skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote. Why? Is it voter suppression, gerrymandering causing indifference, or people who felt their vote didn't matter? The 7.6% that are ineligible to vote are mostly adults living in America who have not managed to attain citizenship, or people convicted of a felony. Whatever the reasons, 42% of adults living in America had no say in the 2024 election. The vote failed to represent everyone.

I have some choice criticism for this view.

Firstly: The inelligible people are inelligible for a proper reason which are even stated by him. It is not a failure to not represent people who should not be represented in the first place. You want to vote? Become an American national and don't commit crimes, very basic and reasonable demands.

Secondly and more significantly: Americans who don't vote explicitly decide to have no say in elections; not voting is itself a vote. It is not a failure to represent people who have no opinions on matters. The notion that everyone must have opinions on everything at all times is absurd.

In short: The vote represented everyone meant to be represented, including those who didn't vote.
So far, you're the most political one on this thread. You're the most set in your position, and the most argumentative in favor of it, and using the most loaded language to do it.

(Not to single you out too much - I've become more and more sensitive to people who are here in "transmit-only mode". They won't listen, they won't have an actual discussion, they will only argue for their viewpoint, they won't concede or accept any of the other side's points, and they won't shut up, ever. It's completely antithetical to what HN is supposed to be, and I'm seeing it more and more, and it's really getting under my skin. It's making a site that I really like into something that I like a lot less - into just another battleground for a bunch of shouting people.

So, hagbard_c, you're getting an over-reaction because of a bunch of pent-up frustration at people who are not you. But you're trending in the same direction, and you're doing it while complaining about the way political discussions happen here.)
California's Vestal Flame (2022)
Cigarettes have been replaced with sealed packets of fish.
McFrodo has a nice ring to it.
Well, in good faith, if everyone in "dangerous" areas of the US moved to less dangerous areas, the resulting population density would still be less than Ohio's (~242/mi2, also LA's population density is ~8,000/mi2--well below places like Pittsburgh and Buffalo even--so keep that in mind), and I left Alaska out of both safe and dangerous lists because it's a cheat. And it's very OK there! Winter is fine. I grew up and lived in the Midwest for years; tornadoes, etc. are bad but they're not wildfires and hurricanes.

Is this a serious "proposal"? Definitely not. But a lot of people in this thread are acting like moving away from literal hellfire is impossible, and I respectfully submit that living in the interior is better than having everything you own burn down.

"Dangerous": California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Utah, Puerto Rico, Nevada, Mississippi, New Mexico, Idaho, Hawaii, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa

"Safe": New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Missouri, West Virginia, Minnesota, Vermont, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Iowa, Maine, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming
How about cost at scale? Amazon itself shifted Prime Video from serverless to mostly containers and it resulted in huge savings.
The way you eat Pizza became a political thing.

Whether evolution occurs became a political thing.

It may odd, but political reality is a ‘motivated’ reality - there is a goal to be achieved.

Anything that can be used to create a political win, will be used to create a political win.

I agree that subjectivity exists though.
It’s the opposite of ironic. He’s against the concentration of wealth, so he’s given away much of his wealth and is pledging to continue to do so.
I wonder what will be the next move to airbrush the guy from history. Will Nintendo change the name of Mario's brother?

Is there some entity that enforces Creative Commons? That seems a blatant violation of CC-BY-SA by Stack Overflow.
Non-Turing-completeness doesn’t buy you that much, because you can still easily multiply runtime such that it wouldn’t terminate within your lifetime. With just map you can effectively build the cross product of a list with itself. Do that in an n-times nested expression (or nested, non-recursive function calls), and for a list of length k the result is a list of length kⁿ. And with reduce you could then concatenate a string with itself those kⁿ times, resulting in a string (and likely runtime and memory usage) of length 2^kⁿ.

If you want to limit the runtime, you need to apply a timeout.
The privacy implications are discussed in the article.
For magnets, one that Dangerous Things used to sell (discontinued due to low volume) is encased in titanium, even better than bioglass. I have it in a finger and it'll last until I get it removed or die.

I also have an RFID/NFC implant and currently use it to get into my apartment. Have also used it for work and school cards in the past, it's easy to write new cards to it if the chip in the card is one that can be easily copied (most can).
The Windows version of Excel has the add-ins necessary to connect to ERP systems and just more connectivity options in general. This alone will prevent most organizations from leaving Windows. Excel for Mac isn't great (find/replace is really annoying) and neither is LibreOffice Calc (formatting norms).

