skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a whole book online about IBM's design in that era:
The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945 -- 1976 by John Harwood

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24792
Why not just virtualize it and use whatever hardware you want?
Your article seems to imply that the process is inordinately difficult in India, but I'd challenge you to locate a country/jurisdiction that wouldn't put you through a rigorous process to convert a plot of agriculturally zoned land into a factory.

Maybe Shenzhen? But that's hardly agricultural anymore from what I've heard. I imagine you'll find few, and I suspect the infrastructure will be very poor in those places.

If you want no red tape, you need to go somewhere desperate for your investment enough to waive environmental, social and health protections, like parts of Sub Saharan Africa.

And in fact this is what many Indian and Chinese companies do. Just be ready to line the pocket of the local strongman.
The terms were unconditional surrender & Japan wanted far more than just keeping the emperor prior to the bombings. In any case, Japan did surrender unconditionally. They tried to add a clause protecting the emperor, vut the americans were clear that unconditional meant unconditional and japan ended up agreeing with that. So It wasn't part of a separate peace offer, it was just fully unconditional surrender. The US only ended up letting the emperor stay to keep stability and ease occupation, but were not obliged to do so
I've used and had good success with the same book.
Obligatory not a lawyer disclaimer. How much is changing to require constant changes to your TOS? And, what contracts are you trying to change? Contracts with your customers? You want them to resign a contract with you every time you change something? You say "closing in on product market fit," but its not clear if that involves small iterative changes that are boosing traction or big product and direction pivots, and those probably involve very different approaches
The novel Blindsight by Peter Watts considers the issues humans would face in contact with similarly alien aliens. It's an intriguing read.

Available under CC: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm#CC
I wish anyone, anyone else would make competing operating systems & accompanying software suites that performed as well and required as little unproductive horseshit to keep working properly, and in fact worked as hard to make my life easier through useful integrations (little things, like auto-fill auth code from a text message—god, so nice).

I don't like them but any time I use something else I feel like I've made a big mistake, saving a little money at the cost of a ton of time. I didn't realize how much time I burned screwing with bad operating systems until I became a Mac, and later iOS, user. Please, someone compete with them. Anyone. Please. I don't want to be stuck with only one option for non-shit computing.

[EDIT] example: my dad gets a Chromebook. Great, these things are mostly aimed at non-tech folks, kids, and old people. And it's a relatively "small" OS in terms of what it does. Surely when I go to set it up for him I'll find it has accessibility features a least close to the quality of Mac and iOS. LOL nope, they suck. Seriously, I'm begging anyone out there who wants to try to compete with Apple, do it. Please. No-one is.
Geometric returns are, in a way, the primary cause of wealth inequality. However, if everyone starts at the far left flat end of the curve, it's a fair playing surface allowing for meritocratic rewards for those who provide outsize value.

On the other hand, if you start at the parabolic upward portion of the geometric return curve, having demonstrated no value of your own, you've destroyed meritocratic rewards.

The founding fathers were historically against generational wealth, after all, they fled such a system in Europe.

> It seems like income taxation and social subsidies O(t) are unlikely to outcompete exponential processes as ameliorations for the root problem.

Taxation can absolutely outcompete potential exponential processes, that's why we have progressive taxation. Progressive taxation is exponential in dollar terms.

Progressive wealth taxation is another way of approaching this, but so is an estate tax. That short-circuits the whole process.

To be clear, I believe in wealth inequality, and I believe in income inequality, so long as it's coupled with social mobility (i.e. everyone has the ability to reach higher tiers), and so long as the minimum standard is a decent existence, not death.
To be fair, the OP talked about home gym equipment like he's talking about weights, but that's not what the Forbes article is about:
"
Trainers have gone online, video-based workouts are the new normal, and high-tech home gym equipment is making its way into more homes than ever before.
"

And even following the link to gym equipment has:
"
From companies that strictly provide a software platform that enables video workouts to hardware companies that facilitate live group workouts, the wide range of options available to consumers is plentiful.

Peloton, one of the more notable names in the industry, experienced a 66% surge in sales earlier in the year as more consumers became willing to shell out thousands of dollars for hardware that connects someone to live classes and other riders.

Tonal, another in-home hardware fitness company, told reporters back in March that the company’s sales tripled at one point in the early days of March when people were being encouraged to stay home more regularly.
"

So really the article is more about remote classes and training and tech to facilitate them, not home gym equipment. So comments about this lifestyle appealing to new people or not are more on topic than topics about buying home weights.
Like the authors, I find that content published as a PDF is often extremely verbose, almost like the authors are paid by the page.

