skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the criticisms have been addressed though. Basically no one outside of enthusiasts uses X any more; Android and Chrome OS use an entirely different graphics system. The filesystems have been replaced. Shells have been replaced and/or obviated for most users.
If you re-read the document you will see that there is a note regarding the international frequency ranges indicating that they are taken from the 2016 edition of the ITU Radio Regulations.
So, what is this magical Google email address? I don't think it exists.
Same here, org-roam just kind of "clicked" things into place for me.

I've modified a template for single-subject documents called "tags" so they're stored in ~/Org/tags/. I've also configured org-journal to store files in ~/Org/Journal/

One thing I'll be interested to discover, in the future, is how I archive or age out information. Most work stuff right now is related to a single project, so what happens when that project ends? Will I need to move things outside of ~/Org/ to remove clutter, or will I just get used to it?
> There's no law that a company can't offer employees flexible hours, and nobody's arguing that there should be. If Uber decides employee drivers can't have flexible hours, then that's on them. This argument is a non-sequitor with regard to employee/contractor status.

The flexible hours come in exchange for contractor status. If they paid employee benefits they could attract employees who don't need flexible hours. Which means if you force them to pay employee benefits either way, they take those workers instead of the ones who need flexible hours and the ones who need flexible hours are out of work.

> Is it "Uber or unemployment", though? Are unskilled workers without a car just completely screwed? No, because those aren't the only two choices. Do you know of an actual case where a person has had no other choices than Uber and unemployment? It's a red herring.

It's one of the two possibilities. The other is that they had the option of working for someone else as an employee but willingly chose Uber, e.g. because of flexible hours. Or maybe they like driving a car better than cleaning toilets. Whatever the reason, you're taking away that option.

> I can't speak to France, but in the United States the difference has a lot more to do with taxes and social security than it does with any immediate, direct benefits to the employee.

In the US the employee and employer each pay half of social security. Contractors are "self-employed" so they pay both halves. But everybody knows this, so you have to pay a contractor that much more (or provide some other valuable consideration like flexible hours) to get them to work for you instead of somewhere they're an employee. If you make Uber drivers employees, more people want the job and by supply and demand the wages go down.

> Again, I don't know about France, but in the United States "employee benefits" have almost nothing to do with employee/contractor status.

There are a bunch of rules and incentives with respect to employer-provided health insurance, unemployment insurance etc. that apply to employees and not contractors. If there was no difference then why would anybody care about how the drivers are classified?

In general you could expect a reclassification to negatively impact everyone involved, because being an employee involves a lot more paperwork and bureaucracy but the value in any advantage from it should then get reflected in correspondingly lower compensation (or loss of employment if that level of compensation falls below minimum wage).
Remote attestation is often the only way to do secure computing on platforms with unknown security. For example things like i-voting would immensely benefit from a secure, anti-tamper computing environment. DRM is another thing however, yes.
I wash my hands, but I can't when I'm getting gas, driving around, sitting at my desk and someone brings mail, people touch my door handles, etc etc. The idea that sanitizer replaces soap is dumb, but the idea that washing hands makes sanitizer is dumb too.
Compliant Madness, Credit Union Madness
Was there a free software gravy-train?

I don't remember many enterprises that relied on large scale free software that was anything like SaaS products today... they were spending plenty on software...
Here is one advantage of X that was notable, even today:

Keeping user data out of user hands.

A high end CAD application I used to do sales, service, sysadmin for used X and the SUID permission bit in UNIX to accomplish keeping data out of users hands.

On my bigger systems, I would run one application image, shared by a lot of users. This app, when run by a user, had the data permission and "ran as" data admin. The user has no permission.

All access to the data was through the app. And the users had no access to the app or data, just a remote X session.

I had tens of users interacting on big designs that way. No worries.

Secondly, I could where needed, spawn a second copy of the app to run local to be served up to or even just ran directly by needy users and everything still worked fine. I just had the app run as a different user and the access barrier remained intact.

But the big win was one application, one data repository, many users via X. I made a scripted login for them. They would launch it, do their thing, and that's it.

All I needed was a respectable X server for whatever box they ran locally.

I could admin that setup, and did, on a free JUNO dialup from all over the country.

This was the 90's through early 00's.
Obviously you haven't been hanging around many career politicians or corporate executives.

