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Of course controversy over credit exists. Please post links to the high traffic outraged threads on HN in connection with those controversies.

I've known and worked with perhaps half a dozen Nobel Prize winners, and dozens of their students, collaborators, and post docs, including some cases where the list of names on the Prize has been at best debatabely correct. That is the reality of large science. It always has been. What is new is the weaponization of misogyny.
In the Scala world, HOCON addresses a lot of these (except programmability, which I think is probably a bad idea).
You should pay for _your_ society.

Public education improves your standard of living: do you want illiterate neighbors?

Public transit similarly improves the quality of your neighbors, enabling them to take better jobs, live in less expensive housing, contribute less to traffic, pollution, auto deaths. They have more free time to read books (can't do that while driving!) and work on hobbies, or side-businesses.

Public transit raises all boats. So, really, you're buying something _for yourself_ that's not available at any store: happier, healthier, and more competent friends, family, neighbors, teachers, clerks, politicians, mechanics, etc.
PBS is only about half funded by public sources. Apologies if I misread your comment.
ICBMs don't compare terrain height, they use a combination of gyroscopes and telescopes instead. Cruise missiles can follow the terrain.
Agents getting paid a percentage of what their clients get isn't the concern here, and is generally considered good in the sense that the more they get for you (their client) the more they take home.

The issue here is that the agents are taking a (fairly large) cut of the shows being produced as an alternative to getting paid by their clients. In the real estate analogy, it's as though your agent could decide to get paid a percentage of the buyer's income less expenses rather than a chunk of the sale price. In that scenario you would expect your agent to bring you lots of wealthy buyers who then produce low-ball offers, and so has it been in the writers guild experience.
I've lived with a variety of random people in shared circumstances, and it seems quite common for people to pack a refrigerator with perishables either in the form of leftovers or new groceries then forget it exists while continuing to eat the most convenient stuff at restaurants/the office.

Refrigeration in general encourages the behavior, without delivering on convenience since you generally have to reheat or partially recook the food only to have something inferior to the more convenient, freshly made by someone else option.

People I've known feel accomplished just by asking to take leftovers home and placing them in the refrigerator with the feigned intention of eating them, knowing full well they will spoil and go to waste. It's an absurdity; they add packaging waste (often plastic at least in the bag) to their charade, mostly because they don't want to appear wasteful at the location they didn't finish their meal, and wish to dispose of it in the privacy of their home after spending energy on refrigerating it for a week.
Co-opts are ripe throughout the agricultural sector, but they do have to fight hard to maintain those positions because short-sighted corporate competitors undercut the co-opts pricing with unsustainable practices. Often it is cheaper to pump farmland for all it is worth until the topsoil is depleted and thin, then just buy up different farmland from struggling small farmers who got undercut from the unsustainable practices. While the depleted farmland either gets sold off to developers or gets put into a wildlife program where they get paid rent by the government to leave it fallow.

So it is still a battle between people looking for short personal profits against those who are seeking long-term sustainable profits. There is no associated extra costs for depleting farmland or practicing unsustainable farming methods so assholes will continue to abuse it as long as they make money on it.
This may help: please click on the word 'web', which is right next to the words 'past' and 'favorite', below the title of this thread. This will pop up a Google web search page. On this page, the first or second search result should be the FT article and if you click on it, this gives free access.
It’d be interesting to see what kind of technology business could come around as of dealing with this: Agent as a Service? Some kind of group Tinder (multiple writers on a project) / Fantasy Basketball using auctions ? Expedia / Google Ads / stock market with materially different sides to the auction?
women considering a STEM career should think again. any time they have a notable success their fame will attract a swarm of shitty agenda monsters intent on drafting them into their moronic sexist jihad. isnt it ironic?
>This is called a production company and it has existed as a concept for a long time

Not really. A production company actually makes the movies/show. What I am talking about is more akin to a staffing firm.

>It's just another layer of abstraction.

It's specialization, not abstraction. Agencies can be good at acquiring talent while studios can be good at producing movies.

>I mean, I'm sure this maps to how the big companies think about staffing, but I doubt you'd find many people in the film industry who think of themselves as "interchangeable cogs"

You think they would have figured it out after their last strike.
To claim that Hacker News "is no different than 4chan", a site where one can routinely find the most vile posts of racism, violence, child pornography and so on is utter nonsense, and that is a fact, not merely my opinion.
Running a persistent VPN to a pihole that’s constantly updated with new trackers as they come online seems like the only viable option.
There’s a lot of scaremongering in here. I fully support giving users full privacy controls. However, both Android and iOS allow you to toggle off availability of your Advertising ID. That’s been in there for years. Turn it off and apps can’t grab it (they get 000000000). Each vendor gets a vendor-specific ID on iOS, shared between that vendor’s apps. Delete all vendor apps and it resets.