Government reports, or those prepared by consultants, are often the worst offenders.
I don't see how users hate pdfs? They're perfect for sending to print houses, so we know what we send is exactly what ends up on paper!
What if your source system goes down, can't connect to your local machine, needs to use VM - no the oncall needs to have the USB stick or more, and use it any other company laptop.
Good points! I remember when I picked up an enterprise CMS project from another web developer, long ago. Gradually it dawned on me that while the CMS supported and even mandated lots of enterprise-level best practices, and that "felt good" in a CV/resume-sort-of-way, it was also probably about one big update away from breaking in a few key places that would take an entire team of developers to fix.

One of our most powerful third-party components used with this system had already been sold to a third party, who seem to have purchased it solely for the mailing list, and shortly thereafter started sending us spam emails for telecommunications hardware.

The more I talked to developers and especially evangelists of this software, the more they pointed me to the "holy scripture" best practices. Eventually I decided to move to something comparatively lightweight and flexible, and we've been with that for almost 10 years now without so much as a hint of a system-breaking update. I can't speak a yes/no to every best practice, but I can say we have thought about most of them and developed a nuanced position that is at least somewhere in between.
You are confusing social media with software companies.
I'm arguing that colonialism has lasting negative pragmatic effects in the world. Further, I'm arguing that we should not practice colonialism, and that we should actively work to decolonize; this makes me one of the anti-colonialists whose narrative is being questioned by the original article's author.

What are you arguing? I recognize the tactic as one of the most ancient: You're scooping up handfuls of sand and throwing it in the air to try to make everything harder to see. From my perspective, it's almost as if you're anti-anti-colonialist, but that's a rude accusation to make without hard evidence. Either way, I can't tell where you're headed and it feels like you just wanted to make sure that the thread was derailed.
It's going to be required to fly legally, without a waiver. But in terms of the engineering development assurance required, typically it is more 'critical' than radios and less so than flight controls, engine controls or displays. Of course this depends on the safety analysis performed for the individual aircraft and intended operations.
If you have the "nice guy" problem like I did, my rule of thumb is: phrase things in terms of your personal needs.

- "I do not have the time to do XYZ, sorry"

- "It would cost me too much to do XYZ, sorry"

- "This framework does not support XYZ, sorry"

These are conversation stoppers. As opposed to:

- "I think this goes beyond the scope of our agreement"

- "What you are asking is very difficult"
>To say otherwise is to say that just because Apple has vendor lock-in they deserve trust.

Incorrect, the whole point is that Apple doesn't have vendor lock-in. As I said there are great non-Apple options for every aspect of our lives (vastly better in many cases). If you choose to buy into Apple's platform however, then it's not a matter of "deserve", you DO trust them by definition. You have made a conscious choice to buy from a massively vertically integrated corporation that exerts significant hardware backed cryptographic control over the software ecosystem. That's not a bug, that's a feature for a lot of people, but it's one that depends entirely on (a specific, limited context sort of) trust in Apple.
Full disclosure: I am from the South of Ireland (i.e. the Republic).

I actually have always agreed with your outlier opinion, but you need both countries to be in the EU to make it work (shrug).

You are not counting the appropriate people in your study. A pretty large majority of people in the Republic would like to see the North become part of their country.

However, our opinion is less important than the opinions of the people living in Northern Ireland, and in that part of the island, there is not a strong majority for re-unification.

Like my original point is what the Good Friday/Belfast agreement states, so I'm not sure why you're disagreeing with me.
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I think the real problem here is usage. PDFs make more sense for printing.

Using PDFs to distribute content online instead of web pages is the real issue.

Same problem with trying to use a hammer with screws.
These ideas are problematic in so many different directions that without hearing which version of it is being proposed, it's a little hard to argue.

I mean generally speaking, through which mechanism are you proposing telling people that they no longer have the right to make more money, even though people want to buy goods and services from them. Is it a hard cap? Some kind of ratio (which will surely be gamed to hell), is it case by case? Who sets the cap or ratio? Who is the minister of punishing rich people who decides that 5 billion isn't really a problem but 40 billion is just where to draw the line. Or is it because some guy bought a boat that was just a little too ostentatious (maybe he can send it back to the boat yard to have it trimmed up by 10 meters and evade the ruling). Do you see where this gets silly and is ripe for abuse?

