skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As weird as it sounds, I'm the author and I kind of agree with you. I feel like Steve Jobs selling iPads but not letting his kids use them lol. Not to say I think someone is wrong or immature to use the service. Indeed I came up with the idea in 2003 when I was the kind of person who would use it. Now I'm not so much, but I'm not better/wiser, just different. In fact I fully expect to flip flop back to my 2003 mindset at some point in life, and hopefully Thoughter will be there going strong!
But he doesn't mention where he's from?
> Did regimes used to try to prevent their nation's literature from spreading, or am I misunderstanding something?

The Soviet Union had an extremely vigorous censorship regime. Even the UK did until the 1960s and the Lady Chatterly trial.
Basically a merger of IPython and IDLE. Unfortunately the last update is from 2012. In the meantime, the community moved on --- I feel that JupyterLab is the most state of the art fancy notebook/shell concept available.
Regarding space, totally, and I realise I am fortunate that I live in a reasonably sized suburban house (at least in terms of space). If I lived in a house share, in SF or in Tokyo I might feel differently.

The one thing I would say is that I do have to dump books sometimes due to space. That's no bad thing, there's not a hell of a lot of books that I actually want to keep forever.
There’s The Purpose Maker as well:

https://youtu.be/vUgwa5sJRKs
This kind of subgrouping has little value as it tends to manufacture elaborate myths about the 'ingroup' and alienate and dehumanize the other leading to a fictional narrative of the world.

So for instance we get the myth of 'freedom', 'liberty' and 'dissent' by a particular subgroup but in reality what we have seen is complete lack of moral compass, crass opportunism or quietly falling in line. There is only one Snowden.

We also get authoritarian and ignorant perspectives like all 'users are stupid' to facilitate opportunistic exploitation, imagine if people in government as a group thought all citizens are stupid or all professionals thought their clients are stupid. This is dehumanization and is the building base of authoritarianism.

It would be easier to understand how human groups behave when they have status and power both real and perceived and when they don't. That follows a predictable path. Self appointed 'smart people' are always dangerous as they are quick to assume a monopoly on wisdom and lack empathy for the 'other', and are unable to perceive errors in their ideology and thinking and course correct.
You're presumably doing something productive for somebody who's willing to pay you $100K for it. Or do you work for the government?
Whatever they paid an editor to make that writers other work readable, it was not nearly enough.

Agents are notoriously terrible people, but they get away with it because of conceits like these from the talent.

Good God, my eyes.

The ethics of taking both sides of a deal need to be more explicit, as it is very common, and in any agency market, considered ideal.
ssh access at build time via buildkit works on os x

https://medium.com/@tonistiigi/build-secrets-and-ssh-forward...

the link you've supplied regards ssh access when running docker images, not when building them.

... i did notice that for lots of downloads, it is somewhat slower, or perhaps more prone to lag, than authentication from inside the running image.
This article just looks like a copy paste job of Kela's official press release

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN...

Overall, the experiment failed to prove its main hypothesis that UBI would incentivize the unemployed to find employment. Those who received additional benefits failed to achieve higher employment than the control group.

http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/16...
>> to see sparks and glass shards flying all around

Well, no. If you _only_ liked sparks and glass shards flying all around - you'd buy yourself a car and destroyed it yourself.

Destroying the car of a neighbour implies something going between you and the neighbour.
College and the Job Search
Well, in the poor ones many resort to crimes to try to improve their stations as you mention, since there are few legitimate ways to improve it.

In the rich ones, like the retirement homes in Palo Alto, they spend their time making and enjoying art and other such things.
This article is blog spam, here's the actual link: https://eand.co/what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-fro...
As an American living abroad, I can subjectively confirm what the author writes. I have a hard time keeping a straight face when returning.
I posted this comment yesterday in reply to someone else talking about a different state but it applies here too.

If you keep talking up your state and telling people how great it is it will rapidly take a turn for the worse.

Colorado used to be a lot like you describe then it achieved a "brand image" as a vacation spot, after about a generation of people retiring to their vacation spot and people moving there because "it's beautiful, why not" and the state is in a tailspin (being an early adopter on weed probably didn't help but that's beside the point). Now the cost of living is skyrocketing and Denver/Boulder seem to be hell bent on recreating all the bad (bad for people who aren't wealthy, that is) decisions of a certain west coast state.

Economy, people, natural environment, no place can be highly favorable to all three. You can make big bucks and enjoy nature all you want in CA but the rest of your life will be a rat race. You can live a nice life and make good money in some places on the east coast but god help you if you want to get outdoors once in awhile. There are still many highly rural states where you can enjoy nature and have a nice life but you won't be making big bucks there.