I’m not saying this is an ideal situation by any means. However, it’s just two small examples that are ignored by this article.
Here at Pulumi, this is something we are working hard on!

For all the many benefits we've seen with Infrastructure as Code to date, the tools are still fairly primitive - copy/paste is the norm for reuse, testing is rare or non-existant, productivity during infrastructure development is low, continuous integration and delivery are largely ad-hoc, and there are very few higher-level libraries available to abstract away the complex details of today's modern cloud platforms. Net - it feels like we're still programming cloud infrastructure at the assembly-language level.

I'm really excited about the opportunity to bring more software engineering rigor into the infrastructure as code space. At Pulumi we believe using existing programming languages is a key enabler of this. Pulumi is still a desired state model like other Infrastructure as Code offerings (so you can still preview changes and make minimal deltas to existing infrastructure) - but you can write code to construct that desired state. As a result, you get for loops and conditionals, you get types and error checking, you get IDE productivity tooling, you can create abstractions and interfaces around components, you can write tests, you can confidently refactor you infrastructure code, you can deliver and version components via robust package managers, and you can integrate naturally into CI/CD workflows.

Pulumi isn't the only tool in this space - we're seeing things like Atomist bringing this same model to delivery pipelines, and AWS CDK bringing this model to the CloudFormation space. I'm excited about where these tools will take the Infrastructure as Code ecosystem in the coming years.

[disclaimer - CTO at https://pulumi.io so clearly biased on this topic :-)]
I still have to see a workable plan for emissions reduction that the rich cannot circumvent (except banning cars altogether, which would create outrage).

Tax entering the city center? Not a problem for the rich, who can pay easily.
Tax cars depending on emissions? The same.
Allow electric cars only? The rich have money to buy a Tesla.
Allow only even or odd license plates depending on the day? The rich can buy two cars, one with odd and another with even license plate.
Allow entering only if you use a paid public parking lot? The rich can pay for that.
Disallow non-residents? The rich can buy a flat in the center.

Let's not fool ourselves, saving the planet and people's lungs mean that some things that are now widely reachable have to become scarce. And however we frame it, elites will always have better access to scarce resources. Still, I'd rather save the planet and my lungs than do nothing. And we can always tax the rich more to compensate.
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The lifes of the few outweigh the convinience of the many. You are effectively arguing that because the majority wants to freely poison a minority (causing lung cancer and respiratory diseases), the major can't pass restrictions against that. This is a great example why a democracy has to have more principles than "what the majority decides goes".
Tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience
> It should also be unlawful to dismiss an employee because they were arrested and never indicted.

This would be huge. It's illegal to fire someone because they got called up on jury duty, and if someone is arrested but later found innocent the same rules should apply: in both cases you're involuntarily assisting the criminal justice system :)
Breaking into another account is unauthorized access. Doesn't matter if that account had more, the same, or even less access than Manning's account.
Even without Google or Apple, they police have the cell service providers. In the case of the Austin bomber from a year ago[0], police got cell tower records from the multiple bombings and figured out who was at all the locations. Cell phones are little trackers unless you turn them off or don't carry one.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna85...
> The train company that runs the train from Station A to Station Z at 13:00 get's all the passengers that need to travel that route at that time.

False. (Factual) counterexample: On the Stockholm-Malmö route, there are three operators (SJ, MTR and Snälltåget). The number of passengers on each company's trains will depend heavily on their pricing strategies.
What countries allow their journalists to attempt to hack the country's military without consequence?
> No-one has claimed that Assange provided Manning with any assistance compromising any computer systems.

The US government has claimed exactly this in its indictment of Assange:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/press-release/file/1153481...

It's fascinating to me how you can accuse someone of "spreading FUD" without having read the (short) indictment.

In my opinion this is complicated stuff. I think people have not only a right but a moral obligation to leak in order to expose crimes. But it isn't clear that this was Assange's goal. Instead, Assange does a lot of moral posturing and seems mostly driven by ego: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting.

I would be much more sympathetic had Assange or wikileaks provided leaks in a different manner. But they didn't. They released everything, unredacted, without commentary or contextualization which is why the previous poster's restatement of Assange's infantile position is basically accurate:

> So do you really want to live in a world where the governing maxim is that information wants to be free, and that justifies any and all means of getting to it, including breaking into secure information systems?
Screw Assange, he's a large part of the reason we're stuck with Cheeto.

People are high horsing him as some kind of journalist but he selectively leaked information to hurt the DNC during the 2016 campaign.

