skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading about the Japanese area with the highest quality of life - it was an area where the government was the largest employer. That article went on to say that the government essentially managed fishing for the area, coordinating supply and demand, and that was the biggest industry. So the arguments that "private ownership" and "free market" are always better are simply ideological beliefs.

Then there is the city in Germany which controls a bunch of public companies - starting with Zepplins. My understanding is that their wealth, jobs, and social programs are all essentially controlled by the local government using company profits (I don't know if the VW emission problems have changed that.)
A project to help my developer friends save time from sending reports from our databases to business oriented folks who will only consume data in spreadsheets.

Any thoughts on how useful this might be for others?
> Aren't gifts _usually_ at the giver's expense? Anything else is a transaction, surely.

Usually with open source the "gift" is the author/maintainer's time. "Gift" in quotes because there is usually immense pleasure in creating and controlling a project.

If the author/maintainer is ranting about the sacrifices they make for the project, that usually means something has broken in project development process. And I've never heard of another project where the author dipped into their retirement savings and built up less savings than they should have to support their authorship of a project. That's a problem that should never happen, not ammunition for rationalizing the pecking in a project.

The iPhone example doesn't work. I can't send a patch to ostensibly improve the hardware (or even software) of an iPhone. The audience the author was addressing was other developers presumably complaining about low patch acceptance and long wait times. In that light, process conservatism and generally low patch quality are persuasive arguments for the status quo. "I'm sinking my retirement into this" and "community-driven development is a myth" are not.
I read that because the building was directly below the bomb, the forces applied to it from the explosion were directly downwards and so the structure was better able to withstand them. Buildings farther away were hit with lateral forces that knocked them over.

When I visited Hiroshima, it stood out to me that there were no old trees anywhere. I had just come from Kyoto, so the difference felt very apparent.
>Personally, I never found startup time to be much of a problem, on any OS.

Well, start up problem is a matter of convenience, it's not a fatal problem, but I just like that my laptop with arch+systemd+systemd-boot starts instantly (3 seconds + 6 seconds for firmware), while bsd on my other laptop starts soo damn slow. (btw slow shutdown pisses me off even more)

Though the real issues with rc are much more serious, and eloquently described here (aka you don't have proper login management, service management, device and policy management, and better in a unified way):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AeWu1fZ7bY
> Some of these miss the mark, e.g. depending on what you're doing with PII storing hashes or symmetric encryptions would work fine.

granted that "depending on what you're doing" is a big caveat, but:

i feel like there's a difference between encrypting my PII with an ephemeral session key, then sending it in some packets across the internet that are unlikely to be captured, and encrypting my PII with some not-very ephemeral key, then writing it to the disks of thousands or millions of people with a big "this is PII" sign on top of it.
For the Chapter 12s that fail, many of these farm owners will end up working the same lands in the same sorts of jobs. They just won't own the capital anymore, and the surplus value of their labor will accumulate in the factory farming companies. All but the largest organizations are currently struggling in America. This tendency towards monopolies needs to be curbed, it degrades food systems and reduces national resiliency. This is particularly dangerous giving the imminent threat of climate change.

Bankruptcy is an area of American law that is ripe for use for restructuring debtor-creditor relations to fight back against these trends. The entire Code, particularly Chapters 7 and 12, could and should do more to assist consumer and farmer debtors.
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They've made crossing the street at certain places illegal. This is the war on public spaces we've lost.
What about doing the same for politicians running for office? show us your "accomplishments", we don't care about the rest, LOL.
It actually distorts the reality... different results on mobile vs pc, VPN, different users, etc...
>The rent seeking point from Stratechery is taken directly from Apple's own earnings calls where they are now measuring their success based on revenue from this rent-seeking instead of on devices sold.

I don't follow how talking about it on earnings calls makes it "rent seeking". The App Store cut has only gone down since it was launched (for subscriptions after a year).
Excuse me, but I am very confused. Which murderous conquesting people am I exculpating?
That’s just lame whataboutism.

Google has to comply with the laws of the countries they operate in. And in fact Google has been nothing but transparent in the requests they got.

And yes, that’s why they pulled out of China in the first place, because you can’t operate against the law.

I haven’t seen other software or hardware companies pulling out of China. Microsoft and Apple are certainly happy to do business there and nobody condemned them for it.

Microsoft for example was accused of censoring Chinese search results in Bing globally.

Mind you, that other companies are as bad or worse is not the argument I’m making. What I am saying is that I hope you apply the same standards to all the companies you’re interacting with.
It's possible that capital isn't as readily available as it was before the great recession, as banks have tightened lending guidelines. Are there any correlations between business formations and capital availability?
Please explain.