I understand that some people may want to drive tourism business in their state. As someone who grew up in a place where tourism is a major industry I believe it will destroy your culture over time. I understand that you're not advocating people move to NM, just saying it's a nice place to visit but that's the first step and I'm not gonna re-write my entire comment to be specific to that case.
Exactly. Those are time killing activities to keep from staring out the window and losing your mind. Which is also a big problem for the elderly and unemployed.
Trump should declare a US national security tariff on Asian semiconductors of say 50%^ to get the fabs built in the USA.

Apply the tariffs to semis whether contained in something else or as parts.
Take into account that soon robotics, machine learning and automation will make even more people jobless.
> Exceptions are clearly superior to error codes in most cases.

I disagree with this, on a very strong and deep sense. When you program, there are no exceptional cases. All possible behaviors should be treated on equal footing, using the control structures of your language. When you try to open a file, either you can or you cannot, and none of these two cases is exceptional in any way.

I would rather say that a programming language that supports exceptions is broken by design. If the language even forces you to use the exceptions, then it leads inevitably to spaghetti code.
I'd point to fan fiction as a possible outcome. Most writers are never recognized, and they don't seem to be phased by that outcome.

They write for themselves and develop a niche that they are happy to contribute to.

Just because the cost of writing and publishing has plummeted doesn't mean it's less valuable, it's development becomes either decentralized or internalized.
Chess, a Drosophila of Reasoning
Where do you live now?
Currently you can get 10kw/kg turbines and 10kw/kg electric motors so they are close.

However, the turbines require more infrastructure around the turbine. Put another way, simply comparing fuel vs batteries ignores the weight of fuel tanks, fuel pumps, etc. We care about the system not just individual components. That said, the fact that burned fuel reduces aircraft weight is a huge advantage over batteries.
The Unexpected Odyssey of Naming a Tech Company
I'm an armchair non-expert at best: but shouldn't planes always be controllable by the column so long as the plane is mechanically OK? I.e. max power + pull stick should always just take the plane up, regardless of any amount of misconfiguration such as being out-of-trim etc?

Isn't that a reasonable expectation? That is: a pilot in panic at low altitude should never be required to do anything more than he basically can with hands on throttle and stick, to avoid disaster?
Piracy is a good option for popular titles and for more smaller titles usually you can get an epub version outside of the amazon store so buying is still a good option.
Yes, the idea of exposing potential consumers and informing them of what your product is in principle fine, but that idea was perverted long before any of us were born. Now it's about spending money on selling products that aren't selling themselves, because it's cheaper than making a better product. As always, exceptions exist.
You pop the remaining parts and deploy the parachute ;)
> It's kind of significant, yeah. As a general rule, people on income support in Australia and the UK tend to be harassed, stressed and moderately unhappy people despite the free money.

The experiment had an appropriately-matched Finnish control group on standard unemployment benefits. The UBI group received four fifths of those benefits plus an extra unconditional EUR560 per month and were according to the preliminary results about 4% less likely to report themselves as stressed

Obviously the caveats about the experiment being short term apply, but that's not a significant result, that's a disappointing result.
You’re basically saying that because it has ethical value it can’t make people lazy. That’s irrelevant. UBI might make people lazy. In fact, it would be pretty shocking if it didn’t make some % of the population choose to do nothing for their entire lives but stay at home and play video games.

People like to point out that techies would feel more comfortable building start ups, and that’s probably true. But for people with low skills and low opportunity costs to doing nothing (of which there are many more people), I don’t see a reason why they would work relatively shitty jobs for low income. Who is going to work minimum wage to be a janitor to get basically no substantial benefit. Maybe you think people deserve better wages then- but then uh oh, it’s even harder to justify not doing things in China wherever possible.

UBI benefits society when it’s given to a person with a high ability to to positively impact society (let’s say skilled workers and parents). And that’s before considering any effect on prices or whatever.
The reason they were flying in the first place was due to capitalism. The reason you're able to read this story on this website is due to capitalism. I don't get your point.
I've stuck it on GitLab - https://gitlab.com/edent/unifont/ - but yes, I agree with you. Every browser, OS, and Electron App could bundle it.
"I am not arguing that you should serve an extra couple of MB on every webpage (although modern sites are so bloated it probably doesn't matter...) - but perhaps you should bundle it with your webview apps." The author already mentions the idea that it should be bundled with webview apps which also refers to browsers. A browser plugin could be a good starting point until the patched browsers are released.
No points for being correct? Why play the game then!!
I recall Linus calling some filesystem brain-dead (-damaged?). Could be [1] or [2], but I'm getting a cloudflare error when I try to visit the links. Not as bombastic as some of his rants, but this email is much more professional.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/70688...

