skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are “principal developers” and architects, but just like with products and the “Innovator’s Dilemma” at some point, your skillset overserves the market. After a certain level of competence, experience doesn’t add value if you’re applying to be a developer for yet another software as a service crud app. Either be happy with salary stagnation and cost of living raises (if that) or move on to greener pastures.
American Beauty at 20: is the Oscar-winning hit worth a closer look?
If nothing else I feel C&C has remained popular in the internet zeitgeist. The series is very ”meme-able”, especially Red Alert and Generals due to their quirkiness of geopolitical issues that have always remained hot topics to a western fanbase (Russia, China and the Middle East).
This is close to what I was looking for in this thread. Don't want to clutter with anecdotal chat, but:

I worked in Australia some years ago (2015) and I was amazed by the taste of vegetables (and meat, as well, just less so). The experience sounds banal I suppose, but I really felt that my quality of life had improved. In the U.S. I feel totally unexcited by vegetable shopping, and I sometimes feel that I am simulating cooking. In Australia two vegetables and a small piece of lamb or beef completely satisfied me.

This article led me to the same thought found in your conclusion, but I'm hoping someone on HN has expertise in Aussie/Kiwi farming and can offer some perspective.
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They didn't say it is the first 64bit OS that runs on the Pi 4. The key phrase is "fully functional" which has no definitive definition. It's just some clickbait, marketing jargon.
Before you have said "unprecedented scale", do you realized that in XIX and XX century advances in agriculture production LITERALLY removed about 98% of the jobs of that era?
Hahahaha, I see you've never been around startups. Try walking in the door of an SV tech startup in a few years and tell me there's no age discrimination going on. There's little evidence to suggest the trend is generation-dependent.
I grow more and more tired of these discussions. Talks of banishing people because they’re ignorant, rude, sexist. Conferences are getting shut down, people are having their world turned upside down for being ignorant. Every topic is a hot potato. I feel i can’t even have a reasonable conversation about diversity, ignorance, or whatever the controversy of the day is. It’s easier to just be quiet than express opinions.
"Please regulate the competition!"
Here in the US, we had a candidate include a picture of himself... wearing a captain hat and striking a dramatic pose. He said he put it there to filter out the wrong kind of companies. We hired him.
It seems like the educated, power-couple types who obsess about pre-schools, private schools for young children would be capable of and better served by one parent not working full time and participating in their child's education themselves.
Thanks! Was actually talking more about larger offices and when startups leave shared office spaces. It seems today a lot of businesses want a cool looking space to attract talent, but wondering if this is something they’d fork out the money for, and if so how much per employee. I’m the founder of www.uneebo.com that aims to solve what you said for an affordable price - packages of office furniture essentials or if you have more money more custom options. Feedback would be very much appreciated!
God forbid people be protective of their children, which are the most vulnerable persons to toxic products.
High speed trains are “public” transit in the very loosest sense. They are way too expensive to be used by ordinary people on a regular basis. The California HSR was supposed to be $80-100 each way. Multiply that by four for a family trip and compare it to the cost of driving. And even that price is optimistic. A trip from DC to New York on the NER booked a month out for my family, two adults two half-price kids, is $750 round trip. Driving is a fraction of that. That’s for a non-high-speed, already built line that recovered its capital costs decades ago. On a trip that’s half as long.

HSR ends up being a heavily subsidized option for upper middle class people and business travelers. (Look at who is in a typical Acela or even Northeast Regional train.)

So to be more precise, there is no HSR in California because (1) the fact that we suck at infrastructure projects makes it a very expensive proposition; (2) that taxpayer funded expense would go to benefitting a relatively small and well off set of people living in SF and LA.

(Also, which “republicans?” California doesn’t have a single republican in elected statewide office.)
We're all pretty intolerant of it, focusing on children is a shameless grab for attention.
> Talks of banishing people because they’re ignorant, rude, sexist.

The problem is that not getting those people to stop doing that - or, if necessary, excluding them - causes them to exclude other people.
Jason Calcanis has never been one to shy away from conflict, but it's hard to disagree with him here. Apparently, the employees and cofounders thought they were getting equity but likely never will.

More from his blog: https://calacanis.com/2019/09/09/the-pegasus-startup-flying-...

> The founder, Taso Du Val, also allegedly screwed his employees and co-founder out of their equity by never converting his LLC into a C corp and creating stock.

