skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got an idea myself, on doing something like this for the actual execution path - e.g. detecting what fields on of dict a function acts upon.

The immediate use is generation of minimal test data (the least data that runs each possible execution path), but I think in general it could be useful for debugging; consider knowing that, for example, the function "Int Foo(Dict bar)" will (conditionally) access only a certain key on bar, or will (necessarily) always require a certain key, such that this kind of information is available as a tooltip when you mouseover the parameter.
Obviously the thesis is true. Maintenance is crucial while innovation rarely changes anything substantive...

I think that is the reason that we hold innovators in high regard. People are very bad at it and it happens so infrequently. We rarely get the right person when we hand out credit so such idolization is usually meaningless, but I suppose in the long run that is not important. We have this irrational need to attach a person to the idea.

So we end up failing to properly credit any of the people that make and keep our civilization...
"It’s got tracking software for real time integration with the app, passenger counting, and a driver app.

We built software for everything, including realtime operational control to driver management to scheduling systems. We’re reinventing how to think about all of these in the realtime world. We’ve taken systems that haven’t traditionally talked to each other and integrated them."
Thank you for helping me see another way that Derefr may have mistaken my sub-topic. I can now see that I needed additional emphasis on "depression" and "sadness" being used interchangeably in modern conversation, and how treating the issues of both is complicated by the focus on just making a problem go away rather than identifying the true nature and causes of that problem.

People, doctors who should know better, and patients who should be better informed by (and listen to, and have //repeated// re-education by health professionals as the corrective actions enable them to think more clearly), will and do abuse the "crutch" as a "magic pill to make the problems go away". The for-profit nature of healthcare within the US also leads to a lack of appropriate balance in treatment and an over-reliance on pills.

I do not disagree that depression can be an irregularity within someone's body, but I am trying to convey that //sometimes// (unknown quantity, who even studies that?) the source of the problem is ultimately outside of the individual's body, and therefore the ultimate solution is also there. I worry that the reason people are loosing sight of "their true self" is that what should be a "crutch" has instead become a permanent mask that they wear as their only identity.

Modern medicine works by identifying symptoms and treating symptoms, far less often even identifying the underlying root cause(s), let alone treating them. This is great if the symptom is acute like a stabbing, gunshot, or heart attack. It's less so if the symptom is environmental.
This is a question I often have, and I've not come up with a good answer either way. Here are some of the examples I ponder:

The modern PC exists because IBM basically spread the knowledge around in their manuals, allowing many compatible devices to be made. In terms of capitalism, this was a dramatic mistake - IBM didn't make profit off of these knockoffs. But had they not, it may well have been similar to Unix (next entry), where many incompatible devices (hardware, in this case, not software) gave a fractured market that just didn't move very far.

Unix and related variants - AT&T lost the copyright to BSD because they had failed to enforce it (because that predated the Bourne convention). During the lawsuit, when the future of OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD was slightly in question, many devs worked on some little toy project known as Linux. Today, we have a healthy market of these open source solutions, but had BSD source not been freely available, would the BSDs have gotten any success? Would Linux exist in its modern form had the BSDs not served to create both a market and supporting software? GNU Herd seems to imply "no".

And of course, the Internet - Had some marketing exec been in a position do something about it, the modern Web would never have been created, and the internet itself as something that average people can connect to would be behind a series of paywalls and incompatible standards. Microsoft crushed Netscape, and announced that IE6 would be the "last version" of IE. When Firefox hit a point where it was better, competition was renewed and we eventually moved towards common standards, but that was only possible because Netscape opened their code (and reputation). Other competing browsers had been, but they went nowhere in terms of market share.

A few other non-tech examples:

Car door handles and mirrors (and etc). If you need to buy a replacement car part, it's ridiculously priced compared to what it is. Why? Because there's very little competition in that market. Even within their own brands most cars have very specific parts outside of the engine. Ideally I'd buy a car that was reliable and had standardized parts - but no such car is available, because the manufacturers not only lack an incentive, they have an incentive to keep it incompatible so they and their partners can enjoy a nice markup on replacement parts.

Coke and Pepsi - Between them, they control the vast majority of the soft drink market. But of course, their products are different. Mr. Pibb is not Dr. Pepper, Coke is not Pepsi..People will prefer one or the other, and their preferences won't line up with the corporate owner/controller, and if you have multiple people you are practically guaranteed to have preferences from both brands. Not a problem...unless you want to eat out. Virtually every restaurant (and some universities, conference centers, etc) has an exclusive deal with one or the other. Theoretically we could vote with our wallets and frequent those places that DON'T have an exclusive deal. If you can find any. And if that is more important than, you know, things like food and service and prices.
> There are later systems that still use track circuits, but provide more information to the driver and locomotive. These involve devices which sit between the rails and send signals to the train. Most of these are passive RFID-tag type devices. Some are wired into the signaling system.

