skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I've never seen "flat leadership" work. Someone always becomes the leader just without the title.

Personally, I strongly prefer formalized structures over informal ones because then everyone is on the same page and the right person can be chosen to lead instead of it just being the one with the loudest voice.
There's a YC company who seemed to create something similar.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universe-website-builder/id1...
Is this related to Mix Software's "Power C" for DOS? That was the first C compiler I ever used.
I think we'll start to see that happening as machine learning is used to tag the files. See Google Photos for example, where you can basically use search in place of any sorting.
The "you're a fanboy, your opinion isn't valid" approach to discourse is needlessly dismissive.

> the hand position on any trackpad isn't great

Seems fine to me on my Magic Trackpad 2.
Arguably, soma = the entertainment industry (what distracts you from real concerns)

Arguably, 'hatchery and conditioning centers', represent mass production. Of people in the book, but we've certainly got an economy based on producing more houses, cars, appliances, digital gadgets, so more people can consume more, very much in line with BNW.

Arguably we have a stronger caste system than in generations, measured by inequality and immobility. Alphas = capital owners, Betas = service providers to capital owners, Deltas, Gammas, Epslions = labor here and in other countries.
I think Orwell's point was even simpler: the overriding purpose of totalitarian political systems is power over individuals, "a boot stamping on a human face - forever". The actual ideology and stated goals are just window dressing towards this end.
Erica did a great job building up Bitnami, so I'm pretty pumped to see her + Nat at the helm of GitHub.
The first issue is fixed by just using a string. Yes, you can't do Sequence[Node], but you can do Sequence["Node"].

The docs talk about this here ("class name forward references"): https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/kinds_of_types.html#cl...
In France i saw some pylons which reminded me of sleeping owls:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128452384@N02/43626380385/
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What immodesty; to presume oneself to be worthy of the best.
Well... they were seed investors, after all.

Apologies, I’ll see myself out.
My mistake, I thought it was a weekly thing.
> Both of which are WAY TOO SLOW for backup up real workloads!

If you use half of a 30mbit upload for backing up, that's 5 terabytes a month. I think that covers a lot of real workloads.
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> First, panels instead of windows -- a thousand times yes, please

I don't know what OS you use, but putting windows side by side quickly can be easily done in all OSes I use, including macOS, Linux, Windows, and Android.

What stops you from using this functionality?
> The technology has been patented...

How can this ever be allowed?
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rw file access doesn't mean there's a lack of file level permissions restricting a non sudo user from accessing an otherwise restricted file. case in point: try editing the /etc/hosts file without sudo. you can't save (without invoking sudo from within vim).

ro means no matter what I try, that file is ro unless the fs is remounted rw. Again, it doesn't negate file system level user/group permissions. and remounting a system level partition rw isn't something I'd do on a whim.

I like the idea of a ro partition for system level OS files, personally, but without user level access somehow - it's not something to be looked forward to.
A subset wouldn't require you to load js to use built-in features like forms. A subset would just remove features or elements, which would make the whole load a js lib to make it work superfluous.

AMP is not a subset of HTML. It's a superset of a (badly defined) subset of HTML.
Are Brain Games Mostly BS?
Why not? For me yin/yang is connected to abstraction/application, abstraction delaying the evaluation of an expression and application forcing the evaluation. {lambda {x y} {+ x y}} delay the evaluation of {+ x y} and {{lambda {x y} {+ x y}} 3 4} forces the evaluation of {+ 3 4} to 7. The article tries to gently introduce, in a few lines without grey areas, concepts in programming languages which are not so easy to understand, a few data structures, pairs and lists, and recursion without any strange Y-combinator ... implicitely used in the long convoluted expression full of lambdas and explained in long in the two links given at the bottom of the page. This short article is a gentle call to read longer introductions on the making of a functional language for the web. Not a philosophical reflexion on Taoism.
An issue with that approach is you end up with leaders forced to approve/champion proposals they don't have enough expertise to fully grasp.

The 'designated' part is a blessing and a curse, I understand trying different systems with different failure modes.
With $120.5B m-cap, TCS valued more than IBM
Not a book, but you might want to watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" [0][1]. It's one of the the closest efforts I've seen to catching what, in my mind, is the 'look' of Orwell's 1984.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It's a bit of an chicken-and-egg problem - or as we like to say, an equilibrium of many.

