skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like more something to blame the Debian family over than the whole ecosystem. I might be running "bleeding edge" on Arch but I can still depend on and use libcurl3 with the libcurl-compat package.

I maintain about two dozen software packages in the AUR, including some really old stuff like the Heretic 2 Linux release from 1999 and RBDoom 3 BFG which has a boatload of dependencies. Breakages are extremely rare for the average package even with the rolling release and generally any breaking change in a common library will see the legacy version hang around since stuff will still depend on it.
So you're happy to have no PC to access Hacker News, for sure no Smartphone, not even a "dumb" mobile phone. No YouTube, Netflix, Amazon. Yes things worked back then but I doubt many people would want to roll back all technical progress since then. Brexit is the legal equivalent to that and any deal IMHO can merely be an attempt in damage limitation at least for the foreseeable future.
I am, because that's the main issue right now. While you may live in CA, I currently live in TX and can go to jail for years for smoking a plant.

Tell me, how should I react to an article that could be used as an argument against my rights being the same as yours?
I have always love wikileaks for what they do.
It is very sad to see that there is so much wrong information and it makes me believe that there is indeed a smear campaign against Julian Assange and wilileaks.
"real estate will become a little more affordable"

For many people in the UK any decrease in house prices is regarded as a very bad thing indeed.
That's an availability bias. While cmake is common in commercial settings, I haven't seen autoconf used outside of open source. I've seen scons and meson both used as well at various companies.

Meson seems to be spreading pretty rapidly. After I was introduced to it a few years ago for work, I started using it as my default build system for C++ elsewhere and more C++ devs I know have started using it. I've seen it replace CMake and make at large companies for C++.
Rubberwood. Rubberwood has seen huge growth in use in the last couple decades, particularly in furniture.
You were earning just enough. Don't listen to people whose time horizon isn't further than the next month's paycheck.
JavaScript state encapsulation without classes in 2019 (with private fields)
> As if that is always possible.

Were your responding to 'make it physically impossible for the child to access a hot oven.'?

If yes, then you're wrong: its (99%) always possible. Just buy and install a kid's barrier and park the 2yo in his room during the cooking. Or use a cold door oven. No need for a 'big enclosure padded out with cotton wool'.

> Many dangers in the real world, you can maybe stop the kid touching an oven, but you won't be always there to stop him/her from dangerous situations.

100% agree, unfortunately. My point was that, agreeing with the parent (no pun intended), at 2yo, you don't loose sight on your child if it's environment is not 100% safe, end of the discussion.
And a robot Kevin Spacey to prevent the clones from revolting.
Those are good sources and I agree with the sentiment, but it does mention this:

"With marijuana, apparently, we’re still waiting for this information. It’s hard to study a substance that until very recently has been almost universally illegal."
Yes.

Preventing the construction of mosques and churches does not actually help women and gay people. All it does is hurt their enemies, and that is not the same thing.
Perhaps it's time Rust (which in the meantime has been adopted from many teams, from Microsoft, to Dropbox, FB and more) to get some more independence, and have an independent structure and organization fund them.

If Mozilla doesn't play well with their core business, and actually innovate, and piss people off even in their side projects like Rust, they'll continue the race to irrelevancy in browsing market share and loose their search engine placement deals. It's not that difficult to go from hundreds of millions per year to nothing fast.
Which cryptocurrency would you recommend as a reliable store of wealth?
There have been cases were official download servers have been seeded with bad payloads, I think it is usually solved within a day/week. So some time between downloading and comparing those hashes is probably a good factor as well.

Automatic software installation is really a great way to have a backdoors into systems.
I graduated in 2009, and started submitting my resume to almost anything that looked interesting (and "fit" with me). I accepted the first job offer that came along, because even getting an interview was almost a miracle.
Why not just post "Hey, looking for new work!" instead of kinda waggling your eyebrows at Mozilla's mistreatment?
Israeli high-tech companies caught in US-China crossfire
Norway and Switzerland have trade deals in place with the EU - which we don't yet, and by all accounts are unlikely to have in place before we exit.
I thought the same thing. But back when it was introduced, batteries were really expensive.

Now, a battery pack for a ~250 mile electric car would cost ~6k. That still isn't ideal for long distances, but it would make a fantastic commuter car and an occasional long distance trip would only become inconvenient, not impossible.

