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Not really. Praise is free and regardless how you feel about him, Elon is one of the world's most successful businessmen. He's done things worthy of praise. (He's also done things worthy of scorn.)

Are the reasons for praise problematic? What are they, and why?

Here's a few other quotes by Vlad that contain praise:

> It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

He's praising all of America! Worthy of self-reflection?

> History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Democracy itself has been praised by a war criminal! What should we do with this knowledge?
But that was the point: a person flying around the globe every week will not impact the climate significantly, even if thousands of people did the same. You're not going to achieve anything without global regulation, so trying to shame individuals is just pointless.

Wherever they're boomers or not.
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No. My team migrated to react from in 2015 because the biggest selling point was maintainability, not speed. The virtual DOM was originally marketed as why “react is NOT slow”. It was never about pure speed. I think the misconception all came later by other people.
It was a very common part of the marketing push, not just a few misguided fans. Here’s a former core team member:

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead#how-did...

Here’s @vjeux: “React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces developed by Facebook. It has been designed from the ground up with performance in mind.”

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/diff/

“Optimized for performance and memory footprint”

http://slid.es/johnlynch/reactjs

If you worked on the web a decade ago, this stuff was everywhere and because Facebook was at its peak there was this bizarre reality-denial effect where people would have an app which was slow, soaked memory like a sponge, and they’d insist that was as good as it could be because Facebook and Instagram were using the same framework. Reality intruded enough eventually that people started talking more about things like developer experience but you can still find people arguing that needing 4MB of JavaScript for a contact form is normal.
That's sad and unfortunate. Experts and dealers of such equipment are a dissapearing breed. I have 2 slide rules; a super cheap plastic unit from high school days, and a full-sized Dietzgen I bought for a dollar (leather case and all). It was in a junked car at a pick'nPull yard. My skills have gotten very rusty, so now I prefer my HP-15c handheld or my HP-42c emulators on my iPhone.
Every so often a client asks if we are using a DLP, and if not, why not.

All the DLPs rely on, effectively, regular expression searches of traffic.

This is fine if what you need to protect are SSNs, phone numbers, credit card numbers... but if your data is not easily recognized that way, they don't work.

If you ask the DLP vendors about their threat model -- and the salespeople generally don't know what a threat model is -- it's always a set of stories about a salesperson who clicks the download-as-CSV button on a CRM system, a DB reporting specialist who generates a report full of raw passwords and credit card numbers, and an off-shore programmer who sends AWS credentials via email.

Hopefully you can spot the non-DLP prevention mechanisms for all of these...
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The HN lede totally contradicts the linked announcement.
and there goes my afternoon....
I develop for MSSQL extensively and PG is missing some things that can be a little surprising.

He might have been referring to the fact that PG doesn't cache query plans or have way to lock them in. PG replans for every statement unless you manually do prepared statements and that only works per connection. MSSQL will cache plans and reuse them and has done this for a very long time. Consequently the planner can take more time planning. Also MSSQL has hints and you can even lock a plan.

PG really needs hints, optimizers are great and all but sometimes I know better and I want to make sure it listens to me.

Also PG has no true clustered indexes all tables are heaps which is something most use all the time in MSSQL, usually your primary key is also set as the clustered index so that the table IS the index and any lookup on the key has no indirection. Interesting SQLite is the opposite tables always have clustered index whether you make one or not, MSSQL give you the choice for heap or index organized tables.
GTA Vice City is one where I can think of where the 80s soundtrack makes the game!
Is it fair to assume Musk and any state actors he could be working with don't have any way to decrypt Russian encryption techniques?

My only point is they its interesting how quick many are to jump on this a narrative that Elon is evil, he works for or with the Russians, etc when there is actually a scenario that fits in which he is closer to playing a role akin to Allan Turing during WWII.
>Chevron says the agency (using qualified agency specialists) are who Congress intends to work out the many, many details that are impossible to write into effective law.

That's not entirely accurate. The doctrine only applies to ambiguous statutes and it's really that an agency has the authority to decide what Congress meant when it wrote them. The question is whether an agency can interpret what Congress intends for it to do, or if that should be left to Congress for clarification.

You make it sound like Chevron is the underpinning for execution of all statutory authority, and it isn't. It's an edge-case doctrine.
This is why I use a numeric pager, digits handed out to both machines and humans.

I call back from an unlisted number. Few people have my actual phone #.

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If people are persistant, I usually mention something to the effect of "you don't want my phone number in your device, I know some weird people."

