skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In regards to whether or not a good location is more desirable today than 5, 50, or 3000 years ago it definitely is. Reminds me of a story I found about Greyhound going down in my neck of the woods.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/canada-greyhou...

Relevant bit:

"More and more people are leaving rural Canada, and the people who remain are often the ones who are unable to leave.” Since 1950, the rural share of the country’s population has fallen by half."

So while population growth isn't fantastically large, people are flocking to urban areas (for many pretty obvious reasons).
I was more referring to changes in the API where the input and output suddenly have to be in different formats in the middle of a pipeline, causing a crash. What can also happen is that somehow the old format is still valid and gets processed all the same, thus yielding nonsensical results. Sometimes a lab devises their own format which no one else uses, and the specification may be updated without notice between the moment they publish and the moment you try things out. Most people have no idea about things like 'backwards compatibility', 'unit tests', 'containers', etc. Code is just a tool to them and the fact that they had to write some is annoying them in itself.
> The Tweets included ones that discouraged Democratic men from voting, saying that would drown out the voice of women

This is not a falsehood, such as telling people they need three forms of ID to vote. This is an idea that Twitter is censoring.
1. No: housing bubble crashes, and the 10+ years of your life crashes and burns with it. That's your good investment decision

2. True.., but the era of net negative rate mortgages, a minutes hike in rate will trigger a wave of defaults

3. That's only thanks that in the west that "unique inflation hedging property" is a result of decades old self fulfilling prophecy

Housing market in US is, I believe, the best examples of "ECON 101" vs common sense and reality.
What is birthright citizenship, and how Trump may be powerless to end it?
Haven't tried it out but from a quick inspection, this looks like it might be suitable:
https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/imglab
how much of this has to do with whether you personally care? It's about whether their customer base cares.
Debunked: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/operating-syst...
Using fox news as an example, it's clear that people cannot discern.
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Secrets are a pre-21st century idea.
i ran xfce on centos for a while.

we were running centos on the server, so figured i'd use it for my dev vm as well.
All of what you listed is build tooling, not something that gets linked into end binary. It's pretty standard fare for C++ projects.
>The economy is built by actual people, with dreams, desires, etc, whose behavior is usually far beyond what the "Homo economics" would dictate.

Homo economicus is very busy figuring out exactly what those dreams, desires etc entail.

We know about how their brains work, I know how to design reward schemes, job happiness plans, legal documents and so on.

We are paid, to act as economic agents, and to do so rationally and to the best of our ability, with the moral aspect of it abstracted away.

How many times have you heard of people standing up and saying "hey I wont be the lawyer who buries the immoral and indefensible clauses in the contract".

Not very often, I'd bet. Furthermore if people did bring this up, or even leave their job over it - we can always find someone for whom the moral question is not a problem.

Its very easy to get people who are rational business actors and dont want to worry about the moral aspects of their work. They just want to do their jobs well, get paid and go home.

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>Well, it will be fun to see them suddenly rebalance their "interests" when they are plagued to death, and it's their life and the life of their children on the line.

That's my point - people will "rebalance", but I don't see a solid path to avoiding that re-balancing.
This is such a common thing that you're doing.

There are four levels of power (kind of) => government, employer, social, individual. Whenever you're in an argument, assume that the other side is advocating for the top level to enforce something so you can call them oppresive, and claim that you're advocating for the bottom level (and that that level should be free to do as it likes).

Nothing in this article mentions passing a law and he even mentions several times that it's within their rights. It's therefore clearly discussing level 3 and 4 (trying to effect cultural change at the level of the individual. For you to weigh in as if he's arguing for passing an insane freedom of speech is disingenuous.
Do US people really pay monthly recurring $2000 donations using a credit card if it takes a percentage fee?
Interesting. I wonder why NS (Dutch railways) don't have this solution given that trains in The Netherlands have difficulty driving on time. Accidents with passengers (e.g. suicide) also happen, but if a train arrives late during prime hours then they'll lose even more given its loaded and passengers cannot board before passengers left.
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What a narrow minded list. I can think of at least three titles that have surely been more influential on society: PHP & MySQL for Dummies, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Fifty Shades of Grey.

We’d all like to believe otherwise of course, but these types of titles that have massive reach are doing far more to influence lives than academic fare.
I write a lot: probably average writing 1 book every 1 1/2 year over the last 35 years.

This may be key:

“Yet another version might be that sleep itself is the key: sleep, aside from any resetting, is also responsible for memory formation and appears involved in unconscious processes of creativity.‘

I find the morning is my best work time for either writing or designing and writing software. It seems that often good ideas are just there for the taking in the morning.

