skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the British global trade advantage came from transport and logistics advantages — growing opium in India, moving that to China, tea being transported back to Europe. Alongside this, a strong navy to ensure the safety of shipping routes. The quantity and value of resources they extracted during that time really are staggering.

A similar logistic marvel was the transport of ice from North America and Europe — this wasn’t a business where industrial scale was the primary complexity, but a challenge of supply-chain construction in an age without local refrigeration and cooling.

The article’s joining of “capitalism” and “industrialisation” is, in my opinion, a narrowing of reality that naively ignores all the other contexts in which capitalism has been quite successful. Large ships are capital intensive, mercantilism in general has been a long-term, capital intensive business far longer than industry has been.
1) Is there any note taking application that makes a good spreadsheet? Just use a dedicated spreadsheet program.

2) I'm using Orgzly and yeah, it's OK. For me, OK is all I really need here since I mostly need org-mode when I'm infront of a computer. When I'm away all I really need it for is quickly adding things to do.

3) Definitely takes getting used to. I started using org-mode a couple years ago as a vim user.

I've also lost a lot of time trying different apps such as Evernote, OneNote, and Trello. And setting everything up to integrate between them. Eventually I decided on markdown files for notes, but the TODO and tag integration of org-mode is what made me switch.
Large dams are a different ball game than the small run of river plants I have worked on and the ones discussed in the article.

Even at large dams it is possible to build fish ladders to allow migration.

When we were filling our head ponds (reservoir) we weren’t allowed to impound more than 10% of the total flow in the river.
It literally came down to knowing someone who knew someone, and getting lucky enough to interview and them saying yes.

Without connections you're gonna have a tough time.
So as it was explained to me (IANAL and it may even have changed since I ran this company in the mid 2000s), if something was used > 50% of the time for work then you could claim the whole thing, and in proportion if below. In any case those computers were used only for work.
Python doesn't require creating artifacts. It requires dependency resolvement which Docker is perfect for.
Exercism.io
https://exercism.io/about
Free, not-for-profit, includes code review from a volunteer mentor.
There are few things the entire planet has standardized on, one of them being time (with minor exceptions like DST). Regardless of your opinion of religion, to revert to debating the epoch again would be net negative. Could you imagine if we had to debate time like we debate the metric vs imperial system? That has been the result of several very expensive technical failures.
Yes, I'm making about $400k this year. People are willing to go hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to go to prestigious schools, move away from their friends and family clear to the other side of the planet for these kinds of work/income opportunities. Conversely, I have a high school diploma and remain close to friends and family. I think people are more adaptable than you give them credit for. Sure, not everyone is going to figure out how to make it work, but not everyone was going to get into MIT and then work at FB either.
I have an auto redirector that changes www. to old.

It links this URL to this post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/IWantToLearn/comments/vault/iwtl_ho...

Very odd.
Aaaaaand now he is voting for Trump: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/joe-rogan-do...
Is that shared?
Git `merge` vs. `rebase` to keep feature branch up to date
Great points, thank you. I'm going to steal the runtime analogy, because it very succinctly expresses (at least to a given audience) an idea that I struggle to get out concisely.

Also.

>Side note: probably one of the reasons, if not the main one, that people don't want to engage on the improbability of abiogenesis is that it smells like Creationism.

I totally agree and it's also super frustrating. Will take a look at the links you provided, thanks!
So what is safe (besides healthcare) ?
Is this really bad though? If people like Alex Jones have bad ideas, it will be evident when they discuss them. I don't see how censorship is a better alternative.
All in all, I think I’d take founder’s syndrome over many of the alternative forms of organizational disorder and dysfunction. For instance, this sounds like a much better situation than a complete lack of vision and guidance, political infighting, or a technical firm that is run by a parasitic infection of bean counters who slowly erode safety-critical practices and encourage normalization of deviance.
Appwrite introduces an open-source back end for Flutter apps
from my past experience, faster than on windows or mac. the application maintainers need not be available. the distribution maintainers can step in and apply fixes to the versions they distribute.

if a 3rd party windows application has a security issue, good luck getting any fixes.
I mean, I didn't know of a name for it, but... this is a known problem with some post-startups, isn't it? Like, I don't see why it _shouldn't_ have a name.
You see, someone created an organization and then runs is as he sees fit (in fact, tries do do the best, to the limit of his abilities). Someone is displeased by the results (Oh, the horror!), and starts raging how he would improve things.

This often happens when a displeased person is working in a said organization.
> Drinking isn't inherently bad, but the author thinks so.

