skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is an interesting example of using careful wording to paint one side as maximally sympathetic and the other as maximally unsympathetic. It's the kind of thing that should be read in high school classes to help train critical thinking.

In the beginning, there is not much information, but an extraordinary amount of editorialization, where neutral things get adjectives slapped onto them to make the reader know what side they're supposed to be on. I went through and collated them:

> dutiful compliance occupying communities mostly white deeply unusual isolated campus imperial fashion latest conquest snatched up alarming sinister in its own image manipulation tiny technotopia

In the middle, there's the classic catch-22. Facebook is causing gentrification and "displacing families" when its employees move into poor communities. But when its employees choose to move in elsewhere, it is an "isolated" "tiny techtopia" that is "excluding the communities from their wealth". As usual you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Later, it finally concedes that bikes actually are constantly stolen from Facebook, which is the whole point of its actions in the first place, but goes to great lengths to avoid calling it stealing:

> "You have an extremely poor community that is being flooded with toys of wealth, and these things are going to happen"

> "teens in low-income areas [...] should not be detained or ticketed for, say, using a Facebook bicycle to get to school"

> "[parents should not have to worry] about their kids having a bad interaction with the police over a stupid bike"

I live in Menlo Park (though not a tech employee) and almost had my bike stolen last week. I would be pissed off if the police caught the thief and let them off because it's "a stupid bike". It's how I commute, I can't function without it, and I can't just buy another one.

In the end I can't find any reason to be upset -- I don't think there's a difference between ~10,000 Menlo Park residents independently complaining to the police about theft, and Facebook (who hires ~10,000 Menlo Park residents) merely collating them. Facebook isn't getting a say in Menlo Park affairs because it's a big corporation, it's because its employees make up a significant share of the population. That is fair.
The duck curve is a non-problem, just like all the predictions from the same era that 5, 10, 15, 20, 25% was the absolute limit that renewables could provide without totally overhauling the grid.

That number has continually risen as grids just did it and blew past the imagined limits.

California now has a mandate for 100% clean energy which makes "we can't turn our gas plants on fast enough a few days a year to avoid curtailing some renewables" seem ridiculously parochial.

On those high renewable, low demand days in the future there will be plenty of responsive demand to soak it up. Free car charging for anyone plugged into a socket for example.
Interestingly enough the color palette doesn't appear for me :)
> I hate doing a healthy thing. I don't want to do it. But when I do, I feel momentously better afterwards.

Ah yes, that's familiar.
That's how I think about it, and that's hopefully how a lot of people think about it, but I suspect for most people that's not true. For a lot of people debt isn't nearly as scary as it ought to be, and the idea of, instead of paying off debt, spending money to theoretically make more money seems like much more of a sure thing than it actually is.

Perfect example: I'm in SV, and I bet there's a not insignificant slice of the population around me who think that the cure to budget deficits (i.e., debt) is to reduce income by cutting taxes, based on a mystical belief never seen in reality that the growth fueled by the tax cuts will result in both lower taxes for the population and higher tax revenues for the government (i.e., investment).

I'm almost 50 years old, and there has never been one iota of truth to this notion in my lifetime. Not one teeny tiny iota. But some people just can't resist going back to that well over and over again with the same results every time. The notion that you can kill two birds with one stone, and both ignore debt and create wealth at the same time via magic Austrian fairy dust must be very powerful. It's like a black hole of self-evident idiocy that people keep flying into for some reason. It must be a form of cognitive bias, but if so I don't know what to call it.
Would it?

I thought about a bunch of small satellites with mirror foil.
The problem today is solved, almost universally, with high-carbon fracked natural gas plants. This is cheap in current markets and incredibly effective from a technological standpoint. As we recognize climate change as a problem, this solution loses credibility, but yet, there it is.

I don't think people are recognizing how hard it is to deeply decarbonize with intermittent energy sources, and so I have to disagree. I think this problem is too often brushed aside as a non-issue by renewable energy optimists.
I've been sort of jumping between jobs, many of which are remote, and others which are in different places from home base.

You need to CALL friends, not text. It helps significantly.
What is Startpage?
I can't help but wonder if the "Golden Years" is just selection bias. CEOs who are under-performing years 6-10 will get fired or step down, and only the really good ones will make it to 11+ years.
Each of those has major problems.

Water heating is usually natural gas.

Electric vehicle charging during the day prevents charging at home. So employers would need to come on board paying for charging stations with employee parking. And shopping malls, schools, etc.

