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> It has 995 open issues in its Github repository.

This is not a sensible metric for code quality. For one thing, only about 20% of the currently open issues are tagged as bugs - more than that are suggested improvements.

> Haskell program was supposed to work right if it compiles, wasn't it?

No. Especially for tasks like string manipulation and format munging, you cannot capture the complexity of the domain into types.
Computers made everyone their own secretaries then gave them terrible tools to do it. So now people earning 5-10x the salary of secretary can spend 60% of their time maladministrating their work.

"Computers"
For what it’s worth, I started my current project with the good old Django framework. I haven’t touched it for mostly a decade and my god it’s just a pleasure. You just write your domain code and the framework handles everything else. But more importantly, Django don’t try to be original or to force you into a paradigm, it just solves and abstract away the real life problems of websites. There is basically 0 boilerplate.

Add some htmx for the few things you want dynamic and you’re done.

Now, I prefer typed languages but why haven’t we something like Django (or Rails) in typescript ?
You are in way over your head. Just cut your losses and go away.
Good question. They basically sat on reports instead of notifying authorities. Criminal negligence.
Why would they, now that IPv4 brings in $1B/year
As someone who also spends a decent amount of time outside at night, do you also see a ton of shooting stars?

I see them 1/3 of the time in outside for 30 minutes or more I’d say. Thought they were much rarer. Only seems a Starlinkn train once.
I think that primary causes of assuredness in such conspiratorial matters is 1) political (Epstein didn't kill himself and the people currently in power must be to blame!) and 2) the desire many people have for the world to be more exciting and interesting than it is (this is the ultimate cause of many kinds of magical thinking).
Is this a welfare/ tax payer thing? Not sure what you’re going for.
Interest rates only affect purchasing, not renting, at least at first order. Is purchasing demand actually fixed? I'd expect people to substitute renting for buying - I certainly do.

Also note theoretically purchase prices would adjust lower with higher interest rates. However, market is highly distorted by existing holders of mortgages not being able to transfer their low interest rate mortgages to other properties or people.
I think the bigger lesson here is that you absolutely need executive leadership that understands what truly matters.

And I think "cult of personality" CEOs typically end up as the outliers here (on both sides of the spectrum) as they're better at withstanding pressure from external forces (Wall Street, dumb industry trends). But the flip-side is if they've got a garbage business ideology or are frauds they're just ruining lives and setting money on fire.
It’s not that productivity has stagnated. It is that much of our produce is now intangible. But we do put out terabytes of memes and Instagram pics and TikTok’s everyday. For good or bad that’s what people like nowadays, and that is where money goes to. If we count entertainment and bingeing as legitimate economic utilities, we are in the midst of the craziest economic boom ever.
My solution would be to go to the start of each paragraph and hold J (shift + j) until the entire paragraph was joined onto one line, and then go down to the next one. I guess it depends on how long your emails are but this is pretty quick.
Maybe the connection dandanua is alluding to is that mythology from
the beginning of the "Information Age" (circa 1980) that technology
would "bring us all together in a giant conversation of humankind". As
if. Now, here we are having this conversation on a platform owned and
run by those same "bunker men" who probably bought the laws that
destroyed the peered Internet that was our hope. We're still stuck in
1980, holding out that "technology will save us".
"The story does not necessarily end with the Army's decision. Lockheed Martin, which owns Sikorsky could very well protest the decision, which will put the entire program on hold at least for 100 days while the Government Accountability Office weighs its counterargument."

And this is the screwed-up state of DoD procurement in 2024 . . .
> This has always been true: The steam engine didn’t matter until it was put into a ship and locomotive

Sure, but had steam engines not been put over coal mines they wouldn’t have been refined to the point of propelling themselves [1]. It didn’t matter to contemporaneous productivity; it definitely mattered to it in the future.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
That "just" is doing a lot of work there. California had a $38 billion budget deficit last year and a $68 billion deficit the year before. I would like universal healthcare as much as or more than anyone, but without fiscal transfers at the Federal level I don't think it is possible - states cannot run permanent debts the way the Federal government can.
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I think the 'do not film' request should be respected by consumer devices. It is ok for security cameras to ignore such a requirement.
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Bowser was literally just a site admin. He was not involved in the creation or supply of those mods in any way.

The way you have typed your rant makes it seem you only want to throw a contrarian comment at the expense of a ruined life, which is pathetic.
Errr SaaS caused the great stagnation. Or non text UIs. Or consulting firms. I’m confused!

And this is just factually incorrect.

