skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. If there were businesses on Keybase at verifiable addresses that accepted lumens as payment, we'd be in a much more interesting space. ...And I do think that might be a place Keybase can excel, because they could provide the method to be sure @walmart was actually Wal-Mart. But it requires that companies be willing and able to accept cryptocurrency.
This is how Slack and I believe Discord handle emojis as well. Interestingly even if you copy and paste a unicode emoji it's translated into a code.
I have nothing against communes. I have visited and know many people who have lived for a long time in communes around the world. Communes and alternate lifestyles are exercise in humanity.

As usual, people are the problem:

1. Everything becomes politics. All the bad things you hear from neighborhood associations are replicated in communes in different forms. Negotiating and deciding everything together is nice until differences become too big to handle.

2. Introverts or retreating people are sidelined. Because everything is politics, those who network and are good at influence get all the power. Unpopular people don't have equal power. Popular people have excess power.

3. If you work for the commune for 20 years and suddenly things go sour on you, you leave out with noting.

Everyone who want's to build commune or equal society should start with THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS
by Jo Freeman aka Joreen https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm It details power relations within radical feminist collectives,
Good luck being a human
How to Motivate a High-Performing Team
Amazon has hundreds of pages of low quality and white label goods clogging up the searches.
It is a mess, but that's usually because those easy to use frameworks make them a mess. Big site inevitably are going to be filled with a lot of JS that for things you're not going to implement anyhow. Start small, build upon previous knowledge, incrementally.
A big reason I stopped playing those first person shooter gamaes, aside from the complete waste of time, is that ping time is king. If you ping sucks, you are at a tremendous disadvantage.

It's kind of sad that so many forms of competition we engage in have a price tag attached. I quit long range shooting for the same reason--it ends up not being about skill but more about how much you paid for your barrel and other gear.
CSS Zen Garden was, in my opinion, one of the best experiments on web development to demonstrate the flexibility of development that existed in HTML and CSS, but not to demonstrate that you would never again need to touch up your HTML code whatever the project. In 2003 –when this project was born– the average weight of the CSS files was 6KB. Today (2019) we are at an average of ~500KB, so using the CSS Garden argument card is, in my opinion, wrong. First, because it never adapts to the reality of developments, second because the difference in code size required is higher when new development parameters are taken, based mostly on philosophies such as BEM or others. CSS Garden is an HTML doc, with just 54 CSS classes, against more than 2000 classes that can be found in other modern projects.
Accents and diacriticals are far from "hyper specialised", they are how many people are taught to write, and want to write.

And - is not a dash, it is a minus. It does not suffice as a replacement for a real en or em dash in a properly typeset text. This is also not "specialised", it is how English is correctly typeset.
Not sure which generation you're in and which generation you'd (relatively) consider Alan Key in, but here is a much more principled approach to what the OP is trying to do: https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs

The TLDW is that Kay thinks we haven't discovered all the fundamental rules of computing, a la Maxwells Equations for physics. If you are able to figure these out, you can substantially cut down your accidental complexity.

FWIW, my unscientific view is that achieving simplicity is really hard and doesn't scale people-wise. Instead of C99 without a bunch of stuff, I'd probably use Scheme to create very dense (lots of bespoke abstractions and idioms) but simple software. That approach works reasonably well, but try onboarding a new developer!
> Apple makes it very difficult to use 3rd party kernel modules. That is the whole thing. The open source thing is a complete red herring

I would argue that the Apple part is the red herring. It’s boring; it’s common knowledge that they don’t particularly like kernel extensions and it’s somewhat difficult to develop them.

> No one else could actually use the result of compiling the code. So the source was not ever open in a way that made any practical difference.

Sorry, how did you end up at this conclusion?
It doesn't: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... (click Tools / Clippy).
We're talking about programmers; they have to be able to type english words because almost every language uses english keywords and most command line tools use english, etc. Since everyone has to be able to type english words, why add new character sets to the requirements?
GMP and Assert
That wouldn't support my claim very much at all, really, because there are too many confounding variables and too few countries to support any kind of causitive claim. I don't know if countries with subsidized childcare have more antisocial behavior, and I don't think it would shed any light on the situation. The subsidization is only relevant insofar as it increases utilization of childcare.

The only thing that can shed light on the question of whether childcare is harmful to children is scientific research with large sample sizes that carefully control for confounding variables.
Precisely. Even when writing by hand, where there are no character encoding limitations, I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English.
More like Mystery Science Theater 3000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnrWdCdjYxs
I feel like this would be unfair on non-graduates, but only because government support for alternative career paths is so poor (e.g. apprenticeship schemes are a joke in this country). But really nobody should be entering working life in debt.
Only if by everywhere you mean cloud centers, where the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft have their golden eggs not shared with the community.

