skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, these are taxes, not tariffs. If they want to charge it to only foreign cars, then they would be tariffs. If they are tariffs, then that will fuck their trade deals, and their domestic car industry. Which they are not in position to suffer.
Capitalism is about increasing productivity and profitability.

There is no incentive for sustainability unless governments interfer, which would technically be against capitalism.

I think capitalism was a great system, it's just going to screw us within the next 100yrs or so. We definitely wouldn't be where we are without it though
Does intelligence correlate to either education or wealth? I didn't think it did...
Wouldn't building a society where people don't have to make such critical choices out of desperation be the best way to tackle this problem?
Turkey has two population clusters, one in the western side of the country along the Istanbul - Ankara - Izmir triangle, whose population is largely Turkish and connected to Europe. The second, much poorer population cluster (1/3 the size of the first) is in the Kurdish-dominated southeast whose economy is based on its interaction with the Middle East. As long as you don’t jump clusters you’re very well within the range of this car, which seems to have a 300mi range in theory. It remains to be seen how this will work in reality, but on paper it sounds plausible.
Except much of this is fake and suffers from selection bias.
I actually respectfully disagree with this. In my travels, I have encountered many situations where very niche, industry-specific software is completely Free and Open Source, and I have encountered situations where commonly-used, widely useful software is proprietary with no Free solution.

On the Free side, I think one reason is the copyleft nature of the GPL. Another pattern indicator is how modular the software is - smaller bits are easier to open source than massive projects - and the general inclinations of the programmers, their bosses, and their legal teams.

That being said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a Free alternative to AutoCAD in 2020. (Pipes 3D is an AutoCAD extention). It's widely used software across numerous industries, much like Photoshop, Illustrator or Audition, but there is no Free alternative that I'm aware of.

A particularly annoying thing to me here is that AVEVA was actually originally developed and owned by the British government, but it was privatized (I think under Thatcher.) I think the value created for the tax payer would have been much greater to create free tools and software and make them available to everybody rather than just whatever pittance they got from selling it during a privatization firesale.
It's just not scaled up enough yet.
To maintain your debt, yes. But to clear it, and finally be free of it, you need to earn a lot of money. That is bound to focus the mind somewhat.
I've recently gone off the deep end with QMK customization. I found a project [1] which allows you to send data from a host program to the keyboard controller. In [1]'s case it's used to power a secondary display on the keyboard with information like system stats and weather and stuff.

But I've been experimenting with using it for more integration with the host system. Imagine instead of having to toggle the layer yourself, you could have a small script running on the host system which could tell your keyboard the currently focused application, and your keyboard could switch layers automatically.

In my situation, I want a spare ortholinear keyboard to be used as a macro pad of sorts, but rather than just pressing a key combination I want to be able to run full commands (I have a button that opens HN in a new browser tab, one that opens a new terminal to my home directory, one that will open whatever I currently have highlighted in https://devdocs.io in a new tab, that kind of stuff).

I've also been working with trying to tie in things like the host machine's volume level to display on the keyboard display, and I tend to switch my keyboard between a windows and mac system, so I want to see if I can get it to auto-detect the OS and switch various keys around so I have a consistent experience without having to toggle anything myself.

There's so many options you can do when you open up true 2-way communication with a keyboard!

[1] https://github.com/BlankSourceCode/qmk-hid-display
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Object databases. Strictly speaking, Versant object database by Actian (iirc) is the only long standing player and the only actually working implementation.
I hope so too.

Just don’t assume that avoiding the parental flaws that you think you’ve identified to be the root is a silver bullet.
Those are shortcuts on Windows

shift+Home/End: select from current cursor to the beginning / end of the line

ctrl+Home/End: jump to the beginning / end of the document

ctrl+shift+Home/End: select from current cursor to the beginning / end of the document
Autoplay is indeed very annoying. If at least it was muted...

Another annoying feature is that you can't opt-in to 4K HDR per device. Our main TV is an OLED display which is great for 4K HDR but on the bedroom we have a lower quality 4K TV with really bad HDR. I'd rather watch Netflix on that TV in 1080p without HDR. Or what if your connection can handle 4K but it consumes all your bandwidth and someone else needs to do a skype or something.
Heart Rate Tracking: What Do the Numbers Mean?
Turkey high tariffs on imported cars is a response for sanctions/high tariffs imposed on the country's products.
Just replying to point Ubiquiti APs can regularly scan channels for utilization and direct clients away from congested ones. I don’t think it has protection from deauth attempts but I think it would come across as congestion and send clients elsewhere..
The people in most governments are quite cheap,so no surprise here. However,what I don't get is that same people forget that they live in the same country, breathe the same air and their kids will continue to do so. It's like trying to burn neighbor's house without impacting your help own,even though they are both connected...
And you know this number is zero why?

