skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think they're saying, somewhat facetiously, that they don't see dead people because they're aphantastic.

Yes.

> Phenomenologically, I'm not sure people typically "see" Jesus (Holy Spirit, et al) as much as perceive their presence or influence.

Not quite. Jesus is unique in the Trinity as being the fleshly form of God that can indeed be associated with a clear image, that people (at least at some point in history) were expected to see and hear. Accordingly, I have heard some (but certainly not all) Christians speak of "seeing" Jesus in a phantastic sense (sometimes quite regularly - even constantly), and conversing with Him at length in this same sense. That is beyond my ability to reason about, so I do not.

> if you can't see it, it's because God didn't want you to see it

Indeed. Learning of my own aphantasia left me feeling profoundly broken, and it was in a sense the subject of that original "bad trip". It was unsettling to learn that "everyone else" has some seemingly magical power that I do not, and I had developed a fascination with finding a way to "fix myself".

I've since come to consider my nature to be God's intentional creation, so if there is some way I am different from others there is certainly a good reason for it – even though I might not know what that reason is.
For anyone else interested in how each one sounds: https://youtu.be/QDIapC2_Ptg?si=BldfTZuMf3DVnmIn
Maybe they think they are. But they still have to live in the world full of products that are worse than they need to be. In a world that is spiraling into derpification all you can buy is crap that you have to then fix with more crap.
I work in Health IT here in Germany and for the past 3 years we've been "testing" those "smaller companies" for different parts of our business.

It's a mess. We've been paying them serious money for a product. We've never been warned that their product isn't finished yet or that we're the beta testers for the product they'll sell to other clients. Or that we have to invest our own personal and their time to fix their problems and talk to their useless support.

This has become a pattern and I'm done with it. We are slowly moving back to older and larger companies who actually do their work properly before they roll out products and updates.
Basically agreeing with you, I want only to add that I don't believe it was freer earlier - just people less informed.
Weren't the Philistines in the old testament the ancestors of the Palestinians? Meaning they were there first presumably, since the Israelites had to fight them to take the region in the first place
Ah I had assumed they proposed their own alternative compressed instructions without the alignment issues, but they're actually proposing more addressing modes and adding instructions which operate directly on memory. That makes sense I guess.
William Osman and Allen Pan commented on it in a recent-ish podcast, Allen used to run a space.

Basically, the politics of the situation is impossible. Maintaining a space like that costs an incredible amount of money and time. You'd hope that the community could pitch in together, but you always end up with a single person being the primary patron, spending their own time and money, while others abuse the space and the machines for themselves.

The only spaces that seem to have survived are ones that gets large grants from some institution like a university or local government, and therefore can be run like a business, with leadership and staffing.
Ownership and carrying a firearm is a legal thing here in US. While the TSA should have caught it, they are people that make mistakes. Other countries don't share the same laws but they should make considerations where travel is concerned, especially in a situation like this where it seems to be a mistake and it was voluntarily reported at the earliest reasonable time.

Granted, people should be far more aware of what they pack when getting on a plane, and TSA wants people to get "a wake up call", I don't think this is going to have that effect. Unfortunately I think the wake up call that will come from this is, if you're in the same situation continue to conceal it or dispose of it secretly to avoid this nonsense.

A more reasonable approach, considering he voluntary reported the mistake would have been too confiscate it for the duration of the stay and then return it upon leaving the country ensuring it's packed properly for air transport.
I was speaking of the US, yes. I should have been more specific.
I'm not a fan of electron either..
It reminds of old Ruby anecdote. There was this guy on a Ruby conference with t-shirt with ":s*x" print, which for rubyists means "s*x symbol", but regular people will read it, well... colon s*x.

(Censored because I'm at work and I'm afraid of my VPN.)
hyperloop was only ever a sketch of an idea and a competition.

there are lots of valid criticisms of musk but thats just a cheap shot
Its a lot easier to do when you own the hardware design and drivers
This writer really doesn't understand that functions and types are themselves objects..?
Buying beeper probably would have been better then? Apps already exist and iMessage is supported. https://www.beeper.com/faq#how-does-beeper-work
Presumably this includes much of the software team as well although I don’t see them mentioned.

Given the number of layers of management I see on LinkedIn, it seems like they could go through a serious flattening and housecleaning and still have a substantial team that could execute on the right vision.
Disagree. My criticism of him - my ardour has cooled very much - is that he's as much of a political weasel as all the rest.

I think his calculus was bang-on to avoid taking a Brexit position. He probably captures the anti-Brexit vote by default, whereas Brexit support was strong in the labour heartlands (and he can not afford to antagonise that base - they flipped improbably blue just to support Brexit). By doing nothing, he's made Brexit an albatross that the tories must wear.

