skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Capital includes everybody’s life savings.

Capital in the sense being discussed (which derives from the same critique of capitalism in which "capitalism" was coined) refers to the non-financial, non-land means of production; one's life savings are not capital, though they may (or may not) be used to acquire capital.

> It’s common to have a goal of retiring someday, and having capital is how you retire.

Having private ownership of capital is important to being able to retire within capitalism. That's a feature of capitalism, not an inherent feature of retirement.

> What would it even mean for labor to “win,” if not by controlling some capital of their own?

It expressly involves control of capital by labor collectively, which is not the same as private ownership of capital.

> Could a union win without a pension plan?

A pension plan is not capital. In a system in which private ownership of capital is a thing, and in which capital ownership is systematically favored throughout society, it will be normal for a pension fund to own capital, but the existence of such a system means that labor has not won.

Also, pension plans aren't essential to unions, they are something unions often provide because providing for retirement is a gap in the system in which they exist that they elect to plug collectively. If labor actually won, that gap would not exist.
(2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005573#29009072 :

python-feedstock / recipe / meta.yml: https://github.com/conda-forge/python-feedstock/blob/master/...

pypy-meta-feedstock can be installed in the same env as python-feedstock;
https://github.com/conda-forge/pypy-meta-feedstock/blob/main...
Exactly, in the US, the estate tax minimum is over $13M. Under that, and it's not subject to tax. If you inherit a $14M farm (!!) and have to pay a little estate tax on it, well, I'm not exactly weeping for your misfortune. I would be happy to take that farm off of you and figure out how to pay the tax, if you're so against taxes.
I probably dragged things out a year or three past where I prudently could have. Not sure if I made the right call or not. COVID messed up a lot of things (and obviously sadly killed a lot of people) and I might have made different decisions on a more normal timeline.
This is why I think it's a good idea for languages to have two print functions, one of them specifically intended for temporary debugging, the other for cases where you genuinely want to print to the console, e.g. in some utility script. This way, you can have a linting rule that prevents any "debug prints" from being committed to your repository.

Go kind of works that way, there are the "official" printing functions in fmt, and there's also a pretty much unused builtin println which works well enough for this use case.

I find that it's also a good idea to do this with comments, I personally prefer using TODO and/or FIXME for things that should be fixed eventually but don't deserve a ticket, and using XXX for things I want to remember about fixing before I commit. In the heat of coding, you can write something like `// XXX: handle errors` without breaking out of the flow, like you would with a separate todo list.
I missed it, I don't see anywhere in this thread where people are being taxed on 'exit' from a state. Nothing is being confiscated. What is happening is that a state increases taxes on the current population, and the rich leave to a cheaper states so they don't have to pay the higher tax. So there is freedom of movement. But this does open a loop whole where they can use up resources, then split.

To your argument. I guess it depends on 'fairness'. Sure, the deep south can 'Choose' to lower taxes and have really bad schools so that their un-educated population will be unaware, and un-questioning, of any risks when they to go work for the local chemical company or paper mill. This is a valid choice, lets make our people cannon fodder to lure large chemical companies to our state, (and bonus get some kick backs). But, the kids didn't choose this, they were born into it. (which maybe is why they are also anti-abortion, we can't loose our workforce).

There should be some national standards to keep some states from a race to the bottom.
I agree about the title, but I do think it was absolutely a joke or case of diplomatic dexterity:

> The manager of this component replied, completely truthfully, “the individual responsible for this regrettable act is no longer with the company.”

Doesn't really sound like inadvertent or convenient HR/PR team handling, 'manager of this component'. How big would MS have been at the time (Windows 3.1, early 90s) anyway?

Sounds very much to me like they thought it was hilarious, and were thrilled to be able to say they were no longer there on a technicality!
> Though more broadly speaking, it's true that software developers are now frequently expected to move beyond just compiling a JAR file and calling it a day.

And you are demeaning as well for no reason. I even went out of my way to clarify I like SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH CODE, not "just compile a JAR file" which you conveniently ignored and pushed your narrative. Not cool, dude.

> Expectations of knowledge of the underlying infrastructure that's running your code and how to operate it is more common than it was 15 years ago. I consider this a good thing overall though.

I don't deny it on the premise but again, most vendors want to lock you in so their UX is terrible and specific. I had much more fun making scripts and cookbooks that setup a VPS for my customer's app. Nowadays this has been mostly remedied by Dockerfiles though integrating with k8s and its 5000+ friends is making me want to retire for the next 3 lives.

> I don't know anyone who's doing this at their programming job.

