skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The community of free and open source software developers.

Really, with the kind of license proliferation that was going on due to every Tom and Harry that wanted to publish their own license, it was difficult to understand which license was really safe to use and which wasn't. FSF and OSI stepped in to bring some sanity to this situation by categorizing all the free and open source licenses by their permissiveness and restrictions. The majority of the open source development community adopted these licenses.

Any license that restricts making money would neither be considered a free license by FSF nor an open source license by OSI. The license could discourage making money without contributing back to the community and the GPL family of licenses do achieve that to some extent but they cannot outright restrict making money.

The OSD has its roots in Debian Free Software Guidelines which for a long time has been the community standard for what guarantees free software must provide. FSF's four freedoms of free software are also similar. OSD adopted Debian's guidelines to create the open source definition.

If a license does not allow us to run a software how we wish we lose freedom 0 to run the software how we wish. We lose the right to use the software for any field of endeavor. You might want to consider it "open source" because you can still see the source but widely accepted terms like "open source" do not get redefined so easily based on how some people feel about the term. The term's meaning still remains intact due to the meaning it holds for the vast majority of open source software developers.
Battery replacements are fairly cheap. I did that with my 2014 air and it's now good for another three or four years.
I code at odd hours. I'm not going to live my life being afraid of people who judge me for it. Life is short, and those people probably aren't good to have in my life anyway.

I don't buy the "normative pressure" argument. We need to encourage independent thinking. If someone is told over and over that it's his work not his schedule that matters and still feels an internal pressure to imitate others' schedules, he's not thinking independently.
I just had to have my screen replaced (by a third party repair shop), and while they were at it, they vacuumed out a lot of cat hair for free. Now it runs much cooler, and seems like a new machine!

You can also replace the thermal paste, although now that it's not overheating all the time, I won't have that done until next time it overheats and slows down and I need to have it vacuumed out again.

http://www.mackungfu.org/TheonethingtodotomakeyourMacBookPro...
I mean it in the sense that you have the conglomerate at the centre of this storm who is forced into following government orders doing the translation.

Whose to say they couldn't give two different people varying translations into English based on the exact same article?

It would be an authoritarian governments wet dream.
I like biographies by Tracy Kidder:

"A truck full of money" About Paul English the founder of Kyak.com. 'One mans quest to recover from great success"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/A-Truck-Full-of-Mo...

Another Tracy Kidder biography is
"Mountains beyond Moutains"
this book traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains_Beyond_Mountains

It isn't really a biography, but soul of a new machine is really interesting story about 80s computer companies. He won a pulizer for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
I appreciate that, though I still feel that a lot of people mistake glass for crystal and vice versa.
Any biographical recommendations on Srinivasa Ramanujan?
If you know of any chips taped-out, and shipping in volume, that used any of these as their primary tool, I’d be very interested to know more about that.

I’m aware of chisel used to verify some RISC-V cores that were fabricated, but that’s a research POC, not a volume/production ASIC.
I think that's a black-and-white interpretation of the point. Seems like there's a set of marriages that would hold regardless of social pressure, and a set of marriages that would be miserable if forced together, and a grey zone in between with marriages that would work well if encouraged to stay together but would also dissipate if not encouraged by society.
This is a studied thing. Some do, but the vast majority do not regret sex change operations.

Also it’s highly unlikely that people would ask why. We aren’t forcing people to get transgender operations. If anything we are encouraging them not to. They’re the ones pushing for it. They know why it happened. Extreme liberal parents might exist who ok it at the drop of a hat but I’ll bet a dollar they’re the edge case.

Lastly most operations occur on adults. Your opinion seems to be that all transgender is bad, but you’re angling it on the subset that might be more grey
What struck me is that we don't know if the Soviets are being accurately quoted in this article. They could write a lot of exaggerations and not be called on them.
I like the concept of AppImage much more than Snap and Flatpak.

I fully embrace the idea of decentralized distribution of applications, as opposed to the way package managers work (central repository mantained by the distro)

I believe the operating system should only be concerned about the base software and present a sane interface so that the user can then install the specific programs they need, the OS should not care about how or where the user gets those programs.

Appimage is the only project I know that respects that idea. Snap and Flatpak are centralized AFAIK (or are unnecessarily hard to use in a decentralized manner).
A popular motivation equation: motivation = (expectation of success * expected reward) / (feedback delay * impulsiveness)

I feel "easy but tedious" comes as "low reward" even though expectation of success is high.
while python is object oriented in the sense that everything is an object it doesn't insist of doing everything via message passing. It's quite happy with basic data types and simple functions (plus decorators and context managers)
Where does this leave us with wolfram clan ?

