skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to the title, this is about choosing FreeBSD over Linux, not over Unix.

"Unix" hasn't referred to a specific operating system since the 1980s. FreeBSD and Linux are both Unix OSes: different flavors of it.
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People don't like to admit this, but "offensive" is by definition subjective (to whom does this give offense?).

Thus, unless you're fairly explicit about who it's not okay to offend, "offensive" is at best vague and at worst weasel-wording.
YAML isnt my idea of clarity but thats fine. I tend to go with using a python script to generate a json file. This supports comments, if-else decision making, modules and all sorts of other smarts. Tell users not to edit the resulting json file - its readonly.

Python gives you all the power of scripting including validation and json gives you the easily readable format for both humans and machines. Great for knowing exactly what the settings evaluated as.

And when you don't need the power of full expressive python script, you can just json.dump() a python dictionary and be done with it.

I've also used sqlite as a config file format and that is very polite and easily read from anything I use.
I'd much rather leak an ip than a phone number.
Given as jails started with FreeBSD, no, I would say that running services on the bare metal is not the FreeBSD answer.
Unit testing and TDD

Code Complete 1st edition

Maybe Domain driven design as well
NimbleText https://nimbletext.com/ has saved me so much time. I use it to generate sql from spreadsheets and other one-off code generation from data.
I'm not sure about that. Outside of tech, nobody cares what the technology is called. Inside... we've been happily freezing process groups, killing frozen children, and reaping the dead ones. Objecting to jails would be silly at this point.
And even worse, there is a guy in there who still has a job, has the money, and isn't paying rent because of "solidarity" with the florist! What sort of weirdness is that? I feel sympathy for those in precarious finances who really can't pay, but then articles like this come with examples of people who can pay but don't because... theoretical "social injustice"? That surely doesn't make me sympathetic to any cause...
I'm not an specialist, but you can start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing
Malta is also a location where a lot of questionable cryptocurrency related firms have chosen to incorporate, and get bank accounts.
Or it's being renovated, or someone's due to move in next month, or all kinds of legitimate reasons. I'm definitely on board with the idea that people should be structurally discouraged from owning housing they don't plan to put to use, but enforcing that by allowing people to steal non-compliant housing seems pretty bad.
I pretty much agree with everything you're saying.

IMO, the role of the government is to make it safe to be fishers and teachers of fishers. That means shutting down the people who would murder you for your fish, and shutting down the companies that would monopolize the bodies of water.

But, should the government catch your fish for you? It seems that we feel like the answer to that question is "it depends", since not everyone can fish. But then again, this is why we have division of labor, and geographic mobility. If you can't fish in Arkansas, maybe you can farm in Montana.

Some people are in need of special help, but should that come from the government? In the past, it's come from communities. What about the people shunned from communities? It's a rabbit hole.

My point is, it's hard to draw a line that doesn't lead to "let the government do it". But the government isn't particularly effective at most things it has attempted to do: I generally feel like, for most problems we turn to the government for, there's usually a better way (and by that, I do not simply "if we were all freer"), but it does seems to be found more often an emergent property of liberal societies than a prescriptive form to fill out.

In case it isn't clear, I don't hold very strong views here, I'm sorry if that they might have itched you, just thinking out loud :)
Factorio has some real challenges to it -- ticks are extremely fine, and for example, the speed of an inserter is dependent on availability of electricity. Combine such aspects with, say, the plurality of materials which may be on a belt. I fear that the plurality of possible states would move the problem from being compute-bound to being memory-bound.
That is my point though. Not every Unix system has a package manager. But almost every Linux distribution does.
May be they should restrict it to 2 or 3 words without punctuation.
This is what I came away with as well. I really don't understand how Surrey v. TrueBeginnings became relevant jurisprudence outside of its own idiosyncrasies.
How does it work? Does it really change the speed dynamically? Or it just trims the silences like pocketcasts?
>If 'too big to fail' banks and companies were immediately broken up on commencement of recessions, there would be many less recessions.

I'm curious what the justification for this is. It seems like the kneejerk reaction toward any big/powerful entity (eg. "break up the tech companies!").
Last commit was 5 years ago...
By induction, doesn’t that mean we would only have one color name?
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Every landlord who owns more than few units is fully aware of those realities.
There's also a loan out to Mt Pleasant for roughly $750 Million. Wisconsin tax payers have to pay that back whether or not Foxconn actually does anything. It's a sunk cost at this point. The bank's gonna want their money back. (Though I'm not totally clear where all that money went.)
While true in the general case and your comment needed to be made, the specific city counselors in question are real pieces of work. I don't think country simple is the right phrase, maybe incompetent assholes.

