skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just get a static tar and xz static build, they must be somewhere.

Better: busybox build. It already has tar, xz and wget.

You just need to compile a simple HTTP client, or better:

find a gopher mirror. Bare netcat would work against that.

gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl:70/1/vol/rzm6/busybox/binaries

With NetCat:

echo vol/rzm6/busybox/binaries/1.21.1/ | nc ftp.icm.edu.pl 70

echp vol/rzm6/busybox/binaries/1.21.1/busybox-i586 | nc ftp.icm.edu.pl 70 > busybox

Then ln all the binaries. Or run busybox wget.

Accesign the rest of the files is the same, just redirect the nc command to a file.

If tar is missing, you can just get for sure an static build and compile it. Or try to find an sltar mirror to github ;).

But that busybox has ustar, so look how easy it was with just netcat and Gopher, so writting an nc clone (openbsd's netcat portable version is really easy, altough there are another ones many more times dumbed down) would be the easiest win.
I do subscribe and enjoy it. On the other hand, I definitely don't read it cover to cover. I imagine they're the most comprehensive magazine in the world in covering political and business affairs in places that I imagine a lot of people would have trouble finding on a map. And there's a limit to how much time I'm going to spend reading about those sorts of topics that just aren't all that interesting (or important) to me.
I think it's just one of those things where the tech isn't quite there yet. I think a large percentage of people will participate in some kind of MMO virtual world like Second Life, including for serious and business use cases, but it may be some decades away. We need better software/games and better VR/AR technology.
Wasn't this IBM Lotus Notes?
Looks really interesting. :D
... because we're talking about software patents?
>Those are the gravitational principles of Jensen’s corporate cosmology, but it is also an eschatological narrative in which the kingdom of God has been replaced by capitalism as the consummation of history.

To me corporatism is against the principle of capitalism and free market.

Anyway, this article could have been written by Marx himself.
Note: The “cd” command must be a built-in command in the shell, since it must call chdir(2) inside the shell process; it must affect the “current directory” internal state of the shell process. Therefore, “cd” cannot be a separate external binary.
A large part of the visual variety of towns and villages appearance in Europe is due to the colours of the local stones, or the absence of good building stones that's the reason why Toulouse is built of bricks, for instance:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/To...

or why some places have wooden churches:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Lac-du-d...

And other black volcanic stone ones:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ca...

Or gleaming white castles:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Chambord...

Burgundy is known for its yellow stone, clearly visible here in Beaune:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Ho...

Or here near Solutré:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Solutr%C...
Isn’t alias for email a thing for decades ?

Since I started receiving spam on my email address (around 2002) I’ve always use an alias for every new website I subscribed.

I didn’t know it _wasn’t_ possible to not have alias ?

Edit : I found reference of aliases on the rfc2142 from 1997

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
If I go outside, I would like to have an app that does this on my phone. My "right to privacy" isn't worth putting other peoples' health at considerable risk for.

There isn't even a scenario I could imagine where one of these apps would do something that I would consider a severe infringement of my privacy.

A few million lives may ultimately hang in the balance, so there ought to be a very compelling argument against not putting these apps into practice and getting ahead of coronavirus.
Gensis is talking about farmers working the land for food. Modern work is an invention of man built on top of it, it's a degenerate replica in terms of satisifcation, necessity, meaning etc.

It's not the same story.

Edit: I'd like to see the downvoters argue against the notion that some work is more essential than other work. Hasn't the COVID-19 crisis opened your eyes to this reality?
As mentioned below, he has a blog at https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/ and it's WordPress, so there's a feed at https://www.iquilezles.org/blog/wp-rss2.php .
>There's a strong argument that religion remains the greater threat.

Where is it, then? You haven't laid out a single argument, only broad, unfounded statements.
Close enough, there are distro install speedrun: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7kg7i1/install_gento...

Then of course, once you have the OS you can attempt the classical editor speedrun: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/8rqkzz/vim_exit_s...
While I don't disagree, there is always a tendency to elevate a few people even when inventions are the collective works of many. Pouzin's contributions were important and he did coin the datagram term. At the same time, he built on earlier packet switching work by Paul Baran at RAND and Donald Davies at the UK National Physical Laboratory.
> These are socialised, citizens don't pay them through their insurance package, but they're paid by society (citizens) through taxes for sure.