Everything I've seen from him suggests that he's a canny operator. He's been very anodyne in his economics, because the only thing he can achieve by setting out his stall is to alienate. The voters he's already got aren't going to vote harder.

His strategy is to be "not tory" and his tactics are to not prevent the tories from making blunder after blunder. I think this is absolutely the right strategy and tactics. By contrast, the Lib Dems have much more work to do.
>So I could accurately say "English language is universal" even though there are countries where people generally don't speak English at all?

In math or formal logic, no. In casual english all the time.

Here is an example from the dictionary for universal, that's not actually formally universal:

(a) One reason for the author's success is that her novels have a universal appeal.

Obviously not everyone, even if they do read a lot of novels, would like the author's novels, or even the genre they are in. Some will also just hate them.

Or how about:

(b) Love and relationships will always be a topic of universal interest.

(c) Music is often thought of as a universal language.

There are of course absolutely people who don't care for "love and relationships" or are totally indifferent to music.

Or here's an example from a blog:

https://www.thelanguagegallery.com/blog/why-has-english-beco...

"According to statistics shared by Babbel Magazine, the English language is spoken by 20% of the world’s population. Apart from being one of the most popular languages in the world, English is also the most commonly studied foreign language. Before we learn how it became a universal language"

Note how they call it "universal" even though just spoken by 20% of the people at best.

In general universal in such contexts means "quite common or prevalent, within different population groups (even if the groups belong to a specific type)", e.g.:

"the Latin language (qua Medieval Latin) was in effect a universal language of literati in the Middle Ages"

"In a more practical fashion, trade languages, such as ancient Koine Greek, may be seen as a kind of real universal language, that was used for commerce" (note that the Koine "universal" language was just spoken in the regions around the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Middle East).

(both examples from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_language )
> Agile and related practices aren't about delivering increased volume of work but just about making the team more responsive to changes.

"Making the team more responsive to changes" so they can start "delivering increased volume of (often poorly specified, decided on the last minute outside of quarterly planning ceremonies because it will make the engineering middle manager look good to the CTO) work" has been my experience with agile everywhere I've done it.

Why would any publicly traded business pick a development model that _decreases_ the volume of changes?
Ask HN: Anyone lost a lot of money with NFTs/Cryptos? What's your story?
I remember 2 years ago there were a lot of posts/comments from people having significant chunks of their net worth (e.g. 3M$ out of 4M$) in NFTs or cryptos.

Were you one of them? Would be interesting to hear your story. Was it a wild ride for you? How did you manage? What are you doing now?
So leave.

I’VE had it with the hugely invasive spying tech pulls on us now.
Wow, it's clear who rules the west.
I suppose you refer to the relatively short period that Israel existed almost 3000 years ago? And we're just conveniently forgetting about all the people who lived there before and after that?
I find it baffling that this is so hard to understand. TFA talks as if there is a secret conspiracy to produce bad software, or as if everyone else is an intellectual midget that cannot produce any work competently.
> ' Just ask ChatGPT '

Yeah I heard that from coworkers. Lazy mind, yes. Read the doc, look one example, check one stackoverflow link and you will know how you make a caroussel UI component...

And please do not use it to try understanding some logic in your codebase. Try even less giving him a small snippet of the codebase, thinking it will magically understand what it does and correctly imagine what all the missing related code of snippet is and does. ( ! )

Most of the time I just wanna scream "use you brain". By the time he wrote his first sentence to the IA, I've resolved the issue, or at least have a clue. It is really infuriating because what more is that ChatGPT need a -minimum- precise request to be expected to give a useful response. When the request from the user is blatantly inprecise kinda like "help, thing doesn't work", I just feel bad for the IA having to deal with terrible communication, and for myself for having to deal with that coworker. Thanksfully when I am the one being asked help, I know the project, can look into the code, and coworkers can show me the issue instead of failing to explain it.

Yeah that is why I like programming, computers only accept precise communication, it is not "move that div on the left" but "move div by id X to the left of itself" 120px over 200ms with a linear speed".

Only once ChatGPT did better than my mind or google : someone was searching the name of a bank starting wirh the letter "o".

Your statement is correct, google replace a lot of my memory, maybe someone could call me lazy too.

Maybe ChatGPT will have his use for me one day.
On a flight back from overseas recently, I was impressed how the entire process was plagued by bugs the whole way through, from cosmetic to functional. Nothing to do with flight controls, as it should be, but little things like HTML tags printed on my boarding pass, self check-in kiosks failing for me and everyone around me, in-flight entertainment systems needing rebooting...

