skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that I think is worth discussing is that julia has far more package developers per user than Python. That may seem like a weird thing to prop up, it seems to just suggest that Julia users more often find themselves needing to implement something themselves rather than use a pre-existing library, and that's definitely true.

However, Julia also makes the experience of growing from a package user to a package developer basically seamless. A big part of what makes this seamless is that almost all julia packages are written in pure julia and thus relatively easy to read and understand for a julia programmer. This coupled with the strong introspection capabilities makes it so that users who would never be writing their own packages in Python end up contributing to the Julia ecosystem.

Coupled to this is the fact that julia is a highly composable language meaning that it's very easy to combine functionality together from two separate packages that weren't designed to work together. This composability makes julia's fewer packages have far greater leverage and applicability than Python packages and also makes it so that when you do need to make your own package, you're less likely to be reinventing the wheel every time.

Consider the fact that all the big machine learning libraries in Python all have basically implemented their own entire language with their own special compiler, all the requisite datastructures, etc. In Julia, that's rarely necessary. Flux.jl is just built using native julia datastructures and julia's own (very hackable) compiler.
Use a pencil.
I think the purpose of LFS is to serve as an educational tool. In that way having more verbose steps teaches more.
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I think that's a good comparison. Indeed while in China living condition of the middle class are good and comparable to what you can get in the west, and the low income class still have a fair access to basic needs (housing, water, toilet) this not exactly the same in India.

So if the open market would be the only reason of the progress we should've seen something similar in the two countries.

The only similarity that they both share is a growing disparity between high income class and low income class

Also Chinese policy is more towards open trade than open market. I feel that complicated topic such as progress can't be condensed into one action that can deliver the expected results. In fact is always a combination of policy that bring the desired effect
I would be more satisfied with a rubber room than the scenario where they are paid to actively beat and kill people.
Ratio of bill rate to salary of 2.5 to 3.5 is pretty typical in consulting companies. Billing has to cover lots of things, e.g. training, utilization, supervisors, sales, office, computers, accounting, etc. I expect they have particularly high overhead relative to the costs of labor in Africa.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/install-gentoo

Goes even deeper than arch. The desktop profiles make it almost set-and-forget now.
"As intended" versus "as written" really depends on the law being discussed and the justice interpreting the law. For example, constitutional scholarship seems to lean heavily on interpreting the law by its intent rather than purely by the words
Conversely, if you're fast enough you don't care who knows.
One can keep writing forever, but I think... If you can't capture it in 314 pages, you might be writing less of a universal book than intended.
'sudo shutdown now' could save some energy. Unless you can work with the countries causing the real damage, then it's mostly going to make you feel good and not really help.
Do you have a link to your presentation?
Half of Oklahoma has no value or benefit?
Not going to happen, especially in this climate with sovereignty and nationalism demands in rise.

In EU, countries preserve most of their sovereignty and all EU can do is cutting funds and no country will give up sovereignty to enable EU interfere with domestic matters.

Bulgaria is like that because Bulgarians like it this way, EU cannot enforce anything because it doesn't have the authority to make Bulgaria being governed like Germany or Netherlands.
The topic is directly related to my interests as a PM but it goes way over my head quickly. Looking forward to seeing the iterations though!
It will certainly show up all the leaks in the gas network!
Why would they get equity? Are you getting equity in any other software house?
It's been the standard military "go pill" for several decades. Maybe now superseded by modafinil. Modafinil is by no means as dramatic, but it's still great fun, and far easier on your teeth ;)

Edit: Actually, the progression in the US military was amphetamine to dextroamphetamine, and now also modafinil.
This is interesting. Similar to us in some ways, but we don't lock up your cash. You can withdraw any time. And no fees. I'll read more about this capitalization bond concept though, since I hadn't seen it before.
What I'm saying is that self-driving cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than human drivers.

Once there are less deaths with self-driving cars that human-driven cars (however you want to measure that) then it makes sense to use it.
The extension idea is really good but is does break some websites plus its really slowing down the browser, after removing it was like a breath of fresh air.
> the right to consume anything they want for any reason

How about human flesh? Nuclear waste? Bombs? Bags of dangerous quantities of hard drugs [a la drug mule]? Endangered species?