That said, I often get the same effect after dinner if I have taken the afternoon off for leisure (e.g., hiking all afternoon).
I dont have fixes, I don't know where that idea crossed your mind.

I see this as the likely path forward. It is not a fix, it is essentially the car careening off the cliff and people the survivors picking up and moving on.

Could you let me know what was confusing in my text? I'll fix it up.
Taiwan was nearing net deflation for 2 decades while the GDP grew at double digit rates. That saying that is more of a self fulfilling prophecy, than something with fundamental underlying mechanism.
> United against Justinian in 532, partisans of the Blues and the Greens set aside their mutual hatred to fight and die for a higher, shared principle: their inalienable right to rebuke good sportsmanship, play dirty, and lose poorly.

If ever there was a single-sentence statement on the difficulty in changing human nature, it would be this.
I too would like to hear about getting facts from an sql db, and writing back results from prolog - it's hard to see how a prolog text file can/could be used as a source for transactional problems like booking (making sure the answer you find can be committed while still valid).

I suppose one could have a prolog service that came up with suggestions, ordered by preference, and then attempt committing them in order to the actual transactional storage layer. But I don't see how you could avoid re-implementing transactions.

With an rdms you could look for options, and attempt a booking in a transaction, and have a fairly established way to resolve conflicts.
Click bait article like these are the reasons that Trumps branding of prestigious media houses as "Fake news" found resonance among the masses. Kenyans are not being paid to program driverless cars but to label data. There is a Himalayan difference in skillsets required for programming driverless cars and labelling data. BBC should no better. But why would they care? They got me to to click the article and increase their visitor count.
> "trigger the conservatives" to force them to attack the actions of private companies

Conservatives will come to understand that big capital is not a conservative.
How has the Amazon/AWS acquisition of C9 affected Ace? Is it abandonware or still very actively developed?
This is a self inflicted issue. Theming existed prior to CSS, and developers decided that CSS was the way to implement theming rather than support an explicit theming api. Now the argument is being made the CSS has too wide a surface area.
> our human minds have not sufficiently evolved

They're also not evolved to deal with TV news.
While it would be sad to see so many species dying, i dont think it will affect the survival of humans.

If really needed bacterias and plants would be enough for humans to survive. Wouldnt be pleasant though, so we should try our best that it doesnt happen.

I just dont see the apocalyptic prophecies coming true.
It's more complicated than that.

Matt Taibbi -

"As it turns out, there is a utility in keeping us divided. As people, the more separate we are, the more politically impotent we become. This is the second stage of the mass media deception originally described in Manufacturing Consent. First, we’re taught to stay within certain bounds, intellectually. Then, we’re all herded into separate demographic pens, located along different patches of real estate on the spectrum of permissible thought. Once safely captured, we’re trained to consume the news the way sports fans do. We root for our team, and hate all the rest. Hatred is the partner of ignorance, and we in the media have become experts in selling both."

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/introduction-the-fairway
tl;dr bullshit social media story picked up by other media
A great place to start would be to seriously limit or eliminate pesticides like Roundup. Don't believe the alarmists in Big Ag who will say the world will starve. We overproduce food now, and organic farming techniques, if widely adopted, wouldn't make it impossible to continue to produce enough. The loss of diversity in insects and "weeds" has had a huge impact up the chain.
I think it's somewhere inbetween, similar to the heirloom-doctools. You can interact with any live SCCS repo -- if you find any outside of BitKeeper (whose format seems to have diverged anyway).

And for some reason it's in POSIX. I'm pretty sure nobody even cares about its existence in POSIX, but it's technically there. Though I can't think of a single OS that ships SCCS; OpenBSD ships GNU CVS and their own RCS (OpenCVS is sadly in eternal limbo[1]), not sure what FreeBSD does. Linux distributions generally don't ship anything. And git has basically won anyway.

[1] http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Status-of-OpenCVS-...
Yes, and it's a shame because there's still plenty of value to be had from the article.

It's obvious that the end comment from the reporter is untrue, since by no definition could the workers be said to be becoming "AI experts" even if this is for some a step towards doing more challenging jobs.

It feels like it could be a combination of the reporters lack of knowledge, sloppy phrasing and getting carried away withthe enthusiasm with the situation.
Yes especially the last sentences reads as "our workers only thrive in poor communities and we are doing them a favor by keeping them poor"

Western food aid has distorted the price of food in African countries already and resulted in local farmers losing their job. The housing market is only problematic in cities that restrict new construction. All these companies are doing is hiding their greed. They don't care about the well-being of the workers at all.
> ...we should use microservices and stop monoliths from becoming huge mountains of code in the future.