I think the author just, somewhat, arbitrarily chose alcohol as the example for the all-or-nothing mindset for overcoming an addiction, and in that mindset "drinking is bad" is the thought in the addicts head using that approach, not the authors decree. Alcohol could be substituted for "internet" in the regulation example, in which you'd get moderate alcohol consumption. Though the tools available to pull that off with alcohol addiction might not be enough for some.
Hello! don't roast people so they get A list people open their homes and hearts. Hence they are a safe place for people of celebrity significance to be shown in.

In British English 'trick' can mean many things. You can do a trick on a skateboard but the usage I have is

a clever or particular way of doing something.

"the trick is to put one ski forward and kneel"

I hope that clarifies the British English usage. Elsewhere 'trick' probably means deception but in British English there are other uses, e.g. the trick to explaining something is to cite Wikipedia.
A tour of Django server setups
> can be difficult to become a member of a club if you didn't get in one at the right time.

That applies to all repeated social events, doesn't it?

Unless it is something that has an annual "new class", but that's also a "right time".
I'd be more interested in working fewer hours, or fewer days, or having more vacation time.
Although I wish I could change cities more, living 2-5 years in each place. But that's not how life works.
Well that just goes to show that you shouldn't trust hearsay, even if that hearsay is your own vague recollection of something. There is an Wikipedia page dedicated to the ways the PS3 was used as a cheap HP computing cluster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

The only reason that stopped happening was because Sony killed it on purpose:

> On March 28, 2010, Sony announced it would be disabling the ability to run other operating systems with the v3.21 update due to security concerns about OtherOS. This update would not affect any existing supercomputing clusters, due to the fact that they are not connected to PSN and would not be forced to update. However, it would make replacing the individual consoles that compose the clusters very difficult if not impossible, since any newer models with the v3.21 or higher would not support Linux installation directly. This caused the end of the PS3's common use for clustered computing, though there are projects like "The Condor" that were still being created with older PS3 units, and have come online after the April 1, 2010 update was released.

And in case you were wondering, the reason Sony killed was because they sell their consoles at a loss and make up for that through game sales (which indirectly is what made it so affordable for people interested in cluster computing). If the PS3 is merely bought for creating cluster computers they would end up with a net loss (Nintendo is the only console maker that sells consoles at a profit)
Who/what decides who is “misinformed”. Again, there needs to be a gatekeeper if you go that direction, and that direction leads to exactly what the mainstream media of today is.
What is the best DevOps topology for my company?
That is true, which does somewhat put a whole new perspective upon this, will they flush l2,l3 next!

Be nice though to have a proper isolated core or two for the OS, after all - that is exactly what is done for enclave based security and management systems. Though some not all a great track record.
I don't think the role usually changes _that_ much as the project becomes big (and in practice if the project becomes really big the BDFL often either has a practical role change or steps down). But founding a two-person startup is so fundamentally a different thing, requiring a totally different skillset, to being the CEO of a company with thousands of people, that it's not surprising that problems are common.
If you don't tightly link an idea of capitalism to an idea of industrialism you can't write an article that says there is a paradox involved somewhere.
But then why not just treat it as the company renting (say) a room in the employee's apartment (like a normal rent or sublet)? It seems to be what's actually going on fundamentally anyway, and it bypasses the need to think about any third parties that may be involved in the employee's living arrangement.
This can catch up to your company all of a sudden. Suddenly you can find out your product sucks, and there are other movers in the space that just leap frogged you.

You’re right though, this is super cyclical.
> At best it's lazy brohangs masquerading as journalism.

But it's NOT masquerading as journalism. That's Rogan's excuse, whether you accept it or not: He's just a bro having conversations with interesting people.
I've done my fair share of professionally maintaining portable programs and my preferred choice nowadays is to extract platform independent and platform dependent code to their own libraries and then just implement what is the most out-of-the box simple way to define a build per each platform.
The other fields also have a terrible time recreating anything. So... I kind of feel that they are making the poor choice here.

In particular, I have yet to see a successful collaboration that wasn't ridiculously ephemeral in data science or document creation, that wasn't backed by a much nicer format. (Where, ephemeral means that after it is done, it is referenced as PDF, but not directly anymore. Which, to be fair, is the majority of documents that exist in the world.)
> I wish that people that advocated for less political correctness would actually list the opinions that they would want to see expressed publicly.

I suspect a big part of the reason people don't bother is because it's an exercise in futility - they could do it, but it is a fair amount of work to list out a decent set of topics that should be discussed, along with reasoning for why, but then the person who asked for it, who likely truly believes they are doing so with complete sincerity and an open mind, isn't likely to actually consider them anyways.

For example, I could ask you to "unpack" this statement:

> A MAGA hat is(!) just another way of saying "Mexicans are rapists", which was part of the whole MAGA launch.

