skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I was just using a fancy word I've always liked because it seemed to describe things as best I could.

At one point in my life, I was simply an inexperienced learner driver. It isn't and wasn't a medical condition (for me anyway). I literally couldn't find where the brake pedal was because I couldn't really position my foot in the right place as I had clearly lost track of where it was in the footwell area. I also didn't want to take my eyes off the road and knew I was going slowly enough that nothing bad would happen (because the professional driving instructor had a dual brake, and I had a working handbrake too which I never used - we'll call that risk compensation).

Now all this said, it's incredible how many people are completely unaware of their own inabilities when it comes to mission-critical tasks (the Dunning-Kruger effect). This isn't even always limited to "incomptent" people - experienced professionals also make "simple" blunders. See also Air France 447, or various deceased pro/amateur race car drivers.

Speaking of failures though - another time (also while I was learning), I was reversing out of the car shed with my dad supervising. Before leaving, I complained to my mother (who was just outside the car) that my brake was difficult to press. She replied "just press harder", so I shrugged, obliged and went on with the "supervised" driving practice. Her confidence in me had me convinced that everything was fine so off I went.

Damn, the brake was so difficult to press - I needed both feet as well as some bodyweight on it to get the car to stop at each intersection - it hardly budged each time and felt like a dodgem car brake. I figured at the time that if I just kept things slow and got the handbrake ready, things would be okay? Anyway nothing bad happened; it was only a short session before dinner on quiet streets.

The next morning, my mother went to drive the car out of the shed and was alarmed at how broken the brake was. What was I to know - I was pretty new to driving and thought it was just the car being old and figured it was good enough at the time for my two feet. It was probably bad enough to require towing but I think my dad ended up driving it very slowly/carefully to the mechanic.

That was a bit of a long story, but I'm detailing this to highlight how "stupid" cascading failures are "alarmingly" common - it's not unheard of to exist in both the human side, or the electronic/mechanical side. It doesn't really faze me whether the Prius "acceleration bug" was human or machine induced. Both are often as bad as each other. The only thing we should depend on are multiple layers of redundancy and good systems design.

Edit: When I first started driving, I mulled over whether to go barefoot or not (either is legal here so long as the driver has control). These days, I fortunately can handle either confidently. I'm also much better at sport now (and therefore coordination) than when I was a teenager.
> I'm quite certain that we would be fighting some kind of conflict with them if people like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were in the White House today.

Did they discover oil since the last time Wolfowitz was in a position if influence. Because that was expressly cited as the reason Iraq was invaded and North Korea not then, by Wolfowitz.

GWBush-era foreign policy had the kind of focus on domestic economic interests that Trump pretends to have, the main difference is that it had some substantive coherence rather than focus only as a PR veneer over a group of incompetently managed competing interests seeking personal advantage. That's not to say the say the execution of Bush foreign policy wasn't grossly incompetent, but and it's formulation wasn't grossly immoral, to be sure.

Now, Venezuela might be a target of active intervention if the Bush team were still in charge.
I’m also not inclined to tell people how they should live their lives, but this is the one issue that seems important enough to me. The stakes are high (human lives are in the balance) and it seems like hedonism and self involvement are the main things I see preventing people from having kids. Basically I want to shake people and say, “Forget about your vacations and highly cultivated lifestyle. None of that matters in the end, so you might as well give it up to make some new people.”
Watching the Internet develop since the 1980s, this leaves a lot of stuff out.

Yes, decentralized protocols like NNTP are not around like they used to be. The reason for this is because Usenet was effectively crushed by the US government. Many net luminaries, scientists, mathematicians, journalists, artists etc. were users of Usenet. In the 1990s and on, the Baby Bell monopolies used their monopoly powers to crush ISP competition. Then in 2008 Andrew Cuomo strongarmed the remaining monopoly telcos in New York to shut down Usenet saying "This literally threatens our children, and there can be no higher priority than keeping our children safe".

Obviously you can't say you want to crush decentralization in order to take power away from the individual and place it in the hands of corporate monopolies and the government, so you have to hear from the RIAA/MPAA about how artists are being ripped off (although many artists say the RIAA and MPAA are the ripoffs), or about terrorism, or the "think of the children" stuff from this case.

> "it's controlable, it's governable, ..., it's walled gardenable,..., it's brandable, it's ownable, ..., it's auditable, it's copyright checkable, ..., it's safe for China searchable,..., it's monitorable"

Well this is correct. Now we can be more controlled, more governed, more owned, more copyright checked, more monitored - these are all the benefits for them as they remove our decentralized communications.

