skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is Chinese and Chinese people are the same way. Families treat resources in a much more communal way than my UK family, but also outside the family networking and personal social bonds are crucial to getting things done and finding new business opportunities.

I suspect this is how it is across most of the world though. If you can't rely on 'society' and particularly the government or legal system, you find ways to rely on each other instead. In the 'developed world' those social bonding muscles have atrophied away.
Cooperation Is Key
I devop proprietary software for proprietary hardware and still couldn't do much without people advocating free or at least open software and can acknowledge the importance. I try to give that back, even if that is only through teaching juniors.
> “the maintainers" (i.e., Lennart and friends)

Huh what? The Debian discussion was completely in the open, and I recommend reading it, so you know why people choose systemd.

There was no Lennart’s influence, everyone was their own people. No one had red hat agenda. All they wanted a better init system, it ended up being a choice between systemd and upstart, and systemd won with a small margin. A later GR vote across thousands of debian debs confirmed the decision.

Really, why do those theories gets repeated? We are not talking about commercial companies and back room office politics, it is all in the open.
minsky refused to have sex with the girl, there's an eye witness corroborating it.

The very least you can do is get your facts straight.
Not all projects are concerned with speed and cost. Our in-house CRM has a total of 4 users and is probably used for about a total of 2 hours per working day. Server less is a pretty good fit.
remind me to never work for your company.
Catalogues weren't much different many years ago. The fact that sears totally missed the boat on e-commerce is nothing short of astounding.
Ballmer is an opportunist, pure and simple. When it suited him Linux was a cancer, and when it no longer suited him he 'loved Linux'. If the wind should ever change Linux will for sure be a cancer again.
Their spectra look like giant burning balls of gas, though. I guess it's possible to hide one inside a star in theory?
This is an example of "the settings problem". When a system has even a moderate number of behaviors controlled by their respective settings the number of possible interactions rises exponentially. Combine that with different possible user behaviors and you get a combinatorial explosion of possibilities with some weird results that are non-obvious even to experts.
Can free will be a scientific idea?
Except the incentives are aligned to be a Hobbesian war of all against all. There is no incentive to collaborate or team up at all.

Ever wonder why shows like Survivor and Battle Royale games are so popular? That's how office life is these days. Nobody is ever "in your corner" as you put it. Everyone is always and forever trying to gut everyone else in a neverending zero sum game.

Unless you work in a new/high growth field or something, then collaboration can have benefits, but in most static corporate environments, the only gain you have is from someone else's detriment.
as an observer from the sidelines (i was contributing to the OLPC development but never involved in any deployment) my guess is this: if there was a proper theoretical constructionist framework then it failed because of the resistance of the existing educational system.

in other words, a constructionist model may work in a situation where kids are left to themselves, but it may not work if there is a competing educational system that doesn't allow the kids to take advantage of the opportunities the constructionist model provides.

personally though i am skeptical that a pure constructionist approach will enable the children to achieve their maximum potential, and any successes of it are in comparison to a failing traditional model.
Kim Jong is too wrapped up trying to keep power back home that he can't make a German/European crazy hair brained scheme to try and take over the world.

Building an informant culture in your populace and threatening collective gulagging on the rebel's family doesn't quite have the same flair as tying the rebel to a table with a slow moving laser aimed at his junk.
Do you expect me to talk? No Mr Bond! I expect you to die!
I guess the question is: how often have airlines/tour companies been at the brink like this and pulled through?

If the answer is “close to zero”, we need to rethink this privilege.
Are they expected to continually monitor the linked website? What happens if they add the link and then a week later something "bad" is added to some sub-page of the linked website?
> Nothing in software is all that novel these days, IMO.

There is surely truth in this. But also, almost nothing is novel if you watch at the new stuff with the same mindset of the past.

It is wise to realize that most new stuff was already invented, but it is also wise to understand that the surrounding might have changed more than you realize.

(Talking out of my own ass here, just in philosophical terms)
HTML and CSS are content, not software (they're not executables) - they're like DOC or PDF.
I got hit by a car while on my bike earlier in the summer. If nothing else, that solved 100% of my co-worker small talk for the next three months.
App Engine is a PaaS, not serverless/FaaS
Nope. Almost all US aid is in the form of military equipment, and , incidentally, 75% must be spent on US-made armaments. So it's more like aid to the US military-industrial complex.
“...if I don’t signal my understanding in the same way you do – you’ll just keep talking, imagining I don’t get it.”

