skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect, the blog post you pointed to is a load of self-referential blather, when I go to the top of urbit.org I can't see anything because my browser blocks content hosted on google, this project evidently doesn't even try to walk its talk.
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Removed exclamation marks from title, added 'On Android'.

I got these messages on one of my dev-devices. Totally creepy.
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I write technical guides for people who are not native speakers. Using simple vocabulary is easy, but using simple grammar is not.

Here's a recent article I wrote. It should give you an idea of what I mean: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/car-insurance-germany

There are a few things I would add to this:

---

▶ Your readers are here for information, not entertainment. Get to the point.

▶ If a paragraph answers a question, the first sentence should be the tl;dr. Highlight it if necessary. [1]

▶ Use formatting to make skimming easier. Users don't read documents from start to finish. They are looking for specific answers. [2] I spent a lot of time tweaking my website to be more readable.

▶ Use can (optional), should (recommended) and must (mandatory) consistently. "It's ill-advised to do this, because ..." >>> "You should not do this, because ...".

▶ Avoid run-on sentences. Generally, that means maximum one comma per sentence.

▶ Start with the "if" part of the sentence: "If you are over 60, you are not eligible". It lets people skip sentences that don't concern them.

▶ Avoid expressions and idioms as much as possible. "If you're feeling under the weather, stay home" >>> "If you don't feel well, stay home".

▶ Avoid ambiguity between sentences: "The cat sits in the house. It is old." >>> "The old cat sits in the house".

▶ Use commas generously. It makes sentences easier to digest. I'm a big fan of the Oxford comma.

▶ Use Hemingway [3] to catch some of those mistakes

---

In other words, DON'T BE CLEVER. It feels a lot like writing software that will be maintained by novice programmers.

Simple language is really important, especially if you deal with the general population. Some people don't read well. Some people don't speak English well. Some topics are confusing enough on their own.

[1] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/anmeldung-in-english-berli...

[2] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/how-to-get-a-german-freela...

[3] http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
I had the same reaction. That section was painful. On the other hand, sometimes people get away with it, so the advice is right in one sense, even if it's wrong in another.
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Both. Containers are meant to be ephemeral, they don't play well with permanent storage by design. People have been trying to run databases anyway and hitting roadblock after roadblock.

Here's an old rant mentioning broken container filesystems, a bit old from 2016 but storage didn't change much https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-his...
There is no /run by default on FreeBSD (only /var/run), and /proc (procfs) is being phased out since 2011.
On the contrary - use jokes and sarcasm to root out posers, trolls, and ideologues.
I would've thought that government as a servant is prevalent under capitalism (the government is supposed to only provide services in the forms of courts, policing, defense, some infrastructure, some schooling). Whereas under socialism the government is like a godfather and is supposed to take care of you from cradle to grave, giving you tasks to do, providing you with entertainment, not asking you but telling you what to do and how to live, with an implicit guarantee that it would give everyone a decent life.

Companies are not empires - they are just free people associating with each other on their own terms to create something.
Very neat! Reminds me a bit of the Basic Engine[0], which is similar in the sense that it is also a DIY ultra low-cost computer. This looks a bit more involved than that project though, since there is a lot of custom hardware involved.

Beyond that I guess the main limitation these days would be to find a VGA monitor

https://basicengine.org/
>You think getting good students to go to crappy schools is a way to improve those schools? I'd say you don't know anything about schools then.

You'd say that, but it would be wrong.

>And you think randomly selecting students instead of selecting them on the basis of merit is a way to find gems

Totally. Especially since there's little about "merit" in the current system.
> I had a roomba when I was a kid

OK now I feel old.
I don't think UK primary schools use textbooks. There is a curriculum for state schools which is reasonably proscriptive (and set by the state directly), but in terms of planning, creating, and delivering lessons, each teacher seems to do it themselves. Sometimes if there is more than one class of the same year group (grade) the teachers will work together on resources, but not necessarily. (This has always struck me as inefficient; in reality, teachers share a great deal of lesson plans and resources, but there is no compulsion other than the curriculum.)

My understanding was that US school districts or even whole states selected textbooks for K-12 students that all teachers were expected to use in public schools, but I may have missed something.

