skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a healthy community, people pitch in to help, and maintainers become overwhelmed by the scale of activity, not because they've been left alone to support many users by themselves for years.

It's entirely because many of these projects are run by professional software developers, not professional managers. So many projects with single maintainers are that way because the maintainer feels a sense of ownership rather than a sense of stewardship.

It's not to say that solo maintainers are bad people; just that the jobs of writing software and coordinating software development require different, non-overlapping skill sets.
Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Twitter
I guess one could make the argument that our steadily rising healthcare costs are the reason take-home wages have been stagnant since the '60s. Companies are steadily paying more and more in healthcare costs and can't afford to raise wages much (if you believe the C-level propaganda). A big reason for the healthcare crisis is the industrialization of our food production chain. Amazing how scaling up mass-production of our food supply has all kinds of awful unintended cascading effects.
You are right, but with the wrong goal.
We need culture and people in rural areas.
We need a new "small town culture" I'm not sure what that will look like, but this one is rotten.
> I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English.

We have café all the way from McDonalds up to Buckingham Palace.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu/mccafe.html

https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace
I'm sure that people here are more than aware that we should certainly do more to address climate change before we see more emerging catastrophes in the new decade. By that, the action that should happen must be practical and makes sense to act upon before those important deadlines. All thanks to the scientists and activists highlighting this and to Greta + social media for further amplifying this.

However, while she is deserving of this, I tend to be put off of by her constant berating and shaming of the accused via her scripted speeches which really doesn't help changing people's minds especially the 'big bad orange man' and going off on a 2 week zero carbon trip from Portsmouth to New York to show its possible, but I'd say for many, it is in-practical for now.

She (and mostly the behind the scenes grown-ups) brought this into the public agenda rightfully so, but perhaps she could change a lot of minds if she could change her own approach to raising awareness without being so spiteful towards everyone (even to the converted and loyal) and without being used by the extreme climate-change grown ups projecting her catastrophe-like and scaremongering rhetoric.

One day, if she was able to change the mind of the 'orange man' then she + the activists should all be deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
I really like this articulation of the situation.
Stamp their passports! No more Sardinia for them! Ever!
I saw that in Pratchett's _Snuff_; I thought it was a joke, an exaggeration!
This will probably come across as dismissive, but you're not their target audience then?

Seems this is for super high end specialized setups (not just your average Xcode usage), with companies/people who can afford a $50k workstation to improve the productivity of their $500k employee(s)
Support remote work and rural infra investment (shoutout to Bernie Sanders and his rural internet investment plan). I want to live in rural areas while still being able to work a job that isn't going to (needlessly) require me to be onsite in a downtown core (Disclaimer: I work remotely).

> We need a new "small town culture"

100 percent. Community building is hard, not profitable, but necessary. It used to be churches. Not sure what it looks like today. If I had to hazard a guess, something like Mr Money Mustache's coworking setup [1] [2].

[1] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/hq/

[2] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/09/05/what-really-goes-...
Long read ahead, no clear idea after 30%.
> I ask her whether [the brain tumor] helped mark this turning point for her. The answer is yes, but also no. Even before the brain tumor, Giertz says, she was starting to feel like “it was harder and harder to come up with ideas. I was always concerned that it was eventually going to be like beating a dead horse, and that the joke was going to be over and I didn't have anywhere else to go.”

I don't read this being about insecurities but rather more about physical comedy not really being something that comes easily for Giertz, and the stress associated with the brain tumour forcing the early abandonment of that sort of work.
coming soon: emojis completely replace ASCII text in source code.
Wrong. You’re like an order of magnitude wrong - rofl there is no fucking way the stock Linux kernel will even do 40Mpps at 64 byte packets. It chokes way before that. This is partly why things like DPDK exist.
They are settling down in the cities, which America decided can be livable if you invest in transit and walkable neighborhoods.
Make Stress Free Inventory Management a Reality
This has always made me wonder: could one make up fake quotes and “cite” them out of an old book?
How much of that is linking? I have simple project where the linker used to take over an hour, but ld.lld is much faster.
I am not from small town America - but I think this attitude which is openly celebrated among many is sickening. Its the kind of rhetoric that leads people to believe in ideas like "white genocide" and other frankly dangerous and violent partisan ideas.
Many forms of what you call "tax evasion" are in fact legal in the US.

Lots of very, very wealthy people have no "income" at all, which means they don't pay taxes.

