skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the Fortune 500 are probably the primary clients of these consulting companies. I haven't dug into the problem, but I'm also willing to guess that FAANG doesn't really care about these services as much as the less technologically savvy ones in the Fortune 500.

The primary issue and ultimately the first step in solvency is still these companies abusing the system.

You can't very well stop companies from hiring other companies to solve their problems. I think that type of solution is probably impossibly hard to implement. Whereas if you simply stop these top few companies or create rules around who and how they apply, I think the problem is going to be greatly improved.

Like I said above. Lets push for solving the obvious problems first before applying pressure downstream.
almost every BSD tool is a rewrite of the original unix tools, and every GNU one is a separate rewrite too.
Hi, author here. Spot on! It is pretty common to see mainframe courses for $10k each - so given how much I hope to learn I kind of justify the cost just on that. Now, I do not expect to change to work on mainframes full time, but maybe it can grow into a side gig? Who knows! I do enjoy the process anyhow so it feels like a win-win :-).

Thanks for reading!
If you wore a suit to a Google office you’d a get similar reaction of ‘this person doesn’t get it’ as you would wearing the wrong thing at Goldman Sachs.

Unless you are Vint Cerf of course.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0606/opinions-rich-karlga...
This is a great idea! Maybe restructure the nation as some sort of constitutional republic where the federal government holds limited power (foreign trade, interstate commerce, defence) and the states are left to run day to day matters themselves. We should form a party we could call ourselves Republicans.

I kid but this has been a known problem for two thousand years. The solutions are continually rediscovered, reimplemented and then ignored by later generations that "know better".

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

- Aristotle
looking at the guts of the source code, looks like it's only just been committed ~13 hours ago. Various other things have been around for a while
> they decide to build their own closed-source platform

How does it matter that the donation platform is closed-source? Open market principles still apply. People will (and should) use it as long as it's easy, efficient, cheap to donate to whoever you wish to donate. If the platform misuses their dominance, people will figure out and alternatives will emerge/thrive. Until then, why complicate things? Donation is not like a lock-in into some closed source technology.
The first part was System.Xaml; the next one was the build infrastructure, I think. IIRC they said that by .NET Core 3 Preview 7 they want to have WPF completely on GitHub. Until then they're probably cleaning up the code as best they can before making it open-source.

Edit: The roadmap https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/blob/master/roadmap.md has a list what's currently available and what's still missing. Looks like by now the main parts (PresentationCore, PresentationFramework) are open-sourced as well.
If gun is ready to fire, with toes it is possible, but not plausible.
I read sarcasm
The issue with such a project is that it's going to (again) increase the traffic jams in the Paris suburban area and push more traffic to the cities surrounding Paris; but since the mayor is only elected by the inhabitants of Paris, she doesn't have to take into account the impact of her decisions on the other cities around Paris.
Indeed. Never liked reading manpages more then when I was briefly exposed to OpenBSD. Really envied them for the concise and well written documentation they have.
The Forbes question confirms that he’s breaking some kind of rule.

Its not a good counter example because he’s got the social clout to break the rules - knowing when you can do that is also part of the unfairly unwritten rules.
Wrote the same in another comment.. it's kinda brilliant but sad to watch at the same time. Microsoft's Github guys are geniuses if this is a part of a long-running EEE strategy. And people fall for it, because they have no principles and values, on which they decide what's good or damaging for Open Source.
Do you have a source on that new banks do not use mainframes? I'd love to learn what new banks use to talk to older banks.
So that they can be improved / maintained. "stdlib is where packages go to die" is kind of true. You can use contact http from stdlib for example, but that's how we get urllib, urllib2, 3rd party urllib3 and requests.

For the point of removing the modules, check the "rationale" part of the PEP.
No problem.
Which book was that?
Pelevin used to be good, but I haven't liked a couple of his more recent books, in fact, couldn't even finish reading.
Anyone into this sort of stuff should check out https://androidarts.com/ there are a whole ton of fantasy console concepts on it.
It's odd very few people talk about the security.

That's what striked me the most a few years ago when I finally decided to go near the Eiffel Tower: when I was young, I remember going there and just going under the Eiffel Tower to sight-see. Nowadays, the security checkpoint put me off doing that, and the high transparent walls make the place feel like an enclave where I don't belong and should just peek from outside.
The good news is that plenty of lawyers and medical examiners will take this case and likely find the truth. That's the difference with Russia, China and quite a few other countries.
> surprised no one has brought up Tibetan sky burial

I keep telling people that this is what I want (and I'm serious) but sadly it doesn't appear to be practical in my part of the world.
SandboxEscaper disclosed 3 Microsoft 0day flaws in 24 hours
Except for the drivers.
Being multilingual makes a lot of sense for the capital, especially public buildings and services like public transit etc. I've had colleagues go to Japan for a while for work and unless they had a guide they would've been very, very lost. Not something you want if you'd like to have international trade and commerce relationships.
This is great; it's basically either 1) an alternative to Patreon for developers (which is something I have always wanted to exist) or 2) an alternative to Patreon for Patreon creators who are the tiniest bit intelligent and able to actually use GitHub (every aspect of Patreon is bad for creators, so this is an upgrade, except in user reach).

