skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always enjoyable when an article shits on Krugman. Dude has been so wrong throughout that you could flip the sign on his predictions and actually get useful signal. Maybe that's how he still has any readership? Another worthwhile target for shitting on is Kurt "Tentacle Porn" Eischenwald, who sold all his stocks right before the huge rally caused by Trump winning the election in 2016.

On a more serious note, I've basically come to the same conclusions: no skin in the game -> ignore, organization and not a person -> ignore. I do follow a few individual journalists such as Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald who explicitly staked their reputation on their journalistic integrity, and ignore everything else as fake news.
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Isn't tor blocked in many high-risk censor areas?

I know cellular was blocking it during the peak of the war in Syria.
> Developing a plan is not waterfall. Designing an Architecture is not waterfall.

Yes it is. Fundamentally, any project stage that you can finish without delivering a working system to the end user is waterfall.

> Agile is about adapting to change as it occurs - how do you know if there is any change if you didn't start with a plan?

Why do you care whether there is change? The whole point of agile is that it doesn't matter if the customer's requirements change, you'll deliver value to them just as effectively whether they do or don't.
Just means you gotta work higher up in the food chain. You need a new job. Build what other developers eat.
>Or everything is a simulation, again math kind of works. No direct evidence, but neat idea. But who’s hosting the sever that’s running the universe.

Its programmers all the way up!

But really, awhile ago I settled on the belief that its very possible we're in a natural simulation. Natural, as in, the same way that plants are simulations of L-Systems or in particular the same way my GPU once spat out cellular-automata-like behavior in a glitch.

If we are in a simulation, we've got no prior on what the world "above" us might be like. Oftentimes I see the theory shot down with "Our universe is too big and complex, theres no way any computer could be big enough to simulate it!" which is valid if assuming scale and physics anything like ours. But that's not a reasonable assumption here. It could be that the computational power of a cheap smartphone in the above world is similar to what a supercomputer the size of Jupiter or even Sun or any scale really for all we know. But that still assumes a programmer. If computing is done a lot in the above world at that sort of scale, our universe could be the result of a hardware glitch. That specific scenario may be quite unlikely, its just the extension of the GPU creating cellular automata by chance that I mentioned earlier. There's many other ways for algorithms of simulation to naturally emerge from reality just existing and things within it creating new sub-systems, which from within such a system, appear to be "something from nothing". So in a sense, it seems most likely that whatever the case is we are likely not one the "first layer" of reality, we are "simulated" within sub-layers. So then the interesting question is not how did this particular something come from nothing, but how can anything come from nothing, in the very first place, ever, at all? Once something exists, while scientifically we'd want an answer for how to get from there to here, its just a matter of what exact process that is.
I think that wraps around to the issue one of the other comments raised, which is the contention that less effort has been put into this area compared to, say, the civilizations whose languages are represented on the Rosetta Stone. Who's to say that there isn't one for Kush, buried in some undiscovered site? Or, what about using ML to investigate similarities in construction and form between the languages conveyed in Meroitic and other languages?
Any modern Linux or BSD box is full of 1980s and even 1970s software. Granted, most of it is still actively maintained, but old doesn't have to mean legacy.
I'm from the Bay Area and public transit here is laughable at best. To go some place would be 15 minutes by car and 45 minutes by bus - if the bus comes on time at all. The light rail in South Bay moves slower than traffic sometimes. Caltrain runs once an hour (apart from 4 hours every weekday when it's once every 20 minutes). BART extension took over 15 years!

How is this remotely a good solution? DC Metro's transit and NY transit runs circles around the one here, not to mention ones from Korea/Japan/Poland runs circles. I've been forced to take public transit for over 5 years and boy do I hate it if I've to actually get somewhere on time.