Now it's 3 years later and his masters don't have any use for him anymore. So they'll make an 'example' of him and spew some law and order line.

Zero sympathy from me. He sent 7 years rotting in the Ecuadorian embassy. Let him spend another 50 rotting in lockup.
> If I'm reading the subtext here, correctly, Bini was arrested but not charged with anything, presumably as a measure to keep him from orchestrating "retaliation".

Hope they’re keeping him away from telephones: wouldn’t want to see him whistle any nucular launch codes...

/s
Taking my hat off.
Ah, strange, for awhile I was getting a signup page. (Free, but with the Elsevier logo at the bottom so, you know...) It seems to go straight to the PDF now.
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The three main points in the article are:

1) Digital Content Explosion
2) Cannibalization of Content
3) Profit Entrapment

What do y'all think?
Per Andrew Chael (the person who seemingly did most of the implementation in terms of code, and would therefore have some authority to speak to this) - https://twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/111651854732747571...

> With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper

So taken at face value, her contribution seems to be this image testing framework and whatever she contributed to the paper.

Most articles attributed Bouman as the inventor of the algorithm used to generate the image. This was directly in the titles of these articles. Now it is clear her algorithm was not used in the generation of the image (see https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/katie-bouman-blac...).

This isn't to say her own algorithmic work did not count as a contribution just because it wasn't used. I think that exploration matters, if only to see where that path leads while others explore alternative paths. She is listed as the primary author on this 2016 paper (http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/pw/papers_and_presentat...).

But I think given that there were at least 5 other papers here relating to image reconstruction, given that the code was written mostly by others, and given that 3 other algorithms (which she was not involved in) were used in the construction of the final image, I think it is fair to say that Bouman was not the woman behind the black hole picture. She was a woman, alongside a team of many women and many men. Sara Issaoun (female scientist on same project) said on Twitter that a team of 40 worked on image reconstruction: https://twitter.com/SaraIssaoun/status/1116304522660519936
Go out and explore the world and try meet interesting people ;) no better resource then that
Have you ever purchased or maintained an IBM 'product?'

You better budget for at least 2 contractors to go with it.
After writing a decent backup shell script in fish, I converted it to bash as IntelliJ didn't have support for fish and also non strict Posix compatibility wasn't too comfortable and then realized it's quite a pain to write long script in bash knowing modern languages are far easier to write with, I may just go back to using perl for shell scripting.

All of the later scripting languages aren't really meant for writing shell script as invoking commands is just tedious instead of just using back ticks in perl.

Talk about going in circles of history.
Don’t forget India and some Asian countries
Not just Scala https://github.com/yellowblood/hocon-js
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Shell (Bash) scripting have a few huge problems, mostly with error handling and number arithmetic. The arithmetic one isn't a large problem for its niche, but the error handling is so large a bother that it's best avoided for anything complex, even if something else (AKA, Python) will lead to a much larger code.

That said, there are niches where bad error handling isn't as much problematic. Ironically, Bash is much more fit for web programming than for system scripting.
It's amazing how different my phone feels since I've set up Wireguard to a server I have set up a few milliseconds away from me and put a pihole at the end of it, too. Blocking the (web) trackers at their source, coupled with less "wake up the radio to make this network call" is really quite nice, and the in-app advert spaces don't load except for a handful of folks doing (reasonable) native advertising.
the comments on this post -- the apologia, the denials, the profusion of fine distinctions -- is a damning and powerful body of evidence for the claim presented.

Congrats, HN. You played yourself.
Absolutely.

I travel between Paris and Frankfurt a lot; a couple of Thursdays ago the 19h-23h train to Paris was cancelled, and I had to go to Fraport with the S-Bahn (I work close to Hauptbahnhoff), wait a queue of 65’ just to pass security (Fraport security is absurdly inefficient, with e.g. about 10 workers per luggage scanner), take a 70’ flight and then a 30’ taxi ride from CDG. I arrived home at the standard time.

With the train I go from city centre to city centre, I jump on the train upon arrival, and I have 4 hours of work/leisure; ample space, bug windows, a cafeteria and room to walk. The alternative is 4 hours of taxi queue security wait queue finger queue take off have a sandwich please close tray landing taxi, where you can get total 1h of work done if you get lucky (except if you have someone to call).

And the train is half the price.
I wonder what if one of developed countries focused on males? Something like "future is male" and "support your father/husband/son" etc. Additionally remove any child support for single parents etc. Maybe that could work? Basically the opposite of current policies.
> Much of the 'compost' you receive at big-box stores is treated human waste: https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/frequent-questions-about-bioso...