As the tendency toward recentralization seems to be in the US, a broader metric is the ratio of US GDP to world GDP, i.e. centralization of the world economy. This ratio has been falling since World War II - each year the US economy becomes less and less significant. So while network control is being centralized in the US, economic control in the world is becoming decentralized.
Working non-stop is not a natural state. Are parents ‘working’ or are they playing with their children? Perhaps you are so used to a world where parents have no time to play with their children because they need to get back to work.

Also it seems like you define socializing as ‘work’. If so, then why not define sleeping as work or even death as work, that way your statement that working non-stop makes sense.
It's also a geopolitical strategy. Even if that spending is rarely ever actualized in an armed conflict, the threat to do so still exists from the perspective of other countries. It's debatable how effective that is, but it's disingenuous to say it's just done for jobs or making contractors rich.
I'm impressed with how small the dev team was, how much fun they seemed to have working, and how much freedom and creativity they had. I wonder if we stifle innovation by building crazy large hierarchies.
>It’s to help drive a message and teach awareness.

If that's true then, and I'm only speaking for myself, it's had the exact opposite effect. It makes me feel like if we're squabbling over straws then the real issues must have been dealt with already. Factually, of course I know there are real environmental issues. But when straws become the talking point, it makes me feel like the environment should be dismissed as an issue.
Hey people are talking about trash, so that's better than nothing... but the big message people should be taking home is PICK UP TRASH AND SHAME OTHERS FOR LITTERING. It doesn't matter if you didn't leave it there, if you don't pick it up it's probably going to end up in the ocean.

The vast majority of plastic in the ocean is washed out through rivers and storm drains.

Much of this comes from countries with poor waste management... but the US is still an embarrassingly large source despite being in the first world. There's no excuse. We can not take waste management for granted.
> Popper abhorred philosophers who argue that scientists adhere to theories for cultural and political rather than rational reasons.
« this » is « the thing on the left side of the dot ».

(that’s not always true, nor a complete definition - but it helps me a lot in understanding the whole thing)
An excerpt of his thoughts on this subject, very interesting to contemplate the political implications of this:

"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority" [0]

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

"...Clearly can democracy –by definition the majority — tolerate enemies? The question is as follows: “ Would you agree to deny the freedom of speech to every political party that has in its charter the banning the freedom of speech?” Let’s go one step further, “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”
But that doesn’t work

The communication problem is not solved by being exacting. How many people can tell you exactly what’s going on with an algorithm - and how many people will stop their work to listen ?

On the other hand, put picture of kittens or unusual scenarios...

Mass communication isn’t only about accuracy.
As the speaker for the scheduling notebook talk that got referenced here, I can probably give a few insights about how we're using notebooks. A lot of the risks and concerns brought up here were talked about in the session. The slides ended up on https://conferences.oreilly.com/jupyter/jup-ny/public/schedu... (and hopefully the talks themselves will get posted soon).

In particular I referenced how we treat and emphasize notebooks as an integration tool which acts as a good place to combine actions with documentation, visuals, and output logs. There's a section on Integrating Notebook which outlines how we approach this. There's also a strong emphasis on pushing complexity and shared code into the repositories housing notebooks. Effectively you end up with a lot of same best-practices found in non-notebook development, and the same abuses that lead to unmaintainable code -- which sometimes is needed in the short term.

So far we've had a lot of success with notebooks in production as parameterizable templates, or as a way to easily produce scheduled reports or machine learning experiments. Many users just provide the parameters while supporting teams provide the tested templates. Other users like being able to simply schedule their iterated work without needing to translate to another medium. One of the biggest wins though is gaining a shared interface for debugging, experimenting, and reusing code by having notebooks as the output artifacts of execution (even if it's just executing some other code elsewhere on behalf of the user). Papermill made a lot of this possible by separating input notebooks from output notebooks, and by being able to inject runtime values into those output notebooks.
from Joel Grus, “I don’t like Notebooks”

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...
Cash depreciates at the rate of inflation.
US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'
> You may be a professional drummer, but you are of some sort of mindset that has you in denial of the concept of convention.

Huh, maybe you are violently agreeing with @nerflad? I read the parent comment to mean that convention is the only thing that matters.

> You also certainly feel rhythm but do not intellectually understand it.

Why the snark and personal attack? You have no idea what @nerflad understands intellectually. I’m always surprised when someone with your level of HN karma hasn’t learned to avoid insults and condescension in comments like yours. Are you threatened by the idea that there’s more that one right way to write a tempo?

> Rhythm is a cognitive/perceptual/psychological process whereby we relate events to one another.