If you are going to mention ChromeOS or Android, ChromeOS is hardly a blip outside US school system, and what kernel is being used on Android is irrelevant to user space, there is Fuschia on the horizon and Google has been replacing everything, with the Linux kernel being the last piece of GPL code standing.

Then if you mean embedded, plenty of IoT OS are MIT based and even Linux Foundation now has Zephyr as alternative to Linux, all operating systems where OEM can profit without giving anything back.

If you mean compilers, plenty of embedded OEMs are now happy LLVM users free of contributions, while reducing their development costs.
I think the difference (if I'm understanding the U.K. situation correctly) is that in the U.K. the loan can be paid off in full prior to the end of the term, correct?

In the situation above, it acts more like an investment rather than a loan. (i.e., there's no upper bound on the payment, outside of the 5%/15 year cap, so the student may pay back more than they receive)
I'm a startup tech founder, benefiting massively from FOSS code. I realise there is a debt here, and the plan is definitely to repay that debt once we're cash-positive.

Being able to have that plan, and not having to pay for software licences up front, is awesome.

But I totally understand TFA's point of view. Maintaining a FOSS library is hard work, and those benefiting from it should contribute. If he's not seeing that happen organically, then he's quite within his rights to make it happen.

And to be fair, he's not even saying "I'll charge you". He's just saying "contact me". I'd speculate that if I needed to use his code, I could cut a deal where we would pay him when we get cash-positive.
Facebook and Google crash out of the top places to work in the US
Cajun food is unique to the region as it was developed when Acadian immigrants fled Canada while incorporating the cultures of the region at the time. If anything it is quintessentially American.
> Just that it improves "engagement".

That is the point the article makes. Example: I stayed 4 years in a company doing shitty work but where we had good laughs and a sense of community during shitty times.
I agree. I also think that there is a huge amount of side effects that we are only recently discovering.

After reading this I have to wonder where the line between useful and entertaining vs. creepy stalker is for the internet.
Yes. The original soundtrack is underneath, so if you watch Terminator, you can hear Arnold Schwarzenegger's German accent, not some other actor. It's mostly a matter of what you are used to. For Polish people, the full dubs as they do in Western Europe feel weird and fake, we only dub cartoons and teenager movies such as Harry Potter series.
The cost would be much less for a company to just take over the USPS infrastructure and run it in a different manner. No need to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch.

And if indeed a monopoly were to develop, it’s not as if they could charge whatever they want with impunity. There are many multi-billion dollar companies that would be more than happy to expand into the logistics field if the potential profits are there. FedEx would need to keep their costs reigned in to stave off that threat.

Even if a monopoly could never be assailed (untrue, but for the sake of argument) they still couldn’t do whatever they want. They raise prices, people will search for alternatives. Overnighting a contract too expensive? Companies will start to shift more towards secure verified digital signature and verification methods, and the service providers lose money. Bandwidth being too throttled to play online FPS games or stream HD shows? People will start to look towards more localized or even non-digital options, and the service providers lose money.
> neutral marketplace

Nothing neutral about that. The one with the most money gets the better QoS. We don't need yet another market ruining things the real world uses so that some finance type can make bank. I wish ads for hostile ideas like that one would be flagged as such.
Latin-1 will definitely not suffice. And Unicode exists, and is near-universally supported and used. Just use it. It's ok. Really.
A self-driving truck delivered butter from CA to PA in 3 days
I think a larger misallocation of resources is money that is syphoned off / sucked out of every sector and sent to offshore tax havens..

University did take a chunk of my life that I would have liked to be earning money and growing my family. But it was a much better experience, and made me a much better person than when I was surrounded by ignorant and bitter men working in the trades as a commercial electrician.
A Common Lisp implementation may have static types:

(defun foo (x)
(declare (type fixnum x))
(1- x))

If you don't specify them, types all default to T.
I'm fairly sure Steam does not use a private network
No. I also do all the time.
Not really, free movement has lead to more tax take to be spent on the health care system.

Health spending in every country has increased per capita (inflation adjusted), in the UK it has too. But in the UK, for 40 years, been way under that of countries like France, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, and of course the U.S. The rate of increase hasn't increased either.

This isn't an issue of (typically working age) immigration - indeed that offsets the problem. It's an issue of an increasingly older population costing more per head. In the UK there's also an issue that people stay in hospital too long because of a failure in social care.
I wouldn't take it that far, but IMHO the free (as in beer) part needs to be questioned at least when it comes to for-profit commercial uses of software.