I don't see anything on that page to support this specific claim.
I'm saying that just because something isn't that old relatively, doesn't mean it doesn't have historical value. There's definitely some historic buildings in australia, especially from colonial time.
Take a look at HJSON.
> Also, OP does not explain the need for comments in a config file.

He does explain, there is even an example.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/43039/would-the...
Since I started using Clojure, all my configs have become EDN (https://github.com/edn-format/edn), which is what JSON is to JavaScript. And it is awesome.

So I can't see why JSON would be a bad choice either.

There are some things in EDN missing in JSON, richer types, can be extended by the user and support for comments mostly. I'm not sure if not having those would be a deal breaker though.

I've used YAML for some things, and I haven't found it better. In fact, it's annoying to have a different syntax for your config then you do for your code. And the whitespace matters definitly has been a source of frustration.
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People pointing out that Andrew Chael was far more important because he had '850k lines of code written' making her contributions worthless was not pointing out the truth. It was explicitly about tearing down her contributions.
Having missed the main discussion, and getting the chance to see additional info become available, it seems that the critics were right, even if they perhaps had ignoble reasons to complain, as you claim.

There were apparently 30 people involved, four algorithms, one of which belonged to the main character of our story and in the end that algorithm was not used, according to one of her colleagues :)
I mean, I basically agree with you, but I like your challenge.

What about Rust's borrow checker? I considered it novel, but I'd love to find out it was stolen from somewhere.
I once put a lit joint in my pocket for safekeeping, and burned a hole in my wallet.
They're both very safe but we have a lot evidence suggesting THC and CBD have tons of medical benefits. I'm not aware of any medical benefits of caffeine. I do know that some NSAIDs include caffeine to combat fatigue, but that's about it. Also have you ever got addicted to caffeine? It's a bitch to stop drinking, you get headaches like someone's hammering your skull. While it's possible to get physically addicted to THC, it's much harder than getting addicted to caffeine.

One should also mention that weed is by no means 100% safe. I myself was once hospitalized due to a panic attack caused by too much weed. But compared to other "normal" drugs like nicotine, alcohol, caffeine etc weed is among safest.
It has NO low level fuse api https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/issues/94

Newer FUSE version 3 mostly address their limitations within Linux implementation. It adds support for concurrent writes and large transfer beyond 4KB.
Crossmeta FUSE is look alike of Linux FUSE but the implementation does not inherit those limitations. It requires to do large concurrent transfer 128KB from Windows NT cache manager. I have to work the sshfs code to handle this since it was not exposed to such large transfer.
I’d add make sure you’re learning languages in very different fields. IE, you won’t get much out of learning Ruby after Python (some, but not much). But C or Haskell? Definitely. Also don’t automatically be afraid of old languages. People still write a lot of new things in FORTRAN for instance (really!). And you can make better COBOL jokes if you read it’s wikipedia page at least. Also, languages for describing hardware or FPGAs can be mind bending (Verilog or VHDL), and GPU languages are an excellent thing to have in your toolset whether it’s just for making pretty pictures or doing machine learning. Also learn at least one assembler/bytecode, even if it’s just a vm one. Whatever language you learn make sure it adds something to your toolset you couldn’t do in another language.

The whole “10x programmer” thing probably is based on warped ideas for the most part, but I would guess that if you have a colleague that’s ten times more productive than the rest of the team it’s because they understand and can reason about parts of the stack and machine others can’t
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You do realize standardization exists to avoid just that?
fwiw, this is part of the reason we started using DSD as config files. sure, it's really a transfer syntax, but it supports comments, is at least as expressible as JSON and doesn't force it's concrete type semantics on you.

https://github.com/OhMeadhbh/dsd

i also agree with @hombre_fatal above, programmability in config files seems like an anti-pattern.
Who would not be distracted by that happening?
Not every song of his is like that. Mano of them are soft and nice.

https://youtu.be/z56OiPR4r2s
HOCON is great. It can be incorporated into many programming languages. And it supports inheritance, includes, overriding of environment variables and so on.

I think that this library found a very good compromise between configuration and programmability.

In configuration files you want overrides, includes, comments and inheritance. May be very very simple pattern matching.

Yet, you do not want flow control structures such as if-statements/loops & gotos.
Use Homebrew version.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bash
Presumably you need some people to be poor in every metropolitan area, because six figure software developers are not going to scrub the office floors after hours or serve brunch. Without poor people basic services start falling apart, and they have to live somewhere.
> Giving people the right to notify employers

Why not ask your lawyer to do it for you? You already have the right to make a call to a lawyer.
This is the Q factor that everyone omits when doing the calculus on their own journeys. The pre- and post-flight nonsense are basically another trip entirely.
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