Wolfram, the company, has not been doing well over the last decade or so. This is a known fact and a lot of advocates of that clan will downvote the bitter truth.
This company is after all the most toxic one in good o’l Illinois.

The product is being marginalised slowly but gradually. With real open source and free solutions.

Besides, It’s not a serious solution or fit for anything other than doing some rough calculation or work in an area. If you are an expert in image processing a good chance is that there is some standard open source solution in place that outperforms this closed source solution by a factor of X in terms of speed.

Its usage and importance is greatly overhyped by the company, well almost anything with the name tag wolfram attached is hype to begin with. This might have pulled in the 1980’s and 1990’s but jezz that not where we are at now.

How much of a megalomaniac one has to be clears any suspicion when one looks at its name.

I concede on one point, for the average (low skilled) developer that has no serious background in programming, this might be or THE (only) solution. Then again I doubt how competitive such a developer can stay ...

But for anything mission critical, why on earth would I or for that matter any company rely on a closed source solution ?

Also wary of how much information is send from your end to wolfram . Notice that every 2 weeks ur license will have to be reactivated via a special wolfram server bondage .

All said, not quite.
The question remains, why make so much hype about “ oh there so many reasons we won’t open source” and now “ oh , we are so cool , we provide free wolfram “ . Dude make up ur mind in what direction ur business model pivots and then bother us .

It is a known fact that Wolfie thinks of most hackernews users as roaches. This quote is from someone else.
Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy
Politics and graft.

Look at California, the state claims to have climate change risks, yet when they apply for bonds, this is not listed. Politicians will bend over backwards for easy political points especially if it is for a golden goose political moment, looking at Solyndra and Tesla’s buffalo plant. And if a donor gets a ton of money then win win win, still Solyndra.

The point is that you have a very sensitive issue that has politics in it that cause money to be wasted. If we are going to be honest about climate affectation then we need to be honest about solutions in the engineering profession: nuclear until fusion arrives, because renewables are not going to work from a storage perspective.

Then finally, what do we do about developing nations, if you are going to tell China “no coal plants.” Explain the enforcement procedures to solve this issue, are we willing to go to war to stop a risk versus the risk of nuclear Armageddon or societal collapse?
It was a woman who was disinvited.
You can port out a voice number - it's $3 if it was originally a voice number:

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?hl=en

Weirdly, you can't port a Gsuite google voice # to a gmail account. (I looked into it when considering canceling my Gsuite account)
way to prove the point.
Were drivers a problem? Did you run into any problems with the nvme SSD? I tried booting Opensuse but it couldn’t see the SSD. Maybe I just need to try Ubuntu.
I feel like asking for generic career advice when there's so much out there is wasting people's time. Also, the blogs are going to be much less off the cuff -- more time put into bridging the inferential distance and finding good examples. What are the odds that someone random person you met is going to have as good of a perspective as the most insightful blogger's perspective? You're probably going to get a lot of platitudes and bragging.
The design of subsystem Y is likely technical debt. The reason is, because of agile, software developers know that they must code defensively to account for feature changes or additions in the future. That means you take on technical debt every time you make a subsystem that isn't modular, meaning that if system Y is not infrastructure it should be able to be pulled out and used somewhere else. To not account for this feature is to not account for future change.

A good way to test if your subsystem is modular is to ask yourself, can you pull your subsystem out of the current system and use it in a completely different app in a completely different context? If the answer is no, then likely the module is either IO or too tightly coupled with other systems. Too much Mocking in your tests is another sign of a design flaw. It's a signal that your code is dependent on other systems rather than a module that can be pulled out and reinserted somewhere else.

Another design flaw is, is system Y itself made up of modules or interconnected dependencies? If subsystem Y needs to reconfigured to do something slightly different can I pull out 10% of the system and replace it with new modules? Or does pulling out 10% of the system involve pulling out another 80% of the system as a dependency? You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

Most programmers choose dependencies because modules are harder. Also the dependency style of programming is heavily promoted. Additionally, most programmers are Unaware of what it means to make a modular component, they organize code following nomenclature rather than a systematic theory, and they think they are doing modular design but they are not.

Likely your subsystem Y was designed in such a way that it is tightly coupled to another subsystem and can't be used outside of a certain context. Possibly it is tightly coupled with IO or some specific database schema. Likely system Y itself is made up of modules that are interdependent. Also likely it was programmed by someone who did all of this unknowingly.