I'd like software to be free and open source for people and academic or non-profit uses, but I would like it if corporations for their use if they are using them in certain ways. Particularly problematic is the use of FOSS to power closed SaaS.

ZeroTier (of which I am the founder) just adopted the BSL toward this end, but the BSL isn't perfect. I think a better sort of license and maybe one more compatible with traditional FOSS needs to be developed. I'm chatting with a few people.
I tihnk that's just a symptom of how FOSS devs think about GUIs. GUI is largely not something FOSS developers actually use. The design of FOSS GUIs makes it seem as though "GUI" is something they've read about in text books and personally only see value in as a fancy tmux. Consequently, the only mental model they have for someone who actually uses a GUI is the kind of person who only needs a web kiosk.
Heh, sorry. Never did that before but that one just pushed an obviousness button for me.

BTW thanks for your tireless mod work. It probably sucks but it keeps this site one of the few that isn't full of troll drool.
Ugh, no they don't! The banksters got them wired in to the con and they are enjoying all the fruits of the tainted system. What do you think fueled the massive construction boom on all these campuses? I mean, UNC alone constructed an obscene amount of new buildings and that's a "state" University. The amount of money flowing is obscene. As usual, the little people are the ones being harmed.

My daughter is three years from college and I frankly don't know what to even think of all this nonsense. I have a PhD, I value higher education, or at least, I want to value higher education, but it's become such a farce. I might better take that $300K or whatever and buy a small business for her to own and operate. I don't want her to be a government employee, we have more than enough of those, I don't want her in software development, I don't care if she goes into medicine with how screwed up healthcare is. What else is there? Law? No...

And the other thing is, I have two kids and will not qualify for anything except loans, but we aren't rich by any stretch. Something has to give, education is valuable, but not some end all be all. We have plenty of "educated" imbeciles running our government right now.
Perhaps, but some things are inherent to how markets work.

It's not surprising that by making a ton of student loan money available, that more students are more willing to spend more money, and thus prices rise.
The repeal of net neutrality radically changed the FCC's position on regulation of cable authorities in America. In particular, the FCC no longer regulates broadband under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, and actively attempts to strangle alternative methods of regulation. This has had ramifications for cities regulating their cable franchisees. For example, in 2015, my city was able to use the threat of increasing cable TV access fees in order to accelerate their timeline for offering gigabit speeds in my area.

This is no longer possible in today's regulatory structure: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/pais-fcc-orders-...
> The new farming isn't more efficient physically, chemically, or biologically. It consumes without replacing resources like topsoil, biodiversity, water, etc. It looks more efficient financially only by neglecting the future costs to restore those resources.

B.S. Farmers aren't stupid, they still remember the lessons of the 1930s. They all plan to farm until they're physically unable to, and hope that the family farm will stay in the family for generations to come. Their biggest asset is that land, and they'll be relying on it for decades to come.

That's why they're adopting methods like zero-till and cover crops to prevent soil erosion, why they carefully manage their straw cover et cetera.

They also don't listen to city folk who think obviously silly things like "organic is better for the environment". The alternative to glyphosate is tillage, and farmers have first hand experience with how destructive tillage is to the soil, how it erodes the soil and the subsequent erosion destroys the waterways.
> Instead of C99 without a bunch of stuff, I'd probably use Scheme to create very dense (lots of bespoke abstractions and idioms) but simple software. That approach works reasonably well, but try onboarding a new developer!

I understand what you're getting at, but I'd argue that what you're suggesting isn't actually simple by any means.
> To date we’ve handed out close to 2,500 Kong notes; we’re now exploring more ways to distribute physical crypto.

Are you in a non extradition treaty country? This could be a relevant question for you soon enough
I'm not sure I understand why you think there is no way to do that with an API designed in IMGUI style? IMGUI is a style of exposing UI API. There's no reason this can't be made with a IM-style UI.

You are comparing apple and oranges when comparing the feature set of a small UI system made by 1 person-ish vs something like Qt benefiting from decades of experiences and hundreds of devs.
Nobody has said that they were anything to look down on. They were funny, they were successful, they made her famous.

However, it can at the same time be true that they represented her own fear of failure, and were holding her back from actually fulfilling her real potential.
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
They’re probably angry because the nag may fall under GPL’s “no additional restrictions”.
I think it is. A lot of the 'stagnation' is due to the fact that the standard is a standard, so Lisp implementations aren't changing the definition of characters willy-nilly — and so code written twenty years ago is still correct and performant enough, so there's no need to update it.

