skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how the different generations process authority and media messaging

The big difference is that the current generation gets it's information from Instagram/..., from peers, not authority, thus at the same time they can be skeptical of authority while totally believing whatever circulates on Instagram (for example the recent fake fact how "Amazon, the lungs of the planet, are burning", the fake fact being that Amazon generates 20% of the world oxygen)
I recently bought 'Talking with tech leads' by Patrick Kua. Very applicable to tech companies
Not an economist either, but my impression is that the USA is no longer seen as a serious, reliable ally.

If you displease the USA economically you may get tariffs, but then, if you don't you may get tariffs too, because the President is tweeting in bad mood, or because America first, or whatever random reason. So why even bother?

Also note that Brexit has increased the cohesion of the rest of the EU. The UK government with their ludicrous attitude has managed to make all other EU countries agree, euroskeptic movements have been largely discredited by the utter chaos that is Brexit, and there's also the fact that the UK itself always acted as a roadblock vetoing integration policies, and a pro-USA influence in the EU. So lately I'm seeing more teamplay and mutual support between EU countries than ever, which makes them stronger.
Long term I don't think western countries have much of a chance :(. Due to how political systems work in China vs the West China can easily invest in large scale long term projects and it costs them a tiny fraction to develop new or upgrade old infrastructure. Given a large enough time span this will give China a huge advantage.
What are your thoughts on this setup vs just docker+portainer on regular Ubuntu LTS, or even a dedicated Docker distro like Rancher?

I had a previous home server built around docker, and found it fiddly to get right— most of the services I wanted to deploy didn't already have containers, and there was a lot of outer config stuff to play with, getting the containers to restart properly on reboot, getting DNS to resolve them, getting the right data directories set up as binds.

But that was also in 2016, so it's likely things are a lot better now, and conversely, it's not necessarily clear that a VM-based approach would be a lot better in some of these areas.
There can be enjoyment too, either normal or masochistic.

Alleged accomplishment tickles reward centers in the brain. In most people, reward from repetitive tasks fades quickly, in some others it does not. (Perfect employees for assembly line. Except we have robots.)

A masochist instead may thrive on the discomfort of it.
Binary releases of VS.Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
My favorite is 'Multipliers'
It isn’t though. A monad is just an abstract mathematical object that satisfies a few axioms. It doesn’t have anything to do with implementations or computations, let alone objects in the OOP sense.

It’s better to think of it like this: a value in a box is one example of a data type that can satisfy the monad axioms. Another example is a delayed computation that produces a value when executed. Yet another is a delayed computation which produces no value at all but causes a message to be printed to the screen.
He's also a registered lobbyist, founded and runs Environmental Progress - essentially a pro nuclear lobby group, and is rabidly anti-renewables - inventing "facts" to make them look bad.

He does far more damage than good, and you basically can't trust a word he says or cites.
Digital Philosophy [1] is not a new idea. As per the Wikipedia article it's a re-interpretation of Monist metaphysics.

There's no easier way to say this without triggering people who haven't yet reasoned their way to these positions so I am just going to say it.

The concept of a Monad[2] in digital philosophy corresponds to the concept of God in Christian philosophy.

See Computational Trinitarianism for more [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_philosophy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(philosophy)

[3] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/computational+trinitarianism
This is ſuch a ſilly diſcusſion
I think it's the "rugged individualism" ethos at play (although maybe that is a tangent of Calvinist thinking?) - the fear that if you ask questions you will come across as inferior to your colleagues and risk losing a promotion at best or a job at worst. It's quite terrible thinking and leads to isolation which compounds anxiety at work.
It is less important than product market fit at the start. Forget accounting here.

If you are already generating revenue and there is month on month increase, then accounting is more important than product development. At this stage just hire an accountant.
In many jurisdictions, law enforcement have gray areas as to what they can ask, how they can ask it, and how they can use your answers.

Their job is to collect evidence and send it to the prosecutor. They're given wide latitude to collect it as quickly as possible, and while law enforcement and the public attorney's offices are by and large just trying to see justice done fairly, they're almost always understaffed and over-pressured.

People act weird in pressure situations. Law enforcement personnel deal with law breaking every day, but the rest of us don't. If you're innocent and confronted with an accusation of a crime, in your resulting heightened emotional state, you don't want to say something stupid or in a way that makes you look unnecessarily suspicious.

In this situation it should be ok for you to not answer questions, wait until your involuntary adrenaline reaction wears off, and then have a conversation about it.
Between this:

>Governments are the largest, most inefficient and wasteful monopolies in the world. There's zero incentive for them to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. Private sector alternatives are better the large majority of the time.

and this:

>Privatisation of essential infrastructure leads to price gouging, service failure, and cartel behaviour. There’s zero incentive for corporations to provide cost effective or reliable solutions to problems. The actual incentive is to raise the cost of the service you need to the point where you can barely afford the service, but aren’t motivated to either do without or start your own business to compete.

lies our political divide. It seems like politics is just these two viewpoints bouncing back and forth at one another over and over and over again.