The missing element here is a nice end-user focused browsing experience, layered on top. A user-focused portal which lets you subscribe to projects, sponsor them on GitHub, and see updates, with GitHub behind the scenes.
Correct, it will run at https://datacenterlight.ch using 100% renewable energy. It the least I can do to offset the ~3 kW everything (z114 + dasd + everything else) will consume.
How much gas would a Zether tx cost?
Even if that is true which is rather debatable, is that how it should work? Just propagating the status quo isn't always the right thing to do.
Like the other reply mentions - it's quite hard to tell. I've long had a feeling there's something wrong in me. The other week I ran into an ADD-test (https://totallyadd.com/do-i-have-add/) and gave it a try. I got 17/18. After some research and long discussions with my wife I contacted a doctor who after discussing with me sent me to see a psychologist.
Excel was considerably inferior to Supercalc for many years, only winning because it was almost impossible to buy a pc without windows and office preinstalled for a chunk of the 90s
An integrated payment solution is going to attract a far greater numbers of sponsors than telling everyone to go to sign up for a subscription on external sites.

Integrated authentication, existing credit cards on file, unified billing, giving more visibility to sponsors, allow projects to effectively monetize high traffic project pages with ad-space for sponsors and potential benefits like priority support is going to have a far larger impact for incentivizing funding and sponsorship than linking to a number of different external sites off to the side.

I'm sure this is a welcome and long awaited feature for many devs who would love more funding around their OSS efforts.
For what it is worth, it will run using 100% renewable energy at https://datacenterlight.ch :-).
> When Linus Torvalds started the Linux kernel in 1991, the dogma was that "monolithic" kernels were obsolete and that microkernels, a message-passing alternative analogous to microservices, were the only way to build a new OS. GNU had been working on microkernel designs since 1986. Torvalds, a pragmatist if there was ever one, tossed out this orthodoxy to build Linux using the much simpler monolithic design. Seems to have worked out.

Except that desktop is the only place standing where microkernel haven't fully catched up, and even then macOS and Windows have a kind of compromise between monolithic and microkernels, with plenty of stuff running on userspace, increasing with each release.

Even Project Treble pushes several drivers into userspace processes, with Android IPC to talk with the kernel layer.

Had Hurd gotten the same love from IBM, Compaq, Oracle, Intel,.... as Linux did, and it might have turned out quite differently.
We heard the same type of explanations of people dying in police custody here in South Africa .. people jumping from the police headquarters building while under interrogation.

It is all this first responder hero worship in the US.

Cops are just public servants no better or worse than the folks at the local Dept of Motor Vehicles.
It's a shame an otherwise interesting article is plastered with the author repeatedly trying to promote and self-congratulate himself, and take credit for something which has undoubtedly been reported by hundreds, if not thousands, of people. Anyhow, I sincerely hope Google gets slapped with a huge fine, and that one day individual-user-targeted-ads will become illegal.
I also have this problem. Here are some tips I've found useful.

-- When possible, do things that you're passionate about. Develop your passions and try to work within those constraints.

-- Have a single monitor

-- Create a TODO list. Also start the day or working session with planning.

-- When tackling new problems, try to do the easiest tasks first to build momentum, before tackling harder tasks

-- Break down tasks into the smallest components and do them one at a time

-- Give yourself a reward for doing a small section of tasks (ie. watch a YT video)

-- Develop your self confidence and create a strong passion for competition, that's driven me past a lot of my attention problems
Again, I'm biased but here comes my biased thoughts anyways:

> How does it matter that the donation platform is closed-source?

Yes, I do think it does matter. Actually, I think that every open source service we open source developers depend on, should be open source and run in the open as much as possible.

It's great if a for-profit company can survive being 100% transparent and with all code open source. So far, that's been very difficult to achieve, especially with the expectations from VC funding and high-growth startups.

So instead, we need a different model for open source infrastructure, where the users are more involved in the funding of the platform. With that, users should feel they know what the money goes to and where it comes from. To solve that, the platform needs transparency.

So yes, I'd argue that a core open source platform for open source developers, indeed needs to be open source and transparent.
One look at the front page of r/td and you'll understand why I would think he's completely serious.
After Instgram dataleak,Microsoft posted the fastest way to update your password
While there is a lot of talk about "experiences" being the new "things", it's worth noting that there are more kinds of supercars - the ultimate rich person's toy[1] - being produced now than at any period.