I figured none of these things stopped me from paying them, so they have no reason to fix them.

But like the PDF with the HTML on it--no one even looked at the output. No developer, no QA, no test users. Or if they did, they didn't care. They just shipped it.

I'd have been embarrassed, but since having a dev fix it would apparently be a net loss to the company, it would have been wrong to do.
If you measure productivity by how many features you can push in a week, Rails will probably win every time. I look at productivity in the long run. I have been running this product for seven years now and there's a lot of legacy business logic and cruft.

The Rails application was difficult to change (but easy to pump new things out). As the product matured, fewer new features were really needed so the edge Rails had was gone and all that was left was an application that was hard to change without breaking something.

Go's edge came in and reduced the server's memory footprint and was easy to maintain and make changes. If the Go code compiled, I was confident it would work (I never felt that way with Rails).

To answer your question directly: I didn't use any framework. My application only has two external dependencies: gorilla/securecookie (cookie encryption) and lib/pq (database driver for postgres).

I could probably do without securecookie, but I was hesitant to do anything encryption related on my own.

Everything else is standard library Go code.
This is so stupid and pointless. I love it!
Maybe if nations and groups of people would just stop trying to destroy Israel as a state and kill jewish people out of pure hatred, we wouldn't be in this situation.
My cats have been bitten by various insects more than once and are still not at all "scaredy" around them.
> They ought to pass a law that says you can opt out of all the cookies by pushing one button

That is already what the law says. Opting out should be as simple as opting in. So if accepting all is one click, rejecting all should be too. Every website which does not do it is non-compliant.

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is...
If you hit `.` in GitHub, you'll get dropped into a full IDE inside the browser. I've found this to be invaluable for reviews, because it lets you see the changes within the context of the entire file, rather than just seeing snippets. I'm much more likely to catch subtle design issues that way.
They're cannibals when they get stressed like this too, but where are the carcasses?

I agree with my friend who studies this stuff - they dissolved from an abrupt acidity change down there
It hasn't. Surfing the web without an adblocker is almost as bad as 20 years ago without Firefox or Opera and popups galore. Less immediate, acute security risks than then, more videos on autoplay.

There's no need for a 'GDPR' notification for non-tracking cookies. It's not even about the cookie, it's about the tracking.

What's 'ruined the web' (for many) is concentration of sites into a handful of mega-'properties' that seek to own their visitors and users. To say this is GDPR-induced is to propagate and amplify the lie.
The Georgian Childhood of William Hutton
Whether or not it is a legit legal military target depends on if it is being used for a military purposes and how "porportional" the military benefit of targeting it is relitive to the civilian damage targeting it would cause.

The idea that if someone converts a house into an ammunition store depot it can never be targeted ever under international law is just straight up wrong.

Of course how that translates to what is being done on the ground is very complex. Which is why numerically approaches are wrong - you have to put every incident in appropriate context to judge it
> Not at all. Even if that were true (it is for some vehicle classes and use cases but not generally), CO2 emissions are not the only car-related emmissions.

Please see another comment (don't want to duplicate the comments on HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37998960

> But sulfuric emmissions are actually cooling the atmosphere, so limiting them won't do anything good for the climate. And to stop global warming it would not be enough anyway.

Let's start ramping up sulphur fires then /s. I don't think this is a good option. I think getting a handle on shipping would make a quick enormous dent.

> Done: https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/carbon-border-adjustme...

It's only as good as it can be enforced. Last time I checked I can still get cheap crap from China made with the worst environmental considerations.
only side-by-side view, unfortunate for my unified view taste
Targeting an adult male audience and sex sells.

Why does Victoria's Secret revert course [0] from transgender and plus sized models back to models that society generally regards as sexy? Same reason (and Victoria's Secret mainly targets the female adult consumer).

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[0]: https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/victorias-secret-ditches-woken...
Please see another comment (don't want to duplicate the comments on HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37998960
From what the skin above the nailbeds looks like, the person probably has a retinol deficiency. Please get them some cod liver cans as well.
I was once investigated for terrorism by Special Branch in the UK in about 1996.

They came to my parent's house at a weekend to question me. I'd just happened to have gone home for the weekend to see my folks. I was running perhaps the largest warez site on the Internet at the time, so I thought I was super busted.

The detective sat me down and said to me, "What do you know about a plot to kill the President?" and I burst out laughing, mostly out of relief. He stares daggers at me and says "You're not taking me very seriously, are you Mr Charles?"

Luckily he did not detain me. We came to the conclusion that one of the hundreds of people I'd given an account to on one of my Linux servers had sent a death threat to president@whitehouse.gov. Apparently it contained information about the president's movements that was "not well known."

