skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - I have a tendency to waffle, and it seems that editing came at the expense of my actual opinion, namely that a concern for both production and allocation is vital for a stable society.

Significant advantage has been found in organising redistribution of goods (and services, another important mechanism of wealth production, as pdonis mentioned in a sibling comment), and it clearly isn't something to be ignored, my point is only that a lot of the contemporary approach to thinking about economies focuses almost entirely on allocation/distribution - production is taken as a given, driven largely by demand through the allocation mechanism.

And to clarify - it is not even the first order effects (e.g. worse conditions the closer you are to "mere" production) that I find most concerning (though they are serious issues), but the higher-order effects of how society manages and maintains its productive capabilities, and prevents them from causing longer-term harms, simply because those harms aren't handled by the system of allocation.

The common response within the current mental framework is to try and manage those harms through the allocative system, by creating markets for them, but fundamentally the incentives simply aren't there in the way that they are for the allocation of things people want - they have to be coerced, and so people try to game the system.

No easy answers, unfortunately!
> I hope remote first people like the suburbs and country because there is no reason to live in the city with no office.

I feel like these kinds of blunt "no reason" statements are meaningless, just like saying "work from home sucks" or "work from home is always the best."

I live in a city and work from home, and I will continue to live in my city even if the entire industry goes to primarily work from home. There are a lot of reasons to live here, several centered on "driving sucks, according to techsupporter." I would hate to live in a suburb or out in the country, places where I've lived before and have moved away from.
This is just propaganda, in the recent thread there have been numerous examples that this is not always the case.

This is why it is unethical to make it opt-out, but in line with the current mixture of ultra-left materialism and ultra-capitalism.
Probably not. If I Airdrop photos taken on my phone to my Macbook they arrive in HEIC format. I have to use an external tool (iMazing HEIC Converter) to manually convert them for a bunch of places.
Blunt looks like a simpler defined framework for styles.
Tailwind is a utility framework for your styles.
With Tailwind, I can do pretty much everything withotu having to write the "default" styles which I already know but don't want to.

Depending on my needs, team-size and flexibility, I can set Tailwind to be used without ever writing a single line of CSS or use it to define my custom classes.

E.g. of a recent project https://github.com/sagri/sagri.co
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Though they very likely use dictionaries to find comments more frequently associated with undesired discussions since that should be more effective.
A visual programming languages are often high level and can only take the user so far. If you were to make a programming editor mode that visually shows how programs are structured that understood standard programming languages it would be easier to understand the structure of these programs but the actual edits would likely still be done in the native language. Higher level edits might be very powerful but how often would you be able to do this safely? From a documentation point of view I agree with your assessment, the ability to understand how things work is easier visually at higher levels but we also have other tools to do this like UML. There are also editors like http://staruml.io/ that enable you to convert UML into code but I find this only works when projects are starting when you are trying to find the right high level abstractions. After this is set it is usually best to keep the high level structures that you have in place.
Covid-19 cases surpass 5M worldwide as infections rise in South America / Europe
Project Ozone 3 seems great indeed. Thank you!
What's the install format / DRM for this?

Any chance that it runs on Wine?
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I agree with your sentiment. There are two sides/extremes to this, both of which are undesirable or even harmful.

But were revealing a more fundamental issue here: Where are the checks and balances of the media?

As it stands now, we've got two possible solutions:

1. Censorship, which I find dangerous and shortsighted.
2. The media itself, which results in a 'who yells the loudest' kind of culture.

This issue bleeds into all kind of problems with propaganda, advertising, fake-news, bias, ideology, lies, scams, click-bait and other kind of bullshit.

In this discussion we've been talking as if there was some kind of sane regulation of these things. But there isn't really.

All of this stuff erodes trust and creates trenches. Sometimes it feels like it is getting worse. People have been talking about how Google Search is getting weaker on this site. There is so much more noise and bullshit today than there ever was, because we're accreting information w/o distinction.

There are projects, which try to make fact-checking easier for example, new kind of platforms and ideas to foster real debate. But those things are still on the fringe.

This is a massive, important and unsolved problem I think.
Why not? It worked in Vietnam, it worked in Afghanistan.

Guns work. "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun", said Mao.
I can easily eat $1000 worth of KIND bars in a year, if they're free!
Yep, LabVIEW is just a gateway drug for NI hardware. The integration with their hardware stack is top notch (as you would expect) and can go from scratch to sampling a signal _very_ quickly.

