skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Avoiding the difficult questions raised by the article, I’d like to keep it simple: I won’t work with someone that thinks it’s okay to tell a coworker to kill themselves, even if it’s hyperbole.
Measuring against 70 years is reasonable when considering humanity as a whole. But within a human lifespan, 10-30 years of trending really matters.

In the US, quite honestly, the trend has been negative since the mid 1960s. That's not ideal for those of us in the prime of our lives now.

If you look at the US trends in the late 50s, it was far better than the trends in the 90s, 2000s, and beyond.
I think that sometimes it's healthy to waste some time.

If I did all that you suggested, I honestly don't know what I'd do with all that spare time.

I think that household chores are good for your mental health. While you're cooking dinner, or mopping the floor, or fixing that broken curtain rail, it gives you time to disconnect from everything. You've got a task at hand that you can focus on and exclude everything else.
>They can buy hundreds of tickets and only list a few at a time.

I don't think ticket brokers really ever do this... It wouldn't _always_ increase their profits, and would substantially increase their risk (of not selling all inventory). Not all events increase in secondary market price as the event date approaches, you just hear about when it happens for really popular events. The price is set by the demand of the fans, and with the supply of the number of shows the performer is willing to put on.

>reasonably priced tickets to true fans

Yeah, I mean, this kind of idea sounds nice in theory, but it doesn't really match up to the way capitalism works in the real world in this industry. Say you started with an environment where every event was priced "reasonably" and every seller/promoter used the same scale to evaluate "true fans" and decided equally who were "true fans". Any single company could increase their own profits over competitors by marginally reducing the acceptance bar of "true fans" they sell to, and then increasing the price point to match the increased demand they've just created (remember, supply is fixed unless the performer adds more shows). This is a unilateral action by that company, they don't need to gain the cooperation of any other entity in the marketplace, and it increases profits.

This means that the system is _not_ in a Nash equilibrium, and, without accounting for regulations or any other outside forces, the industry will naturally shift over time towards an equilibrium where no single company could financially benefit from reducing restrictions on buyers and increasing the price point. At this point they probably lose _more_ in the hit to their reputation than they _make up_ in the increased profits. So they shift towards "gouging fans" just enough to increase profits without being bad enough to reduce demand for their product and shift market price point below costs (unprofitable).
Not all emotions must be pleasant. Why do people think there's something wrong with unpleasant emotions?
(I don't know anything about this story but..)

we've begun to celebrate the virtues of dictators

It's not a new thing at all. For a lot of the 20th C the US was doing precisely that. Fighting democracy and supporting dictators. There are dozens of countries where that happened. The accounts are depressing, horrifying. Which, yes, has happened with such regularity that you could say the US

kills people. It imprisons people. It poisons people. It cheats, it steals (from masses of poor people). It lies in the face of the world (bare chested).

One quick way to get some sense of the reality is to look at the voting in the United Nations, (GA and SC). I did that once for votes in the 80s and 90s. Typically, there's a vote on something that almost every country in the world thinks is a good idea, except for 1 or 2 of the worst dictatorships...and the USA. It's quite amazing to see that in 'black and white'. Nothing like the God-Is-On-Our-Side picture painted on the US news TV shows.
You can replace a daily 1 hour cooking with a 3 hour Sunday meal prep and save 4 hours for a week - you can spend 5 hours automating you lawn being watered, but probably not automate cutting it. There’s only so much time one can save.
am I missing something? Is my page not rendering correctly, maybe? Because, why else would I not see a screenshot of this "beautiful user interface"?
It's 2018, after all. If a journalist doesn't insert some complaint about how it's tough to be a woman, NYrker won't publish it.
I get the idea you're trying to convey but for me personally it's the opposite. I don't care for sports, but I dislike bring at any game in person even more because the cult-like feeling of the audience is deeply terrifying to me. It's a fear of what this many people could do en masse if unhappy.
Phantom Vibration Syndrome
"Torvalds’s decision to step aside came after The New Yorker asked him a series of questions about his conduct for a story on complaints about his abusive behavior discouraging women from working as Linux-kernel programmers."