Effectively it covers the same space and the cost increase to make a serial hybrid (like the Volt) is no longer economic.
I totally agree, and while a good % of HN readers probably are making a lot, the vast majority of people (at least in the US) are living month to month.
The slope is not nearly as slippery as you're imagining it to be. I'm not sure literal white supremecists are the shining beacon upon which you want to hang your argument (if I'm wrong on this, you don't need to read any further). We're not talking about a controversial political opinion, we're not talking about coastal liberals shutting down good American conservative free speech, we're talking about white supremecists who refer to themselves as genocidal. People who want to murder (and have done so) non-white people just for the crime of having a different skin color.

But beyond that absolutely ridiculous argument, yes. The Internet is free-as-in-freedom as long as you have an IP address. If you want to start your own competitor to the World Wide Web because a few private companies exercise their right to not to business with you, you can do that. The Web and the Internet work without domain names, and if you really need your message out there and your followers really need to hear it, is typing in an IP address too much work? If it is, then your message might not be as convincing as you think it is. But even still, you can host your own website or Internet service regardless. And you can start your own registrar and host your own servers and make your own payment processor. That is entirely possible and at that point only the government can stop you (and even then, you can choose your own government like The Pirate Bay did). If your movement is stopped by a lack of convenience, that's not Facebook's problem.

Saying "but Facebook banned me" as if Facebook was the entire Internet or even the entire Web doesn't fly. Only you can give them that power, and you can take that power from them whenever you want to. Being banned from Twitter/Facebook/YouTube is only a problem if you honestly believe that Twitter/Facebook/YouTube owns the entire Internet. But they don't. You're free to start a competitor any time you want.
As a Mozilla employee, I find the culture pretty good. Certainly better than in any other place I've worked.

I imagine that some other teams may have a different experience.
I would love to see a website where I could just enter two alternatives and get the greener one. I find it hard to make any decision these days. Should I buy tomatoes in a can a paper+plastic container? Fish sauce from Thailand in a glass or plastic bottle? Should I buy a small item in a nearby shop or drive somewhere a buy bigger packs. Someone should solve it for me.
Literally nobody cares about Linux gaming. It's not even press-worthy because of SteamOS. Anyone who games on Linux does it for the adventure of the process, not because it's convenient.

If you ported your game to the Atari ST or the Amiga you'd get more press and probably more sales.
This is an area with little effect on the average citizen, but I have to say I'd never have expected it to be a Tory government to exile financial services from London.

No, things that aren't yet determined how or if they are going to "work" are those relating to shipment of food and medicine. There is a very high risk of short-term chaos. Considering that in 2018 there were a few days without fresh food simply because of two feet of snow, people are really underestimating the potential risks here.
I’m not entirely comfortable with the ethics of this but one great opportunity is going to be content arbitrage, especially between Chinese internet sites and then greater world’s. There are some pretty funny memes coming out of Tik Tok now.
Absolutely not. Hence why I rarely if ever drink, and only smoke pot at night before going to sleep. But it should be my choice -- even if I wanted to start IVing heroin :)
> To me, Rust is nearly the same thing as steveklabnik.

I thought it was designed by Graydon Hoare?
> Tell me, how does an article like this improve the actual problem at hand at all?

Arguably very few articles improve problems at hand, but for over a quarter of the US population, marijuana is legal recreationally. In Canada, marijuana is legal recreationally. And even where marijuana is illegal, it's often not terribly-well-enforced anymore. New York City, the city this publication is based around, has decriminalized the substance and is no longer arresting people for marijuana possession.

The question for this audience is "should I consume it?" and "should we societally start investing in understanding the downsides of consuming large quantities of THC?"

Those are the important questions for these people, who live in the post legalization (or heavily decriminalized) world. And we don't have good answers for those people.

> it shifts the conversation from what should be illegal to a conversation that is totally irrelevant.

The readership of the New Yorker, I would hazard, has already come down strongly on the side of "should not be illegal". It's a liberal publication in a liberal city that has decriminalized marijuana usage, and its readership, I'm almost certain, overlaps strongly with people who are in favor of legalization. Why is the conversation of "is this healthy" not relevant?
So does Nio. Battery leasing and swap programs too..

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2017/12/20171218-nio.html
It's interesting to see that this argument always comes up when we talk about weed but everyone seems to agree that fines for not putting on a helmet on your bike are OK. Yet in both case the only harm you would be inflicting is on yourself (or so you think).

Truth is: if you get worse because of your weed abuse, you won't be the only one impacted by this. At a micro level, your family/friends/doctors will spend time/money/energy helping you out if you end up needing it. That's not fun. At a macro level this becomes a public health problem when we have to account for all the consequences it generates int terms of life expectancy, QOL for elders, treatments, care centers, hospitals, .... All those institution/studies/process we have to put in place is time not spent doing something else.

