skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I've started to wrap my head around lately is the essential inhumanity of technology. It's a near-daily occurrence of mine to having to deal with something that's just plain dumb, and just have no way at all to fix it. I can't make the system better, I can't make any kind of suggestion to anyone so that my situation won't come up again.

There's nothing to do but to just accept it, put whatever workarounds I can come up with in place, hope I can remember what I did before the next time it comes up, and move on. It regularly moves me to anger, with nowhere to put it. It's not fair to unload it on your coworkers or your manager. So I'll vent a little bit, still trying to find the best way to do this, and just hope I'm not a raging alcoholic by the time I'm 40.

But I'm a skilled tech worker whose getting paid very well in order to deal with these things. If they're not just douchebags, I would guess that most people who get unreasonably angry at OSS maintainers are not getting paid very well to deal and are likely the target for generated externalities. They need a focus, someone to hold responsible.

But tech is inhuman and so there is no one to hold accountable. And if ever there was someone to hold accountable, by God get rid of that chink in the armor! The OSS maintainer thus becomes that chink.

I sometimes wonder if the brave new world that the West is building is not the great horn of plenty that we all believe it to be, but rather a monster that consumes the best parts of us and spits the rest out, too cruel to just put its victims out of their misery.

Then I remember that inhuman bureaucracy is nothing new, and pour another glass.
Possibly, but not all of them are. This isn't, for example:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt

And at most we got a few users asking about why they couldn't install it on 2. Maybe my users are just better-behaved.
The problem is that it doesn't cost much to call someone. If the costs rise, then it lowers the rate at which people call. Not a bad idea, if only it can work for everyone!
Or as the author mentions, Azul's Zulu, which has officially been a supported offering a lot longer than Correto, I've used it for some time without problems. Azul also might have a deeper and stronger talent pool for Hotspot based JVMs, although since both are checked with the Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK), I would guess Amazon has been maintaining their own OpenJDK for some time.
How to choose the best iPad to buy in 2019, Which iPad is the best?
If you're doing fine in the tests without homework, then the homework is unnecessary.

My biggest issue with it was that you'd be graded on completeness for the 50 assigned examples. If I can learn it in 5-10 examples, why am I going to waste time on another 40 non-interesting problems?
In the 6 weeks scenario, when would you consider fixed price over weekly? With fixed price, there's a large incentive to be efficient and you can juggle more than one project at a time if you want to.
Ask HN: Purpose-driven job posting platform needs validation
Hi guys,

We are in Startup weekend Amsterdam. Working on a purpose driven company job posting platform. All feedbacks are highly appreciated.

We also prepared super simple landing page.

http://beyourhero.co/
Even given that, there are only so many police officers. Even assuming that it would take a person about 30 minutes of work to get an ID of the person, that's Yet Another Person in the system. The extra work goes through the entire chain of operations (can we automate away the court system too? Who is going to drive down to tell the criminal they need to show up?)

There is a checklist with hundreds of items that will appear if a person like this gets picked up. And a hell of a lot of work after that. This is the really dumb pragmatic argument to not being a police state (beyond the other arguments)
I didn't downvote any of your comments but "In this case [...] store the time zone string" -- seems to contradict your earlier advice of "Always use UTC without time zone".

The issue is that there are 2 types of future times:

(1) scientific-absolute times -- like future solar eclipses; you can normalize these types of times to a future UTC with no ambiguity (other than esoteric adjustments such as TAI leap seconds)

(2) cultural-relative-wall-clock times -- like future recurring appointments, future New Year's midnight celebrations, etc.; These can't be normalized to UTC perfectly because one doesn't know what the exact future UTC time will be due to unknown government changes to DST rules or TZ boundaries. If you simply normalize to UTC, you will throw away information and it will cause bugs. Your eventual addendum of "store the time zone string" basically acknowledges this edge case for future datetimes.
Australia has a very high standard health care system. Probably on a par with the UK and the U.S.

Given that insurance companies will soon be excluding "pre-existing conditions", there's a good chance you can't get insurance under a corporate plan anyway.
Went to do a PhD in bioinformatics at 1/4 of my previous salary. Soon after starting, I unexpectedly got awarded one of the best scholarships in existence which doubled the pay. Having the freedom of a PhD student and a 3k EUR net monthly salary is pretty sweet compared to how most people live.

Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that I cannot be happy doing an office job and will announce my decision to quit the employment next week. My current plan is to continue the PhD in the same lab, unpaid and remote, and find the least time-consuming job that will pay me 1k EUR a month - which will likely be writing PHP for one of my previous clients one day a week.
You forgot

4. Steal swords from random motorists[1], find dangerous rusty butter knifes[2]

and 5. and occasionally give lectures about[3] and investigate[4] "hate speech"

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zmZqQFY.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/VhVQqQB.jpg

[3] https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/13/lecturer-reported-police-hate...

