skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a paywalled interview with Ben Tarnoff, but the preface links this non-paywalled opinion piece from him which is interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-clim...

I agree that "Luddite" is a label we shouldn't be afraid of - at the very least, it should be within the Overton window of acceptable, debatable ideas. It is not an impractical and kneejerk opposition to technology; it is a principled belief that some particular technology, while it might make other people rich, hurts me and others like me, and we have the right to defend ourselves. It is certainly not a mere fear of unfamiliar technology.

One thing I'm noticing from the world around me is the extent to which political campaigning is a zero-sum game. We've poured billions of dollars into the US presidential campaigns, funding everything from microtargeted advertising to (probably) machine learning to figure out who to microtarget, and the effect is that each candidate spends tons of money on it, fighting each other. It's not clear that overall outcomes have improved (e.g., "does the elected president more accurately represent what the people actually want, because they're better informed about positions and issues"), and it certainly seems like if you could magically prevent everyone from spending piles of money, we wouldn't be any worse for it - but it's very hard to do that in any meaningful sense (there's enough ways to spend money on influence, on get-out-the-vote campaigns targeting specific neighborhoods, etc.), so it's irrational for anyone to voluntarily back down. And a huge chunk of this money, in turn, is spent on computers (and electricity and emissions) and not on human jobs.

> Decomputerization doesn’t mean no computers. It means that not all spheres of life should be rendered into data and computed upon. Ubiquitous “smartness” largely serves to enrich and empower the few at the expense of the many, while inflicting ecological harm that will threaten the survival and flourishing of billions of people.
I believe so, the comp. arch. textbooks were pretty emphatic on the description of the CDC 6600 as "full of peripheral processors", e.g. for I/O and printing, etc. Deliberately, not something tacked on later as an afterthought.
Thanks. Will check this out. But I suspect if it will work properly on some of my files - GIMP also uses libheif and the HEIF plugin that uses it kept crashing on some of my huge image files.
It would be important context to know if this is an agency or a product owner company.

There is a whole spectrum of client-agency relationships, and some of them are more like a feature factory than others, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Some companies want to hire a development team to work as if they were in house developers. Some clients just want to ask for Feature X and have Feature X delivered. They keep most of the discussions about business value, metrics and forward planning internally.

It doesn't have to mean that you have a business with bad processes, it could just mean you have the latter client relationship and a fairly mature process of delivery that doesn't require constant turmoil, refactoring and retrospectives.
The problem on the Fediverse is when these bots post in "public" instead of "unlisted", so everyone gets the posts in the public timeline, which gets overrun by bots.
In state communism the wealth goes to the state. There is also anarcho communism which is state-less. Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin advocated for anarcho communism.
Once you describe something with an easy to understand model (especially a numerical one) it becomes extremely convincing (maybe it’s something like harmonic grammar or joke telling where understanding the joke makes it more funny.)

This is for the people who’s entire job involves building spreadsheets full of numbers to show to each other; it’s the end of academia’s influence on corporate culture. It’s part of a machine who’s sole purpose is to make noise for its own amusement.
NetBSD is probably my favorite BSD. I like its focus on simplicity and portability. I also like pkgsrc a lot more than ports. I appreciate that pkgsrc is portable beyond BSD, too - Minix uses it. Nice work, folks :)
Similar to the approach seen in "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Getting ready to build Hackintosh using OpenCore
Most of what I’ve heard about keto diets involves leaving blood sugar levels dangerously low for long periods of time by forcing your body into its weird starvation mode.

That's a gross mis-characterization of keto diets, at least when done properly[1].

Up to 20g of net-carbs (ie: non-fiber) per day. The intention is to moderate your insulin response, which impacts other hormones and, for weight loss, switches your fat cells to be able to release fat for energy instead of storing fat. That level of carbs are more than adequate to maintain necessary blood sugar levels for your body's needs.

There's no "weird starvation mode". Lowering your carb intake and moderating your insulin response causes your body to stop the "easy" burning of carbs for energy, and to switch to burning fat (from your food first, fat cells second) for energy. A big misconception about keto is that you have to eat a lot of fat; if you're trying to lose weight that's not true. You need to consume enough fat to keep your calorie intake from being too low (otherwise you do get into a starvation mode which lowers your metabolism), but low enough so that your body needs to get fat from your fat cells to make up its energy needs.

All that said, I have no idea if keto helps with cancer at all. It almost certainly has no direct affect. If there's any benefit, I would guess that it's related to the hormonal and metabolic impacts of fat-burning rather than carb-burning, or the reduction of systemic inflammation that most people on extended keto diets experience.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq
Worst case is he paid his dozen developers for a decade. Sounds responsible.
> most people given opportunity to take $44k would quickly turn it into $0

Yes, because giving that much money to a kid and having it pay off also involves a lot of luck.
Stating you're making a wild claim, in advance, doesn't mean you can avoid the responses to it.
The official docs at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ should do
Oh yeah, I'm agreeing with you for sure.