National Instruments does not make (tons of) money with LabVIEW licenses. The real dollars are in their hardware offerings, which are very good, but also very expensive.
I'm not sure if that's what it shows. That's the same pattern you see on all kinds of sites: most Wikipedia edits are done by a handful of users. There's a small core of ridiculously-active people answering questions on Stack Overflow. Of the millions of people who try streaming games, a few are wildly successful and account for a significant share of all watched streams. Reddit, with it's super-submitters, seems to fit right into that pattern.
I think it depends on your work style. I have a friend at FANG who hates WFH because his work style involves a lot of face to face conversations & relationship building.

Whereas my wife and I (also FANG) just like doing our work and clocking out ASAP and we both absolutely love WFH. Video chat is more than good enough to make stuff happen with other people, and without a commute I can save hours of my life every single day.

Everyone can't work this way, but it works great for a portion of people. I don't see why we can't let people individually decide. My only concern is that the WFH people will be such a minority that they'll be ignored in large meetings, but as long as ~20% of people are remote then I think it can work for everyone.
Bye bye wework
As I said, I'm not a libertarian. I'm fine with fair and reasonable taxes, you pay those in return for something else, but I'm generally against approaching it the other way round, as in "you might be allowed to keep some of the fruits of your labor, but they actually belong to the state/tribe/party/volk".

You're not getting "all your wealth", the market prices in a difference in what you make and what it's worth for others. But generally in that line of thinking, you could just as easily ask why you should be entitled to any of your wealth, since you're not in a vacuum and you wouldn't have any of it if you weren't part of the system.

I think it's primarily a question of whether you consider the individual as an agent or a cog in the agent that is society. I prefer the idea of individual agency, with all the issues it carries.

> rather than starting from self-ownership

Without being free, you cannot agree to any rules. And you can also not be allowed to leave if you don't want to live in that specific system of social cooperation.

> It seems equally silly to me to structure society so that just because you happened to be born into poverty, your life choices are substantially constrained due to no choice of your own.

Oh, sure, the luck of the draw is a major issue. I don't think making everyone a slave is the answer though. And I do believe there's a good reason to organize society so nobody is born into poverty: it's more efficient. Having millions of people sit around and not contribute is a waste, both of their time, energy and mind, and of the resources they need. I don't think just increasingly overtaxing those that do contribute is the answer though.
Well, many more dead (on both sides) is the point.
> There seem to be hundreds of these things out there. So why bother with another one? Well, I was sick of fighting with the other options. Most are overly opinionated and result in spending time fighting the framework instead of it boosting productivity. I have tried so many different ones. Some do too much, others do too little. I needed some middle ground that worked for specifically what I wanted.

It genuinely doesn't feel like this boilerplate sentiment is ever necessary, but it seems to wind up in so many of these types of projects.

We get it, nobody who writes a CSS framework likes any other CSS framework enough to use it. If they did, this new framework wouldn't exist.

But it's a bad first impression to put an aimless rant the top of the readme of a project you're showing off, instead of talking about what makes this project unique, because there _never_ seems to be a good-enough reason to take a swipe at other people's work — especially when someone will inevitably start writing a CSS framework after liking 90% of Blunt but bouncing off one or two things Blunt intentionally does or doesn't do.

I can imagine maybe thinking it's relatable in some way, but to me, every time and without fail, it just poisons my sentiment before I've even looked at the implementation.
> Why do you consider your arguments against WFH not biased and useful.

The software industry is doing quite well for itself, busily collecting all the world’s money. It doesn’t mean it’s doing everything right but it does put a larger burden of proof on advocates for change.
>If national news stations get high ratings does that mean people necessarily like the people generating or publishing the content?

I think national news stations are not an apt comparison, since they have faces. This user, for all intents and purposes, exists only in text and non-personal image posts. For that reason -- the lack of "personal connection" that voice and face provide -- upvotes are reasonable proxy for "like" and "approval".

I contend that people don't "dislike" this user specifically, but actually "dislike" the idea that the content they are consuming comes not from many original minds, but a few minds copying the same content over and over. As I pointed out in my original comment, this is the entire platform! What people dislike is not the user, but the entire system.

In that regard, it is possible for a medium to generate interest and attention while actively attempting to exploit or manipulate its viewers, because that's what Reddit does. It's a classic attention merchant.
We are solving these problems at - https://district.so. Dealing with trolls can be draining and it's a plague for a good community. We working on solving that.

@bredren Would you want to lead /Portland District?
The naming system in reddit is very misleading. For example /r/india is as much related to India as /r/politics to US politics. The toxicity is so much that they can give 4chan a run for their money.
You should think more about the edge cases on this one.
Thanks! I didn't know about that one, I'll give it a listen!
Thank you for telling it like it is. Some parents tend to always tell the “peachy keen” version of parenthood.

I love my kids of course, but taking care of small kids can be very exhausting.
> When you say "gone or moved to MQ" - if not moved to messaging services like RabbitMQ/NATS/etc, where else could things have gone?