Let's say you miraculously manage to pull this off, then you'd have to wait the entire 10 minutes until Bezos Zuck and Buffett, shift half of their stock into a trust owned by family members that amazingly keeps them all just under the cap for long enough for them to do the same to redistribute to their heirs. Like, do you thing those guys are just going to call it quits because of this? They have all the money they need. Zuck probably doesn't wake up in the morning motivated by making another billion. He's playing a different meta-game.

Also, it's very hard for me to imagine a version of the process for implementing this that does not look like some political theater McCarthy hearingesque which-hunt.

Finally, whether you are reasonable or not, I know many people who would love to set these caps at absurd points. The coworking space I work at has the local chapter of Maoists who meet up every week on Wednesdays. I doubt you'd make it to six figures before they set their line. Do you really want this to be up to a vote?.

Meanwhile amazon payed negative corporate taxes if I recall correctly a few years ago, and has cities fighting hand over fist to optionally hand tax payer money back to them in lump sums as bribes to get HQ2. We have all sorts of other regressive taxes. Our whole tax code is designed to benefit huge corporations who can hire millions of dollars worth of lawyers to find loopholes at the expense of being totally unmanageable to small business owners who cover the difference. So yes, our system has a lot of problems and a lot of them aren't as emotionally gratifying as complaining about some rich guys 3rd helicopter, but many of them, if people took the time to learn about them could actually meaningfully changed these situations going forward as opposed to punishing a handful of people who profited off of the current backwards system.
It doesn’t “defy laws of light physics”. Our “laws” were just incomplete. Why does science media always have to act like they correctly understand nearly everything and we are just 1 step away from figuring it all out? Is it just because of click bait or is there some hubris as well?
Microsoft was worried that the tech sector would focus on Linux especially for TCO if Linux development was funded using public money. This was all explained years ago in marketing material from Microsoft.

> InfoWorld | OCT 27, 2004 3:00 PM PST

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2679783/ballmer--windows-t...
I think we agree. If the numbers required actual research they should be copyright-able.
I mean, if drivers shared in Uber's net profit thus far, they'd have to pay Uber to drive. Do you think Uber is actually worth $55 billion? If it goes to zero, should the drivers pay back what they've earned?

I think you make an excellent point that Uber wouldn't exist without drivers, but I feel like the inverse is also true? How much would a driver make just posting on FB or wherever that they were willing to drive people around for what they make driving for Uber? I feel like the vast majority of them would make basically nothing, otherwise there would be a lot more people doing that.
Code reviews are greatly appreciated since this is my first OSS npm package
Pale Moon, open-source and very lightweight

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/62312/pale-moon
This is evidence of the reality distortion field.

It's like when they made the argument why Netflix/Spotify should pay them 30% of the proceeds of all sales because it's good for consumers and people actually bought it.
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Not eating out is a definite plus.

Infrequent trips to the supermarket is also a plus, since that one bag of chips now has to last a week until the next trip. In general, the ratio of junk food to real food purchases has decreased.
I wonder about the larger context here.

Generally speaking in developed counties you can't just buy any given farmland and rezone it ... at will, just because you want to. That's not an automatic thing.

Nobody wants a smelting plant to just show up next to their town and pop up because someone wanted to build a smelting plant .... or something with massive truck traffic ... that now goes through small neighborhoods / school zones day and night ...

Having said that, the bureaucracy described is pretty thick. And at least in the US there's plenty of land that is locally zoned in a way that could change from farmland to something like 'light industrial' without that level of bureaucracy.

But you need to seek it out and not just buy rando farm land and announce you want to build a factory too..

I feel like this story both could happen in the US, but also would be fairly avoidable too.

I recall a hilarious story about a cosmetic company who operated exclusively in China but wanted to diversity their manufacturing around a bit and bought a building in a historic district in the US. But they did zero homework and were astonished to find out that nobody wanted trucks coming and going day and night through this small town's city streets and 'staging' in the local school parking lot. The clueless CEO said 'this was never a problem in China'...
I'm in the same boat, and I'd like to add that I agree that using `int* p, * q, * r;` is not pretty, and could possibly lead to ending up mistakenly with `int* p, q, r;`.

But we're in 2020 and we've learned to avoid to declaring stuff without initializing it at the same time to avoid the stupid mistake of using something uninitialized.