I don't do it either but I've met plenty of "programmers" who do, and swear by it, even though they had to chase 2-3 subtle bugs that took them 12+ hours to find and correct... whereas just writing those 150-200 coding lines would have taken them 4 hours tops, tests included. It's quite funny.

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My bigger comment here was to criticize the very weird direction the area is trying to go to. It will fail btw. Marketing people are pushy and get their way... INITIALLY. Sooner or later reason prevails.
It's my data. I can choose to have it tracked and kept by whoever I want.

Instead of ranting about privacy maybe you should work on privacy enabling tech solutions to user-needs that clearly some people have.
Aside from the influence of money on politics almost all of what you have written is complete bollocks.

Many of us have been successful from nothing and know friends who have been more so. There is usually a luck element in the size of that success but it is blindingly obvious to someone who was in the crab bucket to see that actions work.

It sounds as if you have an emotional issue with the idea that people can change their own situation. I literally have a choice tomorrow whether I paint my wall, study, fix up the leak in my loft, etc, or just sit and play my Switch. People who do too much of the latter do not succeed.

And no, parents or grandparents or country or genetics or whatever are not luck either. Choosing a suitable mate is about as close to the meaning of life as we have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts
Freak Hail?
> Look into IaC (infrastructure as code) which all major clouds, and even smaller clouds support. Much more sane way of managing resources.

No, sane way is automating it 100% with zero UI required. But you do you.

> Is the company mandating you use AI to solve problems... or? Anecdotally I don't use AI very much at $DAYJOB, nor do any of my co-workers.

As mentioned in a reply to your sibling comment, I don't do it because I was sure from the get go that it will only get some algorithms right, and only for the most popular languages, and I was on point. But I had fun watching colleagues banging their heads against the wall many times.

And again as per the reply to the sibling comment, I was commenting on the general "future" state of the area.
Why do so many seem to think everything should be on top of http? DNS, LDAP, where does it stop?
But program code is 2D as well. And quite limited 2D, with 80 characters width max (or similar, but never unlimited).
the tax experiment I'd like to see applied at scale is a Land Value Tax.

for the unfamiliar, the gist is taxing the value of the land, not the improvements on it. the idea being to reduce the amount of land speculation, expands the number of homes built, and lower the cost of doing business by incentivizing land owners to use the land to its fullest productive potential. eg: replacing a single-family homes with multi-family homes, surface parking for multi-level garages, or empty lots for literally anything.

add to that tax advantages for things like rewilding, below-market rentals, or other public-good use cases, and anti-nimby reforms and it could make a number of separate government programs easier to implement, if not redundant.
Exactly. The point is that the only way you can know that a particular "strategy" was market-beating is by looking back after the fact. Just like you can only know who is a good coin flipper after running 10 trials and looking back at who flipped heads 10 times. And the strategies will be similarly repeatable.
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The issue with every one I’ve used is that it hides all the parameters away in context aware dialog boxes. Someone can’t come along and search for something, they need to click every element to via the dialog for that element to hunt for what they are looking for. I found every time the lead dev on a project changed, it was easier to re-write the whole thing than to try and figure out what the previous dev did. There was no such thing as a quick change for anyone other than the person who wrote it, and wrote it recently. Don’t touch the code for a year and it might as well get another re-write.
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I donno, it must something awful if Oregon bans you (Oregon decriminalized “heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD and oxycodone” [0]):

On November 20, 2010, Oregon Liquor Control Commission's five citizen commissioners held an emergency meeting resulting in a 4-1 vote on the ban. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Oregon_Ballot_Measure_110

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Loko
No, I saw that. My comment was a poorly worded attempt to suggest that, as a renter, they can certainly choose to avoid it by moving just as they chose to avoid the other apparents they evaluated but never moved into.

They're not forced into anything.
income inequality is really important for what someone's effective purchasing power is

Not really. Bill Gates isn't bidding up the prices of homes or groceries in your neighborhood.

Also, it's a huge factor in people's material living conditions, and a cost that has risen far faster than "inflation"

Yes, housing is far too expensive. And the main reason for that is state and local governments forcibly preventing people from building more housing, which is hard to blame on free markets.

most of the people who don't feel this way are pretty decidedly in the small portion of the population for whom this is working out

The point of the "minor factual nitpick" that median incomes are increasing rather than decreasing is exactly that capitalism works out pretty well for lots of people other than the wealthy.
The dark matter theory is falsifiable. Sure we can't see dark matter (it doesn't interact electromagnetically), but we can see its effects, and it has to follow the laws of physics as we understand them today.