For example, the fire chief ran an anonymous blog commenting on city council happenings (exposed years later when his WordPress install errored and exposed his username). For years he anonymously accused a citizen who opposed the Foxconn project of sleeping with opposition friendly city council members, and then variously:

mentally ill, hypocrite, dingbat, loser, village bully, liar, vile, a joke, an
embarrassment, illiterate, a dope, a pimp, deceitful, evil, smelly, hateful, revengeful,
crazy, nut job, embarrassing, profane, psycho, stupid, lowlife, vengeful, immoral, racist,
witch, snake lady, freakshow, bitter, dumb, and much, much more
Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant.

Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everything has become a necessity for me.

[0]: https://www.voidtools.com/
Very few rentiers is likely true. However, very few landlords are rentiers. The average investor owns 2 rental units [1]. And the vast majority of property investors have full time jobs and mortgages on their rental properties (I can't link directly to a source, but Buildium regularly conducts surveys to understand property investors).

To paint landlords as rentiers who can easily afford to go without rent or with greatly reduced rent is wrong. It mischaracterizes the problem in a way that will lead to bad solutions.

If there is to be rent reductions or forgiveness, there must also be reductions, aid or forgiveness on mortgages, property taxes and utilities. Somebody needs to pay for these things. Yes, profits will be reduced, but losses cannot be sustained for as long as social distancing measures are expected to last.

[1] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-frm-asst-sec...
In cities where prices have risen because Airbnb has reduced long-term rentals, it feels more like rent-seeking behavior creating problems than actually providing value because so few can afford to buy.
> I see a lot of simplistic "landlords must suck it up" comments in this thread.

Your answer is for the rent payer, with no economy, to "suck it up".

If the top felt the pain of recessions more than the bottom, you can bet there would be less recessions where massive wealth value extraction happens. You have to align the market incentives right. Make the top feel the pain, at the bank level even, and you are gonna have better ratings agencies, better leverage ratios, and less pump and dump bubbles setup. Right now if the top always gains, even in pain, there will be more and more pain as they look for gains guaranteed.

If we truly are in a trickle down system, shouldn't emergency hits to the recession start at the top, the trickle source?

Money trickles up and down and all around, but money only trickles where other money is found.
The author seems to be misinformed about the relative value of compiler front-end versus compiler back-end.

Front-end is not where the challenges are in any production compiler. The hard work is in the optimizer. Lexical and syntactic analysis are homework problems for sophomores. That is not where any of the value in a production-worthy compiler lives, no more than the value of your C++ code being found in the semi-colons at the end of the statements.
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Precisely. This is a "win" in terms of providing standing to litigate issues that previously would have been precluded under arbitration clauses, or through lack of transaction per the Surrey v. TrueBeginnings precedent, which is what was overturned.

It get's around the arbitration clause by overturning Surrey, so plaintiffs who are not a party to the arbitration clause can be found that may (through class representation) act for those who are subject to the arbitration clause.
In Wisconsin, the corrupt-o-ticians don't use eminent domain. Too expensive.

They just declared all the farms to be "blighted", and then took them. It was pretty messed up.
Time is an abstract concept superimposed by a mind of an intelligent observer (capable of abstract thinking in terms of a language) so it does not exist. There is not a single experiment which demonstrates existence of time as a physical phenomena. Process in the universe do exist, time does not. However it could be "derived" by the mind.

The question whether an abstract concept flows contains a type error in it, so all the answers are as good as "does this spell is strong enough" or whether God hears my prayers.

Mixing abstract concepts in mathematical equations is the cause of failure of all the theoretical "sciences".

Logical type-checkers is what we need. 99% of theoretical bullshit will not survive even a simplest logical type-check.
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I disagree. Renewables will be able to supply 100% of the world's energy needs, more cheaply than nuclear ever could. A nd yes, this includes the cost of storage.
>The kernel and base system is completely separated from the third party applications and base system configuration goes into /etc while all third party configuration goes into /usr/local/etc. Everything you can configure and everything you can tune or setup is very well documented in the man pages.

One thing I find ironic about BSDs is that their top billing feature is being a "complete integrated (base) operating system" rather than a collection of software maintained by different projects, but at the same time, they're almost always discussed as server/poweruser operating systems rather than desktop operating systems. This seems completely backwards to me.

If I'm a sysadmin running a server, I probably know what I'm doing and feel confident replacing parts of it. I likely studied this and relative to a typical person I'm much more likely to find the way it works to be interesting. By contrast if I'm a desktop user there's a very good chance I don't know what I'm doing and don't really want to. It seems like the second situation is the one where you benefit more from having a wall up that separates the system from the userlibs.