I don't know what to say about the article, aside from Windows vs Linux comparisons almost always have a degree of inaccuracy. In this case, Phoronix are clearly Linux experts and I fully trust their Linux data.

Its very difficult to find someone who knows how to optimally compare Windows vs Linux, because most people only really learn one platform. I've taken it upon myself to become a "jack" in both platforms (having neither the expertise of a Windows expert, nor a Linux expert), so I'm better positioned than most to see and understand cross-platform issues.

But very few people bother to learn both systems. (And frankly, most people don't have to learn the other system, so why bother learning? You really can make a solid career on one OS without ever thinking about the other one...)
I’ve seen people think they’re reasoning about it when I fact they are not. I was on a project where the developers we Node pros for years. They were flummoxed when they couldn’t introduce transactions because they didn’t close over the database connection. When I said they had to hold the same connection through all the method calls, I was told I was wrong and that a global pool would be able to handle that without some external tracking mechanism.
Three’s 5G has actually been running since last summer : I should know, I was in one of the pilot areas in London and signed up for their home broadband offering on day one.

No complaints, 100-300Mbps on average.
They seem to have done great at the 5G spectrum auctions, they’re the only UK carrier with 100+ Mhz.

I’m also using them for mobile 4G and yes that’s often awful, as others are reporting. I should probably switch to giffgaff (safer to use different providers anyway in case Three has a catastrophic outage), but Three’s "Feel at home" free roaming in many countries beyond the EU (including the US) is super handy and has no equivalent that I know of.
Would hate to work in the kind of environment where coworkers don't trust each other. At last big tech company, people willingly added their compensation to an internal spreadsheet.
I hope someone has a better answer.

Remember all those small forums, wikis, and wordpress blogs with open comments? Some admins spent hours manually reverting automated linkspam. Others didn't. The solution was to pay centralized services like google's recaptcha or disqus with the user's data.

Mastodon is looking okay so far. But I don't think spammers are seriously targeting it yet.
Sorry, even if Netflix was used as a front for Hollywood for the DRM in HTML push, this smells too much of a "just following orders" justification - they benefited greatly by bending to Hollywood's wishes !

Also, their subscription model is quite different from plain rentals, and I'm having issues with the renting model anyway... and Netflix isn't so much renting as subscription... and even people that don't follow these issues are starting to realize that a system where there's no "standard" and you have to subscribe to multiple subscription platforms is bad !
As long as there's an option to remove them, I look at ad-supported games as a demo. I'll always gladly pay to remove the ads if I like the game enough to play it more than a couple times.
You just described me haha. In my Google phone screen, I fumbled around on solving an easy-moderate problem - so much so that when it ended, I felt that there was no way even I would hire me. And once it ended, I wrote the code for it in probably 10 minutes. Also, arranging it so that it was the first in the loop did not help either. The only good thing about the process was that the recruiter was nice about the whole debacle and did not make me feel too embarrassed.
Honnestly, it's mostly the UI revamp that put Blender up to big gun: a familiar interface mean that every artist trained on other software can "easily" transfer. Sculpting improvement, are, well, an open discussion. Poly modelling with subdiv is still better in Mirai, a software dead for nearly 20 year now for example, and lot of artist using nurbs still miss Softimage 3D 4.
I'm not saying economic growth does not exist. I've replied to essentially the same point in other comments in this thread.
Framing adware as a socially progressive business model is nauseating.
sysadmin is the standard one. CEO is the other. :)
China's role in the U.S. fentanyl epidemic
Imagine still using semi-colons in JS source in 2020 and "bookmarklet compatibility" being your reasoning.
The ad-supported version can be a disaster for your privacy though.
> If you have some hustle anyone can raise that type of money.

If you have hustle and unearned confidence and an existing reliable network, sure.
This is a cool project and I like your point about resetting expectations wrt performance. I work in an all-Python shop and it’s maddening that people are relatively okay with builds (mostly installing dependencies) in the tens of minutes, CLIs that take ten seconds to print —help, and requests that take tens of seconds at the median and timeout at p95, not to mention at least 5x more spend on our cloud bill.

With something like Go, it would take us a little up front effort to learn the language and we would easily get a 1-2 order of magnitude improvement in most of these metrics (and any productivity difference is well within the margin for error). This is our shop, but it’s also a microcosm of the broader Python community (e.g., takes half an hour to resolve dependencies for medium sized projects). It would be really cool if the broader community would rally around PyPy and improve its support or if CPython would move be willing to concede some backwards compatibility on its extensions interface in order to allow for more optimizations.
That's a very fair point. I can only speak from my own experience on this.