Why do things this way, instead of just having the switches themselves notify control when they change state? (Or do they already?) That by itself tells you almost all you need to know about where a train is.
That's pretty cool to hear actually. CGI or FastCGI?
Those individuals capable of contributing the most to meeting the needs and desires of the most individuals deserve the most resources to enable them.

As measured by who, and how? This is standard economic orthodoxy but the fact that many important metrics like life expectancy are running counter to what you'd expect from looking at GDP etc. suggests that we have hit a local maximum and need to revise our models and methods.

This is not the best of all possible worlds, and reiterating the first principles that you believe in will not make it so, any more than praying for justice while carrying on in exactly the same way in all other respects.
India is/was a socialist state and I would expect social services to be spread more evenly than non-socialist countries. I also believe mobility is easier in developing nations and was better to some extent right after the Industrial Revolution and workers rights movements.

I am confused by your arguments. You're saying abolish public schools. Great idea then we could create pillar schools where only the elites attend like Yale and Harvard. Then the poor people will have to take out loans from the elite to attend good High Schools. Oh wait.

I'm a product of mobility. My father grew up in rural government housing in Georgia. Thankfully he went to GaTech and stayed in an environment with good public schools.
No there isn't because the people in this country are simply too stupid to realize there should be. And because politicians like this idiot don't get shamed, they get reelected. And so on and so forth, forever and ever the stupidity is not only passed forward, but celebrated. There is no hope for people who celebrate their own stupidity.
> Java is faster then Ruby. In other news - sky is blue.

RoR is dog slow. In other news - sky is blue. This is no surprise.

> I think the OP was stating that it is performant compared to RoR.

I think Sinatra is "performant enough for most" at best.
The Republican congress might impeach the president if a huge scandal became impossible to deny.

They aren't going to impeach the president for doing things they largely agree with.
In many ways, yes. There is a hatred, a malice, especially by special interest groups who have circled the wagons and demonised everyone around them.

When the NYT was hiring a gender editor, they prefixed the application with comments about how men "used to rule", they talked about how women "ruled the Olympics" [0]. How is this meant to help readers or a potential applicant? How does it make the world a better place? It doesn't, it tears the community apart. It's hate, but a popular hate!

Or search Google (or any news paper) for "domestic violence". Almost the entire media industry refuses to represent any male victims of domestic violence (again, division, isolation, sexism). In Australia, we starved ALL male victims of support. Yes, such segregation is still alive and kicking!

When I went back and looked at newspapers from the early 70s, I felt sick when I realised how much hate we have introduced today. It is a stark contrast. Please check for yourself and I suggest you'll be as shocked as I was at the extremes.

It's all around us though. Hollywood movies, NYT, Sydney Morning Herald, BBC, they have all been pushing extreme and nasty views (them and many other papers).

The world has become a
hostile place. There is no voice of reason. Who pointed out Hillary's sexist exit speech [1]? Nobody, not one media outlet. Why? Because her brand of divisiveness (hate) is popular! Little boys suck! Little girls rule! (Look for "boys" and "girls" in her speech to see what I mean that no media outlet will comment on).

So, yes, today's society is the most intolerant I've ever lived in. I can understand why people feel depressed. It's why I'm willing to take the karma hit every time I expose these special interest groups. My karma score ultimately means nothing, but, exposing these intolerants does (at least to me).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-gender-edi...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/hillary-clinton-conce...
100% of my savings are in index ETF or funds.

But I have a small yearly budget (less than 5%) for gambling with stocks. I enjoy picking stocks and reading financial news. I got lucky with a few picks but mostly it is a wash. This is a hobby for me, just requires a lot of discipline to not go above yearly budget.

As for how I pick stocks; financial news, regular news, if I like the company & its CEO. I definitely read up on CEO's biographies. Finally, I would do financial analysis, mostly avoid companies with a lot of debt, or very high PEs.
The lingering question with corporate venture arms: How do they perform compared to "regular" vc's? as corporate managers will have relative limited upside and zero skin in the game.
Maybe this should never have been something implemented by mere regulation in the first place? The Commission generally disregards bulk comments that repeat the same boilerplate language, has done so for decades, and is looking for logical argument grounded in the law rather than emotional outbursts.