I never saw the email, but the detective called me on the day they were going out to pick Kushil up. I'd given him an account a few months previously so he could play MUDs and download porn. Seemed like a really nice guy. The detective read the end of the email to me over the phone, "Come get my ass you bastards," it said, and then had his address and map co-ordinates to his house.

Nobody ever saw Kushil again after that.
Germany is not a lone island. Central Europe countries like Poland, Czechia, Romania or Hungary are very much integrated into German supply chain.
The main critiques of Germany I hear are not demographic but rather have to do with problems in industrial and energy policy. Namely the failure to anticipate the shift to electric vehicles and the over-reliance on natural gas for energy.
That's a solved problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jBQKZ_mGg
>Yes it is easy to tell. The good guys are those on your side, and the bad guys are the guys on the other side.

If "your side" targets civilians on principle and has its
written in its pamphlets it will continue to do so(or wants to "rid the earth of _insert-people-here_" your side is a bad one. As simple as that.

Look at any war in Europe in last 100 years. At least one if not both sides will openly say one or both of the above.

Distinguishing good vs evil is not that difficult. Most people learn the basics around 3 years old. But many regimes make it their priority to convince us words don't have concrete meanings and "everything is the same". No it isn't. Nazis using gas chambers on everyone that doesn't fit into their plan or Hamas slitting civilians and children's throats in Israel on purpose are not the same as combatants killing enemy soldiers.

I could even excuse Hamas shooting their dumb rockets at Israeli civilians, if they made an argument they don't have better guided ones, and to have any hope of hitting a military target they have to cover an area, but they don't make such claims. In fact we all know if they had better targeting capability they'd attempt to target softer civilian targets like schools, churches etc (exactly like what Russia does in Ukraine). Not military ones. We don't have to imagine. They tell us themselves in their constitution.

There is such a thing as a right and wrong and I explained how to distinguish one from another in the parent comment.
There is no requirement to upgrade every year. While I agree with you, companies are dumb machines that respond very slowly to customers. Sure, they even started this by suggesting these quick release cycles in the first place, but consumers bought right in.
Even when you buy your own at retail, the network sends configuration details to you. And it's not just DHCP
And yet, people feel the need to take ads, that can be almost perfectly described as having the Midas touch, and feel the need to invent those lame phrases.
Unrelated to the general direction the comments are taking here, it's apparently not toooo hard to modify pants to extend their pockets. You'll find tonnes of videos by women on how to do that. So if there are pants that are otherwise good but have small pockets, that is an option.
most historic scientists lived far more brutal lives than all humans live since WW2 or so. Schwarzchild figured his radius while figthing WW1.

Instead of "middle class" i think their common trait was that they were educated , which if we go back centuries just means "literate".

To be honest i think the adage itself is not true, just popular BS.
Ah, so it's an airport simulator built inside Robolox. That's amazing.
Absolutely. It's pretty scary how little over the recommended doses you can go before you're in dangerous territory.
I saw an article recently that claimed Germany was going to surpass Japan as the third largest economy, aided partially by new arrivals. So I infer they’re pretty productive! Will try to find you a link.
Most of the comments are similar in nature, but I see the point.

Not seeing why my follow-up question itself was also downmodded.
Is it a case of being over staffed or is this the slow death of the company? Do they have the talent and bandwidth to really make a viable platform or will they fade into irrelevance? Didn’t they hire recently Lattner and the guy behind the AMD turnaround responsible in large part for the Ryzen line of chips Jim Keller?
Well, 90% of the people in my office are immigrants. Pretty productive. Obviously however software engineering has been a very immigrant-heavy industry in Europe for a long time. There's just not enough German software engineers to work the huge capital that it has.

When looking at more common jobs, it's quite hard to find a German when you pass by any construction site. In fact, I can speak to a good amount of the workers in my native language.
I don't want to say "there was something horribly wrong with your code" but "there was something horribly wrong with your code." I've worked on a lot of large rails codebases and never seen anything close to the performance numbers you're describing.

To each their own though. IMO Rails is significantly faster when it comes to being able to get a complete product to market with all of the trimmings. When it comes to specific programming problems here and there a lot of languages will be able to get the job done.

That holistic "get everything done well with a small team so we can be profitable" scenario is where Rails outshines most everything else.

Plus, if you're concerned about the runtime, just switch to JRuby.
Bummer for beginning devs who spin up Firebase without understanding the implications. (To be fair, it sounds like even Google leadership doesn't understand).
I think the previous poster is talking about cultural left topics.
Unlike loudspeakers, beehives do in fact grow on trees; this may make them cheaper for small farmers in Africa, even if speakers and a suitable power supply may be trivially cheap for us.