[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/7076...
Perhaps https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints addresses your game theoretic concerns?
Having every package management system requiring 2FA to publish is a great idea. It may be a problem though when the build happens on a CI system.
The author seems to be from Dallas, Texas, but the quote in the title is from another post: https://eand.co/what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-fro...
I believe the "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" approach has already been tried many times over the world in the 20th century and failed every single time. As E. O. Wilson (a world leading expert in studying ants) said about communism/socialism: “Great Idea. Wrong Species.”
Where to Climb App: Climb rocks without crowds, snow or sweat
Instead of checking weather reports for a dozen climbing areas, just use your current location to find what areas around you are in prime time. Use filters to avoid crowds, climb the style you like and keep out of the mountain snow when the temps look good.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/where-to-climb/id1235937478
Middle class is a net worth of 9m? That seems a bit high
The airline chose to trust the safety of Boeing's planes. They deserve a greater than zero amount of blame if it turns out that it was a poor choice.
They have zero writings on AI ethics. How is one supposed to judge them, and how did they ever make it on this panel, without taking into account their stated opinions on other matters?
which part of the headline says "more money"?
What garbage. France's life expectancy is 83, blah blah blah. Yeah, so all those yellow vest protestors are rioting because everything there is so fucking awesome, right?

I've been to Europe. I was astounded by the huge number of lazy fuckwits sitting around in cafes all day long. If you live on the dole, you're not free, not matter what you think. Someone, somewhere, is paying for that shit.

Let me give you another data point: When you cross into Canada from the US, there is a distinct difference in the quality of the housing and the general upkeep of the towns. I conclude from it that Canadian people are taxed to within an inch of their very lives. How is that better?

A lot of Americans are stupid, in debt, and living a rat race existence. It is not required to be that way, however.
... the whole history of our species.
Might not be the typical american, consider myself pretty aware of both me, my fam, and surroundings. Maybe it's all the drugs i did in college but 'chasing the dream is not for me anymore'. My mind was opened to things other than buying cars/clothes/homes, watching the latest shows etc. Hell I still get hours of enjoyment playing old SNES games on my laptop haha.

My family has carved out a little slice of life for ourselves and we are happy. Sure it's hard when you go on social medias (like the wife) and see 'friends' flying around the world, doing 'cool' things. meanwhile we are in midwest working every day trying to raise a little baby. Sometimes it's hard for folks to not get jealous. Let those millenials travel the world on their parents dime. I know people taking 30 day honeymoons going on global excursions. My wife and I paid for our entire honeymoon and spent a week in southern cal...

If you are able to ignore the outside signals, focus on what makes YOU happy. I have done that and apparently have found success in life. I've even gotten lucky with some jobs. Jobs i decided to stick with instead of jumping ship.
No, reducing carbon footprint is not the only priority. It is an important one, but doesn't top everything else. I don't want emergency responders driving slowly just because its for the environment.

Nuclear, especially the waste management, was an another priority here in Germany. Apparently a priority our politicians (and industry) were unable to solve satisfyingly in another way. So they took the opportunity and boldly went against nuclear, even if overall results won't perfect immediately. Just like they decided to do that plan pushing renewable energy regardless of how imperfect (how crazy is doing solar that far up north?!) and eventually helped jump-start the solar and wind industry for everyone else to benefit from.

But i do understand nuclear enthusiasts having different views/priorities, so we'll probably never agree.
Is it possible to use this service on local drive?
Shout Out to White Hat HAckers
Yes, yes, of course. All my C programs are pure too!

They are a simple mapping of a tuple (hardware state, queue of world events) onto itself! Truly marvelous!

Vive la pureté!

PS. I am now working on abstracting this further, and I just realized the universe itself is pure too; but somehow I got some strange behaviors when I started to look into particles too closely... will report back soon.
I can understand the utility of a basic fallback font that just works but if you are already building a large web client, why not just include the fonts you actually want to use? That way you get the look you want at whatever resolution without some horrible bitmap font popping up now and then.
> People work because they want something

nope. there is a deep psychological need to feel productive and useful to society in all but very few sociopathic humans.
I disagree. The article quotes and links to three different articles (the first of which is the one you have pointed out) and ties them together. I agree that it is not the most substantial post, but I wouldn't call it blogspam.
I was guessing that this was going to be about lead in the water, but instead it’s about airborne lead from ammunition. Since this seems like nothing new, I wonder if there any undiagnosed historical cases as well.
Yes that is how human nature evolved. Competition for scarce resources so you and your offspring can survive. This extends to supporting society to the extent it helps your personal survival.
A lot depends on your particulars. I'm a minority and the US is great because I can earn opportunities my relatives in some other countries would not be allowed. In some other countries, your ethnicity/background/religion would get in the way far more than in the US.

