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Ask HN: Is Go simplicity worth it?
This is clearly a subjective matter, so I'm asking for your opinion on the topic if you have one.

For high level programming, is the value of simplicity really that important, realistically? I'm talking about manifestos like the [grug brained developer](https://grugbrain.dev/) and [harmful.cat-v.org](http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/java) where most rants point at Go as a better alternative. From my personal experience, Go is very nice to develop in exactly because of the focus on simplicity, but I'm struggling to find a realistic use for Go. Want to build a web-stack? Modern tools like Next.js, web workers, supabase etc. makes this process very easy, even though you have to write JS/TS which does not value simplicity as highly. New tech like Blazor and LiveWire lets you ditch the API pattern altogether when all you want to ship is a website. These techniques can reduce complexity in terms of how much code you need to write and maintain by ditching the frontend-backend bridge, but might introduce more complexity overall by having to use, say, C# for Blazor which is ever-growing with complexity and over-engineering. So, is it worth still sticking to Go and go with the good old fashion backend API + frontend pattern in your opinion?

When it comes to low level programming and simplicity, I struggle to find use cases for Go since we are often looking for real-time and highest performance (which Go compiler prefers speed over optimization). However, I think I'm starting to prefer C over Rust after writing a little C and previously a lot more Rust. Because I simply don't see the benefit of kinda-but-not-really-guaranteed safety with a lot of added complexity and cognitive load over the simplicity of Go or C for general purpose development. I.e. development where safety isn't a priority, because then I think Ada would be a better fit with stronger safety guarantees, no?

And sorry if it's controversial. I'm not looking to start a flame war, but I'm genuinely interested in learning different opinions on the matter.
Lots of important info get posted in HN everyday without the fancy design that takes a lot of clicks and waiting times, so how could you assume it won’t make it to the front page?

This is why people need to stop using the “false dichotomy” card in every discussion. It’s so devoid of rigor in thinking and is always used lazily to frame another person’s comment in a paradigm that it wasn’t intended to be framed.
At least we get sense data to misinterpret
Most of those are consequences of it being illegal. Similar to how legalizing marijuana has drastically cut down on the illegal trade for it in the states where it's legal, you've actually just made a great argument for legalizing prostitution as a way to reduce human trafficking by pulling it out of the illegal ring.

The rest of those things are consequences of the economic system we live in, not the job it itself. I don't see people arguing for outlawing of electrician work because it draws in young people and is strongly correlated to physical health issues. The fact that people need to sell their bodies in order to survive is an established part of capitalism. Why then is the target of your banhammer specifically prostitution? Just because sex is icky?
No. If I don't pay my plumber after a job, it's theft (or breach of contract, or something along those lines).

If snatch someone off the street, drag them into my condo, and force them to fix my toilet at gunpoint this is kidnapping and forced labor - something I'm going to guess has a much bigger penalty than breach of contract.

Rape is analogous to the latter, not the former.
Most of the safety efforts are talking down to the plebs as if they're kids who'll definitely run with scissors if you give them some.

And it's wasting "safety" budget in that direction that's most likely to precipitate the DoomAGI. It's literally training the AI to be paternalistic over humans.
Look Mum no Computer did two versions of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlT7U0ILu4
In those kind of corporate environments liability is a concern, and something like MirageOS would be quite appealing.

These are the same kind of environments where CI/CD can only fetch from internal repos, where stuff only gets installed after IT and legal had a say on it.
> No income = free insurance

Depends on the location and various factors. It's not universal.
Yeah there is really no way to "do" grieving. I have been crying on and off late in the evening in recent years - but only with a few channels on YouTube I like.

I think it is a body based process ultimately so reason doesn't help. It seems that music really helps to move emotion.

Snatam Kaur has always been very helpful, especially when I feel more disconnected. Always come back to her. All her music is free on YoUTube pretty much. Here is one of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpWqulUgtk

I also love Trout and Coffee. Something about the channel, the family, friendships, nature ... his cabin videos are amazing. The music on his earlier videos has really helped me cope with those emotions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbZu4gXg-7w

PS: also one of my favorites is this channel "TABI-IE", really soothing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpWcZOPhFwU

I have noticed no matter how safe a person makes me feel for example Steve Wallis camping videos - I don't think I've ever cried while watching one of his videos. It's really the music coupled with something that feels genuine, that helps move emotion (but I guess this could vary a lot from people to people).
It all stems from the same culture of permissiveness and individualism. The shit in San Francisco’s streets, the graffiti, the needles, etc., is a physical manifestation of the city’s underlying cultural degeneracy.
I wish this were true. I am dying for the late 90s/early 2000s weird web design, as I am so bored of the typical boring website design today.
How big are the performance gains? I've got a big block of legacy code so I'm not as interested in the new coding features. But if it brings better performance I'll install it.
Believing X should be legal => you must be happy if your spouse is an X.

