skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An idea that I read recently, is that there is a passion-discovery mindset, very much like the growth mindset. For example, I thought, there were a few things I was interested in, it was just a matter of 'finding those passions'. But it seems people can learn to be passionate about things they didn't expect to be.

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/06/18/find-passion-may-bad-ad...
It was a great idea because the removal of the headphone jack serves a lightning rod for everything anti-Apple, and drowns out other, more serious and valid issues with their HW and SW quality. There are a lot of real problems with their products to complain about, but all those valid complaints are drowned out by the rage over the stupid headphone jack. It's been two years, and people still can't get over it, and the press can't stop mentioning it. Great for Apple, because that's the only problem that gets air time.
Big RAM Laptops and VMWARE Workstation Pro
I have developed on a MBP 15" 16GB with Parallels for 4 years with hardware update a consideration. I am almost always connected to power when working, so it's the mobility of a laptop that I require rather than battery life.

Seems a linux laptop with 64GB / 128GB RAM, VMware Workstation Pro and VMs with each required OS for support / dev / testing makes most sense. Base services for dev EG DB would either be installed as a VM or a container on the base OS as access would be common to all VMs when running / testing / support.

Which laptops offer 64GB / 128GB to suit the above?

What is the warranty period, base period and extension max period? EG 1 year with option of X years.

Which linux OS should be installed on the laptop? Workstation type may be too resource hungry while server type may not function too well for stated purpose.
> But casual users can choose to store their crypto assets with a bank/custodian/exchange.

It's not clear to me that this is meaningfully different than our current financial system.

> Granted, it defeats some of the benefits, but not all. E.g. most crypto has low inflation compared to USD. Even though CPI inflation is ~2%, the money supply inflates around ~10% per year, whereas most crypto will inflate <1% long term.

It's really not clear to me that this is a benefit, and even if it is was, there is nothing stopping the Bitcoin network, for instance, from deciding it wants to inflate after it has mined all the coins. The fact that the vast majority of mining is controlled by a handful of Chinese companies and that this is seen as preferable to The Fed for deciding whether or not to inflate seems crazy to me. But it's possible, even probable, that the people who make real money selling bitcoins will vote to make more bitcoins after they run out of bitcoins to sell, ie: squeeze blood from the stone.

> With something like Cardano, I don't see what governments could do, apart from banning its use within their own jurisdiction.

You're talking about a government that reads literally every single piece of internet traffic and likely has backdoors into many encryption products.

> That's a fair criticism of Bitcoin etc., but future iterations of cryptocurrencies will surely include ZeroCash-style privacy at least as an optional feature, if not for every transaction.

No, because anyone who wants to make a serious business out of these will be required to become a Money Services Business, and have a Know Your Customer (KYC) process. As I mentioned in my previous posts: we've thought about this problem before, we don't want money floating around that isn't easily traceable, and so we already have laws governing this stuff. It's not a matter of "design the right mathematical system to create anonymity." The Dudes With the Guns do not want that so it will not happen. These systems cannot meaningfully exist outside of the current political system without a real, guns and explosions, revolution.

> I'm not saying it's a sure thing at all, but it seems somewhat plausible, no?

There is literally no upside for the vast majority of the actors in your proposal. If a currency is truly deflationary consumers wont want to spend it, if it's not it's not meaningfully different. Consumers also want a layer of protection, which credit cards offer them. Big vendors (Microsoft, Valve/Steam, Overstock etc.) who accepted crypto have already decided to stop, and transaction volume is plummeting so I think your proposed series of events is extremely unlikely.

The market is surely irrational, and there are a ton of things that exist that shouldn't, so who knows. But this stuff is not a good idea, there isn't any "mystery" left to it. We understand what's being proposed, it's basically all been proposed before, and it's an idea filled with huge problems that have only begun to surface because it is a nascent system.
Strong-personality-assholes have been making successful things for a very long time now (Linus, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, come to mind).

It's probably not that being an asshole is good. It's that if you are a genius/visionary and nice, your genius gets diluted by the people around you. Let's build a genius/asshole map:

1. Genius, non-asshole: You start a genius-level thing, it is brilliant and awesome. As it progresses, less brilliant people get involved. They start wanting power and influence. You know that the things they want to do kind of suck, but you're too nice to tell them that. Over time, they ascend to positions of power, because you, out of niceness, allow them to, and your thing descends into mediocrity.

2. Non-genius, asshole: You're just mean to everyone. If you start any sort of thing at all, it goes nowhere, because it's not very good, and nobody wants to work with you.

3. Non-genius, non-asshole: You're nice, but so are lots of people. This goes nowhere.

4. Genius, asshole: You start a brilliant thing, because you're brilliant. You're mean to people who deliver anything but the absolute best results. So who stays with you? People who always deliver the best results, or, alternatively, people so enamored with your genius or the thing you've created that they're willing to tolerate it. Congratulations, you've managed to filter your underlings to only the best and most passionate people - you have a high probability of achieving something great.

