skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a subset of active processes on my system, where I know that these have never fulfilled their purpose, given the way that I use my computer:

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-source-registry

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-alarm-notify

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-addressbook-factory

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-addressbook-factory-subprocess

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess

- /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory-subprocess

Side note: I blogged about this last year, outlining a policy that distro package maintainers could adopt:

https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/05/15/may-integration.html...

The idea is that any background service should be sufficiently self-aware, i.e., able to understand that (a) it is a service was installed by default (without explicit action on the part of the user; it was just included in the default install) so that it may at some point be of use, and (b) in the last (say) 4 months since the system was first installed, the service has never been exercised for its original purpose. Given those conditions, the system should retire the service for the foreseeable future, so that it no longer runs in the background.
Also, a good approach from the employee side is to explain during the interview what all they can do for the company. That's the approach I took last time around, I got in the mindset that I was a consultant that was there to solve their problems, and this is how. Got the job offer an hour later.

Kind of like a plumber saying "We don't need to dig up your front yard and charge 9 grand, for 500 bucks we can robotically patch the pipe from the inside".
How so? Coming from the service industry, I have noticed many including myself work hard to escape and progress. If people want more they need to earn it.
That's a huge range though. 25% difference. Better to just have a junior listing at 80k and a senior listing at 100k and that simplifies it.
I am against the death penalty, but I'll make an exception for anyone who write that code.
Or perhaps he did actually sign the document, at the date indicated, a pirate with a sideline as a diploma mill.

If he was still considering himself the legitimate king he'd surely not mind signing with that title, just like any other exiled government.
This looks quite nice, but I'd love to see some more screenshots of widgets and dashboards.

As an aside, I've only worked with Azure's IoT platform, not AWS' - anyone know how the compare?
Having used both recently, I found when some vendors target just one distro to package for, they target Ubuntu because it's more popular, not Debian.

I thought "No problem, the .deb format works on both!". But in practice the Ubuntu and Debian release cycles are not aligned and so their dependency trees are not always aligned, so some vendors .deb package for Ubuntu may not work on Debian.

You can choose Debian and hope you don't run into this, or you can choose Ubuntu and benefit from current and future support from a more popular desktop distribution.
Remember that in late March and early April, it was completely unknown when the economy would restart, with many people floating the idea of maintaining lockdowns for 18 months. It makes sense that the market is up from that low now that people in many areas are getting back to work.
Some good info on that from an article a few days ago can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967701. The new CSS logical properties[0] are a great asset that will make handling many considerations a bit easier.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Logical...
> ... to solve your problem.

I find that the more I focus on my problems, the stickier ennui is. It is specifically being forced to solve other people's problems that slackens its grip and allows for escape.
I welcome salary discussions with any coworker who wants to talk about it, but I almost _never_ initiate the conversation. It's still too much of a taboo with many people to be worth the risk.
The crazy thing is google had like 10 years where the zoom pie could have been theirs for the taking. But they always just let hangouts sit there without trying much of anything in the way of improving it. I swear for a good 3-5 years in the early to mid 2010’s, almost every time I’d try to join a hangout meeting in chrome the audio wouldn’t work and I’d have to restart the browser and try again.

And now they’re actually trying? We’re they genuinely surprised to learn there’s a market for corporate video chat?
yes! this! Everything that you list here is spot on and are things that have helped me.
When I worked in Oak Ridge in the 70s and 80s we had our SSNs stenciled on the back of our lab coats.
Another angle which might help someone is introspection: observing and understanding how your thoughts, physical sensations, and emotional states are all tied together and feeding each other. Meditation helped me through some rough spots. Here's one explicit resource on anger but it's really a more general tool.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/290963/anger-by-thi...
Storage for the Web
If this was true, then living in a city would cost about the same as living in a suburb. (Or even less, since city dwellers require fewer resources, as mentioned above.) As it stands, living in a city is significantly more expensive, and yet many people do it. Job growth has been focused on cities for a while now, and that trend does not seem like it is changing.
It seems to me that the stock market or GDP are very bad measures for the economy. Maybe we should look more at average purchasing power or something like that which actually has real meaning for the regular citizen. The stock market seems to have turned into its own system that’s detached from the experience of most citizens.
I wish I could say I disagree, but to be perfectly honest, I was fully expecting a recession last year. As someone may have already mentioned though, between FED basically keeping the market afloat, stimulus working its way through the economy and dollar still riding as a safe haven, it is not that surprising that US economy did not crash, while a good chunk of population is at home and out of commission.