On a completely separate note, if you want people to take you seriously I would suggest not using a video game to bolster your argument.
The poor already have tax cuts.
Ever heard of a place called Xinjiang? Where there is a million people in actual concentration camps, right now?
SpaceX to attempt cargo launch, upper-stage experiment for second time
The US has 180 military bases around the world and isn't moving to close them by and large.

The US is the center of NATO and, despite Trump's occasional rhetoric, is not moving to leave the alliance.

The US is persistently using its naval projection capabilities to challenge China's territorial ambitions around Asia (including constantly sailing its navy through the illegally annexed South China Sea territory). Nobody else in the world can or will do that, including none of the fellow NATO members.

The US has a very large military presence in South Korea and Japan, positions both countries are openly thankful for and willing to pay more money to the US to keep (as North Korea continues threatening both countries and both are weary of China's military ambitions in the region). Currently the US has around 75,000 to 80,000 (!) military personnel stationed in South Korea and Japan combined.

The US is persistently deploying its military in the Middle East, including in Syria, Saudi Arabia and the waters near Iran.

The US is the extreme exact opposite of isolationist. Go by what the US does, not what Trump campaigns on to win an election (he also has built zero miles of a new wall on the Mexico border thus far and is deporting fewer illegal immigrants than Obama did, again despite his rhetoric to the contrary).
Perhaps Adyen (https://www.adyen.com/) would work for you?
Shall I take this as a withdrawal of your earlier assertions?
According to CEIC Spain had $232B of tax revenue in 2018. The article suggests it's going to bring 850M EUR = $943M to state's coffers so would represent around 0.4% of yearly tax revenue.

How come it's easier to impose a tax on particular area (which sounds unfair) and risk international relations with US instead of doing something else to gain just 0.4%. Either it's ideologic or they really can't find the money.
Or in the US:
Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type https://www.amazon.com/dp/0500021740/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hN...
Announcing the Pantone Color of the Year 2020
Seconded - and most stuff written by Weinberg is worth reading
Pro nuclear is a good thing though no? It seems like the solution to climate change and energy production. I know I'm very skeptical of people who claim to be pro-environment then rally against nuclear power.
After some digging, I think Groovy got it first.
Here is a blog post from 2009 about it: https://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2009/08/groovy-goodness-safe-nav....
Already been said a few times, but just feel like I had to add again for added emphasis. Extreme Ownership is the best book on Leadership I have ever read. Changed my thinking forever.
Show HN: Remote jobs for creative, non-technical people
I’ve been working remotely for over 5 years, initially as a support tech and then as a writer/editor/marketing person. My background is in art and philosophy, so the main remote job boards like WWR and Remote.co never quite appealed to me. Most of the jobs listed are technical (developers, DevOps, etc.) and the non-technical jobs always feel like an afterthought.

So, I decided to make Remote Poet (https://remotepoet.com) - remote jobs for creative people. Obviously the word “creative” has quite a few meanings, but I am including any jobs that can be considered artistic or creative in a general sense. The categories I've listed on the site are:

- Animation and Motion Graphics

- Art

- Architecture and Interior Design

- Content Marketing

- Editing / Copyediting

- Fashion

- Film / Video

- Graphic Design

- Illustration

- Marketing

- Music / Audio

- Photography

- Product Design

- Technical Writing

- UX / UI

- Video Games

- Writing / Copywriting

At some point, I may add programming jobs (as they are definitely “creative” in some sense) but the niche of remote software jobs seems pretty full. In any case, I hope the site is useful. If you have any suggestions or comments, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Having spent a decent amount of time in China, I think there are definitely a lot of falsehoods that are spread about it, but ethnostate-ish seems a pretty fair conclusion.

If you look at the way they're trying to integrate the outer provinces, and even just the way they view day-to-day and business interactions between Chinese and Westerners.

A Chinese billionaire in the US is no big deal, a US billionaire in China is unimaginable--they'd consider it out of order and I'd be surprised if it could even happen without them being cut down mid-journey. A contrived example maybe but success is reserved for the Han, not for outsiders.
Do you have a source for your claim that that BTI is "against fossil fuel reduction"?

And why do you include "pro-geoengineering" in that list of "bad things BTI believes"? If we aren't going to significantly reduce emissions (and after 40 years of political inaction that should be obvious to everyone), geoengineering may be our best response to climate change.
Seconding this
If running a business wasn't profitable no one would do it. Simple as that. Running a for-profit is not altruistic. It's not a service. You're not serving your community. It doesn't make you inherently good. People run businesses to make money. Full stop.

