skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it apples and oranges?

What makes using a 6 year outdated OS so much different from using a 6 year outdated browser? Both long stopped being supported by many websites and apps.
What is eating you alive? You're likely working for an organisation trying to push their software or services onto other people.

Open source adovocacy has the same kind of ideas from another perspective.

There isn't some magic ideal of an engineer. You solve problems. Those problems are generally driven by the agenda of whoever is paying for it. Unless you're running your own business then it's your agenda you're pushing.

If you don't want to use containers, then don't use them. VMs or bare metal haven't disappeared. Any application that's container deployable should be deployable outside of a container.

"I see no point in studying any technology, tooling than the toolings my organization"

That's a fine perspective to have. Keeping up with technology can by very time consuming, and we work to live rather than live to work.

However if you want to be involved in decision making processes. You should have an understanding of the solutions that you don't want to recommend.

Saying "I don't like how the press have been pushing it everywhere and I think there's an agenda" is not an acceptable argument if you're asked about the possibility of contsinerising your company's application.
If the 99% figure has merit, that is what the programme is intended to uncover.

Your point about the Daily Mail is lost on me - perhaps you could point to an alternative podcast on statistics that does a less biased job, so I can see the same nationalist perspective as you are seeing, and understand the value of your objection?
So far US invaded or staged a coup in every country that had audacity to refuse using US dollar. That is one of the most important functions of US military power.

Also, countries with US military bases aren't really sovereign. They can't for example refuse to invest significant portion of their GDP in US treasuries.
...as long as the antibiotics still work. :(
Okay, how about Singapore?
Problem is that "business capital" is also the same as "social capital". Rich people have influence because they hang out with other rich people.

If you want to have startup you have to hang out with rich people so they invest in it or they buy your services. You don't want to have your company 10 hours or more away from customers.

It can argued that it does not matter as much for Google, but if you are a product owner of a "FizzBuzz maker", you need social capital with high ranking people in organization so they don't cut your budget. In the end it works the same, that you have to play golf with the right people so they trust you and don't cut your funding.

Of course, it is not enough just to hang out with right people. Don't get me wrong, because hanging out with people will validate all skills so if person doesn't deliver no one is going to hang out with such person.

There was an article on HN not long ago with a line "Talent is distributed equally. Opportunity is not.", because social capital in big cities is much more valuable than in country side. In terms of money, in terms of no one is going to talk to you, in big city you can find new friends easier.
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And that’s why it relatively slow compared to e.g. C — which is designed for machines, not humans.
I wonder how many innocent plead guilty in a plea bargain, just because they don't have the resources to fight the charges. Quite perverse incentives.
They have not been solved. My point was that automation via Coq's tactic language can serve as a decent substitute for "push-button" automation like Hammers, at least if one's continually working in the same domain and so can build up a library of tactics.
> With modern technology there is little excuse. Fewer and fewer enterprises require physical concentration to operate.

True, but they're still a small minority of jobs; and those people will need/want services provided by workers of professions that do require physical presence, who will have an incentive to move away to big cities. So the only way to sustain that is to have a group of extremely highly paid remote workers, who can pay a premium to keep those other service workers in the area. Meanwhile, everyone who doesn't have a customer service job nor a remote one will move away, so you're left with a bifurcated pool of workers. Doesn't really sound like a great community to me.

The alternative is for remote workers to live mostly isolated from non-remote workers, but I can't see that spreading beyond a few exceptions.

EDIT: Now that I think of it, we already have those bifurcated communities, in the form of areas to where people with money move after retiring (which also frees them from the physical part of the job). I guess they're reasonably popular.
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Are you thinking of Container Linux by CoreOS (The company purchased by Red Hat)? Fedora CoreOS is a continuation of Container Linux.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_Linux#Derivatives
Actually, people of Crimea are happy to be part of the US. But I guess you will never learn this from Western mass media.
The answer is simple, but you're not gonna like it.

1) Set minimum qualifications

2) For everyone who passes step one, run a lottery

3) That's it

Most interview processes are about as good as a coin flip at determining if a candidate is a good fit. People are biased (especially people who think they're objective, which describes a lotnof hring managers), and so are the systems built on our decision-making. So, apply similar logic as to the kind that supports index fund investment: cut "people" out of the decision-making, and make the process faster and cheaper by relying on a simple set of objective criteria and the way risk distributes across a population.
You have some strange ideas about why people use C instead of C++ these days. People continue using C not because C++ lacks coroutines or something else (a strange argument for C which has almost no features to speak of), and not because they hate safety. No, people use C dor the sake of portability, for the sake of embedded systems, and for the sake of utter simplicity where that is required. Weaning them off C to C++ is impossible because C++ already doesn't fit their requirements. In fact, Rust is better suited to embedded devices than C++, so there's no real need to proselytize C++ to C programmers. Or to anyone, I would argue, because C++ is a terrible language nearly impossible to write safe software in, as well as an ergonomical, developmental and compilational pain in the ass.