Microservices architecture is good, but have some problems about which developers forgot, e.g. microservices communication and dependencies problems.

This architecture is good choice only for specific situations and it require good forethought.
>In Asia, house value is like car value. People want to buy brand new ones, and the minute it's used, it's worthless. People can live in their old house as long as they want to, but young people would prefer a clean new house free of mold (humidity makes it inevitable) and other problems and they can get a new house relatively affordably.

Moreover that, in China, there are close to no second hand cars. Second hand market is microscopic.

The same is true witch apartments. It amazes me to see rich Chinese simply abandoning their old apartments when they move to new ones. Personally met a family with 4 apartments, who simply left each of their old apartments collecting dust.
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As you hinted in your edit, you are describing the essence of a collection action problem.

Ultimately, we measure the success of our capitalist economies in total receipts, and optimise accordingly. Our markets (and our cultures) prioritise consumption over repair or even abstention. That last point might seem contentious but truth be told, most of us would rather buy something new than repair something broken unless it is prohibitively expensive or repair is easy. In short, if we changed the yardstick to determine progress then the matter becomes much simpler to solve. However, this is not likely to change so we are forced to look for solutions within our economic framework.

There are plenty of ways to correct these market failures but they must stem from government and have the support of the people. Private initiatives have nowhere near the influence or the scale to tackle such problems. Tax on goods and services could be proportional to how damaging it is to the environment. Regulations on animal welfare could be broadened and prioritised. Creative solutions exist for almost every issue, the problem is that they are not part of the public discourse.

For instance, while I personally abhor hunting, I feel we should encourage regulated African trophy hunting, where older animals are auctioned off so that the money can be reinvested to protect current populations from poaching. In places like Africa where money is the only thing that matters, it is of the utmost importance that conservation look to market solutions to assist wildlife, as we might as well nuke the poor bastards if their survival depended on African governments.

The biggest hurdle to overcome is the relentlessness of special interests to dictate policy around the globe. In fact, this is the root of the majority of global economic issues. I would imagine the only feasible way to do this is for the people to engage with these issues, which means we are most likely doomed.
Bad explanation; the LEO and the Geostationary satellites will never ever bump into each other; they are in completely different orbits that never cross. Furthermore, we don't just randomly chuck these things into orbit without any thought or consideration. They do not 'have a certain chance each orbit' to hit something.
I support online groups, however I'd prefer staying anonymous which simply isn't possible without faking your account on FB.

Reddit provides similar functionality and let's you stay anon. There's subreddits for pretty much any situation: alcohol abuse, drug abuse, kids growing up with narcissistic parents, spouses living in sexless relationships, etc etc. I did some research into the topic after reading this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01...

Just Google your specific situation and Reddit will probably have a support sub.
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It’s not a survey of Upwork users but of freelancers in general. Most freelancers in the US do not use Upwork.
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I agree with you, but Harry Potter was first published in 1997. That makes it outside the 20 year window that this article is focusing on.

In the UK we have the Mann Booker prize. It's a big deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_Prize

> The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

But the sales figures for the books are tiny.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/10/booker...

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-bo...
>"Has Mint improved sec-wise?"

Yes, markedly.

They basically follow the latest Ubuntu LTS closely, and I get the latest Firefox etc. a couple of days after the official release.

I'm still considering KDE Neon, but that's mostly a personal preference for KDE.
> There's a difference between letting people express themselves and ratifying hate to fuel more outrage

Maybe, but then somebody has to make that call and get it right. Who's going to do that? You? The mob?

Giving all ideas the same platform and letting it sort itself out isn't the worst strategy humanity has come up with. You might even call it democratic.

And I don't remember refusing to judge something being the same as ratifying it, I thought that was tolerance. But I guess you're either with us, or against us - there can be no other option. /s

If letting a few people talk about hate is magically going to convince a large majority, either that's condescending or we're fucked as a species.
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> Instead the highest probable path I see is a husk of a planet and us figuring out a way to reintroduce life after terraforming is complete.

Terraforming is fantasy. Reintroducing life is a process that takes eons and is on the scale of the Gods, not of us mortals.

We have a functioning planet with a well developed eco-system, we do not have a back-up and we do not have the abilities you ascribe to us. We would not be around to do any of the things you describe because this is all we have and when it goes we go with it.
> flagging is not like "downvoting", this isn't reddit.