The thing that worries me is that by attempting to prolong it as long as we are, we are basically setting up a stage for a greater depression. We already saw 'sell everything' panic in March.
Yes in fact the only thing you wouldn't want to hold is dollars; you'd want to hold things that will earn more dollars in the future (an inflation hedge), such as equities. Then you'd only care about FX rates (to the extent you are purchasing internationally), and I don't see any indication the FX futures market is moving against the dollar.
So if the death by poverty is less than death of virus, then continue lockdown ? Must be sucks to be the one who dying due to poverty caused by lockdown.
> Also, California employers must provide applicants with the pay scale for a position upon reasonable request.

This is very good to know, thanks.

It's also unlawful to ask about current or past compensation in New York.
While I'm having trouble picking any sides on this topic, surely you're being sarcastic about this, right?
So now it turns out that your company may have been involved in the development of COVIDSafe. Are you actually kidding me? Turn off the HN angry mod mode off? I'm even more pissed now.

https://www.innovationaus.com/atlassian-and-the-covidsafe-te...
Owning a home is useful in that you must have somewhere to live, and ownership can reduce your cost of living. That’s separate from the price rising, even stable prices allow you to build equity and lower your CoL.

My unpopular opinion is that home prices should fluctuate around inflation, barring sudden changes in local population. The utility of a home is effectively fixed, most of us will never afford two, making the ability for them to rise in value faster than wages in the area limited. Furthermore, without maintenance and occasional renovations homes actually degrade, implying that their value should actually slip slightly compared to inflation without occasional infusions of cash.
> But there is certainly a correlation.

You know this because you see everyone's salary, or have all talked about it? And if you've got fresh grades and people with masters and 8+ years of experience, there's already a hierarchy there, not giving a name doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

As someone who's far from a tech center, I honestly have no idea as to my worth as a developer - I have zero frame of reference. If I were to apply for a job tomorrow it would be basically a guess based upon what I'd like to be earning and could be vastly undervaluing or overvaluing myself. Sites like glassdoor kind of insight, though not really given the small sample size, reporting bias, and lack of requirements for truth, and no developers I know talk openly about their salary.
Agreed. Reminds me of a friend in finance who oversees reconciling the transactions at the end of the day. He says that most days he does almost nothing, but every once in a while, at the end of the day, the department can't track down where some $300 milion transaction ended up. That's when his expertise comes into play.
That doesn't make it true.

National parks, massive non profit animal parks, and well funded conservation teams all need funding and time. Both of those are a luxury in most places in the world with underdeveloped economies.

Across the world in countries living in poverty the environment always takes a backseat. Without a stable economy and stable nation states the outcomes will be far worse.

It’s hardly just either/or.

If anything it’s the mere existence of humans and population levels aren’t going down anytime soon. The fact they engage in trade for survival and to prevent suffering is merely a product of that.

The only way this articles direct correlation makes sense is if economic success doesn’t increase capacity for conservation and humans ability/technology isn’t capable of being at a minimum neutral harm to the wider ecosystem.

But it will always be a balance, that’s just the cards we were dealt being born on this planet. I mean we were already killing thousands of animals and countless plants and manipulating the earth well before the word ‘economy’ was ever invented.
It's oddly infuriating to read this from a "developing" (ie poor) country.

We get permanently schooled by all this rich countries who ransacked both our and later their natural resources in order to build themselves into prosperity.

Yes, it would be awesome if every one of us adopted a hectare of land and personally hugged every little bird and fox every day to try ensure their precious existence (which is undoubtedly precious and a tragedy if lost), but we cannot and won't do that if they sit on a source of precious, scarce income.

It's because of stuff lke this that poachers exist; you don't risk death to kill rhinos for eating, you do it because you may feed your family for a week by selling a chunk of it.

People don't risk angering whatever arcane disease some random swamp animal has for the thrill of it, they do because that's their only means of making money.

If richer countries wanted to stop poorer countries from exploiting whatever sources of income they can find, then they should help build other means of obtaining said income.

As in, not just throwing money at people and expecting that to magically solve anything, but actually build means of making a living and doing so in a way that doesn't set up a predatory structure like businesses will do.

EDIT: Loving the insta-downvote with no comment. Please, come out of hiding and explain yourselves.
Yes, but as a user rather than developer, I have never had a problem with it in practice, unlike Windows. And it is honestly much more convenient (as a user) to be able to manipulate open documents on the filesystem if you can keep in mind how the semantics work.
True, but only if they're not completely depleted by that time. The longer time spent in economic ruin will take longer to recover from.
You probably want Regolith Linux instead, or an Ansible-based solution which will work better for updates.

