skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Businesses last for thousands of years?? I have never heard of anything like that before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

> I honestly cannot have a discussion with someone who says ‘there is no such thing as overcrowding’. This is the end for me. Have a good rest of the day.

You are most excellent at strawmanning, sir/madam! I didn't say there is no such thing as overcrowding, merely that San Francisco and LA are not anywhere near the levels of density normally seen in other major cities, such as London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and other cities of the same importance.
California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes

I call utter Bullshit

The TRUTH about comifornia is people have been leaving in DROVES in the last few years

The issue with MOST of Western Society is they outright

REFUSE to build affordable 1 bedroom units or tiny homes
instead its typically

1 story

3 bedroom

1 car park
I'm a bit shocked that there still isn't something like Interac E-Transfer in the US. Interac is the debit payment network in Canada, and all banks are part of it. E-transfers allow you to send money to anyone with a Canadian bank account with just their phone number or email address, but since this is effectively a national standard, it "just works", and it's free. The recipient gets the link within a second or two, and the money is deposited into their account immediately after they click it and sign into their online banking (or automatically if they've linked an email address with a specific account). Venmo, Square Cash, et al. do not exist here.

Too bad there's not an internationally standard way of sending or requesting e-transfers.
A global military presence has allowed the US to exert influence throughout the world. It's a pretty interesting (and controversial) topic, but I recommend reading up on American imperialism[0], and the argument that the military base is modern America's version of a colony.

We don't maintain a military presence in Europe because they're incapable of defending themselves, we maintain a presence because it grants us influence in Euro politics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
That was in 2015, at the time ransomware was somewhat "behaved" and there weren't the many different variants that did things like just scrambling your files and throwing up a Bitcoin address to "decrypt" them.

I think things have shifted now to the where it's not something that's recommended.
Saw this thing in a sappy movie that had a character with cystic fibrosis:

https://www.afflovest.com/

They make it sound fancier than just vibrations though
No, not the community. Richard Stallman.

In any community - social, religious, utility - you have those people on the fringes. How hard they hang off the edge, and how many they can convert to "edgers" informs where the average point will be.

So if the moderate software moralist is half way between Bill Gates and Richard Stallman, one would imagine that the mean average would be slightly left leaning, slightly pro FOSS, but ultimately pragmatic. Were Bill Gates any more megalomaniacal, or Richard Stallman any more bonkers, the mean might shift.

The problem lies with the repugnance. Only those already willing to feel the pain are willing to align with RMS fully. To most of the rest of the world, we see pieces like this and bristle; we recognise that freedom + cost = nonfree - it's not free if we're shackling ourselves to a system that we can't use properly, or have to cart around dongles to duplicate the functionality already theoretically in our machines.

However keenly we do or don't recognise the moral shackles, we'll certainly recognise the convenience shackles.

Of course, FOSS isn't RMS' only soapbox. His GNU/Linux stance - to the point where he insists podcasts and publications change their name or he'll pull out last minute - creates a second repugnant pull in another direction. Again, the shackles are obvious, the moral imperative not so obvious, the sanity of the flag-bearer even less obvious.

So yeah, you're not alone in it pushing you away. Thankfully, everyone within a standard deviation of the mean will ignore his ravings as he hangs on the edge. As the mean shifts, so will how far off the edge he hangs (until he drops).

Feel free to go as close to the edge as you feel comfortable. And for everything else, shake your head and whisper (not my president) :D
The article only says "staff". Does this include developers and technical operations, or is it just office staff?
I actually agree with you here that OO is overused. Java has added quite a bit of FP in recent years though.

Lombok makes immutable data classes trivial. Improved interface support for default methods make it possible to largely ignore OO if you don't want it.

FP is mostly a community effort at this point, but solid. Java Streams are decent for basic stuff like map/filter but RXJava is extremely powerful if you want the complexity it comes with. Vavr is nice for adding more FP types too
I'd say JetBrains is about to get nervous with these free offerings on top of VSCode.
TOR hidden services can still get around this. It's hard to enforce regulation when you can't locate the server or the operator.

It would also break a huge number of businesses. Something like GitHub could be used to link/host the video, no way you could enforce pre-moderation for all commits/uploads.
This is generally true for full-time engineers. It isn't true for the vast legions of contract workers that stoke the fires of large tech companies.

See, for example https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-apple-contract-wor...
Making life better for hundreds of millions of people is a very hard problem. Crushing dissent with terror and violence by contrast is relatively simple. It’s no wonder that tyrants tend to the latter and only the former as it impacts their greatest sources of support. In other words, Kim Jong-Un only worries about the population of Pyongyang elites, especially the military, and feels free to let the rest starve or rot in a camp.
Which one was it in this case ?
Hi, pixelfed developer here[1].

