skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly a surprise for a government to go this route, though I'm not that optimistic.

If I understand it correctly, it just means that the surcharge needs to appear in the price listing, so I'd assume that customers will quickly learn to filter out that from their daily lives.
Silicon Valley is a political force, or five of them
Interestingly, The Beatles equipment at Abbey Road was years behind what other bands were doing in more advanced studios. So maybe the imperfection meme is relevant here..
What pack do you use?
It could very well be that people simply don't know they are dealing with a problem that can be solved.
I recall two flannel phases in my (1979) life - grunge and hipster
Almost an exact copy of the UK governments version of this: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
Finding where content is available outside the US isn't a super hard exercise, it's just frustrating. The answer at least half the time is "you can't".
I call shenanigans.

Yes, Scott's essay and the Christian idea of fallen-ness both fit the following high-level description: "The world is in a mess because of the way people are."

No, they are not the same idea, and claiming that they are (1) is unfair to Scott, since it suggests that all he did was to take an idea that "we" (i.e., Christians) already had and express it well; and (2) promotes Christianity in a way it doesn't deserve, since it suggests that Scott's specific and ingenious account of just how human nature leads to the world being a mess is one that "we" already had.

For all I know, perhaps some individual Christian thinkers had the same specific insights as Scott -- e.g., I think C S Lewis had some smart things to say about how the essence of hell is competition, or something like that -- but it certainly isn't accurate to say that "we" mean what Scott describes.

[Disclaimer: I am not a Christian. But I was one for multiple decades. When I say "we" above I am echoing NateEag's language.]

1. Christian ideas of "fallenness" do not generally involve Scott's insights about game theory and coordination problems.

2. Christian ideas of "fallenness" generally emphasize other aspects of human sinfulness besides the ones relevant to Scott's analysis (selfishness, greed, competitiveness).

3. Christian ideas of "fallenness" generally incorporate (as important features) elements that are conspicuously absent from Scott's analysis. "Cursed is the ground because of you": following Genesis, Christians commonly reckon that the world's "fallenness" explains its imperfect hospitability to human flourishing: just as some people look forward to a "post-scarcity" society, the Garden of Eden (whether regarded as historical or mythical or both) is a "pre-scarcity" society: one that provides everyone with what they need and want. "Since death came by a man, so the resurrection of the dead also comes by a man.": following 1 Corinthians, Christians commonly reckon that the very existence of death is the result of human "fallenness". None of this stuff is in Scott's discussion of Moloch; none of it needs to be.

(To keep myself honest, I just did a little experiment: I looked up Genesis 3 and 1 Corinthians 15 in a few books I had on my shelf: the "New Jerome Biblical Commentary" (one volume, liberal-ish RC), "The theology of the book of Genesis" by R W L Moberly (Anglican), the "Cambridge Bible Commentary" on 1,2 Corinthians (liberal Anglican-ish). I also looked up "fall" in the Oxford Companion to the Bible (liberal-ish Anglican-ish) and the "Concise Dictionary of Theology" of O'Collins and Farrugia (middle-of-the-road RC), which are the only two encyclopaedia-like things I have handy. There's no hint in any of them of anything like Scott's analysis. Of course that's a small sample, from a narrow-ish range of theological perspectives -- no evangelicals, traditionalist RCs, Eastern Orthodox, death-of-God ultraliberals, etc. -- but I think it's enough to make it clear that it's not true that Scott's analysis is what "we" (= Christians) mean by the idea that the world is fallen.)
What about power consumption?
I have a RPI 3B+ at house that runs Docker containers, these would be a major step up in terms of image compatibility, but I'm worried about a major step up in terms of electricity cost too.
> just ban the Clojure code in the production

A dev ran up against the limitations of one platform and solved the problem by choosing a platform which didn't have those limitations. And management responded by banning the new platform.

How long do you think that dev is going to stick around in an environment like that?

Ultimately this comes down to what sort of environment you want to foster. One approach leads to an environment where devs have lots of freedom, and that creates certain problems. The other approach eventually leads to an environment where even the choice of editor / IDE is dictated, and that creates a different set of problems.

I'd favor attracting a bunch of smart folks and give them as much freedom as possible. I'd much rather deal with the kind of problems which that sort of environment creates.
A friend of mine from Allwinner had his apartment burglared (despite living in a walled community,) a coworker had his money stolen out of his bag in a cafe.

Shenzhen was not always that safe. Back 10 years ago, the city had unenviable reputation, but it went from one of most unsafe to one of safest.

That was done at the cost of having a police post every 100 meters (quite literally,) and it is not cheap.
That's the mentioned exercise.
What is the role of people in an age of intelligent machines? (2019)
Cat memes
Any keyboard used by a programmer should have direct one-key access to `[` and to all the 0-9 numbers...