Oh, is that because women are very sensitive, emotionally fragile creatures that must not be exposed to strong language? That sounds like 1950s-style sexism to me.

I have an alternative theory: Most women don't value having the dude-bro credit of "having worked on the Linux kernel". Who actually employs Linux kernel hackers and who wants to work there? You're far better off learning <javascript framework of the now> and work in some hip young startup with hip young people.
Have you checked out LimeSDR? There are a few software defined radio platforms that also have an open source community. I was thinking along those lines.
"Ideas spread from human being to human being"

Pedantically, this is what defines infectious isn't it? Bad ideas spread to vulnerable people the same way as infections.

McCarthy provided a multi-generational innoculation to communism that was so effective it also innoculated against socialism, to the detriment of the US, pushing it towards the ultra-capitalism it's owned by today.
Sort of, but a lot of these things are either time bound or not in your control. I think if they were so easy to optimize, most would have already optimized them.

Exercise is often time gated. It's not something you want to rush in many cases. Definitely not foam rolling. Exercise also often incurs logistical costs (i.e., getting here). [no, your optimization techniques for at-home body weight are not welcome here]

Meditation is not really prone to that.

Doctor visits you can't control. Or haircuts.

Calls and visits to bureaucracies you can't control.

Social time fundamentally is not something you want to squeeze.

There's also a danger with getting spazzy if you optimize too much.

I think the bigger issue is too much crap for a person to take care of. Too many things to remember and schedule when they should just happen. I think it's an externality that is being captured by no one and it will get worse with time and we won't notice because we'll just call people who fail inferior.
I thought we were talking about abusing others? Someone's rights to feel negative emotions doesn't extend to other people, nor is it right to ask others to bear that cost.
No, it isn’t like saying that.

I don’t know why you are making a case for calling somebody a he or she in accordance with their preference or suggesting I’m getting in the way of anything. That is not inconsistent with the belief that there are 2 genders, and I did not say I have a problem with respecting anyone’s preference to be called one or the other. I didn’t even say I personally believe that there are 2 genders. I simply said that believing there are 2 genders is not bigotry.
I walk to the shop every day, which takes around half an hour. For me it's nice to just stretch my legs and get some fresh air.

Between walking to/from work and the shops, I get a nice hour outside every day.

It also breaks up the monotony a bit. I go crazy if the only 2 places I spend time at all week are work and home. I specifically try to spend time away from home in my evenings.
It only works if you keep your eye on the goal, rather than what’s in front of you immediately. Otherwise it’s just self punishment
There's nothing wrong with having unpleasant emotions, but there can be a lot wrong in how one acts upon them, especially when it affects others.
I thought he was taking some time off, how is he stepping aside?
He didn't say it to a co-worker, he said it to a hypothetical person that doesn't actually exist in the real world.

Quote:
"So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place."

EDIT: Why is this getting downvoted? Because the truth doesn't fit the narrative?
Norway’s Green Delusions
> I found that when I quit prioritizing and just did stuff I enjoyed doing without worrying what the long term outcome would be, I was happier.

Eh, this only works if the stuff you enjoy happens to line up with "productive" activities. :P
I don't know what America you're living in, but I'm not sure I know a single person on either end of the political spectrum who doesn't view Russia as extremely corrupt. Some will say "we are just as bad", to which I disagree, but no one is out there claiming Putin is a paragon of virtue.
"Can't chop off heads if there aren't enough to start with"
.... now there's MBA logic for you.
Linus crossed the line long ago and it's good that he's taking a break to reevaluate his actions. It's one thing to be passionate and opinionated but Linus has shown to be a downright asshole in his administration of Linux.
My experiences as a leader have shown me, time and time again, that people respond far better to praising what they did right, rather than excessively focusing on the negative. If Linus is serious about this, it's going to ultimately make Linux even better.