This is just yet another quite literal example of how many GNU/Linux distros are becoming more like Windows - they do all sorts of things now that they were never asked to do, and it's up to us to fix things after a clean install.
Ask HN: What Are Some Good African, Asian, South American News Websites?
I'm constantly looking to build and increase my knowledge of the world, but I realised the 'World' section of many news websites I follow (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc) do not have a particular large amount of African, Asian, South American news.

What news websites do you guys know/recommend to follow for news in these countries? Language would preferably be in English.
I'll do it for a thousand dollars.
And how much work Anthony Lloyd has put into optimizing those programs ;-)

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I am not surprised. It seems like every piece of software with enough people and commercially-oriented interests will silently phone home now. Whether it's open-source doesn't matter, they'll still do it regardless of what others think.
Right now I am using vanilla Debian. They have tons of packages available and they aren't pretending to be anything other than free. I really like RHEL/Centos. Buying RHEL for personal use is a bit expensive and they are pretty sparse for available packages, EPEL helps but is still way behind Debian. Once EPEL fills out more for Centos 8 I will probably switch to that. RHEL/Centos are just bulletproof if they have the software you need/want. Fedora is nice, but the constant updates (including major kernel versions) just don't work for my use case. I need a stable kernel. I work a lot with hardware and need my drivers to keep working.
I don't think I understand your larger perspective here.

Is there a system that incentivizes sustainability?

If there is any interest in producing anything... you're back to your same argument.

Meanwhile capitalist systems there are companies that produce renewable products and etc... seemingly more than ever before.
You're discussing it as a negative metric/limiting factor/base constant type of thing, but that's not the context in the article:

>Thus, the "most valuable developer" as measured by LoC tends to be whoever is adding the most CSS, whitespace, and third-party libraries.

It's still as terrible as ever to positively correlate developer productivity/quality/skill with LOC.
I know Netflix will never make the faceted search interface I've always wanted: Show me shows that are between 45-90 minutes in a particular genre, made in the 70s. Show me animated shows from Japan that are <25 minutes long. Etc.
> I'm not even saying this is bad. Ubuntu has to fund itself somehow.

Yep, just like all the other distros...
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that Google is not the new Microsoft. Apple is very much the walled garden nightmare but as far as embrace, extend, extinguish, goes it seems like Google dominates that pretty hard.
Criterion Channel has been great for this.
In my opinion there's absolutely nothing to be proud about in working long hours for long stretches. All you're doing is setting up or maintaining a completely unmaintainable situation. If you're finding you have to work > 40 hours regularly, someone is making and signing off on bad estimates.

If you're salaried, and you're working extra hours regularly, all you're doing is reducing your effective hourly rate.
> Alternatively: Why not let the people actually making the distros decide what and what not to throw in them?

I'll argue that utilization of Linux comes with certain "expectations" which is why so many of us decide to use it in the first place. Some of those expectations include (but are not limited to) rock-solid stability, "be good at one thing", lack of bloatware, sane update/upgrade cycles/policy, privacy, and security.

I've been using Linux professionally for just over 15 years now, sometimes in highly compliant/systems-critical infrastructure. The privacy and security bullet points above are the most important factors to me when designing and/or hardening systems.

> I don't use Ubuntu, and you don't have to either! It's almost like there are millions of Linux distributions!

Actually - I had to at my last position. When people make technology decisions they often go with the most popular/"safe" options and then dictate the decision to those implementing it. Welcome to corporate America (which is where the jobs are). Everything new was spun-up with Ubuntu as a base distro and you better believe I manually opted-out of this "feature".

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There's a big problem when the most popular distro starts making moves like this as it sets precedent that it's OK. Canonical has made the decision against privacy/security in regards to their motd and that's a huge issue, and I argue it goes against the ethos of Linux and OSS.
YouTube is great. It recommends related videos that are actually related and often interesting, and the amount of good quality content on there seems much higher than Netflix. There is also effectively no DRM and you can watch it in your favourite video player. You can subscribe to channels you are actually interested in and view a feed of new videos only from those channels, with no algorithm trying to pressure you into watching anything else.
>Anyhow, how can capitalism and socialism coexists? Well, it already does!

No (well, "no" from the point of view of scholars of socialism, whose opinion as experts on the topic matters more). Taxes are not "socialist", because "socialism" does not mean a safety net within capitalism. Means of production, as they are spoken of by philosophers, cannot be said to be "jointly owned"[0].

>Sweden the state spends around 50% of GDP so it already owns 50% of everything even if the papers says otherwise, you can't come and say that something which can extract 50% of all value from something doesn't really own it!