It is actually a satisfying theory with regard to the Occam razor. We don't have to change our laws of physics to explain the abnormal rotations of galaxy, we just need "stuff" that we can't see and yet interact gravitationally. When we have stuff like neutrinos, it is not that far fetched. In fact, though unlikely given our current understanding of physics, dark matter could be neutrinos.

If, as it turn out, the invisible stuff we call dark matter doesn't follow the laws of physics as we know them, then the dark matter theory is falsified and we need a new one (or at least some tweaks). And it may actually be the case as a recent paper claims that gravitational lensing doesn't match the predictions of the dark matter theory.

The main competitor to dark matter is modified gravity, which calls for no new stuff, but changes the equations for gravity. For the Occam razor, adding some random term to an equation is not really better than adding some invisible but well characterized stuff, especially when we consider that the equation in question is extremely well tested. It is, of course, also falsifiable.

The problem right now is not that these theories are unfalsifiable, it is that they are already pretty much falsified in their current form (dark matter less than modified gravity), and some rework is needed.
Just making sure no one is confused by common computationalist sophistry and how they attribute personal characteristics to computers and software. People can have and can create experiences, computers can only execute their programmed instructions.
Noting that the skin is a barrier, wouldn't cannabinoid containing cremes and compounds applied to the skin be a better test than ingested? Hemp based skin care product has been around for ages, but thats low THC and related content so if this is about the THC and other psychoactive compounds, it might not have been an adequate test.

Unless it's targetting some pathway in the system "from the inside" rather direct topical application to the affected skin and sub-skin.
And I am saying they are confused because they are attributing personal characteristics to computers and software. By spelling out what computers are doing it becomes very obvious that there is nothing that can be aware of any experiences in computers as it is all simply a sequence of arithmetic operations. If you can explain which sequence of arithmetic operations corresponds to "experiences" in computers then you might be less confused than all the people who keep claiming computers can think and feel.
Yep, I just listened to a 30min Dune 1 recap on Youtube because I read it years ago but wanted to finally start the second book.

What's the problem?
If you re-read my prior comment, my point is that it doesn't have to be this way, and isn't like this in other places. Cozy (but frequently crowded) Starbucks with sit-down seating are extremely common and popular here in Japan. They aren't turning them into kiosks. And this is the very same company that's doing so in America. So I think we should look at other factors instead of just whining about "evil capitalism".
> Then again, there’s a lot of small business commercial stuff I ignore because I’m at a union shop and we can’t compete with a one man electrical van when it comes to wiring up a 1500 sq ft nail salon or whatever, there’s no money in that market anyways.

Ding ding ding... so are they businesses or not? I didn't comment on whether you could make money as an electrician on them, but to imply the hundreds of thousands of businesses like what you just described above aren't _businesses_ especially considering they are on commercially zoned property is just silly.
Can you explain what you mean by that? The only thing I can think of is that GPS has 2 modes : one civilian and other military use. But military use-case uses encryption so civilians can't use that mode anyway.
Lucky they all forgot their guns that day.
It sounds like you're describing two different things though, of course, they can look somewhat similar from the outside.

There's unable and there's not caring. I can imagine not having some specific skill sets and I can imagine just not having the interest in putting in the effort and learning what's needed. The results may look somewhat similar but they're different situations.
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is there a way to add our own questions/board?
I prefer to use git from GUI and those usually do not support reflog. I'm aware of it, but that's my tool of the last resort, if I did something very wrong.
Do you have a citation for “4.75 servings?” The one thing from 2010 I could find has a serving size of one can.

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/four-loko/four-...
I think the difficulty here is addressing: who is your target audience? Depending on that answer, you have different existing relatively succesful visual programming languages. For example, game designers have managed to make good use of Unreals' blueprints to great effect. Hobbists use Comfy UIs node language to wire up generative AI components to great effect. As far as generic computing goes, Scratch has managed to teach a lot of programming principles to people looking to learn. The problem comes in when you try and target a generic systems programmer: the target is too abstract to be able to create an effective visual language. In this article, they try and solve this issue by choosing specific subproblems which a visual representation is helpful: codebase visualization, computer network topology, memory layouts, etc...but none of them are programming languages
What value is being optimized and how do you know it is too much or not enough?
My understanding is that scientific understanding of sleep is relatively limited and tenuous at that, compared to other medical topics. A professor at a sleep lab once joked to me that in fifty (or whenever) years, knowledgeable people will find today’s sleep science wrong. As such, I never seriously consider applying recommendations from “sleep science” to my personal life. (Though, to be fair, I’ve no problems sleeping.)