They could have stayed trying to do continually running microservices on HTTP.

> I feel like most continually-running backends will make use of RabbitMQ/NATS/ZeroMQ/etc

I do too.

> more and more I see lightweight systems going completely serverless and just using lambdas - which are HTTP microservices.

Likewise.

But long running HTTP microservices are lame, and everybody realises that now, despite it being a cool idea back in 2015.
Nothing that they said is wrong. The Big Four are a huge problem, and it's particularly interesting that the US hasn't done anything about it. Maybe not under its current (extremely corrupt) administration, but some of the previous ones seemed like they were at least sometimes shooting straight. This would for example, definitely be the kind of thing I'd expect an alternate universe President Warren to "have a plan" for.

London has an obvious excuse, three of the four are legally based there (the Big Four are all organised as groups of franchised firms, to reduce overall legal exposure, but they each have a group HQ and three of those HQs are in London). Even if you are quite sure they're committing billions of dollars of fraud (which I can't prove but you'd think a government might have the resources) some of those billions go into the UK economy via these HQs, so driving them away seems like a bad idea. The US doesn't even have that incentive, any replacement audit system would also spend a lot of money in New York and Washington as the current one does, but it could hardly be any more corrupt, so why not intervene?
Consider the domino effect of these decisions. With WFH culture rising:
(Disclosure, I'm 100% in favour of WFH and been doing it for past ~5 years)

- Commute time is reduced to seconds/minutes

- Driving or taking public transportation plummets

- Fuel consumption is vastly reduced, taking care of Pollution as well

- Rush hour peaks flattens. might still have traffic, but it won't be because of volume of cars. like from accidents or road work

- Cook/eat at home vs. going out for lunch solo or with colleagues

- Work from home or sometimes go to nearby cafe, the rise of nearby desk options

- Dressing up for work, replaced with pijamas! Who needs a suit or any formal wear?

- Suburban expansion, city planning project have to be completely revised.

- Location becomes irrelevant, housing/rent costs will displace huge amount of families

- Office space occupancy plummets and thus impacting commercial real estate. Might see a plan for retrofitting office buildings into residential properties which will increase the inventory of homes and reduction of housing costs in major cities

- Group meetings and gathering going digital, will also prevent spread of viruses and general sickness, impacting health care industry and pharmaceuticals

- and so many other direct or indirect dominos I haven't mentioned or considered...

= Conclusion: Savings are huge for both employees and employers but other in-direct industries will have to reinvent or disappear.
That is possibly the least charitable interpretation of what I wrote there. I did not expect to see this type of reply on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> But the testing portal doesn’t support the default format on iOS devices and some newer Android phones, HEIC files. HEIC files are smaller than JPEGs and other formats, thus allowing you to store a lot more photos on an iPhone. Basically, only Apple (and, more recently, Samsung) use the HEIC format — most other websites and platforms don’t support it. Even popular Silicon Valley-based services, such as Slack, don’t treat HEICs the same way as standard JPEGs.
OK thanks I'll try it, yeah am using rust enhanced atm.
People are quick to trust doctors but fail to understand that specialists are the important thought leaders.

The only opinions that matter are infectious disease and respiratory doctors.
This was not my experience in a US high school. We weren't permitted to use calculators until we demonstrated paper-and-pencil proficiency with a topic, and we always had to show each step of our work.

But education is mostly regulated by state and local authorities in the US, so YMMV.
Unfortunately no, at least for the Epic distribution. I just tried to download it from the Epic store on a Mac and I got an error message saying my device is unsupported.
In this usage, "road" means more than the asphalt. It includes the cars on it as well as objects that could be crashed into, such as light posts, nearby trees, etc. If it is a road without a guardrail next to a cliff, it includes the ground at the bottom of cliff, since that is probably what's going to kill you, not the road itself.

You could express it in a way that would be correct to all the pedants out there, but it might be a long convoluted sentence.
this will certainly be unpopular but if they don't get any money out of it then most likely it's an ego / power thing
Show HN: Download books from a Goodreads shelf using Library Genesis (CLI)
wow things are really changing. Is this a good thing or not?
Pluggable storage would potentially be useful for YugaByte as well. PostgreSQL will see even more innovation in the years to come. Well done PostgreSQL community.
I don't now much about her other than most of the people that I know that worked at Yahoo during her time did not like her.
He’s not qualified to speak about infectious disease.

Infectious disease is a distinct specialty in medicine.
Imagine being the only employee on the team who wants to work in the office. That could be a problem. You’re young, maybe just out of college, and moving to a city hoping to form new connections with people. Yet, everyone’s now working from home. You don’t have any real opportunity to build relationships with your coworkers. Work becomes a much more dreary experience at that point. No one to each lunch with. No interpersonal culture. You’re just there to output a product and collect a paycheck.