Good read - "Negative Feedback Rarely Leads To Improvement"
https://hbr.org/2018/01/negative-feedback-rarely-leads-to-im...
I'm intimately familiar with GitHub's UI from both my OSS work and previous employers. I know GitLab can do everything GitHub can do (and more!) but it infuriates me how long it takes me to figure out how to do things I can do in my sleep on GitHub's web UI.

I don't think it's just a familiarity thing; I've been using it for months and still haven't adjusted. Gitlab's UI/UX has gotten better by leaps and bounds, and I prefer it to BitBucket, but it still feels like it has a ways to go.
For years, he has been known as Linux’s “benevolent dictator for life.”

No, that is Python.

Although it distributes its product for free, the Linux project has grown to resemble a blue-chip tech company

Which blue-chip company would that be?

Nominally a volunteer enterprise, like Wikipedia, Linux, in fact, is primarily sustained by ...

That's nice, dear.

Not the best start but get past that and keep going and it is a really well researched article.

THE FIRST FIVE OR SIX FUCKING PARAS OF THAT PATCHY ARTICLE WERE FUCKING SHIT.
I think Cloudflare could easily co-exist, selling premium IPFS hosting for companies who want highly available and performant content. Not to mention they do much more than static CDN.
I love the idea, but this needs to be MUCH simpler. If you're aiming for mainstream adoption, especially. I'm a developer and I don't want to go through the hassle of setting any of this up. I believe in the cause but damn I don't have time to become an expert in this tech. Any chance of a simple executable or installer/gui at some point?
That's just the spin that the New Yorker desperately wants to put on it, because much to their chagrin, Torvalds doesn't seem to have said anything sexist.

(edited)
Just do another fork of linux with some likeable coders... because the world needs more forks
It is temporary as he originally stated, the title is just click bait of course.
In one futurist vision, your home router/gateway modem could provide this service (and also be powerful enough to host game servers if you start up their clients on your phone while on that modem’s LAN.)
For some reason the above URL doesn't include a link to the paper [1], just the embedded video [2] of Torsten's talk MSR posted a few days ago and a link to the slides; however, this URL includes everything (slides, video, and paper too): https://htor.inf.ethz.ch/publications/index.php?pub=187

[1] Slim Fly: A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network
Topology (2014) [pdf]
https://htor.inf.ethz.ch/publications/img/sf_sc_2014.pdf

[2] Network Topologies for Large-scale Datacenters: It's the Diameter, Stupid! (2016) [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8F0JN6X0fE
One thing that’s really helped us save time is grocery delivery with peapod. It saves so much time and if you value your time in any reasonable way, you’ll almost certainly come out ahead.
I'm not sure how I feel about this article. On the one hand, it brings to attention an important side effect of the unfriendliness of the community around Linus, namely that it's particularly discouraging to women. On the other hand, the problem is that it's a mean culture with Linus at its core. Based on this article it doesn't sound like he's sexist per se, even though the consequences of his behavior affect women more.

It's a tricky line to draw, especially since many people in tech are openly sexist. At the end of the day, I'm happy with the idea that creating a more civil community will also help address some of the gender issues.
I will second this question. cevian, can you opine on whether TimescaleDB would be a good fit for this? My (very small) experience with it so far says yes, but I'd like the opinion of someone more knowledgeable.
I'd say Go is a competitor to Java in terms of business case, not language features. In a similar way it competes with Python. You occasionally hear (heard? It's been a while) of Python projects getting rewritten in Go.
> You might want something like "until artist dies, or if sold to another party, 10 years for that party."