So it could be a matter of perspective. What you see as debt taken on deliberately I see as debt from the past "discovered" and interest accrued because the debt can't be paid back without a rebuild.
So what you're saying is that black domains end in .onion?
> They'd need to have more computing power than many wireless routers do

It seems like at this point we're describing "running a server at your house." I've been playing with this with a Raspberry Pi for a Plex server (could have gone cloud but why not just tape a Pi to the wall next to my router?), I think the idea has a lot of merit.
Those are bridge/tunnel tolls, which are a lot higher than Garden State Parkway tolls, which might mean higher pay. (No, it isn't very logical, but I can certainly see toll collectors at a $1 toll booth making less than toll collectors at a $15 toll booth if only because the higher price toll can more easily support a higher wage.)
To be clear, I'm no mechanical engineer either!

There is some information about ratcheting CVTs (and CVTs in general) here [0], although the page looks a bit sketchy. From what I've seen, they are not very practical or widely used. Maybe there is a niche where their capabilities and drawbacks are a good fit but I have not come across it.

One thing to keep in mind is that these days it's not hard to beat (both on price and power/torque capabilities) sophisticated transmission mechanism (meaning - expensive and containing many fragile mechanical parts) by simply using a larger electric motor with variable speed control and fixed gearing. Torque output at low speeds (which would be the advantage of CVT) is going to be limited by mechanical design and weight constraints of the transmission mechanism.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuously_variable_transmis...
Sounds like you're conflating the scope and aim of your comments when it suits your point. Going from a snark at the general trans approach to a whatabout the neon cult and such. Hmm
Science.

Scifi is fiction about where science might take us, how modern tech might impact society. It is foreshadowing a potential future. So stuff set in the past, generally, isnt considered scifi unless it somehow describes a potential future. This separates scifi from technothrillers (tom clancy et al) that are tech-heavy but set today rather than in the future.
I’m surprised how many originals are still being used.
< although personally I don't understand why software devs really need more horsepower

When i build test and lint the smallish piece of software i work on it can take quite a while. More horsepower means quick turn around cycle from "make change see result". Also sometimes i am running multiple VM or containers.

It really helps some developers out.
Feels like the latter. When was the last time you saw a high production value rendering of a yet to be released phone for a second tier company?
the touchpad performance on the mac is second to none. Can modern windows or linux come even close?
“When the dust settles, Tesla may be a Chinese company. Tencent is the latest big investor.”

This is something people don’t understand about the trade deficit. Most people think the trade deficit means that China sends the US way more stuff than the US sends to China.

That is not true. Of course China doesn’t send stuff without asking for things in return. China sends stuff and then has the right to buy pieces of American companies and future cash flows of those companies (and government entities).

The US is getting a bunch of stuff and giving away little pieces of it’s future. This is just a visible example
Send them an invoice for the amount of work it took you. $10k per second of footage they used is a good start, with a contract saying you won’t sue for copyright infringement if they pay, and you’ll provide them with non watermarked footage.

If they don’t pay, sue for copyright infringement. Seems like it’d be a clear cut case?
If you haven't seen it yet, you may find Fedora Silverblue interesting.
Manjaro Linux already provides the whole arch with an installer thing. There wasn't much of a purpose for Antergos.
The market for food is not strictly free due to heavy subsidies on the production side and varying taxes on consumption (e.g. SF tax on sweet drinks)
I have found if I sleep with the room lights on or being woken up by the sun I feel much more rested.
After this, is manjaro the only wizard I can point people towards for arch? (If you can call it that)

Edit: found this script at least. https://github.com/MatMoul/archfi
I did like that talk very much - and here was my response:

> The Python Datamodel: When and how to write objects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGfggZqXmB0
Ancient Greek surely? with added xanax.
Anything by Walter Isaacson.

Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cillini
I've known the Holloway team almost since inception, and knew Josh (one of the cofounders) from before that. I had originally cold reached out to him on LinkedIn after I read some stuff he had written on Quora (where I was working at the time), and we got coffee a few times and became friends.

I've been a huge fan of what they're trying to do. It's also a really strong team—they're polymaths in some sort. They had wanted to write about hiring and recruiting (and in fact had already started having conversations about it with some really credible folk), and at some point we just decided I'd help out (I had written some stuff on Quora and Medium but never worked on something of this magnitude).

Anyway that's probably more detail than you wanted :) I'd say reach out from their website (or by emailing contributing@h..y.com), they're pretty approachable (Andy is in these threads too).
> My point is society has already gained all value that can be extracted from free knowledge and information.

This doesn't really follow. Just because the information is available doesn't necessarily mean society will instantly absorb it or trust it.