Heating is also usually natural gas, and while cooling is almost universally electric, it doesn't take very long minutes to a very few hours) in hot weather to consume any reasonable pre-cooling.
I’m not seeing the productivity gains anyway, buddy, I work for minimum wage and you’re barking up the wrong tree.

Growth doesn’t matter if it doesn’t reach the people.
Offshore wind power started off in areas with shallow seas, it's only now getting around to floating wind that would suit California.
Paying for various expenses with apple pay feels downright magical. I love it and use it constantly. But I don't want currency to go away outright. There are definite perks. The biggest one for me is that I'm much more cognizant of much I'm spending when I have a physical representation of my money in my pocket. I'm less inclined to overspend when I have physical cash.
It is fair to say that a lot of people might be uncomfortable stopping at a new restaurant with no cars parked outside and nobody eating inside. Even if someone told you it was good, you start second guessing, wondering why they don't have any business.

I think perhaps it's not feasible for a restaurant business to always have some people but not be crowded. If there are some customers most of the time, then it's going to be very crowded when it's busiest.
Gröbner Bases and Optics (2019)
Transistor Clock
Me too, having moved half way across Canada to get a bit of a quieter home, far from where cost of living was spiralling out of control. (Vancouver BC - and it is for everyone there, pretty much).

Oh I have a family and have set up house, and that helps a lot. I'm still finding community and roots and trying to remember what I like doing when not working .. but I already know I like working with hands so that helps direct me some already.
so I'm slowly teaching child sewing (as I slowly remember how to, myself).
What I don't understand is why Purism and other vendors try to invent their own operating system instead of using Android or its parts which is:

- designed by smart engineers from Google

- well-tested and maintained

- well-documented

- has development tools and debuggers with GUI, not text-only GDB

- uses GPU

- has permissions and isolation for apps which Debian doesn't have

- has several app stores including FDroid and lots of apps made by independent developers

Why don't they want to use at least Dalvik and userspace software like Phone or Calendar? Nobody is going to rewrite thousands of applications like Youtube, Telegram, Maps or Happy Farm for Debian. Debian is nowhere near as polished as Android.

For example, I watched a video about Pine64 which uses Ubuntu and UI doesn't look well-designed, the icons are hidden away from desktop, the thing that pulls down from top of screen looks inconvenient to use etc. It would be better if they just ripped iPhone's UI.

Are there some technical or licensing issues or is it just because someone doesn't like Google and everything they do? Is writing in Java less productive than in C/C++/GTK or whatever they use in Ubuntu?

UPD: Also 3 Gb of RAM might be not enough for Debian/Ubuntu based OS.
A wrapper around Google search. Supposed to be: great results, no tracking, respect for privacy.
Or some of my favourites:

“What is a number? Do numbers exist?”

I’ve been having a fantastic time in my philosophy of math course this term. It’s incredible how deep and how long these debates have been running. Cantor, Frege, Russell, Hilbert, Heyting, Gödel, Quine, and on and on!
I love the metaphor of technical debt - you take it on with your eyes open, and sometimes you chose to pay it down.

But... in larger engineering organizations I've found that "paying off technical debt" isn't actually a particularly useful goal - because teams can use it as an excuse to work on pretty much anything!

If a team spends three months rewriting some code into a different style that they prefer, is that a useful pay down of debt?

So - I prefer more targeted debt repayment. The best approach I've seen so far is to focus on "get rid of duplicate systems". If you have two systems that solve a particular problem and you knock that down to one, you're guaranteed to have improved things - and it's very easy to explain to non-technical stakeholders why having one system is better than having to maintain two.
what a dismal dark musical world this invokes. I suppose this works for people who don't actually listen to music in any sort of appreciably observant fashion.

I get that some people basically just vibe along with music and don't hear the harmonic movement, the intervals, the tones of the instruments.

This point of view gives zero credence the possibility of any actually original music.
Back then technology could set more boundaries than today. Most of these old mainframe systems I have worked with, use batch jobs (running at night when the system is offline) today being offline is often not acceptable and the users can't wait until the next job to have their data in the system.

But I agree that being conservative with pulling in new technologies and dependencies, new and good is not the same.

I think the biggest thing with tech dept is communication. We can do this in 1 sprint but then it will cost more in the future. If business always choose the quick matter how you put it and explain when it causes problems, yeah... :(
> Anyway, I have lost 30 karma points even having this discussion so this will be my last comment on this.