[4] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/south-yorkshire-police...
> I strongly doubt Digital Ocean would give customer data to anyone without a warrant from a judge

A subpeona from a grand jury or an NSL would be more than sufficient.
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It doesn't matter though, you can't claim right to harass in a copyright license agreement. The whole thing is bunk, but it goes to show how messed up the world view of its creator is...
From what I understand (correct me if I’m wrong), they don’t care if you make a Tetris game, just don’t have the name “Tetris” in your title.
On the net, not to have other identities available for use under certain circumstances, is really dumb but their use is definitely other than useful for certain business models.
Yeah but the job market in IT is so good there is no need to worry. If you aren’t being treated like a star you can move on to where you are appreciated.
> every subject was the most important one, in the opiniin of the teacher.

This is the biggest problem IMO. Teachers give kids an enormous amount of homework not realising (or realising, but not caring) that the kids have the same amount, if not more homework to do in all their other subjects.

I recall HS physical education teachers were the worst offenders of thinking their class was the most important. In my HS we had one day a week practical (playing sport) and one day a week theory. In the practical lesson if you forgot your sports uniform (separate to normal, "formal" uniform) they would give you an instant lunchtime detention, making you to write lines, and still make you play sport. In theory class they acted as if your life depended on knowledge of the food groups for example. I'm not saying that what they taught us wasn't important, in fact the classes on STIs were quite important, but their attitude was unwarranted. And this is every single teacher: every single one had this attitude.

I realise I'm going on a tangent but to top it all off sex education was an absolute joke. They separated us into gender and had a 30 minute presentation/talk. Completely pointless and it barely consisted of "you have a penis, you get erections" - they told us this at 14 years of age, so of course we knew that much already. No mention of the opposite sex, or actual intercourse. In contrast the girls got to learn about the male and female genitalia, I was told by one of my girl friends (read: friend that is a girl).
Link is not clickable in description. In case you wanna see our landing page. http://beyourhero.co/
How does she get home at 5pm? Does the school offer a bus service at that hour?
A lot here applies to non-free software as well: if you omit the 'free' in the title and article, most of the statements still hold.
I think that's not worth your time. There are other ways to find purpose driven companies.
Made an account just to comment on this. The new keyboards are a nightmare. My keys on my 2016 Macbook Pro kept sticking and after a while started falling off. To fix it, they have to replace large parts of the machine, including the screen, so your machine is likely to be in the shop for the better part of a week. Once repaired, the problem will persist, because it's not like they're actually able to correct the design flaw by giving you a new keyboard.

I've been a loyal Mac user for about 16 years - even used to run Yellow Dog Linux on my old PPC - but I've started migrating my family to the Dell XPS for their new laptops. From what I read, the new rubber components in the most recent laptops don't really fix the issue either. I'd stay away.
My daughter is finishing 5th grade in a NYC public school. Homework is the bane of her existence: it’s given for weekdays and weekends alike, as well as for holidays. We can’t ditch it entirely because it affects grades, and perfect grades are a requirement to advance within the school system to middle and high schools that provide something approaching an education.

So we’ve developed coping strategies. Most subjects are taught using “workbooks” composed according to the state’s “common core” standards. These workbooks have class- and homework sections. There’s also an answer key, which my daughter discovered using a google search. She prints it out at home, takes it to school, and uses it to fill in homework while no one’s looking.

For subjects that impose homework for which no quick fix exists, I’ve taught her to do the bare minimum needed to get by, or have simply done the work myself. I’d rather see my child read a book or go outside than sit around doing busywork.

All this has led to an interesting relationship between me and my daughter: she has grown to appreciate my cheeky, playful “fuck the system”, “stick it to the man” attitude. She’s the most cynical 11 year old you’ll meet, but she also operates under the assumption that her da is always on her side. It’s important to know throughout life who your true allies are.

Ask my kid, and she’ll gladly explain to you that the US public school is a preparatory form of the prison system. School practices and policies are largely punitive towards students. Admissions criteria in nicer school take attendance into account: students who are prevented by societal or physical reasons from making it to school are penalized and barred from future achievement by a heartless computer system. Likewise, any action that isn’t directly in response to a teacher’s instruction is met with disciplinary letters in the file, which further erode a student’s chances at gaining entry into schools that are more about education than compulsory warehousing of kids away from streets, where they would certainly be using/selling drugs, snatching purses, urinating all over subway stops, and painting graffiti.

Fuck the government, man. It’ll never do anything right. Best we can do is cope and thumb our noses at it.
Good point. The education system is populated by people who love education and probably loved homework when they were young.