Right now we're in the early stages of the information boom, where there's a lot of information floating around, but it's difficult to validate that information and determine whether or not it's accurate. Hopefully in the coming decades we as a society will figure out better means of such validation and start to actually address the problems around "fake news" and other sources of misinformation.
There is also ArcoLinux.
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Wow. You've independently come up with a stronger version of the uncaused cause argument, one of the many arguments Aquinas gives for the Christian God. Congratulations!
Your entire comment is a non-sequitur. Your first link is about a conference organised by radical feminists, none of whom appear to be clinical researchers; your second is about a tenured researcher being briefly blocked from Twitter for expressing opinions rather than stating facts and your third is an apparently completely unrelated lecture by Slavoj Žižek.

We have a whole bunch of observational studies on the effects of hormone treatment. There are a bunch more registered that we're waiting for results on. You haven't shown me any evidence suggesting that hormone treatment does more harm than good, nor any evidence that research is being suppressed.
I was replying to

> those with higher status are more likely to believe status reflects merit.

It correlates much less than one would think, much as being anti-burqa doesn’t correlate with gender within a Muslim population as much as we’d think.
You also have anarchy linux, but it is not actively mantained, still manjaro and antergos were different concepts
When rich people invite beyonce to perform at their daughters bat mitzvah, or wedding, or fly everyone to dubai and give them a rose-coloured diamond, is this really any different?

I mean (I guess) is there any substantive difference between conspicuous consumption like this, and what the 0.01% do nowadays?
Haha very cool!
Do not buy a new one until some other fool (like me) purchases one sight-unseen and shares whether the machine runs without issues.

I did this with a top-spec'd 2016 MBP that eventually got replaced with a 2017 due to the frequency of problems. Recently spent too many hours getting my 2017 repaired (& back up to its previous state) for the same issues.

Very disappointing given the price point.
This is an interesting comment, thanks! (Writing instead of just upvoting because the comment is deep in the gray)
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

Walter Isaacson books
Yeah, you are right. Maybe I should say gets rid of sets as a the foundation of mathematical theories?
507 Mechanical movements and 1 digestive movement.
New Real-Time flood projection system by Waseda and University of Tokyo
Flatpak's can be distributed as standalone ".flatpak" bundles that can be installed offline. I'm not sure why this isn't promoted more.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is.
> Plus I feel if I really needed a Linux environment, the Linux subsystem would fill that need.

Have you actually used it? A bunch of devs I work with continually have issues relating to WSL so i'm not sure if its comparable to macOS.
Processing also means it passed through the system. If I use the camera app on my phone, and it shows me a real-time video of what the camera is seeing, all that data is "processed" even if I'm not actively recording or taking a picture at that moment. It's not saved, it's just passed through and discarded. That's not nothing, because there's the possibility of it being collected, but it's not exactly the same either.
> when there’s blood in the streets...

This applies more to the entire market or particular industries than it does to specific stocks. There are many stocks whose charts look "bloody" because they are bad businesses. Not all of them go on to make a miraculous recovery, many simply find themselves trading on the pink sheets.
Thanks a lot, I didn't know about this.
How is this different from windows? I think this is good for dependency heavy apps, such as krita, but you should still try to keep things as centralized as possible, makes updates easier and painless
I'll take a look at it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Not necessarily. My last name is Ferreira De Almeida. "Ferreira" comes from my mother, and "De Almeida", with space, comes from my father.

I started spelling it "Dealmeida" to avoid confusion.
Why is this still a thing? I’ve been hearing about publicly accessible databases being deleted for almost two decades. Why are these ports open to the Internet?
I have a similar but different view. I don't mind a centralized distribution platform, but I like how snap seperates that from the distro so it's easy to target many distros with one package.
The Celts and Germans ate much better than the average Roman. The Germans during Arminius’ period were up to a foot taller than the Romans. Some of that is genetic but most of it was better diet. The average Italian was a peasant who ate grain, grain and more grain, like most peasants. The Germans (and Celts) were at least as much pastoralists as agriculturalists and they are much more dairy and meat.

The only groups of people that often see stunting in growth are farmers at the Malthusian margin. Hunter gatherers and pastoralists either starve or kill each other quickly enough that you don’t see the kind of years long periods of insufficient calories that don’t actually kill you that are common in peasant societies. Pastoralists always and everywhere raid, skirmish and steal each other’s livestock. They’re preadapted to warfare because of mobility and once they get horses basically all adult men are cavalry, in cases like the Huns, Mongols and Scythians. Even people without too many horses but who live and die by cattle are far more mobile than grain farmers.