skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post says that LibreOffice, the version you would download from libreoffice.org, is "un-supported" and "not suitable for deployment in an enterprise" and that some other commercial version is "more authentic and genuine".

Why does the LibreOffice project then allegedly produce an unsupported, non-genuine, unauthentic and unsuitable piece of software? They seem to be doing a good job in most respects, so how and why are they supposedly failing to produce usable releases? Debian's version seems fine, so perhaps Debian is adding some of this mysterious authenticity?
Note that this is not only about security. Sometimes a user simply makes a mistake, or have an app configured the wrong way, and accidentally turn on their cameras without intending to. Nothing has been compromised, everything is secure, but they still suffered an unexpected exposure. A camera cover will prevent many of these situations.
That's a strange comment - both LibreOffice and Gimp have seen some development in the past ten years.
I can't tell if this is supposed to be an argument against what I said, but free speech does not insulate you from criticism or consequences. Go ahead, be homophobic/transphobic/racist/whatever in public (really, feel free!), but don't be surprised when people don't like you and don't want to support your project or community.
> Briefcases were pretty dead by the 1990s weren't they?

I'm 47 and not only own a couple of soft-sided small briefcases, I still see small hardsided briefcases, and the larger wheeled briefcases regularly (well, less so since I've been working from home due to the pandemic, but...)

> My father had them in the 80s.. but he had a laptop by around 1990 and the briefcase disappeared.

Soft-sided briefcases that existed before laptops and laptop bags are essentially identical, but for the padding in the laptop compartment.
It doesn’t matter what his policies are. The greatest power a President has that affects policy long after he is gone is his ability to nominate judges with lifetime appointments.
How about freedom of thought? Am I still allowed to have that?
Bad data viz alert: Why use area to encode mobile data cost when you're also using the vertical axis for the same purpose?
https://visualsitemaps.com/our-story/
We've heard it said ad nauseam that the reason wireless bandwidth is expensive and datacapped is because there's limited spectrum. How does that explain places like India, with 3.5x the population of the USA but 88x cheaper wireless bandwidth?

After all, the same amount of radio wavelength is available in any part of the world.
IIRC, it takes about half a second for the camera to initialize from power-off and take a photo. The flash this creates is pretty noticeable.

Besides, on current versions of macOS, you need to grant permissions to an app before it can use the camera.
Dealing with various CSV files is just much more simple on LibreOffice Calc than in Excel. Especially when non standard encoding is involved.
That's definitely a "YMMV" situation. There are a few people at my org who always have their cameras off, and occasionally I'll keep mine off as well, but in the meetings I'm in, 80% of people have their cameras on.
> I got about 1.5 GB of data everyday.

How is the speed and what are you using it on? (looks like video).

That's in the price range where I would gladly buy a mobile hotspot wifi, if the speed and latency is good enough.
Interestingly, the parent can be interpreted as embodying or contradicting this quote, depending on your perspective.
The NIT ends up acting similarly to UBI + increased taxes, but it has to be phased out perfectly linearly to remove these incentive gaps.

UBI seems more simple to administer and being universal would likely make it more resilient to cuts (as we know from other universal services).
That's a great article!

FYI it mentions Andrea Dworkin though -- not Judith Butler, who you mentioned earlier. Not an expert but think they're fairly different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin

I dunno, just seems like emotions are running high. To be fair, mine included. Sigh ...
I'd love to integrate Laguna into https://Pipedream.com. Can I get a developer account?
I'm not dismayed at all, and would appreciate it if you could refrain from painting pictures of what you think my state of mind might be. Thanks.

Are you saying that I am breaking the law by telling a company that I will not do business with them as long as they employ some person? Just to head off future misunderstandings on my part I'd like to get this clear first.
Which language from the letter is being used by others in a way to express hatred?
Out of interest, how much capital would one roughly need to buy a 1K MRR? I'd assume the valuation would be some multiple of the revenue with some combination of growth rate?
I think it would be

KeyError

instead of

1 None (?)

but otherwise looks like the right answer to me too.
Yeah, that's pretty much my thinking. Phone numbers are extremely brittle. And I didn't even think of changing countries, which might be in my future.
The interesting bit on this is Rackspace was actually the first build-to-order "Configure a Server [with pricing]" on the Internet in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20000302000851/http://www.racksp...
This intersects 3 topics of my interest: Chess, spaced repetition and Phoenix/LiveView. I will add a link to this in LearnAwesome.org :-)
I used colinux as part of my personal plan to migrate away from Windows back in ~2005-2006.

I wanted the transition to be as painless as possible, and I also wanted to be able to use both system at the same time for a while while getting used to Linux & its applications.

First step was starting to use multiplatform & open applications. So I left IE, Outlook and Office for the windows verdions of Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office.