How about getting a bill passed in Congress providing for this? There were opportunities. There can be again in the future. Laws are harder to repeal compared to regulations.

Besides, I was there when the original ECFS was created. Events like this make me miss the days when paper filings were the norm. You had to think harder about what you were going to say compared to today's emails of rage provoked by a comedian. You had to reflect carefully way back when...prior to mid-1997, that is.
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Jean Louis-Gasse is the former CEO of Be Inc., and CATC.

So, no, not of Apple, but of two other technology companies.
How Microsoft, Lyft, and CBS Interactive Nail the Customer Experience
I think that encouraging people to think about how silly the things they say during political discussions is productive.

I've still yet to see someone propose a rational mechanism with which to impeach the current president.
I still don't see how you're solving the problem if people who aren't productive working from home, but will also feel that a selective policy is unfair. It's going to happen.
Yes. A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

For the second case, this is why I talk about the nature of effective propaganda. Evidence is the only reliable way to fight against an authority, as the larger group would be significantly less able to censor evidence they are forced to use unverifiable propaganda - this is much less effective for them.
attempts to make wealth equal

Another thing I never actually advocated anywhere ever.
We should also ban CDNs, they give unfair advantages to big guys.
I believe you have just coined the definitive formulation of this principle. Would you like to name it? I humbly suggest "dTal's razor".
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Hoffer is wrong. He's confusing different military philosophies with this mixed up idea about national identity regarding "maintenance".

I don't think anyone would suggest Germany didn't perform a minor miracle by rebuilding as quickly as they did (with massive support), but the Russians went from having half their country burned to the ground, to a world superpower (also with a large amount of support), in a shorter time span than it took West Germany to return to pre-war industrial levels.
I am using Peterson's psychological definition of liberal and conservative temperaments, which I think holds regardless of the current manifestations of (and abuses of) the terms. He has theorized that the core political, and in fact philosophical and perhaps even more deeply, religious, battle in the west is between people who think there should be borders (physical, e.g. between nations, conceptual, e.g. between sexes, etc.) and those who do not, which revolves around these two psychological axes.

Interesting to think about.
Typescript is a completely different language advocating different paradigms so they are not comparable.

However I have to agree with you that the lack of support for local time is pretty unfortunate.
You mean like https://impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org/ ?

I wholeheartedly agree that we need to work together to wield whatever power we have, using all of our creative resources.

We need a cultural change. This is good news in that we know the long tail of society's critical judgement is, well, very long. Cf ads for pointless junk. "All we need to do" is provide something more compelling than what the machine is providing. We need new art. We need new music. We need new mainstream values. And by "values" I mean what is esteemed, and what is reviled. We'll never solve this as long as teachers are not paid and regarded as professionals. (This is about "convincing people," right?) We need to "fail 90% of the time" 10 times a day at trying anything that could possibly work. We need an Uber for activism. We need to forge a world where it's imaginable that a hunter in rural south Louisiana can be a globally-minded environmentalist without risk to his social standing. We need to suck it up and dump Facebook, or at least turn it against itself. The anti-intellectuals have changed normal, and we need to change it again. The good news is, we know how fast normal can change. If we can indeed claim the mantle of rational truth, then we need to use that to our advantage in every thinkable way. Break your bad habits, and help your friends break theirs. Eat better. Sleep better. We'll never win this if we're leaving anything on the table. I'm sick of feeling powerless and letting this go on. I know I'm not alone. We need to figure out how to channel this feeling into useful, radical action, and fast. And by radical I mean, unexpected, lateral, risky, uncomfortable. Conservative people like me (and I'm very risk-averse) need to get over ourselves and think of our children. I have two. At this point, we are leaving them a weaker democracy, a meaner society, and a metastasizing corruption. We make systems, we have resources, let's effing Xerox PARC this thing. I'll write code, I'll pay for hosting, I'll canvass. What? What do we need to do? How can we get together and change this game?
That's an article of faith, not an article of fact.

But I do agree that the best pricing schemes involve settling on price through transaction. Take, for example, cap & trade schemes. This is a widely used mechanism to manage negative externalities.

Externalities exist, whether or not the "Austrian" school has a way to deal with them. Considering the issue, deciding that one's philosophy can't deal with them, and therefore deciding to stick one's head in the sand instead is why mises.org remains fringe. It's an irrational, religious framework.
Yeah. The ineptitude there was staggering. I was actually going to refuse to fill out the census on principle, but my wife's sense of civic duty prevailed ;)

Fortunately so did her risk analysis skills. She noticed those numbers being bandied about by the Government prior, and decided she'd log on the very moment the census opened, because it was likely to fail under load.
Youtube already has an unfair advantage, which new video services can't match.
And with the US interfering in foreign elections.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/barack-obam...