In fact, I believe that in terms of developer time wasted as well user frustration, C++ is the most harmful language in the history of humanity. Someday I'll put together a page listing the dozens of C++'s design daults. Here's just a single article demonstrating how incompatible with simplicity and correctness C++ is: http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_anatom...
This exact point is addressed in the audio. (TL;DL: The number is around 60%, the rest is either withdrawn or gets a "crown stay")

(And this is why Wikipedia needs to be taken with a grain of salt)
That’s absolutely normal for companies of all sizes, although it’s often correlated with financial struggles.

Edit: they are not actually late, the deadline is the end of this month.
Ah I see. I totally missed that.

So that's quite interesting.
Because on the host I generally run Ubuntu 18.04. Because I know how it works and can ensure it's secured and up to date.

Same with someone with familiarity with Redhat/Centos etc.

But installing a whole different OS?

Like I get it on niche Linux distros where people like packaging their desktop environments whilst pulling in Debian packages for everything else, for example.

But what's the advantage here?
What's wrong with using a subset of the browser APIs? Or, alternatively, one of the many existing platform APIs?
Not as far as I can tell, but I only have my phone and can't do much with that. I'll check again when I've got my laptop. But the votes look clean and the comments I saw so far are by established users.

It's not uncommon that a post like this strikes a whimsical chord. Promotional behavior is usually more mechanical and samey.
Great point. Perhaps it should be called a 'Minimum viable solution to a problem people will pay for'.
External factors always have a huge influence on outcomes, but they are also often not under your control. Focusing on the things you do have control over is vastly better than using uncontrollable things as an excuse not to bother at all. This means that if a person needs to pretend it's all about themselves, in order to be motivated enough to try and control the controllable, then that's the best strategy.
There's also an economic reason: if not for Russian gas, Germany will have to buy several times more expensive US gas. One more way to rule Germany (another is military bases).
Thanks - but getting that original link is harder in my apple podcast app. at least with only one thumb free...
> If the economics are an issue, then selective use of farm subsidies are appropriate given the positive value being added to the land in terms of increased productivity and soil quality.

Wait, what? If the farmer’s asset is getting more valuable how is that an argument for public subsidies?
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Nobody is going to parallel-construct for a few movies, unless you make a business out of streaming pirate movies (in which case you kinda deserve it).
I'm an American ex-prosecutor. Our conviction rate is similar -- many places are like this. Note that the 99% figure includes guilty pleas. If this statistic were about "99% of criminal trials end in victory for the prosecutor," now THAT would be something I'd expect to see linked to North Korea. But the extreme vast majority of crim cases never reach trial.

Both here in the States and in Japan, as well as elsewhere, a lot of the reason for the high conviction rate is understaffing. It's a combination of (a) not enough time and money to bring all cases to trial, and (b) only bringing the obviously guilty cases all the way to trial. Guilty pleas are everything. (I'm not saying that's a good thing, because it isn't, but it's the reality.) Approximately 97% of federal felony convictions result from pleas.

As a prosecutor, I felt far far more like a negotiator than a litigator. In one year, I handled approximately 700 cases and had only 2 trials. (Not all of the rest were convictions; many were moved to alternative resolutions (i.e., drug treatment programs), and a few were dismissed.) 700 cases in one year is an unethical number of cases, but what could anyone do? We were only paid ~$40,000 per year (on top of massive loan debt) and they still couldn't afford to hire more. Public defenders were similarly overworked. Hence the pleas, and the high conviction rates.
Replace ruby with crystal, and this comment can be removed.
Browser APIs are not C ABIs and the platform C ABIs are typically not cross platform and make for a bad target.
No, I'm still struggling with that too. It's probably the main thing that still grates in Ruby syntax for me (along with `unless` and implicit returns). I'm sure it'll become natural as I use the language more, though!

Scala has similar conventions, I believe.
> If you create an organization on GitHub for a project that is meant to remain personal,

Sounds like there were intentions or plans to transform a one man project into something bigger. Some steps were made. Hence, a nice looking website, a github org, benchmarks etc. All those signals are intentions, the vision of the future self. They may or may not come true.