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The first time I used Venmo, was also my last — the "feature" which show you every person who has your phone number in their phonebook was a bit too weird [the idea of public payments also strange].
It's probably worth keeping boxed as they will appreciate over time.
I'm curious about how well this performs in winter when the sun is low in the sky and you have a pretty big deficiency. Usually you use what ever angle the roof is at (typically 30 - 45 degrees) and leave it at that. By adding a vertical component you may be able to substantially offset the summer/winter difference. Vertical panels won't do much in the summer but that's fine, you'll have a surplus anyway. But in winter you need every little bit. But from a ROI point of view those would be pretty expensive KWh, because the total produced versus the capital expense won't be very high. And in plenty of places the local authorities might have something to say about covering the outside of the building with panels. I'm going to play around with this here to see what it does.
I would very much prefer a model trained on human data that had absorbed a part of human values, than a completely de novo intelligence that bootstrapped itself using experimentation in the physical world.
Yes, very prescient. Also the VR glasses with embedded AI and independent subagents seems almost something that you could build today.
> I'll will not die on a 40c heat

That will really depend on how humidity changes. A earth with 10C more energy can hold a whole lot more water in the air, and that drops the wet bulb temperature. "Ah, but it's a dry heat" in the future could mean the difference between life or death.
Wow, this is great! Exactly what I was looking for. I don’t use Obsidian, so independent tools like this are welcome.
Is Java truly dead for desktop? I like Rust, don't get me wrong, but is there anything written in Rust for desktop on the scale of Jetbrains IDEs?
Finding them is actually likely much less of a problem than listening in, though providing the Ukrainians with additional ways of finding and tracking their enemy without us directly providing intel does offer the US plausible deniability.
> Egan's short stories are great [...] I've never been huge fan of his long form novels

Same here, I love his short stories!

IMO short form works better for him because there's so much to think about, even after having finished reading a story.

If someone needs a pointer on where to start I can recommend this thread: https://redlib.freedit.eu/r/printSF/comments/x1i4bj/greg_ega...

I especially enjoyed:

- The Safe-Deposit Box
- Into Darkness
One thing is if some soldiers use it to have Google Meet video calls from the battle field. That's comparable to selling some consumer laptops to the army - nobody cares.

Entirely another thing - and now I mean the US ITAR perspective - is if it's used literally as key and unique capability enabling part of a drone weapon. Now that makes it a weapon too. SpaceX doesn't have the US government's approval to manufacture weapons, export weapons or sell them to Ukraine army. The terminal or the constellation itself must not be used as a weapon according to the US law, and the operator must do everything to stop such use.

You should be angry with the US government. Biden could go live on the TV right now and say "Mr. Musk, it's fine - we allow it.". And if Musk didn't do it anyways, then you'd be right to be angry with him. But the US government didn't and won't do that.

Take it to your elected representative, not to a businessman doing what the law requires him to do.

You know what was the biggest fail, IMHO? That UA soldiers put the video online. Up until nobody knew, nobody cared. They carried out several attacks. Then they showed the world - and of course it got banned, there is no other option on SpaceX or Musk's side.
They can't be harmed by mishandling of PII.
Hehe, nice pun. :)
I'd only drop jQuery/lodash if you were adding Typescript. And I do prefer dropping them for Typescript, but the previous are still cool.
SWATing. Security concerns for certain people.
Huge global political interview and this is the only thread on HN (currently 3 comments). Pathetic.
Pretty much.

I worked at a Fortune 50 company (not tech) and it was hilarious to hear about some random exec who read about a technology and it was suddenly priority #1, mostly because it was the flavor of the month in the industry.

Of course it was a tech that many had brought up before (myself included) which had been brushed off.

Then it was “pull all nighters and come up some ideas on how we can use this tech”. And it was purely so the CEO wasn’t caught with his/her pants down when talking to investors.
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When someone new comes on board, I make it a point to send a LinkedIn connection. While I'm no fan of LinkedIn per se, it's neutral enough that nearly all of those connections are accepted. If necessary, it then becomes a non-company channel for having safe (ish) discussions about the company.
> Genuinely curious where you’re getting this

it's in the text. SpaceX is a provider for Roscosmos. Pretty public knowledge:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-crew-dragon-launch-russi...

It would be crazy for the US state department to NOT use that as some sort of opportunity.
Or building solar farms in places that have cold winters and cool summers, but lots of sun? e.g. the great plains of North America.
Congratulations on saying the biggest number, you ** morons!
Quite odd to label people trying to end horrific violence as "militants"...

