skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Build a small pantry ( pasta - multiple shapes, canned beans - multiple kinds, dried mushrooms, rice, couscous, grains that you like )

Get spices ( garlic powder, coriander - whole, paprika, cumin, turmeric, chili powder, ginger powder - the rest is up to you)

Buy a container of chicken or vegetable stock - after you open it and whatever you do not use freeze the rest. Next time just thaw it and use it again.

Soy sauce, vinegar (balsamic and rice ), sriracha, any-other-stuff-that you happen to have, olive oil.

When you have this on your way from work go to a store on a way:

Give yourself a strict ten minutes to get stuff. Decide what protein you want. Get it. Go to vegetables. Pick one thing that is familiar and one thing that is not that familiar. Get them. Get a single bunch of herbs. Herbs make everything better. If you do not have an onion, a tomato, a head of garlic, get it.

Ten minute limit would force you just to "grab stuff" rather than fixate on all kinds of blockers.

Go home, google "Fast and easy <protein> with <vegetable> skillet". Follow directions like a guideline for your CRUD application.
Repetition is the key to mastery!

Repetition is the key to mastery!

Repetition is the key to mastery!
>I would imagine that the majority of people who are underpaid are underpaid not due to discrimination, but due to poor negotiating ability, lack of awareness of the market rate, etc.

That is due to discrimination. Discriminating against someone who is socially awkward and can't negotiate isn't any different than discriminating against someone for their gender. Both factors are things people can't generally control. One might even go so far as saying it is worse than discriminating based on religion, given the general view of religion being a choice one can actively change.

Historically we have been fine with such discrimination, but it wasn't too long ago the true was based on all the forms of discrimination we now view as wrong.
> I would expect that the social stigma would severely limit uptake in school though, which is why this isn't standard today -- kids can be rather vicious when they pick up on any hint of difference or weakness.

Note that eye patches are already being commonly used in that age group for treating amblyopia
While agree that the pricing is not beneficial to startups themselves, churn is exactly what WeWork wants because it's what their business model is founded on.

All predatory leasing systems are designed this way. In WeWork's case, as a landlord it does not care about the success or failure of any individual company; it cares only about running as many renters as it can through its overpriced bar / coffeehouse. In the process its goal is to extract as much of the founders' equity as possible through "addons" in fees and such to the rents.
Dogs have pet facial expressions to use on humans, study finds
See my sibling comment. But, yes, undergraduate = bachleors, graduate = masters or professional, post-graduate = PhD.

Typically, these labor issues revolve around post-graduate students who expect to be at school for many years. And not students who are just pursuing a Masters program, which only lasts a year or two.
That's why the OS should check to make sure the ME is still disabled and not boot otherwise, or signature check it somehow, create a hardware indicator, etc. But then there's still the harddrive firmware and who knows what else.

Still, this is upping the bar quite a bit if you're security conscious. In security all you can do is make the attackers lives harder, you can't fool proof it.

Plus they mentioned two different open source tools to disable it yourself (via software, not hardware as they do here). So you can buy a laptop with cash off craigslist and do it yourself if you're super paranoid.
The sense I've gotten is that there was a lot of concern from potential customers about the ability of Bombardier to continue the C-series program without being able to sell to the US market. This deal assuages those concerns, which helps with making sales to customers outside the US as well. So it's a good thing, but its disappointing that it came to this.
This seems worse than using a standard keyboard. ABCDEF are on the left hand and 0-9 on the number pad.
I still have the Reader bookmark next to Gmail's. Once or twice a year I click it accidentally and get angry all over again. It serves as a reminder to not put all my eggs in one basket.
So is this a case of terraforming Iceland?
It's a lot easier to export your posts from one instance and import them to another. Your friends will have to update their contact information for you but then everything works like it did before. Contrast to Twitter where you can export your data and then... you're stuck because there is no "other instance" of Twitter.
Firstly, thanks for writing it!

Here's my questions (assuming you can remember from 6+ years ago):

1) What was the hardest part of .NET to understand and/or implement?

2) Were there any surprising things about the .NET runtime/specification that you learnt about along the way?

3) Should JIT.c really be called Interpreter.c :-)
I'm not paying premium for a device with a worse resolution than my phone's
Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions: ”Bitcoin Is a Big Problem“
When it was first posted, the list contained full URLs. I assume the OP removed the TLD to keep the list from being completely open source, perhaps to monetize it.
Here's a quick question I have about Mastodon instances. Most instances I visit are hidden behind a sign up home page. Is this default? How does this encourage more people to interact? Or is that the point? Happy if anyone can just point me in the right direction
Retiring Mainframe Programmers: Should I Care?
There seems to be a force which makes humans disperse. We settle on every part of this planet even in uncomfortable regions. Some people want to settle on Mars. (Curiously, nobody wants to live on our moon?)