> This is a huge violation of the explicit covenant of startups: “we all lose a decade of our lives trying, or we get fabulously rich together.”
No one is protective of children here, they're exploiting the fact that children exist in a city to sell their fucking paper.
Based on previous articles on the subject, the only brand name I associate with peanut allergy is Bamba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamba_(snack)#Peanut_allergy
Dang. I both live and work within 10 minutes walk from Notre Dame and mostly don't leave the area on a daily basis. I wonder if there is any possibility this is a contributing factor in my recent deteriorating health.
If you’re using Amazon as a glorified colo, you’ve got the worse of both worlds. You’re spending more on infrastructure and you’re not taking advantage of managed services to decrease the time and staff you spend on babysitting infrastructure. There is a lot more to AWS than VMs.
It turns out that if the opinion in question is “maybe pedophilia is ok” I am OK with the speaker being shut down and/or banished.
I have nothing to back this up, but I feel like nerds who get "honored with a slew of awards" or otherwise are very successful often are so full of themselves that they end up saying inappropriate things.

Of course, the thing with underage girls is that they're not mature enough to decide whether they "want" it. The purpose of the age of consent is to protect them from sexual exploitation because of that. I wonder what's so hard to understand about this, especially for an educated man.
I blame the rise of more effective DRM and the removal/demoting of lan play in favor of hosted servers. All of my favorite RTS games were discovered while at a friends house. We’d do a quick copy and have an epic game session, creating a legend game that I’ve bought multiple times since.
Studios should allow copying of games for some purposes like local multiplayer, but protect single player and internet content with IAP, so that the game spreads virally, creating a large market and a strong brand.

This was exactly how many of the classics got started, but back then it was in spite of the studios intentions. I think a good rts could still spread that way but now players would welcome the IAP, as long as core mechanics are available and it’s not pay-to-level-up.
Expropriate Microsoft.
It is right up there with SA.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/u-s-beats...
You might be excited then by Command & Conquer Remastered: https://www.ea.com/news/details-command-and-conquer-remaster.... We're working with the community and regularly updating it on /r/commandandconquer (ie https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/ct1oz8/r...).
> You should look into one, because they're the best engineering laptop on the market.

Dell Precision line may not have the great TP keyboard, but otherwise it's hard to beat a 7740, for example, performance-wise. If anything the Thinkpad P73 and Precision 7740 are similar spec-wise (7740 has marginally faster processor i9-9880HK vs. i9-9880H, and GPU, RTX 5000 vs. 4000), with the P73 coming in at 1lb heavier.

Though you'll pay through the nose for the 7740 with maxed out specs. Just for kicks I configured the following machine:

CPU: i9-9880HK
GPU: RTX 5000
HD: 4 X 2TB SSD (RAID 0)
RAM: 128GB
SCREEN: UHD 3840 X 2160

A mere $21K USD :)
If you click through to the first to links of the post, it's really quite an eye opener.
So the population was mental hospitals and nursing homes?

They certainly isolated away exercise as a variable.
If you were working against police as a group, you may have no escape. No one will ever know.
> Remove everyone, if we must, and let something much better be built from the ashes.

This is cancel culture taken to the extreme. Now that everything is built, the builders are expendable. They're "problematic."

We're facing down a new form of puritanism that is a greater threat to civil rights than the "problematic" individuals they seek to destroy.

No defense for RMS' statement, it's absurd, but if there's no moderation whatsoever in regards to a proportionate response (eg. he's either "clean" or "unclean"), then no one else is safe as the mob ratchets up its criteria for existing as a virtuous person.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poison...

> Young children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of lead and can suffer profound and permanent adverse health effects, particularly affecting the development of the brain and nervous system. Lead also causes long-term harm in adults, including increased risk of high blood pressure and kidney damage. Exposure of pregnant women to high levels of lead can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth and low birth weight.
So....all of the problems you've mentioned, and they ARE legitimate issues....can be resolved via means other than eliminating birthright citizenship, or adopting open borders. So can we agree to attempt implementing other measures and policies first before jumping to a drastic and likely highly-disruptive policy shift?

>>>but in order to qualify for such status they need to be [almost] drown in the sea or [almost] killed at the border.

There's not much we can do about natural geography. I'm not sure what alternative course of action is suggested in the case of, say, Cuban or Haitian refugees attempting access by boat. Secondly, no one is "almost killing" refugees that show up at designated legal points of entry to the country. Finally, anyone other than Mexican citizens attempting to seek asylum/refugee status by crossing the US-Mexico border is probably in error (I wouldn't go so far as to say "not acting in good faith").

Consider this from: [1]
"Once refugees or asylum seekers have found a safe place and protection of a state or territory outside their territory of origin they are discouraged from leaving again and seeking protection in another country."

In other words, Hondurans/Guatamalans/etc... should not be transiting Mexico to seek refugee status in the US to begin with.[2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee#Restriction_of_onward_...

[2]https://www.unhcr.org/3c064aab4.html
Late to the party, but worth throwing the browser rebuild of tiberium wars out there.