And is it really outlandish to want to stop hurting animals that really are similar to cats, dogs and yes, us humans, at least as far as the ability to perceive pain and basic emotions. Perhaps the propaganda is actually that it is okay for non-human animals to endure horrific suffering, just so that some humans can spend a few minutes "enjoying" the taste of their flesh or breast-milk.. (the production of which also requiring huge amounts of plant-based feed, which significantly contributes to deforestation & methane emissions)
> I don’t like the name at all because it makes me think of people who take horoscopes seriously.

spoken like a true Sagittarius
> rate of deaths from the earliest moments of the pandemic that the org couldn't keep reporting them

Truly sorry for your collective loss, but where/what industry did you work in where this was a significant number?
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I'm talking about the Apple TV streaming service, not the device.
You might like Invisible Planets, Chinese sci-fi short stories compilation. I’ve read a few of them; Folding Beijing is pretty great.
..but could not find any news

So yes, you are right, but the title here is more important (that one time) than the link. ;)
Don't we need millions of people for a viable industrial Martian civilization? Honest question don't know.

Also, we haven't even been to Mars, unless SpaceX has some single-state to orbit spaceplane plus some fancy interplanetary engines in the works I'm not that optimistic. And who is going to finance this?

Honestly building a Fallout vault to wait the worst out seems easier.
Creating Social Groups
For those of you who have set up social groups or a community for your services, do you stick with one platform or do you use multiple platforms?

We're considering:

1. An internal community within our software, much like this Product Hunt discussion board (plus private messaging to our team)

2. Using ONE social media platform, such as Telegram or Facebook to create public announcements and private groups

3. Using MULTIPLE platforms which may send conversations in different directions and require more staff hours to monitor

Our main thing is that we would broadcast a public prompt that anyone could see and allow the private groups to discuss that prompt as they wish.

What are you using?
In the UK, and most European countries, locking someone out during their notice period is really rare. Big companies exist and are not destroyed by disgruntled employees.

If someone is fired for cause then they go immediately, but if they are given notice then they are usually trusted with access, and it rarely goes wrong.

Stealing IP is rare because it's hard to benefit from it. If stolen IP is offered to another company, usually they report it to the owner to cover their backs legally. Funders are not going to want to invest in a company that is based on stolen IP, where their investment can become worthless overnight.

So I think these stories about how 'we have to treat employees like they are potential criminals' (not accusing parent of that, but you hear them) are bugos. Treating people like human beings is both right and economically efficient.
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Execs like this will cause a lot of disruption over the next few years and waste a lot of money adding friction and overhead where it’s not needed, laying off the wrong people, and prioritizing the wrong projects. And as the inherent issues with generative models become apparent, they’ll end up hiring similar people back into new roles and starting new projects to address those problems we’ll move onto the next hype cycle with a lot of wasteful disruption.

The main difference from the blockchain and metaverse boondoggles will be the scale, given the endlessly breathless nonsense coverage of how professional humans in every field are now completely expendable.

By 2030, we’ll have moved past this but none of the execs or investors will have ever faced any consequences or done any introspection about all the disruption and waste. They’ll be on to the next scam.
Because its focus is mostly on measures defined on "non-physical" sets, such as various functional spaces (with applications to integrating differential equations, for instance).
> I also discovered that some users were using a computer for ten years without even understanding the minimize function for a window ! The only way to switch between a web page and a word processor was to close one and then opening the other. It was seen as normal !

Makes me appreciate browsers tabs as window management even more. So much more intuitive. You see all open tabs in the tab bar, and you see the focused tab. You can close tabs, but there's no need to "minimize" a tab, just pick another one.
> SpaceX is a provider for Roscosmos..would be crazy for the US state department to NOT use that as some sort of opportunity

Sure. That doesn't make Musk a "major diplomatic contact," nor even a pertinent one (let alone "most major").

