skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that as a package maintainer, you can set the bar(rier) as high or as non-existent as you like. If you've got a lot of contributors, you've almost certainly got some regular contributors who you'd be able to trust to review/triage things for you. Otherwise just stick a big note saying 'we're full up, not accepting PRs, find another project, file or support a bug, the princess is in another castle' on your readme. I think they'll get the message.

I think talking about contributions of low effort 'my-hello-world-lib' packages to repositories and contributions to existing codebases have a pretty different dynamic which we shouldn't conflate. For instance, while the npm-cli project is obviously hugely popular as a piece of software, the amount of PRs they get isn't exactly overwhelming, and they seem to accept a high proportion of the ones that do get opened against the project.

Nevertheless, the JavaScript ecosystem is flourishing by all accounts so I'm not that convinced that their repositories being that polluted are as much of a hindrance as some would like to make out. It's just not that much of a problem because people can work with recommendations, popularity, word of mouth or whatever and decide what packages they're willing to accept based on their own organisation's policies rather than having some central authority dictate it to them. You can also argue that a separation of concerns should happen here: Lists of curated packages can exist outside of the repository itself.

I also just don't think it's Cargo's job to put artificial barriers in place. It should be the package maintainer's job to decide what is an appropriate level of difficulty to contribute to them if that's how they see fit to triage contributions. If they want to make it some labyrinthine thing with external dependencies that have to be built by drawing a pentagram in your own time and blood and summoning the elder beast who instructs you as to where to find a binary blob that you have to link against that was lost in the early 1500s then more power to them? But it's not Cargo's job to decide where that line gets drawn.
I think you would need a smarter blame system, probably something that can tokenise your source code like cregit:

https://github.com/cregit/cregit/
https://lwn.net/Articles/698425/
It's different in Russia than in America, but this makes me think about the McKinsey news item that came up the other day, and how they essentially guided Purdue to juice opioid sales. Of course, once prices go up and addicts cannot afford their prescription that was likely not issued in the best faith, it is no wonder that they turn to cheaper, but frequently impure and lethal fentanyl. I agree with you that people who work with addicts are truly doing God's work; no matter how secularly I want to phrase it, when I see large scale addiction it is very difficult not to see the abstract idea of the devil. People physiologically enslaved to a chemical, slowly dying, facing an uphill battle against tolerance and death -- it's all so very bleak, even more so because it is in the present moment and was fully supported by the public health care system. One wonders where the oversight was; and who is responsible? Maybe we all are responsible.
My favorite example is Darlie toothpaste. It used to be called Darkie toothpaste, based on the idea that black peoples have exceptionally white teeth. The Chinese name is still “black person toothpaste.”
it's still not much harder.
Just press F1, like in most applications or type "<programname> cheatsheet" into your favorite search engine. Takes less than a minute to figure it out.
Seems more akin to saying, since we see this runner on the track, he must have been running around the track for an undeterminable period of the past time. It's just as possible that the runner just started running when you saw him.

All I wanted to know is if we observed the past path or inferred it. Seems a valid question to me, but whatever.
I sincerely hope that I do eliminate such people who can't figure out how to quit out of vim.
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All JDKs built from the OpenJDK project have the same license as the OpenJDK project, which is GPLv2 with the Classpath Exception (that means the license does not infect Java programs running on top of the JDK).

http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html

(The same JDK is also offered by Oracle under a commercial license for those who wish to buy a support subscription from Oracle, and other companies license the code to make their own commerical JDKs, e.g. Azul's Zing).
You just reboot the computer. The problem is that when you want to close Vim on a server and so call the sysop and ask him to reboot, he gets all testy. Not a team player.
first stuck in vim 13 years ago. No internet, no GUI, could not speak english, 1 book on unix/linux. So I had to reboot (hard reboot) computer, three times, then re-install OS, since something broke because of hard-forced reboot.
I included the word “supposedly” for a reason....
Everyone thinks they've got nothing to hide, but that doesn't mean they should freely cede privacy. How much is your freedom worth?
The American "incel" phenomenon seems very similar to me. Seems like an Americanized take on the hikikomori. There is even some overlap, like many being anime fans. The fact that the incel subculture is angrier and more combative probably reflects a cultural difference between America and Japan.
Does it make financial sense comparing to taxis, or do they just buy some kind of barely-allowed shitbox as a substitute?
Engineers and accountants have always had to have a "full set of soft skills." You'd have to look at agriculture or hunting and trapping to find any significant group of lone individuals.

