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by streamofdigits 5y ago
It feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Greed killed the golden goose and this article points this out in a simple and convincing way. > The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share knowledge This doesn't immediately provide a solution
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I think the article makes a very important point about under-resourced developer teams but misses an opportunity to point out that most other teams within organizations and businesses face similar constraints. I think this favors stacks a
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
> That problem is that sheet music is terrible. Something that people with casual exposure to musical notation probably don't know is that before the standard 5-staff notation became ubiquitus there were quite a few alternatives, ma
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
"Google's results are clearly getting worse". Can somebody quantify this in some objective way? As in: I have this concrete metric (that anybody can inspect / replicate) and I saw it declining from 201X to 2022 etc. I do
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I get a sense that the julia community is more anxious about adoption than, e.g. python or R communities. Its probably natural given it is a relative newcomer in the broader "data science" / "scientific computing" t
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
The dawn of "digitally augmented relationship management"? - Dave, I noticed you haven't spoken to X in a while. Do you want me to sent them a short generic message to keep the relationship warm? - Aaw, thanks HAL. I love how
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Ideally you'd want some distilled and organized subset of "good" (informative) discussions, comments etc to persisted as a separate hierarchy that is subject focused and not timeline oriented. A subjective wikipedia of sorts
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
For a long time advertising was the art of creating "wants". For a century it worked "like a charm". We are now living in a world that (at least in so called developed world) is overconsuming by a very large factor. The
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
it sooths my soul that next to the cryptobros and data oligarchs there is a small community that chips away at making the world a better place - one command line tool at a time
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
if the hardware landscape settles for a while (in terms of the capabilities of devices and networks - which is not a crazy precondition given Moore's law has run its course) then it may be that these server/client pendulum oscilla
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
If it was just a "scam" it would be easier to resolve this. Alas it is a complex and evolving mix of all sorts of factors: * new software architectures based on cryptography and additional communication patterns (aka consensus) wh
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
The largest collection of talks that never walked
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Both BeeWare and Kivy are great projects adressing a space that could surely produce some very interesting applications. Offering seamless integration of the versatile python stack on mobile devices would be a game changer as far as I am co
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
R is frequently compared with python and julia which are general purpose programming languages but it is not really a proper comparison. Once you approach R as a domain specific language / system then its various quirks and pecularitie
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
In a strange way the adoption of JS SPA's has made the "thinking-not-required" backend frameworks like Rails and Django less "opinionated" and thus requiring more thinking. I don't know about the Ruby/Rail
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
this seems to be the main new data point that is now evident for all to see I mean it is sort of obvious to anybody not captured and with basic morals but such is the allure of greed that for ages people were cynically and hypocritically pr
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
It may really be time to re-examine the text-only proposition (gemini style). There is this fear of missing out on visual content but I suspect this too could be handled.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
As people commented already, meta / facebook will be a enormous cash cow for quite some time. This raises the interesting question of whether it could actually reinvent itself in some way. Having an almost 100% concentration on a busin
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Imagine this dismall planet dotted with decrepit nuclear plants, even as the societies that are supposed to keep them safe collapse either of their own accord, or due to interminable warfare. When deciding on the wisdom of adopting a techno
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
SSG's feel like the first step towards something. Unless the website has really simple structure it likely that you will get stuck i) with sub-optimal content management (e.g using an IDE) and ii) a complex mess of mixing code and cont
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
In the near future there will be an illicit underground market for dumb devices that don't "dial home". Anybody seen to buy such devices will be ostracized as somebody having "something to hide", e.g., when and what
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
> Mr. Market extrapolated a one-time demand surge into the indefinite future Mr. Market is apparently a total idiot and can't distinguish infinity from unity. Somehow all these Zero Hedge wanabee's would be more credible if the
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Yep. Noticed that recently in some searches and it was definitely a "wtf" moment. The links seem to be to compromised wordpress sites but that's just a guess. Did not stay long to figure it out.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There is an implicit assumption of substitutability of land use in this conversion that is interesting whether it holds or not: People are not exactly asked to live in a parking lot but no matter how much you invest on specific grounds, you
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
it seems HN has lost the ability to detect sarcasm :-(
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I propose we periodically check, e.g. every 1K years or so, to make sure the facility is working as designed. If it doesn't, whoever approved the plan should be shamed and reprimanded very publicly.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
thanks, lots of good pointers to follow up on, though I suspect there is a load of terminology who's precise meaning is more context dependend. For example the wikipedia distributed operational system [0] entry does not seem to reall
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
it may be. can't really tell until somebody maps it to a universe that (I think) I understand... but I suspect this seeming to be a hype of sorts within certrain tech circles (with associated professional incentives etc) there aren&#x2
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
why is explaining why kubernetes is so complex, so complex? could somebody ELI-RP? (start with a collection of raspeberry pi's sitting on my desk and take it from there)

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