This isn't true for much of western Europe which doesn't have a single-payer model. Subsidies and regulations are more abundant than in the US, certainly, but for example everyone where I live in western Europe has to pay out of pocket for insurance premiums and deal with deductibles, etc.
Yep — and I’ve already said too much. I get upset how secretive this industry is; I truly believe it’s at least 30 years behind the curve (and falling further) compared to SW. I also firmly believe it is the EDA vendors who sell this mindset because $$$.
Everybody wants to consume the goods and services that others work to produce, but doesn't want to do any of the work themselves. The best part of this article was the authors statement of the argument against:

> many intellectuals deny that “neoliberalism” is anything more than a cipher, an elastic anathema for whatever its users find objectionable in contemporary life
why use the past tense? It is still being sold and used.
There is no one Java culture. It's impossible in a community of that size and it is indicative of maturity and success. If you spend your time in Cambridge, MA you get a very different view of "American culture" than you would if you spent your time in, say, Tampa, FL, and there are many more people in environments similar to the latter. It just doesn't make any sense to talk of a particular culture when the ecosystem is so big. There are small, perhaps hidden, niches of Java with their own culture that are ten times bigger than the entire Haskell community. Of course, if you pick a place at random you're more likely to hit a Tampa than a Cambridge.

As someone who occasionally attends Haskell meetups I also very much disagree with your characterization of that community. I've seen people so bored out of their minds with the actual software they're writing that they spend their "interest" on language arcana and their time on re-writing bubble-sort using Free. Not to mention that it's hard to say anything about long term code practices in Haskell, because the number of large-scale projects, maintained over years by a changing group of people is vanishingly small, certainly too small to say anything about. For all we know, the practices employed by the average Haskeller are worse than those employed by the average Java programmer for long-lived software. The cries of anguish from companies with "legacy" Scala software (i.e. >7y.o.) that they struggle to maintain tell us that this is almost certainly the case when it comes to Scala developers. There are worse things, apparently, than useless getters and three-argument methods.
I'll take that under advisement.
How is that different from spamhaus and similar services that tell you which servers allegedly sent spam in the past? Except that it sounds like every person has to reinvent the wheel by blocking servers themselves instead of using an existing list.

Note that I don't use nor am a fan of systems like spamhaus, it just sounds very similar.
> This is unfounded speculation.

Strictly speaking, the whole discussion of determinism vs free will suffers from this defect.
So minimalism is just efficiency? Call it that then.

And frivolity isn't a relevant category to minimalism. You could be minimalist in achieving frivolous ends. Clearly you're carrying too much in the term.
Author here.

- not really. I have a bunch of experience writing ocaml. I wouldn’t ascribe any good technical reason to this. A lot of research prototyping is finding something you enjoy writing rather than finding the optimal thing to use. Often you’re the only person working on it over the course of many years.
It would probably help if you read the whole sentence rather than just the second half of it!
I agree with brnt, while Delphi/Object Pascal seem to be quite popular according to the Tiobe Index, https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/delphi-object-pascal/, I find it hard to find open-source projects when comparing it with other programming langs. Example:

https://github.com/search?q=Rust 85,885 repository results

https://github.com/search?q=delphi 9,938

https://github.com/search?q=pascal 9,259

Maybe:

* Open source Delphi/Pascal are shared elsewhere?

* Delphi Programmers do not like to showcase or open-source their projects?

* Delphi/Pascal is used to create mainly proprietary software?

Either way, I think that for Free Pascal to prosper in the long term, something should change. Perhaps more open source projects published on Github/Gitlab.
this industry is a Borland's wet dream - everyone uses crappy expensive software that reeks of 90s, the libraries are closed source with barely exposed interfaces, the language is a mess (SV), etc. Yes, you are right, as long as its making them huge money nothing will change. And nothing can change, since the field is a frickin mine field of patents, you cannot innovate. Also, why you've said too much? What have you said? :)
> As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't?

The trackpad is part of the reasons (along with macOS, despite its recent slew of bugs) people happily pay more for that others see as “tax”.

Try it out on someone else’s MacBook or a demo machine.
I'd love to hear a bit about your experiences with Lazarus.

A few years ago I tried playing around with it on macOS, but all I remember is that I wasn't able to get things up and running because I kept encountering problems. Maybe I was doing something wrong or I didn't invest enough time in setting up and learning how to properly use the tool. I think I tried using Homebrew to install everything during my previous attempt, but since I'm not seeing any mention of this option as part of their macOS installation instructions [0] then I'm guessing that might've been the source of my problems.

Would you still recommend learning Lazarus and FreePascal in 2020?

I've mostly done web development, but I'm also interested in traditional native application development. My hypothesis is that learning to use some of these older tools or systems can teach you a lot of lessons which carry over across languages and platforms. For example: learning a bit of Qt helped me refine my internal models for various UI widgets. I want to learn to write faster and higher quality applications than our current highly-frustrating standard.

[0] https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_ma...
Some would argue that willfully going outside while you’re infected is the more risky and irresponsible behavior on your part.
In the third video in the series he talks a bit about death, making his peace with it, understanding he won't get to see the solution to many difficult math problems, and the idea of unfinished business.