Note that this is not an endorsement of this behavior. Just an attempt at explaining why it is that these types of personalities seem so common among highly successful people.
I think you're talking past another here. What is or isn't open source isn't the matter. OSI haven't prevented oligopoles from forming and locking people in to "the cloud" by making software a commodity, nor have they prevented GPL'd software (Linux) to become giant spyware in the form of Android, nor have they prevented software to be weaponized for other forms of monopolization (eg. Webkit based on KHTML). All the while original developers don't see any financial benefit to sustain further development. I doubt those outcomes are what the developers had in mind, or are in fact in the public interest. You can pontificate all day about OSS ideals dogmatically; just don't think that makes the world a better place. There is very much a need to express acceptable licensing and nuance beyond the current copyleft/non-copyleft dichotomy. And as discussed elsewhere in the thread, AGPL might not be the answer since it hasn't stood in court (and there are good reasons it won't), and anyway doesn't express whether you care more about receiving patches/PRs, or licensing royalties for commercial/unrestricted use when that is obviously something that many want to see expressed.
its okay, the article goes into that.

I think its pretty insightful, basically you'll end up doing what everyone else does, but now you will be cognizant of why. Or if your significant other wants to argue over a ridiculous name, you have some rationale to point to.
> (In case you were wondering, the _real_ answer I'm hoping for is "I'd ask Google Maps." I've had exactly two people give me this response in the 8+ years I've been giving this challenge. I don't know if it's because they think it's a dumb answer, if they know that I expect a code-related answer, or if it never occurs to them... but I like to think someone who wants to see what Google says isn't the type that constantly wants to reinvent the wheel. Note that NOT giving this answer is not a deal-breaker. I generally give the benefit of the doubt to candidates here.)

I'm surprised that this rarely seems to be brought up as a solution.
It was the first approach I had in mind since you really can't split and format all those potentially mistyped addresses reliably without looking them up in a database/directory of valid addresses.

It feels very obvious, however admittedly in an interview situation I might actually assume that the interviewer doesn't want me to use the third-party look up approach as it feels like cheating, which is somewhat absurd since it's the correct approach.
+1 to Nerdwriter. Really quality content.
Digital Signature vs. Digital Certificate: The Difference Explained
The entire premise behind so called scientific experimentation is reproducibility. It is what allowed humans to move past superstitions, demonstration of consistent causes and effects.

This is why economics, psychology, etc. are called "soft" sciences. This absolutely is a crisis, because by definition ALL of these experiments are supposed to be replicatable and reproduced before they can scientifically be taken as truths of any certainty, and we're seeing that many modern fields, particularly medical, are operating based on potentially dangerously misleading experimental results.

And, since this is HN, possibly even maliciously misleading.
These things are usually audited by third parties. E&Y or PWC or Deloitte or etc.
That's right. The standards of human decency don't change for people in leadership positions. What Linus seems to have is some self awareness, which will serve him well in tapping the brakes on his assholish tendencies.
Yes I also think that this would be a more neat artistic project because of the intrinsic one time value of every piece. Currently what the code does is to preserve the ability to run the old versions without giving a direct way to do so, that is, it checks the REDIS_VERSION constant to select what to run.
Terms like “groundbreaking” and “game changer” get thrown around so much now that they’ve lost all meaning.
Nice. A related result from the neutron star collision is that the speed of light and the speed of gravity are the same, to within something like 1 part in 10^15. Both light and gravity waves from an event 130 million light years away came in less than 2 seconds apart.
Or, just let the system work as it has very well for many years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003343
Why do people buy into this sort of nonsense?? How are VCs and tech writers so incapable of basic conceptual verification?? This company appears to have built nothing except for ideas which don't stand up to the most cursory physical analysis.
Jeff Bezos Interview at the Econonomic Club of Washington D.C
Don't have names, but I know that the style of teaching I prefer is informative and concise (boring?). I don't like wordly intros and inline jokes. Unfortunately being funny while you teach has become a measure of being a good teacher, But I guess that works for most students.
He was an extraordinary editor. With a creative and talented technical team bubbling up myriad product/software concepts and features, he was able to dictate a highly focused direction based on great instinct, and then sell the hell out of it that focused vision both inside and outside. It's remarkable how few products Apple makes to this day.
Pointed cricitism does have value but its value isn't increased by yelling.
That excuses like 256MB, tops.
Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration
Worse in every way.
Walter Lewin for physics. His MIT undergrad physics courses (8.01, 8.03, and 8.03) are a perfect combination of practical with mathematical rigor.