The problem isn't that older people don't care, it's that the older people in charge don't care.
Well I for one voted for Andrew Yang. #CouldhavehadYang.
Still, we need more of these pilots, but unfortunately pilots limited in geography, time, and universality cannot capture the knock on effects of a universal UBI.
Java, PHP, MySQL, Postgresql, OpenSSL, Linux come to mind.
It depends on how fast a caffeine metabolizer you are. I've been classified in genetic testing (whatever the reliability of that is) as a fast metabolizer, and I can have a full cup of coffee 2-3 hours before bed and not stay up. Other folks who I know that got slow metabolizer on the test can't have caffeine after noon without it affecting their sleep (maybe this is the case for you).
I'm surprised to see no mention of the recently discovered glymphatic system[0] which is responsible for this rinsing. Very much looking forward to research into drugs which modulate the function of the glymphatic system, as they could potentially solve one of my most difficult life problems, sleep.

It's crazy that we only recently discovered such a critical and [physically] widespread biological component. Makes me wonder what other "obvious" things we've yet to stumble upon.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glymphatic_system
It works if you have more or less the same pixel density across all screens. As soon as you mix very different ones, X becomes essentially unusable. Microsoft and Apple have solved that issue years ago.
Running Robot Operating System, ROS2, from the Web Browser with Docker
SaaS companies are more likely to be contributing back to open source software than individual Enterprise users though.
$[...] also establishes an arithmetic context, so

$[RANDOM % 10]

works fine – but you're right, $[...] is not even mentioned in the manual any longer. The release notes[1] say that it's "no longer supported" in the changes for Bash 2.0 (that's 1996!), and Chet Ramey talks about it in the bug-bash mailing list[2].

[1]: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/NEWS

[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-04/msg00034...
Before all of these tools though it was a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and a random Access database that only one person knew how to maintain. At least with SaaS there’s a support line.
And yet the majority of the fare still goes to the driver, because they still have other competitors there.
The problem is that asymptomatic carrier is everyone. Face masks are not free yet, nor comfortable, not everyone will want to wear them, much less correctly.
Billionaires are only occasionally interested in mingling with the hoi polloi. Businesses that cater to them provide all sorts of separate entrances, security staff, etc. to prevent them from suffering the proletarian gaze. They don't care what we think of them, so long as they never have to know about it.

It's a "good" idea though. I'm sure that several of the dozens of inevitable similar AR apps focused on child molesters will sell well. Someone will have a good time hacking those apps...
I would like to see proof of this assertion. PRs are one thing, dollars are what matter. You can't eat code commits.
Absolutely, there are plenty of things to do other than consume and there are definetly people who would discover that they had a talent at writing poetry, but doing those things require effort that a significant minority would not be ready or willing to make, and consummation is incredibly appealing to those who aren't strong enough to put effort into anything else.
Karambolage
> I could never run a scalable service on the cloud without Kubernetes.

I find this statement quite bizarre.
I’ve moved 10+ times in the past 25 years and voted in every presidential election and most midterm elections. The ones I skipped were because I was younger and didn’t realize the importance of them. It’s not that hard.
Did something change with those?

I feel like this narrative is still apples to oranges and the concerns expressed are more about managing the costs all the SaaS products, not having to pay...
Daily Habits for Docs
Okay, help someone who never learned anything about graphic design from anyone. why isn't it well composed?
My (human) collaborator and I took on something like this a couple of years ago:
https://veronica-projectspace.com/zack-davis-rebecca-friedma...
Steve Blank Organizational Debt is like Technical debt (2015)
Yeah, my wording was not perfect, but I can imagine that Georges Simenon was not using adjectives and the like for news stuff only.
I have not set it up myself, but you might look in to OpenMeetings [1] Or a commercial solution would be Zoom.

[1] - https://openmeetings.apache.org/
Because most business in the United States is done despite the management, not because of it.
Your employee’s lack of discipline and/or proper systems job control is the root issue here. Trying to associate it with seti is unfortunate.
>> If Slack is going to round out at $100/a/staff member ... then how on earth does that number creep to $10K?

ERP software like NetSuite usually isn't more than $2,500 a year. Add in an identity provider (Okta), Email/office (O365), Chat (Slack), CRM (Salesforce), Conferencing (Zoom), Storage (DropBox), Payroll (ADP), VPN... Even the enterprise plans for those aren't much more than $50/month.
How many BMW drivers care about rear wheel drive? That is a very small niche. People who really want those features would go for one of the more practical sports cars.
No, total cost would be a better measure since there is no per-person cost to the SaaS provider.

If you have 10,000 employees that's $100M per year in expenses. If you're just renting payroll, purchasing, etc software for that price it'd be far cheaper to roll your own, or pay a few people to work on OSS full time.
That's not even a sentence.
off the top of my head?

a) Shared data source; each service writes pid/state to a file in the shared data store. It could be a single directory in a single server setup or a dedicated NFS/SMB server for hundreds/thousands of nodes.

b) Pub/Sub service; Kafka, et al, in which services simply subscribe to and publish to a central channel to see everyone else.

c) Determinism; You use predictable naming/addressing and simply infer. This is tricky to scale but not impossible.

d) Any number of stand alone discovery services ala Zookeeper or Eureka. They all end up being effectively the same pub/sub model as B, just prepackaged.

e) You don't discover shit, you have a single load balanced endpoints that can scale out instances as needed behind balancer with zero knowledge required by the rest of the system.