Conway is fascinating to listen to anytime, but I found this series especially moving right now.
What does this economist think of epidemiologists?
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but our self can free our minds." Bob Marley - Redemption Song
YAML: Probably not so great after all (2019)
I was wondering how long it would take till someone started alluring cryptocurrencies. Nice one.
Going a step beyond the info in the blog post, there's a documentary on Youtube showing how in S. Korea, there are apps to see the paths of corona patients so you can avoid those areas:

Covid-19 in S. Korea @5:13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-cA4UK07c

My opinion is those apps work because S. Korea remembers SARS-1 (2002/2003), and people there are cooperative. Also, if you do full contact tracing early enough, there aren't an overwhelming number of patients like NY.

S. Korea is the only country that literally "flattened the curve." See unbelievably flat graph @6:50 in link above.

(S. Korea had the same problem as Toronto with SARS-1, where the hospital doctors and nurses were wiped out by the first few cases. In S. Korea, it was the first SARS-1 patient wandering around town like a cruise missile to several doctors and hospitals that spread the disease, as nobody identified the magnitude of the problem.)

> And how will things work with an orderly supermarket queue, where law-abiding people stand patiently six feet apart?

In the SF Bay Area, here's how social distancing works at grocery stores:

1) one entrance/exit with security guards at the door

2) queue outside with shoppers 6' apart

3) only 50 people allowed in at one time, but distance is not enforced in the store except 6' in checkout lanes. However, American grocery stores are large, so the spirit is being followed. Recently, I've seen saran wrap over POS terminals. Bank ATMs also need that prophylactic. :)

4) shoppers are responsible for washing their carts and hands, which is a gap.
> But the panda gets to be the beloved symbol of cute cuddliness while the wolf is reviled as the symbol of all that is evil.

This may be because a hungry panda is unlikely to eat you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack
How to get your first suppliers
The whole idea is that the app would alert you if you may be infected so that you don't go out.

The problem is that sometimes people who don't yet know they are infected have contact with other people before anyone in the story finds out that they are infected. The apps allow the communication to happen:

1. Even if the people who had contact don't know each other.

2. Faster.

That's how we get ahead of the virus.
I've been using a similar setup for probably 8+ years now. It started out with an ownCloud instance on a Raspberry Pi B+ (but has since evolved to nextCloud and a VPS, which I also use to run other things). I've been incredibly happy with it. I didn't have to worry about moving my contacts over when I switch to a new device (whether that be laptop or phone) – I just have to add the synchronization to the new device. This, plus calDav (I just `khal` and `todoman` for CLI calendar and to-do lists) have been excellent.
Unfortunately there’s only two players in this game (I doubt mass consumption of linux any time soon). So, if they both suck, neither loses the reputation game.
The book full of excellent, albeit commonsense advice and probably mostly claims made from studies which would hardly even need to verified by science because it’s pretty obvious from anecdotal experience. Your brain works better after you’ve had a good nights sleep. You’re body can repair while resting.

I think readers mostly enjoy the book because it’s a reminder of sleeps importance in a world where spending time on the internet and working long hours can seem even more important.

It’s good you decided to write off a whole genre, I’ll enjoy taking a light hearted approach an a open mind to reading similar publications in the future.
The US is predicting 60k deaths. Millions is quite an exaggeration. Would you still give up your privacy to save a few thousand lives?
It's similar to Javascript in a way. If I want to code for the web, I can only use JS. Sure, there are extensions like TypeScript, or even other languages that compile to JS like Elm, but most people are gonna use JS.
Which software engineer jobs pay the most
I'm not sure about your conclusion since that would violate the number one feature of email, but yes, the author's proposals do seem very unwieldy and ignore existing solutions.
Curious to hear how people use these!
AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices
That is not true. It is a metaphor for generic work.
This comment says more about your reading comprehension skills than anything else.

Maybe try making a more substantive comment once you've had a proper crack at understanding the author's piece?
We Do GitOps Mettle
That's hilarious. You would at least want to get right the spec you came up with yourself, one would suspect.
I've always wondered: who actually wrote the software for IMPs and such? Who debugged the lower-level (but still essential) operational issues? Was it the people we've heard of, or others whose contributions we've forgotten? I'm guessing the latter, but it's hard to be sure this much later.
Another misconception is that free market is the default state in society.

In the pre-industrial societies concept of 'fair price' in contrast to 'market price' was very important. Any attempt to increase or lower price to get advantage of distress of others was dealt by the community.
>Prepping

About 10 years ago I had a period when I read some prepping literature, mainly fiction. Now that we live in a pandemic I'm amazed how far off the mark all the prepping novels were. Generally the premise of such a novel is some type of apocalypse. The bad thing strikes, humanity just takes it in the chin, and the valiant preppers have a field day saving themselves, and in some cases taking care of their communities. Reality turned out so different. If anything, my curiosity in the prepping literature went negative.
Eo-YAML For Java, 4.3.2, Released
Version 4.3.2 or eo-yaml has been released: https://github.com/decorators-squad/eo-yaml

Changes:

- improvements and bugfixes for supporting null/empty nodes

- Convenience YamlPrinter working with any java.io.Writer

- Packaged as a Java Module (still compatible with Java 8!)
Is your comment based solely on the headline?