For every shortcut you can imagine you can find at least one keyboard layout out there where it's inconvenient.

Just get over the crappy nationalized keyboard layouts and use US English keyboards like all programmers do!

I can type French + English + Romanian just fine and comfy (would also work for Spanish + Italian fine, northern languages might be a bit of an issue...), with all the accents and special chars of each language, on a US-English layout keyboard that also has `[` and ``` (backtricks) and all the 0-9 numbers available one keystroke away. Mac keyboards work fine by default, the Windows ones might ned fiddling around with picking US vs US-Intenational and windows quote character settings until you get it right.

Western European keyboard layouts (except British) are just plain broken imo, you can't need more than one key to type a damn `[` (array access), or force ppl to use Shift to type numbers, wtf.

Otoh, typing Lisp code on a French keyboards is kinda' cool in a way :P
You said the article was stupid and implied it was incorrect I was providing some real world examples to back the articles thesis up.
This Apple "Upgrade" is an almost perfect example of real world Doublethink as George Orwells defined it in the novel 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
It says in the article. 5v at 4a is 20w max.
Many Mac users come from Linux and Windows (of course there are migrations in other directions too), most developers on MacOS also use Linux daily. So I'd wager most of them understand what you mean, but disagree.

Personally I like to tinker and personalise only a subset of tools I use to get things done (iTerm, tmux, vim...) and have good defaults on the rest.
if it's not available in your market then either import it, or....don't get it?

Given that importing is often intentionally blocked by region-locking, it’s a straight choice between “don’t get it” and piracy.
فروش ویلای 200 متری در شهرک صفاییه بابلسر 09301301018
Is flexbox support sufficiently wide now for public services to adopt it? Or does it rely on good fallbacks?
I think you have proven your parent's point by drawing the line between useful and time wasting tinkering.
> What would you call it then?

'Copyright infringement'? 'Piracy' is a bit of a loaded term.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.en#Piracy
That's fair but how about streets in any big city or town (certainly in the UK) where there is fried chicken shop after fried chicken shop after kebab shop after another kebab shop? The only thing that differentiates each of those places are usually the logos and the name of the shop (London Fried Chicken, Tasty Fried Chicken, Hackney Fried Chicken etc. - not a great deal of imagination there).

The food is almost identical, the prices too, they are of course at a fixed location (but not quite sure how that makes any difference) and there are no seat constraints. Yet these places seem to stay alive even though none of them really offer anything different to the chicken shop next door.
Hype cycle (and resistance) significantly predate 1983:

"Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations"

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...
To be fair though, I don't think that's a huge problem. Plenty of excellent static site generators exist (I use Jekyll) and truth be told if you want any real level of functionality this probably isn't the service for you anyway.
Yep. No argument here. It's all cultural :-P The silliest thing is that plastic bags are not offered in most grocery stores now, but if you pull out your cloth bag in a combini it's a revelation :-) I'm well known in my town for being the foreigner who uses his cloth bag in the combini. Honestly, I'm certain people have them, but they are too embarrassed to use them! I keep using mine in hopes that someone else will follow suit, but it hasn't happened yet. Some day everyone will switch and it will be "Well, of course. It's obvious", but until that day, nobody will...
Yes, it is. But it's quite a lot more exercise than most humans are going to engage in.

I spent a few years walking several hours a day. I was unemployed and homeless at the time.

It was very beneficial to my health, but I hesitate to "recommend" it because I know what most people will tell me: they can't spend that kind of time walking every day, even if it could potentially save their life.
If they started with a no-signatures preproduction mould, adding embossed signatures wouldn't be terribly hard (relatively speaking).

The lid was almost certainly injection moulded - which means you have two mould halves which form a complete mould. In this case, one half for the "inside" of the case (with the screw bosses and sprues) and one for the "outside".

The usual build process for these is to start out with the mould glossy, check the resulting parts for form and fit, make any adjustments needed.

Once the mechanical aspects are settled, the final texture (like the matt surface effect that a lot of PC cases have) is added as the last step. The reason for starting out with a glossy finish is because it's easier to make changes when you don't have to match a texture with every change.

The signatures were likely added to the inside mould by engraving or CNC cutting them at the same time the texture was added to the outside mould. I wouldn't expect it to be done by chemical etching, the process is too slow.

There would have been a tooling cost, but that's an NRE. Amortised over the production run, it probably added pennies. Depending on CBM's relationship with their toolmaker, it might have been priced as part of the texturing (which would have needed to be done anyway).
The "disposable entities" part reminds me of sprints where everything is broken down into 2-3 week chunks. A deliverable is expected in that time. It can be a tiny part or bigger part but must be a complete "thing" with unit tests and what not.