Just like with free speech, "do anything you want for any reason" has the potential for abuse (both by a person to themselves and by other persons to other entities), and the majority of society is not comfortable with that. Sometimes we can be indoctrinated into tacitly accepting it after intense special interest lobbying, such as with handguns and cars. But there's probably no "greater good" aspect of being able to eat literally anything.
Yeah but that doesn’t teach much about core components in real systems, such as systemd, the init process, how dependencies work etc.

I’m not saying you won’t learn, but I learnt a heap by avoiding systemd using gentoo. I eventually gave in when it became clear that it was no longer a viable option for various reasons, but the knowledge I learnt was mostly relevant.

That being said, every time I try and do something remotely advanced with network manager I fail. I can no longer have static ips, or customise DNS on a DHCP controlled connection without google
This is sooo cool! Definitely give the methodology section a read. They're using information about the Java RNGs as well as Minecraft world generation algorithms, including cloud patterns and abnormalities, to try and reverse it...
The biggest flaw when reasoning about government is overestimating how well democracy works as a method of solving problems.

If everyone agrees about the major stuff, and you just need to finally make a decision on what color to paint the bike shed, democracy is great. A decision gets made, enough people are happy, and you move on.

But when you have real differences, you need a way to protect minorities against large coalitions of voters. Even if you aren't in a minority today, shifting politics (and divide-and-conquer politicians) will ensure that you are in a minority soon enough.

And it's even worse when society is polarized, because the coalitions form too quickly and too strongly.

But limiting the power of the majority is hard. The Constituion is genius because they recognized that and divded the power so many different ways. The protection of political minorities is much more important than the small amount of additional abstract fairness you get with direct elections.
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Giving people jobs when there are other options is opposite of 'exploitation'.
Yes we did come across Bonus Bonds as well! They are almost as big in New Zealand I think as they are in the UK, with around 33% of the population participating. Also run by the gov.
> But you're absolutely right that the market sets rates. And did no one wonder why the hell Andela would exist and be so valuable if there wasn't significant arbitrage to be had? They're a business not a charity.

The article appears address the incongruency:

> As Andela moved into 2019, many within the company felt the mood shift. It moved from something resembling an NGO to a profit-driven enterprise — which it indeed always was.

Andela appears to have been a profit-driven enterprise masquerading as a non-profit one. Until they could no longer sell the lie. Appearing as a benefits-first company drove a lot of "investment" dollars their way.

Just looks like another example of fools and their money. With a heavy price tag paid by the innocents.
Dosage is a major factor. Smoking meth is way different from eating Desoxyn. Even lots of Desoxyn.

Edit: Dosage and route both matter a lot.
The article doesn’t say Andelans think only making 1/3 of their billing rate is unfair. It says they don’t make 1/3rd of their bill rate but the company perpetuates the fallacy that they do. It both makes Andela’s pay scheme seem more generous than it is while creating social misconceptions about how well off Andela’s workers are.
I like it so much that I want an Apple Keyboard with it. I hope that happens one day.
As a Jewish man, I come from a long-line of hat-wearers. And I get a lot of complements from people on my hats when I'm out and about. Men are curious about them, as if the want to wear them, but fear looking silly.
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Am I the only who one thinks it's weird they itemize their service price into two types of delivery fee? Just say pizza $10, delivery $8. Restaurant gets between $9-$10.
We don't verify for the smaller prizes. For bigger prizes, we verify after the fact and confirm with the winner.
You still have to validate input whenever you interact with servers, the operating system, or the user.
> It’s not the “opportunity cost” you should be measuring. It’s the “opportunity cost of the next best alternative.”

Opportunity cost is exactly that: the next best alternative.

> But if I am choosing between watching Netflix and going to get food. The next best alternative pays $0.

If you could be spending that time earning $50, and you choose to watch Netflix instead—all else being equal—then obviously watching Netflix is worth more to you than the $50. Going to get food thus implies foregoing at least $50 worth of leisure time. The fact that no one is paying you to watch Netflix is irrelevant; monetary compensation is not the sole (or even most signficant) measure of economic value.
I did that too and now it ruins my work in other mysterious ways rather than simply locking the computer.
I now do that. I didn't then. 13 years is a long time and I'm a vastly different person.
> Your suggestion that Scott instead write, "I'm making this decision of my own volition but I personally plan to work out a peaceful solution for all parties involved" is not a rephrasing. It's a completely different message. He is not making this decision on his own volition, he prompted to delete the blog due to the actions of another person. Your suggested phrasing not only completely omits this fact, but says the complete opposite.