And US university accreditation seems to be tied to exam boards who also publish textbooks which students are expected to buy; again, in the UK, there is nothing so organised (in the sense of "organized crime") and University accreditation is done by a separate non-profit, the QAA.
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In the top 10% of income brackets yes. Outside of it, not so much...
Haha touche!

Want to correct you on something - which you might find uplifting. "Love" is hormonal, and at first is indeed the intense desire and attraction that you're thinking of. That stage lasts for about 6-18 months and is caused by a couple of hormones, which inhibit critical thought (love is blind, etc) and cause separation anxiety.

After that period, those hormones fade (the honeymoon ends) and often a new hormone is released, which is more of a "long-lasting bond" hormone, that contributes again to separation anxiety. That hormone can go long-term, and I guess is an important part of shared child-rearing.

So, first point is that the hormones aren't all about lust or intense attraction, but also about bonding and long-term relationships.

The next, rather lovely, point, is that the process that leads to you "fall in love" in the first place can actually re-occur during your relationship, so you can have more honeymoons later in life. I think that's wonderful.

Returning to the choice... I think you need both head and heart, both the conscious commitment and realism you're espousing but also the spark. That's why I'm very keen on exiting the honeymoon period before making any decisions, and equally keen on "if it doesn't feel right, don't do it."

You might choose not to go with a spark, that could well be a legitimate approach, but I don't know how well that works - you're going to be fighting your hormones all the way if you meet someone else and have feelings about them you've never had for your current partner. Professionals tell me that that spark matters.
Possibly.

But, I think a lot of economics gets stuck in a sort of theoretical mud. In theory, barriers to competition, entry or always have negative effects. Those negative effects can be small, big, or irrelevant relative to other effects related to the same policy.

What i am suggesting, is that industry structure determines these. So yes, there are theoretical policies that might make hairdressing worse or hospitals better in this regard. In reality though, policies are very often acting within margins where competitiveness doesn't move the needle much either way.

Assuming a thriving restaurant market exists, it will probably remain pretty competitive under any "normal" policy regime. No one is really going to implement FDA approvals for recipes or tax related employer funding schemes.

No one is going to implement a totally nonaccredited hospital system, where doctors & nurses don't have to be trained or licensed. At the very theoretical end, laissez faire dynamics might yield a market-based regulation system that accredits doctors and such without government intervention. But once again (a) that's very unlikely and (b) if it did happen that would still be regulation.

For 99% of real life scenarios, restaurants lend to a free market dynamic while hospitals do not. Governments are involved, but they do not create this reality. It is innate. One policy regime or another (short of communism or such) is not going to change that.
Thanks i haven't thought about that one. But i'd definitely try to stick up to css even if I'd have to dev that feature. Maybe by trying to change the var(--color) i've setup in my colors.css ;

I'd note out that this feature is also so edgy that the pushed argument shouldn't even occur that much.

It would be like "Oh hei, I need to dig up that super edgy star shaped hole using that shovel so I'm using it that way. Oh see, when I use it that way i'm inclined to do X. Therefore my shovel is encouraging me to do X."
These are a convenient fiction, resulting in bloat because of developers trying to cram additional features into their applications, to justify the cost of a version update.
You probably mean “hats off to anyone involved” — generally meaning to give praise. “Heads up” would give the sentence more a meaning of “warning to anyone involved”.

Apologies if I’m being presumptuous or if this is just a late night typo. My wife speaks English as a second language so I know how confusing some of these idioms can be.
> What the fuck are you talking about? Nobody forces you to host your personal website on a k8s cluster.

But he is right, almost all the dev tools we used are by surveillance capitalists only further entrenching our reliance on them, think React, Pytorch, React Native, or even K8S etc.

These tools only benefit the the big tech companies and we are going down a path of no return.

> How about Apache for local testing and a ftp server to a webspace at [INSERT WEBHOSTING COMPANY HERE]. Existed for decades, well tested and easy to use.

This is way too technical for most people, Aral is building something everyone can use in a few steps and has privacy built in.
Ah, ok, I see, sorry if I came across accusingly. Think my tone was a bit harash.