As for gaming, my desktop runs Cosmic OS and I have had no issues thanks to Steam/Proton. The only issues people have for the most part are related to online multiplayer games that require users to install rootkits in order to play.
Any type-changing store to allocated storage has this property in C.
Are you per chance stamping parts out in a factory?

The Soviet Union used to give the award "Hero of Socialist Labour" to top performers in the labour force, and public spaces everywhere had billboards celebrating local labour performers.

Could you name any top labourer in your region, your country or the world? Any certain factory worker that comes to mind?
The thing is every PC is a "gaming PC". The only distinction is how powerful you make it. And PC manufacturers generally sell a line of laptops/desktops branded for gaming. I found random numbers from 2021, where Lenovo said that they sell over a million of their Legion gaming laptops every year (https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-legi...). Has Steam Deck sold more than a few million since it launched in 2022? Unlikely.
Several unrelated comments:

* In general, whenever I hear "compiler will optimize this", I die a little on the inside. Not even because it's delegating solution of the newly created problem to someone else, but because it creates a disconnect between what the language tells you is possible and what actually is possible. It encourages this kind of multi-layer lie that, in anger, you will have to untangle later, and will be cursing a lot, and will not like the language one bit.

* Capabilities. Back in the days when ActionScript 3 was relevant, there was a big problem of dynamic code sharing. Many services tried to implement module systems in AS3, but the security was not done well. To give you some examples: a gaming portal written in AS3 wants to load games written by programmers who aren't the portal programmers (and could be malicious, i.e. trying to steal data from other programs, or cause them to malfunction etc.) ActionScript (and by extension JavaScript 4) had a concept of namespaces borrowed from XML (so not like in C++), where availability of particular function was, beside other things, governed by whether the caller is allowed to access the namespace. There were some built-in namespaces, like "public", "private", "protected" and "internal" that functioned similar to Java's namesakes. But users were allowed to add any number of custom namespaces. These namespaces could be then shared through a function call in a public namespace. I.e. the caller would have to call the function and supply some kind of a password, and if password matched, the function would return the namespace object, and then the caller could use that namespace object to call the functions in that namespace. I tried to promote this concept in Flex Framework for dealing with module loading, but that never was seriously considered... Also, people universally hated XML namespaces (similar to how people seem to universally hate regular expressions). But, I still think that it could've worked...

* All this talk about "dynamic languages"... I really don't like it when someone creates a bogus category and then says something very general about it. That whole section has no real value.

* A Truly Relation Language -- You mean, like Prolog? I wish more relational databases exposed their content via Prolog(like) language in addition to SQL. I believe it's doable, but very few people seem to want it, and so it's not done.
I didn’t flag it, but I can see how a number of people might’ve taken the title seriously and felt it was kind of clickbait. If it had been clearly labeled as satire, I wonder if it would’ve been flagged (and if as many people would’ve read it).
> as if the whole world doesn't know what they consume can negatively affect their health..

Most people just don't... my 60+ father in law was trying to lose weight for years, after a long talk we came to the conclusion that he didn't know what a calorie was, why sugar was bad, why "dried fruits" don't count as "fruits" when your doctor recommends XXX grammes of fruits per day, why starting your day with a liter of tea with 50g of sugar wasn't helping. He went from 120kg to 90kg in a year and is healthier than he was 15 years ago.

My mom told me she had enough protein for the day after eating a single chicken thigh. My dad says he's active enough even though his phones counts about 2k steps per day on average...

What's your view ? People get fat, age terribly and die as a result of a conscious decision process in which they arrive to the conclusion that losing their limbs to diabetes is OK because Coke tastes good ? It's even more condescending than my take because it makes them plain dumb instead of simply ignorants
Well, I guess there's no point to applying to YC for whoever is working on delve.io
> The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible. Serverless represents just about the ultimate abstraction for this mindset.

I think the answer is in the first sentence. A lot of engineers make products that don't touch the internet. This concept is lost in the noise quite a bit.
"I have had several conflicts with founders because I act outside of my scope (I.E, I do things they think is a waste of my time: like budget forecasts, headcount plans, retrospectives of milestones and previously I was doing the product roadmap- which I definitely agree is out of scope)."

The founders hate it when you use numbers, facts and analysis to come up with very good reasons not to implement their latest Great Idea on demand. I presume you were the one that actually implemented a Product Roadmap to keep founders out of the weeds in the first place.
> Good design is discoverable.