[1] except of course superyachts - of which all of the 5 largest and 8 out of the 10 largest have been built since 2006.
My favourite necrologue was: "defendant felt on an axe, and like that 4 times over"
Not saying it's what actually happened, but it's possible. It's not even difficult. You can try it right now with a pen. Put your hands behind your back and see if you can point the pen at your mouth. I'm hella inflexible, and I can do it.
Compare the whole running cost, not just the ticket price. More than half comes from general taxation.

Also compare to similarly sized cities. Transportation has a massive scaling benefit. If there are 1000 people on a tube train, charging £2.50 each, that's £2500. The drivers salary for the half hour journey could be perhaps £15. The train and track are going to have their costs spread out over 60 years or more. The land was in most cases given to them for free. The electricity for a 5 mile journey for a train costs £0.50.

How else are they spending the remaining £2484.50?

Answer:. Staff salaries are insanely high because of unions. Productivity is insanely low because of government work ethic and red tape. Tech is all contracted out an great expense, and all tech is both ancient and custom, stopping them buying in cheap systems from other countries. In some cases, trains are still controlled by men with big mechanical levers which raise flags!
As someone who never owned an iPhone and hasn't used a SIM without a PIN ever (18 years now?) this is quite an interesting angle I'd never thought of.
> An integrated payment solution is going to attract a far greater numbers of sponsors than telling everyone to go to sign up for a subscription on external sites.

I agree, and I'm not saying GitHub should have just added a redirect to OpenCollective and called it a day.

But they did have the choice to integrate OpenCollective. Basically, the same UI they have now, they could have built on top of OpenCollective, without any losses of features. But, they would have lost a lot of data and other interesting things that can help GitHub/Microsoft develop other features in other services.

And I'm sure it was a conversation on the product team (or whoever came up with it), but eventually got dropped for for some reason.
I’m glad open-source maintainers will get one more way to get paid... But it feels wrong to lock this into a git hosting platform. Maintainer payment is important enough to be a first-class product, open and accessible to all... instead it’s being used as a bargaining chip to keep developers on a hosting platform. The subtext is pretty clear: “if you want to get paid, you better not leave Github!”.

Meanwhile nonprofits and startups focused on solving the problem of open-source sustainability for everyone, not just Github customers, will suffer from this announcement.

I think that’s a shame.
That's a good and reasonable personal ethic, but it transfers into a (imo) poor, even disingenuous public discourse.

Let's say we're talking about the clickbait/trolling problem in political discourse. We can berate some prominent individual, but that individual is inevitable. If she wasn't doing the clickbait, someone else would be and we'd be beratying them.

Focusing on the individual when a problem is systemic can be empty, righteous moralising.
What are the implications of this? WPF in Linux?
I was just thinking about Narita and then I saw your post come up. I've spent a lot of time there, I used to fly through Narita and I had to wait six or seven hours for my next flight. My body was at night time biologically, and after a long flight it was a very hard wait. Until the time I found that open air view deck. Fresh air, daylight, all of it made it easier. And I noticed the photo-friendly fence too. Gave me something to do.
Passwordless login: the search for speed with security
Well, not first class, but you do have access to longjmp.

from libc.setjmp cimport jmp_buf, longjmp, setjmp
It's all about thuggish exercise of power.
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You know what I don't get? I simply can't understand why, at any point of development, passwords would be stored in plain text in the first place. I mean, there is no good reason to do this.
H1B is the US economy nuclear weapon. especially in tech, science, and research. The US imports top talents while the country hasn't paid any subsidies for their education, development, medicine, growth, childbirth and you name it. And they have to come and spend money to establish their life after relocation.

It is necessary to have a minimum wage to make sure companies will priorities local talents. The "n citizen jobs per m foreign jobs" model sometimes create busy-work but I think that is a fair combination to wage floor.

I believe it is important to do everything to help integrate skilled workers to society. Make them feel they belong. They are more valuable assets if they stay. Of course it has to be in accordance with population and unemployment metrics.

There is this annoying double standard currently. If they invest and spend in the US we complain, and if they remittance to the home country again we complain. And now this work ban is like telling them mine and run because we don't want you here.
According to this and many, many similar kinds of stories, it appears that American police officers sometimes commit murder and seem to get away with it. Is there really nothing that can be done about that?

If they're not prosecuted because of an unhealthy relationship between police and prosecutors, why is that relationship not changed? Why are prosecutors and police departments not held accountable for this?

Why aren't state and federal governments calling for better laws to protect the people from crooked cops?

Why are these officers not fired, at least?

And why are US police officers not better trained and selected?

