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Looks like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747772

they were effective altruists who chose AI safety research as the most effective way to improve the world

This actually made me laugh, I’m sorry

I'd be really interested in the opposite, just for the sake of experimentation since that's what these projects mostly are. They all seem to be rewrites for the sake of "performance", because the cost is now lower bc of AI. I'd be interested to see something like a port of Quake III in Python or Kubernetes in Perl, even Rails in Python would be goofy and really fun to see

I’m probably going to be downvoted for this but this thread doesn’t really reflect well on the promises of Generative AI and particularly the constantly reiterated assurance that we’re on the verge of a new industrial Revolution.

This looks like a solution in search of a problem already solved by SQLite

I’m not entirely sure this is the silver lining you seem to think it is

I would be interested in hearing a plausible scenario of how a large scale voting machines hack could potentially happen

This looks super useful, but I was wondering if I'm the only one bothered by this recent trend of overloading completely unrelated operators (here the `/` operator) in the name of legibility.

I had an adjacent idea a few weeks ago, but centered more around the idea that it may be difficult for new open-source contributors to find appropriate issues to work on. Suggesting and allowing to discover interesting issues across multiple repositories would allow the prospective user to get a nice view of what interesting issues are available to make a first / second / third contribution to a project, and possibly to also track contributions / pull requests etc.

Seems to have been layoffs at Mozilla today

This is such a great, simple, almost obvious idea. This type of ideas is getting more and more rare, so it is great to see one popping here and there.

Granted, this article is 15 years old but it is interesting to find that the landscape seems not to have changed much. I was wondering how much domain logic a modern application should put at the database layer.

This is an interesting article. Native Apps deployment constraints seem so different than a typical web continuous deployment process.

As an aside, here's a look at Etsy's Continuous deployment process: https://www.slideshare.net/mrtazz/development-deployment-and...

Accounting breakdown for the 2017 election is not yet available, apparently. This page list accounting breakdown for the 2012 and 2007 presidential elections: http://www.cnccfp.fr/index.php?art=720

I also would be curious to know the production and operating costs for a website of this kind.

Video of the presentation on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giUatBmmb_Y

This is fun. Here's mine:

- Brad fitzpatrick -- http://bradfitz.com/

- Julia Evans -- https://jvns.ca

- Raymond Hettinger -- https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/

- Rich Hickey -- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

- Peter Bourgon -- https://peter.bourgon.org/

- Rebecca Murphey -- https://rmurphey.com/

- Daniel Greenfield -- https://www.twoscoopspress.com/

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608

The interesting thing is that Apple just released the ability to remap Caps-Lock to Esc. natively in macOS 10.12.1, which doesn't seem to be incidental.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818839

In the light of the new Macbook Pros I find it interesting that Apple just released a simpler way of remapping Caps-Lock as Esc. Incidental or not?

I'm very interested in learning Clojure. Would you care to share more of your experience learning the language in terms of learning curve, useful libraries or just general tips. I'm sure that would benefit the community at large.

I'm in New-York too and can't resolve Paypal, Etsy, Soundcloud, Github, Netflix, Heroku or Twitter

As a user and supporter of RethinkDB I hope (and expect!) that the engineering team joining Stripe is a sign that Stripe will be able to take part in further development of the product.

On a sidenote, for people unfamiliar with RethinkDB, this episode of The Changelog with Slava explains some of the history and choices behind RethinkDB ; I found it really interesting. https://changelog.com/114/

I would go and say that when flickr will be gone we will enter a different era of the web. Flickr has been such a great influence over the years that internet without flickr will be a different internet altogether

Admittedly but Backbone is _still_ a good intro to Front-end frameworks because it has a steep learning curve upfront instead of, say, angular that seems easy enough to pick up until you try to tackle non trivial applications.

If you plan to use Django as an API server, you might be interested in Lightweight Django (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032502.do), which shows you how to design and build an API server using Django, Django Rest Framework (another great Django related project) and Backbone on the front-end.

It was withdrawn from the 1.10 release about 3 months ago, I think:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-developers/QRd4...

Including one 18.9Mb gif and no less than 6 jpgs clocking between 1.9 and 5.9 Mb. Looks like counter-optimization at this stage.

This might be somewhat related and certainly is not encouraging in the current context, unfortunately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876453

While I hear the argument, I'm tempted to think that the framework is largely irrelevant and that it actually is the ecosystem (package management and lack of quality control) that is harming platforms at large from Rails to Django to, obviously, node. I was very interested to hear of Elm enforcing Semver at the package manager level and I believe that this is a step in the right direction.

I second that, Django is the first word that popped into my mind when I read the question. I think Django exemplifies what a great Open-Source software community is.