Because what I'm seeing is a pivot in exactly the other direction. Near urban centers you're seeing more 'specialty' farms like you spell out. These farms cater, almost exclusively, to the wealthy.

But out in the breadbasket, there has been an absolute crush of consolidation. Fewer, larger farms are producing the goods.

I argue that we're going to see (or rather are already seeing) the wal-martization of farming. Few, HUGE scale producers who work at a scale that is just so much larger than what we have now they can still turn a profit.
> MPI[1] is pretty much the only game in town for between-node parallelism, and MPI comes with interfaces for C, C++ and Fortran.

I believe the MPI C++ interface has been deleted from the MPI standard. It was a bit pointless, since it was essentially just the C interface with slightly different wording, and C++ can of course call C just fine. For people wanting a higher level C++ MPI interface, I believe the common choice is Boost MPI.

> The only other language that's even been run at petascale is Julia, and as far as I can tell that's still using Julia's `ccall()` under the hood to interact with the MPI C libraries [e.g., 2].

I don't think that's a bad thing, per se. No need to reinvent the wheel.

And, it's the same thing for Fortran really. The most common MPI libraries are implemented in C, with the Fortran binding being a fairly thin wrapper that calls the C implementation. The only real difference is that the Fortran binding is an official part of the MPI standard.
Well you gotta love and respect the site's mission statement:
Whatever it is, we're against it
Apples & oranges. That's physical retail, not digital distribution, and in this case Apple's 30% tax would be comparable to only the $7 platform fee, not the entire 45%, which would be 11%.

The other costs from that article, like returns & any publisher cuts, you still need to handle yourself when publishing on the app store. Apple doesn't replace the role of the publisher in this case. They don't pay for marketing or put up-front money towards development, which is what a game publisher's role actually is these days.
This is a problem that my employer faces. We have a strong concept of corporate responsibility, and plenty of opportunity for employee pushback, but we repeatedly see our decisions simply subverted by competitors who don't have any sense of morals and just go where the money is. It becomes a nasty tradeoff where you think about building/doing things that don't feel good, just to maintain a position to have a positive influence on _other_ areas, where a competitor might simply act without morals everywhere. It's not fun to think about these things in a market with bad incentives.
Really? In my area (NY) farms are just dead... people are running food drives as there just isn’t a way to make money.
Because it doesn't fit the narrative.
The rationale was based primarily on 2 factors:

(1) Compatibility with legacy FORTRAN. Although it's not difficult to work with legacy FORTRAN via C, it's seamless to pass data around between legacy FORTRAN and Modern Fortran.

(2) The mathematical and array syntax. It's tough to beat Fortran's mathematical notation and easy use of multidimensional arrays.
> 2017 has been a really good year to sell a good quality farm.

Who buys them? Maybe big agro? Or maybe convert it into building-approved land? Report doesn't exactly say as far as I can tell.
Elon Musk is wrong about a lot of things, yet we keep seeing him in the news for some reason.
agreed. the opportunity for huge gains are only available when the starting point is really bad, so then the change is huge and thus obviously recognizable. when you're already operating at near the top of the game, differences are very small. but those small differences are what make the difference between really good and insanely great. and its worth striving for that.
If either of the first two propositions was true, then we should be able to look at other first world countries around the world that should be experiencing the same pressure, and we would see a similar slump in small business creation, right?
Why was there a $12 billion farm aid bailout?
Someone should make a high end smart phone geared toward audiophiles that has a 1/2" jack and an interface to plug in a tube amp.
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Ask HN: Review my company OKRs?
Hi there. I'm relatively new to the OKR world (https://rework.withgoogle.com/subjects/goal-setting/), and I'd really appreciate some qualified feedback on the company OKRs I have created.

My vision is to share these OKRs with department leaders and have them (with me) craft team OKRs. Quarterly we'll review team OKRs and score them.

Here are the company OKRs:

Objective 1) Attain industry leadership amongst NCI-Designated Cancer Centers.

KR: Publish NPS scores amongst NCI-Designated Cancer Centers by March 31, 2019;

KR: Attain $1M in revenue from NCI-Designated Cancer Centers by December 31, 2019;

KR: Increase market share from 8% to 25% amongst NCI-Designated Cancer Centers by December 31, 2019;

Objective 2) Improve efficiency in production process

KR: Capture and publish project completion times for each project by March 31, 2019;

KR: Pilot a new client-facing review process and procedure by March 31, 2019;

KR: 100% use of Process Street for all new projects by March 31, 2019.