The problem is that "income" is narrowly defined (for a reason) so things like someone owning a large corporation which triples in value over a year making them a billionaire on paper don't even show up on taxes because officially that person hasn't "made" that money until they sell the corporation. Even when they do, it's taxed at a lower rate than "income" because it's a different "kind" of money.
Even without building some kind of product to sell, it's a way to get personal visibility and build your career.
She has bigger aspirations than making shitty robots for a joke and YouTube ad revenue.
I’m all for proper saving and loaning of money. I’m not exactly eager on profligate government spending. On the one side, Puerto Rico’s government officials shouldn’t be borrowing money and spending lavishly when they know they can’t pay back. On the other hand, Wall Street got into bed with them knowing they’d get bailed out + charge fees for issuance.

So while I can’t blame both sides, I am getting tired of the government being in bed with Wall Street, this isn’t “capitalism”. This is called crony capitalism.

So... loan money to a terrible customer knowing the risks? Take it on the chin and call it a day.
Beyond your desk: why you need a secondary workspace
> Biodiversity is not as much of a focus, that is true.

Not yet, but it's coming, for a couple of reasons:

- biodiversity helps soil health and disease resistance

- bi-cropping potentially means the ability to harvest two different crops from the same field without significantly impacting the yield of the primary. Twice the gross per acre is a pretty big incentive for adoption.
https://www.dorseyalston.com/knowledge/atlanta-residential-z...

De Facto banned for normal people to build.
My Favorite Teamwork Quotes
Oh hey I just noticed this company has produced all of the recent "christmas" posts and sites on HN. Thanks for that!
> drowning out real investment.

The conclusion that buybacks are alternative for real investments is wrong.

The aggregate change between R&D and capex versus buybacks and dividends is not just some arbitrary decision. ROI from R&D and investments is slowing down for various reasons.

Instead of investing more without reason to do so, companies should give profits to owners or pay off excess debt.

There is wrong and right way to use buybacks. When company is not overvalued relative to its earnings, buyback is viable alternative for dividends. Taking debt to do buybacks or pay dividends is insane.
They acquired Cadsoft Eagle, and I think they continue to develop it. I don't know if it was a successful acquisition though
This piece in The Atlantic, "The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21583001), blames management from afar by executives with no understanding of the engineering processes around aviation as the start of Boeing's current problems.
Why not ActivityPub?
She brought 'Flying Shame' to the US in a solar powered sailboat:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/flight-shame-comes-to-the-u-s-v...

And then had her crew fly across the Atlantic to bring the boat home:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7365909/Greta-Thunb...
> Cash is 5% cheaper for businesses than card.

Do you have a source for this?

https://squareup.com/us/en/townsquare/myths-about-cash (full disclosure: clearly a potentially biased source)

> Research shows that cash-handling costs range from 4.7 to 15.3 percent of revenues for businesses that accept cash. The majority of those costs are associated with starting and closing drawers at the start and end of the day.

> Said another way, for every $100 a business makes in cash, it’s spending $4.70–$15.30 to handle all the costs associated with managing the drawer, preparing deposits, making change orders, dealing with possible theft or fraud, and auditing. Fewer cash transactions means less time counting money, less time making change, and a lower likelihood of mistakes or theft.
> Neutral source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

Neutral, perhaps, but also poorly qualified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check:

> The Columbia Journalism Review describes Media Bias/Fact Check as an amateur attempt at categorizing media bias and Van Zandt as an "armchair media analyst."[2] Van Zandt describes himself as someone with "more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence."[3] The Poynter Institute notes, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."[4]
We're working on a cross platform mobile app rn and we're using QT because "everyone else in the company is using it". It might be good for desktop, but I've found it to be nothing less than frustrating, it reinvents the wheel for mobile, and doesn't do it very well. It's still missing many features, we still have to keep going back to native views to implement things because QT just can't do certain things. We've lost developers because they want to work with mobile technologies and QT seems like 10 steps back. Swift and Kotlin address many issues of cpp, we don't have access to the wide amount of mobile libraries. We replace things with cpp libraries never compiled for ARM that ends up with incredible amounts of code that would take a few lines in native. Every library we add brings more headaches. And then we have desktop developers diving in and designing everything like it's desktop, button and menus too small, scaling the view to fit different device sizes. ugh
The post wasn't a question about how to get tenure, it was sharing a specific article with a specific argument. Matt and I spent thousands of hours on the same IRC channels as early as the late 90's and he's always been a gifted writer and his posts are well worth the time to read and critically think about.

Given the context, a blog-post-length comment about how to get tenure is not super relevant and a little odd. But then again, so is editing both of your posts to remove the content (and presumably eliminate any further discussion).
Christopher Alexander's work introduced an approach to design using patterns from nature. https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Alexander_A_Patt...