I think that definition of rhythm is very bad. Rhythm can exist without a human perceiving it. Google dictionary’s definition sounds better: “a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound”. So does Wikipedia’s: “Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular recurrence or pattern in time can apply to a wide variety of cyclical natural phenomena having a periodicity or frequency of anything from microseconds to several seconds (as with the riff in a rock music song); to several minutes or hours, or, at the most extreme, even over many years.”

So, in summary, the meaning of the word pretty much is mere timing. Your treatise on perceptual psychology is talking about something else.

> The 3/4 vs 6/8 distinction is a historic convention, not something in the math.

Isn’t that exactly what @nerflad was saying??
We are using NC with ~250 employees, works fine and runs smooth as butter, syncs to desktop well but many prefer to use the web interface. We are using LDAP auth, it powers our whole stack (Zimbra, OTRS, Debian/Ubuntu servers, Wifi, remote desktops, custom ERP, etc). Honestly, we have more problems with custom built software ($$$) than open source that is free for all. Sometimes I wish we could alter our internal workflows in a blink of an eye to leave out the greedy companies with whom we have software development agreements as legacy.
Really there are relatively few complaints from Go users. Most people just read the paragraph explaining how GOPATH works and get to work. Most of the complaints come from outside of the community--people who are frustrated that Go doesn't copy their favorite language's project files, build tools, project structure, etc. Anyway, since you don't have any actual criticism of GOPATH (just that it's "braindead" and "far worse"), I can't really do much except disagree, because GOPATH was already quite a lot nicer than the equivalent in most other languages, and modules makes it even better!
> Very interesting ideas in there. Especially the thought of an upcoming Go 2 perhaps being done in such a compatible way that "Go 2" is actually "Go 1.1X"

Go project lead Russ Cox already talked about that on an episode of the Go Time podcast. Transcript: https://changelog.com/gotime/77#transcript-60
That is a good strategy, as long as you can find people to pay for those skills in the future. So you'd have to pick the right area. The general strategy I follow is to invest in things that produce more things (skills being one of them). For example, if you invest in something like gold, it doesn't produce anything -- your only hope is that someone down the road will buy it from you for more than you paid for it. For company stocks, I like to pick ones that have a regular history of paying dividends (even if their value isn't going up that much), instead of non-dividend stocks that only increase in value. Another example: you can buy real estate, and rent it out. While technically not producing more stuff, it still gives you income outside of normal appreciation. The trap is that you need to be able to rent it out for more than what taxes, maintenance, and potentially interest costs you.
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Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game (2010)
Unrelated, but my first thought process was a video I've seen of a semi-homeless guy living in an A/C storage locker. He had to sneak in everynight and do some tech macgyver solutions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVCTLPNUzo&t=0s&list=LLI462...
Learn to be a well rounded informed citizen in high school when it’s free. If you’re going to go $100k into debt, it had better help you get a job.
Firefox 12 Running in a Win2K VM in WebAssembly in Firefox 63 on MacOS 10.6.3
That and they brutality exterminated many of their most talented mathematicians.
Can confirm. Also interesting to note that motorcycles often have trouble triggering these sensors (a common trick is to stick a heavy duty magnet underneath).
For all the emphasis they put on stability, there is one part that doesn't seem particularly stable – on slide 32:

"Go 1.11 supports the upcoming OpenBSD 6.4 release. Due to changes in the OpenBSD kernel, older versions of Go will not work on OpenBSD 6.4."

This is, I assume, because Go makes direct syscalls rather than going through the C library. Many operating systems, including Windows, don't consider that a stable public interface.

So does this mean that older Go binaries will stop working when you upgrade the OS? I guess that would make the source compatibility extra important to them, since you must keep recompiling your old programs as you upgrade to newer a OS. (Perhaps it's also why they're dropping support for older OS versions so quickly?)
Centralized vs. decentralized is a pendulum that has been swinging since time immemorial. Heck one could argue that cooperateive single-celled vs. multicellular organisms boils down to a similar principle. Given that this pendulum has been swinging back and forth since long before humans, and certainly throughout human history, I believe it is safe to say that neither is going to "win in the end". They each must obviously contain the seeds of their own downfall. Which is interesting and worthy of study, but I don't see this article particularly advancing the understanding of that.
"Library Library of Congress"
Google is one example. And AFAIK they don't support remote work. So they have offices in multiple countries, and usually pay a salary related to the local market.

Most big companies with offices around the world adjust their salaries to local market because it is yet another way to optimise, and with a physical location, it doesn't make sense not to level. It's also how they budgeted the office to decide if it's worth having or not.
So salaries in most locales will be way closer to the market. I moved myself from SF to Amsterdam (staying with the same employer) and my salary was cut by roughly 40% for this reason.