Thanks for all the feedback! The project is still pretty young and we look forward to shipping a stable release in the coming months!

[1] - https://mastodon.social/@dansup/101780180126913256
True, class inheritance is so hard to get right that is just better to avoid it. Lots of coupling and spaghetti code because of this, but to be fair, you also see this on other languages, like python, php and even JS.
It's a simple, elegant system that does what I need. And needing so little resources really makes a difference even when you have a more powerful machine.
If the compile tasks depends on OSX, things get crazy. Even if you can avoid OSX for iOS (here be dragons, but it's possible)
Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
Totally agree. C# and kin are far better designed. It's the lively Java ecosystem that keeps me around as well
Hmm maybe it has changed recently...
Past the primitives of file, disk, vm, and database storage there are only a handful of systems that would lock you in that would take an investment to back out of.

The luxury of having that problem is pretty nice too. The benefits of working off or with these tools is you can get something up and running way faster than owning the whole stack yourself. If the services are priced as a utility then theres no reason not to use them. If your business is running on margins that require better or different systems then thats predictable and you can just design for that.
If you're really that much of a language snob then you should checkout kotlin. It has seamless integration with Java and has the _best_ ergonomics I've encountered language wise.

Go can't even get it's packaging story straight and once again doesn't have generics which makes 'functional' programming a no Go;)
I work in an org with an IT union in a small area with little options.. its terrible. There is actual negative to doing work when you can hope some other sucker steps up to the plate, you can't get fired, you make the same cash. Oh the things I've learned.. don't even get me started on grievances etc
yup, webscraping is not spyware.
There goes the farm . . . . Kickstarter will now increase it's "cut" or fees taken out of start ups - - - and other start up websites will gain more business.

It's all downhill from here. Years ago S W Bell yellow Page Advertising was faced with unionizing and too high wages.

There reaction was beautiful - - -

The principals hire fancy lawyers and the entire company was sold to a new incorporation with an ever slightly so different name (a sideways "hustle").

The so called "new owners" fired everyone.

Then they ran employment ads nationwide like crazy, anyone who dared to come back was started at like half wages of before.

Problem solved.
Lack of value types sucks so yes I agree. On the other hand this new GC might be fast enough that it just doesn't matter if you create garbage for most purposes
Indeed. I peeped at his code[1] frequently while I worked on a GameBoy Original emulator[2] that I've as of yes failed to finish.

[1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes

[2]: https://github.com/zacstewart/gbrs
I don't think the U.S. wants Europe to figure out how to protect itself, or to create a European Union army/navy/air force.

It's another geopolitical block, one that could theoretically challenge U.S. dominance, what with almost equivalent GDP and levels of development and a greater population.
As if the Vassal state can demand anything ...
> It's easy to imagine anything, so that doesn't really say much.

You claimed that science exists because of religion, but did not show that religion is a requirement (or even catalyst) for science.

Organised science definitely requires a society (otherwise it would not be organised) and it so happens that historical societies tended to have some association with religion, but I would claim science arose from these societies despite religion, not because of it.

If science was an outworking of religion, rather than the society a religion happens to cohabit, why do we not see more and more science coming from societies with more and more religion?

> Atheists were science blockers in Plato's day. They were called sophists, and didn't believe in gods, but used the beliefs of the people and fancy rhetoric to get what they want. Most of Plato's dialogues are debates with sophists.

Sorry, not sure what the link here is.

Atheism is just not believing in gods, in the same way I don't believe we are living in a simulation. Even if the premise is true, as far as we can measure (so far!) there is no impact on us. Not believing in things that we can't experience or measure is the default for us in general.

I would go so far as to say that religions themselves only exist because we were trying to explain the world we live in, and were unable to with the tools and ideas available to us throughout history. Over the course of history many people have observed the same phenomena and come up with a multitude of ideas as to what is going on.

Many of those ideas go on to form the nexus of a religion, many hundreds or thousands of religions trying to make sense of the world. The ideas that hold up to interrogation, that are testable and can be observed repeatably, they become science. Science reduces the set of possible explanations to the ones that are feasible.
> By the way, why do they use the Chinese《一》character instead of hyphens?