Any law like like that would be circumvented through creative “leasing” of royalties.
There's nothing wrong with unpleasant emotions. They are necessary. But most people aren't arguing against that. They're arguing against unnecessarily negative or abusive behavior.
Because it's the same issue.
I think what I'd like to have is a "Use significant resources" permission for sites. Off by default, and unless it's granted a webpage has a hard cap on how many CPU cycles it gets.

When a site is trying to go over its limit, you can either continue to browse it in slow mode, allow the permission prompt for better performance, or GTFO and find a less shitty website.

It's just assumed right now that webpages get to be as much of a resource drain as they'd like, and site owners are acting as they've been incentivized too. Fifteen ad networks and a Monero miner? Sounds great!
One idea I have is to execute health checks to the network from different points in ipfs node graph. For example you could add your file to your localnode(connected) then spawn some geographically distributed ephemeral modes to request the file. Once all the your emphermal nodes have recieved they wipe and you take your localnode(offline). Now the ephemeral nodes heartbeat, at some interval t, to request the file with the original source offline. If some N of them don't receive the file in some timeout, reconnect your localnode. In theory this would keep your file alive within the network for some x*t timespan, the question is what is that timespan and what's the cost of running the heartbeats.... I'm actually going to run this experiment and I'll reply here with my results.
The stores can cast themselves as warehouses, print one copy and see if it sells either in-store, or online through Alibris. If yes, print 2, warehouse at 2 other stores (which can incidentally be "warehoused" on display shelves). If sold, print 4. If sold, print 8. O(n^2) up to some point then switch to linear or O(log(n)) growth. Eventually, your last run will print.
> pedestrianised all 300,000 sq m of the medieval centre,

I'm reminded of the Isle of Sark. I thought it must be bigger but wiki says it's only 5,000 sq m.
Still wrong: People who are happier perceive their dogs to be well-behaved. People who are more anxious predictably have more anxiety about their dogs' behavior.

FTA: "This study looked only at the owners’ perceptions of separation-related behaviors and not a specific diagnosis of separation anxiety."

Also FTA: "The study is just a snapshot in time and does not show causality."
What is the argument then for setting any number other than 0 or infinity? What are 100, 110, or 140 supposed to represent?
Oh yeah, these tools are all trainable

In my experiences though, there’s no time to become an expert anymore

You get it set up, then a PM or manager with no clue redirects us to the next priority. Meanwhile the new monitoring tool just hangs out being underutilized at $20k/mo

Not to say all PMs or managers are clueless, but there are more clueless ones out there than not. They are noise generators themselves.

Or, IMO worse, the sycophant coders who concern themselves with their own personal metrics, release dumpster fire after dumpster fire. And us in devops and secops are fighting their idiocy all day, not training tools to catch intruders.

I’ve worked with far too many people who epitomize that meme of Captain Kirk where he can’t hear you over how awesome he is
And in any case, even though a centralized server is still needed for p. much any practical use case, it's not like that makes IPFS useless - it's still possible in principle for any given bit of content to stick around basically forever and its link to keep working, even if the server goes down, as long as other people want to save it.

Plus, even if almost nothing is going to really be truly dcentralized, it could make hosting a site a heck of a lot easier because the traffic you personally have to deal with may be drastically reduced, as popular content gets uploaded to the first users who can then share with later users. You only have to be the exclusive host of content that's accessed more rarely than the period it'd typically stick around in the cache of the last person to ask for it. (depending on whether or not that last person is currently online.)

(It's easy to imagine a case where short-term decentralized hosting from user caches could be almost entirely sufficient - say, an IPFS-based version of 4chan, where threads are inherently short-lived and temporary objects anyway, and only in the very slowest and least-populated boards would you have threads that are checked so infrequently that you couldn't rely on the currently online user caches to contain that content. You'd still need a central server to do things like spam filtering, user authentication (to make bans stick), and update the index of what files hashes and post hashes are in which threads and in which order, and which threads are currently alive on each board)
Steve Jobs, BMW and EBay (2011)
Not the NYT.
I use GitLab exclusively these days. GitHub annoys me because I can't turn off PRs for mirror repositories, so I end up either having to sync or to manually tell people to take their PR and redo it on GitLab.
Turning off alerts is a quick way to ensure that they are effectively never sent during normal operations.