It tracks with the idea that programming is like factory work.
Chinese smartphone makers comprise 66% of Indian market
Dabbawallas: Delivering Excellence (2013)
I vividly remember game journalists writing angry columns on how Steam will be gone in a year because it's just too inconvenient. :)
That's really cool. But if only care about English + French + Spanish and similar languages just using US-Standard layout on a Mac gives you similar benefits, and instead of the norther-European languages you get more common math symbols and greek letters :P

But anyway, EurKEY would be a sane standard in Europe, instead of the hellish borderline-inusable national standard keyboards...
Agreed. The definition of leadership that most leaders have in mind is very superficial.
They just want people who look and talk like a leader but they're willing to compromise on everything else (all things that actually matter in terms of producing value).
Most software companies either are mini-monopolies or they are able to keep securing VC funding through social connections so they can afford to have mediocre leaders who can talk but don't deliver.
So many pictures.
Global Public Licence.
Paid by everyone, according to their abilities, available to everyone. Revenue is split according to views.
"Streaming" platforms just do that : streaming, and compete.
Music industry takes aim at Fortnite over song royalties
>There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.

With all due respect, your "business" is static web hosting, which is not exactly a revolutionary or paradigm shifting concept. There's likely little to no competitive advantage in any of the code you've written, or disadvantage to open sourcing it (although it's understandable if you don't want to open source it, then be left on the hook to maintain it.)

It's fine if you want to try to make money with a passion project, but as far as the market is concerned, you already lost the race to social media and the cloud before you even started. You're not actually competing with anyone in any meaningful sense, any more than Hacker News is competing with Reddit.
Tutorials with Ganofins is a YT channel where you will get tutorials
I ran one of the larger free hosts and managed and hosted around 100 others; security is a big issue. If you get mildly popular the number of attacks will jump up. Hope you know more than I did and that the tech evolved enough; the hosts I built and managed were 10+ years ago and I had to create my own freehost specific patches to php, apache and mysql to protect from abuse. You do not do dynamic so that makes a large difference, still they will try!

Edit; we also made custom scanners for porn and phishing; especially phishing, at that time had a simply pattern; the phishing page(s) would have keywords in them and would not be linked anywhere on the domain while not being the index.html. That allowed us to move almost all of them automatically.
Will this enable Linux servers to build iOS apps?
40 Years of C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup [video]
I notice you've used a throwaway account for your opinion, but I'm willing to potentially burn a little karma and say that I agree with you. When I worked in the local high school, I had an American colleague who went absolutely mad when one of the students offered up that she wanted to be a housewife as her career. Comments like, "How can you throw your life away?" drove that student to tears.

This is not to say that I don't understand the risks of giving up an early industrial career in order to run a household, but I've got to say that I think an enlightened society should find a way to make that a viable option: no matter what your gender is.
Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition
The rise of impressionism and expressionism was because of photography actually. Photographs took the role of painters to reproduce perfectly reality.
Where's the exact source for the 50 degrees theory? I've head of a domino effect for 5 degrees, but never for 50. Or has this just been a typo?
Tibetans!
This also does not seem to have affected "Docker Official Images"[1]:

> Q: Were any of the Docker Official Images impacted by this incident?

> No Official Images have been compromised. We have additional security measures in place for our Official Images including GPG signatures on git commits as well as Notary signing to ensure the integrity of each image.

[1]: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_images/
Don’t Touch My Code Examining the Effects of Ownership on Software Quality
I would pay a decent amount just to get Omnifocus working on windows and linux machines.
Let's not be overly generous here with the term economy. The actual term is money. All of society is built on the foundation of money. A dream of money. A purpose of money. Money, money, money.

And yes, people are extremely afraid to let go of this. People are afraid to find out what life would be like without money. People would rather give their "money" to the government and pretend that human life is meant to be lived through such a sociopathic system.

If life on Earth in its current state was a program, then it surely would be one nasty virus. That's all it is. A spell, a program, call it to want you want -- but it is not the way of a human.

People say suffering in life is essential. The only suffering in life is because of circumstance. And the circumstance is created by money. But this is not what you want to hear, is it?
The "hero" phrase is fine. It just refers to the devs doing 80% of the work.
This sort of thing seems to be getting more common and I don't know why. Lots of software websites without a single screenshot. Yet a photo/screenshot can often tell you more than all the text.
What's HH?
I'm not sure I'd personally use such a service. I see enough ads on a day to day basis without specifically seeking out more.
The end of AI winter? (2009)
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=855588
So what's another plastic bottle in the dump right? Someone will figure it out, as long as you don't need to deal with the hassle
Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 Max Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks
Using a printed adversarial patch to fool an AI system
https://trolley.link - my payments project.

It lets you put a payment button on any website and pop up a cart; single products, donations, deposits, subscription / recurring payments.

Customers are using it to power charity donations, self published book sales, physical product sales & shipping, membership fees for clubs and so on.