This project is an opinionated one-time install script. After initial install, good luck!
I see. So we should start listing benefits to doing our job for a plumber?

"Hey there Plumber, if you do this job, I'll give you health insurance for the two days it takes you to do this job. I'll provide a gym membership, free coffee, and pay your taxes"
can you do it with no environmental damage?
Current access to cheap everything! As a whole, the suburban lifestyle has a greater reliance on the fruits of globalization.

I don't think we're guaranteed a future where we can rely on globally sourced cheap products materials and labor.

Not making any predictions about that, though. Just saying that if globalization wasn't a thing, cities would be more important.
Google have got to learn that they have not rolled out a successful consumer product in quite some time whereas Apple do, and a big part of it is this stupid, stupid "rolling out in the next few weeks" attitude they love so much.

Product launches need a big red go button in 2020 or they don't work, especially when you're already three months behind the curve.
Bear in mind every other country in the world is also practicing competitive devaluation (hence USD relatively unchanged), and the unrest over global inflation post the 2008 binge of QE led to wars and revolutions across North Africa and the middle east.

This policy does cause real suffering, and some would argue never really normalised the economy or led to growth for most of the economy.
The sun will eventually burn out, asteroids will continue to hit, plagues will continue to come....the entire universe will ultimately end.

It always seems that those who fetishize "environmental conservation" don't really appreciate the situation we are in. That doesn't mean that we should actively destroy it, but its fate has already been sealed.

The notion that there is some pristine perfect world is probably a holdover from religious thinking that has now morphed its way into a modern secular religion.
Doesn't that end up being dangerous as far as updates? You keep blowing away the file?

I think part of my problem is I'm visualizing this as a shared file being updated by users, and not, say, system updates. System updates make sense - we can assume only the system will be modifying them, and it'll be relatively low touch, but I keep visualizing a shared text document.
Nah im sure if you look close into, say angular's docs, you'll eventually find out how to bootstrap their app container manually. It's usually the fact that a framework comes with some conventions that you "must" (not should) follow in order for things to work. Like having an IoC container in angular, you can't opt out that.
I am also pretty open about salary but a lot of people seem to get really nervous talking about it. Seems the employer propaganda is working.
People stopped buying stuff but rest assured, they will make up for it when they finally can.

Apart from the people who were laid off, or spent their savings because they had no income, or lost their businesses because they couldn't pay their debts, or ... well, it's a long list.

People who think the world is just on pause and everything will bounce back to normal in a few months need to look outside of their filter bubbles.
Annualized numbers can always be a bit misleading, but applying them to individual months starts to get silly. What's the annualized GDP decline of weekends?
Could be worse: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405

the famous “we changed the names of common git operations, oh boy was that a bad idea” bug.
Also, sadly, the same can't be said for a lot of other software these days.
Yeah, the author is projecting here. Assuming others feel/think the same as he does or did at some point.
Bringing Genius Maps to CarPlay
When you walk into a car dealership, do you announce "I want to pay $X for a car"?

Or do you see what prices are, think about the options, make decisions based on what your needs are, change your desires based on what is on the car lot?

Human beings aren't cars, but just like a car dealership is selling cars, workers sell labor.

> With this in mind, how much value can a only-with-salary-disclosed-app bring?

I think that you might have a supply issue (employers listing jobs) but it'd be interesting to try. I know of at least one employer who was so fed up with salary mismatches that they started listing a range on their job listings.
Well, on the one side, you've got a Wikipedia article whose sole source is a Reason.com article from 2001.

On the other side, you've got everyone who ever studied this issue, showing that consumption measured by any statistic at all is on a constant upward trajectory. For example, a 2019 UN report:

"The Global Resources Outlook 2019 builds on this body of evidence to present the story of natural resources as they move through our economies and societies. It is a story of relentless demand and of unsustainable patterns of industrialization and development. Over the last 50 years, material extraction has tripled, with the rate of extraction accelerating since the year 2000. Newly industrializing economies are increasingly responsible for a growing share of material extraction, a situation largely due to the building of new infrastructure. Virtually none of the massive growth in materials consumption in the new millennium has taken place in the wealthiest countries; however, not much of it has taken place in the poorest countries either, which make up the group in the most urgent need of higher material living standards."

-- Global Resources Outlook 2019

So, which one do you think is true, the Reason.com article from 2001 or the UN report (and every other entity that has ever studied this)?
gvim already handles this. If a file changes it prompts you to update or not. If you try to save an old file over a new one, it makes you confirm what you are doing.
If corporate bonds (debt) are at high risk of default, why would there be investment in those same companies' equity which is even higher risk?

The fact that treasuries are providing no return tells you that most money is invested there "safely".