"You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction". - from the Semantic Scholar introduction
The next professional network will not look like LinkedIn
There is a rocky beach near where I live in Halifax Nova Scotia that was once a very large sand beach. It was mostly "taken" for highway and other construction: http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/01/25865/hudak...

"However, from as early as the 1940s, the beach was also the site of commercial resource extraction. Because of this, by 1966, it had ceased to operate as a fully functional recreational site. Rapid and dramatic changes to its geomorphological formation, due to the large-scale removal of its sand and gravel, saw the gradual reduction of Silver Sands’ once ‘silvery’ crest, into a predominantly rocky shoal. Particularly between the latter half of the 1950s and the mid 1960s, but all the way until 1971, its material was being used for various government construction projects around the Halifax Regional Municipality.

"
Why are so many AI systems named after Muppets?
Read an idea in American Affairs in support of taxing buybacks. The logic goes that if all companies have a fiduciary duty to shareholders because the market is the most efficient capital allocator, AND all companies are giving their cash back to shareholders, THEN it must be true that the market can not figure out how to efficiently allocate this $1T of capital. Thus, the government should have “next dibs” for items on the agenda that it knows need capital, namely infrastructure and healthcare.

Thought that was an interesting take.

Edit: here is the link but it may be behind a paywall. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/12/share-buybacks-an...
USB in a Nutshell (2010)
Is this like those TV screens near the entrance of a shop showing that you are being videotaped?

It's only the low-end stores which do that around these parts.
On Introducing Your Company
Some people get a bit nuts when bitten by the "personal flight" bug, even to this day; people with no great knowledge of aerodynamics or mechanical engineering are always hopping in some homebuilt ultralight and killing themselves. People lose their rationality, chasing a dream.

Franz Reichelt warrants a mention at this juncture. In 1912 he was so invested in the success of his parachute invention that he refused the pleas of his friends to test it with a dummy and simply jumped off the Eiffel tower, to his death. Rather shockingly, Wikipedia has video footage of this event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
Corporate debt-to-GDP has never been higher
Interesting. Twitter early kicked open standards in the nuts, so I understand everyone who's sceptical to say the least. But if they manage to detangle that ugly mess that is the Fediverse this could be a real and good step into the right direction.
Alert Routing – reducing noise and getting woken up only by alerts that matter
Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008)
But then they would not have used FUSE.
> Essentially, compile only what has changed, re-use compiled forms of everything that hasn't.

That's what incremental compiling does, and it has been enabled for a while. Unfortunately, it doesn't help on fresh builds.

> Essentially, pre-compiled dependencies will be sourced and plugged in to a Rust project.

There are two aspects here. The more recent one, which you are thinking of, is building and shipping procedural macros as WASM binaries. Procedural macros are very powerful, but they take a token stream as input to allow for future changes to the language. Because of this, basically every macro uses a Rust parser crate called syn. Since it's a fully-fledged parser, syn takes a while to compile (30 seconds or so, certainly not minutes), which many people find annoying, and it gets worse if you end up using different versions of syn for different proc macro crates. The plan here is to build the proc macros (including syn) somewhere on the Rust infrastructure and ship the binaries to the users. The sandboxing story is somewhat complicated: proc macros and build scripts can legitimately read or download files, or produce non-deterministic output in other ways. A WASM macro would not be able to do this, so the whole thing would be opt-in. It also provides no benefit for crates that don't use procedural macros. See https://github.com/dtolnay/watt for more details.

The other possible avenue is MIR-only rlibs. When you compile a dependency, you get machine code (with the exception of generic code). It might be possible to compile crates to MIR (again, on the Rust infrastructure) and only do the final codegen on the user's computer. But that's still complex, and not necessarily much faster. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/38913.
Nearly half of American workers have low-wage jobs
not only that, in this scenario society would expect and pressure all young people to go on a cruise before they were eligible to join society.
Sure, there was a paper about yeast. They created a collection of 6000 clones- each one had a "single gene deletion" and nothing else. THey were able to study each clone and explain whether the gene deletion was fatal (IE, if you delete this gene that is essential for yeast to grow, the clones all die).

I was tasked to analyze the paper results, specifically a table that listed "all the genes we newly discovered that, when removed, are fatal".

Since I'm interested in overlapping genes, I took the list of new genes and intersected it with all the other known genes, and noticed that for each gene they newly discovered had a fatal outcome, it intersected a gene that was already known to be necessary for yeast to live (housekeeping genes, essential enzymes, dna checkpoint repair, etc).