Most days, it is not incorrect.
> aside from that the current system is unfair

Unfair on what basis?

I did assume your basis was the belief that it’s immoral/unfair for one persons vote to be worth less than another’s simply based on which state they live in.

> You should pay more voluntarily right now regardless of what the official rates are.

Why would I say that? I don’t think a single person paying more in taxes would make a difference.

> at a structural level in order to be effective

Yes. And if done at the California state level it would enfranchise millions of people.

I’ll leave it up to you to judge whether that’s good or bad.

> 50 voters in Wyoming for Candidate A would get even more voting power relative to 50 voters in California

The distribution would change to give the minority accurate representation based on their vote count.

So a Californian minority voter would not be unfairly disadvantaged just because they live in California.

I mean it’s the same as when we enfranchised women - men’s votes were obviously diluted.

> and aren't looking to change your mind

I’m simply trying to understand your argument. If you can put forward a convincing case and prove it’s not just a political power play then I will happily change my mind.

Though I must warn you that I’m on the other end of the states vs federal debate:

I’m happy for the individual states to decide where they want their electoral votes to go - even if they don’t want to hold a vote and instead use a panel of experts to decide or even if they just want to flip a coin.
While that's basically true, git grep doesn't scale...

With ever-cheaper RAM, ever-faster SSDs, and cloud computing, it could actually make sense, now or soon, to scan through an entire repo, either on "disk" or in RAM. I started building an app that would suck down any GitHub repo by simulating a git clone in the back-end, in the time it took you to type in your query, and hold it in RAM across queries. As a user, I'm sure I would gladly pay however many cents it costs to take up this much RAM when I'm on the search page over the course of a month.

Even if a linear scan isn't feasible, regex search at scale is not an unsolved problem, and GitHub has access to world-class engineers. Google Code used trigrams to do regex search with an index (https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html). Sourcegraph offers regex search.
> I'm not sure how I feel about this article. On the one hand, it brings to attention an important side effect of the unfriendliness of the community around Linus, namely that it's particularly discouraging to women.

Why? What does that have to do with women? Linus said nothing about women. If you want to argue that women are hypersensitive and avoid conflict and therefore Linus is discouraging them, say it. Except saying that would be sexist, wouldn't it?
When I hear "Github has better integration" I think "You need better integration because half of Gitlab's features are provided by third parties on Github".

I don't care about the integrations on Gitlab because it already has everything I need, plus they ship new features at a rate of more than one per decade.
1/2? No I’m confused with all the “non binary” and different pro nouns and such we have to use now. It’s like 1/7, 1/9, 1/8, 2/5 etc. It’s not a clear cut 1/2 anymore.
I hate the moment when I lose something in history so I've set my xfce4-terminal to 250k lines which was always enough so I've tried to set scrollback history to that number. Alacritty allocated 1.4GBs during startup while Xfce can keep it within 20MBs. Any plans to allocate memory a bit less aggressively if such high number is used? Sure, without scrollbar it's kinda pointless anyway but when it gets implemented it can be useful.
Thank you
Alternatively:

People with spare time/money are happier

People with spare time/money can afford to put more time/money into their dog’s wellbeing.

It reminds me of an article saying women who owned horses lived longer than those who didn’t. Then it was pointed out that women who can afford horses are vastly more likely to have health insurance and/or access to better healthcare. Which obviously wouldn’t make as good a headline.
Nearly every college is all about teaching you what to think, not how to think. They like to claim otherwise... which is another thing they want you to think.

The non-STEM courses are particularly a cesspool of telling you what to think. They grade you on it. Politically incorrect opinions, no matter how well argued, will badly damage your grade or worse.