big planes, but in little ones you need to set your altimeter based on the local weather. The weather stations measure barometric pressure at their elevation and "correct it to sea level" you get this corrected reading over the radio and set it in your altimeter so your pressure-based altitude reading is corrected for local weather variations. Just going out flying for an hour the altimeter setting when returning to the same place might be off by a few millibar.
I don't believe anyone ever said that you can't charge for development. The only issue is that you're not allow allowed to limit people's right to distribute it. Once you already developed it and have given access to one person, it's up to them whether to pass it forward.

It's just like if you tell someone a joke. You can still claim credit for coming up with it, but not to stop its propagation.

In particular, you can still make money as a developer by asking for it upfront, whether from an employer, or patrons, or early access, or whatever model. Similar to how Netflix might pay someone upfront to develop a stand-up comedy special
IANAL too.

I'll certainly agree that this is an area where different opinions abound, and also you are much less likely to be prosecuted for this, so it's likely that advice would be that it's probably alright and you'll get away with it. But a strict interpretation of the law says that you can't use information gathered for a purpose for which the user didn't consent (or deliberately ask for, etc), even if you have it lying around because you collected it for a separate reason that is valid.

Regarding arguing that improving the user experience is a legitimate interest - I'm not aware of that having been argued and decided in court, but my opinion is that it is a hopeful misinterpretation of the law, and a slippery slope towards quite egregious data collection.

Yes, you can collect web site metrics without identifying information, for instance how many times are the different links on a particular page clicked on, but if you're linking one page request to another by the identity of the browser that is requesting them, then that is crossing the line.
Depends on how you mean 'track'. At our company, of course we always had badges and therefore there's some auditable trail of access somewhere. But it was never a tool that my management chain regularly used to check up on employees outside of an occasional anomaly. It wasn't until a 3-day office mandate that managers started receiving badge-in reports.
Thanks for sharing, mainly because I’ve felt like an idiot for utterly failing at marketing my tool (https://HeadlampTest.com) online to developers & testers. I get great results talking 1:1 in person, but nothing else moves the needle.

You’ve articulated the struggle better than anyone, and that’s very comforting for me. I mean, how hard could it be? Answer: super hard!

I haven’t tried hiring an offshore agency, but now you’ve got me thinking about it.
The answer is always no, please don't ask!
From IC to Management, tips and tricks on how to approach debugging in your software role
The MBTA is a joke at this point and it is going to hurt the city.

Parts of the red line run horribly slow due to signaling issues (no idea when that is being fixed). Those same parts are shut down on weekends and after 9pm (something like that, I don't know the exact time) and replaced with shuttles.

The green line extension has been great when it worked but its been a mess.

Taking the green line and being stranded in a tunnel with no updates. Eventually multiple if us just got off and took Lyfts to where we were going.

The new trains had multiple issues. The Fires and I am sure plenty of other things I am forgetting about.

I made a conscious choice to not own a car but I am finding myself spending more and more on taking Lyfts because it just isn't reliable. Then traffic gets worse and it is just a really bad situation.
You also have things like mimikatz - which is only a thing because Windows just stores user's passwords in plaintext in lsass memory -, pathetically weak hashes, pass the hash etc.

Catastrophically-bad-by-design authentication is a Microsoft staple.
I just want to point out that while you're being nasty, I do 100% want to tear down your system. Police apply tools like this to justify the policies and abuses they were already going to do. It should not exist.
MySQL is significantly better than when you last used it. We also add Vitess in the middle which adds incredible benefit. We run clusters at huge scale with solid reliability. A lot of the features you have enjoyed on the PlanetScale platform so far are there because of the power of MySQL + Vitess. I've seen some other vendors mentioned here but unless they have Vitess they have nothing close in terms of power.

If you have feedback or want to learn more about PlanetScale feel free to email me s@planetscale.com
You see, logical thinking doesn't bring us far in ethics, because it leads to "The biggest thing we can do to reduce our carbon emission is to cease".
I need this for waay too many tools, excited to see all the available integrations!
About your pain points

* The entire model of state with Genservers

Yes and no. They are very useful. Too bad that they insisted following Erlang with that handle this / handle that nonsense (sorry if it sounds snarky) instead of building a better abstraction for the usual scenarios of creating a de facto object and calling methods to mutate its state.

* Pattern matching made my code unreadable

Pattern matching actually made my code much mode readable. I had a large web app with less ifs than the fingers of my hands. I wish I had that kind of pattern matching on function definitions when I code in Ruby and Python for my current customers.

* Libraries that I needed had Erlang documentation

This is true. The point is that many Erlang libraries had no Elixir version. Maybe the new languages on the JVM had the same problem with Java jars.
Luckily translating from Erlang to Elixir is almost a 1:1 syntactical matter so it's usually easy to understand what a library does.

Edit:

> What if I want to scale a specific worker up/down?

Running BEAM inside docker was getting popular the last time I developed in Elixir with Phoenix. The project I was working on was considering to run the app in a Kubernetes cluster. We already had workers running in a docker container but I can't remember how we were spinning them up. Some service on Google Cloud.
I'm not sure about this. On one hand the idea sounds good on the other it raises lots of questions. For example, who will decide who is a "worthy load bearer"? Then once people are funded who will manage their workloads?

Also, I'm dubious the whole thing is actually needed in the first place. No examples of "load bearers needing funding" were given. DNS was mentioned, but what part of it exactly? Root TLDs are doing pretty well financially from what I heard by selling all the sub domains in their TLDs, so what are we talking about exactly reverse DNS? Things like .org or edu? These are funded by governments.

Network wise we have telcos paying for sub sea cables, Internet exchanges like the one in London are self funded (by connection fees). Routing is managed by same telcos and IXs.

What are these individual "Internet Load Bearers" that keep the entire Internet afloat without making a dime from it? Usenet admins? I might have paid to keep Usenet alive, but Google bought it all, didn't they?
Two that I know of, when I worked there:

- Amazon Device Econ modeling platform, for econometrics

- Amazon Tax calculation platform, for things like VAT

But more broadly, that’s how you develop software: you’re theory building.

1. Develop language and rules in that language.

2. Give them semantic meaning in a diagram and set of example cases.

3. Develop a corresponding type theory for that.

4. Implement that synthetic domain theory in a general type theory — eg, a programming language.

You don’t have to know that it’s topos theory to do those steps, but each is better when you’re explicit about them — and knowing how to guide the first step to get good results at the last step is definitely applied topos theory.
This sounds like it could be the real culprit: a random process soaking up CPU time unnecessarily (and indefinitely). Has happened on many a PC I've used, especially in a corporate environment where Monday becomes a flurry of background scripts and 'silent' updates that make me wonder why my fans kicked in browsing my email.

Hopefully fixable with a patch.
Doesn’t seem to allow people to express their natural feelings. RCV does. I absolutely have a favorite. And I want to be able to encode that. I also have a 2nd choice, and so on.

Imagine a case where I really really want one guy, and between the remaining two I have a strong preference for one over the other. RCV lets me express that.

Approval would have been stuck. Should I mention the 2nd guy? I do want them if it came to having to choose but I’d hate to place them on even footing with my top top pick.