Objective 3) Improve employee happiness and satisfaction

KR: Increase average weekly employee satisfaction score from 3.94 to at least 4.25 by December 31, 2019

KR: Publish quarterly OKRs with each department and present OKR scores quarterly

KR: Formalize our change management process by March 31, 2019

Objective 4) Attain 60% of revenues from subscription

KR: 75% of contracts sent in the year include a monthly subscription by December 31, 2019

KR: Publish a product roadmap that increases subscription revenues by March 31, 2019

Any and all feedback you can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
As long as there's backward compatibility, you can call it evolution of the language. (Otherwise I do not know what to call it.)
>> It was about calculating a risk (probability and impact) and then making a decision about what to do. That's not rational - that's in the end a political decision.

> Wait, what? How else are rational decisions made?

For example by actually dealing with underlying bias - which the (nuclear) industry does not. Example: if the profitability of a company is at stake, then costly decisions are out of scope.

But 'rational decisions' probably don't exist and there is no method which can be applied to complex situations often found in energy politics.

If somebody claims to know how to make 'rational decisions', then this would be a sign to me that this person does not understand its problems and limitations.

> and was negligent

there is nothing rational about 'negligent'
How is it reducing bias?
If something looks innocuous a diligent engineer will review it twice as hard. I used to fail reviews on one-liners during my professional years with people around me asking me what's taking so long—it's just one line of code.
From 1987 until 2011, Intel created a new manufacturing process every 2 years like clockwork. In 2013, their 14nm process was delayed one year to 2014. The next process, 10nm, is delayed 3 years, assuming it is not delayed again before the currently planned late 2019 release.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/process
3-4 years ago this would have been a huge opportunity for an emerging brand. Back then high level execs knew followers mattered but were not themselves on platforms like IG.

Now, everyone is aware of this. When doing influencer deals you get their story open rates and swipes. Everyone knows to look at the ratio of comments + likes to followers.

Kids who do this for their personal IG, certainly, get called out. A guy I used to work with bought around 10,000 followers and boosts all his posts to 500-700 Likes.

It's so ... obvious. Like bad plastic surgery.

Humans are funny.
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> The issue, at least in my area, is that property is just prohibitively expensive.

There's a dangerous mentality which comes across farmers frequently. The neighbor is getting out of farming for whatever reason and putting their land up for sale. Land is typically held for decades, and having any of your neighbors selling their land may never happen again in your lifetime.

So farmers end up paying ridiculous amounts of money for land which will give them a very small positive, or often a negative, return on investment.

And good luck if you want to get into farming. The capital expenditure is ridiculous, even just for 40 acres of land. Medium quality farmland was running $6,800/acre in 2017. [1] $272,000 get you 40 acres without buildings, equipment, animals, seeds, a well, etc. It's so easy to hit $500k even if you went with used equipment. If you tried this, you'd probably want to build your own brand and get people willing to pay a significant premium for your product rather than trying to grow commodity products.

[1] http://dreamdirt.com/blog/iowa-farm-land-land-values-up-2-in...
Would you if you got a big discount? There's a games site that offers 30% off when you use BTC, and I frequently take them up on it.
You have had some pretty good responses already. Few things adding to the number: Finnish municipalities often hire people with disabilities and pay them fraction of the pay a normal person would get.

Then more specific to Helsinki: city of Helsinki is notorious for inefficiency and shitloads of publicly funded feelgood projects. I've seen it from inside and the handouts that fund weird little art projects and museums that can't attract customers.. Shitshow.

Still there is relatively large amount of tax payers and relatively low municipal tax. Only because the comparison is municipalities where majority of the population is pensioners.
i'm not so sure that pertains to actually paying your taxes, otherwise we would all be in an infinite loop of tax paying.
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Do you in good consciousness support the U.S. government? I'm asking because the government doesn't recognize Taiwan as an independent country and kicked Taiwan out of the United Nations in 1971.
Most of the brands in the linked blog post are actually designing for iPhone retina displays, most likely.
> Is that hash at least decoupled from the content?

It sure isn't! IPFS is a content-addressed network. If you want to update your site without changing it's address then you'll need a layer of indirection, such as IPNS, which allows a node on the network to redirect ipns://<my key> to an updatable content hash. This feature has been immature for a while now.

In my experience, Dat is the more mature option, though it seems to lack an official http gateway[0]. Combined with Beaker though,it makes web authoring an absolute breeze.

[0]: though unofficial public ones can be found here, as well as the tools needed to host your own https://github.com/RangerMauve/dat-gateway/
I don't understand the relevance of your comment to my remark about De Las Casas, who btw was a reformer, not a dissenter [1].

I think you may not be replying to the content of my comment, but instead identifying it with some other, third party's opinion, that you wish to disagree with.

______________

[1] His criticism of the savagery of the treatment of the Indians in the colonies led to legal reform that improved their condition significantly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas#Th...