It's a great observation that authoritarian tendencies can probably arise in any size of organization.

(I would advise getting out -- if you can, financially, etc. -- if you do not have self-determination. It's incredibly soul-destroying in the long term. Best of luck.)
You'd better be paying those devs the cost of doing everything
Hold on, so your product both blocks others’ privacy-invasive trackers while being a tracker itself? Classy.

Curious as to what happens when you use this to send a tracked e-mail to someone else using this add-on. Does it whitelist itself?
I think it only applies in certain cases were mobility is possible. If someone is a janitor earning hourly wages, functionally their lives will be the same, poverty, no potential for advancement. If you believe the Bernie hype, under communism at least they'd get to go to the hospital, but it's a system with no real attempts
I'm guessing the actual interview is behind a paywall, but it can't really tell. It just seems like the article ends abruptly.
Very.

You are asking on HN, so you are bound to be the kind of person who can go to Sweden, find work or continue to work remotely for your present employer or whatever, and settle into things and be welcomed.

The office language is often English, everyone speaks excellent English and everyone is happy to speak it. I know many immigrants in the IT sector who have picked up only the most basic Swedish despite years of living there; you can get by by just talking to absolutely everyone in English.

At least half of the programmers at offices I’ve seen are immigrants. They have a variety of reasons for going to Sweden, which usually seem to start with uni eg from the classic “met my wife-to-be when she was an exchange student” to “studied here, never went home” etc.

Now there’s an entirely different experience for the unskilled and refugees, but although there is an veiled racist vocal right wing, the real people, even those who live near flyktingboende, seem compassionate.
> when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...

which ones are you thinking of?
In true communism, the wealth goes to the community - the people - not to the state.

We've never seen that as a country-level organization, but that's the theory.
I'm not a professional researcher on this topic, just an passionate observer and n=1 having healed an "Incurable" autoimmune condition using a carnivore (ketogenic) diet.

The rationale to put it shortly is that cancer (amongst other modern disease epidemics) is a mitochondrial disease, that most cancers have damaged mitochondria and can't process ketone bodies. Ketogenic metabolism is perfectly healthy and most probably the default state for human biology. I won't go into details in this reply, but my personal experience and that of thousands of others attests to this.

The rationale for an animal (and animal fat) based diet is more complex, but it revolves around the fact that all plants contain compounds that damage the intestinal lining to varying degrees. This leads to a cascade of events in which the immune system devolves into a diseased state that leads to the wide array of chronic illnesses that we see today. Chronic inflammation disturbs the whole system, often includes neuroinflammation, which itself causes depression and exacerbates stress, worsening the condition further.
Got a source for that? We’ve got extreme wealth inequality today on broadly capitalist terms. I think it depends on whether you mean state communism, where state officials can enrich themselves, or anarcho communism which would be truly democratic.

Actually in most cases I think wealth concentration has a lot to do with how much democracy you have. In America the wealthy classes control our democracy and so we have a lot of inequality. In Soviet Russia the state officials had control and so there was a lot of inequality.

A lot of anarchist theory is schemes for more democracy. The whole idea of anarchism is to eliminate unnecessary hierarchy.
If you think that people use drugs like fentanyl because they are unhappy, rather than because they are not working, then this would fix it: https://pastebin.com/4ukwRxDG
I'd say it depends on the Linux distribution. Things like Ubuntu would be much like mentioned [1], packing just about everything¹, while on something like openwrt you would probably recognize or easily find out the function of all userspace processes - I counted 13 on my router.

It doesn't help that linux (kernel and userspaces) tends to resemble chaotic patchwork more¹ than a reasonably designed system.

¹ exaggeration
I was curious about Lemmy, but it is really not easy to find on Google. I was able to find this through a google search for "lemmy activitypub" which took me to a random github issue which linked here, presumably it's the right site?

https://dev.lemmy.ml/
I have tried a milder version of this and as anyone can guess - it did not work. The supply is too much and demand not so, the organizations will always pass. Only if you can get the demand-supply to work in your favour will this work.
I cannot help but refer to this old, old joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights#Etymology

(I used to discern between program stages on 286/386 because sound of power supply was different for different loops)
Accounts (I believe ) are similar to email addresses. So it's like having an account userX@gmail.com and trying to migrate that to userX@yahoo.com. Essentially the account is tied to the domain/server.
I'm not sure it's as simple as a binary "communism" vs. "capitalism" - at least in the context of feasible political proposals in most Western country, that's less often the debate than the strength of the welfare state and the amount of market regulation. Do we have stats on how wealth inequality relates to such things?