And even then, during the American colonial period and likely before, anyone who didn't participate in society would be regarded as seriously odd, at best.
Smarter than what pijul has? Do they have a fix for this planned? That would be cool.

Thanks for the links!
In the US, the idea of fairness is basically divided on political lines. On the "right", people think fairness is equality. On the "left", people think fairness is equity.

Helpful graphic: http://i2.wp.com/interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads...
To use vim properly one must realize it's modal editor with two modes: beep, and ruin everything.
I'd rather drive the Yaris to pick up groceries and the Ferrari to movie premieres and races.

I don't see much value in having an Uber powerful editor for git commits.
No, it isn't. You're just using the wrong meaning of an overloaded word.

Definition of discrimination

1a : prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment racial discrimination
b : the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually

2 : the quality or power of finely distinguishing the film viewed by those with discrimination

3a : the act of making or perceiving a difference : the act of discriminating a bloodhound's scent discrimination
b psychology : the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination)
There are places with lower car ownership in the US. Most notably New York City, where 45% of households own a car.
Author uses a really backwards definition of equitable. Equability is not about making every price defined as percentage of income. Equability is about making things so cheap that everyone can easily afford them, regardless of income. In perfect equitably, everything would be free.

Public Schools are equitable, because every child can attend public school, there are no barriers to attendance. Public Water utility systems are equitable, because every resident gets an identical cheapest possible rate for drinking water, so that the barrier to access to water is as low as possible. Public Libraries are equitable, because every resident gets identical access to the contents of the library, as cheap (or usually free) a price as possible.

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Urbanists attack the roads from the opposite angle. They are trying to invent as many barriers as possible to their use. (i.e., additional taxes, additional congestion charges, etc). Congestion prices can never be equitable, because the idea itself is intentionally inequal -- it's an attempt to punish people for using a public good (and more accurately, an attempt to maximally-punish each person as equally as possible).

This is the exact opposite of true equability, which is all about delivering as much public good as possible, as cheaply as possible.
I don’t understand why people would poison themselves like thi (bug bomb), especially when safe alternatives like Diatomaceous Earth are available
> Google wouldn’t say what factors go into that score, other than that Google observes what a bunch of “good traffic” on a site looks like

A few days ago, I signed up for some service on a new-ish laptop, and it made me pass the storefront captcha three separate times.

This is yet another example of the social credit score being implemented in the US; in this case punishing users for opting out of continuous tracking (which will in turn be used for price discrimination or worse).

The good news is that this is almost certainly going to lead to a massive backlash as it becomes more common.
it seems to me that the right way to solve the regressive nature of pigovian taxes like congestion fees or gas taxes is to implement them with subsidies so that they are largely revenue neutral.

The idea being to give everyone a tax credit equivalent to what they are probably going to spend on usage fees. The incentive structure remains, as they get to keep the money if you aren't contributing to the negative externality, and on average nobody is any worse off than before.
That's not exactly the same. Oracle is infamous for bait and switch, where it's free at first. With Java, they first snuck in some extra components that triggered license requirements, then later, just changed the whole jdk license.

They are very aware that big companies wouldn't be nimble enough to switch to openjdk in time to avoid the license fees.

Additionally, they know that companies have 3rd party software that bundles what was once "free" oracle jdk. The end user gets to foot the bill for that rather than the 3rd party.
Interesting question. I think one could reasonably expect it to decrease economic crime, where the motivation of the act is to avoid poverty and starvation. This would include both compulsion by one's employer, and also crimes of theft by the unemployed.

It may conceivably increase other types of crime, possibly in unexpected ways. Give people time and freedom and just enough money to stay alive, and not all of them will become artists or entrepreneurs. Many will just get bored. Some fraction of those will direct that boredom in destructive directions, like vandalism or drug use. Others, resenting the system, might find a sense of purpose in political activism, which could lead to civil disobedience.