You can integrate it to Mailchimp and use it to put together a paid subscription email newsletter... or use it to make your own Patreon at much much lower cost to you.

It uses Stripe as the gateway in the back end.
(To use Stripe Checkout you still need a back end to handle token exchange. Trolley handles that for you.)
In the UK we have 'Adult Education' where schools are often used for evening classes for adults. They tend to offer IT training, foreign language studies as well as creative subjects. I have been to a few for learning to make Pottery, and back in the day 'Flash Programming'
Ask HN: How do you provide benefits to your remote team (if any)?
In a non-remote team, you would provide a bunch of benefits like Health insurance, Commuting support etc. There is a good post from buffer regarding this - https://open.buffer.com/benefits-remote-company/

How do smaller remote companies do this, or are they doing this?
It's an American thing. Many countries don't have such named generations and corresponding stereotypes. I'm Hungarian and we do have "old people" stereotypes but no named list of generations.

When I hear this Gen X etc stuff from the US, it feels a bit like horoscopes...
Wonderful, this may be.. IS the best product website I have ever seen!

If you have not thought about it: images does not really work for place holders for charts. Maybe placeholders for pie-, bar- and line-charts etc, can be a feature to come?
Project Management Digest, April 2019
most places seem to offer ceramic for sit-down customers? I mean, maybe not starbucks; most Starbucks I've been in don't really seem to have much of a sit-down area, so "for here or to go" isn't really a question. But most nicer places have them; it seems to go with having seating.

I personally have a strong preference for ceramic (not enough to carry my own, but when I'm going to be in a place, I ask for a ceramic cup, simply because it is a more pleasurable experience than a to go cup)
Exactly this. A dummy load (a 50-ohm resistor) will give you a perfect 1:1 SWR, but makes a rubbish antenna... an SWR match just means it's less likely to fry the transceiver's power stage.

You could transmit data over FT8, but you're right -- with identification requirements you'd be limited to maybe half a dozen characters per 15-second cycle. Slow as molasses but it'll be receivable even if the signal is down in the noise floor.
6000 units max apparently.
Abstract from "Sole Survivors: Solo Ventures versus Founding Teams" [1], Jason Greenberg (2018-01-23):

> A widespread scholarly and popular consensus suggests that new ventures perform better when launched by teams, rather than individuals. This view has become so pervasive that many of the foremost investors rarely, if ever, fund startups founded by a solo entrepreneur. Despite this belief in the superiority of teams in the startup process, little empirical evidence has been used to examine this key question. In this paper, we examine the implications of founding alone versus as a group by using a unique dataset of crowdfunded companies that together generated approximately $358 million in total revenue. We show that companies started by solo founders survive longer than those started by teams. Further, organizations started by solo founders generate more revenue than organizations started by founder pairs, and do not perform significantly different than larger teams. This suggests that the taken-for-granted assumption among scholars that entrepreneurship is best performed by teams should be reevaluated, with implications for theories of team performance and entrepreneurial strategy.

This study's from early-2018, while the parent-article is recent. Just a late report, or did this same author publish a follow-up study recently?

[1]: https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3107898
"if you drink mostly water, even pretty small differences in the mineral content make detectible differences in taste"

absolutely. in the european cities where i lived, you could sometimes tell to which aquifer a household is connected. Depending on the neighborhood some need to clean their bathroom appliances from chalk twice as often.
> So you're on the side of the baker in the gay wedding cake case?

In general, no. The analogy is deeply flawed. You ban people on forums because of their actions, and you delete posts because of their content. That's just social interaction. In contrast to this, the baker made it 100% clear that he singled these customers out because they were gay and not because of their actual behaviour at the baker shop. They behaved well like any other customer. If they had spit on other customers, shouted annoying gay parade songs with megaphones, or incited for violence against straight people, then the baker would have had all rights to kick them out of his shop. Only, they didn't do anything like that.

I hate having to explain this to you, but the golden rule of netiquette is that you should only say online what you would also be willing to say aloud, so that everyone else can hear you, to a bunch of strangers in a bar. It may get heated at times and barkeepers are more or less resilient to abusive customers, but at some point they will kick you out of their place if you don't stop annoying their customers. Moreover, no barkeeper is obliged to host a bunch of Nazis, Stalinists, or pedophiles, and most places will use their house right to expel those toxic groups.

Social networks have the same right and use it in the same way. That is part of their responsibility, which is indeed higher the more users they have, as you put so eloquently. Just like the barkeeper, they have a responsibility to protect their main user base against morons and notorious troublemakers.
The original comment of the guy was "when they die off" (based on the observation that 'they' are typically older people).

How is this "authoritarian" ?

Everyone took what they THINK he's saying and are running with it, without ever addressing his point.

Is putting murderers in jail authoritarianism ?