Also, these are NASA launches. NASA paid for them and handled the seat swap with Roscosmos [1], though there was no doubt coördination between the latter and Hawthorne.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/its-official-a-russi...
i love our model 3 but if you don't have a Tesla, you're exactly correct. charging outside of the supercharger network is a nightmare.
None of what you’re saying is globally true. It might have been true of the apps you personally worked on but it’s not the case that everyone did HTML string replacement or that using the DOM directly forced you to forget basic software engineering concepts.
Eh, nothing wrong with psexec.exe -i -s

Guess it's good to have more options though.
the circumstances when microservices make sense are pretty well documented, but of course it's not widely known, especially because it doesn't fit into the 'microservices are future' slogan.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-netflix-in...
I don't think we humans were made to think like that. Almost everyone mostly wants to live their lives and has just enough mental energy to care about problems in front of them.
The only think I have read of Baxter is his short story Last Contact[1], but I still think about it very often. Reading the Xeele sequence is in my todo list.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Contact
Thanks for this, much more "intent revealing" than my (up to today) standard practice of `... || true` to keep my `set -e` from killing my script for this "error-but-not-really"
Wow and wow! I've been wanting to jump into a home solar system, I just think there's to many inefficiencies. Hopefully this is the way solar will evolve in the near future.
As someone who has been doing React for nearly as long as it’s been public, the honeymooon is definitely over. Hooks were supposed to save us, but now my projects are more complicated and harder to maintain than the old class based components. My team is constantly fixing useEffect and useCallback bugs. UseEffect just traded one foot gun for another.

As Vue and Svelte have shown, maybe it’s time for react to include a compile step to automate some of the boilerplate/tedium and reduce avoidable bugs.
A former company I was at was really weirdly tight-lipped about people leaving.

I'm sure totally unrelatedly, we got dinged a bunch on our SOC2 reports improper "off-boarding" and not removing access from terminated folks since no one knew to remove them.

Once we added quarterly SOC2 controls to make sure only employees had accounts it was always a shock to see who had to be removed.

I know the intent was to improve morale, but it had the opposite effect.
There are two very significant obstacles to attempting to integrate
social interaction within computer applications now.

Firstly, the currency for humans, in what are otherwise blind
interactions, is sharing. People want to share things; links, memes,
pictures, music...

But the entire corporate ecosystem is now positioned against
this. Whether it's the copyright lobby, or the morlaisers, the network
owners, or the 'plantation owners' of giant walled gardens who protect
their chattel...

And once you get drawn into that you'll be drowned by problems of
moderation, policing, and filtering. Or you'll have a system of ill
repute, abused and spammed.

The other big problem now is authenticity and identity. What even is
identity? How can that function in a world of AI bots and
impersonation?

To be fair, these problems have been around since IRC, but are much
worse now. No solutions solve these two fundamental problems to give a
"compelling experience". So you cannot simply "bolt-on" social.
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>US plausible deniability

*snort*
I don’t like Netflix’s content either but I’m pretty sure that’s not up to the engineering department.
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Let's hope it is less prescient. If it isn't... global warming will be the least of our problems.
There really is none. A smart company would work with the 4 eyes principle though (still no guarantee).

However, if a company does find an unrelated e-mail they want to use against you (which is what most people fear), that makes them liable.
Story time: I worked at Facebook and had to work with someone who came from Netflix. He was one of those people who, when he went to a new company, simply tried to reinvent everything he came from with no care or consideration given to what's already there.

FB very much does not use microservices. The closest is in infra but the www layer is very much a massive monolith, probably too massive but that's another story. They've done some excellent engineering to make the developer experience pretty good, like you can commit to www and have it just push to prod within a few hours automatically (unless someone breaks trunk, which happens).

Anyway, this person tried to reinvent everything as microservices and it pretty much just confirmed every preconceived notion (and hatred) or microservices that I already had.

You create a whole bunch of issues with orchestration, versioning and deployment that you otherwise don't have. That's fine if you gain a huge benefit but often you just don't get any benefit at all. You simply get way more headaches in trying to debug why things aren't working.

One of the key assumptions built into FB code that was broken is RYW (read your write). FB uses an in-memory write-through grraph database. On any given www request any writes you make will be consistent when you read them within that request. Every part of FB assumes this is true.

This isn't true as soon as you cross an RPC boundary... much like you will with any microservices. So this caused no end of problems and the person just wouldn't hear this when it was identified as an issue before anything was done. So th enet effect was 2 years spent on a migration that ultimately was cancelled.

Don't be that guy. When you go into a code base, realize that things are the way they are for a reason. It might not be a good reason. But there'll be a reason. Breaking things for the sake of reinventing the world how you think it should've been done were you starting from zero is just going to be a giant waste of everybody's time.

As for Netflix video processing, they're basically encoding several thousand videos and deploying those segments to a VPN. This is nothing compared to, say, the video encoding needed for FB (let alone Youtube). Also, Netflix video processing is offline. This... isn't a hard problem. Netflix does do some cool stuff like AI scene detection to optimize encoding. But microservices feels like complete overkill.
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