Pick one to suit your needs. Service Discovery is not that hard and has been way over engineered.
> able to pay more does not mean deserves it more.

Yes, but what's a good allocation metric for 'deserves' ? It's not an easily quantifiable metric.
> Citation needed.

Here you go: "The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940", Raj Chetty et al.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/398
Yes but companies that are spending $60K on an employee aren’t spending $10K on their SaaS.
What should anyone do differently if there are 18 cases vs 80?
As long as the purchased software is worthwhile (i.e. it makes employees more effective; the company gets more output per employee expense dollar), this trend should actually increase employee pay. Higher output per employee allows a higher salary per employee while still being profitable.
>I fail to see how a jury could possibly reach the standard of "beyond all reasonable doubt" in this case

Affluent, middle class jury vs a homeless man they detest and want gone.
SaaS is a disaster without controls. They make it damn hard to automatically disable users who are no longer active. Then you have users picking competing duplicative tools, and now users can't work together without having duplicate accounts in each tool. Once they get you in, you've got no leverage--they'll just keep increasing prices because you're locked in. Companies are pushing you from perpetual license to cloud not for your benefit.
Yup. In my humble opinion, the people who built X really did think through what multi user graphical computing meant.

I like X. Took me a while to understand it, but once I did, I used it hard and appreciated what it allowed me to do.

Doing stuff like dual or multi head computers. Multi users each with their own keyboard and mouse can happen with X. And if one needs another user, doing it via network just works.

X is a powerful thing.
> He says only the latter is compatible with freedom.

I disagree with him on this point. Neither choice he presents is compatible with freedom.
“We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Can you connect us to him?”

That sounds to me like the start of some sort of relationship. If the guy just wanted info from the book, then why not just read the book?
Slack costs peanuts, comparatively.

If your company has more than around 100 people, there's a good chance your employer uses Netsuite; ask around about what they're paying for that. Salesforce gets pretty spendy, too.
Idk Chicago's transit is really good. It's getting crowded in some places, but still great.

It of course has an advantage - it's been around so long that the city has grown around major transit lines, so the things you want to do are all grouped around & easily accessibly by transit.

If you take a city like LA or Houston that has zero centralization and just slapped transit lines down, they would have trouble servicing everything and average person wants to do - maybe you can get to work on the line, but not the gym or grocery store.

Still, it would reduce car traffic, and over time it would encourage the desired grouping around transit lines that is part of what makes the transit so helpful in the first place.

I don't think it could ever fully replace cars in most places in America, as they are so spread out and many people will still want to travel between cities by car. However, even just getting most people to get to their 9-5 jobs via transit instead of car would be a massive reduction in congestion & pollution.
Michael Pollan is one of my favorite authors, I would highly recommend any of his books!

Here is the link to that interview for anyone interested: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/10/8033940...
We do not know mortality of this coronavirus truly yet, much less number of cases. It seems to spread somewhat less easily than flu, similar to other coronaviruses already known - like about 15% cases of cold. Potentially spread also shows seasonal nature.

I'd like to see rates and complication rates for common cold caused by coronaviruses.
Yeah, so now instead of barely getting by on subsistence farming, they barely get by working 16 hour shifts in dangerous conditions with no rights. While the workers may be mostly better off than they were before, they still have to spend almost all their time and energy on meeting the basic needs of survival. The people who benefitted by far the most from all that investment were the owners, executives, and shareholders of the companies that run the factories. So I would say that distribution of capital was still quite lacking in terms of where it could have the most leverage to increase opportunity.
I think the reason that people can't shake off their intuition is that the intuition is based on the idea that the host (Monty Hall) has agency.

The specific posing of the problem is that the game is you are presented with three doors, you choose one, and the host opens a door showing a goat, and you have to decide if you want to switch.

The problem is that people imagine a game where you choose a door and the host decides whether to open a second door to convince you to switch OR they open the door you chose to show the goat. So given that they CHOSE to open a goat-door, is it the right move to switch? That problem is a game theory problem and requires that you understand the strategy that the host is employing; the intuition is that the host WANTS you to lose, so will only open the goat-door if you chose right (or has a significantly higher probability of doing so) so switching is "falling for" the trick.