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/04/obama-endroses...

EDIT because I'm rate limited by this joke of a site again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I believe that almost the entire barrier to entry for ISPs is the last mile. Network Neutrality does very little to remove that barrier.
Or, in other words, not the Minimum Viable User:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Let me also chime in and say I deeply appreciate the tone and level of technical detail in this... repo? report? guide? It's precisely the sort of thing that's been infuriatingly absent from the Kubernetes community for far too long. If this or something like it had been released with 1.0 we'd be a lot further along than we are now, I think.
Yes, he's also a software engineer[0]. Yes, I have a similar suspicion.

This is a longer topic, but in my mind there's a bimodal distribution on a spectrum of attitude towards programming. Some, like me, are people in love with technology, who go home to tinker on side projects. Other - like that cow-orker - treat software as a career, and they go home to socialize, play board games with friends, etc. Without judging anyone, my impression is that our industry is mostly filled with the second kind of people now[1], and they seem to predominantly feel good in open-space offices.

In the end, I figured that my preferences must be in minority, so I don't complain too much. That is, unless someone is really distracting me for longer periods of time, at which point I'll kindly ask them to stop.

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[0] - I'm not here to tell him how he should feel about his degree. For myself, looking back at the education I got, I think my feelings were best expressed by a friend of mine: "if for that I'm an engineer, then I'm afraid to go to a doctor".

[1] - I believe it used to be different in the past, but that impression might be colored by small exposure to the real software world in my teens; the kind of people you meet on-line in programming circles are usually self-selected to be tech lovers / geeks.
The link appears to have been changed, it originally pointed to http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=1068

I am not the blog author, so wished to give credit.
I've been looking into Vanguard ETFs recently but it looks like the quarterly dividends don't even make up for inflation. The total stock market ETF is paying about $2 yearly at a market price of around $125.

What specific index funds do you invest in?
Obviously, but it might explain how governments supported privateers whilst despising pirates.
The author has created a few experimental UI/environments, and these slides demonstrate some of the inspirations for the attempt.
They will if people make their lives miserable enough.
> Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western

Not really. The need for maintenance occurs when a specific "Thing" has been around for long enough, and when the institutions, schools of thought that sustain that Thing persist for long enough. When there are radical, rapid political/economic/political changes, "maintenance" and the need for maintenance goes away. This article focusses on maintenance of industrial artifacts, and nowhere in recent times have industrial artifacts (boats, lifts, software), the companies that produce them, and the living standards they create, and the governments that encourage them been continuously existent longer than the "Western countries" (since the early 1800s at least). If you were to look outside the sphere of industrial artifacts, for example at old religious buildings - churches, mosques, temples - you'll see solid examples of good maintenance all over the world. The Koran, a literary artifact, for example, has been well-maintained for over a thousand years across the world by a mostly pre-industrial society.

TLDR: Keeping something running isn't just a "Western" thing - but keeping industrial products running is certainly Western, because only the West has seen a continuous and sustained industrial movement for over 200+ years.
Convincing people this far gone down the rabbit hole of ideology is actually not politically effective or expedient. You're just as likely to convince an Objectivist that Maoism is the way to go.

The more effective strategy, which Trump employed, is to find people on the edge of indecision in opportune areas and tailor your message to their interests.
This makes more sense to me.
The roadmap priorities always baffled me too.
I mean, what elm needs now to be usable is surely not code splitting... Almost no one really need that, it's a late optimisation for top sites.
Maybe they had enough bandwidth, but it was QoS'd down for netflix
I'm not a Trump supporter by a long shot - I think he's the purest embodiment of American fascism to date, save for FDR.

(I did have a few hopes for his Presidency when he was campaigning; most of those have evaporated as he's turning out to be every bit the warmonger people feared, instead of a non-interventionist).

But: "a certain sector" indeed! You mean "the American people", I think. What would you think if someone described Obama's election in the same fashion?
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Installing software from a USB drive is within the reach of most normal teens and young adults in the developing world. So, sneakernet -> IPFS -> Wikipedia is a viable path so long as blocking the IPFS protocol, over all reasonable transports, is hard enough to do.
Are you the kind of geek that puts their dough bucket in a temperature-controlled waterbath maintained to 0.1 degrees C for proofing? Or the kind that uses a "drug dealer" scale accurate to 0.01g for measuring salt and yeast? Because I'm both of those, plus others :-)