Surely there must we ways to address this. Why is that not happening? Is American society really fine with their police murdering people?
I don't blame you. Not that I ever want to live in London, but central Paris just wasn't somewhere I'd ever even consider living in.
I have really never been understood the utility of such a vest. If you want to stay warm, wouldn't you want to reduce loss of heat by air moving in and out through the armpit holes? There are literally zero times I would want this over a) the same thing with sleeves or b) no vest at all.
There is a german word for this: "erselbstmordet".
I hope there is nobody in sight who believes this bullshit.
Still, makes you wonder about the state of the "free world" if the press actually publishes such articles without accusing the police of outright lying. Oh, what a bummer, the bodycam was accidentally turned off, sure.
Artificial general intelligence is here, and it's useless
Dang, times sure have changed. Back in my good ol' days...
i.e. Emacs? Or Vim? Or VSCode? Especially with language servers there isn't much difference between the three, except that VSCode is a bit primitive in the editing department, but if it works for you, by all means.
Oh, I have some 1st gen Pebbles to sell you then :)).
That story is very close to something Karl Popper could have said. He would have called it pseudo-science.
WPF was fantastic for rich desktop applications. It makes me very happy that there is active effort from Microsoft to port it to .NET Core. If only it was cross platform...
Author here, I might write a blog article about that because it is really quite interesting.

The TL;DR is that some might want to rather run 1 or 2 systems (mainframe) instead of 100 physical machines (conventional distributed cattle system).

Now, IBM does make it quite expensive but the mainframe has some pretty cool features like pay-for-what-you-use (which you of course get with the cloud, but not so much if you also want your data in-house).

Anyway, it is a fun beer topic if nothing else :-)
> There's no controversy here

Maybe you missed it. A lot of controversy over what Kay said, when he said it, how much "jurisdiction" he has over the use of the word "Object" by others, how often he gets to amend the definition of OOP, etc, etc... was on display recently. I understood the post by Wayne as a reaction to this recent outbreak of an ongoing controversy.
"respectful" as in let's wait years for a maintainer to come up with a solution and when we try to propose our own the maintainer trows a fit and turns it down?
While Redhat did not handle this situation well you are also being very unfair to them. Why would they waste their time trying to contribute to a dead project? If I see that patches do not get merged and that bug reports go unanswered I will not bother doing anything because I know my time will be wasted, and I do not fault RedHat for doing the same.

What they should have done is tried to reach out to you before forking.
I think so. You can lie on your back (or squat) and slide your hands behind your thighs. Hold the gun upside down in your hands, and pull the trigger with your thumb.

But it seems unlikely. Even more suspicious when body cams got turned off.
I'm not.

To achieve hypertrophy and strength what is needed at minimum is a sensible program combined with over-time calorie surplus. 48 hour fasting is not gonna suddenly change all that.

If anything fasting increases growth hormones. In my experience it actually improves my performance (probably due to HGH increase and autophagy). Educate yourself on it instead of going by what "sounds like" or following conventional wisdom (such as "working to failure").
Is this article based on an April fools joke?
I don't think there is a limit in Shanghai. A few years back there was a heat wave and the subway stations were full of people who just came to hang out where there was air conditioning.

Jumping the turnstile is... not common.
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From PEP 394:

"in preparation for an eventual change in the default version of Python, Python 2 only scripts should either be updated to be source compatible with Python 3 or else to use python2 in the shebang line."

So it will change eventually. But why rush to break things?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Does this service work also per project or per user only?
Replying to myself with a different perspective...

On the other hand, from Github’s point of view it just makes sense to do this. And in a way, it raises the bar for dedicated providers of open-source sponsorships. If they can’t provide something clearly better than Github’s built-in feature, then maybe their service just isn’t good enough.

Of course maybe they can’t compete properly unless Github plays fair and opens the required APIs to the competition.
Should the footage should be streamed to a set of some independent civil rights orgs, like the IJ or ACLU.
The medical examiner doesn't make the call, right? They will say that the victim died by a gunshot wound to the head, but they won't rule whether it's suicide or not.
I agree America would be improved by better civic planning and better walking and biking facilities.

The traditional complaint I hear is that a random street in Los Angeles looks like https://goo.gl/maps/U7kg8VMV4FtDxQ838 whereas a random street in London looks like https://goo.gl/maps/nR1BJSgYEk5du5CN8 i.e. American cities being built with much lower population density.

That means, if you have one bus stop for every 400 residents or one metro station per 30,000 residents, Los Angeles residents have to walk a hell of a lot further to get to the bus stop or metro station.
Don’t think that will happen anytime soon (India).
There's a huge incentive for both EU and Google to have the latter just pay a fine every now and then and remain in business.

I see this as an indirect way to solve the problem of tax havens, because little known fact: the money that goes to pay the fines effectively reduces the pool of EU member contributions, because it's distributed using the same method.
If you just want to use seated experiences like Virtual Desktop with your keyboard and mouse, I'd say the Reverb is probably the best headset you can buy.