There's also the question of what the shape of the distribution looks like - for instance, would you prefer a country where 90% of the country has no savings and 10% has more money than they need, or one where 95% of the country has two months worth of savings and 5% of the country has more money than they need?
And there are others if his falls short: https://vungle.com/
Perhaps. Most places in the US an employment contract can be terminated at will for almost any reason or without any specific reason.
> even if you're a college student with no connections.

Unless you mean community college, just by virtue of being in college you are exposed to a network of people who have money.
Yeah, I guess bitmapped "GPUs" were considered an extreme luxuary/waste of money back then.
Yup, it's such a small thing, but it actually makes a huge difference. C++ has the same problem when dealing with optionals, etc. etc.

(I know absolutely nothing about Dart, but it does sound a bit weird that the expression-ness of an if is contextual. Is there a good underlying reason for the exceptionalism here?)
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This sounds like a wonderful idea but I'd love to hear some stats on how this specific time-off fares for would-be startupers. The article mentions a few successful start-ups but it's unclear whether these came about as a result of the time-off or if they resulted from someone just pursuing them full time. Not knocking the idea either way, just would love to see data on how many new companies it's helped create.
They could set a minimum number of people in the results to be > $THRESHOLD or you'd get "not enough data". I believe Facebook ended up doing something similar after a college student targeted his room mate with a number of overly-specific FB ads, wrote about it, and the story went viral (before 2016 elections)
Does it? If you work super hard at your job, the best thing you can hope for is a bonus or promotion. They tend to offer you stock options to make you invested
(I'll take a stab at this, but my knowledge is rather limited on this one so take it with a grain of salt).

Markets are a mix of locality. Some markets have more global reach than others.

The car mechanic example is a mostly local one, with the car parts being shipped from somewhere else, maybe in the same country or outside, which might take some influence on the price. Operation cost is local (rent, labor, other supplies) and customers are local, so the prices on mechanic services are stable and location based.

Software engineering has more global reach. It can be done remotely, but the labor is a mix of local and global (learning online, but also local universities, conferences, meetups), which justifies the pay gap between a local to the company (excluding timezone and culture differences, which makes the process and supply size smaller). It's also hard to evaluate the quality of work (see difficulties in hiring, analyzing performance).

The strongest argument I see is the cost of comfort (made somewhere else on this thread). Wages are largely decided on what other companies are paying and remote is a fairly new thing, so it's still highly unstable.

Pricing on products are also notoriously difficult. Some apps have prices adjusted by region.
Show HN: A startup ideas generator using GPT-2 and descriptions of YCs startups
I replaced a python/uwsgi stateless stack with an elixir stateful system. Flipped it over and it worked flawlessly, and hasn't died once in several months of operation. Latencies are way down, and operation of it is simpler. Full deploy to the head node is one command, not an ansible script.

I guess part of it is that I'm lazy and haven't learned supervisor strategies like kubernetes (the place I work doesn't deploy kubernetes anyways)

This video is instrumental in giving me the confidence to do what I did: https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
> The main benefit of capitalism is the dream of being the wealthy person, if you're a janitor it's almost impossible, but the dream is there

Would you prefer to be a poverty-line worker with a realistic but unlikely dream of being wealthy, or a worker who can support a 4-person family comfortably and retire at age 60 but has no chance of ever making any more money?

(This is not a rhetorical question, I think there are genuinely lots of possible answers there.)
Any you can shift your focus to. I don't see a future being a JOAT, especially not if you're transcending vast ecosystems like Windows, Linux or proprietary and open source.

Choose one such ecosystem to focus on, but within that can be many exciting things like Javascript and Python or Rust and Embedded.
It's not easy to fire people in Sweden. You are not allowed to fire just because of lack in skill. Typically they would have to be severely negligent (like basically intentionally sabotaging) or there has to be a lack of work for that role. (In the latter case, they would have precedence for the job if you try to hire a replacement)

But for people just out of university it's common to hire people with a probationary period of a few month, during which you are allowed to terminate the employment without any specific reason. This probably helps some people, who don't have the right experience, to get a job.

I'd say that it's not very common that the opportunity for termination is actually used though, so I wouldn't credit it for any perceived success of Swedish tech.
I assume that's the cost when taking into account the reuses, not the construction cost.
Probably the social safety net that takes away so much risk of starting your own business...
I mean... most startups fail. Surely that's no less true in Sweden than elsewhere. If you want statistics, I guess you'd measure this in terms of successful exits or revenue or equity size or something as a fraction of population or GDP or workforce. But at least anecdotally (c.f. Spotify/Skype/Mojang) they seem to be doing pretty well.