Interestingly enough, testing with clang shows that uninitialized variables get their warning, but uninitialized raw pointers don't.
It actually makes a little sense: Many companies are required to ship code without warnings (for example in safety-critical systems). Fixing warnings is very expensive and can introduce new bugs in code that has been running fine for decades. If you force new warnings into the compiler the result would be that these companies simply stop using newer versions of the compiler.
I think this is great advice, but hard to apply or understand if you‘ve never actually had nice-to-have problems. I can totally relate to those rabbit-hole kind of problems that only feed the procrastinator in me.
It should be fine, but it isnt. The Linux kernel has had problems with this kind of code, because the flow control indicates that the dereferencing will happen irregardless of the if statement. Its order independent. If the function had a "noreturn" qualifier, or an "else" that could tell the compiler that hitting the if statement will mean that the dereference never happens, then the compiler would not break this code.

I dont want to sound like I'm showing off of or putting down your comment. Your comment is 100% reasonable. Its an example of how the spec is not reasonable, and it doesn't do what any reasonable person would expect.
> But once they've done it your junior devs will know how to write a config handling library

This is true, but there are always so many things that need building. It's kind of like needing an end table, and either buying one from Target or building it yourself in your garage. End tables aren't that hard to build! The end table at Target is a piece of crap! You'll learn a lot trying to build your own end table! These things are all true, but the question that you have to ask before all that is: do I want to spend my limited time building an end table?

> If you teach them to just import a dependency, then that's all they know. They'll never be able to write a concurrent library, they'll just know how to import one.

This is probably true of some developers, but I don't think I've run into a developer that doesn't love building things themselves. (Possibly selection bias). The tendency coders have is to code. They're going to write something from scratch (and learn a lot) whether you tell them to or not.

> Having lots of velocity is bad if there are too many potholes in the road. Slow is smooth, smooth is quick.

I agree with this principle. The way I think of it though is that it's not a road you're on: the asphalt stretches out in all directions, and you don't know which direction you'll be going next. It's very often the case that you spend a bunch of time smoothing over a single pothole to perfection, and crash into a another one right next to it. It is probably correct to shittily half-fill all the potholes around you just to avoid catastrophe and come back later to the ones you run over again and again.
The gov’t gave every unemployed person $600/week on top of unemployment benefits, resulting in some people getting paid more than their old job.

During the 2008 crisis, unemployment benefits were extended to 2 years.

Seems like a pretty good “safety net”?
That's an interesting viewpoint. Given that I dropped out of college (twice!) and generally arsed around unproductively for 10 years while my school mates were buying houses, I'm going to gently suggest that you have little to no idea of what I actually think (except for my views on taxation).

Given that I personally believe that schools, roads and hospitals are necessities for modern society and you appear to believe that these are some kind of false consciousness, I'm not sure how we can carry on this discussion.
Marvellous. Now GitHub attaches its brand to the entire work of open source.

This is the most real case of cultural appropriation in the last decade.

But the corporate smoke screens focus on bogus cultural appropriation and related issues, so this one will yet again go unnoticed.

I'm thinking about updating my OSS licences.
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Great questions!

What's the underlying algo/impl used for this? According to the release notes it uses a DTopic data structure. While interesting, I'm not really sure if this is a unique/new structure by the author (buraksezer) or if it is an impl. from a paper I'm not aware of.

If anyone has more information about it, let me know!
Careful with that, it can be a massive headache when you want to try and get them back out again if you make the mistake of letting them freeze around something to where it's now stuck in place.
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It's an old trope in Sci Fi that alien intelligences would be so different from us that we couldn't even begin to comprehend them. Octopuses belie that idea... although we share some DNA, our last common ancestors barely had a nervous system, so any similarities in cognition between us really are the product of paralllel evolution. And since their environments are also very different from ours, this parallel evoution clearly hints that there is something universal in this consciousness we share, something that seems to want to evolve to similar parameters given half a chance.

We don't know how common or rare sentience and consciousness are in the Universe, but because of the Octopus I believe that if ever we do encounter non-terrestrial sentience we'll have no trouble recognizing it and will find that we have enough in common to establish communications and a relationship. Although first we'd do well to do a better job at communicating with and respecting the many non-human sentient beings on this planet.
It would depend on the product that is being manufactured/imported.

But the whole point of me starting this unit is because I "want" to make it happen in India and not import from China. There is a lot of unemployment in India and hopefully, I want to help a bit.
This method acts as a forcing function to do exactly that because he tells his team to "recreate the pages they thought were important". If an organization's Wiki really is 75% irrelevant, unused, or incorrect, then a major correction is needed, and "declaring bankruptcy" seems like a good motivational tool to initiate a repair.
You can also (and really ought to) switch off the JavaScript engine completely in Acrobat reader. There isn't a legitimate reason to run Javascript during the viewing of a PDF.

Give me a link... I might visit it in a browser.