"Flag" on HN has devolved into an overpowered downvote button.
You can give the BBC feedback on it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/20039682

I did - I like the idea they cover this, I just don't want it to be misleading
>I'm also not at all convinced by the 10x developer myth.

every single Google employee thinks he is one, after all they survived endless whiteboard interviews and all those clever puzzles!!1 This is also the reason you wont get human support out of Google, why would such superhuman talk to ordinary proles?
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Actually this is a real relic (started in 1972!). The original open source (SCCS used to be proprietary) RCS tool that predates CVS (CVS was built on top of RCS) was meant as an alternative to SCCS, with similar functionality.

SCCS was horrible, even by CVS standards. I had the "pleasure" of using this on HP UX back in the day and it wasn't fun at all.

* File oriented, there is no concept of an atomic commit, change set or anything similar, every file is independently tracked - so your commit may fail halfway (e.g. because of a conflict) and the repo is left in an inconsistent state, with some files having their changes applied and some not. RCS and CVS have inherited this wonderful design trait too. One of major Subversion improvements over CVS was introduction of atomic commits that either succeed or fail but not break halfway.

* Locking. Yay. You checked out a file, it got locked. If you forgot about it and e.g. went on vacation or something, everyone else was screwed until you came back ... Even CVS was not working in this way.

* Frequent file corruption. Hacking the ,v files was frequent, sometimes you had to do it as root (e.g. in the above-mentioned case of a colleague on vacation leaving a file locked). Hopefully you had good backups ...

* Yay for the wonderful "comma vee" extension that meant this didn't work on anything but Unix and even there some tools choked on it. Same for RCS and CVS ...

* No way to access the repository remotely, except over NFS, with all the associated problems.

SCCS (and RCS) were really meant to version individual files, such as system configuration files. There it was working relatively OK. However, using this for actual source code on a larger project with multiple developers was a pure masochism. I can't imagine anyone using this today. Even CVS runs circles around it, not to mention Subversion, Git or Mercurial.
Apple are the target of criticism because they are making recycling and sustainability a marketing point.

http://www.asymco.com/2018/09/13/lasts-longer/
It is also worth considering, that of the planned 12k satellites, only 4k will be in a higher orbit where long-living space junk can be created. The vast majority of the satellites will be in an orbit about 200 miles over ground where there is some minimal atmospheric drag, cleaning up any possible. Even without any other action taken, these satellites will reenter the atmosphere after 5-10 years on their own.

Those satellites in the higher orbits require some care though. They wouldn't deorbit on their own and any space junk from collisions would stay around an extremely long time. For those sent up by SpaceX, there would be plenty of space, but if there are enough competing companies, things could get quite crowded. Of all people though, I would think that Elon is the most considerate about long-term environmental impact. After all, he doesn't want to block the path for his own Mars rockets.
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I have to run a wm for our LDAP servers but apart from that, we don't install it on any of out Servers.
triggered.
I joined a group for T2 diabetes at some point because I have a stubborn friend that doesn’t want to receive proper treatment and I basically wanted to ask about available options.

Next thing I know is that Facebook started giving me ads for diabetics.

Having such an influential company know about your illnesses and sell that to advertisers or healthcare insurance agencies or credit agencies or god knows what else is frankly terrifying.
I started with SCCS, then moved to RCS, then to CVS for a long while. I'm now an occasional Git user. The number one problem with SCCS is a locked checkout paradigm: one person gets to edit at a time. Also, it doesn't manage directories, only files. Read here for some alternatives: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_version_contro...
The USAF Space Command tracks orbital objects[0]. Adding more satellites would certainly increase their workload, but they regularly upgrade systems to handle it. Here's the ribbon cutting on Maui for one upgrade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWby884p6I

Like most mountains in Hawaii, it's on top of a volcano. So Madame Pele had to be appeased.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillan...
10x contributors at Google dond accept sexual harassment, they are the ones dishing it out with impunity
Yep.

It is kind of amusing how tracking history has evolved over the years.

We started out with an initial version (of a file) and then tracking the changes since the beginning.

One of the major innovations with RCS was to track changes in reverse time, so that the latest version of the file was quickly accessible.

And with git and other DVCS, we're back to forward-time tracking of changes, but now with snapshots along the way to easily produce the current version on a branch.

While it's amusing to see someone still working on it, for new projects, if I was interested in not using git, I'd likely go for fossil just because it integrates many other useful tools like issue tracking. It is unfortunate that an integrated issue tracking never seemed to get widespread adoption in the git world.