Did you find someone? How did you do it, given how shy you say you are/were?
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Please add some kind of lighter background, the text today is pretty impossible to read. It looks interesting, but I just cannot stand the site. I get that it's a joke or whatever, but I bounced because of the background. I kinda want to read it, but couldn't.
Makefiles don't gernally have anything more than one level of indentation that is significant.

People care about significant whitespace because it's inferring heavy semantic meaning from something that's by default invisible, and even when shown visibly, may not actually be particularly obvious.
HN is owned by Y Combinator which funds surveillance capitalist startups, so absolutely not.
> What made it even worse was that Epstein was a latter-day eugenicist whose interests were tied to a delusional notion of seeding the human race with his own DNA. Given this stance, it is particularly disturbing that he focused his largesse on research on the genetic basis of human behavior. Human genetics is an ethically sensitive and intellectually contested domain where it behooves us to ensure that the highest standards of scientific rigor are in place and that nongenetic explanations for behavior are given a fair chance to compete.

This is a thinly veiled attack on evolutionary biology, which keeps coming up with plausible explanations that are nevertheless utterly disturbing to the self-image of a moral human being and must therefore be suppressed from its consciousness. This is an undue conflation of science (is) and morals (ought). Morals are an artifact of human experience with nature, nature itself is amoral.

For instance, let's ask: Why does rape exist?

Sociologist: writes twenty paragraphs on patriarchy and rape culture while ignoring the rest of the animal kingdom

Evolutionary Biologist: It's a successful strategy for reproduction, the selfish gene promotes its continued existence

If the sociologist is right, then rape should disappear in an enlightened culture that has abolished all male dominance (utopianism). If the biologist is right, then rape will not disappear without identifying and muting all gene sequences that might lead an individual to be a rapist (eugenics).

In reality, neither are practical solutions, both explanations are bound to be contributing factors, but with one disregarding the other, we lose the ability to draw rational conclusions and devise functioning systems.
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> I think that POSIX-shell scripts can often be completely unreadable and difficult to maintain.

The same could be said for any language, if you're not familiar with it.
This seems neat. I feel like i've re-invented less complete versions of this dozens of times.
Urbit is extremely cryptic but I do like the idea as long as they don't include any 'blockchain' nonsense.
It’s not uncommon to write a x b as ‘ab’. So if you wanted to put two literals together using this syntax you could wrap one in brackets.
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You should be allowed to pay for that convenience, but at the moment you're not because it's being susidized by run-at-a-loss startups that exploit their workers.
Has the 'old' freebsd zfs not xattr too? I can see it in the options (but no tested)

zfs get all:

zroot/var/tmp xattr off temporary
>Or use the old version of Gradle?

Intellij / Android Studio are nagging me to update gradle
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> io2 also has a 0.001% annual failure rate, while the others have a .2% failure rate.

Is failing once every 5 years really different from failing once every 1000 years? You should have disaster recovery plans anyway and configuration errors are the most likely cause of failure, not the underlying storage system.
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Aral is trying to make this process easier [0]

[0] https://sitejs.org/
YOU equated the two and justified his intentions as equivalent to “other powerful men” not from west, further suggesting some sort of racial bias as well hidden in your comments. Stop while you’re ahead and don’t embarrass yourself like this again.
There is potential GPL violation. Nothing in ZFS violates BSD.

GPL violation is matter of opinion. For the opinion to be settled someone owning Linux copyright should sue Canonical and find out.

Canonical's did legal review and they have some big name open-source lawyers like Eben Moglen and Mishi Choudhary on their side https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2016/linux-kernel-...
They see it as a non-issue. So much that Canonical provides legal cover for all paying customers.
> This appears to be the first dispute where Apple aggressively retaliated in unrelated areas of business.