> Intel’s road to ruin was when the CFO became the CEO and managed the business by the numbers and abstractions.
When I was first a retail pharmacist in 2013 we were in a DOS based system. It was fantastic. Fast, fully operable by keyboard only, etc... All the new systems are slow, require mice, scanners, fingerprint readers, etc...
“Couples” means two-way. Of course your front end will depend on your backend, the problem arises when they become interdependent; when you can’t develop one without making changes to the other.

In this sense a frontend and a backend can be entirely independent, and in every sense the backend should be independent of the frontend.
Weight doesn't tend to be a limiting factor for swimmers. Hence blue whales.

It does tend to be a limiting factor for fliers (hence hollow bones, etc). The heaviest flying creature on Earth does not exceed about 40 pounds.

Including extinct animals, the heaviest flier was not more than 550 pounds. A blue whale can weigh almost 1,000 times that.
> Seems like those are two rather nearby points on the same spectrum, no?

I don't think so, no. Those two things are miles apart.
Google is the king of "not my department." "No, I don't have contact with any other department within Google." "No, I don't have the email address of anyone on any other team in Google." WTF, Google?
New Zealand has a similar system - the MMP (mixed member proportional) system we use is better than FPTP but I suspect vote-ranking systems are better than MMP.

In NZ, citizens vote for a candidate in each of the 60 electoral districts and so they get the representative that they vote for. Similar to Germany? Also our citizens vote for a party, and the other 60 seats of parliament are filled from lists of candidates (one list created by each party). The 60 seats are allocated to candidates from the lists, selected so that that we have the same percentage of members in parliament to match up the percentages of party votes by citizens.

New Zealand gets members of parliament that were chosen by the party. That is a problem because those members have no constituency: citizens can't really vote out someone (because a party selects some of its members).

I personally think that a critical feature of democracy is being able to vote out someone we dislike. I'm sure we can think of undemocratic countries where they would love to vote out a disliked politician. MMP fails here: citizens can't vote out some of our members of parliament.

the party list gives disproportionate (force multiplied) political power to a few key players in each party.

The second problem is also a feature: we often get small parties that get outsized influence. To get 50% control of parliament multiple parties join together in a coalition. Coalitions are an emergent property of MMP: and coalitions create some terrible incentives for parties to do misrepresentative things.

Outsized power is misused particularly by one celebrity politician with 5% of the population voting for him. The guy is a tool.

In theory a small party should be able to focus on a single cause. In practice, The Green Party gets 10% of the seats but it then refuses to form a coalition with our "conservative" party. The Green Party gives up its minority power, because the thei politicians are too strongly greenie and they won't compromise. The idiots fail to make green tradeoffs against economic policies. They are idiots because the planet is strictly worse because of their political failings.

New Zealand avoids the worst excesses of a two party system. However MMP is no panacea: politicians do the same political things.

In theory a left wing and a right wing party should form a coalition together to run the country. In practice such a coalition can't form.

Humans are shit at making good compromises.
Why should a color palettes generator include telemetry?

https://github.com/saneef/color-color/commit/d04d3fb3b072a96...
Arch Linux is linking dynamically, IIRC, and there it is 'only' 64 MiB: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/haskell-pandoc/
Tesla's week gets worse: Fines, safety investigation, and recall
… which they fund from what source?
First question, where can we go from where we are? What do people desire that they can not have? I am not going to suggest that there is nothing left to be invented but I find it quite hard to come up with things that would have a significant impact. The one big thing that comes to mind is health - cancer treatment, organ replacement, and so on.
well what do you mean by "turned away", i think i might thinking of something different.
This could also slow down IPv6 adoption. This is going to free up a ton of IPv4 addresses, reducing the need for AWS to purchase new ranges. I know of a few companies that started auditing their public IPv4 usage on AWS after the original announcement.

Some AWS customers have released 80+% of their public IPv4 addresses. The alternative isn't IPv6, it's private addresses. Many AWS customers have been slapping public IPs on EC2 instance just because they could or because they didn't know any better.
We can’t even achieve this in the judiciary. See Federalist Society.
> People, especially on the Linux side, need to stop viewing the world as if everyone still has desktop towers PCs tucked under their desks while disregarding the software issues and deficiencies that only plague laptops, which are the majority of the marketshare and have vastly different constrains than desktops.

Linux (especially the kernel) isn’t even tuned for towers. It’s tuned for servers.

The defaults make horrible optimizations all in the name of throughput > latency.
Did you see our package manifest schema? We will add more information (dependencies, conflicts, etc.) into these package manifests, but keep the overhead low.