- https://www.adityaravishankar.com/projects/games/command-and...
Bryan Caplan’s Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is worth a read for anyone who is taking parenting too seriously.

Developmental psychologists have brainwashed the public into thinking children can be ruined by insufficiency dedicated parenting. But for generations developmental psychologists were Lysenkoist hacks who didn’t realize their studies were confounded by basically all mental traits being extremely heritable.

The most important influence parents have on their children is at conception. If you want a smart kid, choosing a very smart mate is far more effective than any amount of mostly ineffective enrichment activities.

If you really care so much about the social status of your future children, marry well to a person high in the traits you value, preferably from a family high in said traits. Then have a lot of kids. Chances are one of them will achieve something!

Don’t get caught in the extracurricular signalling racket/cargo cult. Let the kids do what they want within reason. Public school will be fine. If you don’t want to ferry your kid around to various enrichment activities, don’t. Your time has value too. You care for your children; you do not serve them.

In most cases the kids don’t want to to do them anyway and will develop their own interests they will be far more enthusiastic about.
Communication can also be for relationship and community building
>I feel i can’t even have a reasonable conversation about diversity, ignorance, or whatever the controversy of the day is.

Conform, or else.

I mean, I don't agree with what rms said, and I think sexual degenerates should be shot in the head, but Jesus, what the fuck do I care about his stance on politics. It's not my fucking problem.
The grammar might be better as is the sentence structure(still pretty bad), but from an information/story sense it's still about as gibberish as anything like this created before. Until AI can actually experience context, I really doubt there's any way to teach it to generate convincing stories without tons of supervision.
The case for a 4-day workweek
BMI is also flawed. According to my BMI, I’m “morbidly obese”. I’m 30 pounds overweight. However when I was 10 pounds less than I am now, I was objectively tone, muscular, and had a body fat percentage of around 10%. Even now, no one (including doctors) look at me and would say that I’m “obese” and need to lose that much weight. At 10 pounds lighter I was wearing 28 regular cut pants. Where would I lose the weight from? I’m 5’5.
I wonder what the karma-cost is for calling Dang's name in vain.
Who are the people thus excluded by RMS?
largest. Hardly. Google and Facebook wins clean on this one.
For AOE fans, AOE has a DE in Steam, pretty graphics for large screens and new music, though underlying game remains the same it seems.

AOE-2 has a HD version for large screens, but DE with pretty graphics are coming this November(2019).

Even though I haven't played games for years, coming back to AOE was nostalgic and last Friday I was lost in the game for 5+ hours, still as fun as ever. (:

*DE - Definitive Edition
The supplements-aren't-necessary-advice is often the lawerly "you don't need supplements if you're not malnourished" or "if you're getting a balanced diet."

Left unsaid is my takeaway: modern agriculture has damaged our food supply to the point where a nourishing and balanced diet isn't readily available in the produce section of your local supermarket. If you're eating stunted frankenfood, you need to supplement, because you're malnourished from eating an unbalanced diet.
> Every topic is a hot potato.

Yeah, you can't even condone raping children anymore. What has the world come to?

More seriously, the point is that this topic is not enough of a hot potato if RMS is comfortable talking about it in public.
It's a pleasant writing experience. Don't even have to think about the title... meanwhile for my static site the title torments me because I need to put it there as the file name... of course I could just rename it or whatever but there's cognitive overload here (for me).
Because there is literally no train service between SF and LA—you have to go out of your way to transfer. The train stations are far outside of the city where you want to be. And our trains are SLOW. Less than 100km/h. It takes 8+ hours on a train.
Startups represent a tiny fraction of the workforce.
True, but that’s because given their revenue model, this would impact them less than the corps which have embedded their tentacles deep into personal data of their users. Adtech is, by now, addicted to people freely giving up thief data and rights to their data.

Never the less, whatever happens when the elephants wrangle, it’s good for end users.
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That's FUD.
The percentage of our waste we send is quite small. Also the percentage of these countries' waste that is imported is small (far from being the main source of trash).

And also arguably, if they buy trash to recycle and then don't it's their responsibility to see it through and ours to make sure they do.
Why can't you have a reasonable discussion?

Stallman emailed a big mailing list for a computer science department the following about a child sex trafficking victim:

"The reference reports the claim that Minsky had sex with one of Epstein’s harem…Let’s presume that was true (I see no reason to disbelieve it).
...

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing."