Classical Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro203puVhQsmC...

Electromagnetism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro2314mKyUiOI...

Vibrations and Waves: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro22WeXM2QCKJ...
No, I am saying eating plants != healthy per se.

I have seen people suggesting all meat diet is healthier then all plant diet, and to those people i also say depends how the meat was produced, treated and kept before selling.

You give antibiotics to animals, take animal manure for you bio plants which take up some of those antibiotics and now you have plant that also has it...

I have seen people put pesticides on fruits which usually takes 15 days to degrade and sell them in couple of days. That fruit is technically poisonous.

So what I am suggesting that unless you know how you food was grown and treated you don’t know it is healthy.

So moral choices does not mean healthy choices just cos.
Brutal ultimately undermines because it'll eventually push key people out.
Great list, thanks for posting. I've been anti-Google for a long time and never was a fan. The only product of theirs that I find is indispensable is Youtube. They bought it, but it's by far the most useful and enjoyable product they keep going. Google Maps is close and it is the gold standard for maps, but I could get by without it for sure and just stick to Apple Maps.

I'm a Firefox/DDG/Dropbox+OneDrive/Outlook.com guy. No social media.

I just suffer with whatever battery loss I get on my laptops with Firefox. But I do think it draws less than Chrome. I tell people to just use native browsers that are already installed on their laptops for power/performance reasons, with a note that the only other browser that's customizable and powerful enough to be worth sacrificing battery efficiency for is Firefox. I love the features of Firefox and if it weren't so vastly customizable and superior to Edge/Safari I'd use and recommend native browsers only.

I do tend to prefer Apple and Microsoft over Google but that's a long held bias of mine. I didn't care for Google when they were popular with everyone in the early days of Chrome's release. Hated Google before it was cool, hipster Google hater.
I own Kyocera kitchen knife as well as some made-in-china ceramic folder.

Both are performing really well. If I'd buy Chinese made steel knife - it probably would get dull after cutting 3 sandwiches or so.
Ceramic knife apparently performing extremely well and remains sharp as expected.

Also - i saw there are ceramic knife sharpeners available - so i plan to get one sometime.
Maybe they're not on your local market, but I've seen fenders that attach to the seat post and directly to the front forks.

Lots of people have similar frames and want fenders, that options have popped up :-)
What could be called a visionary.
Most outdoor people (7+ days charging on solar or limited electrical outlet access) hate the idea of having to charge an extra device, when they could use a pair of cheap headphones. Hard pass for me too, I'll stick to my cheap, outdated tech.
I slaughtered my own chicken when i was a kid cos i grew up partially in a village.
Most of my interaction with HMRC is online now, this is far more effective for both sides.
Does Running Slim You Down? Mat or Outdoor Environment? – ViralTrendsLab
Is it possible, in a small part, that the news business is booming in the wild post-2016 political era? I imagine that major publications like NYT/WaPo/etc would have seen a climb in traffic/subscriptions in the last 1-2 years?

Control/agenda is the obvious answer. Rupert Murdoch is immensely powerful in Australia and the US, I guess.
It's easy to enjoy a spectacle like that from the stands but if you had a boss like that you'd be a nervous wreck. Linus realizes that his behavior's far from optimal, though changing isn't easy as we all know.
The Washington Post has been profitable for the last two years. Bezos isn’t propping it up, he just helped them transition to a new business model.
Anjali Raghav All Songs
Convincing a company or two to use something and prove it superior in the market would be far easier than convincing the EU to adopt a new standard.
> I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native toolin

> I'm probably moving to Windows soon

so when you migrate back to windows will you also go to services.msc and disable everything ? AFAIK windows won't even let you disable its RPC broker.
That's hardly a fair comparison. Buzzfeed news is a legitimate news organization that often performs highly valuable investigative journalism, whereas Time is for kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TT81o4hL4c
> Similarly, it's plausible that minimum wage laws actually depress wages. An unskilled worker or college student isn't legally permitted to accept a $4/hour internship, but may not be able to find one that pays any more than that

I think the people who can “afford” to take a $4/hr internship is the same cohort that could take a free internship. The rest need enough wages to live off of.
You can be direct without being obnoxious, no?
GMAIL delays
Two years ago I asked if anyone had noticed GMAIL delivery delays of 5+ hours.

I noticed that it has stretched to 4 days in some cases.
Time's chief art critic describes what it was like when magazine expense accounts were deep.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...
IBM Creates Star Trek Inspired Holodeck
The Last Goodbye
As I understand it, push only goes to a registry. So even with an ssh tunnel to the docker host tcp port, there's no obvious way to transport the image from your localhost.