As a package manger also relies on the community and supported packages we don't want to introduce a new layer of abstraction that every package creator needs to implement.
Gerrymandering is a political process; it can't be "solved" with math.

I think that's a little too defeatist. It's like saying "tactical voting is a political process" and can't be "solved". But you can adopt voting mechanisms that reduce the effect of tactical voting, and many countries have! It doesn't completely solve the problem, sure, but it helps.
tech advancements = improvements of life for the whole humanity, and thus overall happiness. But it seems this naive thinking doesn't work in this world.
That’s not an argument against SPAs, that’s an argument for investing more time on product discovery stage to understand that this is actually a requirement. When implemented with relatively small effort, it does have better UX.
while I could set up v6 I just wont for a while... when I do I expect things to be better documented
"Rent-seeking is distinguished in theory from profit-seeking, in which entities seek to extract value by engaging in mutually beneficial transactions.[8] Profit-seeking in this sense is the creation of wealth, while rent-seeking is "profiteering" by using social institutions, such as the power of the state, to redistribute wealth among different groups without creating new wealth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
That would actually be an expense, reducing profits by intentionally increasing labor costs.

In economic terms profit would be reduced.
Of course. I am looking at things like nuclear fusion that are perpetually underfunded. It would be an incredible technological advancement but it is an enormous undertaking that industry is largely unwilling to participate in because there are no short term profits to be had. So it falls on governments to pick up the slack but most of our energy as a society is in industry.

Think about the old meme that the smartest people are focused on increasing ad click through rates. Imagine a world where they could instead be focused on something useful.
To be fair, GDP just means someone's making money there, doesn't mean it's staying in the economy.

If we worked out something like unsanitary housing occupation rate per capita, I'd consider that a better measure of "wealthy country".
> People like to say, “oh, but power users are rare”

Huh, didn’t consider that power users being rare meant the software makes becoming a power user difficult.
> If you enter someone's property they don't need your permission to film you.

Not particularly relevant to the question here, but worth mentioning that there are exceptions for places with an expectation of privacy, such as bathrooms and lodging rentals (hotel rooms, interior space of an Airbnb, etc.).
Why, yes, I do. Thank you very much, Autocorrect!
I don't think you can do much better than these style of crimp sleeves. https://www.icrimptools.com/cdn/shop/files/IWS-1226DCrimping...
re: COVID part. The conclusion leaped to is likely inaccurate and not what he meant by the ambiguous "experts" remark.

Their company was involved more in the supply and distribution of COVID vaccines, based on data collection of COVID metrics. The experts he may be referring to are the ones who were painting an inaccurate representation of COVID case distribution. Political messaging shadowed the reality of case distributions by region—inaccurate reporting of COVID cases due to a lack of pipeline and procedures for data collection.

In this scenario, the "experts" would be individuals ignoring the reality of the data collected and making decisions based on other motivations.
I just bought a ResMed CPAP myself. It does appear to be well constructed and the software seems to be much better too. Seems to be packed with internet connectivity "features" though so I'm gonna have to find a way to disable them. I'm also gonna try to reverse engineer the app in order to replace it with free software.
He doesn't represent "tech". He is one of the major figures who represents SV/SF tech culture, though.
"Big tech must regulate itself lest it become an unstoppable monopoly and crush any new competition."

This sounds less like a warning and more like a playbook.
Absolutely love Pandoc. I used it through my undergrad to take notes for all of my courses. Markdown with inlined LaTeX just made sense.

It made university more accessible, as I get frequent hand cramps while writing notes. So I started to take them with Pandoc and added custom macros.

The best feeling was when professors would ask for a copy of my notes at the end of the term because they were formatted so well!
> Determining the number of internet-facing hosts affected by a new vulnerability is a key factor in determining if it will become a widespread or emergent threat. Are there a lot of hosts affected? Pretty good possibility things are about to pop off. Only a few hosts? Probably less likely.

> Understanding the scale of an issue is important, and therefore, being precise about the number of potentially impacted hosts is important too. Those who copy overinflated statistics or haven’t done their due diligence are making vulnerabilities appear more impactful than they truly are.

I don’t really understand the logic here. What does it mean for a vulnerability to “pop off?” I can see some argument for worrying about the number of “friends” you have in the vulnerable population in the case of something like a worm, since all of your “friends” are potential attackers. But for normal vulnerabilities you should fix it regardless of the popularity. Who cares if it becomes widespread?

And of course any effort wasted in honeypots is great.
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Seems like quite a stretch to suggest broad, long-term economic stagnation is due to ineffective use of software.

It also doesn't really make sense that "great leaders" is a solution.