If your argument is that he had no choice in the matter then I'm not really arguing with you because in my world people can make choices of their own free will. To assume otherwise is a slippery slope and so I'm not interested in making that argument. If you have compelling evidence that Scott had no choice in deleting his blog then present it and we can argue about it.

Actions have consequences. The kind of community SSC fostered was not able to stand up to scrutiny even though its members pride themselves on reasoned and rational argumentation and scrutiny. When push came to shove they did not uphold and stand up for their own principles, instead they adopted the same tactics that their detractors use (innuendo and vague insinuations of great moral crimes) to defend themselves. You can look at the Twitter threads where people actually "doxxed" the journalist and his interactions and as the kids say "dragged" him on Twitter. It was all very ugly. No sane person would want to associate themselves with that kind of behavior.

Here is an actual trail of evidence for one of the members of the tech community actively harassing a reporter: https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abalajis%20Taylor&....

I have no opinions on the editors or journalists at NYT or any other news publication. I have no reason to believe they're the enemy and yet SSC and its members seem to think so. I find such opinions and the people that hold them confused and irrational (the opposite of certain, reasoned, and rational).
I'd say Arch, then Gentoo, then LFS. Arch provide you with usable binary packages and leaves you to know what to install and how to configure it. Gentoo makes you actually build those packages from source and gives you more control over how the process works. Then LFS takes away even what portage was doing for you and makes you do the build process yourself by hand from scratch.
Seconding how incredible the Connections telecom history museum is. I'm scared for them too, as they're definitely on a shoestring compared to the LCM -- I think they were only open one day a week and staffed heavily (if not completely) by volunteers.
Are you Ken Moelis' son?
On the Law of Conservation of Complexity
It's never made sense to my how the War on Drugs isn't unconstitutional. And your point about Roe v Wade is a good one. Indeed, Roe v Wade is fundamentally about the right to choose what to do with ones body.
You can get that kind of reliability on the front end with Elm, Purescript etc but investing in such niche languages is obviously a nuanced decision.
The fairly awesome fantasy series Akata Witch (by Nnedi Okorafor) discusses a magical variety of these at length. Well worth a read.
Federal court, as per the Major Crimes Act.
I spent some time digging into the London story. Here's some facts:

Spending levels are much higher than parent reported. [1] for one school chosen at random shows that their budget was almost 8000 GBP/pupil - over 30% higher than cited. Furthermore, 82% was staffing. A mere 3% is allocated to facilities.

In my local school district[2], salaries for all staff add up to a little less than 60% of the budget. Facilities (21.6%) and debt service (7.6%) are a far greater fraction of our costs.

In short, the "education is cheaper in London" story is a lie. Many of their costs are payed for by a different color of money entirely, and simply doesn't show up on the education budget.

[1] https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/school...

[2] https://www.adams12.org/financial-services/documents/fiscal-...
what business are you doing nowadays if it's not dropshipping?
What’s wrong with Apple? Why is modern iOS so buggy?
Sorry, that should be "tend to not write".
You don’t need VC funds to do this. You need willpower and users to pay their own server and database costs.
What’s the significance of her being Japanese in relation to her career as a milliner?
It's not "IC design" that's orders of magnitude more complex. It's "IC implementation" where the complexity lies.

Design for test, Logical verifcation (simulation, logical equivalence checks, electrical design rules), Physical implementation (library development and characterization, floorplanning, place and route, signal integrity), signoff (timing closure, electrical desing rules (again), physical verification, OPC) all require highly complex tools to automate. For large designs you will have people dedicated to each individual step because the ways in which things can go wrong -- and the absolute necessity of things going right to get a working chip -- are legion. And there's no substitute for experience to know the right questions to ask.

It's like the difference between driving your car across the country and flying to orbit. If you make a wrong turn in your car you can just make another turn or backtrack (edit the source code and rebuild). If don't have the right torque on the tank strut bolts on your rocket, "You will not go to space today".

Source: 30 years in the ASIC and EDA industries doing chip implementation and EDA tool flow development.
I have no doubt that they were exploited. Not necessarily because they were based in Africa but because they came from a position of inequality.