So I don't think it's easy to predict.
This article hit a rare perfect note for me, I wish there was more documentation like this out there. Instead, the choice is often between very basic introductory stuff, API docs, and step by step "how to build a todo list" tutorials. What all those things miss is the theoretical motivation and the primitives that have been established to address that motivation. That's where I'm happiest starting when I try to pick up something new, since I feel that all the details snap neatly into place once you understand the ground level stuff, but to get this ground-level view I have to hunt for independent articles, online courses, or books, when it should exist in the official docs.
I guess most people don't help on Stack Overflow expecting any financial reward (maybe reputation) as the vast majority are already working. And, at leas to me, it's more of the spirit: "Help others, and others will help you" (you also learn a lot by answering questions and having comments on them).
Minor spelling note, "colleague" is an acquaintance or co-worker. "College" is an institution of learning.
Elegant: (of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple.

I'm not implying any of the characteristics you think I am. Capitalism is simple and effective, and IMO beautiful in the way it works at a systemic level.

That doesn't mean nobody gets left behind, not by a long shot. You know what else has been an elegant an unmatched algorithm/system for making life better? Evolution. In all of its brutal beauty, it leaves behind many in its path with premature mortality or failure to reproduce. And yet it's culminated in the human race. It wasn't mysteriously directed by some higher force, it just worked.
I don't think a philosopher or mystic who chooses a life of contemplative solitude for a period of time is at all the same phenomenon. There might be a superficial resemblance but the intellectual recluse will be thinking, meditating, or doing, not playing video games and watching TV shows. A Buddha or Jesus who goes into the wilderness comes back and operates just fine.
I guess working for exposure does pay well (landing a job at Netflix) /s
`git blame -w` ignores whitespace changes, at least.
Well that's one kind of a...sardonic response. I'm imagining a dystopia where people wear Burqas in order to evade facial recognition. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if facial recognition is sine qua non conceptually haram. Will there be some such standoff one day between Wahhabists and proto-centrist, pro-surveillance warhawks? What an odd world we live in.
We recently switched our company to https://runbox.com/ (https://runbox.com/about/company-values/) Our previous hoster kept trying to upsell us webhosting, SEO services, kept adding us to more and more newsletters, so one reason was to choose a company that does only one thing (email).
What's interesting to me is while we have no reference for how close we are to understanding ultimate reality, you are nevertheless sure enough in your beliefs to call ancestral knowledge and other species 'embarassing'.
I notice on the macbook if I type vi or vim in the console I do get a " type :q<Enter> to exit "

However I usually got thrown into it from a 'git commit' which I don't thing has any such help.
Sounds...complicated.
"component tree is bound to the DOM as strings"
You can pass data as props instead of attrs, same as with react - https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element. I wonder why this pop's up all the time.

It is true that polymer had quite a bit of limitations, but there are other solutions like stencil, lit-element, svelte or vue (yes it can output WC's) that do not have those problems.

Lit-html in latest version I think is only outperformed by inferno from popular solutions.
Oh, and as for student debt, maybe it's possible that a human economic system where nobody has to do grunt work, heavy lifting, manual labor, or exist lower on a hierarchy than anybody else is completely unsustainable. In fact, I question why anyone _would_ think that would be sustainable.
Working with the project to coordinate releases? Oracle employees run and manage the OpenJDK project (which is owned by Oracle, BTW), and contribute ~90% of the work (including designing future releases):

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/building-jdk-11...
The problem is that it is a slippery slope.

How do we, as a society, reward just uses of this technology and penalize, or make impossible, unjust uses of it?
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And you didn't notice the Search function either? Not really sure I understand what is your point with this thread.
In Northern Virginia outside DC, I-66 had been subject to directional rush hour restrictions on single occupancy vehicles. It was illegal to drive a car with just yourself for a few hours every weekday and you risked a ticket if you were caught. People put blow up dolls in their passenger seats.

Last year they rolled out automatic congestion pricing for SOVs. All the news stories were about how the toll could hit a ridiculous-seeming price of $40+, but that was usually only for a few minutes in the morning rush. Buried in the articles several paragraphs in would be a note that, oh yeah, it had been illegal to drive alone. Now a year later, peoples’ habits have changed and the toll has done its job. Commuters have effectively time-shifted, alleviating and smoothing congestion. It has been so effective that the length of I-66 subject to this treatment will be extended.

I’m a smalltime neighborhood elected official in DC and I really hope I can convince DDOT to roll out bus lanes faster.
Nice question. Even I would like to know more about those services
oh yes sorry! I stand corrected.
In the last year:

dBpoweramp for, finally, ripping my whole CD collection to lossless. Advantages over itunes: much faster, better feedback on read errors.