It’s hard for many of us to say we need other people, especially when you compare it to all the confidence benefits of working from home, but it’s absolutely true. Being alone for long periods of time really really sucks (that’s what I’m going through).

Maybe we’ll see a rise in social clubs that will revitalize everyone’s social lives. But even with that, most people who are working remotely are going to be alone for 8+ hours per day.
bash-completion already does that, and it works OK, but is limited. It's used on most Linux distros, so you've likely already used that code path.

It actually invokes --help dynamically you hit `<TAB>` and parses the output dynamically. Whereas other systems do it offline in a batch job, e.g. some fish completions.
I reinstalled it about a week ago. Then re-un-installed it a few days ago. Yep, still too addictive.
But more missions would have been flown if the Shuttle was more reliable. This is a kind of survivorship bias where we don't know how many missions would have been flown with a different design.
It's clear that the government(s) haven't had people's interest for quite a while now. It's nice for us to vote and protest but we need to take things into our own hands as those forms have yielded little results.

We need to build things and use software that are privacy first.

Such as:

DuckDuckGo
Firefox
Signal (actually secure messaging unlike whatsApp)
Linux OS
TOR
Librem 5, is a great open sourced secure phone example

What are some additional things we should be building or looking to build?
"If you are fully remote then anyone in the world can do your job. Supply goes up prices go down."

I work for an all-remote company and wages are based on the NY labour market. Anyone on the planet can apply sure, but I've not seen salaries reduce (if anything they're highly competitive outside of SF!). If you can get $150k and live wherever you want I wouldn't complain!
Tailwind has a class for almost everything, which makes it quite heavy: 1600kb minified. In my experience you end up with ≤ 15kb of minified CSS after running PurgeCSS anyway, so this is not an issue. Personally I prefer Tailwind because you practically don't have to write any CSS. With something like Blunt expect finding many edge cases where you will have to write custom CSS. I do write custom classes that wrap Tailwind classes using the @apply method.. e.g .card and .btn are typical examples (see https://tailwindcss.com/course/composing-utilities-with-appl...).
I feel sad seeing this gaining traction, when Reddit's appalling history of enabling and supporting abuse has gone unchecked for so long. Why care about it now? You didn't care before. This is a real question. Why is now the time you choose to engage?
Ok so what's the answer if you apply the question to __builtin_trap()?
I still, to this day, have never beaten the game.

I've come close, many times. Usually outdone by some super AI (I call them all Alexanders, after my first crushing defeat at the hands of none of than, Alexander the Great of Greece).

Never seen the late game Death Robot, never seen the Stealth Bombers... and I have an embarrassing amount of time in this game.

I used to only play on Epic with Random Personalities. Even when I tried Quick pacing, I still didn't get to the very end of the game without losing. Those cultural defeats sneak up on you.

I certainly have nuked more than my fair share of cities though... very satisfying.

What a great game.
These reports only say "motor vehicle fatalities", not whether the drivers are the ones at risk.

In my experience, there are a lot more pedestrians blindly walking or running across the roads in the past couple months. The drop to nearly zero traffic lulled people into a false sense of security. People are treating every road like a giant sidewalk.
Analysis paralysis of which one to choose is getting real. Thanks for the recommendations.
Can only speak for myself. Im far more productive without an hour commute, people constantly interrupting me in my cube with trivia, interrupts to explain you can't do X in the code because the repercussions are X^10, etc followed by a long commute home. But hey, to each his/her own.
I'm not sure what to say. We are biological beings and, as such, we are the result of evolution. The vast majority of us prefer our close relatives and, especially, our children by definition. There is no other state of affairs that can obtain. If you want to argue that people who fall in line with this are selfish, then fine. But that is not typically how the word is used. It is typically used to denote people who act selfishly above and beyond the baseline level of preference that we all have for our relatives, friends, and other parochial relations.
There's a whole world between big city and the middle of nowhere. You can live in a small town with restaurants, culture, coffee-shops, a theatre, social life.
You know, I had a technical job interview a few months ago where the interviewers told me I spent too much time on the little details and ignored the big picture. I didn't get what they meant until this comment, so thank you!
It isn't impossible, just more difficult, mostly based on human factors.

Say you have developers who don't like confrontation. During an in-person requirement analysis, you might see their irritation in the in-person meeting and extract their opinion. Hidden behind screens, anything no matter how absurd, might get approved. They might also clarify requirements less. This is happening on my team, as we developers challenge far less and are used to being asked their opinion.

On the comms team, the mostly use Teams and a lot of their work is detail oriented. Problem is, chat systems aren't great about making sure you see everything so a lot more time is spent correcting errors in understanding.