In my career, I have worked with very over paid and not so good engineers and I've also worked with very underpaid and very good engineers from "poorer" countries such as Israel, India, China or Iran who have been highly exploited (e.g. in the US on an H1B, they are contractors that we are paying $120/hr for but it turns out they are only getting ~$20/hr).

As far as the "market" is concerned, it's just arbitrage. Buy low/sell high. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from, you will be exploited.
If you have a touch bar it does, in my experience. Tap the brightness button to open up controls for each monitor.
> Many people came to the US long after the Trail of Tears. Are they responsible [...]

Yes, the whole point of being citizens is taking responsibility collectively as a populace for the actions of the state.

We collectively owe interest on the national debt. We still must abide by international treaties signed and ratified by long-dead representatives. We follow a constitution written long ago, and if we want to change it we follow its prescribed process. We pay taxes. We serve on juries. Those of us eligible agree we can be drafted into military service if necessary. And so on.
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That doesn't teach you how to handle libraries and the magical pain of dependencies. It's an excellent start, and I would happily encourage doing that first before LFS, but it builds an extremely restricted system to the point of not really resembling any real system that you're going to find in the wild. In particular, a pure busybox system can't be self-hosting.
> Why have all these restaurants signed up if 25% is so unfair?

Because these delivery services are Moloch[1].

The value these services provide is to customers, not businesses, and the service they provide to customers is pretty minimal. But it's a slight convenience for customers. That means that if one restaurant uses a delivery service, and their competitor doesn't, the first restaurant's ordering experience is slightly easier than their competitors', which gives them an advantage. Let me reiterate that, because it's important: if and only if one restaurant uses a delivery service and their competitor doesn't, using the delivery service gives that company a competitive advantage.

So what happens is first one restaurant starts using a delivery service, and they have a competitive advantage, because none of their competitors are using the delivery service. But one by one, their competitors notice, and start using the delivery service. Finally, there's only a few restaurants left not using a delivery service, and by this point, they have to use a delivery service, or they can't compete.

So let's go back to the competitive advantage here: if a restaurant uses a delivery service and their competitor doesn't, using the delivery service offers a competitive advantage. But that's not the situation we're in any more: the restaurant is just using the same delivery service everyone else is, so none of them get a competitive advantage from using it. Instead, the entire restaurant industry has just let this middle man into their business that provides no competitive advantage, but charges rent.

The rational thing, of course, is for restaurants to create a united front and all agree not to buy into the delivery services in the first place. However, it only takes a few short-sighted restaurants breaking rank for a short-term profit, for that to all fall apart. Cooperation at this level has to have teeth, because there are incentives to not cooperate. But in the US, there's a strong faction of people who think any regulation is bad, so regulation that actually solves the problem won't happen. The best that can be done is to limit the problem with measures like this 10% regulation.

Ultimately, the best solution that can work without regulation might be local delivery service cooperatives, which allow businesses which don't have the delivery throughput to maintain their own delivery staff to pool resources, while not giving up a large percentage to rent-seekers outside their community.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200528004232/https://slatestar...
Something like these, perhaps?

https://www.thearchitectsguide.com/articles/best-smart-pen

(#7 includes saving to Slack)
That's right, which is why we called it "jailbreaking" in the 1990s when someone got mad at you on IRC and jailbroke your machine and stole your mail spool. I mean, jailbroke your mail spool.

I take your point, which is that jailbreaking is good if what you want is to run random unapproved code on your machine. But you didn't seriously engage with the comment you rebutted, because it is also true that jailbreak prevention prevents persistent kernel compromise --- is in fact a predicate for preventing persistent kernel compromise --- which is a thing that really does happen; in fact, it's far more relevant to the overwhelming majority of Apple users than running unapproved code is.
The federal assault weapon ban expired after 10 years instead of being renewed.
I don't believe that's true. People imagine all kinds of things—invariably sinister, and invariably based on their personal likes and dislikes. The vast majority of this is over-interpreted randomness.

That's why the site guidelines ask you not to post evidenceless insinuations of astroturfing or brigading: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There needs to be something objective to go on, not just however the mind connects the dots based on a few data points. People with opposite tastes to yours connect the dots in an entirely contradictory way, I assure you.
I stand by my choice to invite people to read the entire thread and draw their own conclusions.
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That would be surprising because the authors of those books are British.