You should be able to "docker build" the image on the remote host that way. Downside there is that you are transporting the entire build context rather than just the layers. IMO most cases will be less efficient.
LNhealth
My understanding is that this is false. I would be interested to see his Uni's legal statement though.
You've moved the goalposts I think -- you've conceded that what the market decides is in part based on what market participants' think other future participants will do. This means that the price of a stock is not the discounted future cash flows of a company -- the price of a stock is what the market will pay for it. There is no reason to assume present or future market participants will pay a price for a stock based upon a specific valuation model. If you even consider for a second how most people invest and how the derivative markets work you should call into question the idea that the stock market should ever be expected to converge universally on a price based on such a simplistic valuation model such as discounted future estimated cash flows. It's an unfalsifiable proposition anyway, so is a fairly useless mental model imho.
Cool. I guess it's just that there's a lot more demand for gun barrels than swords in recent centuries. So there's not much practical experience, and the delusion persists that the old ways are better.

But still, the patterns can be beautiful. I've seen blades with patterns that resemble engravings. Maybe the approaches could be merged, to yield modern performance with classic beauty.
Advice for MAAS(metal as a service) platform
Advise some open source for MAAS, including PXE, OS management, assets DB etc. ?
And I'm here because this story appeared in my RSS feed.

I 'consume' other people's thoughts and opinions via HN, after 'consuming' the story via my feed.

Different purposes.
Yes, that's right. They haven't been in enough situations to see the good that civility can do and the wreckage that incivility can leave in its wake. I'm not speaking specifically about the Linus situation here but more as a general observation that most people have when they've been out in the world for more than a few years.
Already is Zuckerberg.
I ended up not using the app but I know lots of non-tech people who are unaware and so carry on. That for me isn't great.
But what explains that difference? Based on current understandings, shouldn’t they have arrived at exactly the same time?
It's more helpful to look at it as a social scientist. This is what can be empirically observed about the behavior of a large group of humans under these very specific conditions. It's not good or bad in the same sense that chemistry isn't good or bad. It just is, and can actually be quite fascinating if you look at it from that light!

It's also magical that given all this, everything still works! The products get shipped, the people get paid, the world benefits! Think of it this way -- human behavior is much weirded than one would naively expect, and we manage to self-organize to accomplish all this crazy stuff! Isn't that pretty cool?
Can Naples reinvent itself as a tech capital?
There is a fourth category that fits your description of charismatic people quite well IMO: psychopaths.

The distinction can be quite hard and might take some time.
You might want to look at a Lenovo P-series. The 15-incer has optionally a Xeon and up to 128GB of ram. Three years of on-site warranty upgradable to 4 or 5 and accident protection too... I run Arch Linux on my Thinkapd X1 with no problems.
None of what you've said looks like evidence to me. I see arguments and anecotes.

The fact that unscrupulous people lean on Peterson to villify the left is not my concern. My concern is that Peterson seems to engage exclusively with those people, and he himself doesn't appear to see any variance amongst people in the various groups he targets (leftists, academics, feminists, antifa, etc).
Check out http://up-for-grabs.net for a consistent source of open source projects that could use some help. There are also specific tags that indicate first-timer friendly contributions.
Yes, the assholishness probably comes from the same place as the drive that makes things happen. However, Linus isn't a lone scientist, he's a leader, so exercising more self control will make him more effective. He isn't going to lose his drive, he's just going to discipline his expression of emotions. He does seem to grok this so I'm not worried.
> All they know about open source is based on this definition.

The Open Source Definition says nothing about source control, patch submission, bug tracking, releases, versioning, dependencies, package repositories, continuous integration, test coverage, style guides, codes of conduct, and so on. There are also articles on the Internet that talk about a "post-Open Source" GitHub generation, and articles that affirmatively reject definitions of open source in terms of license conditions, rather than community. OSI has been controversial since inception, and there's plenty about that, too.

If the OSD were merely a descriptive framework, that would be one thing. "Here is a class of licenses we can describe, and here are benefits we can correlate with them." But OSD gets used far beyond that. It's used prescriptively. It's used to sanction. Those are social functions of a movement, and the crux of a movement is participation, not definition. It matters that people making open source haven't heard of OSD, because they neither participated in its adoption nor consented to its authority. It has no sway over them. The idea that a mailing list could define their community rankles.

I don't consider debate about OSD, DFSG, or "What is free software?" bullying. I do consider peer pressure on maintainers to adopt terms that don't advance their goals, against their stated interests, bullying. I consider unfounded legal FUD to the same effect bullying. Have a look at the Lerna GitHub issues, or Twitter conversation about Commons Clause.
> I researched routes and found one that seemed feasible – 76 miles between Bardonecchia in Italy and Grenoble in France.

Migrants from Africa use that route to die while trying to cross the border, while he hops through it wearing a pith helmet.

That's so British I just shat a colony and a crate of spices.
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