These do not count as productive capacity, but as help for workers, even if they were monetary equivalents (quantitatively), they are not qualitatively the same thing. In fact, one of the problems in the theory of exploitation is the question of whether someone who earns a very high income can be said to be "exploited". The compensation, it is held, is not (or less) relevant than the share of productive resources.

>For example, most roads are socialist, you don't have to pay to drive on them even though they cost a lot of money.

Socialism isn't about "fairness" or getting something back from the state[1]. Rather, it's about "class society". I don't mean to argue for or against socialism, but it's important to get the views right. Social safety nets are a social democratic measure within capitalist society. They are "social" but not socialist. Taxes existed in Marx's time (in some cases, higher than what we have now) - nevertheless, Marx called for the establishment of "socialism". Simple redistribution is not the socialist paradigm, except in rare incarnations.

[0] One of the conditions outlined by Roemer, as quoted in SEP: "If S were to withdraw from the society, endowed with its per capita share of society’s alienable property (that is, produced and nonproduced goods), and with its own labor and skills, then S would be better off (in terms of income and leisure) than it is at the present allocation."

[1] "What is "a fair distribution"?

Do not the bourgeois assert that the present-day distribution is "fair"? And is it not, in fact, the only "fair" distribution on the basis of the present-day mode of production? Are economic relations regulated by legal conceptions, or do not, on the contrary, legal relations arise out of economic ones? Have not also the socialist sectarians the most varied notions about "fair" distribution?" (Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program, 1875)
A Razer Naga MMO mouse [1] has 12 thumb buttons (and a couple of others which are rather hard to reach). They are perfect for cut, copy & paste, and other frequent macros / actions. The vendor software is crap, though, especially on a Mac. It often forgets or messes up bindings and macros and you have to reconfigure them. I really got annoyed after doing this a couple of times and switched to SteerMouse [2] which lets you do almost everything the Razer software does, but in a nice and straight forward GUI.

[1] https://www.razer.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-trinity

[2] http://www.plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/download.php
I agree. FFS in my country I can see the 1st and the 3rd LOTR movies but not the 2nd.
Internet sure. But we are talking wifi specifically here.
I sometimes wonder if the main difference between the US and EU economies is that in the EU, the state(s) have largely identified demand inelastic goods and services and regulated their supply: health, tertiary education, housing (more or less). Where these are not regulated, two things happen: prices shoot up and finance providers move in to finance access, creating debt traps. I’m trying not to think about Brexit too much, but one of my indicators for, “this was a bad/good idea” is the extent to which the health, education, housing sectors are further deregulated.
I'll bet he wouldn't like it if he discovered toxic waste was being stored/leaked just next door. But as a theoretical situation he'd probably just say that it's fine as long as it's to code. Even if it were real, people cling to being told it is okay.

There are two problems I see. First, people seem to lack empathy -- it could just as easily be them suffering through no fault of their own. Second, people subconsciously know they could be struck by any number of random bad things, and there is nothing they could do about it, and no one would help; they rationalize this as the victim somehow being at fault. Same as crops failing because of sins or inadequate sacrifices.

Maybe explain to him that these businesses are run by big Democrat donors, and they are getting a free lunch by having tax payers pay for their pollution.
aka "artificial stupidity"
It's not quite the same thing, but VCV Rack is making incredible and rapid progress into becoming a fully fledged DAW. I find myself using Ableton less and less and Rack more and more. Check it out!
> This would be like saying children are the reason parents exist

I think I understand what you're saying, but the phrasing is a little strange. Without children, there wouldn't be any parents by definition.
Amusingly, I have to solve this problem for a minor game project. Drivers have to back their trucks into a loading dock. Players aren't good enough drivers to do this without assistance, so I have to write an assistance system that yells "Left", "Right", "Straight", "Slow", "Stop", etc. as appropriate.
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That's because resource extraction from the planet is - for now - still cheaper than doing it in a sustainable way. At some point that will flip but by then it may well be too late, the 'mines of tomorrow are the garbage dumps of today' was recognized long ago.

Just think of all the copper in landfills.
But can you make much money doing many of these trades? Pulling up glassdoor for several jobs typically parroted as "high paid" show you maxing out at $40k-$50k at the very most without niche specializations. And that's with a decade+ of experience. The pay for the entry level / apprenticeship work is insulting and you could make that at a call center. At least in my area that's what I've seen.
Your phone doesn’t sleep, its always talking to Apple or Google. IP addresses are rotated to keep trouble users at bay. Just like qos isn’t really saving on bandwidth costs.. if you download via http you’re gonna get full transfer speeds available to you, but a single BitTorrent connection won’t. It’s all about mitigating power/problem users
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You are fighting against giants. I mean windmills.

I mean, that ship sailed long ago and your energy is best invested in something else.
Does anybody know of a study documenting that measuring and reporting software code quality metrics actually improve the project/product team's ability to deliver?