Just like peeing on the street is not really going to harm anyone, but it makes everyone life around you a tiny little bit less enjoyable. We kindly ask you not to do it. If you get caught doing it you get a slap on the wrist (and nothing more).

You are benefiting every day from the hundreds of little things we don't do so the community can work as a whole. And you respect 99.9% of those rules without even thinking about it because you agree with those. This is just another one you happen to not agree with. I can understand why, but there I believe it's OK for society to find the best possible way to limit MJ usage without destroying lives.
Only for people using real estate as an investment or their primary store of wealth.
The UK is the 5th biggest economy in the world. Switzerland is 20th and Norway 30th. The UK has traditionally punched well above its weight economically, it will be interesting to see if we become just another Switzerland or Norway after Brexit rather than the world economic power that we are today.

Being the banking capital of the EU is a huge contributing factor to that position, btw.
Is it really fragmented? You support Ubuntu (in either its flatpak runtime or the Steam runtime) and you let everyone else figure it out on their own. Distros like Arch have been very good about providing the Steam Native Runtime and Ubuntu flatpak runtime in its own package system for just that reason.

The support burden for developers is proportional to the operating systems you officially say you support. If you support "Linux" you are supporting thousands of completely dissimilar execution environments. If you support Ubuntu, or Steam, or a Flatpak target you are only supporting that one operating system.

And thats fine. Thats all Linux users really want anyway. If it breaks on your distro its your responsibility to fix it so long as it works on its officially supported target OS.
What's the point if you're not happy? Fulfilling your meaning and being utterly miserable seems like a goal I want to avoid. Unless meaning will lead to happiness, at which point happiness is again the goal.
This is 21st c. social media-based warfare. Damaging the West with brexit and right wing nationalists is as strategically effective as a victory in a shooting war.
> Coming out with a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would buy tremendous free publicity.

This particular game (Planetary Annihilation) was designed with Linux support in mind from the very beginning; as the person who wrote the tweets notes, he and numerous others within the company were huge proponents of supporting Linux. As events proved, it didn't work out for them.
Norway is a member of the single market via the EEA and Switzerland essentially is because of it's bilateral treaties.

The UK is proposing to leave the single market (in the best case)
Agreed. AA has a tradition of "attraction rather than promotion" but AA cannot control what those outside of AA do.
But no actual content. Normal people don't care about this nonsense, they just want to talk to their friends, and I get to explain to them why the only way they can read their old messages is via a zip file full of TXT documents.
Didn't you get the memo, you're not supposed to talk about that, WL doesn't want you to.
I expect that fear of embarrassment leads people to work harder to be right.
While it's clear that the author of the linked article isn't familiar with MySQL administration, it's worth noting that the most recent versions of MySQL finally support instant column adds: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-innodb-now-supports-in...

That won't save us from needing extra tooling like pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost for other types of schema changes in high availability environments, but it's a step in the right direction.
Pretty neat list, bookmarked for a personal project I am working on atm
> I love the idea of being able to game and work/dev on the same machine.

For what it's worth, I used to have that, and I am happy I don't anymore. Having two separate computers for gaming and work has been very positive to both my work and gaming experiences. I recommend this to anyone who can afford it.. even if you work on Windows.
Everything you've just talked about is in the context of cars. Unbuckling your seatbelt in a car is very different from unbuckling it in an airplane.

The reason why I am so skeptical is because the rules are applied inconsistently and seem to have questionable benefit. Why am I not required to stow items when the plane experiences significant turbulence? All that's required of me then is to buckle my seatbelt. But the laptop could fly out of my hands, right?

Likewise, the most prevalent danger for which we actually have statistics is people not wearing their seatbelts during takeoff or during turbulence. But flight attendants don't (in my experience) enforce the seatbelt rule. Instead, they enforce the rule which seems far more arbitrary. If turbulence is really significant, I am much more likely to hit my own head on the ceiling of the airplane than I am to inadvertently launch the laptop in the air to hit someone else.

But wait, if a laptop is not allowed while we're taking off then why am I allowed to use a large tablet of approximately the same size? A large textbook? If the issue is the tray, why can't I use the laptop on my lap? The rules are arbitrary and inconsistently applied.

I don't agree with "being bothered is a nice problem to have." That construes the problem as being diminutive because we're prioritizing safety; wearing a seatbelt is not bothersome, but they don't even enforce that on planes. What is bothersome is not being able to use any personal entertainment because of vague "safety" considerations.
I am not so sure that's correct in reality. Maybe technically but not in reality especially not for small startups.
Trade and commerce API's unsupported during government shutdown
Ironically both Switzerland and Norway are part of Schengen. If we were leaving to Norway's status everything would be fine, but we're not.
The authors assertion that swearing isn’t bad annoys me. Swearing isn’t bad, but that’s not the point. Not swearing in certain contexts is obviously just a social norm, not a rational evaluation. It’s ok and natural for social norms to change.