Is that an overly cynical perspective?
https://archive.ph/FrpGX
There are production-level visual programming systems, Mendix is one of them, I have a friend who works on a industrial system fully built in Mendix with just a small amount of custom java code, but processes, data handling, UI all is made in it.
This is really just wasting 20 minutes, it's much better to have a clear agenda which is basically in the form of bullet point notes that most people would make outlining the important topics and questions. Then just go through the agenda providing a brief elaboration on each topic and take questions, get agreement, write down the conclusion and move on. If the meeting is purely informational then in most cases you shouldn't even have a meeting.
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Removing the GIL requires operations that are protected by it when it exists to be made thread safe in ways which they don't need to be with it, which has some overhead. Even having multiple options from which the situationally correct one (e.g., a lighter-weight one in guaranteed single-threaded or GIL active cases) can automatically be selected has some overhead. (Conceptually, you could have separate implementations that can be selected by the programmer with zero runtime overhead where not needed, but that also has more conceptual/developer overhead, so other than particular things where the runtime cost is found to really bite in practice, that's probably not going to be a common approach for core libraries that might need to be called either way. There's no free lunch here.
No, if you are moving a high levels of capital and can exploit populations that haven't moved as fast as you (Mexico <- causal <- rust belt, etc) you are essentially playing a shell game but have fast hands because you can move more efficiently across larger sections of the globe and local demographics than someone from that population. It's predatory, and ultimately leads to "deserts" where the parasite has booked it to a location where the resource pipeline is more efficient thus more profits can be siphoned without a drop in metrics.
I don't know about that particular game, but some of the games have options to make them quicker, for exactly the reason of making completion times more comparable across games. For instance, some of the supported RPGs have options to multiply experience and money, to reduce grinding, as well as options to shorten or skip long cutscenes, modify victory conditions (e.g. number of MacGuffins required), or add fast-travel systems to games that didn't originally have them.
Of course, many of King's stories do seem to push "fetishized characteristics" as you call them: in The Shining, Danny had the power to "shine". In Green Mile, the protagonist had a magical healing ability. But what characteristics did the characters in Shawshank have? Both seemed fairly well-rounded to me, and certainly didn't have any supernatural abilities (which is one thing that set Shawshank apart from many King stories).
I got the Apple Vision Pro with the hope to tinker with such things. Is one more dimension enough to "unlock" visual programming? I don't know, and unfortunately not many seem interested in exploring it.
Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021)
I’m not arguing the advice, I’m arguing the religion and belief system.
Sounds interesting! Does this approach work in indoor scenarios? Would you mind to provide some further links/papers to this topic?
Hi! kaskade is more like AKHQ than Cruise control.

We use strimzi by default, so we deploy cruise control with kafka, and it takes care of rebalancing the data across the nodes. Also you can deploy it without strimzi.

Delete crap is more complicated, usually with kafka-delete-records (this is king of new I think). The problem is the offsets. By general rule you should not delete data from topics
Oh, at my day job we are about 5 engineers maintaining and adding features to support thousands of users, I'm aware of how few people are actually needed to maintain and build software.

My objection was to the phrase "Steam is not complex", which I guess wasn't the posters point.
I always refer people to the Doris Day performance of Carl Sigman and Herb Madgison's hit song "enjoy yourself, it's later than you think".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxsG9Vcndw

There's also a Guy Lombardo and a Louis Prima version but I like this one.

I've been singing this at work for a year or so, trying to give people a gentle hint about my future.
> If you have to build a wall around your state to keep people from fleeing

It's not really about building a wall around your country to keep people from fleeing, but to prevent gadgets sold by people leveraging arbitrage in an unfair way to get in – or, as we call them for now millenia, tariffs.
That is not a problem, and for sure not a fundamental one.
The textual representation is very limited, it's actually 1D with a line breaks helping us read it. 2D gives a lot more possibilities of organising code similar to how we draw diagrams on a whiteboard.
I agree that the author made an imperfect argument and probably should not make factual claims that aren't supported by data. I think people arguing in bad faith tend to pick up on this kind of error because, like the commenter I responded to, they feel that their ability to refute anything about the argument means they've refuted the argument. My intent in responding was to point out that this is stupid, and that no one writing informally can really make an unassailable factual argument, which I did by doing the same kind of stupid nitpicking on their nitpick. Finding the weakest peripheral claim made in an argument is essentially always a fractal recursion into increasingly banal minutiae that serves no one except people like me who are trying to procrastinate on actual work by writing comments on a dumb aggregator website where devs argue for fun. I think we are in agreement at most of the self-similar layers of this
Nah, code is 1D with line breaks for visual comfort
thanks! that is awesome
The Rust Belt long predated Amazon.

How is Bezos extracting money from the middle class?
'Tis the way of the world, unfortunately.