Is this acceptable to you?
https://github.com/zalando/connexion/

Solves most of the problems for that.
If you don't play by the same rules, you loose. What he says is that the rules need to change.
The react license had "we won't sue you for violating our patents, except if you sue us first.", which entails "if you use this, you can't sue us for violating your patents, because by using this you guarantee that we have material for a countersuit." People felt that this asymmetrically benefited Facebook. You want Facebook to be on the other side of such an agreement. If a license was made that came with an agreement that neither party can sue anyone in an offensive patent suit, it would limit the destructive power of the big players that hold all the patents.

If BatchNorm, ConvNets, LSTMs, Dropout, ReLUs or any such essential neural net component came with such a clause, I could see the big players accepting the license, especially since it aligns with their publicly stated claim that they only file patents for defensive purposes.
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I don’t buy that. Or at least I don’t buy that more are being excluded by RMS remaining vs banishment.

I think it’s easier to be inclusive by people’s preference to join rather than to try to guess about unknown groups that may be be comfortable enough to participate but since we don’t know them we can’t query them.

I don’t think RMS is scaring off good developers. I also don’t understand what kind of developer would be put off by his statements so much they would not collaborate on a project.
>No defense for RMS' statement, it's absurd, but if there's no moderation whatsoever in regards to a proportionate response (eg. he's either "clean" or "unclean"), then no one else is safe as the mob ratchets up it's criteria for existing as a virtuous person.

What more proportionate response would you suggest?

So far, the only alternative responses I've seen offered are that Stallman is either correct or the true victim, and we should sympathize with him, respect him and let him be.
Exactly. It's an externalizing cost tactic where responsibility for something far up the production chain is shoved into the individually powerless consumer's shoes
Thinkpads do not have this crapware installed and can run Linux exceptionally well

It's still supporting a company that thinks it's OK to install crapware on their consumer machines. Machines intended for the people least able to mitigate the problem.

Even if someone's not an Apple fan, he's right to send his money to another company.
The Earth is antifragile. Studies are often hyperbolized and exaggerated. There's no evidence of some world wide decline in earthworm population.

Local populations can be impacted, but far more damaging is tilling and the commercial farm practices: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170508095152.h...
Most trips don’t actually start and end at the bus depot either.
I'm a middle age female software developer and also found similar experience when I was in the job market recently. The software development positions generally are below 2 years, under 5 years and the senior position at 6-8 years. What do you do if you have 20 years of software development experience?
People who aren’t comfortable associating with someone who defends child rape.
Seems my browser profile is flagged by default. Always some flagged or downvote shenangery every time I am in here.
Regulate yourselves, FFS. I don’t want my paid operating system to send my private information constantly to your company.
I thought this much would be obvious by now, but here we go. The people who traffic and rape children are mainly found among the filthy rich so called elite. If you want to do something about that, punching RMS won't help.

The thing about RMS is that he prefers to use his own brain and is not afraid to stand up for his views, which is an increasingly rare phenomenon. So rare that its nearly considered a crime these days.

The perpetrator is a victim, there's no doubt about that. Psychopaths aren't born, they are created through trauma in a society that doesn't give a crap about humans.
The power couple / private school saga was only the first part of a very long article. Keep reading - it gets worse. Way worse.
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How about call him an asshole, let him learn from his mistake (or not) and move on?
Except for security. You still have to.worry about that part of the infrastructure.
Why can't big tech self-regulate? Why must it always be a solution that depends on big government instead? Why should anyone trust the government given the last few thousand years of history?
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I am an non-CS engineer who wants to transition into a developer job. I am aware that certifications play a small (if any) role in a candidate chances, but I want to cover all my angles. Since I would like a position more oriented to the backend in Elixir/Ruby, certifications related to that area would be more relevant. But I am willing to hear all ideas. Ideally it would be best if the certification could be: 1) Free or not that expensive. 2) Can be taken online or worldwide. 3)Have some recognition. As now I have my focus is on 2 , the AWS practitioner cert, and the EDB PSQL associate cert. Any of you have taken them?
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Although this flicker would indeed be necessary for a 100% accurate reproduction, I'm not sure that is really the thing that current CRT shaders are missing for feeling "just right". After all, the linked example image feels very convincing and yet is static.
Quit using software you can't control.

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> And what? Use ‘Linux desktop’? No thank you.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing. My wife uses it. I've used it for the past decade. XFCE is fully featured, smooth, and very light-weight. Others have been great too. Want software? Just install it with the package manager. Games? I used to run them in a windows VM when I really wanted to.
Same here. I was quite surprised by the anecdote in the article about the person going into anaphylactic shock after having milk spilled on her hand.
The issue isn't one problematic statement. It's a history of behaviour that's documented to have driven multiple people away from the free software community and an absolute unwillingness on his part to do anything about it. If your movement's leadership acts in a way that hurts the movement, what's the appropriate response? Everything short of pushing RMS out has been tried already.