Such a seemingly simple "truth", provided one is unaware of (or "ignores", in real time conversational discussion and thinking) the incredibly complex neurological processes (and the model they are based on, and the lineage of the data in that model) that occur within the subconscious human mind, before completely transparently popping simple answers and "truths" up to the conscious process, often accompanied by some(!) data to quickly form a "good enough" post-hoc-rationalized explanation for the "logic" (it isn't - subconscious heuristics don't run on logic) upon which the "truth" (heuristic prediction) is based.

To test whether this theory may have some validity, you could try to unpack your statement into a purely logic/reason based statement that ~proves that it is ~true. I predict (we shall see if my prediction is correct, based on your response, or lack of response) that not only will you not be able/willing to do it, but if you did, before too long you would realize that many of the supporting perceived to be first-principle "facts" you'd instinctually want to use in your proof, have a bit of a magical quality to them...like, you know that they are true, but if you sit down and really examine them, you'll find that they aren't actually true (always true, with no exceptions), and also that you don't really know where they came from, or how they got into your mind (and tagged as facts) in the first place.

I suspect you'd have no problem "seeing" how this approach could work on people who hold racist and similar beliefs, but in my experience there is a significantly lower likelihood of you being able to see the effectiveness of this technique if the shoe is on the other foot...if instead it is your mind's attention and considerable processing power, being pointed at itself. It seems like there is some unseen process that disallows actions like this (which is a rather fun and interesting philosophical question to ponder: assuming there is such a guarding process, what is the nature of it, and where did it come from).
Google search sucks so hard these days. Absurdly shitty.

Needs to be unfucked via antitrust IMO they have lost their way.
One of the things I took away from NestJS was the focus on dependency injection, even doing that with Express made it so much better to develop against.

It’s one thing I really hate about almost every tutorial or example that’s out there, they just pull in dependencies out of nowhere.
> It makes more sense to provide a tax deduction or credit to employee directly.

I, as a taxpayer, don't quite fancy having to pay for Amazon's 300k remote employees home-office while the company they work for doesn't pay any tax.

> How do we draw the line?

The line is already drawn, as an employer you are legally required to pay for the tools your employees need to do their work. So if the employee is a developer, that would be a laptop for example. Coffee and tea is not deemed necessary, so you don't have to pay for it.

In my opinion, a proper space to work is definitly a requirement and should be added to that list for remote workers. As well as a microphone and probably webcam at a minimum.

Asking taxpayers to pay for this instead of businesses makes 0 sense (although it's already like that in some juridictions).

Edit: I forgot to add that employers that will be switching to remote-first for the long term are the one that will save money on rent, while their employees will have a higher rent on average. So it does make quite a lot of sense for employer to pay and keep the balance in that scenario.
Free food is income, for some people it's a significant part of their income depending on how much money they make. The intern at your office might've been getting paid in ONLY food.
I don't think this should be called a paradox. It's just a case where the limitations of the model (ideal everything) is clear and leads to inconsistent results. Adjusting the model and making it more realistic, quickly clears up the "paradox". To me this seems like something one would use as an example in a physics lecture to show when certain assumptions are necessary and when they aren't.
How do you get informed consent from all the people they are possibly spreading disease to?
I use it because I already spend about 70% of my computer time in Emacs, and I use org mode almost exclusively for the same things I use Emacs for (getting things done).

It syncs to 3 places, of which 2 are encrypted off-site backups. Since I already do everything in Emacs, org mode extends all the tools I already use (links to emails, specific lines in a source code file, contacts, IRC). I spent one hour learning it about 4 years ago and I use it to manage just about everything I have to do on my computer.

If you are not already sold.on Emacs, however, I understand that it can be a tough thing to swallow.
I'm not talking about censorship. I'm talking about all ideas getting equal exposure. If you follow that "equal exposure" idea to its conclusion, then what should be taught in "biology" class for example is evolution, protestant creationism, catholic creationism, sunni creationism, shia creationism, scientologic creationism, last thursdayism etc ad nauseam. Now, there isn't much to talk about regarding last thursdayism. But if everything should get equal exposure, then logically you must teach as much about evolution as last thursdayism, which is to say not a lot. So eventually you'd reduce ideas to the minimum viable size of an idea . And then there might be so many ideas that you'll die of old age before you're done being taught all the ideas.
Within American politics (who else's politics would we be talking about here?) Rogan is squarely on the left. As evidenced by Biden, he's to the left even of many Democrats. (Remember, a big chunk of the Democratic Party is religious African Americans, half of whom are opposed to gay marriage, and hispanic Americans, many of whom are opposed to abortion.)
Open source has very low barriers to a take-over.
I think _Ballmer_ may actually be a better example, albeit a non-typical one. He was fairly clearly unsuitable for the role and got it due to his early involvement with Microsoft; it's hard to imagine that if they'd gone out to interview CEOs and he _hadn't_ been involved early on that he'd have gotten it.
I found this some time ago to find where I can watch something
https://www.justwatch.com

Yhis is just a service that fills yet another gap from all this fragmentation, but in a way it's better than some media company having a monopoly on anything we can watch.
Well, immutable database is just a database without the "delete" and "update" operations. Blockchain, on the other hand, is something entirely different - it's a distributed consensus protocol.
Chances are SJ learned a lot from that experience and returned to Apple more ready to run it. If he wasn't pushed out, it is likely he could run the company into the ground much faster than his replacements did.
Ask HN: How to handle object level permissions in a service based architecture?
As the title states. I'm curious how others have handled object level permissions in a system that consists of many services.