Every attempt I did to use any great tagging system, in pretty much anything ever, had resulted in the system/app/infrastructure (etc.) dying sooner or later, which is why I don't use any of that stuff, creating the same externality for others.

Folders, on the other hand, are stable. You can't change folders, at least not simply.

Jumping between those equilbrias needs a better strategy than "offer tags".
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Some useful context: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/06/11/cncf-openness-guidelines...
My first thought was that this is probably a 1.0 for a morale boost or because of industry-wide version inflation, and not because it's actually a 1.0. My suspicion is confirmed, for me, by seeing this typo in the release announcement (emphasis mine):

Using .well-known URIs to discover servers, in case you can’t get a valid TLS certificate for your sever’s domain.

https://wompwompwomp.com/

That said I think Matrix is a good thing and very encouraging! Just don't want to get my hopes up too much.
Sounds like QNX, which we still haven't managed to get back to.
The "po" youtube URL modification is clever, but I don't know how long you will be able to keep this running.

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-download-sites-throw-in-the...
It’s not simple though. There are are instabilities that can happen in the grid; distributed, dynamic, nonlinear circuit.
Its not a joke, this is a "serious concern" of youth these days. I've received comments about anxiety just chatting with an android/other phone user.
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Man, I went to a wedding a few years ago, at a big indoor shopping mall with a connected hotel, in Alberta. This mall had a pool that apparently usually had dolphins, except they didn't at that time, apparently because "(shrug), they kept dying" according to someone who lived there.
Maybe. But I think if it required an iMessage account with an authenticated iPhone, it wouldn't be much of a problem.

Still not a perfect solution, but AFAIK, it's also possible to pass iMessage authentication with a hackintosh. So the same spam vector is technically still open, albeit with a bit more work.
This is the best description of how Valve's "flat" structure works in practice:

>Some of Geldreich's comments are similar to comments Ellsworth made after being let go by Valve. "...There is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company and it felt a lot like high school," Ellsworth said in 2013. "There are popular kids that have acquired power in the company, then there's the trouble makers, and everyone in between."

>Geldreich similarly describes 'barons' who are in with the executive arm of the company in question, and a culture in which employees must curry favor with influential 'sponsors' to enjoy stability.

>At self-organizing firms you might be placed into a huge open office and given massive monitors. This is to normalize all communications and for more effective surveillance. Everything will be monitored either directly by a corporate arm employee, one of their barons or friends.July 16, 2018

Rest: https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...
I’ve hade one for 10 years or more and it’s fine. It’s a durable little thing.
I would have to disagree with this post (first point is actually inaccurate and the second I could go either way on).

Type annotations/mypy, especially when coupled with dataclasses/pydantic has been very helpful in maintaining a rather substantial 3.7 codebase.
Is that possible without special hardware to detect EM radiation?
Its a good thing, as designer you dont have to proof your concept by merit- aka, make a linux-distro and see wether it ships. No, you convince and preach to the higher ups, build up hype and then drop you creation on all those lowly creatures like a 500 pound bomb and needed that much.

Win8 - i remember, how good it looks, and how little choice it left you to use its disgusting MetroUI. If people do not use your UI, when they have a choice, maybe its bad, maybe you have thrown away years and years of learning and experience.
I think this is a really good point. QNX aligned much closer with this architecture as far as I can tell.
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Not to mention that plenty of people are not "meticulously washing and sorting" their recyclables and the popular method of single stream recycling is producing contaminated recycling streams filled with trash and non-compliant items.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycli...
People not being on the same page is a massive problem. It especially constrains the leader herself, because she can't make any strong, clear decisions without second-guessing whether she has the authority to do so.
Facebook and YouTube's 'Platform' Excuse Is Dying
Would you call the ipad and iphone "radically new" they are just existing products combined.
> Now ask them in what year...

I know that. May I answer ? It's 2003... November 9, to be more precise.
You know this space is already crowded by much larger players than you'll ever be. Does your site have any revenue? If so, does it make profit?

If you're in to food and labors of love, start a garden. At least that'll put food on your table.
Well, the nature of the technology certainly added to it. Once the trains were running, troops were flooding to the borders, and if stopped, they couldn't (somehow...) be restarted easily, because all the plans were interlocked so precisely. Or something.

Or that's the picture Tuchman paints.

Not just on the German side, BTW, but everywhere.