For a remote company, the approach to hiring might be a little different. They need a new engineer, they budget the new engineer, not knowing where the engineer will be located, so even if the engineer is located somewhere cheaper, lowering the salary won't be too much of a deal.
That's usually what you see. For example, buffer will pay 100% for SF and 85% (I think) for a city like Amsterdam. That different is much lower than what you'd get at Google, etc.
I agree. I'm not a big fan of Material design either. Too flat and I find the color palettes a little odd.

One thing that really bothers me is Google designing their iOS apps with Material design rather than using the system iOS design. They just don't feel like they're part of the iOS ecosystem with how jarring their design is.
Pick Your Battles: Choosing and Learning the “right” Programming Language
No one is suggesting banning plastic straws - at most the person would just need to buy them at a supermarket instead of getting them with their drink.
The last point about players in their thirties appearing in more professional matches needs more clarity. It’s not that “older players are dominating the sport.” It’s that “the two best players of all time happen to be over thirty.” This is not evidence that older players have gained an edge in professional tennis.
One really minor, but powerful, thing I'd love to see from the Go team is a better designed documentation experience. Here's the Google-produced Github library godoc [1]; its absolutely horrendous to browse, as is any sufficiently large package. Compare that to Elixir's [2] auto-generated documentation. There's a lot of work that can go into just improving that static HTML and making it more easily grokable.

[1] https://godoc.org/github.com/google/go-github/github

[2] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
I am certain it is not that simple.
> My intent was to illustrate that not all intolerances are only relative degrees of the same thing

Ah, I see. I agree, though I wasn't espousing the "popular conservative talking point" (which I've never actually heard before), so I'm not quite sure why the conversation took that particular turn.

> Have you read this

I have, but I don't really want to dissect that here and now.

> If you want to project politics onto me

I don't want to, and I don't think I did. :) Sincere apologies if I offended.
Macros are a cop out of language design. They mean "everybody do what you want and create your own language, we don't care anymore".
Apparently recycability isn't the conversation or the problem, because if it were California wouldn't be trying to outlaw plastic straws.
There are a few projects around to make one-use only straws with other materials that are biodegradable, however their cost might still be an issue.
The Play Store has plenty of malware in it already! I'd prefer a feature where one can download and whitelist apps (from any source) and have other things blocked.
> Something you do once, report it and it is done.

I have been having a hard time getting comfortable with that idea. There is usually "a lot of" untested and unreviewed code in the notebook that produces the analysis.
We also are doing a blog series on how we're approaching notebooks at https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/notebook-innovation-591e... (the scheduling post is the second in the series). Also I'd recommend listening to talks from the conference with an open mind. There were a lot of great discussions and positive energy around notebooks.

Hopefully these help describe a few of the new patterns and tools available in the notebook space.
Not disappointed, encouraged :-) It suggests that once the portfolio (endowment) is large enough the idea could be self sustaining, then it gets really interesting.
What Startups Can Learn from McKinsey About Building a Strong Company
I think the number of people is a very minor aspect of fire safety compared to the actual construction of the building. At least if they aren't sharing living areas.
Propaganda piece for whom?
Every time this topic surfaces in my various feeds, I do a Ctrl+F/Cmd+F// for car/motor/driv/vehicle. To date, I've found no articles that mention plastic and excessive motor vehicle use (often single-occupancy) in the same article.

I don't really understand why no one ever seems to make that final step in logic. How many plastic straws-worth of oil do we waste on private motor vehicle mileage each year?
It's the same for me. With ownCloud I, too, dreaded updates. But since I switched to nextcloud, updates have become simple and easy
I believe that observation was in my original post. I was curious if there were more to the comment than that.
Not one straw, my point is that straws on beaches do not come from landfills. They come from illegal dumping operations and cruise ships and maybe tourists who litter at the beach. Most people do not need to change they way they dispose of straws. This is a problem caused by a minority and no matter how few straws the rest of us use it will not address the problem even a little bit.
I can see this being an environment that’s too busy to pay tech debt or put in DevOps processes.
Plastic straw isn't a problem. It's a movement to demonstrate how dependant we are on plastic, that even something trivial and mostly luxury & low impact item as a plastic straw is hard to get rid of. Whole point of stopping plastic straws is not to reduce plastic waste, because it's negligible comparing to, say, plastic bags, but to start a conversation and rise awareness of what materials are used where and how they are recycled.

Planet Money had excellent podcast with people who came up with whole "Ban Plastic Straw" idea.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to...