FWIW, you seemed polite and coherent to me and I wouldn't have downvoted your post even if I could. I try not to let karma-seeking affect my more serious posts (though I do purposefully take downvotes as a signal of what sorts of humor are acceptable by community standards), and I think it's generally a loss when somebody gets downvoted into oblivion for politely sharing a perspective I disagree with.
Except that they are making progress. They've upstreamed some import work to the kernal, they've contributed to phosh and libhandy. They clearly aren't working as fast as they (or many others) would like, but they are working. And not many other people are.

I also support hardware projects like ZeroPhone, Pine Phone, and the Dragonbox Pyra and software projects like Plasma Mobile. When I saw Purism articulate a vision for what a phone could be I had to support them too.

I wish they collaborated and communicated better, and I wish they had made some different decisions regarding the stack, but at the end of the day they are slowly moving the ball forward. But when I gave them $600 I did it partly because they had a vision that I valued and I wanted to signal to others that it is a vision worth investing in.

So I'm disappointed when I hear these reports, but I'm still supporting them because they are part of a very small community doing very important work. And since it's free software, it's not work that's going to waste, it can always be picked up by someone else. That's part of why it's so important.
Instead of having built in lists, it dynamically tries to track the trackers and block domains/cookies it thinks are trying to track you.
Of course, if you like to lie to outsiders so they don't really don't know how fcked your code is, it is a better term, along with:

-calling "restructuring the debt" when you are broke

-"negative growth" when the economy goes down

-"let people go" when you fire people

-"termination of pregnancy" to tear off the head of a fetus while she is alive.

Technical debt is the necessary bad that programmers create because of live's realities.

The only problem is that when you start telling lies to others, you could end up believing it yourself.

Also the people you tell lies to could get fed up of your constant lies, distrust you and consider you just a piece of crp,just like politicians.
I classed that as something for the XML community to prioritize because implementations are so important to adoption for standards. If you design standards and want them to be used, at some point you need to figure out how to get resources to support development of key implementations, help major projects migrate to alternative implementations[1], or develop a replacement if nothing better is available.

The fragmentation you mentioned is part of what made this so frustrating: if everything you used was within certain toolchains, the experience was fairly good but then you'd need to use a different ecosystem and either drop back to good old XPath 1 or take on more technical debt. In many cases, the answer I saw people favor was leaving the XML world as quickly as possible, which is something the community has a strong interest in.

1. For example, Saxon added support for Python just a few days ago: https://www.saxonica.com/saxon-c/release-notes.xml Imagine if that had happened a decade ago and everyone who was stuck with libxml2 could have easily switched?
Whatever you may consider to be an evaluation of it - for "looking at a fractal image" the pixel value is computed based on properties of the fractal at that particular magnification at that particular location.
Yes, Google does offer such a (paid) API, that is what Startpage uses.
> I perceive that they often get lumped into a third category (that isn't male or female)

This is what I mean by the "uncanny valley of gender". Some people, btw, do identify as non-binary and intentionally wish to be seen as neither male nor female. For most people, even transgender ones such as myself, people pick a gender and then unconsciously roll with that in how they relate. When people can't figure out which way to relate, it can make them uncomfortable and cause friction.

> Strangers will be completely natural towards a non-obvious transsexual (where acquantances might not), but then a stranger that becomes a friend will struggle later when they find out they have been "deceived" (which subjectively can't be argued with?). Surely that must cause a lot of friction.

They haven't been deceived! I am a woman, and the type of woman I am is transgender. While it does surprise people, in my experience, it's just kind of an interesting point and then we move on. If it's not a sexual context it really has nothing to do with anything, and so people don't care - they just keep using script they initially picked. Similar to my age - most people think I'm in my 20s, but I'm in my late 30s. They're surprised, but it doesn't change anything so we go on.

> As far as the study went, they would have to find a subgroup that worked as female (or v.v.) without anyone at work knowing or finding out (remaining cryptic at all times). Even then, there is a sampling bias for only those people that act on their feelings and have major surgery, and presumably a major emotional disruption to life for most of those.

This is very true. Transgender people have to feel that they can transition, and a great many don't. I haven't seen any study (and I'm not sure how you'd even construct one) between transgender people who seek transition and those that don't. I definitely live in a much more acceptable environment (in San Francisco) and had the financial, social, and emotional means to do it. A lot of people lack in some of those areas and suffer, sometimes greatly as a result. Access to transgender medicine varies tremendously.