Nothing signaled an established business model or sustainable backing of any kind.
Same. I always felt that Python was actually designed for humans and that Ruby had an incomprehensible syntax.
Time for the Human Screenome Project
This article goes into detail on how the conviction rate is so high:

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-c...
That's a really helpful way to think about it, thank you!
There is no browser to replace. Many of us are trying to look into WASM for loadable modules or entire binaries.
LOL, please, show any country looted by Russia. Even during Soviet times most of Russia GDP was spent to raise quality of life in republics, especially Baltic republics.

And now Russia spend enormous amount of money to develop Crimea. Where's the looting?
The new release looks awesome and I will give it a try. Thank you for the great work!

I am still missing one thing: A live markdown editor (real time preview) like in Mark Text[0] and Typora[1].

Of course MindForger contains much more really useful features to connect thoughts and stay organized but somehow I prefer the writing experience with real time preview (it is also less intimidating for users who don't know markdown which is very likely if they don't work in IT).

I don't say this has to be the de facto default but I would appreciate a "live-mode" you can toggle.

[0]: https://github.com/marktext/marktext
[1]: https://www.typora.io/
You're just playing at semantics at that point.
So basically how the US acts? See middle east, south&middle america...
I just saw the intro video. I agree with the key insight (I'm a psychology graduate, I'm basing it on that knowledge).

Here's some raw feedback from an n = 1. I'm being as critical as I can here, because your project can take it.

Personally, I don't think this is the final answer to the problem your solving but a good step towards it. I see some UX issues. It feels like I'm looking at a Blackberry (in a pre-Blackberry era) and not an iPhone.

So in conclusion: you found a key insight that everyone missed, executed well on it, but I'm missing a certain polish. I wouldn't know what this certain polish is, otherwise I'd have told you. It's simply a gut feeling (and gut feelings are terrible at picking things apart).

I know it sounds a bit nitpicky, but view it this way: your one step away from world domination as far your product is concerned in my eyes. I'd say in a sense that's really positive feedback, isn't it?

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I'm going to riff on this idea in my free time: how can visual layout information help recall? I mean, one quick thought I have is: you can also make a VR app for this. Not sure if that would be the way to go (I think not), but I can imagine how it could help.
I’ve been trying to get into Ruby for a new job and am finding it hard.

Not being designed for machines is right - a lot of the IDEs seem bad and can’t even figure out where your methods come from. I don’t know how the interpreter manages to run it. Multiply the problem by 10 once you add rails and all the methods it generates.

It makes for a good, rapidly developed monolith but most places I’ve worked in recent times are moving to services and micro services and it doesn’t seem cut out for that.
Dynamic type systems are not inherently more open
> Especially when they then offshore bits of the company to India or Eastern/Southern Europe requiring contracted staff to use a VPN.

But that's the point, isn't it? If you're giving up on locality, you might as well hire someone cheap. The fact that they can commute into the office is one of the things keeping the salaries of UK workers higher.

In other words, be careful with what you wish for, you just might get it.
You are required to show your card to police when they suspect there is a crime. You can refuse by asking if there is a reason to believe there was a crime and if this is a "professional inquiry"

If yes, they must provide the reason. [1] At that point, you may have to show them your card depending on the circumstances. They may leave you alone, however.

My experience: I was once taking photos in a dark alley for some cyberpunk type shots around 9 p.m. I was approached by two officers who asked, "What are you doing here?" Kind of a trick question, because then they said, "Oh, you speak Japanese. Do you have your resident's card?"

I complied here because of the optics. After complying to show my card, my bag and me were fully searched which I was not okay with. After that I experience, I became well acquainted with my rights because, at that time, I did know them well.

1 - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/04/02/issues/rig...

[1]'s source / reference: http://www.debito.org/shokumushitsumon.html
You can use the Gitlab CI variables so that both the "docker build" job and the "test docker image" job use a unique image ID for your pull request.

Personally I use branch + git tag name as the image tag, but you can use a commit hash or whatever.
They torture?
“Ruby is designed for programmers, not end users”

It's not machines who care about performance. It's the person who has to use the program written. It may sound gentle and altruistic, but when you actually think about it, putting “humans” first is actually an incredibly self-serving sentiment.
Unfortunately, I don't get what you mean. Which organizations is the US barring these countries from entering? Is your solution to them the same that they should listen to the US views as well?
The same as from using Electron, but a step further: less overhead from unneeded browser features, ability to lock the user into a kiosk/fullscreen mode, while most of the code is still reusable.
Look at what happened in Afghanistan. A bunch of Toyota pickup trucks and AK-47s collected on the cold bodies of soviet soldiers is all it took for mujahideens to win the war, despite 20 years of war and trillions of dollars spent.