There also is a force which makes humans cluster. Silicon Valley is the biggest cluster of IT and VC at the moment. Accelerando (by Charles Stross) describes vividly how an advanced AI civilisation still clusters (Mainly because solar/fusion power and communication speed).
There is a bigger chance that Canada will invite the UK into NAFTA (assuming that will still exist by then).
Wolves can help in this case too.
My first reaction was curiosity of how they would know the performance of plaintext email, so to spoil the surprise these are HTML emails with a plain design. HTML is still required to track how many people open the email, though obviously not how many click through.
in a lot of places (if you are not a developer) everything non-work related is blocked. It's stupid, but i've seen this often with friends.
I mean, maybe, in theory, someday. But the browser would still be "Firefox", that is, very few people would even be aware of this name, regardless of what the name is.
I mostly browse in Safari Reader mode. No highjacking, popup, dickbar, etc. Looks and reads a lot better too.
Probably a combination of hubris and it being cheaper to just let it sit there then rip out all the integrations to other products.
An Amazon tax to reforest the Amazon, nice.
I am using ag. Is it worth changing to RipGrep ?

The other unix command line tool that I love is autojump.

I am thinking on trying fish and probably fzf.
As an aside, all the images are blurry with NoScript. Any idea how to get around this without enabling JavaScript (and bringing in all of its issues)?
Government site. There doesn't have to be a reason.
> With spread-spectrum, directional and burst patterns to mitigate side channels and jamming.

without regulatory constraints, our own use of radio would've required that rather quickly.

i think it's entirely possible another civilization simply never would've used radio at beyond a hobbyist level without the use of spread-spectrum heavily-coded techniques.

> Presumably any other advanced civilization would have had its own paranoid Sci-Fi literature/film/whatever

i don't think it's a given that another species would even have fiction. or paranoia.
You could also take a look at Europe or the US in the 50s. More income distribution than the current state doesn't mean that Stalin's successors will take over immediately.
That's a fun article. Thanks. The best part was the wifi breaking randomly. This is why I could never be a hardware guy:

> Therefore, I started progressively whitelisting more modules so me_cleaner wouldn’t remove them, and testing if it affected the wifi module. This was annoying to test because I’d have to change me_cleaner, neutralize the ME firmware, then copy the image from my main PC to the Librem then flash the new image, poweroff, then restart the machine, and if the Wifi wasn’t working, which was 99% of the time, I had to copy the files through a USB drive.

Sounds painful. We've all had debugging experiences like that once in our lives.

I appreciate their effort and public documentation!
And do you trust them to respect those permissions?
I see, that kind of makes it way less helpful for the general internet tho. IMO its fair to public shame anyone doing this.
I agree, you'd have to carefully protect your trees until they reach a reasonable size that they can hold their own.

Sheep will definitely prevent reforestation, although they are less likely than goats to harm saplings of a certain size.
> In what markets are titles common for technical people such as developers

Common (but not universal) in most. Though they can be as general as “member of the technical staff”.

> Would you ever have a formal job title as a developer at a company of 20 developers in e.g the US?

Often yes, though it's not certain, even in a large org.

> But we don't have pay grades

Pay grades aren't the same thing as job titles; in large orgs (including government), it's possible for pay grades and job classifications to be universal, but titles to still be hit or miss.
That's a good point. I believe the prerequisite for a stable post-scarcity economy is automating the production of all the things we want to not be scarce, over the entire vertical - from getting resources, through manufacturing, delivery, recycling, and maintenance of all of the machines involved. It's a tall order, but not impossible, if we dedicated our minds to it.

What seems to be the real problem is that there is seemingly no good way from here to there. While there are incentives to make things more automated and more efficient, the money from that flows to the wrong places (and with it, power), and there are plenty of incentives for parasitic actors to inject themselves in between steps of any process to try and capture some percentage of the money flow.
The etymology of the word (think deserted island) would imply it has more to do with the lack of life than the reason for a lack of life.
+1 for bazel. It also scales to large builds and handles java as well. We've seen big decreases in build times by using it as it does caching, parallel execution and good dependency analysis.

Getting up to speed can take a little doing though as the original docs weren't great and there are some counter intuitive things about it. I think the docs are improving but some things a little odd like everything gets dumped into ~/.cache/bazel without any command line option to change [1]. Feels like the first time I used git where you suspect that the authors designed it to be difficult to keep the lazy away.

https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/output_directories....
I wanted to use nftables but I think Docker doesn't support it.
I find quite interesting how we plan on terraform and colonize Mars when we can't even grow trees on Iceland.
Perfect resource allocation requires a perfectly incorruptible coordinator. Perfect socialism might become possible (and even preferable) if/when AGI is solved.