Sorry, I'm triggered :)
Wow, have you been keeping that un-ground axe in your back pocket for a while or something?
i think it's largely culture. academics are "graded" based on how many papers they publish. depending on your geography, quality matters too.

but in most cases they aren't measured by how much non-peer reviewed publications they have.

there is also a technical barrier that works both ways. most don't have the capability to have a regularly updated website with content that otherwise would have been put in the file drawer. and the other side of that coin is what audience will actually find / read it online.

twitter is becoming the defacto medium of dissemination, however, so that may bode well for promoting other types of publishing medium.

edit
ALSO note that there are some academics who publish high-quality blogs. i'm thinking of [murat demirbas](http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/). i'm not familiar with any that publish actual results, however. the threat would be someone else might "steal" the idea and publish it elsewhere, particularly in competitive fields like bio.
I don't understand why slack is worth billions when IRC has been around for decades.
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Firefox makes this color ugly
The color #fcfc04 looks completely different (uglier imo) on Firefox while Chrome and Safari display it the same.

I was visiting this website when I noticed

https://www.copyipsum.com/

Why does this happen?
> they've kept working despite the fact I haven't tested on Windows in years.

How do you know? :)

Cross-compilation, avoiding the need to build on many different systems, is great - but I’d still want to test on all those systems.
Related:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
Great, Thanks for the advice!

When I decided to start using a password manager, I was drawn to Keypass since it is open source and I don't have to rely on any third party service. But learning how to use it correctly, and juggle your db files among all your devices requires a sound, thought out strategy!
The difference there is there is no other way to distribute iOS Apps. Period.

There are so many ways to distribute PC games and software, you cannot even begin to enumerate half of them.

Mostly the same on Android too. With a simple toggle, you can then install other App Stores like Amazon's, etc. Many phones come with alternative App Stores pre-installed too.
It’s not like the Fortnite installer had any vulnerabilities....

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...
Slight sidebar: it's so frustrating that Adobe made the new Lightroom some cloud based monstrosity. For photographers with serious workflows involving local disks, we're now relegated to "Lightroom Classic" which makes me feel like I'll be discontinued in N years from now. I hope they change course and drop this whole cloud thing, the yearly subscription model is bad enough.
> But then you need a big development plan for how to scale it to a polished, sellable product. Because there’s a lot more to the product then the artifact.

That's a total non sequitur. Agile is all about building the sellable product. But doing it iteratively works a lot better than doing it via a big development plan.
Well, this is as good a time as any then to try out Darktable [1]!

[1] https://www.darktable.org/
Promised Land: Religious ideology and solarpunk science fiction
More likely that you'll have weight problems because healthy food and lifestyles are much more difficult to acquire and maintain without sufficient wealth.
DIY Silicone Mask
Files and detailed instructions can be found here:

https://github.com/WeibelLab/SiliconeHalfMask/wiki
Yes???

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/fortnites-android-vu...
No chance :( It’s their cash cow and it’s not going anywhere.
Is the intent most important here or is it who the workers actually are? The fact is that Uber and Lyft employ people in the way you typically think of (and in the way that the law thinks of). These aren't children driving around for spare cash.

Uber even has financing options to help drivers buy cars specifically for this job. What type of person buys an entire car to accomplish side hustle or to dally around? The fact that Uber accomodates such a large investment into being a driver speaks towards what their "target demographic" is.
I agree, though that's a whole different subject. VCs are usually a very small share of their portfolios, and I guess the high risks are well known.

But it's true that VCs, private equity and bull markets in general, which people always think of as profiting mostly very rich people are actually essential to fund most retirement plans, pensions and insurances.
I worked on my previous project for 22 years yes 22 not a typo. It changed a lot over the years but there was still code that was recognizable from the early days. At my new job I work on projects that are designed for minimally viable products. Basically throwaway.
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What to pack in your evacuation bag
> “If breast meat is worth two dollars a pound and dark meat is worth one dollar, which would I rather have?”

Western countries are weird about this. Chicken breast, particularly the industrially produced Tyson broilers and their ilk, is bland, dry and tasteless. (There's an Anthony Bourdain quote which I can't find right now about chicken being what people who don't like food order in restaurants.)

In Asian countries "dark" meat is preferred and sells at a premium, because it actually has some texture and taste.
This doesn't hold up under any scrutiny. Progressives say things like "we should have a working healthcare system (like those already in place in other countries)", conservatives say "absolutely the fuck not."
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IIoT Project Using GridDB on Raspberry Pi, Node-Red, and an Arduino PLC
People might retaliate against a colleague who gave a bad review.
* planning - The informal calculus of anticipating changes and moving targets is a common sense few people possess.