There's also a final recommendation to "exclusively work backwards from decision advantage" which might be good advice depending on what they actually mean (well, not the "exclusively" part, but I don't think that's meant literally), but not really to do with great leaders.

I think this must be a marketing piece by a management consultant (it's packed full of tropes and cliches)... and could kindof appeal to some C*O who is confounded by the technology their company uses and this could let them imagine themselves as a "great leader" by making more efficient use of software by "working backwards from decision advantage."
The US propaganda regime is like a champagne tower. The most self-serving but still superficial plausible narrative is the top glass. Most people are caught here. If you reject this, you will be presented with a choice between several semi-mainstream counterculture narratives some of which are closer to the truth and some of which are more obviously false. If you reject all of those, you will get another set, all of which are more “fringe” and some of which are more obviously false but some of them will be even closer to the truth. If you pick an option that is even more of a lie than the mainstream you become a conspiracy theorist. If you pick the option closest to the truth at every level and discover how even that is a lie, moving on the more fringe level below, you will eventually find yourself with the whole truth, which is indeed quite fringe.
In my opinion, "journalism for journalism's sake" would be what we call reporting the truth, or investigative journalism. Is there a national outlet that invests in pure investigative journalism anymore?
I'm assuming this developer is aware of that, and will move on to the next thing as soon as Google develops their own Youtube Vision OS app.
Reminds me of this classic gem: https://imgur.com/BULPmCI?r
If you want to know that is HSLuv, I wrote a quick article about it a few years back.

https://www.kuon.ch/post/2020-03-08-hsluv/
there is no clear benefit to most users tho
It doesn't help that build systems often don't have tools for maintaining this distinction: Cmake, as far as I know, doesn't have any way to separate host and target, so you wind up losing a lot of the infrastructure it gives you on one of the two.
These rules and laws esp. with regards to visas and immigration are not about the rules themselves. They're a proxy for government to be able to control the types of people they think benefit their society (and whether or not to let them in the country). If you fit within those concepts of what is deemed acceptable, no one will bother you.

Are you a rich, white professional class person with a first-world passport? You have signalled that no one needs to bother with you. Things like visa regulations will be applied less strictly.

If you are from the wrong country or you are the wrong skin tone, your chances of having a bad time are much higher.

This applies not only to Japan, or countries like Thailand or Mexico, but also to the USA and Europe equally.
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I have my RSS reader YOShInOn which subscribes to about 110 feeds. Over the course of 2 days it could gather about 7000 articles and choose 300 to show to me, it works as a content-based recommender (based only on my judgements) although it builds on a pre-trained BERT model. It does clustering over the latent space so I see a variety of articles, not just arXiv papers. Anything you see here

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PaulHoule

was chosen by me out of the feed it shows me.

I have another project to build something for filtering streams of images that is sharing a lot of code w/ YOShInOn and may eventually get merged. One of the first things to merge is a bookmark manager which would treat bookmark items like things that come in out of the feed.

Hypothetically I'd like to have a really good search system but now I am (1) using a simple system that seems "good enough" and (2) not particularly looking for history in it.

Another thing immediately in front of me is I get a lot of articles like

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-kink-proton-spectrum-knowledge...

and for an article like that I might look up the paper referenced in it and make a decision that I want to submit that article or the original paper based on how obnoxious the ads are, is the paper open access, etc. There are other ways to do it but the master plan seems to be to scan the ScienceX article, ingest the papers, and construct a graph structure about how they are related.
> u seriously

This is highly ironic.

I was replying to your second paragraph. But on Oracle: I don't like Oracle very much, but you'd be wrong to think that the jump into relational databases on commodity hardware wasn't massively facilitated by Oracle. We aren't all renting mainframes in the cloud right now in a large part down to Oracle's advances in the last quarter of the 20th century. Oracle is still the world's third-largest tech company. That means what it does, even today, is extremely valuable.
Profits don’t pay interest, interest payments are expenses, and those payments can be what goes into new firms as funding.

An entrepreneur provides a resource, I wouldn’t deny that, but every other resource has a price. Why does entrepreneurial effort get to be uncapped? Shouldn’t it have a price too, a specific value, tied to what it gives a business?
I went on and egg noodle and ramen noodle quest last year. I used just all purpose flour and made sodium carbonate from baking soda, and was very happy with the results for the most part. I feel a pasta roller is both more fun and necessary for a good product, as is weighing all ingredients. I also tried to make fresh Chinese egg noodles which, if you've bought them from a factory, have a certain texture and smell. I didn't have a recipe and my experiments got close, but never on the dot. Still ended up with a freezer packed with deliciousness for many months.