Once I got accustomed to that, I installed Debian in dual boot and moved all my files to ReiserFS. This was before the unfortunate events involving its creator: eventually I moved to ext4 and years later I made a super cool in-place conversion to btrfs, but that's another story).

Now I was accustomed to open applications, and my data was on Linux, but I still found myself frequently needing to start windows for a lot of reasons. But then all my emails and documents were locked in the Linux partition.

Here colinix came to the rescue: while on windows, I started a colinux instance (it was super fast, no way a VM could have served that purpose), mounted the physical partition in it, and shared to the windows machine via Samba.

It was a long journey, but taught my younger self a lot, and above all grew me fond of how powerful and flexible an open software ecosystem can be. Nothing of that would have been possible on proprietary technologies.

Many years later, I have never looked back, and I grateful to all the wonderful passionate people that made this possible.
I had to implement this in Haskell while in university, we started with an interpreter for a Scheme-like language, then added static typing and inference.

Parser combinators, monads, monad transformers, curry-howard.
Think for 15 minutes, write 5 lines of code, repeat. What I remember is that was code was really elegant but brain hurt so much.
Not the best because many kanjis can be transliterated the same into to romaji and lose meaning.

For web dev, I think it's probably fine.
I've found this type of function useful for duck typing, and I've generally found duck typing to be a really useful tool to add polymorphism to code.
It also damages other real self employed workers due to badly though out laws and over reach by the TAX Man - see IR35 in the UK
>Fun fact as far as I remember a number of webcams with LED indicator allow (or did allow in the past) anyone using the camera to switch off the indicator without stopping using the camera...

While this is still true for many laptops, it hasn't been true for MBP for at least the past 5 years (cannot be bothered to find the exact year), even if someone has full root access to the machine. I say that, because the camera LED on MBPs these days is hardware activated, not software. So if the camera is active on hardware level, the LED indicator will go green, no matter what.
It suffices in the few cases I use an office suite for. Calc does its job; it doesn't necessarily have to compete with Excel on features or looks. There were spreadsheet apps on DOS long before Excel, such as Lotus 1-2-3 or even MS' own Multiplan.
Mine was the opposite. It stopping including any tweets I made after 3 July 2017 in my searches. It appeared to be still downloading them, just they were not included in searches. I think the bug was still present a few months ago. No idea if others were affected or just me.

I also saw a bug where it didn't include the end of tweets (possibly some sort of character limit). But that was pretty minor.
> Of course the same argument could be applied to anything, such as covid back in March. "What's all the fuss about? Things are trending in a bad direction, but they're not that bad yet so naturally they will not get worse in the future." I hope the fallacy here is obvious.

It is not. We know how viruses work. We also know how they don't do good things. Are you willing to provide specific falsifiable predictions on the harms that Cancel Culture will cause in 6 months or a year and how it will be so great?

Trying to explain away a slippery slope fallacy by comparing it to the well documented and well understood exponential growth of a communicable disease isn't good reasoning.

> if you have some concern about some actual harm that's happening right now that you'd like to express, free-speech has your back with respect to your right to express it.

Exactly! To allude to anther example: someone tweeting "@FSF, you should fire Richard Stallman because he is a bad man" is simply exercising their right to free expression. Why are you criticizing that?

> You can't cancel someone without power over them, and many of the targets of cancellation have had little power and were cancelled by people with literal, explicit power over them (e.g., Lindsay Shepherd).

Lindsay Shephard doesn't fit the definition of cancellation. There was no social media, there was an anonymous complaint to her university, who did something, and when the public was involved the university reversed course. "Cancel Culture" is characterized by a boycott or threat of boycott, or at least distributed criticism. Imagine that instead the members of her class had taken to twitter to urge the university to remove her from her position, and encouraged others to stop donating to the school if they didn't do so. That's cancellation.

What you described is a bad thing, but it's also a non sequitur.

And note the difference: her pupils (the non-authority) pulling in popular support to provide consequences to the authority figure when normal channels of feedback failed.

> "Good" is in the eye of the beholder, and you're observing the fleeting convenience of authoritarianism.

You're going to have to elaborate on how decentralized movements are authoritarian in nature, that's a relatively unique claim.
> The people that need it the most cannot make rational decisions.

I think it's pretty hard to argue against cash... if anything you do have to be a bit more economically knowledgable to disagree with the idea. But then at the extreme end you have economists at the top of their fields in favor with the approach.
Why do people post that quote like it's a physical law rather a personal opinion? I doubt you or most people who do would actually die to defend any and all speech with which they disapprove.

Also, Voltaire never actually said that.
There is one such debate on youtube.

https://youtu.be/cUTLCDBONok
Of course you have the choice of whether or not to do business with them. Nevertheless, threats are not free speech.
It takes into consideration health care.
idk about that, his tweet only got 10K re-tweets...
If I say, "programmers suck", and then you decide that you agree and you're gonna go kill a bunch of programmers... am I responsible for the murderous violent hatred in your heart?