I would not be happy if my spouse were religious, therefore I must not believe religion should be legal.
The Effect of Piracy on the Tech Media Ecosystem
Interesting that GBP has a volume of 413 million and EUR 420 million, I would have assumed that EUR is much bigger than GBP, does anyone know why they are so close?
Also, interesting that the top conversion is GBP -> EUR.
Android security model does not allow root users. If you allow root users, you destroy the security model. GrapheneOS has people working on it that are real security researchers. You can't patch your way up into security out of shit foundations, the foundation being an user existing that breaks the OS' security model.

If you hadn't noticed, we get a zero click RCE on phones basically couple every years. That's the type of stuff GrapheneOS worries about, not whether its users can block ads, however nice that is.
Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video]
I found this video in another HN thread, and thought it was worth its own submission. It's a captivating talk about the computer chips we all take for granted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37724225
That seems to be a puritan mentality that you are not able to see the problem with this statement when applied to other types of work

I fail to see why sex work should be singled out from say factory work absent some religious based puritan narrative...
Why Americans Can't Buy Cheap Chinese Electric Vehicles
Scientists say mystery of how red wine headaches occur may be solved
You have to subtract interchange fees from that.
My general stance is to be more aggressive with antitrust matters than the US tends to be.

However, antitrust doesn't (and shouldn't) protect you from competition. Too often I see companies just do a really bad job and the leadership just sits there collecting a paycheck and complaining to Congress about [big bad company].

Yelp is the poster child for this. Arguably even Mozilla is guilty of this [1].

DDG ultimately is just repackaged Bing search results. Bing itself lags behind Google and has the resources of a trillion dollar company behind it. It's not just a question of how much money you have but how you spend it. Look at Blue Origin. Look at the Metaverse.

So DDG's upper bound seems to be however good Bing is and honestly Bing isn't that good. What is their path to improving? I'm not sure they have one. But I don't think Google's relationship with Apple is the core problem.

Back in the day, Microsoft got in trouble (rightly) for bundling the browser. That's because the barrier to installing a new browser was quite high. Here phone manufacturers give you a dropdown to change it (which I think they should be required to do, as they are).

Antitrust won't solve poor execution.

[1]: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Works fine for me in Firefox on Android.
> deleted all his real icons

Everything else you've described is amusing but if your recovery had failed, that's close to a fireable offense.
Strategies for making reproducible research the norm
Think Weyland-Yutani.
Wikipedia:

>4340 steel is an ultra-high strength steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4340_steel

The alloy composition calls for 0.2-0.3% molybdenum and expects accuracy to within a few per mille for ten elements. Moly is considered so important that there are entire towns in the United States established to mine it to secure the military supply chain.
OneWeb receives approval from Indian space regulator for satellite broadband
It’s never worth it to use anything other than Python. It’s just reached a point where even very complex problems are easy to “fix” in Python then “learn” in another language. I believe in 15 years all major companies will use it exclusively for web development.
To be fair, GP did say "revenue", not "profit".
That’s hilarious. I was once in a lecture hall with a friend who was a lefty. I forgot my mouse that day and was using my trackpad. But after break I instinctively came back, sat down, put my hand on my mouse and began driving.

He looks at me, my hand on his, on his mouse, and just says, “this isn’t pottery.”
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I think these should be installed in cars in such a way that they can be removed by owners. And then make removing it a crime.

In the foreign invasion (or US govt goes full fascist) case, people can remove these devices.

Meanwhile many if not most high-speed chases won't happen any more, because the person being chased didn't plan ahead.

There will still be getaway cars, etc. where the device was removed. That's no different to what we have now, and it'll be an extra violation to charge them with when they're caught.

Since driving is, and has always been a privilege and not a right, I don't see a problem with having a remote kill switch that cops can use in specific cases.
Genuine question: if grieving is, ultimately, thinking about the experienced loss, isn't melancholy the exact same thing, but experienced through rose-tinted glasses?
I've been to Lagos, pretty much every techie (working remotely) that doesn't have 5G or Fiber has starlink because they already have modems for the 6 providers in Lagos available to them.
The cost of manufacturing renewals doesn't seem to be accounted for. As example, it takes a lot of chemicals to produce batteries and electronics and it is unknown what happens to the waste in the manufactoring process.

We see now the negative impact the increase of oil and gas price has on the European markets. Everything becomes more expensive if energy itself becomes more expensive. Outlawing gas and oil while cheaper or equally cheap alternatives are not present wouldn't work
Also, humans have multiple internal models for various aspects of reality, that seem to exist as a layer on top of the "raw" training. They have the ability to extrapolate based on those models (which transformers cannot do, as far I as understand). Perhaps GP is right -- perhaps what's missing in the architecture is an analog of these models.
Managed to put my whole MBP on its knees.
It took me around 7-8 minutes to close the tab.