There have been fleeting attempts to make desktop-forward BSD distributions over the years, including PC-BSD and a few short-lived initiatives by the NetBSD project, but it never gets off the ground. Is this a missed opportunity?
APL was designed to be executable math notation. I think of APL programs as math formulas. You don't expect to read an unfamiliar formula and immediately understand it. You decipher it, little by little, until it clicks and you understand what it means.
Great quotes!

I had an EE graduate degree (systems, dsp, control...) and returned to school for a physical chemistry graduate degree. Initially was nervous about my first QM class but as Hamming noted so much of the math is similar.
Hard, sure you have to actually do something and hire people.

It’s a pretty basic business. Watch the money going out, manage the tenants coming in.
If there are zero people who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have the same name.

If there is at least one person who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have different names.
The Indian state, Kerala, flattened its coronavirus curve; lesson for the world
Only one reason of Oracle law suite sword hanging over neck. Even if canonical gives guarantee they will fight with Oracle, if a small company is dragged by oracle in a court room it's hard to fathom the expenses.

So yes there is a need for zfs alternative. So far stayed away from it and using btrfs which works well, except for some RAID limitations.
Wrt to the outline for someone wanting to self study in the area, what are you thoughts?
Incremental compilation in GHCi with the -fobject-code flag.

Without this, I might have given up on Haskell a long time ago.

Also Cachix[0], as building lots of Nix packages from scratch takes an awful long time, especially on my MacBook Air.

Also git, vim, etc.

[0]: https://cachix.org/
This looks consistent with what I said. The city shut schools, libraries, everywhere that involved indoor public gatherings, but I'm not seeing anything here about bans on private gatherings or general orders to not leave your house.
> people living in rural areas should know that they are simple

Countermeasures to this stereotype can be equally damaging. It may have played into Foxconn’s advantage here.

“We don’t need an expensive coastal banker telling us what to do” is reasonable if everyone is out to screw small timers.

> a region with a dying economy might actually be rational to throw away an enormous amount of money

This wasn’t money they had. It was taxpayers’ future money. Money that could have financed education or infrastructure or a move to another city. This mindset is only rational if staying in place has infinite utility, not only for the region’s present residents, but its future ones too.
VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
I chose systemd since BSD's init has some points over the classic init used in linux previously. But any of the modern choices which actually manage processes (upstart, systemd, whatever you prefer) score a few technical points. Definitely didn't intend to single out systemd as better in this case.
No. With reasonable assumptions for the cost of renewables, nuclear, and storage, the grid optimizes out to 0% nuclear.
Keycloak is an IdP. It does everything, including OIDC (which is very widespread) and SAML. I assume when they say "OpenID", they mean OIDC.
Based on my observations and the details that Marco has blogged about, it seems to use a silence-detection algorithm that rapidly adjusts playback speed, so the silences are not cut out in a jarring manner, but rather played through at a typical 2.5-4x.
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One of my favorite episodes. I was so enraged. Outrage sells with me, it seems.

By the way, anyone looking for a little fun follow up, a WordPress crash outed the owner of the A Better Mount Pleasant blog:
https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/pfc_complaint_-_robe...
The go-jira CLI probably comes close over the last 12 months.

https://github.com/go-jira/jira
For context, parent wrote a C++ compiler and invented the D programming language.
No-Threshold linear may actually underestimate the number of cancers produced. Looking at the amount of skin cancer in Australia it’s best modeled as different people have different prior exposure which shifts the individual odds around quite a bit.
Under "disparate impact" [0], intent is not required.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
I don't really think Luminus is really a framework, it is more like a template to get started with a curated list of libraries that has changed over time.

I believe Luminus has had some pretty major changes over the years such as changing the default webserver, routing library and dependency injection system.
I agree with you. With collective action this can become a very powerful tool for consumers, and just saying "they're a big company they can afford it" really misses the point.
I don't follow. Two given colors being indistinguishable doesn't imply that any two colors are indistinguishable.
There's discourse between differing opinions and then there's spamming and rule breaking. One is encouraged. The other is something we could all do with less of.
If you know you're right, you can take on anyone for free!