So they design and build for what they know.
Thanks for your feedback. Could you give an example please. We found some platforms but all these aren't well structured and serious platforms.
I got myself a HP Spectre x360 last year, it‘s the i7-8550, 16GB RAM, 4K Touch model.
After a bunch of BIOS updates Thunderbolt properly does it‘s job.
Latest model should work fine as well due to minor upgrades.

Btw, Fedora drives the h/w.
I found this a while back: http://javilop.com/gamedev/tetris-tutorial-in-c-platform-ind... It’s Tetris in C++, so it should be easy to adapt it to a C like language (or other if you can follow the logic)
But speaking as a parent, that's not generally what is assigned. It'd be a totally different story if my kids (or me, when I was their age) got assigned a handful of individually selected problems or assignments that helped them with the skills that child was specifically struggling on. But that's not what happens. The whole class as a group are assigned a frightening amount of busywork, the same for everyone, and it is a soul-crushing struggle to finish it.
This is about free software, not open source software.
there is a chinese motherboard that'll drive 2 xeon processors. It fits in a E-ATX case. It should be ~ $250 USD shipped.

I used some cheap ($20 USD!) Xeons (E5-2620v2) and have 24 cores.. so it's doable for $500.
I think we'll see ML coming in as the tailoring solution in the near future.its relatively cheap to model and track and tweak on a per student basis with a software solution.
Just hire more people? That's a great way to raise prices.

Also, does Mom-n-Pop trust "just more people" with the keys to their four-generations family heirloom business?
It does. Ignore the pandits.
Thanks, much appreciated.

At least for me, writing an article like that takes time and lots of thought (plus forces you to grok the stuff deeply). I wish I could write more often (or at least, carve out the time and energy for it), haven’t written much since.
When I interview someone who is a free software maintainer then it's a really big plus because this shows me that they can handle maintainer ship which infers a lot of good qualities, from small facts like that they probably know git well and write good commit messages, to the fact that they know how to handle people in difficult situations when a inexperienced maintainer would let bad code slip in but a experienced one will fight for good solutions.
Most neighborhood schools in non-rural districts don't offer school bus transport outside of special circumstances in the first place...
> Is it? My personal experience supports my claim, although maybe my use of never is overreach.

The thing with drugs is that it's always different for everybody. Your circumstances, physical (anatomically speaking) and psychological have an impact on the experience of a drug and the potential for abuse.

My point being: your experience will almost always differ from someone else's.
This is true. But then you get maintainers like Ulrich Drepper.
Good+practice:+Broadband+for+Mand-ø+|+Digital+Single+Market
Maybe something is wrong with you for thinking you can get a ride anywhere anytime in less than 5 minutes.

Uber is assigning the rides, consistently incorrectly showing 3 minutes away and with a ride to finish sometimes.
They sold Boston dynamics and a HTC phone is still a HTC phone. They only bought the team that made pixel
I never really got into reddit for "deep" stuff, but makes sense that some communities like that are around.
Not surprising. I have numerous Z high end phones but they fumbled the ball a few years ago. They wouldn't do a 64GB phone when Samsung did, and finally had no 128/256GB offerings while Samsung did again.

Such a shame, but for some reason they choked the RAM/Storage.
Sorry, but any command-line tool is going to be used by advanced computer users, not normies.

(If you reply to this that GNOME is not for normies either, or Linux in general, I'll reply 'touche' though.)
Lenin called this "useful idiots".

The Non-Aligned Movement was part and parcel "Soviet lite".
Data Science. Bayes Theorem
this should come as no surprise since he has established himself as the devil prior to saying anything
I use a TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13 since 2017 and I love it. It's essentially the German version of a System76 Galago Pro. You can configure it to your needs, it's not too expensive and the hardware just works with Linux (Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 in my case).
Traditionally in many cultures, single adult men live alone but single adult women live with their families. Nowadays, women are moving out and living on their own as adults.

I wonder if there’s also a change in the number of women seeking apartments entirely on their own instead of living with roommates - in the first half of the 20th C in the west, single adult women who moved out of their parents’ homes would often take rooms in boarding houses run by matrons, rather than getting their own apartments. My understanding is that this would be considered both safer and more proper.

It may also have to do with what neighborhoods each gender chooses. Women tend to have a stronger preference for “safer” neighborhoods; men on average are both more risk tolerant and more confident in their ability to defend themselves against assaults. So women may choose neighborhoods that have already gentrified or begun to, while men may be more comfortable pursuing the lower rents in neighborhoods that haven’t yet.
What happened to stackoverflow on this question
Down-voted because as someone personally involved in my local school district, this overly cynical view does not reflect at all the actions or motivations of the people involved in primary education.
True, the Z4 is a great tablet, and it's sad there isn't a newer iteration of it. But the premium Android tabled market is probably quite small, and doesn't replace devices very often.
> There is truth in what you say, however, if you think GNU tools are free of technical debt or feature creep, look into how ./configure works, as an example.