Particularly when the individual object permissions can be in the thousands.

Example:

Service A contains thousands of objects for which a user can have access to any number of. While Service B has meta data that relates to objects in Service A. If the user makes a direct request to Service B for a set of objects, how does Service B check if the user has permission to access metadata for the requested objects from Service A.
It looks like you need to set --enable-threads=posix when building GCC.
> 'm not disputing you on U.S. politics being conservative on the global scale, just that it's not fair or accurate to call Rogan a "conservative" when he's voting for the most "socialist" candidate on the ballot in his country

Fair, but please note I called him a reactionary. I said he profits from the same sources as conservatives. I've said elsewhere in this thread, I think he's a "centrist" which is "conservative" anywhere else.

UBI has an interesting status in Libertarian circles, but I'm not going to go any further off topic here.
I know them well - I'm from Spain :)

I don't really like Málaga but Granada is also a solid choice if you can bear the hot weather.
The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance During Covid Social Distancing
>> it will simply bring even more businesses into the fold

When we look at various platforms, we see that big business and startups are extracting all of the repeatable, low-risk tasks of most businesses(supply chain, customer service(bots), manufacturing(on demand), design(partially automated design services) etc), leaving businesses to do mostly marketing and betting on products/services, and getting less of the rewards.

So what we end up seeing, is either less small businesses(i think kaufmann institute showed stats about that), or tiny companies with almost everything outsourced - and tiny companies usually require little custom internal software(they often use their supplier IT system).
Show HN: A Code Generator in Eclipse
Under the box on the righthand side there's a link with the text "See more on Stock Overflow"

Obviously a just small typo but I suppose I'm surprised this text was typed by a human in the first place. FWIW it's spelled correctly just above.
Yeah. Many times over the years I have decided to be organised about something, or just my life in general, and made notes, taken research clippings, etc. using whatever system I designed at the time. Sometimes I look back at these years later and realise that I spent so much time creating them, never really used them, and now they are completely irrelevant or useless.
Apparently they've been friends for 30+ years.

>At best it's lazy brohangs masquerading as journalism

This is the problem: people coming to the podcast expecting it to be some intellectual journalistic endeavor, when Rogan has never promised anything of the kind. It's a bro-y meat head drinking and smoking weed with some guests. People take it way too seriously and impose their ideas of how Rogan should run his own show.
Anecdotally I’ve had someone tell me that Dawkin’s meme and internet memes are not the same thing because they wrote a graduate thesis stating so.
Not sure how things work elsewhere but in Australia any expense used to generate income is tax deductible. That includes energy bills, furniture and room "wear" if you work from home.

Working from home not only saves businesses money it also increases your salary take-home here.
I believe many people start business not for the money, but for the "King-ish side", and I can understand that perfectly. However, even as a King (i.e. especially as a King) it's important to be the first servant of the Kingdom. The king is mortal, but the Kingdom may not be.
ever played with praat? it’s the pinnacle of highly specialized totally non-ux-designed software.
Hi everybody, thanks for the nice discussion. Here is https://youtu.be/_Yb7uIGBynU a very nice panel discussion about the Google supremacy claims moderated by Sandy Irani with Scott Aaronson, Dorit Aharonov, Boaz Barak, Sergio Boixo, Adam Bouland, Umesh Vazirani, and me (Gil Kalai). (This is related to Sections 5 and 6 in my paper.)
> Rogan is squarely on the left. As evidenced by Biden, he's to the left even of many Democrats.

I think an awful lot of American leftists disagree strongly with you. Being left of Biden is hardly an accomplishment.
> now you can pay only one streaming service and have all the music

Which music streaming service is that?

[Not snarky, genuinely interested.]
Ruqqus: An open source social platform startup
Nope, no satire.

The seeming lack of any discernible styling on my homepage is intentional (in fact there is a little, but still). I don't want to detract from the content.

The paragraph font size is sixteen pixels, by the way, which is pretty standard and happens to be four pixels more than this site, which I assume you can read just fine.
I Remove Covid-19 Conspiracies from Reddit