Now, this is just a popular history book I recall from memory several decades ago, and the questions you ask sound very relevant!
Both Pythonista and OpenTerm on iOS are "good enough" for a lot of what I need, but it would be nice to have a proper shell. Even if it's jailed/locked to /private/var/mobile
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They're also getting some breathing room because the GTX 2xxx series cards have been something of a disappointment. That could vanish quickly once the 3xxx series cards are announced.
I always thought of "Brazil" as "Monty Python's '1984'".
>technology and techniques for extracting information from EM radiation

Whats known to the public, you mean. I suspect even the nuttier conspiracy theorists don't have a solid grasp of just what capabilities might exist among well funded secret institutions.
Does this reduce the prices of lto8 drives?
"...we have the opportunity to rethink the desktop computer with a focus on getting professional work done."

This smacks of someone who is clueless about what real professional work actually entails.
This is the kind of thing that really makes me want to have somebody please clone and sell them out of a country that doesn't really care about patent infringement. They can at least supply tapes until the big guys sort out their petty battle. They'll both be sorry for suing each other after this third party takes all their revenue for the time being.

Users shouldn't be the ones getting punished for this.
And in the underground world things get a little more complicated with submersible transformers, vaults, etc. but the general concepts are the same.
That sounded a lot like an ad. I was about to ask whether you are affiliated, but it turned out to be easy to find that you're one of the authors.
Why would you keep Python if you want static typing? I mean, there are several modern, performant (more than Python actually) statically typed languages. Rust, Go, Kotlin, Scala, Swift… All of them are mature and have a good library ecosystem. So, except if you need some math/AI/ML packages available only for Python, why bother? Choose the right tool for the job, no?
This works in both directions. Sometimes you can source a part more cheaply than the estimate, in part because the sourced part is lower quality than what Apple uses. Sometimes you can't source a part as cheaply as the estimate, because the estimate is assuming Apple can get the parts at a scale we can't touch.

Basically, these estimates seem like wild guesses.
I'm not sure how you've managed to conclude that from a single typo in the release notes.
>Are there any sorts of future developments, either in temperature or new scientific research, that could persuade YOU either of those ideas is NOT mistaken and the anthropogenic global climate change danger position is NOT correct?

yes, if the temperature dropped back to where it was a few decades ago, and stayed there.

I have not read nearly as much as you have on this matter, and I am not going to, in part because I have so many other things to research.

However, I am very well informed on political philosophy, and the critics of the GCC idea are mostly or all conservatives who have the general belief that it is impossible for human action to ever cause change in the environment that in turn causes significant harm to human beings. In effect they believe that God child-proofed the universe so that an unregulated free market would only benefit the human race. I consider that belief highly irrational (and let me add that I also think liberals are quite irrational on some important topics).

So let me ask you what is your political philosophy? and do you think that humans can cause significant harm to the environment that needs to be regulated by the government, and has this happened in the past?

Also, what do you think of ocean acidification?
I always wonder why these two books are framed as mutually exclusive (and F451 for that matter.)

They all reduce to tuning out discomfort, either through pleasure or storytelling. They paint pictures of different forms of self censorship.

You are either using pills, entertainment, religion, lies, propaganda, or marketing to achieve a nirvana of cognitive dissonance and safety.

They are not a zero sum game, they compliment each other nicely.

Another book that doesn't get mentioned enough in this category is Ira Levin's (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil) This Perfect Day. It's a global AI super computer house sorting hat, like Captain Marvel or I Robot, mixed with Gattaca.
I just built an external storage server on a supermicro 2U with 80TB of hdd and 2TB of fast flash running ZFS and connected to my Mac via 10GE. Best of both worlds.
Really enjoyed reading this, thank you for the time you put into it and the clear explanation.
You could argue that constant access to entertainment is the "soma" of modern society.

If you ever feel anxious, unhappy or nervous just reach into your pocket and distract yourself with social media, a TV show, a game, or a podcast.

The fact that we can, at all times, be indefinitely distracted and stimulated means we never have to fully feel sad, lonely, or bored if we don't want to. How many people go home from work to binge watch a show until they fall asleep?

It's been a while since I've read the book but I remember soma being used as a way to regulate unwanted emotions. It seems like there's some parallels there, but obviously it's not a perfect analogy.
> you decided that they're advocating to do something useless for no reason.

No, I decided they’re advocating to do something harmful for no reason.