Are you sure that’s not an emdash?
The comment below you is dead and downvoted to hell, but it's correct even though I agree with you. I can't convince the IT person at my job that SSDs are faster than HDDs. He had never heard of them until we were looking at new PCs and he refused to approve any orders with SSDs since he thinks they're a scam. I even brought in my laptop with a PCIe SSD and he said he didn't notice a difference in boot time, and if there was one it was probably just a coincidence. He genuinely thinks that a terabyte of slow rust is better than a smaller amount of insanely fast storage. And that's even before he started ranting about how SSDs will all fail in a year anyway. I wish Apple would do what you said but there really are some lost souls out there.
Yes, SUSE ("IBM IRES" in this case) is a completely different OS from 4690 and nothing on the wiki suggests otherwise.
The over-zealous tone may annoy some people. Also, he/she could have gotten the same point across more effectively without implying that Erlang and FP magically solve all problems.
I'm out of the loop on rumors, but I think it's about the "modular Mac Pro". I first heard about it in this article: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
>cheaper than the value of your time spent building a Hackintosh and keeping it functional

I don't bother with hackintosh any more as I don't have any use for MacOS, but my experience was pretty seamless. I used hardware that was sitting around unused and after installing a couple of custom kexts everything just worked (^). I never had anything break even when upgrading from one major version to the next.

^ networking, sound, XCode etc. Not sure about apple services like iCloud or some of the iphone features since I never used them. Good enough for a cheap build machine when I was tinkering with some iOS dev.
Suprised they don't have a lessons learned portal. Would have saved some lives.
Is there a distro comparable to Alpine but based on glibc? I'm aware of various workarounds / hacks for glibc support in Alpine, just curious if there is a distro that doesn't have the issue out of the box.
There are a huge number of Java programmers who know very little if anything outside of it, who've geared their entire careers towards learning the Java ecosystem and don't want to learn anything else.

There are also thousands of companies which are focused on Java, Java, and more Java. Many schools are also geared towards churning out more Java engineers, and people who don't yet know Java want to learn it because there are still so many Java jobs around.

That's a lot of inertia to overcome.
The broader market hasn't gone up anywhere near 118% in 15 months so when you see an anomalous sale like that it usually means something else was going on. For example a below market sale to a relative, extensive renovation, or some kind of fraud.
I currently use a 24" at 4K and to fit 3 columns I need to use a smaller font size, which makes the code hard to read.

I used to have a 27" at 4K, and indeed you can fit 3 columns then, but the blurry/jagged fonts annoyed me. 4K really isn't enough for 27".

My conclusion was that I need exactly 5K at 27" (and not larger, because then you have to turn your head to see everything) for coding.
Systemd means I never have to write or debug another init script never again. It gets multiple passes from me just on that.
I want to see “disable websites asking to send you notifications on bu default” !
> [T]hey got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit. That extra pilot, who was seated in the cockpit jumpseat [...]

Am I missing something here? Isn't it normal for off-duty pilots to ride in the jump-seat?
Probably. They love lighting cars on fire.
That's rich considering that I regularly use systemd override files with no issue instead of having to hack garbage init scripts filled with bugs.
Considering the massive growth in AI that makes Elixir only half a solution then unless you're good with low-level languages such as C/C++/Rust. Scala and Clojure, on the other hand, are good for both computation and IO so I don't really see the advantage of Elixir.
> But if you can walk anywhere, what is the point of the megacities that seem to be fetishized in this discussion?

I don't fetishize mega cities but I accept the fact that some cities will become the center of certain industries and thus naturally evolve into megacities. This is especially true of places like San Francisco (the city itself) where geography simply gets in the way. If a city finds itself in this position, there is no option but to build up. It cannot pretend to be a suburb.

I don't even mean sky scrapers, but it would be nice to have like a four story building or two out of the main downtown areas, rather than the two story max that it seems to have now.
If mongo had gone with the GPL/AGPL they would also have options like dual licensing, which is what they seem to be attempting.
I like your style. I also try to be rough with my computers, but on purpose because I want to live in a world where that's typical and designed for. I specifically pull USB drives out without ejecting, because we shouldn't have to do that.
Can you imagine if the public saw how often planes were close to disaster?
Here you go https://imonstream.com/home/search?nickname=Xenovert&game=3 but try that on pc. Twitch player on phone is buggy.
It's integrated in the launcher, which is a replaceable part of the system. Just pick a launcher that doesn't have it, or makes it optional.
Can you design a license that increases the proportion paid to Labor (as opposed to Capital)?

NB: I don't mean more hours are required; I mean workers get paid more per hour.

Labor prices only seem to change with supply and demand. If you're making lots of money, and labor is cheap, why pay more? That's where a minimum wage helps shift the allocation.

You could shrink the Labor supply, perhaps artificially; or you could increase demand for Labor.

You could directly legislate by license: the license available only to businesses that e.g. pay at least a minimum wage.

Of course, businesses won't like that, so your software had better be something very useful.
I get the idea. But the title of this article is "how" not "why" yet the article doesn't ever really get to the how. I'm convinced of the why. I'm still excited to try it.
(Charm Co-founder here) Certainly - you're effectively describing biochar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar) which historically has been used as both an energy source and a soil amendment. Using it as a sequestration method has gained some attention recently, though I have reservations.