The problem of course is that the USG should be making sure small companies don't fail, because that's the actual driver of the economy both for employment and consumption.
> The thing that worries me is that attempting to prolong it as long as we are, we are basically setting up a stage for a greater depression

Why?
The GitHub issue was created almost two years ago.
This is article is ridiculous - cities were disproportionately hit harder by COVID-19 and the author is arguing cities are better for pandemics?

Suburbs are naturally spread out, people don't have to crowd onto mass transit, and life has been going on here pleasantly in the suburbs.
Yes, if you look at your mortgage payments, very little is going to principal.

On the flipside, when you rent, you get certain services—maintenance of property and major appliances—that you don't get as a home owner. When I started my mortgage I was surprised at how much money I started spending on home stuff that I never used to spend as a renter. Partly it's because you own it so you have higher standards, but partly you're just eating costs that used to be hidden.
A very good explanation of this can be found on https://brrr.money
I don't think this really solves any problems for us unfortunately. The core of the bitcode problem is that you need the rustc you're using to have the exact same version of LLVM as the Xcode toolchain you're using, since bitcode is a not-entirely-stable internal LLVM format. Cross-compiling to most mobile platforms is actually pretty straightforward with Rust.
This is a much more polished version of what I do, which is to keep a note (in Notes app) called Brain Dump, and I jot down anything that is cluttering my mind, which I hold on for fear of forgetting. Just the act of writing it down helps; it's a reassurance that it's ok to let go of those thoughts because they are saved elsewhere.

What I like with MonkeyMind is the minimal amount of friction involved, as well as automatic timestamp.
Depends on your time horizon. Eventually, the Earth will be vaporized and the only thing that will stop that is unimaginable economic growth.
This makes sense in theory, unless it's like on Windows where the file/storage is accessed by some unknown, hidden process that you don't know anything about except that it really likes to use this specific file, and you only have the choice between shutting down the computer to safely remove some thumb drive or to just pull it and hope for the best.
The decline was only 1.2%, 4.8% is after a 4x "annualizing" multiplier.
How can they buy things when they are already unemployed? How will people find jobs when businesses don't get money from buyers?

Maybe pump up the economy with trillions of dollars in credit but doesn't this sound like a bubble waiting to pop?
The link doesn't work. That's just the page for the official releases. You have to go to Editions at the top of the page -> Community -> i3.
Can also vouch for Hetzner. Used them at several companies and they've always been pleasant to deal with.

I've moved several people off AWS into Hetzner exactly because of their egress costs, in one case cutting their total hosting cost by 90% for that reason.

Even for people who stick with AWS and don't want to deal with any added complexity, even something as simple as putting a caching proxy in Hetzner and routing European customers to it can sometimes produce significant cost reductions.
Make sure that your browser is directing you to the URL which includes the '#'. If it doesn't, you can find it under 'community' flavours.

edit: nope, you're right it isn't working!
Do you think you've adquently built something that can be used as a transport layer first, compared to googles attempt that seems more like a http snowflake first and a transport layer second.

QUIC has the potential to be helpful in game development but suffers from an overly specialized approach.
an economist would argue that you just need to place a dollar amount on those things of environmental value that need measuring, then include it in gdp. it’s less clear if that’s the best solution, but it’s probably better than a wholesale replacement by an entirely new valuation system (chesterton’s fence and all).
Prosopopee v1.0.0 – Static site generator for your story
The value of digital ocean used to be simplicity.

Vpc isn’t simple.
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
J.M. Keynes
Its called analogy, not everything has to be the same.

In the case of plumber, the benefits for plumber to take the job is they get to make money.
Maybe they need medicine, cars and a computer to write HN comments as well? Or is that just a privilege for us here?
Why should cities become more comfortable ? Just make up policies that forces/incentivizes people to move to the city and voilà.
Since there are 12 months in a year, a first approximation is that each month contributes 8.3% to the GDP.

Even in lockdown the economy is not fully stopped, though, and we can expect a rebound after the lockdown is lifted, but the lockdown will impact more than a single month.

All in all, I think that it is probably a reasonable ballpark figure for 2020 as whole.
The Patriot Act violates my personal right to secrecy. Stop lights violate my personal right to cross intersections as I please. And on and on.

Welcome to civilized society, sorry it's such an inconvenience.
DigitalOcean seem to be slowly but surely becoming a "cloud provider", rather than a "VPS provider" - it's really great to see some attractively priced alternatives to Azure/AWS/GCP!

I was wondering if DO publish some kind of roadmap? I'd really like to know what else they plan on delivering over the next year or so?