Some nonsense comparison like "harder than it should be" doesn't mean anything, it's an opinion-based weasel phrase with no definition.

Considering how dramatically wealth and income inequality has exploded over the past 2 generations in America, the only priciplied, data-based perspective is that corporations and the astronomically tiny number of people who control them have gotten fabulously more wealthy at the direct expense of workers who are working longer hours, more productively, doing more jobs, for less real money and wealth.

You can spin it however you want, but corporations and the capitalist class are more wealthy now that at any time in our history except the Gilded Era, and the working class is poorer now that they have been in many generations, and tax policy is really the only tool the people have to try and right this listing ship before another Wealth Destruction Event, another Great Reset.
+1 excellent book
While programming languages could definitely be more secure. Programmers need to put security first. Currently it's like giving a five year old a gun and saying go play
EVs have regenerative braking. Brake pads last the life of the vehicle.
Clickable link: https://remotepoet.com
For example, you could have read the article.

It tries to counter claims of "4 billion casualties".
He's also against renewables. This is a shill piece.
You've worked on complex systems with charts? Most places I've worked lack charts and documentation. The flow chart only exists in pieces of the people's heads still working there, the rest in employees who left.

That's one of the strengths with K8s, at least there is documentation, unlike a 1000 line perl script with no tests which does service discovery.
And the dichotomy of leadership.
Am I the only one here that loves the idea of create-react-app but doesnt use it because it is almost impossible (or rather, was almost impossible as of a few months ago) to utilize features in webpack etc.

The whole idea of "you need to eject" and can only eject one time to install a package that allowed me to use JSX If/Else statements [1] turned me off to the whole thing. Now I have a custom project and just create new ones with cookiecutter

Im open to being wrong here, but the experience kinda sucked IMO.

[1]https://github.com/AlexGilleran/jsx-control-statements
> they made / design all the parts themselves, truly vertically integrated

Do you have a source for that? Even Tesla isn't really that vertically integrated (for example - its Gigafactory is a JV with Panasonic).
> you are violating a logical constraint of the system

I'm looking for something even a little more concrete than this. Why would the program be invalid? Can you give an example of what would happen if we just went ahead and accessed a worldstate a second time, logical constraints be damned?
Most bookstores would put leadership books and self help books in different sections of the bookstore. And these are the folks who put science fiction books and fantasy books in the same section!
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Continues Working on 64-Bit ARM, Other Hardware Improvements
I think it's just an evolution of distro-hopping even though I don't think people like to admit it. After you've tried all of the major linux distros and you're still looking to play around with something different, the next step is to jump to something like BSD or Haiku or Plan9. You might not get a lot of people openly admitting this though, seems like it's looked down upon to try out something new like this "just for fun" versus having some super specific technical reason. Then again, the "just for fun" distro-hoppers may not stick with Plan9 long enough to tell anyone about it before they move on to something else :P
> If the author means literally everyone dead, planet gone, then obviously it won't be "apocalyptic", but the science is suggesting it's likely to be really bad.

No, the science doesn't imply that climate change is going to mean literally everyone dead, only a massive cost to maintain things as they are today. Contrawise, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "the world will end" by 2030 if we don't stop climate change. (Source: https://thinkprogress.org/we-dont-have-12-years-to-save-the-...)

So, yes there are people being absolutely, ridiculously, unscientifically hysterical about the effects of climate change. Unscientific alarmism is just as harmful toward efforts to properly manage the global ecology as the unscientific denial of changes.
I have been seeing these headlines more and more lately and I have a nagging suspicion that somebody is pushing an agenda. What exactly that agenda is remains to be seen.

As for the news article you mentioned, it should be noted that the £28m is corporate tax, not _all_ the taxes. I'm reasonably sure that FAANG is not shirking the government on VAT or payroll taxes. As for why they pay so little corporate tax, I'd guess it's because they're not an EU company.

All of FAANG's cost centers are in the US so it makes sense that they are allowed to offset those costs with revenue from the rest of the world. Whether they are doing so fairly is another matter, but even then, I suspect the victim here is the US (since the money should be going there instead of some tax haven) and not individual EU member states.
Most of the so-called OFMs (orthodox file managers) do:

http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/

DN (Dos Navigator) is not at all bad on Windows, cannot say on Linux, but it is worth a try.
People bring up this argument all the time as if there are no other alternatives (black or white fallacy). How about a simple rule to abide by: if there is any ounce of doubt as to whether the person committed the crime that puts the death penalty on the table, then it doesn't get upheld. They can get punished in other ways if evidence is strong enough though.

The death penalty would only apply to clear-cut cases. And there have already been a bunch of those (mass shooters, etc.).
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

This book is about the lessons learned on leadership by two Navy Seal Officers and how they are applied in business. It learned me to take ownership on what is happening, always work together, keep it simple, focus on a single priority, and give ownership.