./configure is a sad thing, and the cluster of madness around it is even worse (autoconf, automake, and the ridiculous libtool). However, most gnu stuff is excellent, including gnu make. Fortunately, today most unix systems are sufficiently posix-compliant so that you can ship a gnumakefile that builds your program directly without much fuss.
Well that's the point. The library being open until 5pm is great and dandy if the kids have a way to get home, but for a lot of families, it's school bus or bust.
Fun fact about stroke orders, many people regard Chinese ideograph as some sort of bitmap, but if you watch calligraphy artists[1] you will discover they are not only some straight lines, but the the speed and acceleration also varies when drawing different part of the line. It's an important factor for distinguish writing styles.

So far we have character as bitmaps, as vector graphics, and vector graphics with stroke order, but we've yet to see a db about the composition speed of the strokes.

[1] https://youtu.be/8-99YB4iou0?t=45 as an example. You can find plenty.
Let's Use DNS Records to Provide Decentralized Identity
My proposal to standardize decentralized identity:

A domain name owner could add a TXT record to their domain configuration that would contain a path to their public key. For example:

TXT pubkey=http://tautvilas.lt/mykey.pub

This would leverage domain names as decentralized identity providers. It could open new possibilities to have loginless web platforms, more wide-spread PGP adoption and so on.

What do you think?
What is the latest, state of the art way to earn money this way ?
What? My five year old Samsung Note 3 works as good today as the day I bought it. It still does everything that I need from it.
Lessons finished at ~4:30pm when I was in school, it's the same pretty much everywhere in France and I would assume this isn't the only country like that. I'm not shocked at the idea of getting home at 5pm (we had no school bus service, just the regular public transportation which works well here)
>Probably the most important thing it does is to keep the world from descending into a flaming fireball of constant wars between countries.

Gang wars are much tinier than state wars.
Early April 1st, I guess?
At least every airport I've been to (Europe, Dubai and India) have provided the 1L baggies for free. I usually get 4-5 uses out of them before they start tearing.
You don't want to participate in such a market even if it exists. Your wife is a human being and a professional, not a faucet. Participating in an undifferentiated labor market commodifies her and turns her into the latter rather than the former.

In those types of market places, the primary way for participants to differentiate themselves is price. It's not like you can exercise a lot of control over how any given platform is going to let you market. A bunch of people competing on price without being able to effectively differentiate in any other way is going to have predictable and unpleasant results.

So yeah, doing sales work sucks. But it doesn't suck as bad as the alternatives.

If you/your wife go down the road of trying to source hourly contracts from such markets, you're setting her up for a working situation that's almost strictly shittier than working a "real job." It's basically impossible to rack up 40 billable hours a week on a consistent basis. 25-30 is much more realistic. If she's charging 50/hr, that'll work out to about $58,000 gross a year assuming 75% utilization and that none of her clients ever flake out. Nevermind that the work is more precarious than a "real job", doesn't have insurance or other benefits, and you get slammed with self employment taxes. Also, you/she don't even get to count on a paycheck at any particular interval. If you provide net 30 (I don't recommend, but it's fairly standard,) you have to have enough of a financial buffer to deal with clients cutting you all of your invoices at once instead of as you bill them. Enjoy praying for the mailman to come before the bank closes so you can pay rent.

Finally, I assume your wife didn't spend 6-10 years of her life grinding out a PhD so she can make 58k a year in the most precarious possible way. Get off of this freelancer mentality, start a business, deliver real value, and get her the income and respect she deserves. If you/she bill yourself out like a commodity, people and businesses are going to treat you like one.
The "free" in free software is about freedom, not getting stuff free-of-charge.
Oh, yea I forgot scheduling. All other cases you should use utc.
Now I'm curious about what you have read lately. The Technological Society by Ellul was a good start for me.

Yes, there's a lot of wishful thinking and religious zeal out there, helped by the modern "we can f* up your brain and you won't even notice it" techniques. It seems to me you can spend your whole life developing some free software which gets used, among other things, to create tons of money for other people. Makes you wonder (at least it makes me wonder), if this whole thing is not meant or at least supported by the good guys and girls who know how to make a buck and can convince even your granny to learn html because knowing how-to-web it's the new literacy while the purpose might be no other than "not even third-world countries want to work at boring websites, so we have no one to do the dirty work now. How can we convince some poor souls to do it, and freely too."

I'm really interested if you have something in the department. A nice article, a good book, something that can be used to wake one from it's slumber.
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On other questions too, so I'd guess April fools? (It's April 1st in New Zealand already)
Many people have written off Sony for software as far back as the rootkit fiasco. I love Sony hardware, but I would not trust them with software ever again.
Imagine posting a comment like this for free.