Iain Banks puts it nicely in his "A Few Notes on the Culture" essay [0]:

"Let me state here a personal conviction that appears, right now, to be profoundly unfashionable; which is that a planned economy can be more productive - and more morally desirable - than one left to market forces.

"The market is a good example of evolution in action; the try-everything-and-see-what- -works approach. This might provide a perfectly morally satisfactory resource-management system so long as there was absolutely no question of any sentient creature ever being treated purely as one of those resources. The market, for all its (profoundly inelegant) complexities, remains a crude and essentially blind system, and is - without the sort of drastic amendments liable to cripple the economic efficacy which is its greatest claimed asset - intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between simple non-use of matter resulting from processal superfluity and the acute, prolonged and wide-spread suffering of conscious beings.

"It is, arguably, in the elevation of this profoundly mechanistic (and in that sense perversely innocent) system to a position above all other moral, philosophical and political values and considerations that humankind displays most convincingly both its present intellectual [immaturity and] - through grossly pursued selfishness rather than the applied hatred of others - a kind of synthetic evil.

"Intelligence, which is capable of looking farther ahead than the next aggressive mutation, can set up long-term aims and work towards them; the same amount of raw invention that bursts in all directions from the market can be - to some degree - channelled and directed, so that while the market merely shines (and the feudal gutters), the planned lases, reaching out coherently and efficiently towards agreed-on goals. What is vital for such a scheme, however, and what was always missing in the planned economies of our world's experience, is the continual, intimate and decisive participation of the mass of the citizenry in determining these goals, and designing as well as implementing the plans which should lead towards them.

Of course, there is a place for serendipity and chance in any sensibly envisaged plan, and the degree to which this would affect the higher functions of a democratically designed economy would be one of the most important parameters to be set... but just as the information we have stored in our libraries and institutions has undeniably outgrown (if not outweighed) that resident in our genes, and just as we may, within a century of the invention of electronics, duplicate - through machine sentience - a process which evolution took billions of years to achieve, so we shall one day abandon the grossly targeted vagaries of the market for the precision creation of the planned economy."

[0] http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
> and an average of $100k (1) in debt

First, the USNews article you cite says the average is $57k. The $100k number is the 75th percentile number.

Second, the article you cite is pretty freely mixing "graduate students" and "graduate and professional degrees", to the extent that it's not clear whether the average numbers it cites are just for the former, or for the latter. It obviously makes a big difference, because while law school and medical school have their own problems they don't have the (very real) problems you describe PhD programs as having.

So I looked at the actual report your linked article is citing. The $57k number is the _median_ (not average!) debt across all graduate and professional students. Same for the $100k number: 75th percentile across all graduate and professional students. See page 1 of the report.

Page 3 of the report cites some "typical" (I assume they mean "median", but they don't define it) numbers for various graduate degree debts, including law and medicine, but conveniently leaves out the number for "PhDs". Those make up about 23% of all graduate degrees, according to the chart on that page, by the way, so your typical "graduate or professional student" is not a PhD candidate, but is aiming for an MD, JD, or Master's degree, all of which have _quite_ different funding models from PhDs.

All the tables on page 12 and following conveniently exclude PhDs as well.

So this report tells us pretty much nothing about PhD debt. The law and medicine numbers inflate everything involved, obviously, and most of the rest are masters degrees of various sorts. All PhDs could have a debt of 0 and still get the reported median and 75th percentile numbers.

OK, so how this works in practice (or at least did 10 years ago) at the universtity of Chicago, while I wad doing my PhD there.... Grad students in the _sciences_ generally did not take on debt at all: their tuition was covered, and they were paid a stipend that was enough to live on reasonably, in return for the teaching and whatnot that they did. Grad students in the _humanities_ were an entirely different story. So even within the PhD bucket it really depended on the field of study. The number of students who took on debt and had "lab time" of any sort was quite close to 0, if not exactly 0.

Now there are real problems in PhD programs, including in the sciences, and grad students and especially postdocs _are_ underpaid in various ways. But you're not having science PhDs with $100k in grad school debt, typically.
Once, working for a government contractor, I had to write up the qualifications of some people we intended to place on the contract. Now, all of these people already worked on the predecessor, so there was not mystery about who they were or what they did. But people who were OK to plug in cables or clear printer jams were written up as if they had taught Bjarne Stroustrup to code and left Bell Labs because they didn't like New Jersey.

For what it's worth, a) we got the contract, and b) the contractor screwed over the employees who stuck around.
Scaleway – Totally out of X86 servers
Workshop vacuum cleaner. Does the same job as one designed for home usage,
but it's ergonomic, resistant to abuse, and requires so little effort in
maintenance (especially important with two cats worth of fur).
Alright, then it's quite similar after all, thanks!
That's all well and good, but you need to raise that with your IT department if it is an inconvenience rather than complaining to us.