If the issue isn't clear it's more of a gamble. And maybe those issues should often be left out of court.
The level of danger is inversely related to the lifespan. Which isotope is 'extremely dangerous for 20,000 years'?
And cheap. Don't forget that "promise" also. Never mind that turbines and generators and cooling towers all have serious cost problems when scaled down, the Hail Mary Reactors will save the day!
I somewhat agree with this one. Not to shit on democracy cause it has its benefits but I've definitely noticed that often times elected officials do seem extraordinarily simple and at times downright not very bright or competent (didn't Sacha Cohen get some republican lawmaker to pull down his pants and shout the n word) . I feel that's the risk when you choose leaders based on a popularity contest but hey, nothings perfect.
On the Mac:

- Alfred App - helps with tons of things, but the clipboard manager alone has saved me over 100 hours

- iTerm 2, especially with a global hot key (and Guake on Linux before my first Mac)

- Prettier on npm (auto code formatting tool, like gofmt)

- Jumpy on npm (my own CLI bookmarking tool, makes it easy to hop around directories)
> I'm curious what the justification for this is. It seems like the kneejerk reaction toward any big/powerful entity (eg. "break up the tech companies!").

Well we do need more Teddy Roosevelts that threaten anti-trust. FDR was also from wealth and took on wealth in a way that made the most secure and trusted investable market for investors and workers ever and has lasted almost a century [1].

Microsoft, even the threat of one in the 90s led to Google, Apple, Amazon, Mozilla, etc to rise. Microsoft is also better for it.

However I don't think any company should be broken up until they start to abuse a monopoly or become a single point of failure for economic disasters or national security issue.

For instance right now banks and ISPs need to be broken up.

Clearly 'too big to fail' banks are a national security issue and lend to massive value extraction events and recessions as they gain.

Also, the local monopolies of ISPs have led to rent-seeking and less innovation.

Competition is a key of capitalism and fair markets. If you do not have competition you have stagnation and monopolies make progression and innovation lazy.

Here's a great quick point by Steve Jobs about product stagnation and the managers/business side [2] and how they can run amok if not controlled to allow value creation to continue, and how monopolies or problems that arise when only the business/managers are in charge.

Essentially when monopolies/oligopolies happen they stagnate and the product/engineer/creates lose power to the business/management side, value creation is killed for value extraction and stagnation happens always, it is basically a law of the universe at this point.

The alternative is to keep sticking it to the bottom, the lower/middle and the worker in consumer economies, the service in a service economy, the small business R&D absorbing failures and proving successes for large businesses, the long investors that are 'suckers' to investment banks, and the overall quality of life we all enjoy. Or you can take some from the top and incentivize them helping to make sure recessions are rare.

[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/how-fdr-took-forces-wealth-an...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXO3xMfuo20
There's also Agent Ransack for searching file content.

I don't use Windows much nowadays, but ripgrep and fzf are sure handy on linux and mac.
Perhaps humans just aren't smart enough to design AGI? Let's see a real, working AGI roughly equivalent to a mouse. Then I'll believe that human level AGI might actually be possible.
clipMenu, a pasteboard manager for Mac. It doesn't work as well as it used to, likely due to OS upgrades, and I've not been able to get the snippet function to work with hyperlinked text. But it is still super useful.
A hearty second to that! Everything is one of the first programs I install on any new Windows installation.

Even on a machine with several million files on it, it searches as fast as I can type.

Everything also has an API that I've used to integrate the search into my own apps:

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/sdk/
>...People have been saying we would have rolling brownouts once we got to 5% renewables.

Who ever claimed that?

>...We can do 90% renewable energy, and even 100%, with storage and curtailment.

That would not be very difficult with current technology. Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have been done decades ago.

For example, one estimate is that for Germany to rely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is literally 183 times their current capacity:

>...Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...
Sure. At a minimum, it seems some folks find it entertaining to do so. That is a point. But naming them for the conventional purpose of indexing into cognitive clusters doesn't work, obviously.
That rationale ignores that the power/volume of fusion reactors will be hideously bad, making them much more expensive than fission reactors.
It might have a lot to do with the high profile nature of gentoo on the /g/ board on 4chan. There are a lot of people still on the gentootrain.
For a project a few years ago I labeled a color "priest socks." It was something like #000044: very very very very very very dark blue.

That managed to uncover all of the Father Ted fans on the team.
Filesystem and Distro/OS are part of one choice imo.
Quill[1] editor has saved me (and many others) 100+ hours. Imagine building a rich text editor from scratch in your product.

Also - git, Django REST framework, VueJS

[1] https://quilljs.com/
I think you are bypassing the issue the GP was addressing: You said the scenario described by the GGP was absurd. The GP provided a concrete example of that scenario.

GP was disputing your characterization of the example as absurd, nothing more.
Windows:
1) Autohotkey
2) Ditto Clipboard Manager
3) ShareX