> Is the divide wider than that between a "pretty" woman and an "ugly" one (sorry again, awful word choice, but I don't know how to rewrite that so the meaning stays clear).

I would say yes. Again, it's (in my perception) that uncanny valley of gender. An unattractive woman is still seen as a woman (though her social value is often greatly diminished by it). Whereas non-passable transwomen people aren't clear how to relate to, and it makes them feel uncomfortable.

> sorry if transsexuals is an offensive term, I'm using what my peer group would use, and I have no idea how to safely use the words you use.

Transsexual is a term that's dated to the point where it comes off as ignorant. We use "Transgender" as a blanket, inclusive term (not everyone changes their genitals, which is what makes it preferable to "transsexual").
> So... They have "shipped" and still haven't?

That's also clarified in the blog post. Sorry, I haven't posted the link before: https://puri.sm/posts/supplying-the-demand/

> Where are the flattened schematics with the i.MX8MQ SOC and RAM onboard? So far, I haven't been able to find them.

They are and will be available to anyone owning the phone, just like I said in the previous post.

You said:

> even the dev units have no details on their construction

so I showed you the full open sourced design.

You said

> the community can't get in there to help.

so I proved that anyone with the willpower can engage. Now you're complaining that people don't want to engage. By saying:

> the only contributors I've ever seen are [...] -- not someone with a dev board who doesn't work at Purism.

you're moving the goal posts and making me look wrong.

> Ahh, my apologies then. My memory must have failed me. Glad to be corrected!

See, that's the problem with your posts here. I'd much rather have you get corrected by asking questions at the community channels, which are frequently answered by engineers rather than post under-researched false things on unrelated forums. By posting wrong things, you're undermining the project, which you yourself claim to support.
It's trying to be like neofetch for showing off your terminal theme on /r/unixporn
im curious - why not insert from table value list instead of multiple insert statements in your fixtures population? Does this not work well in Postgres?
I thought about this too, but had the impression that only mirroring a bit of sunlight around would be cheaper and safer.
I think Matt Levine made a good point, whether or not he was being serious - regardless of what you think of Neumann ethically, he, like an effective short-seller, provided valuable information to the market in the process of profiting for himself. The outcome seems to be that (a) WeWork is no longer going to waste money like it was, and (b) other investors and businesses may be deterred from following in their footsteps. The loss in purported market value is just the difference between the dreams of mania and their deflation.

As they say, if you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a terrible warning.
>that’s my own business

And I’m saying that by not engaging with people you disagree with based on politics in your personal life you are shirking your civic duty. It’s selfish, short sighted, and intellectually dishonest behavior. Seriously reconsider because it reveals a certain closed mindedness and breeds partisanship and tribalism in others; things I’m guessing you aren’t for based on parent comments.

I think a business is a business, it has its own charter to follow and it seems fair that it’s within the abilities of that charter to limit the speech of at-will employees to some extent.

I can’t believe Google is putting up with this behavior from employees, and makes me think their hiring process needs a rework and reaffirms the feeling I have that Google has a culture of immaturity. It just seems like a personal attention grab to me on the part of the Googlers. They should leave if they feel so strongly. People who really think the people they work for are evil defect, possibly after leaking information or making a mess, but usually posthaste. Google is letting them make a mess right now.
I know we're thinking focused on cars, but fwiw:
"China has 99% of the world’s 250 million electric two-wheelers."
The saying that's now prevalent at utility conferences is, "In the past, we'd forecast load and deploy generation. In the future, we'll forecast generation and deploy load."
I mean the first case, CE mark on a product that doesn't conform to CE requirements.
As CS people who love uniformity and abstraction, this idea of objects everywhere is very appealing. But concretely, what actually are you restricted from doing today? I question the tangible executions of this into a variety of everyday examples versus one or two talking points.
Is still double. Look at it one piece at a time, you shrink a square to half the size, now you store 2 in the same area.

That math you show has no basis, prob just you confusing area math instead of looking at it at a simplistic way
> Volume 2 contained longer documents - what this article calls tutorials, how-tos, and explanations.

Looks like this one: https://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/
I was told once that even tiny amounts of alcohol affect Minesweeper performance. That's different from programming, though.
I very much agree with you! It is a bit of a backhanded compliment, but is ultimately ingratiating our predecessors.