Of course not. But that's the same argument that's being made here. And it's obviously nonsense.

There's a reason that there is a legal (U.S.) precedent that allows for speech, but not directly telling people to commit violent acts. Of course I am culpable if I tell you to go kill programmers. If I didn't say that and you decide to do it, it's ridiculous to hold me responsible.

I hope that clarifies my perspective sufficiently.
Biointensive gardening and earth-centric/organic/whatever methods definitely have their place, but it would be a huge shift to grow everything that way, and it's far from clear that it's even workable for the volumes needed for the big staple crops like corn, wheat, and soy.

The idea of bringing companion planting, cover cropping, etc to conventional agriculture by way of increased automation is a fascinating one, in part because of how pragmatic it is. It could allow those methods to scale much more than they do today, and allow a conventional farmer to adopt them incrementally, realizing the savings piecemeal (better yield here, reduced fertilizer use there, etc). This is going to be way more realistic than trying to reboot the whole system from scratch, especially to a method that requires 100x the labour inputs.

And it's definitely closer to the land than the other high tech direction, which is closed loop indoor hydroponic/aquaponic system— essentially doubling down on the monoculture approach by isolating the whole operation even more from unwanted natural inputs (pests, weather, and so on).
While not open source, you can definitely use Google docs for free student or not.
According to LinkedIn data, they are: https://www.slideshare.net/linkedin/co-migration-2014v1
China is blocking all the US apps, I don't see why the US (or US companies that get blocked in China) shouldn't do the same to popular Chinese apps.
I'm not sure I understand you. You ask me why I see a difference and then list reasons a phone number sucks?
I'm going to plug my old employer here for this, https://www.polleverywhere.com/ . We heavily used the service internally and the anonymous "Q&A" used for retros and brainstorming was eye-opening to say the least.
Better be safe than sorry. That's quite rational given what we've seen from the Chinese govt.
Sure. To the first point, I think it's pretty evident the comment is snarky (even if it has a good point in there). I'm guilty of that too, more often than I'd like and I do get called out on it occasionally. And I don't think that alone is an excuse to just flippantly toss the guidelines at someone, which admittedly is basically what I did.

To the second point, however, I do think you took the worst possible interpretation of swyx's comment, which was basically "nobody cares that the person in question is a murderous tyrant, but he hacked Bezos's phone and so is a bad person now." I don't think that's what he was saying at all, especially given the end about "more than he already is." Whether we like it or not, one of the primary reasons that Saudi Arabia is tolerated in the West is their economic importance, and their connections to the elite, almost entirely because of their wealth. That starts to crack if they go after the elites directly. So I took the comment as basically saying that it didn't seem to serve MBS at all to hack Bezos directly, as it would only (further) delegitimize him interntionally.
> This might seem counterintuitive, but most mobile networks rely on a fixed-line connection. As a result, countries with existing infrastructure are able to offer mobile plans with more data, at a cheaper price. This is the case for India and Italy. Countries with minimal or no infrastructure rely on more costly connection alternatives like satellites, and the cost typically gets passed down to the consumer.

If the above is accurate, that bodes well for starlink.
A hardware switch should in theory be more easily verifiable than a software one through physical testing. Running tests on PCB traces to verify that a switch indeed works is probably a whole lot easier in general practice than decapping chips or decompiling and analyzing low level firmware or low level OS components.
> the majority of them backed away from it

I'm going to need a source here.
I was doing some consulting work in an education-adjacent field for about 3 years. Was happy with the 2k MRR it was bringing in (albeit inconsistent at times during holidays etc).

A friend reached out if I could do some work for high schoolers. Kind of kismet with the move to remote education, as I started the program, significant demand for this type of work.
Could you train the ML algorithm to select the best traditional algorithm based on the distribution of the items being sorted?!
OK, I've found the page [0] outlining the blockers.

It's not a hard task, it's just extremely boring and repetitive, so open-source developers who are driven by fun, rather than tickets and deadlines, won't bother doing it.

[0] https://colinux.fandom.com/wiki/Dashboard_for_developing_a_6...
yes done. Apologies.
If you want to check out pricing on some low-revenue businesses, try Shopify's marketplace: https://exchangemarketplace.com/. Much more ecommerce than SaaS, and there's some crap in it, but it'll give you an idea of multiples (which are very low at that size).
Here is a question that I have about Clojure and its REPL. I have tried 3 times over a period of a year or so to get it to behave like a common lisp REPL and every single time I have hit a brick wall called project.clj and/or deps.edn (which open a terrifying black hole to maven). My simplest use case is to be able to call `(expt 2 10)` from a bare clojure install without leaving the repl. As far as I can tell it is impossible to achieve this. I finally gave up and wrote a gentoo ebuild to install the numeric tower just to see if it was possible [0]. What I learned was that I have no idea how clojure libraries interact with the JVM. `pomegranate` gets the closest but I'm still fairly certain that you can't install that from a repl without resorting to hackery [1]. I think I understand the tradeoff toward using project.clj and deps.edn to create sane and static environments for a project, but the friction is larger than nearly any other language that I have tried because you are practically forced to create a project structure in order to do anything.