There's an entire article behind it as well, and it's an interesting read.
The comparison is between having a single working car that you pay someone to fix when it breaks vs. owning a car that you can fix by yourself by having lots of tools and parts around.

The first is minimalist because it involves less physical material to store and organize. The second is self reliant because you can do for yourself without needing to draw on outside systems as much.

The example you gave is just moving the goal posts completely. The large many car garage case is both less minimalist and less self reliant, so not to the point.
Rangefinder: Predicts downstream impact of breaking file changes
Hahaha. Oh really. You're serious?

You don't think silicon valley has performed the most massive bait and switch setting up a surveillance state? You've never heard of the NSA? You don't think Apple, Google and All the rest have literally created APIs to serve them?

The case is not one I have to make. The case for not treating "trust" with utter, withering contempt is the one that has to be made. And it has not been made. At all.

Why? Because it's actually not possible to do with a straight face.

But have a go. You seem confident at least.
You could make that argument, but there appears to be a positive correlation between robust markets and clean drinking water for everyone.
The Wisdom of Asking, “What Did I Expect?”
In every HN comment section, there's always, 100% of the time, at least one person who only reads the title of the piece (in this case, a song lyric from The Verve) and still has the nerve to post a comment.
Coronavirus travels 13 feet in the air, new study finds
Why am I not surprised to see market worshippers in here crying about how "Bad man say mean things about my not religion."
The author is right to bring up these points. We the people need to open our eyes and use our minds; don’t believe everything you read but instead decipher it critically with your mind... and keep the entire big picture in mind.
> They could have chosen simpler individual words

And they should have. I can put together a sentence using a lot of words most people won't know. It will be a valid sentence, and it will mean what I want it to mean, but a lot of people won't be able to understand what I intended it to mean.
Early numbers from Sweden report 80% survival from ICU. Not all of those were on invasive ventilation, and there may be a bias where survivors are discharged sooner while those who eventually die are still there. But numbers are definitely encouraging says doctors.
In my humble opinion, this platform aims to track if people had got contact by bluetooth with other people that might have the virus.

The virus can remain in surfaces up to 3 days(https://www.immedicohospitalario.es/noticia/18729/new-corona...).

With bluetooth you can not track the surfaces, so the ratio of false positives and false negatives will be high.

The best way to stop possible infections remains in individual measures anyone can take. For this reason, I think that the objective of this platform is to track people, not stop the virus.
Mozilla have posted about it:

https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2020/03/16/understanding-defau...

And it’s disabled if you have disabled browser telemetry. Personally I’m OK with this, it doesn’t feel particularly sneaky.
Here's my in memoriam exercise in BASIC for the PET 2001 (running in emulation): https://www.masswerk.at/pet/?run=life.txt
>> however, who cares that i can tweet the president whatever i want within reason? is that freedom? i don't have any power or any effect.

I care. Of course it is freedom and it has power. Why do you think the authoritarian governments don't like it? What freedoms you have in China and not the US or Europe? Of course democracies are not perfect but they are a step forward compared with dictatorships. It's a big difference between manipulative politicans and dictators who put you in jail or even kill you if you don't agree with them.
Gradual implementation wouldn't have to be hard. Gmail already sorts your inbox into several buckets. If you have one bucket for "paid/whitelisted" and another for others. You can leave the rest to the user.
NIH begins study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection
Water isn’t the problem, it’s sanitation, as in having flushing toilets and sewers.

More people have mobile phones than have access to improved sanitation.

Without it, you die early of disease.

Humanity really didn’t even control their poop all that well until a couple of hundred years ago with the invention of the modern toilet and the S-trap.
What bugs do you see in the iPad software keyboard?

iOS keyboard input and text selection has been wonky for quite a while, and from what I've tried of Android, it doesn't feel much better on the other side of the fence either. Why can't Apple -or- Google get such basic interactivity right?
Analyzing US Senator’s Stock Picks
The sender doesn't have to pay a lot to make it effective. Remember that the spammer is sending email to a hundred thousand addresses per day, for free. If you charged even $0.01 per email, that'd stop a lot of spam right in its tracks.

However, some companies sending spam^wnewsletters would be willing to pay. I think this crap needs to stop, too, so this would be a partial solution at best.
Linux Bash vs. Windows PowerShell
Neither does it make sense to call people who work for you to provide for their families slaves.