VueScan for using my old scanner with modern Windows. Just worked.

OrCAD because Cadence was running a low-cost promotion.

I also upgraded my home use license for Mathematica.
> China, Korea and...

> That might indicate that when developers in these countries enter Vim, they usually meant to do so, and they know how to get out of it.

Or it might mean that in China and the Republic of Korea people don't use StackOverflow as much as people in other countries for whatever reason (they have their own version, censorship, low page rank in their own search engines, etc.)
Kind of reminds me of Aunt Jemima Syrup.
TurboTax
Also the “neet” phenomenon.
The "product for a price" idea is a little weird when talking about some service typically provided by a government who deliberately prices it below market equilibrium. If we're going to effectively subsidize this, it's fair to open debate on how that subsidy should be apportioned.
I am all for being very cautious regarding Oracle, the license situation is fairly straight forward http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html
I’m there right now and it’s a wonderful event. Other conventions are commercial, in your face events but Fosdem is a welcoming, open event. Over 600 talks and some 8000+ people present.
In Italy there is a Law that prevents from having face/head covered in public that dates back to the terrorism years (1970's).

http://www.edizionieuropee.it/LAW/HTML/46/zn81_03_001.html#_...

It is rarely (or never) actually enforced, as it prohibits specifically to wear "in public places or in places open to the public" (unless there are specific reasons) helmets (including motorcycle ones) and "any other means that may make difficult recognising the person", which would include scarfs. hoods and similar.
I suppose that makes sense, there would be areas where the amount of cars, buildings and people per square meter is so high its usability implodes on itself. I imagine there must be areas with higher usage of public transportation, higher usage of bicycles or simply having everything for day-to-day life in walking distance.
The hc2 looks very interesting for nas type applications like nextcloud etc. Removing the hdmi and usb 3.0 ports in exchange for a sata port. It'd surely be a lot faster than my old microserver, which arguably I don't need it to be... Frustratingly that UK distributor doesn't stock it. Edit: I tell a lie, they do!
Wikipedia is a nonprofit, which is why it gets a pass. YouTube pays (some) creators, so it looks more like a normal business. Stack Overflow is much more interesting to me. People generally love it, but it makes a lot of money off the backs of its unpaid users. I suppose the key factor there is that people see SO as really useful, and doing good unpaid labor there can pay off greatly in indirect ways, like being hired for better jobs.
This usually happens to me on a fresh install the first time I run "crontab -e" or a git commit.
Device is connected to ADSL provider in small village and it's only one AP on 500m radius.
Being addicted to drugs is probably not as big of a problem as the hikkomori. While doing drugs you can productively contribute to society and most addictions naturally pass as people get older. I’m not sure the same is true with the hikkomori. Also many hikkomori do become violent or engage in self-harm: lashing out at themselves or their family.

After spending 8 years in your room and only talking to your parents through a door, it probably takes a huge toll on your mental health. And since Japan is a shame/honor-society, the effects compound very quickly. To make matters worse, once you fall out of the “right” track in Japan, you are categorically excluded from certain forms of work and social status.

This means that if, say, you stay in your room a year after high school instead of going to college, you will never be accepted into college for the rest of your life. You will never be able to get a high status salaryman job. This leads to a mindset that there’s no going back and that the rest of their lives are ruined.

The hikkimori are a class of people that suffer from a culturally specific syndrome that would manifest itself in other ways outside Japan/Asia.
Depression or anxiety probably.

I think a large part of the problem is that it is very common in Japan for children to live with their parents for a relatively long time compared to Western (or at least American) society. And since Japanese culture is built on the honor/shame duality, everytime the child disappoints their parents, the effects compound. This eventually leads to a point where the child is so ashamed, they just lock themselves in their room to escape.

If children just left the house earlier, I think this would solve a lot of problems. They would leave their rooms because no one would be there to judge them.

As an aside, it’s interesting that the problem is only with men. Women are held to a lower standard and don’t feel the type of pressure as men to become successful and honor their parents.
"And written Romanian is used for scripts, songs, transcripts and under a 100 novels"

You meant that there are only less than 100 novels written in Romanian? If yes, that's one of the most absurd claims I've read in my life.