So far I've only found studies documenting that measuring code quality improve the team's ability to improve the measurement figures. That doesn't count. More or less any measurement will be gamed if anyone think they are used for something. But has anybody measured if these measurements actually are helpfull?
The country can also kill most of their talent psychologically, if not physically and force best to exile, with mix of repressive politics, military, no freedom s etc. There seems to be correlation of freedom in a country and innovation success.
I find the wording of your last paragraph a little insulting.

Please answer: do you think aerospace, embedded and relational DB engines is dated work that has not evolved?
I'm not sure if this data they're collecting (if they even are storing it long-term) is even being sold.

Like the other commercial Linux distros, Canonical profits from support.

Also, now it seems that even when you pay for the product you're not guaranteed to have something that doesn't include spyware. Windows 10 is a great example of this.
I know I've accidentally done it before. There's enough movies that take place in international locations that it isn't uncommon for a movie to start out subtitled while setting up the plot, then switch over to English with the main character. For the movie I watched, there was nothing in Netflix saying it's a foreign language movie, and after watching the movie for a while, I looked it up online to see if the whole movie is subtitled. If I had known the entire movie was subtitled, I'd have never started it, but Netflix doesn't tell you that in the description.
> So you may need to refine your goals a little: Do you want to (a) fill a gap where no viable OSS exists, or (b) help OSS dethrone proprietary software in some category, e.g. Photoshop?

Filling a gap where not OSS exists. I was trying to understand the gap. Like, many people are saying there are huge gap in CAD technologies, but this can be only solved by the persons who have domain knowledge, like Civil Engineers. Unless the people having the domain knowledge does not agree to volunteer or take the inatiative, no one will see any progress in that field.

> I think there's some wisdom in the notion that the best OSS project idea is one that solves a problem you have

Yeah, it is true. Like I am facing about a problem with APM that there are no or open core alternative of proprietary. Untill this post, I did not know other people are also thinking about its need.
Same thing. Think as for now, everyone could edit CoreUI fonts manually and assign icons to any Unicode characters using FontForge[0]

[0] https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge
They also had a much higher part count in their systems than is common today, so even a low rate of bad parts would result in a lot of malfunctioning systems.
None that I know of.

Sorry if I made it sounds as if there are any alternatives.

Capitalism is still the best system known to work, despite its incentives for pure profits at the cost of sustainability.

It's just good to keep in mind that... It's not good, despite being the best
> Without children, there wouldn't be any parents by definition.

Good point - the phrasing is rather unfortunate.
I doubt Ring devices have the local storage to do this.
It doesn't have to be conflated to low tier, state schools are around there as well and cheaper with aid or scholarship. CSU schools are typically pretty cheap considering the areas they are in.
On the other hand Google assistant seemingly can’t even text through google voice.
“Survivorship” bias plays a role, but I think it’s unjust to chalk it up to just that.

The statistics you’ve given are a convincing argument against “arts” in general, but “arts” is a huge range. If you’re graduating a top 5 arts school, you’re generally already in the top percentile, at which point the sample sizes are small and the variance is huge.

The average ROI is very damning, but your choice of school plays a bit role in determining how “average” you are. I’m not arguing in favor of the average art school, I’m defending the ROI of the schools given as examples in the article (Pratt).

That aside, responding to your specific points:

Like a sibling comment implied, it’s not easy to find quality criticism on demand. I stand by this. It’s hard to tell until you’ve been in such an environment, but it really is an order of magnitude’s difference from what you can get online from strangers.

Further, I sort of miscommunicated the value of the environment. It’s more that you’re seeing how other talented people come up with solutions that diverge from your own in fascinating ways. It’s high pressure because everybody is so good, that it demands you to learn and better yourself, not because of deadlines, etc. That was my bad. :P

Finally, while the fundamentals are relatively constant, it’s hard to find them presented in a way that demands 4 semesters of self driven study. I stand by that point.

But yeah, in conclusion I totally agree with the statistics that the average art degree isn’t worth it. The average art position doesn’t require a top 5 degree. The positions that do are remunerative to the extent that they are worth it, in our experience. Finally, not everyone pays the sticker price; in fact, few people (mostly the very wealthy) do.
Jenkins (https://jenkins.io/), but specially most of its plugins.

I know it's already open source, but it lacks good FOSS alternatives.
> The longest has taken two weeks and is still ongoing.

Even worse, the typical braindead “solution” to this problem is to insist that everything be broken up into chunks of a few hours or less each before work can begin. The end result is “if it can’t be done in a couple of hours, it isn’t worth doing”.
Bachelors and associates degrees aren’t equivalent. Whenever I’ve seen a job posting asking for a degree, they explicitly ask for a 4 year degree.