Hardly just a bit of dissent.
So, I have a theory:

"the sharing economy"

no, seriously. I have family that ran busineses. I have run businesses. Most successful small business don't pay much better than driving for uber, and driving for uber is a lot less risk, a lot less effort. (there's also a lot less upside, but let's be honest here... making a small business that pays better than working for google that isn't just contracting, even when you have the same skills, is extremely difficult.) - if you drive for uber, at least the capital you blew is on something that is still useful after you quit the business. I know a lot of people with a bunch of branded cups and other junk from their previous failed ventures.

I mean, I had some pretty marketable skills when I started my own business, so I did better than the uber driver, but I worked hard and made like 1/4th of what I get working for other people.

The other thing is that unless you are in the business of getting funding, it's way easier to start a business when the economy is shit. In '09, nobody tried to undercut me. Now? I would not want to be in that market anymore, just 'cause there is so much competition that is willing to lose money to buy marketshare.

In '09, I was able to pick up good people who were temporarily unemployed as employees; now? if you wanna hire someone good, you are competing with people willing to pay netflix level money.

(I mean, all this, I think, is actually pretty great. But it is not so good for facilitating a small self-funded company)
> The rent seeking point from Stratechery is taken directly from Apple's own earnings calls where they are now measuring their success based on revenue from this rent-seeking instead of on devices sold.

I challenge you to find one instance of Apple describing their own strategy as “rent seeking”.

Again: people are getting confused. Optional paid services are not the same thing as rent seeking.
I suspect it will be. We are already detecting genetic illnesses, and most of the scientists working on these problems with the goal of bettering human existence.

I won't make any assumptions about you, but I've suffered due to the poorly constructed features of the human genetic structure failing. My life would be much better if those could be fixed.
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Might be less than by analyzing all their searches...

This might not be an exact relation, but my point is that it still may be worthwhile in a longer perspective. Social changes and engineering are nontrivial processes.

Boiling frog paradox and such...
People who proselytize programming languages are missing the big picture. Its always about making computers do stuff and programming language of choice is just an implementation detail.

Having said that, we do need to look into other kinds of computers, I see none of the proselytizing there..
It never did. Otherwise it would have incorporated as a non-profit or a PBC. Since its inception, Google has always been a for-profit entity, which is legally required to put shareholders profits as a higher priority than everything else.
I know. That's why I wrote if to make it closer to blockchain
Nonsense. If Apple was worried about arbitrary code they wouldn't have allowed apps in the first place. Browsers are restricted to the same security context that Apple trusts anyone who pays them $99 with.

They just don't want competition on their platform, and Apple is typically remain small enough to get away with that position. Particularly in stronger pro-anti-trust places like the EU, where iOS is less than 30% market share.
My wife doesn't seem to mind doing this with gba4ios every week; she just plugs in her phone, opens xcode, toggles her phone as the target and presses play, takes less than a couple of min, and she is no dev by any means. Granted, I had to help her get it up and debug somethings before hand, but in the process, she has become more informed of what all the crap in the background more than she was before.

Though I guess most people may just want to throw their arms up and force the government to write a law to make such easier for free?
Can relate.

My wife could afford to start a few small businesses over the years only because I have health insurance from my employment, and can get her, and our kids, to the family plan.

If Obamacare did something good to people not on lowest-paid jobs, it is giving at least some options of health care to entrepreneurs who are not yet raking in millions (that is, most of them).
My impressions:

Drivetrain specs are great
It seems to be body on frame which is good for heavy maintenance
Rear suspension looks to be double wishbone so no offroad
Why is the frunk carpetted and surrounded by a foot thick margin
Interior is simultaneously bland and unusable for actual utility
Touchscreen controls != dirty hands
Aesthetics are good except for those weird port things in the front
Tunnel is cute but would have been better service as a paneled recess accessable vertically from the bed

Consensus: 6/10 decent electric mallcrawler but there's more to a pickup than the drivetrain
- if they're willing

+ if they're willing and able

FTFY
There are hidden costs to taking a stand too. The costs to either side are not the point of the story.

Nor are the outcomes produced by a few brave people locally.

The point of the story is to draw a line in the sand. And that line matters when people are afraid to stand together on one side of it.

If you look at the example of Gandhi and the Salt Tax the mere act of picking salt of the ground and being threatened with arrest unified a country and sent a signal to the British were the line was. Sending that signal matters. Countries were that signal was not sent took many more decades to get independence.
I agree, but there is an extent to which these companies by law are forced to operate against the positive value of their brand [0]; see Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co. I realize it's not the same, just that there's some amount of precedent.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
This is exactly what will happen. All these hobby farmers that thought they could make a living off of organic asparagus are getting a wake up call. I'd like to see the bankruptcy data about the 'age' of the farm. My guess is a significant portion were recent start ups.