* self-reflection - The confidence to objectively see yourself as a non-special data point comparable to other data points prevents many failures attributable to bias.

* honesty - Honesty is a skill many people are shockingly terrible at and horrified to encounter. Yet it determines who seeks to do you harm more so than anything else.

* immortality - If the children inherent the rare physical traits that I have grown into there is never reason to feel physical intimidation from other people. Let that define their character more than anything else.
What's going to happen when these 37.2 million jobs are lost? Are these people just going to starve on the streets? Do they have financial resources that they didn't know they had? I find myself frustrated whenever reading about the job losses because things are always phrased in the abstract, like "The agency expects that $METRIC will be down 40% in the next decade." I don't know what that means for the people who are actually going through this catastrophe.

I also seriously question these sorts of projections, especially out as far as a decade. There's so many variables and unknowns, and I'm not certain how the IRS arrives at this conclusion, and it's not clear what assumptions they're making in their projections.

What I really need is a recent comprehensive source on how COVID is affecting the economy. Right now all the information is coming in piece-meal and I have no idea what to make of it all.
A project is a plan. ("forward throw")
Apple put us in an unfortunate position where the strength of the iOS ecosystem means that many of us don’t have a choice in phone platform to buy into - which in turn opens us up to being exploited by their App Store practices.

You don’t lay any of the blame on Google’s inability you convince people that their phones are worth buying when you can afford to do otherwise?
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If you put the garbage disposal into the tub, you can prepare dinner while showering!
If you’d never developed an app/system for more than a few years, I would be thinking of hiring you as a junior engineer.

If you were willingly involved with rewriting your app/system every few years in the latest trendy language or framework, I probably wouldn’t be thinking of hiring you.
Yes, the remote worker can save and the file will be saved in the host.

Tracking changes is coming soon! This is super needed.

We are going to add soon better tools to manage (and share) the local server. So you as a guest can edit, save and see how this is impacts the local server of the host.
Speaking from my own experience in the physical sciences, labs don't self publish unsurprising results because there are only so many hours in the day and it's not worth the effort.

Even just putting the results on your own website is a lot of work. Pulling all of the data together, analyzing it, putting it in visuals, writing up the results. It can be hard to justify committing that much time to something where the pay off is "other people might be interested".
Ethnicity and race are distinct concepts. Come out of your bubble, the world is not US. It is an important distinction to understand what is really going on in the world.

I make very arbitrary example. Lets take Poles and Russians. Both usually pale skinned, slavish people. Still they have such huge cultural and historical differences that they could not by any change form a single political entity.

Still there could be individuals among them that could argue that darker skinned people who are descendants of their nationals are not really Polish, Russian because of their skin color.

These people are racists. The people who argue that Poles are not Russians are not racists. These are just rational persons.
I'm on the same boat. But if you're living in America, you tip. Several projects have been undertaken over the years to try to eliminate it but time and time again it's failed.

https://www.grubstreet.com/2018/12/restaurant-tipping-return...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/dining/danny-meyer-no-tip...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/15/478096516/wh...

Sad, but true.
Not that this is relevant to DOS software, which needs whole-system heavyweight emulation right from the start these days, but...

It would be interesting to have a solution which allowed you to progressively wrap software to allow it to run in just as much isolation as it needs, from the ultra-lightweight scripts that just futz with LD_PRELOAD (when most of the environment is still there) to actual Docker images (when the OS is still there) to images to run in a hypervisor (when the hardware is still there) to full-on heavyweight system emulation like SIMH, for when even the hardware has gone.

It's all very Tao:

When the userspace libraries have gone, there is LD_PRELOAD

When the filesystem hierarchy is gone, there is Docker

When the OS is gone, there is Xen

When the hardware is gone, there's SIMH. Hi, SIMH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE Laurie Anderson — O Superman
No, I think they mentioned the market cap because they want to rattle out random unrelated numbers to manufacture outrage.
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How many apps are iOS only that are popular?
> There's also work where it makes no sense at all to do while looking ahead at most only two weeks.

> For instance, if you have a good experienced architect, a small amount of time spent on a high-level arcitecture will pay you back on even a slightly successful project. Not to mention it will increase your agility. E.g., don't design a sophisticated privilege mechanism until you know you need it. But if there's a reasonable chance a privilege mechanism will be important in the future, know where one would fit in in a way that wouldn't require a substantial rewrite. Now you'll be able to slot in a simple privilege mechanism, if/when you need one, and later replace/evolve that with a sophisticated one, if needed, all quickly and without substantial rewrites.

