HN often tolerates dog whistles about how school kids bussed from "the had part of town" are a net-negative, but BlackSky is suddenly the bad type of segregation? GTFOH.

I'm used to Python code being "Pythonic" - which is one of those "I know it when I see it" terms.

There will be the WebVans of the AI boom era, we just don't know their names yet. There also will be Ciscos and Suns that will never reach their high-water mark ever again, or become obsolete in a few years, and sold for less that what people expect.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43753738

2. Now-deleted report on involved parties by South African news org https://archive.is/bcSDY

3. https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/172579/cloud-innovations-i...

Ironic for you to being up Libya as its collapse was instigated by the same former colonisers that couldn't stand Qaddafi - France nad friends. The results were deplorable, unimaginable levels slavery and waves of immigration to Europe via Libya due to it's now-porous borders have in turn destabilised Europe. Combined with other "interventions" by western counties in the middle east - Afghanistan, Syria. The argument that imperialism results in stability is false on it's face given recent history starting from the moment the first missiles were fired to kick off the war on terror.

It's almost as if the colonisers designed it that way. Sowing division, encouraging corruption and infighting while the actual administration was done from abroad, and just enough of it to keep the resources flowing out without regard for any long-term societal improvement for the natives. The same old colonial resource-extraction companies are still exploiting the countries that are allegedly "independent", but whose leaders are thoroughly bribed and have bank accounts and "investments" in Luxembourg, France, Dubai, the UK and the US that the former-colonisers are aware off. You want them to return and do achieve which goals, exactly? Cock-block China? No one is naive enough to think recolonisation can have benevolent intentions or executed benevolently.

If the west has an appetite for another round of sustained guerilla warfare and terror-tactics, then direct political control is the way to go, if not, then they should consider maintaining the status quo of monetary and service imperialism enabled by corruption, the WTO, the World Bank, the petro-dollar and the USD as the global reserve currency.

He did not, he got <50% of the total votes at final tally. People who parrot this are under-informed, or lying to claim a mandate his administration lacks.

So are the electric and cooling costs at Google's scale. Improving perf-per-watt efficiency can pay for itself. The fact that they keep iterating on it suggests it's not a negative-return exercise.

You may not even notice it when AI does a product placement when it's done opportunistically in creative writing (see Hollywood). There also are plenty of high-intent assistant-type AI tasks.

Erlang gives architects the tools to restart as little, or as much of the tree as they like, so I hope they have their brains fully engaged when working on the infrastructure that underlies their projects. For complex projects, it's vital think long and hard about state-interactions and sub-system dependencies, but the upside for Erlang is that this infrastructure is separated from sequential code via behaviors, and if the organization is big enough, the behaviors will be owned by a dedicated infrastructure team (or person) and consumed by product teams, with clear demarcations of responsibilities.

There's an impedance mismatch between people who think gcc should have maximized user utility vs. the actual GNU philosophy. The actions of the gcc project make a lot of sense if you consider the FSF/GNU are monomaniacal about maximizing users freedoms, and not popularity, momentum or other ego-stroking metric.

Which is the my point. If cops don't have an obligation to save anyone from a fire, then why would random Joe get into trouble for similar inaction. GP was mistaken about the laws in America.

There's video from a few years back that shows very American cops standing outside a burning house at night, knowing there was a young child still in it. A passing pizza delivery dude[1] rescued the 6-year old, handed her to cop, and ended up requiring hospitalization. In the online discussion, everyone called the rescuer a hero, but I don't recall seeing a single condemnation of the cops (a "first-responder") who didn't enter the burning house.

edit: 1. the hero's name is Nick Bostic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBlE52qKKuw

Society is not ready for the conversation because more often that not, inquisitive people who dare go upstream find out that capitalism - directly or indirectly - is pushing into the river, and have to walk back down to while hanging their head, and continue pulling those they can out of the river.