For one, biochar is typically produced in small, low-efficiency reactors without proper emissions control (though this is solvable). The bigger issue is the high energy content of biochar (~30MJ/kg). Simply burying all of this energy isn't economical - it makes much more sense to store carbon in its oxidized state, and sell the energy that's released in the process (in various forms - we're starting with Hydrogen).
Sleep is super important, and maybe vitamin D, 5 HTP. I'd be very cautious of trying SSRI/ SNRI. The data is weak and mildly disturbing, but also, they aren't completely useless . or bad. I'd just leave it as a final option.
Yes. If the seat is unoccupied, airlines will usually let off duty pilots use it to get between different airports. If I'm remembering correctly, it's done for pilots from other airlines as well.
Yeah:) feel free to ask questions
My brother said it has to do with liability outcomes in court in the late 70s and early 80s. Maybe a lead..
Sure. I don't think they're implying otherwise. The lucky coincidence is that he happened to be aware of the issue and the fix.
I work in an org with a developer union; I can tell you I was asked to join a few times and every time said no.. it is sooooo incredibly bad i just cant imagine how a union would be good for IT. I have so much to say but don't know where to begin or how to even write it all..
Well, you're missing the point of the story which has nothing to do with the frequency of off-duty pilots hitching a ride.
It makes money if you charge for support, consulting, or for any work building something with it.
If a market is hot then bidding is necessarily going to be more competitive and sellers are going to be less accommodating. It's not unusual for buyers to make an offer site unseen in a hot market. So if you have the cash and you really want the house, I suggest you check out the rules in your state and next time try making an offer by any necessary means.

Or get an agent.
Riding dead head as a pilot is normal. They do it all the time to get back home or wherever their next flight is from.

Being in the right place, and happening to know exactly how to deal with what would otherwise kill the pilot and all the passengers, is incredibly fortunate.
I'm not against unions in general or in principle, but some implementations are not great.

I suspect like some folks here, my personal (negative) interactions with unions have turned me off of unions in general. I worked at an unionized shop when I first graduated and while I recognize some of the positives the union brought, there were also many downsides.

Some examples:

- Nepotism. We had an open position we couldn't fill for over a year because one of the union leader's son was graduating soon and that position was reserved for him.

- General complacency. Raises and promotions for the most part weren't based on performance, but rather tenure. Many people start off ambitious but end up just doing the minimum over time because there is no reward in trying too much.

- Strange (from my perspective) rules. I couldn't have more than one CAD going at one time, and because CAD is backlogged the turn around time was super long. This meant for long stretches of time I couldn't do any work. But I also couldn't leave. I read a lot of wikipedia pages during this time.

Eventually I got super bored, didn't see any growth potential and wasn't learning much so I left.

I assume not all unions are like this, but I do hear things similar to this from others (many on this thread) quite often as well.
Highly targeted audiences vs. broad ones for Facebook Ads?
Your parents: "Wait...say that again?"
I would have loved to be there the moment they first tried a funnel and failed. Bulk material handling seems pretty interesting to solve.
Copy and paste the character then run it through a search engine, is definitely the Chinese/Japanese character for 'one'.
I and almost everyone I know have had the exact same experience. Buyer agents seems to basically set you up on some auto-email service for a search filter (which you can do yourself on many real estate websites), and occasionally take you to see some homes. They use all sorts of fear tactics to keep themselves from getting cut, and everyone is starting to realize it.

I ended up buying a house via private sale (FSBO) and I had no agent, and everyone won BIG TIME. The closing costs, including the lawyer, title search, and court documents were $650. With an agent, the costs besides the home purchase would have been about $25,000. It's a prisoner's dilemma, where either of you has an agent, then both buyer and seller are worse off.
Oh okay, in that case there's no real example you've given for the cost, so $30 may or may not be the cost, but considering a high-end rig approaches $3k and is relevant for 5 years, $30 is a great deal, especially if you get access to a large game library, which is what's happening.

Origin isn't relevant to this conversation.
"They had seminars on how to work less and push back against complaints."

The US has such a workaholic culture, with lack of sleep and lack of life outside of work being endemic. Less work is a good thing!
what % of the generated H2 is currently consumed by the sequestration?

If no other energy source is available, does this % change?
Don't confuse apathy with unavailability. The public (and it sounds like you as well) just doesn't look. Here's NASA's safety database: https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/
Google jungle spice
Yes. One can workaround it with the throw-as-unchecked pattern: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14038649/java-sneakythro...
Not at all. I very much prefer vanilla Ubuntu front end of my personal laptop to MS Windows. I am still on Win 7 on my work laptop so it is tolerable but I'm definitely going Mac instead of Win 10 abomination next upgrade.
An extra set of eyes saved them, it's a shame that there wasn't any way for them to include a reminder in the next crews flight plans.