Proceed with caution.
The law specifically calls for passive sensors as part of "Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology". A breathalyzer that you blow into is an active sensor, and as it's been around for decades is not that advanced.

You can Google Scholar the DADSS citations yourself about how the technology works.

The regulations haven't been created yet. This bill says the experts need to figure out those details, and if it isn't possible, to let Congress know.
Frauds even higher than that.

That doesn’t count the fraud the issuer also blocks.
IIRC you can buy titanium foil that you can just make stuff out of at home.
Actually it took a while to make that judgment because the numbers took a while to show up
This comment is a very weird one.

It already looks passed the idea that the kill switch and government determined ability to drive on a car level is already acceptable.

If the issue is people driving drunk, there's a lot you can do to mitigate it, such as making it unnecessary to involve operating a car in order to drink.
If I'm not mistaken then this refers to transactions done using Shop Pay which will "remove carbon from the air".

https://shop.app/carbon-removal
Tekkit was absolute ages ago...

Take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8W-f9YhYA
> Unfortunately, im unsure what to be upskilling in to stay relevant.

In my opinion the smart move right now isn't upskilling, it's pivoting. I think if you can transition into something with people skills you'll probably be fine for a while yet.

Even learning how to use say PyTorch seems like a short-sighted move at this point. Do we believe the only code AI won't be able to write is AI code or something?

The problem for me is that coding is something I genuinely love, and I'm autistic as hell so there's not much I can actually do with competency. I can't do anything that requires people skills, I'm too soft for hard manual labour, and honestly I'd be fine with a crappy salary if I just got to continue writing code for a living... I know I should be jumping ship right now, but I just can't bring myself to do it. There's really no where else for me to go. And that's a worrying thought when people depend on you...

Best of luck with the job search anyway. Ir really feel for those looking for work out there right now.
This is an interview with Ukraine's top spy. i.e Ukrainian propaganda undiluted
I would agree with you if the entire issue really did exist in a vacuum where "consenting adults" were truly the only variables, but as we've demonstrably seen from legalization efforts worldwide - legalizing prostitution is highly correlated with an uptick in sex trafficking.

Determining if two parties are actually "freely consenting" is notoriously difficult, given the way that sex trafficking rings operate - and as has been proven over and over again, determining if an individual is "freely consenting" is not at all a simple thing for law enforcement to figure out and making it legal does not make it easier.

So while I agree in spirit with "two consenting adults should be able to do what they want if they aren't hurting anyone else" - reducing prostitution to those terms is an overly simplistic way of looking at it and is ignoring mountains of evidence that legalizing it increases the rate of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation for those countries which made it legal already.
> Apart from supporting human trafficking (a non-negligible amount of sex workers has been brought from other countries under false pretenses and is held against their will)

Isn't this primarily an argument for legalizing and regulating prostitution so that less money goes the the black market to create demand for trafficking?
Respectfully disagree. Meaningful answers from raw data is hard, but the hardest part was always making business people to _ask the right question_.

Take as an example a typical business question: "which countries are our users from?"

But do they mean the country the user declared in the registration form?
Or country they're currently accessing your service from?
Or the one from their payment method?
Or the one where they where born?
Or the one they have citizenship from?
Or the one they're currently residing on?
Or their shipping address? Or they billing address? Or..?

If your dataset is sufficiently big, every one of those countries will output a different answer. I'm sure that in the "global fintech" space those weird cases become the norm.

Your typical lower-wage Tableau user will just look for whatever country codes show up and run a count, then declare it the truth.

A slightly smarter Tableau user will bribe an engineer to write SQL for them.

It'll take someone with knowledge of the dataset and probably the systems where the data is sourced from to push back and force the business to ask the proper question, and provide proper context.

Tableau and the like are good to replace "technical work" which is a guy copy/pasting the same SQL query into pgAdmin and emailing the resulting CSV on a daily basis, and then some, but it's not making "less skilled" UI-oriented workers to think better.
This was a very nice read. One of those articles where I now have some new fun facts to spout the next time I'm by friends near a harbor. I live in Cleveland and see many ships entering the rivers to drop off cargo, will be looking for some of these markings!
Doesn’t matter if it’s for fun. The function here is to show information so in that regard the design failed because it makes you go through hoops irrelevant to the goal
Have you considered that the design is more important than the data in this context? I mean, I sure don't care worth a damn whether there are 100, 1000, or 10000 orders being placed per second. It's a meaningless figure to me.
I apologize for the moderately OT help request, but as Tweag has some great nix / rust content, and this is about debugging, I thought some HNers with relevant interests might swing by -- I am going nuts trying to get debugging working for nix-compiled rust on an M1 Mac (via llvm). My posts to the nix forum, rust forum, and my nixpkgs repo have gone without response, and I'm a humble hobbyist that is running out of ideas. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please take a look at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/262131 -- TIA, and I apologize again if this detracts from the OP!
There are a lot of young girls (which are definitely someone's daughters) who knowingly start to perform escorting because it's easy and provides a lot of money. Without all that human trafficking argument.
The Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 was manufactured principally from stainless steel.