I would argue that Windows design lineage here has conditioned us to accept what Microsoft gives us. Do you really think Windows has good design? There are three control panels in W11 for god's sake.

I really think what you're getting at here is "familiar design is discoverable" - for a majority of users, the familiarity with Windows design is indeed a major driving factor. It's why Linux is scary, because it's unfamiliar. You can get a lot done on Linux desktop these days via GUI on the major distributions, terminal not required. Much like Windows.

The boot experience is not as polished, and I think the pre-OS environment that Micorsoft has built up around Windows is excellent unlike *nix which is dealing with ramfs and GRUB, etc.
Right, because assuming people willingly get fat as fuck and die early of heart failure is not lmao
Reminded me of Pocoyo (English version narrated by Stephen Fry) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocoyo
I don't doubt that's the intent, sometimes, but hiring freezes happen lots of places and they don't mean that thing.
I would be more specific than that. SELinux can be running and intentionally poorly written policies can allow absolutely anything to happen. The risk being, [X] Checkbox SELinux is technically running.
Who is demonizing all men?

Since when do women have more job opportunities than men? Certainly not true in most of the US and certainly not for the same pay.

Society isn't anti-men. Society very clearly fears men, as both males and females should. Because men are -- as a group -- far more dangerous than females. There are many societal controls to counter act that danger. Until the rich no longer exploit the weak, and leave them powerless and without adequate healthcare, AND male culture becomes more pro-social and willing to accept help, things won't improve.
Without a link and a breakdown that makes no sense. We switched from blue to square and saw a honey suckle savings.

Amazon runs both and serverless is a billing model. Many serverless runtimes consume containers.

Serverless, like microservices are a design philosophy.
Because most applications have 27 active users per day and a $10/month VPS can handle 100000.
I know someone who is hard core vegetarian because of impression from childhood, it all depends.

Maybe you see a normal farm and get to know the animals then see an actual factory where it is industrialized...
Copy-and-pasting to ChatGPT. Machine translation (JP to EN) before this LLM era was already high quality, but LLM does a really great job. It does not translate as is, but understands the context, drops unnecessary expressions (important!), and outputs a more natural translation.

That said, LLM is ofc not perfect, especially when the original text (or Japanese itself) is ambiguous. So I've heavily modified the text too. That's why there are some typos :cry:
That’s a political hot potato in California right now. CALFIRE has been advocating for prescribed burns for decades but it doesn’t have jurisdiction over all the lands owned by the federal government and the 35 California Air Districts mired in local politics are responsible for issuing the permits for those burns. Lots of NIMBYs who pressure the district boards to withhold those permits for air quality reasons.

There’s hope that this series of events will cause them to reevaluate but prescribed burns wouldn’t have helped in the Palisades anyway.
Ukrainians claim hack of Russian ISP wiped out servers, caused internet outages
Here's Claude's response to your question:

I aim to discuss this topic factually while noting that views vary significantly among San Francisco residents. Some common political positions that would generally be considered far-left in the U.S. context include support for:

- Housing as a human right and strict rent control policies

- Universal basic income and significantly higher taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations

- Complete defunding or abolition of police departments

- Immediate and dramatic action on climate change, including bans on private vehicles
That's what coalitions are for.
An emergency stop button for a robot car shouldn't immediately disengage all other automation and apply maximum braking as the parent comment seems to be implying. That would, indeed be very dangerous.

An emergency stop routine should involve a code path designed to bring the car to a stop in a safe location as soon as practical. It should be thoroughly tested on degraded hardware with minimal branching relative to normal operation. It should also activate the hazard lights, contact the operator's emergency department, unlock all the doors, and lower the windows.
> Do programs really have to be in monospaced fonts?

Of course not. I've been using a proportional font for at least 10 years and I'm still in business working on code bases shared with developers using monospaced fonts. Both work, none disturb the other, proportional is easier to read as any book can demonstrate. Alignment doesn't matter much.
It's too bloody expensive. QED.
Salesforce will just pivot in its marketing again. They latch on to the latest trend and drop it as soon as it isn't hot any more. They have constantly done this, it is their operating procedure.

Saleforce did not really suffer when NFTs died or blockchain become uncool because by then they had a new trend to promote.
I don't know any more than that, vague recollections of people complaining about them on Reddit, and thought I would be remiss not to mention them.
One man’s horrible recommendation is another’s… emancipation?