The main difference in the US would be that militias are even better equipped and better trained. Your tanks and APCs are completely irrelevant; they're useful to capture land, but by definition the US government has no land to capture in the US.
My mailman is 75. There are a lot of young people who could use these good jobs. It's time to get on your rockers and shake your fists at the clouds.
And as I said, it's always funny watching the UK scrutinize other countries legal systems while internal scrutiny is limited to news outlets that aren't so tightly connected to the state (or literally is state propaganda like the BBC). But boy, when such scrutiny does occur the atrocities it uncovers leaves people scratching their heads at the supposed "envy of the world".
In the OpenStack world you can use the old Fedora atomic and container Linux to automatically spin up k8s clusters using OpenStack heat and OpenStack magnum.
>Compared to VW and Dieselgate, they’re saintly.

Your baseline for being a "good" corporate citizen is "better than VW"? That's a low bar.

The fact that you can point to 2 or 3 different analogues for corporate misdemeanor proves my point. Tesla is one company.

>But Tesla using tax subsidies in Nevada and not meeting Buffalo inventive targets?

It's not about "using subsidies". It's about making promises tied to those subsidies and not fulfilling them. Tesla is in tax arrears in Nevada. How is that possible for such a successful company? That money pays for services the company and employees uses. Is that something a "good corporate citizen" would allow to happen?

What about violating labour laws? Securities fraud? SWATing a whistle blower?

I will ask you this plainly: why are Tesla getting loans from a government running internment camps, and telling us "China is the future"? Musk wouldn't sit on a commitee with Trump, but will take his business to China? Is this really something a "good corporate citizen" would do? This is an obvious line in the sand to me and many other people.

Again, I make no claims that Tesla are necessarily better or worse than the next company. but you referred to them as "good corporate citizens". Attitudes like "you can do anything you want as long as it's in the name of being green" are going to seriously harm the climate change conversation in the long run.
I might be biased and paranoid because of where I live, but... to me, this post reads like trying to harm M247’s reputation. I mean, the address stuff is pretty ridiculous for anyone who works in the business, and the market-strategy considerations are akin to me saying AWS targets the news market so that the US government can shut down all those sites when they feel like, just because a lot of news sites are hosted on AWS.
What about RDP would that be a possibility?
Interesting comment.

> I believe in most other countries jail would have been imminent out of disrespect.

Is this part accurate? In the (admittedly few) countries where I have spent a lot of time and have gained any real experience dealing with the police, they have proven to have a relatively genial and pro-community outlook, aiming more to help people and prevent harm, rather than browbeating and abusing people.

My impression is that the so-called offence of "contempt of cop" (i.e. being arrested for being a smart-ass or upsetting a cop's feelings, rather than any genuine breach of the law or peace) is a bit of a North American phenomenon, but no doubt my perception is being affected by sampling bias there, having been exposed to American media etc.

In my (non-American) experience, you must push things incredibly far to get anything more than a sarcastic laugh or eye-roll or "move along, mate" from a cop.
> The Wikipedia figure for Canada is wrong. The straight acquittal rate is ~3%, but the other 97% are not convictions, only about 60% are.

I've observed what happens in Australia (wasn't me personally, but someone I know). Charged with a crime for which the evidence was rather weak/debatable. His family could afford a good barrister and expert witnesses. As soon as the defence expert witness finishes demolishing the prosecution's case from the witness stand, the prosecution move for the case to be dismissed.

It was very obvious that if he had been a poor person, whose family couldn't afford to pay many $10,000s on good lawyers and expert witnesses, the prosecution would have won the case. But I think that's their technique. Charge lots of people, some of whom are well-resourced enough to cast doubt on the prosecution's case, others are not. Fold against the former, win against the later. So long as they get enough of the later and not too much of the former, pat themselves on the back for meeting their targets.
This comparison is absolutely meaningless to me. Does that mean I'm older than the older readers?
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That’s not how it works for humans though. “Other drivers are terrible. I am above average. Other drivers underride. I don’t”
i like it when i am asked to pay up front. on one side it feels pushy, like "you don't trust me, or what?", on the other it feels like a relief. it means i can relax, take my time as i want, as i don't need to account for additional check out time. also no more attempts to upsell me on more drinks, etc...
>in the end Taleb always turned out to be right on the few predictions he did make

Yeah, the bond prepayment crisis of 2005 was terrible.
This is a bit weird argument from my point of view.

I argued about that it is hard to get 100% remote companies with 100% remote positions. Nothing about no one should ever do it. If you have smart people who you trust, you can do it.

You bring up examples of companies that are doing remote work so someone is trying to do that. It works for them. Expecting every company to do it is not the way to go.

Every company should be doing what is best for them, based on people and possibilities they have. Just like Yahoo tried remote work and Merissa Mayer come up with remote work ban, not sure if it was good for company but that was their decision.