The result was a stunningly fast fighter aircraft, capable of Mach 3.2, though in practice engine overheating restricted operation maximum to Mach 2.83 (3,000 km/h), and even that for only 5 minutes at a time as the airframe and fuel would overheat. The MiG-25's mass necessitated huge wings (and overall dimensions), and limited maneuverability. Steel however provided better thermal-tolerance capabilities than aluminium, and lower cost and easier fabrication than titanium.

First flight 1964, introduced to active service in 1970.

That said, the aircraft is notable as an exception to your generally-applicable rule.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25>

I suspect carbon fibre would also have thermal limitations for high-speed aircraft.
Training happens on the servers, existing trained models can be small enough to run locally and on embedded systems
> as the PHP devs I have seen are more prone to trying out new tools and not reinvent the wheel in source code

Do you mean "less prone"?
Judgment, Reason, and the University
Wow, these customizations are crazy.
Flying in airplane mode makes it look like a war zone.
This is a false dichotomy. There are myriad ways to prevent drunk driving that are not this technology.
> And if you grew up in a thrifty family, like me: …

Hits home for me. Many of those things are also actually cheaper in the long run.
Sure, why not?

I’m not the owner of my spouse and children. And if they believe becoming prostitutes is something they need to do, I’ll still support them.
Fair enough.

I'd personally be proud of them.
Responding to peer comments:

This is pretty clearly NordPool's fuckup. There's no way in hell this bid should have gone thru without human review. Seems clear that their UI is to some degree - in some critical spot - fragile, user-hostile, ill-designed.

You can say that in analogous cases, finance firms have been put out of business by bad bids caused by slipped fingers. Granted. But in this case you're throwing a wrench into a power grid, with the potential to cause a system disruption, in winter no less.
The old way yes, but if you want to integrate with a block them you can't. The Gutenberg thing is overcomplicated, which is why it's not really taking off.
In case (1) you are the victim. The rapist bears responsibility for what they did to you knowing your mental state.

In case (2) you are the offender. In your sober state, you're expected to know your limits. While sober, you had a chance not to take the action (i.e. taking the first drink) that eventually resulted in you losing your faculties and hurting innocent people, yet you did anyway. That makes you responsible.
Love this. Cool to see how the west coast is still mostly asleep :D
What is their basis for the "Carbon Removed" stat?
NASA has always paid someone for launch. In the past they owned the IP. Now they don't. They have their own rocket and it costs only 2 billion dollars to launch
Lucier had a speech impediment so this piece was a sort of personal challenge/experiment for him.

Also, check out Lucier's Music On A Long Thin Wire. He used a power amp to run an audio from a signal generator into a wire and the wire sits in the field of a very strong magnet and vibrates, and the sound is extracted from piezo contact mics at each end of the wire. Very interesting stuff.

It is a part of the inspiration for the instrument I build and play, the Electroduochord, that uses a rotary magnetic bow.
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I am more disappointed that any dev would use desktop shortcuts...
Fermi Estimate
Hilarious, should be carbon added by all this unnecessary consumption made easy by them.
Years back I was called in to our accountants office due to a "bug" in SAP. I was demonstrated that when you try to do so-and-so it would not work. After clicking around and filling in a few fields an error message appeared and the accountant made a sound of annoyance and quickly closed the popup with the error, not reading or processing it's content. I was just presented with "See, doesn't work!". Okay, but can we do it again and you don't close the error box? Second time around she refrained from closing the error message, which VERY clearly stated that she had forgotten to fill in a field in the previous form. I just walked away quietly.
I disagree. If I had to guess, I'd still say that human use of AI will destroy society, not some superintelligent doomsday AGI that decices on its own that humans need to die. I've already seen tons of people "run with scissors" as you say it with ChatGPT and I fully expect this to get much worse in the future.
And then at 35 minutes he spends a few minutes talking about ideas for algorithmic improvements.
12% of the money is suspected fraudulent, not the transactions, right? So could be that fraudulent transactions are a smaller volume of the total transactions, but they simply tend to be higher in terms of dollar amount.