I like to hear someone's thought and then digest on it. If my partner in conversation just keeps on re-explaining his or her thoughts, thinking is halted. I have to keep on filtering what is said, even if it's basically the same thing repeated, to make sure I didn't miss something. The end result is that my partner speaks three or four times as much as he or she needs to, and I am left understanding less than if the thought was said to me once with a little time to think afterward.
[A] Woman [having been] treated by doctors most certainly is the story here.
I think that the project failed because it ignored the political aspects of the education system. The $100 laptop was a distraction. A fundamental aspect of the project was to rethink education in relationship with technology.

I suspect 1/100 or 1/500 or some similar number of people will be extraordinary autodidacts and, if you give them sufficient baseline education and an Internet-connected computer, they will get extraordinary results. I've worked on numerous 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) proposals that were supposed to get computers and the Internet in US schools from 2000 onwards. That effort has largely succeeded and not been a panacea.

Today I still ban laptops in class: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract... because they seem to detract from learning, on the net.
Offtopic nitpick:

>Addresses are encoded in Base32 which means there are 32 characters available. So there are 32^16=1.208925819614629174706176×10^24 addresses available.

I sorta understand what you mean, technically it's 32 characters per position (5 bits), and 16 positions.
In v2 .onion addresses, that is.

v3 ones [1] are 56 positions, but not all the bits are used for addressing, so the same formula wouldn't quite work to calculate real theoretical capacity.
IIRC someone already made site which generates unlimited links to v3 addresses (without having them lead to anywhere, of course).

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/NextGenOni...
Reflecting back over my career, I think I can safely say that my most brilliant moments of engineering insight lay buried in code like this -- invisible and unknown, probably for the rest of time.

The idea that some day, some researcher may reverse-engineer one of these things tickles me.
I know a suprising number of people 10-20 years older than me who regularly use desktop computers but do not understand what a window is e.g.: that windows can cover each other up, and that there are special places you must grab or click them to either resize or move them, that you can shrink them into a dock without closing the application etc.

Rather ironic considering that the operating system they all use is actually named after this, for them, inscrutable abstraction.

Those guys at Apple knew what they were on to when they created iOS with its one app at a time paradigm, even if it is slowly adding all that complexity back in to the more recent versions.
I disagree with your comment. Not every workload is well suited to serverless, and there will always be companies who have both the infrastructure and knowledge to not use serverless.
Source: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/doing-more-protec...
Might not necessarily mean they are _physically_ stranded.

Booking holidays often means scheduling time off work, around children's school holidays, when prices are reasonable, etc. Not always a trivial task.

Having those plans abruptly cancelled in this manner where they need to not only get a refund for any money paid, but to also try and make alternative arrangements on their own and cover any difference in cost out of their own pocket is effectively leaving them stranded in a sense.
As opposed to Jobs?
7+ billion people will do that. We're headed for the die off.
every good will project ignore politics, marketing, and reality and fails miserably

tough
I guess I'm just with Heinlein on this one: Specialization is for insects. Interdependence is great if you can [currently] afford it. I sometimes pay someone to do something that I know I can do myself. I consider it a guilty luxury. But what's the plan if you run into hard times? When money stops magically appearing? Stop driving because you don't know how to keep your car functioning? Wear dirty, wrinkled clothing because you can't do laundry? Stop eating because you can't cook?

Being able to transform money into convenience is a great benefit of living in a modern inter-connected society. But it's only great while it lasts, and relying on always having this ability is a risky move. When my parents ran into hard times they raised and slaughtered hogs. When things got better we stopped. I don't think I'd be alive today if they didn't have that know how.
This is still the best essay I have read on the topic: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-...

I've left Silicon Valley since I read it. And having read it, I hope to never move back.
Stallman has always been a neckbeard and either the industry grows up and shows some responsibility (which means kicking out or massively restrain the neckbeards) or it's going to be held liable itself for their actions.
> Simply hand-waving -- this is running on somebody else's server is not going to make the auditors happy.

Are you joking? Outsourcing compliance critical parts of your environment is the raison d'être of huge swaths of the enterprise IT landscape.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/

Can you imagine how much that page costs in terms of getting the audits, developing the processes & procedures internally to execute on the requirements, etc?

That's not hand-waving away concerns: it's paying a premium to know your infrastructure was managed in scope of whichever compliance regime your business falls under, and to get attestations that prove to your auditors that things are indeed being done properly.
I quiz people on how their part of the company is going. "So, are we making our quarter"? "What does the world think about our company?" "Did we really get the CD system working like it's supposed to?"

People love talking about their areas, and I get some intel on the company I work for.
I'm guiding myself in life after this saying: There’s actually no such thing as waste.

I totally agree that that kind of industry could help feed a growing human population in a way that’s less damaging to the environment.