Re-imagining the problem as a different scenario, where you can ask to see which of two doors contains a goat, and then deciding which door to take avoids this trap. Then the solution is not obvious, but not counter-intuitive (maybe; depends on your intuition).
What free software that enterprises were using has been replaced by SaaS?
Maybe they do in fact care, but from the kinds of decisions they make it certainly does not appear that they do.
Don Knuth is 82 years old.
>Then what happens is somebody making $100+/hour would spend several hours to do the job that would be covered by a tool that costs under $50/month.

Sure, but then there's the slightly more complicated economic calculus: do we build our own tooling now, for a significant up front cost, or do we buy the SaaS which we might use essentially forever for an unknown future TCO?
Unfortunately common practices in many hobbies are rather dangerous. I cringe when I see dangerous practices in hobbies I'm familiar with, and I freely admit that I've done the wrong thing before out of ignorance.

Another aspect of the problem is that while many people are diligent about using pressure-rated pipe, they accidentally end up using non-pressure-rated fittings. I myself have fallen into this trap before in some projects of mine, and I didn't recognize it until I started learning more about potato guns. When making a project like this I typically go for all metal construction when possible because the components are stronger and the pressure rating is usually easy to find. For plastic fittings you need to familiarize yourself with the various markings that indicate the fitting is pressure rated. And even then that doesn't tell you what the rating is. In my experience, the pressure rating of a fitting is always lower than that of the pipe the fitting attaches to.
Because young people are silly most of the time. They are clueless of their ignorance and how fast and radically their own beliefs will change over time.

Every 10 years, you look at your own self and you realize how little you knew, how silly and naive you were, and it keeps going.

Wisdom is when that cycle stops, either because you settled on a set of beliefs or because you understand that it's all fleeting anyway, either way, nobody should lead before reaching that stage imo.
I really want that space at the bottom half of the circle gone.
>The word "Starship" means specifically that the ship is capable of traveling between stars.

Well, it would be capable. Just very-very slow.
Dying young from curable diseases is also the natural human condition... should we not use antibiotics?
It obviously touches a nerve, because the "craftsmanship" mentioned is about making physical objects, not someone trying to claim they make the best automobiles in the world.
How to Read (Almost) All Scientific Papers for Free
Wait... You don't like:

`ISNULL(NULLIF(A, B), NULLIF(B, A)) IS NULL`

What are you? human?
I'm glad that some of her options vested, and that she didn't have to pay back any of a signing bonus.
If you like old time radio (I'm a big fan) check out the radio dramas on http://www.radioechoes.com as well. You could try out my scraper as well and see if it still works* https://sequoia.makes.software/projects/#radio-echoes-downlo... (I was using it to scrape & bundle mp3s to audio books for a while).

* edit: it doesn't :p
Very promising to read this. Feels like many more studies needed and more data to be collected in order to figure out what is indeed effective and what's not.

Just like the early hype with microfinance decades ago - there was an initial hype cycle, then broader cynicism in the academic community, and ultimately, a data-driven informed understanding of what in fact works (on a more nuanced level - by country, income levels, program design, etc.)
Individuals being able to choose their operating system when accessing bank websites, and being able to keep secrets to themselves, has much more bearing on every day life than "internet voting".

Also note that voting etc could easily be implemented with smart cards (eg SIMs, credit card chips, etc). These are still trusted computing, but are at least limited in scope. Top-down control has no place in general CPUs if we wish to remain an open society.
The primary reason people leave rural areas and move to large metropolitan areas is work. Most people in rural areas are already near their families, that's why they are there to begin with.
Scientists for Future on the current draft for a European climate regulation
I think you were making a joke, but in reality I probably could spend days reading the z80 CPU manual. I once requested the CPU manual for a Pentium from Intel and they sent me about 1200 pages in three volumes.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm
Himss Canceled
First thing I thought of. Their use is perfect.
Yeah, taxes.
I think what he meant was "we already have enough tax-funded government income for it, but it is squandered elsewhere".
> I imagine that these women also live under the same roof as their partner and consume food for free.

Something often true of chattel slaves (especially those used in household as opposed to field work).

There's a reason labor law (as distinct from contract or tax law) tends, with limited exceptions, to require pay to be in cash or fungible cash equivalents to be counted as pay for meeting wage and hour minimums.
It looks like finally users may have complete control over their Intel computers without Intel having the final say. I, for one, am quite happy about this.
It's great when the whole world unites to fight a common enemy.
I'm going to use the same argument used about copying/pirating proprietary software: They wouldn't have paid for it in the first place, so you can't count it as lost revenue.
Pepsi is such an archetype of the eternal identity crisis it's almost a classic identity in itself. On a shitty day, I buy Pepsi.
As the minimum age to become president is 35, you should exclude people under 35 from the statistics. I can believe that 55 is close to the median age of people 35 and older.