I would wager The overall thesis seems to be that non rationally proven social norms are negative influences is naive to the fact that (I would guess) strong social norms of any variety in a society lead to better community and happiness.

I feel that by arguing we change a bunch of established norms because we can be smarter than them, he’s unintentionally tripling down on the very effects he’s advocating against.
> You have to pick the distros you want to support, and then once you've picked a distro, what versions you want to support.

What if game developers release the game's source code and let community developers help with porting to different distros and platforms? The game's assets can remain paid. For example, Doom has been ported to pretty much all platforms, and it's up to maintainers to ensure compatibility. I guess at this point it becomes a partly open source/free software game.

I'm aware this may not align with current business practices.
Agreed.

BTW, have you looked Scala/Rust interop? Both languages are ML-style languages, so they are close in spirit.
Both Switzerland and Norway are part of single market with free movement of EU citizen.
If Brexit happens with a no-deal or no single market access, it's unlikely that it can be compared with Switzerland and Norway situation.
In my understanding saying "that's a shame" is equivalent to "that's really too bad," and not, "you should be ashamed of your self."

Maybe my interpretation isn't that common? (pause to google)

Apparently it is the common accepted meaning:

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/it-s-a-shame-what-a-s...
Kubernetes' load balancing, health and performance monitoring, etc. operate at Layer 4. Service Mesh addresses the higher (L5-7) concerns like per-request routing, metrics, encryption, IAM, etc.

Coding these higher-level concerns yourself is laborious and error-prone, so if your application runs on Kubernetes, then service mesh can be a substantial help.
It really is regrettable that my country has decided to blow its own head off. Finance was pretty much all we had after Thatcher "strategically" destroyed manufacturing and placed the entire country outside of London into a state of "managed decline".

C'est la vie. Maybe I'll move to Ireland.
‘Flyover Tech’ Is All the Rage at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investment Conference
I'm stealing this quote.
Because legacy.

Maybe one can't reorganise the source tree layout because to do so would break our custom tooling / integration systems / interface with proprietary vendor tools. We can't change version numbering schemes because our packages already exist 'in the wild' and can't be changed mid-sequence without causing both technical and user pain.

Fundamentally: the codebase has worked perfectly well this way for the last 20 years; what's the business case for changing it (at potentially significant cost) just to be compatible with XYZ new tool that everyone is rallying behind?
It is sad to see how low WikiLeaks has fallen, and makes me think more and more that there has never been much of WL beyond Assange himself.

It has reached comical levels of insanity, illusion of grandeur and narcissism.
Happiness is an emotion, it comes and goes. Even the premise of "are you happy?" is missing the point.

Are we talking about feeling happiness twice as much as feeling sadness? 4x, 10x? Sadness can come from things outside our control.

I think a better goal is are you present? Are you listening to yourself and to what you really want for your life?

Everyone will want different things but making an emotion the goal is a fools errand.
Unpacking the privilege of life as a white South African
Please mark it with (2014):

https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080380532108619776

> The world of 2014 Linux graphics drivers was not a friendly place. We absolutely encountered issues where some driver revisions only worked on certain distros, and AFAIK we did not use anything specific to a Linux distro.
I don't think it's Debian, because Debian tends to have compatibility packages for old versions too. For libcurl there's libcurl3. It depends on the package, of course.
I just keep a simple text file list of applications I must have.
Few things: no government really want unlimited energy for all for a simple reason: power&control. If any country in the planet can be autonomous if it can produce enough food for their citizens there is only war as a means to control it's development and that's unacceptable for nearly all ruling classes.

Second things: we have already achieved nuclear fusion in France and UK and perhaps other researches I do not know but from there to arrive to a positive sustainable heat production and in turn to arrive at industrial scale the road is super long only technically leaving apart any political and business consideration.

Third and last thing: actual fission based nuclear power is useful to produce plutonium so usable and powerful nuke, and anyone like the idea of having many of them in it's arsenal. With fusion we only produce heat. Usable for many things, mostly to produce steam and so electricity and even to heat cities in the winter. But with little use for military purpose.

Long story short: I think even if someone know and can produce a working fusion-powered electrical plant no government will let seriously develop it, at least for next few decades...
That is completely ridiculous. Pointing out that statically compiling dependencies or shipping them with a game can solve many so called compatibility problems is directly related to games working on linux.