0. https://github.com/tgbugs/tgbugs-overlay/blob/master/dev-jav...
1. https://github.com/clj-commons/pomegranate
i don't see a plan for personal use. maybe i'm missing something?
>I use LibreOffice calc daily as an excel replacement on Linux. I am a Software Developer

The issue is not whether software developers can replace their (barely existent) Excel usage but whether accountants & office workers can.

I have yet to meet a SINGLE accountant aware of openoffice/libreoffice's existence. OO/Libre is deader than dead in the one segment where it matters.
I'm still confused. I am completely free to choose whether or not to do business with them, but I am not allowed to tell them about my choice? Or am I not allowed to speak about it at all, regardless of who listens?
Does it? Consider the numerous celebrities, comedians, and even The New York Times.

If your argument is that powerful people land on their feet even when they face accountability, then yes that's true. But at least they're facing accountability and the value of powerful people actually having to face consequences when they do bad things can't be understated. It changes the culture of power.
Really I am not convinced - I know a UK expat (worked for Citi bank) and he was paying well over 15% just for heath care just for him - and his wife already had federal benefits (Something senior in the FBI)
> It's not clear that you and zimablue are in agreement unless you agree that the level consequences people are currently experiencing is excessive.

I actually would agree with that, but I disagree that any consequence is always excessive.

>For a lot of us here, the phrase "free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" comes across (not unreasonably) as support for firing trump supporters or people who question system racism (etc.) which is both unjust and foolish for a number of reasons.

I think it is unreasonable, or at least uncharitable, to assume the most extreme interpretation possible of a phrase simply because you disagree with the politics of the people using it.

That's exactly the sort of thing "a lot of us here" accuse progressives or "the left" of doing to them.
I don't think we need to parse the precise meaning of 'doxx' or even agree on whether it would be ethical or not for the NYT to publish his name. The only thing that has happened to so far is an NYT writer started writing a piece on SSC and called some people.

This has caused Scott Alexander to faint on the couch and the response that warrants is probably smelling salts, not the mobilization of all legions west of Cappadocia. The only thing we have so far is his side of the story, his prone frame on the couch and his call for the mobilization of all legions west of Cappadocia.
>>> remember, trans people are often physically unsafe entering the bathrooms of their birth genders

I have really never understood how this position could be squared with the position of JK is "concern trolling"

If bathrooms are safe places, and I believe they are, why are trans-people in mortal danger if they us the one of their birth sex, where other people are not in mortal danger in the inverse situation?

These positions do not see logically contestant to me
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480. Its webcam switch is a slider that covers the webcam lens. You don't need a fancy microscope, or a solid understanding of EE, or tens of thousands of hours. You need the ability to see the slider cover the lens. Takes all of half a second and at least 1 eye.
There's some hysteria, but there's also plenty of reasons to be highly wary of China, genocide of Uighurs among them.
The closest thing you can get in irb, is to use Rails' `reload!` after making changes to your files. I don't remember if irb supports this kind of stuff out of the box, perhaps good old `require` works.

Differences:

- Clojure has namespaces, so you can reload just one unit rather than the whole code - I guess load/require would be closest
- You can also just evaluate a single form (e.g. a function definition) leaving everything else intact
- if you're using something like Component for state management, then you never restart the repl, just stop the system, refresh your repl state and start the system again - closest thing to 'refresh on request' from Rails' dev mode or PHP, but without the nasty surprises

The drawback is that restarting a repl is a slow process, but it's something you do very rarely. Some folks keep their repl process around for weeks.
Or we could use completely non-gendered language and say "don't be an asshole."
Local type inference can give you 90% of the benefit at a fraction of the cost of a global type inference system. Simply introducing local variable inference probably captures 50+% of that and it's the simplest programming trick I ever saw.

When I first came across it in the gosu code base (https://gosu-lang.github.io) I said:

"Wait. That's all you do? You just take the type from the right hand side and then put it on the left hand side?"

"Yep."

"That's type inference?"

"Yep."

It called into question many aspects of my computer science education.
My MBP is work issue, so I've always been a bit shy about putting a camera cover on it becasue I don't want to damage it.

I fold and drape a microfiber cloth(like for screen or glasses cleaning) over it when I'm not using the camera.
The answers to those questions vary by UBI proposal. Here's a proposal from a conservative economist who might understand market incentives and how the existing welfare programs completely distort them: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-a...