The most likely conclusion from this is that when they deleted the gene, they also truncated or deleted the other gene, which abolished the function of the known-necessary gene. Therefore, they didn't discover anything new- they just disabled things that we already knew broke yeast, by accident, by ignoring the fact that genes overlapped.

I showed this to my advisor, who said "Good catch, why don't you write them a letter?" So I sent them a letter showing my results, never got a response back. They published a paper a year later, totally unapologetically, saying how they had "discovered interesting interactions between overlapping genes"...

You can also look back at the original human genome sequencing papers, they were massively overestimating the accuracy of the assembly and the representation of the genome (compared to the wider population). It took decades of additional large-scale sequencing to verify this, but it still bothers me just how overly egotistical and self-confident the folks who worked on the human genome project were.
I had so many linking issues because of the Qt so on Android that I finally had to statically compile the run some tests at all, and in consequence to replace Qt with something else to avoid royalties. The problem of "DLL hell" (i.e. symbol conflicts between library versions) is well known on Android.
When has Bush encouraged attacks against his opponents and the media? This really isn't a partisan issue.
A scutcher separates the bast fibers from the flax. It's the job of a thresher to separate the seeds from the flax chaff. They're two different jobs, and you can only scutch after retting and breaking but if you ret the flax, you can't thresh any more.
My mistake.. maybe I assumed because of that 1.5 TB memory capacity.
The problem with tech startups, especially VC funded ones, is that they are rarely profitable until they are sold to a bigger company or (in rare cases) go public.

And once either of those happens, there will be forces opposing substantial OS contributions ("fiduciary duty" etc), which will win out if the leadership doesn't fight for it.
My other option is to lie. My words are extreme because the reality is.
On the surface they present it looks ok. Until you realize how it all works.
"What will the neighbors think" is a question with survival implications there.
There is a point where I have to decide if people who participate in the culture of fear and hate that is most of rural America are either evil, or mentally disabled. Neither let me speak kindly of the system that traps so many children in it.
Sorry, Shill, but it comes down to a power play, with lot of money to be made in the process. The high morals surrounding this fairly tale are for the still gullible.
> Success will follow.

Wrong!

Success may follow.
Frankly, if your workplace doesn't already think so, it's a red flag.
"In the end it’s just a question of where the servers are relative to you and nothing else really matters."

Assuming a 'fair' network. In absence of Net Neutrality it was "Dear company X, you better pay us or your packets will be delayed/dropped and your customers unhappy", and " Dear customer Y, you better opt for extra service A,B,C,D, ... if you want to Game/VoiP/VoD/Chat ..." and very much worse.

"Private networks tend to make things worse by having fewer paths available increasing the average minimum distance."

This is not how internetwork routing works. Obviously a straight line darkfibre line from A to B will beat any route a generic Internet can come up with. It is not a case of Riot Direct xor 'the rest of the Internet', but selectively supplementing by deploying handover points at strategic peering locations in the internetworking fabric where things can have a large impact.
There is something poetic about Google allowing a Chrome extension to hijack search queries.

I'm loathed to install things like Grammerly, or Honey precisely because of fears like this.
The Art of Integrative Thinking
Steam might be a better example here, as Valve already allows devs to use their private network for game servers.

Although it should be noted that all of this effort is only worth it because greedy ISPs are unwilling to peer to certain other networks in most (all?) cases, as the private network is still running through the same cables for most of the way.
Again, I encourage you from making this a partisan issue. Previous presidents like Bush would never encourage attacks against his opponents or against members of the media. Do you not remember when Trump said 2nd Amendment people should take care of Hillary?
That you should “always be learning” is absolutely true. It helps with neuro-plasticity and keeps you engaged.

That said, as a manager I find it hard to get direct reports to accept sometimes that it is not only okay, but required, by me that they learn new things. I do what I can to encourage it, offer to buy books for people, give time to do online course work, etc. They often complain that they don’t feel like they are “Working” even though I explain to them that as long as its work/business related I will expect to be able to call upon them in the future with this new knowledge.

So what can I do as a manager to make it more “okay” to spend time at work learning?
At the very minimum it should be taxed the same as dividends. Essentially tax buybacks are a tax loophole for giving money back to the shareholder.
Damn, Flock, Slack and Skype at the same time...
They're great for randomly holding / forgetting you're holding onto and waiting for a bubble, like that time in 2014 that Stellar gave away bundles of free coins (I think it was like 6K coins per user?) and then it bubbled in 2018.
What are you trying to imply ? It's not like one person faults/hypocrisy somehow invalidate science.