We are making progress!
I wonder if it's a generational thing but it seems to me that people nowadays have forgotten that you can host more than one site or database per server. Failing that shared hosting still offers amazing value if you don't need anything to weird e.g. someone like Bluehost or Hostgator offers unlimited* sites + databases for about $5/month
Sustainable fisheries are largely a win/win scenario, especially where oysters are concerned.

(I don't like eating them personally, that said, but that's a taste thing.)
Oh right - they're still pretending to not like a strong federal government on some issues.
More Hidden App Malware Found on Google Play with over 2.1M Downloads
The users could at least fix the bugs and document the APIs better (via reading the code) than it's currently done on MSDN. Sounds like free labor for Microsoft BTW.
Aren’t you replacing systemd with run_rc_command? This is just as opinionated, but with less features.

(In particular, will the error be logged if the program fails to start due to bad config file? And how do I describe “only start once “volume X” is mounted?j)
More topical was the fuel efficiency at the time

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/aug...

Estimates were that 25% of American tires were underinflated, wasting 2.8 billion gallons of gasoline every year.
Scientists are attempting to boost plant photosynthesis efficiency
at what scale? the problem with the cost of OLPC laptops was lack of scale.
I know I'm showing my age here, but I still think that the answer to this question should be "none". I still think that if your website or web application doesn't work without JS, then you've made a mistake in either your design or implementation. Worse, you're making unwarranted assumptions about what sort of hardware, software, and connection they're using. This is not to say that you must not use JavaScript, but when I see that a site isn't using JS for progressive enhancement, but is instead JS-dependent, then I assume that the developers are up to something nefarious.
And plenty have insta-shutdown and said “ooops, sorry about all your data. We regret not telling you sooner (not that we would have). Here’s the address of our $350/hr insolvency firm (which will be deducted from any compensation). Good luck!”
Happy First Day of Fall Best Time to Fall in Love with Dapps
> And you left out the part where I said “and there is a demand”. There is no demand for someone who can remove a tire but not install it....

Well, then that's simply the claim that markets solve all problems optimally ... which is equally bullshit?

> Every specialization is about knowing the level of integration and specialization.

So ... specialization is always better, except when it's not? Yeah, duh!? How exactly does that help us with determining what the right level of integration and specialization is?
Open-Source Seeds
Learn to play either the piano or guitar.

I've played the former since I was a child and apart from the benefits to your brain and skillset, the muscular development in the fingers (esp the ring and pinkie) greatly enhances overall finger/hand strength, stretching, dexterity, tone, and vascularity – especially as you age.

Pick up martial arts if you can.

I practice Karate but hairline fractures in the knuckles are a bit of a risk due to the hard nature of the style. I recommend something a bit more fluid like Kung Fu or Jiu Jitsu to increase overall strength and mobility for the fingers, hands, and wrists.

Use Kettlebells, and do swings.

I use KB's almost exclusively and they help to build gripping strength and stability for both the hands and forearms. Kettlebell swings specifically help to strengthen the posterior chain and correct bad posture – which is crucial for those of us who are sitting in front a screen for most of the day. It's also an excellent form of high-intensity interval training that won't take up much of your time.

Use Epsom salts.

A few times a week I'll mix some Epsom salts in a basin of lukewarm water and let my hands soak for up to 15 minutes. Very therapeutic.

Take Collagen protein.

I make my own bone broth using a slow cooker– cheap and easy. Collagen is highly beneficial for joints and ligaments, including of course the wrist, elbows, fingers, etc. You can also get the tabs or powder too if that's easier than making broth.
internal motivation == introvert == aspergers? got some stats on that?
"ceci est un point NOIR -->" ... "<-- BLANC" is hilarious, because it is of course wrong in an inverted medium.
I nodded at first, but something rubs me the wrong way.

I don't know if you intended it, but I read this a little defeatist. I also agree countries will forever jostle their power against each other, because there is no higher court to take complaints.

But there is no unwritten law which says we must let our spy orgs spy completely unfettered on their own citizens. If we let them do that, we might just as well give them the keys to the kingdom. Democracy will die, the feedback loop between corrupt leaders and the three letter orgs will eventually be to strong and everything will be a charade until there is no need for even the pretense of rule of law.

This is the danger we are fighting. (With mixed success I think.)
> Edit: Just a reminder that, only a week ago, this man was fired for using a technology forum to defend a 74 year old man having sex with a 17 year old prostitute on pedophile island.

You're spreading lies, whether or not you're aware of it.

The man has resigned (most likely being forced out) for being pedantic about an accusation about a 74 year old man, that allegedly - and in fact not at all, if the actual witness testimony is to be believed - had sex with a 17 year old prostitute. And that was in response to another e-mail that used that same technology forum to spread aforementioned accusation.