We’re all uniquely different!, I promise; After a number of other paradigms had failed to teach me programming, assembly was what finally did it.

And with synthesis,
it was FM first and then subtractive. The picture is more concise when looking at it from the perspective of frequency modulation because all oscillators can do everything, you know? –That’s the sense it made to me, privately and personally.
I've recently taken up hunting, mostly because my rural family prioritizes it.

The natural world is full of unimaginable cruelty. Wolves will take down young deer and eat them alive while parents watch. Bears will pin down whatever they can catch and who cares if it is alive. On and on, the amount of bloodshed required to support an omnivore/carnivore is simply bananas. Killer whales are hyper-intelligent aquatic nightmares, imho, that thankfully have not decided to eat humans.

We, humans, made the following bargain with nature, at least until recently: We will drive away the predators that keep you in constant alert and savage your children, and in exchange we will determine how and when you die (quickly, but perhaps also fearfully).

I agree - we can carefully manage the wilderness for our own benefit, and that may take away the randomized killings. But there is _no_ version of a carnivore or meat-eating omnivore that does not involve killing and savagery and disregard for the life that has been reduced to just a link in the grass-to-meat or plankton-to-meat foodchain.

I've come to terms with that and continue to eat meat.
Pi 4, depending on the environment, also needed active cooling, in my experience. Especially in summer, with room temperature above 28*C, it couldn't handle any load until I added a fan. (The good thing about it was that I could control the fan with PWM easily - it was fun :))
that's when they dont see internal teams are customers. because if they do, they will do everything to make the internal teams life easier.

enabling, not gatekeeping.
Would that have stopped this fire from spreading?
Because serverless doesn't exist. Serverless just means it runs on someone else's servers, just like the cloud. And 10 years down the road people have forgotten how to run basic things, but Bezos buys Panama.
> unknown chance

for values of "unknown chance" well under 1 in 100,000. you sound like the same kind of American who prefers the quarter pounder to the third pounder because 4 > 3.
> I lost my camera, the laptop is upside down for better cooling

It’s funny because I wonder how some coworkers can be so incompetent. And I work with programmers so it always seemed weird that someone who is generally competent would have continual tech problems.

I’m not a fan of radical candor, but I’ll say “I just don’t feel like being on camera right now” as I think that’s better than feigned incompetence.
This misses the main factor, I think: Vendor lock-in.

There is no unification of APIs - every provider has their own bespoke abstractions typically requiring heavy integration into further vendor-specific services - moreso if you are to leverage USPs.

Testing and reproducing locally is usually a pipe-dream (or take significantly more effort than the production deploy). Migrating to a different cloud usually requires significant rewrites and sometimes rearchitecturing.
I still find the DevEx of serverless terrible compared to the well-established monolith frameworks available to us.

The YAML config, IAM permissions, generating requests and responses, it's all so painful to get anything done.

Admittedly I speak as a software engineer primarily building CRUD apps, where frameworks have had decades of development. I can see use cases for event-driven applications where serverless may make life easier. But for CRUD, currently no chance.
I built a serverless startup (GalaticFog) about 8 years ago, had to shut it down. Market never developed. There were some obvious lessons learned.

First most companies thought they needed to do containers before serverless, and frankly it took them a while to get good at that.

Second the programming model was crap. It's really hard to debug across a bunch of function calls that are completely seperate apps. It's just a lot of work, and it made you want to go monolith and containers.

Third, the spin up time was a deal killer in that most people would not let that go, and wanted something always running so there was no latency. Sure workload exist that do not require that, but they are niche, and serverless stayed niche.
I also think eventually we won't eat animals, just not in my lifetime. Practicality doesn't need to be blind to morality and might also be wrong (it might be faster than I think).
Blocking Tor on a home network does that? Gee, I didn't know.
They poke each other simultaneously with a barely visible "sword" and you only know who won if you know what the lights on the board mean.

Someone getting punched and falling down - immediately clear who's winning, makes sense. Ball gets kicked in a net - immediately clear, makes sense.

Common knowledge of sword fighting, albeit coming from movies, is: if you get stabbed by a sword, that's bad. You're not winning. And yet in fencing, they get stabbed and then some lights appear and they have "won" somehow.

What I personally prefer is only relevant to the extent you will feel better about your day if you believe you have beaten a stream of text on the internet. What matters is what's universally true, and obviously it's universally true that for spectators to enjoy watching something their ability to understand it is a factor.