It seems odd that github would be blocked especially given HN isn't unless your company has some sort of pathological fear of accidental IP dilution, so perhaps it is a mistake that will be quickly corrected once pointed out?
Just let people's incomes rise at the same rate the economy grows

What do you mean? Have you considered the relationship between income and the "rate the economy grows"?

funneling all gains to the business owners

Yes, the accumulation of capital gains should rightly go to the owners of capital.

Republicans seem hell bent to accelerate the trend towards more income concentration at the top with their tax plans.

Those at the bottom of the income spectrum pay virtually no taxes, so yes, tax cuts should be directed towards those that actually pay taxes (upper-middle and upper income earners), and who are, arguably, more skilled in deploying capital in ways which are productive.

I don't know how to change this realistically.

Income inequality will not be resolved through transfer payments or redistribution - it will be solved through job skills training and growth in labor production.

To put it simply: no poor person has ever gotten me a job.
<tldr>

> When Iceland was first settled at the end of the ninth century, much of the land on or near the coast was covered in birch woodlands.

> The settlers slashed and burned the forests to grow hay and barley, and to create grazing land. They used the timber for building and for charcoal for their forges. By most accounts, the island was largely deforested within three centuries.

> The lack of trees, coupled with the ash and larger pieces of volcanic rock spewed by eruptions, has led to severe soil erosion.

> The [recovery] process usually begins with lyme grass, which grows quickly and can stabilize the soil. Lupine, with its spiky purple flowers, is often next. The trees come later.

> Mr. Jonsson and his volunteers then plant the appropriate species for the plot — birch, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine, Russian larch or other species. “We’d love to plant aspen,” he said. “But sheep really love aspen.”

> With vegetation unable to gain much of a foothold, farming and grazing have been next to impossible in many parts of the country. And the loose soil, combined with Iceland’s strong winds, has led to sandstorms that can further damage the land — and even blast the paint off cars.

> No one expects that one-quarter of Iceland will ever be covered in forests again. But given slow growth rates and the enormity of the task, even more modest gains will take a long time, Mr. Thorvaldsson said.

> “The aim now is that in the next 50 years we might go up to 5 percent,” he said. “But at the speed we’re at now, it would take 150 years to do that.”
Right. Healthcare seems like probably the last thing that has a chance to enter post-scarcity environment, simply because as long as people get sick and die, there's always something to spend more resources on. But solving food and shelter would be a good start.
Thanks, but there's nothing novel about it. It's a recurring theme in technology (computing in particular) where something is invented, delivers short-term profit to a small group of people, and then becomes standardized in some way that allows a greater, long-term benefit to a broader audience. I'm sure some economist somewhere has even come up with a clever name for this.

Obviously the model I describe will not generate Facebook-scale wealth for any individual player, but I believe there is still good money to be made in addition to the positive externalities that come from standardization and decentralization.
Actually it is speculated that the the origin ist "Sang(re) Real" ( royal blood ) which metamorphosed into San Graal. Looking for it meant to search for the ( possible) lost blood line of Jesus, I think.
There are still so called primeval forests in Europe. Meaning they have grown in that place as far as we (human race) remember. They are small and strictly protected.

And yes, they are "better" on some metrics - the main difference is - whether the dead wood is removed from the forest or left there. There's lots of endangered species of birds, insects and even mammals that depend on dead wood, and industrialized forests (99% of what we have in Europe) doesn't have that.

Also natural forests are much more resistant to devastation by one particular insect or sickness, because only strong trees remain, species of trees (and generations of trees) are mixed with each other.

In industrialized forests (especially these created shortly after WW2) they just planted pine trees, all planted same year. When bark beetle has a "good" year - these forests have to be actively maintained (every tree attacked has to be removed before 2 weeks pass and beetles spread to nearby trees), or the whole forest dies in one year. Natural forests doesn't care, because weak, young trees of same species don't grow close enough for big epidemic.

BTW I only know that because we have a heated political debate in Poland - current anti-ecology government is cutting down some part of semi-natural forest surrounding protected natural forest under the excuse that bark bettle is going to destroy it otherways. Scientists and ecologists protest, wood industry support the government. Even EU is involved.
I've just tried this and in my case it leads to "cd \~[...]" which obviously does not work.
I'm not sure what midwestern states you're talking about. Places like Minnesota are doing very well and have the "HQ of everything," too.
Indeed, the UK has been very vocal about this. It's been well covered in the Canadian press. The problem is the solution (more like a workaround) the UK offered does nothing to help Canadians and further restricts the marketplace to an even smaller group of companies.

Everyone is a loser in big corp politicking.
In case anyone wonders - red-lang[0] and rebol[1] both use this notation.

[0]http://www.red-lang.org/
[1]http://www.rebol.com/