No. This is the most seductive myth in software development, and it's exactly what Agile exists to avoid.

I've worked with experienced architects. I've worked with very intelligent architects. I've worked with extremely highly paid architects. None of them ever managed to add value to the project rather than subtracting it.

Write the simplest thing that might possibly work. Write plain code that's easy to refactor. Ensure that your test cases (or better still your type system) capture your business requirements so that you can refactor fearlessly and mercilessly. And as if by magic, retrofitting that sophisticated privilege mechanism will turn out to be easy, because you don't have a bunch of architecture getting in your way.
> I do wish relational databases (PostgreSQL and SQL Server specifically, since I work with those) had better support for automatically updated real-time materialized views.

I've been keeping an eye on these folks: https://materialize.io/
> I could telnet and have a REPL, which could be used to replace functions on the fly

I thought you had to restart a scheme’s REPL. Is that just a limitation of Racket?
This should not be downvoted, it makes the headline much harder to parse on first read, and that's what a headline is for.
All of the apps you mentioned are also on Android.
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The idea of it being a "contract" isn't in dispute. It's about whether these employees can legally be classified as "INDEPENDENT contractors". They aren't independent in the normal sense of word (I'm paying particular attention to your gymnastics around how workers can't specify their rate) nor in the legal sense.
Non organic chicken is one of the few foods I find to be really disturbingly cheap. .99 to $2/lb range for a living organism to have been fed, slaughtered, transported and marked up at retail is a little off putting.
https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary

You literally click a button in your browser and emulate right there. Have fun.
Do you feel the same way about the consoles? Smart TVs?

But you are actually legally incorrect. A company has “no duty to deal”.
What a needlessly abrasive headline.
Andy Rachleff, known for his articulation of product/market fit, says a company with a lock on product/market fit can do almost everything else wrong and still succeed.

Google firing all of its managers early on in its existence is a great example of this.
As a Windows user, I see the other side of this, and it is usually true. It is easy to run in CI, maybe that’s part of it.

I’m not sure exactly how it’s the case, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately; I had a convo on HN last week about this...
ohh this is clever!
A very good point. My experience was that maybe 5% of the work I did made it into a publication.

If I wrote up everything that didn't work, my PhD would have been 10 years instead of 5.
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I would think facilitating payment would only leave you liable for the amount given to you to transfer, not the amount of your assets that total the amount of debt between the parties you are facilitating for.

If Alice owes Bob $500, and I've agreed to take Alice's $5 bill to Bob, and I accidentally give Bob my own $500 bill, Bob doesn't get to keep it. The liability I took on in that transaction is for the amount of money I accepted from Alice for the purpose of delivering to Bob, not Alice's total debt.
Definitely a step forward in sharing by allowing each person to use their own editor. Looking forward to the vim plugin.

I find myself also sharing consoles too, I'd like to see this extended to terminal sessions, perhaps the session could be rendered in other people's editors? Kind of like a live asciinema.

I'd love to try this at work, unfortunately streaming Corp's code through an unapproved 3rd party service is a no-go.
This would've been really useful in college.
Hope this catches on!
Lol who down voted you? The use of prison/slave labor is probably a factor in the disappearance of millions of jobs.

And creates a perverse incentive for kickback relationships between certain industries and the judicio-prison complex to funnel more de facto slaves into the system.
People can appear different to different people the same way that a person with multiple Reddit accounts can be entirely different personas on them.

When we see accounts of someone that strongly conflict with our accounts of that person, our inclination is to believe that our view of that person is the "right" one. This is just an artifact of human's natural sensory self-centrism: you can only see him as the person you have seen him as.

The likely truth, about everyone, is that like a 3D object viewed from a single vantage point, that no one person ever truly knows another.

And obviously, everyone deserves their day in court.
That's irrelevant here. "Money" is just bits in some DB. The point is, BoA sent money to the CC company, like they always do. How is the CC company to know where the money originated from?
Look! Someone made just that cross-editor sync: Gitduck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24228826