Turn the ship around! by L. David Marquet

This book tells the story of a submarine captain that turns his subordinates into leaders and his submarine goes on becoming the best submarine in the US Navy. It learned me to move authority to information, train competence, and the power of clear communication.

You can find more good books at https://www.norberhuis.nl/books/
How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer
I'm not sure what the scientific definition of "apocalyptic" is, but in my mind the biggest aspect of climate change people seem to overlook in assessing the potential fallout is mass displacement of people.

We've already witnessed extreme political radicalisation within Western countries as a result of displacement of people from Syria: numbers in the order of a few million. It seems likely that displacement from climate change would be a significant percentage of world population (8+ billion soon). The reaction to that will be apocalyptic.
> It [elections] gives you an opportunity to select the type of community you want to live in.

I'm curious: how does that work out in practice? Do folks in the USA typically live in the type of communities they'd like to live in?
OpenACC Cozies Up to C, C++, and Fortran Standards
This article manages to be mostly correct while at the same time being several shades of ok boomer. Sure, we're not all going to die. But on the other hand a major source of geopolitical instability comes from crop failure, and people still seem rather alarmed about that war in Syria and all the refugees.

The fact that we're in a global mass extinction event is somewhat troubling as well, even given that not all of the extinctions are caused by climate change.

It's not the one-meter sea level rise (optimistic case). It's the one meter plus more hurricanes with more storm surge. Yes, we can managed retreat. But people really don't want to do that, and then one day you have your sewer system under water.

That could have happened with a big enough hurricane anyway, but climate change just makes a lot of problems bigger. It's almost never a prime mover, it's a statistical problem, which in the short term makes the numbers a little worse for all of us. But enough of those numbers are changing that we should be alarmed. Life expectancy decreasing a year or two, as it is in the US right now, should be alarming, even if it is statistics, and climate is not really that different.

And if you're using "15 if statements", it doesn't usually mean you're wrong, it just means you need to refactor your code.
> We finally found the right path 36 months ago, but we haven’t found a relevant business model.

The best use case for such technology is a B2C fashion app targeting 16-36 women with an extremely well-designed UX, that doesn't force to signup or enter any payment details.

Look at the Fashion Finder[1] by Daily Mail, and how it was successfully monetized via affiliate networks[2].

I could easily see such an app being acquired by one of the latest unicorn fashion startups, such as TheRealReal[3], Poshmark[4], thredUP[5], or Vinted[6].

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fashionfinder/index.html

[2] https://skimlinks.com/resources/case-studies/case-study-the-...

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/23/luxury-consignment-e-taile...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2018/12/14/next-billi...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/glendatoma/2019/08/21/thredup-r...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/27/vinted-the-second-hand-clo...
Native tokens of Cryptocurrency exchanges – a new insight
It’s not meant to be a quality tutorial. It’s a spammy content-marketing campaign that this company are running. They plan to publish 288 of these in a single month.

They’ve already been banned from posting these to a site similar to HN.
He is trying to counter claims of "4 billion casualties".
Yeah maybe eventually. Though people try to find loopholes eg. move abroad, transfer the money offshore, lend the money to the consultant from the company rather than paying him or her, send the money to a company owned by an opaque offshore trust and so on. Big industries spring up to facilitate the avoidance that lobby politicians to allow the loopholes and so on. It can get kind of messy.
A Success on Arm for HPC: We Found a Fujitsu A64fx Wafer
AWS Works Hard to Keep Ahead of the Public Cloud Herd
Sorry, but you are not entitled to your opinion – Aaron D. Scott – Medium
120Hz 4K is already here, basically.

Not much can output that, but it's here.
TBF a lot of people don't know what any of that is and use Heroku or equivalent. I've worked with people who don't even know how to use find or chmod, much less ps, htop, and other system tools.
The joke is in the name, isn’t it?
+1 Turn the ship around! by L. David Marquet
I agree that corporate taxes aren't strictly required. They are useful though, if you think about international capital markets. Without corporate taxes, foreign investors could extract all profits from a company, without paying any income tax in its country of residence. You are right about double taxation, but you can think of corporate tax as a part of income tax that is guaranteed to benefit the country where the company is registered.
I just don't see how it's immoral. That seems to be a stretch, and again, goes back to my claim of "religious crusade." Morality? Really?

From Apple, we expect perfection. They're trying to be pro privacy, so when they aren't, the pitchforks come out. Meanwhile Android's sole purpose is less privacy to feed into Google's business.

There are certain things I WANT to be a walled garden. Anything that holds my information, I would prefer that less people have potential access to that. And Apple is the only one who leads the way in this regard in true consumer products. Despite not being perfect, at least they put some effort in.
I thought Greta Thunberg was pretty factual?