This is not to say we don't have room for improvement, we do. Just that we're more meritocratic than certain other first world countries. I know this just comparing experiences, stories, outcomes from many friends, cousins, co-workers in other countries. (Also, I've lived overseas for work many years and got to see things firsthand.)

Is it a grind? Yes. Stressful? Yes. But meritocracies [wherever you are on the spectrum] are stressful because you are competing for outcomes rather than being born into them.

...And then there is US healthcare. I don't know what to say about that...
I like to write using the Leanpub.com platform because book purchasers get PDF/Kindle/ePub formats. I also like to use other publishers who provide DRM free files, I don’t mind watermarks. (I also sell using a Creative Commons share for no commercial gain license so people who buy my books can give away copies to their friends.)

That said, Kindle books are very convenient and I like the ability to hilite text and add notes.

In any case, as long as Microsoft refunds their eBooks purchase price to customers, I don’t see their decision to get out of the business as a bad thing. Actually it seems like a classy move on their part making refunds.
Wealth created through automation isn’t captured by the enhanced worker.
depends what kind of UBI we are considering. if you get $10k each for you, your wife (assuming you are married), and each child, you might be somewhere close to breaking even after taxes and the expenses you mentioned. if only you and your wife get the $10k, you're looking at a pretty tight budget.

imo, only the latter setup is reasonable. I'm all for giving individuals the freedom to float around for a while figuring out what the want to do, or even subsist for their whole lives if they don't "click" with any work that's valuable to the market. but I don't think it's fair to make the taxpayers support however many children you decide to have.
Yep, like kuro5hin (gone), everything2 (still there, but stagnant), even jwz's old blog posts. Maybe if there's a decentralized web that gains enough traction, there can be another 5 years before the greedy stream in.

I've heard people say subreddits have taken the place of these things, but whenever I look, they have already converged to the most nanoscopically narrow idea of the respective scope. There used to be more wiggle room for authors, and surprises for readers. Now it's all writing to a well-defined audience, genre, or meme: KPI-driven socializing. In that sense, web 1.0 seemed more fluid and interesting.
You are right about damage it can do. But it also does good.

Newton/Maxwell/Faraday were part of very interesting networks. Their results could have easily come out of Italy, France, India or China if better networks existed there.

The better we understand networks, the better we get at building useful ones. No one questions the amount of effort/resources/time that goes into constructing a world class sports team. That is only possible with a right network.

And in depth study of human networks is a new thing because historically where was the data?

As we have got more interconnected, in more and more fields people are increasing how much they focus on Networks.

Niall Ferguson's recent book The Square and The Tower, is all about when networks succeed and when they fail using a whole bunch of key events from History.

Thomas Malone's recent Superminds the same thing applied to businesses.

We are just getting started at how we apply this knowledge. Computational Social/Political Science departments are springing up all over the place.

Just adding one connection or deleting one connection in a graph of people is all it takes to create major change.
All of these are common social fallacies, and associating them with “geeks” in particular seems like stereotyping, and seems to me to be reflecting the authors own poor experiences with a subset of geeks coupled with a lack of exposure to the same problematic elements in other social groups.

I believe the author meant well, and these are social fallacies, but attaching them to “geeks” seems more out of bias than fact.
See also: https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts
(a different direction, starts from removing Unifont)
I don't think anyone disputes that gender dysphoria is a thing, and that hormone treatment or gender reassignment can be helpful to some people.

The issue, as is clear in her Tweet, is how society will deal with the definitions of these things. It isn't as simple as saying "if you say you're a woman, you're a woman", because there is a lot of cultural/societal norms that go along with that.

I have a hard time understanding why people can't acknowledge this as an issue, with the obvious example being transgender women destroying biological women at sport. It isn't straight forward.
Might be the next revenge vector. Share an ebook with faked watermarks.
Doesn’t matter we can nationalize their assets when the time is right
PostgreSQL Performance on Raspberry Pi
Don't get me wrong; vast numbers of Americans do have plenty of experience with the world outside America.

The simple (and unfortunate) answer is that because America is geographically isolated, many Americans literally don't see how folks in other countries live.

Also, thanks to the Cold War, we spent half a century being indoctrinated to believe that socialism is evil and capitalism equals freedom and that's why the American way of life is the best one.
In a hyper-capitalistic society, money will be disproportionately allocated to the winners of whatever the society values at that time.

And that disparity causes agony and longing for the have-nots, the hope for better conditions. Some rise, some don't. But it's a constant wrestling match of allocations.

But the positive byproduct of disproportionate money allocation is innovation. That the Haves are able to accelerate their capitalistic interests because of their monetary rewards.

Suffering and disparity are functions of hyper-capitalism, innovation is another byproduct of that system, and no one embraces that system more than America.