I would love to see a slightly more modern CL, but it's good enough to get work done, and it's still light-years ahead of everything else.
Yes with some specific setups there are issues. However go to literally any major studio in the US, UK, and most of Europe and you will see Macs everywhere used as part of audio production.
So what does this have to do with OP's submission? You wrote a whole article about courtesy "guerrilla marketing" on Stack Overflow. At least comment on their work before your advertising.
99% of the beaches are unmoderated (is an island so we have a lot of them).
Tourists are usually caught at the airport or boarding the ferry (only 2 ways for leaving the island). Sometimes they are also spotted while they steal sand on the beach by the locals, that stops them and call the police.
Hong Kong and Singapore certainly have zoning and land use regulation. They have consumer safety regulations. They have much more strict drug law penalties. Thereay be areas where they have less regulation but they are hardly the poster children for "minimal regulation" countries.

I am not at all saying that our level of regulation is perfect. There are lots of bad regulations that exist to protect industry profits or simply remove citizen choice out of fear.
I've considered it and done some digging, but haven't found anything within my skillset that even has remote work as an option.

My dad does full time remote with a bunch of travel around the world, to boot; the lucky bastard. ;)
Being able to devote yourself to one thing like that is not only uniquely human, it’s a unique characteristic of relatively modern humans.
Funny, was just coming to ask this as well, especially as most I’ve noticed have the same query path as well (/2019/11) for the article link.
Couldn't disagree more. If I want fun, I'd watch some comedian on YouTube, way higher quality. If I wanted serious discussion, Reddit has too much noise for the signal that it does offer.

The Reddit of today is about posting the "funniest" screenshots from Twitter, things like blackpeopletwitter, whitepeopletwitter, murderedbywords and so on.
> Is that [ease of typing it on any keyboard] an inherent property of English, or because we haven't invested enough effort into making non-English keyboards better?

Not of English inherently, more a feature of a language that uses a small set of symbols with many different combinations. The simplest and easiest approach is to give each button a symbol; it's also typically faster than typing on, say, some sort of touch-input keyboard. I agree that there is demand, but English still makes sense for development.

> People do write Romanized Hindi... in India, but that has more to do with the lack of native keyboards than anything else.

And I am stuck using SI units for science, even though I have a preference for American units. Compatibility is important, and as you just stated, people have adapted.

> Where is this unwillingness to support multiple languages in software coming from, anyway?

Immense difficulty for minimal return. About two months ago, and article was posted about just how difficult it can be: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

Even if many programmers aren't dealing directly with the rendering, UI design is a huge pain. Coupled with the fact that many countries with languages more difficult to support have fewer users, it can be a simple business decision.

I can see why a consumer-friendly interface probably should have multi-lingual support (especially if it has a large, non-English user-base), but development tooling operates at a lower level where more computer-friendly representations are necessary. It also has to be able to all work together under the hood, which requires a common language. English ended up the lingua franca, partly because computers were developed largely in America and partly because English text happens to simply be easier to represent than other languages, at least for computers.
In theory, couldn't you boost the input light by using a couple of mirrors (one capturing light below the panel, one above the solar-incident light shining down at a Summertime angle?) or some carefully position Fresnel-style lensing?

Is polarisation of the reflected light an issue?
It does not. I know because I advocated against it. :-) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/1300

Also, Clippy's defaults are developed to be quite opinionated. It makes many suggestions that I (and many others) disagree with. So Clippy's defaults should not be used as a bludgeon for what's idiomatic and correct.
I'll try to make a parallel that in my opinion explains the thought behind the OPs argument.

In the early days people usually lived close to water bodies (rivers, lakes, etc.) because the closer you lived to the water the better your society thrived (water being essential for live, agriculture, transportation, etc). But there is a limit where if you go too far (i.e. into the water) the benefits evaporate possibly reversing the benefits (building houses into the water adds complexity, flooding, etc).

So there is probably a (global?) optimum that is neither too complex nor too simplistic
Don't forget profit, and the incentive for insurance companies to care less about what they pay and probably prefer higher prices.
I suppose you could give Troy Hunt credit for popularizing the idea of anonymously checking for breached credentials, but Google doesn't use HaveIBeenPwned's database, nor is their method for checking for exposed passwords quite the same.
> I never understood why firing is seen as sufficient punishment for bad actors inside a company.

It's seen as sufficient, often, because:

(1) even if a civil cause of action is available, the cost of litigation far exceeds any plausible benefit to the company, and

(2) The company can't direct criminal prosecution and the high bar of proof and other competing prosecutorial priorities mean even if the conduct the company believes occurred which justified the firing would also be criminal, it often won't meet the criteria a public productor will apply before prosecuting.

> There are so many situations where the payoff is still much higher even if you get fired.

Maybe, but that doesn't mean that there is a correction to that circumstance which doesn't itself have social costs that outweigh it's utility.