Regardless of what you think of RMS, and whether or not he got what he deserved considering the history of his past behavior, please do not spread misinformation.
My first goto database is always SQLite. Only when SQLite is unable to handle the requirements, for example, too many writes, do I look at PostgreSQL.
And the CAA got a lot of experience with this with Monarch.

But I doubt they’re happy about that experience.
It was during the 2008 campaigns with high fuel prices; He was ridiculed for the simplicity by the right, but the NHSTA estimated that 25% of American tires are under-inflated at a cost of 2.8 billion gallons of gasoline every year.
Anyone interested in the "creating money" aspect of banks should definitely read a paper called "The Monetary Basis of Bank Supervision" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3421232).
the FAA not taking a stance doesn't mean that the airlines can't mandate it individually. I thought it was an FAA thing to have the shades up during landing to let in light during a crash to let people see inside the plane but I guess that's not a regulation.
serverless is just servers_over_there :'). same shitty security. just a bit flexible pricing which might or might not benifit people depending on the pricing model and load averages / paterns.

most excuses people give for going serverless is just handing off responsibilities to cloud providers to be able to point and blame if the shit hits the fan.
Nations developed different set of laws. Nations with simpler laws make it simpler to take risk. To run business means take risk, but you will never win if you have state as your enemy.

I say this from experience, was living in both over bureaucratised country with such complex regulations that even bureaucrats could not follow. In such country your business relies on mood/honesty of public servant who handles you. I was also living in the country where I have not heard from state for 7 years while I was running my business there. I was paying my fair share of taxes and state was not throwing roadblocks under my legs.

After a bit of thinking I'd also stress out how important juridical system is. If you have to wait 10 years for ruling you will be definitely more risk averse.
But you are often focused on the present moment, not thinking about the future or the past - which is one thing that most mindfulness training seems to teach.
> I sometimes wonder if I’m broken when I see comments like yours

I'd wager a guess that most of us feel broken, some way or another. But that's just a guess; I imagine that some psychology or sociology journal has empirical data on that.

But even if you're an outlier, it seems like you're pretty content and not making other people miserable, so I wouldn't really call that "broken".
This is a very compassionate take. I generally find that anything sufficiently complex can't be communicated with constant interruption, which limits communicating with interrupters to the point that I don't care to do it. I like to think I can handle myself in social situations where there's an interrupter present, but if someone interrupts me frequently I'll usually not go out of my way to interact with that person.

There are many cases where the attributes I find most intolerable in others are actually the attributes I find most intolerable in myself, and this is one. What it comes down to for me is that as a kid I was praised a lot for my intelligence so I subconsciously see intelligence as my social value, so my tendency is to always be trying to show how intelligent I am as a social proof. Among the many frustrating habits that come out of this is interrupting to show I've understood something quickly. I've gotten a lot better about this over the years, but still catch myself doing it sometimes. So I appreciate the author's compassionate view.
You are describing how a few people make a healthy living in the terminal->web market!
Besides getting a good ergonomic keyboard and taking frequent breaks like other comments mentioned here, moderate strength training exercise is a must. I gave up strength training and focused on just running for the last 3 years. Running was the only exercise I did. I was in shape and had good general health but my neck and shoulder and back really bothered me. My family doctor suggested that I incorporate strength training into my routine. So, I bought a few dumbbells and a bench for my home gym. I haven’t had a stiff neck or sore shoulders, back for a couple of months now (knocking on wood). I hope this is the cure for our profession.
FWIW I bought one when G1G1 was still around ... I used to use it for Skype, which actually worked pretty well.

Pulled it out of storage recently and my 6 year old daughter enjoys playing around with the music apps. I also installed FakeNES. It works, and you can map the screen-side buttons, but unfortunately they don't seem to want to work at the same time so it's terrible for actually controlling.

Incredibly, the battery still holds a charge, but only for about an hour or so.
But the pricing power TC had over them had been eroded.

When there’s less demand, but the same supply, price has to give.
One might say because as opposed to despite?
Here's the full PDF https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082L...
As someone who worked a lot of low-end and blue collar jobs before getting into software, small talk with coworkers is a whole lot easier in the former environment.

There is so much petty politics and ego in the modern office that all it takes is saying one thing that someone doesn't like to cause potentially years of unnecessary drama.

One gossipy sociopath who's trusted by your manager, that doesn't like something you said during small talk, or who didn't like the look in your eyes when they mentioned a strong political view, can limit your ability to get promoted.

People just talk anything and everything in blue collar jobs and nobody cares. I think that's because nobody has their ego wrapped up in how well they mop a floor or flip a burger.
We can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator
GitHub did make https://choosealicense.com , which is intended to help like this.
What did we trade Stallman for, hypothetical competent women?