They're advocating to waste hardware resources (as a developer I don’t like doing that), waste development time (as a manager I don’t like when developers do that). But the worst of all, UTF8 on Windows and converting to/from UTF16 at WinAPI boundary is a source of bugs, the kernel doesn’t guarantee the bytes you get from these APIs are valid UTF16, quite the opposite, it guarantees to treat them as opaque chunk of words.

UTF-8 has it’s place even on Windows, e.g. it makes sense for some network services, and even for RAM data when you know it’ll be 99% English so it saves resources, and that data never hits WinAPI. But as soon as you’re consuming WinAPI, COM, UWP, windows shell, any other native stuff, UTF-8 is just not good.
Well... if I can input any emoji (or worse, any Unicode), then I still can almost certainly type "home" faster than the emoji. If I have something POS style, where there are only a few icons available, and the icon I actually need is part of the set, and I'm familiar with the layout so I don't have to hunt for it, then I can probably touch the home icon faster than I can type "home" - but still probably not faster than I can say it.
> Or do you have any idea what type get_closure returns?

It doesn't.

Because of the syntax error.
Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor
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slide 94:

nearly 4.2 million people streamed in december 2018 at least once on twitch

that seems incredibly high. I wonder how many of those are streaming games vs. talk/conversation vs. travel/outside social etc.

I also wonder what the cost of all of this is. How many of them will actually be unprofitable for twitch due to not having any viewers. The streaming infrastructure must be more expensive than say a yt vid that no one watches, no?
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Apple has spent so long oppressing their users and claiming that missing features are because they're looking out for users' best interests that it's ironic that the introduction of basic features that competitors have had for years if not decades is worthy of applause.
Except that if you saturate your uplink you will also likely make your downlink sluggish.

And a user may not want to wait 20 hours for an operation to complete.
When you say "China" do you mean the average person on the street there or the CPC leadership?

Given the number of fuerdai in elite US schools, you really don't think that the CPC leadership would care about a public spat with YC?

I'm not trying to be right here, I'm honestly curious and would be honored to be disabused of my ignorance by a more informed perspective.
The second issue is a bit of a judgment call too, I think. If the types were inferred you could end up with errors that you're not able to see because inferred types end up compatible. Personally, I think I'd rather write them manually so that I'm validating whether the method actually matches what it was intended to return.

I can't find a more authoritative source right now, but I also remember seeing the same thing that this SO answer says - that it was a deliberate choice not to do this so that people could incrementally add type annotations: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38775381

There are also some separate tools that can infer and generate the annotations for you. I haven't tried them personally, but the mypy docs recommends MonkeyType: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/existing_code.html#aut...
Firefox is inferior to all other major browsers. Not very technical to me.
English copy in the public domain in certain jurisdictions:

https://wikilivres.org/wiki/We

https://mises.org/library/we

In Russian:

http://az.lib.ru/z/zamjatin_e_i/text_0050.shtml
To your point, I want to know what share of Uber/Lyft customers are converts from public transportation versus taxis (maybe these categories aren’t very distinct). There are so many times when I’ve missed the bus ($2.50) and opted for a $5 shared ride that will deliver me in 10 minutes (same as bus) instead of waiting 15-30 minutes on the next bus. It leads me to wonder how many people almost never took taxis before, but now accept a 2x markup to reclaim their time when public transportation doesn’t fit their schedule constraints.
Words like security and decentralization are indeed not binary, but referring to them as being on "a continuum" or something similar is not particularly helpful either. I wish I saw more application of them as modalities, such that they refer to not to a perpetual state but a systemic tendency toward an ideal (if asymptotic) structural equilibrium over time, as in "X tends toward greater decentralization", "tends towards greater security" over time.

Even better if these claims could be backed, if not by a formal proof, at least an informal definition of these terms as used in the claim and reasonable justification as to why the models being promoted would not tend to collapse into greater centralization, weaker security over time.
Thanks. I never really had the patience to manage ratios and survive on private trackers, and fishing for invites and passing an interview to get into the secret treehouse was too much for me.

Too late for that of course, but couldn't that data have been stored somewhere away from the questionably legal stuff?
Talk about killing the messenger...
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My guess is that fewer than two people reviewed it before hitting publish. For a project with the level of ambition that Matrix has, when they release 1.0 I would expect more attention than that. Just my two cents though.
Everyone knew that and we saw it already several times in action....
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