But it's also the first publish dispute where someone purposely put in code to activate alternative payment options and broke the rules. Apple is setting an example of epic. Don't break the rules.
> "CSS gets a new conceptual version every few big modules"

Where in the article does it say anything like that? The article does not present any decision in that regard at all. It summarizes the history of CSS and the discussion about whether or not to (re-)introduce some kind of global CSS versioning. It presents some suggestions and concerns from the community. But it does not introduce anything.
It might have to do with there being real identities linked to them now from Google+, which many say was the main purpose of the project; not to mention the improved recommendation engine and upvotes, etc.
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Actually, I would love to see an example that does a call to a REST API. I see some examples in the docs to talk to React, but not this.
so let's build armored hulls above our ships. oh, wait...
> iOS is a major cost to develop that's given away for free

How is it given for free, you pay for it when you buy the phone.
Turing complete applications need that degree of complexity, but configuration is meant to describe a state - it's just data.
... and forget to mention Indieweb. Another all-in-one solution compatible with Indieweb and Fediverse tech, with optional hosting as a service, would be a great project to that goal, and an addition to the ecosystems. But no, has to be its own thing.
This is possibly the only criticism I have with Site.js, but I do wish Aral can build around a GUI for his command line tool.

But agreed, something like Ghost or Wordpress looks and is more easier than Site.js
>ZFS was intentionally made incompatible with the GPL via the "CDDL"

That was said by one lousy youtube comment without any explanation, Ubuntu has no problems with it...and i bet they have lawyers, i think it was in that vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

It's also crazy, nearly no distro has a problem shipping ultra-proprietary software (firmware), but has a big discussion about CDDL, no one wants ZFS in the Kernel tree, imagine Linus has control over it and has no clue was ZFS even is:

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/01/19/0059251/what-linus...
> So, if you're getting prompted, it's not just because there's a change to review, it's because there's a merge to review, and therefore it's because there was a local modification, and therefore clearly either you or some other sysadmin did in fact edit that file.

That's the way it should be, but while upgrading Debian I have very often seen prompts for files that were never touched locally.
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Real problem solving is what you do when google doesn't have the answer.
You're explaining why there _is_ a difference, but not why their _should be_ a difference.

1. "It is a bad idea to make software developers liable for bugs".

2. "Why? We make engineers liable for physical malfunctions, why not make software engineers liable for software malfunctions?"

3. "Because they are uncertified"

It fails to address the actual point. Is it better that software developers are uncertified? Why not introduce standards?

I guess it's easier to transport software, even running software, across borders today. But even there, one could say, "If Google relocates to Canada, then stuff them - we will drop their packets at the border till they comply with domestic law."

This would be a disruption of the free market, but we already admit that a free market shouldn't exist in house construction. Why should a free market exist in message distribution? The question is always, why is software on this side of the border, and bridges on that side?

(My guess is that it's because few people die when your email is mishandled, but many people could die if bridges fell out of the sky whenever they got bored.)
If you are not cloud averse you could upload the files automatically by installing onedrive, dropbox or google photos.
Yes, it is extremely common. What country are you from?

It is used particularly in things like 3(x + 5) or (a + b)(a - b).
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My resolv.confs tend to be written once and then go untouched for months if not years.

The problem there is that distributions, be it linux or bsd, lack a proper way to distinguish between a "static" resolv.conf and a (always-)generated one.

An "easy" fix would be to mandate that if /etc/resolv.conf contains a "dynamic" key then /run/resolve.conf (or /var/run/resolv.conf or whatver) is read as well (or instead).

However, tons of stuff tries to parse resolv.conf, so it would be better to have a user-editable /etc/resolv.conf.conf and a /run/dynamic-resolve.conf and dump the result or into /etc/resolv.conf to keep compatible.
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Thank you for that contribution!

Updated site is now live (along with big documentation update and link to sandbox tio.run).
So, it's worse, right?
The Linux Kernel, CDDL (ZFS License) and Related Issues (2016)
> Is it a known/named phenomenon?

I think it's just called "journalism" these days. I find it hard to find publications without clickbaity stuff like this.
An interest in making money, you mean?
Yup, and Galveston was literally scrubbed off the face of the earth by a hurricane in 1900.

There's something weird in politics/organizations that everybody feels compelled to be a yes-man and put a positive spin on what is certain to happen. Often I'll hear, "Didn't somebody handle that?" when they already know that nobody was assigned for that.

An illustration is provided by corona, where everybody tried to draw conclusions when there was literally no useful data for months, and even in Aug. 2020 there's precious little that one can say conclusively.
Huh, Apple said it would disable Epic's developer accounts? They never threatened anyone using Unreal Engine, and I don't believe they specified UE Developer accounts.

We can only speculate that UE Developer accounts would have been terminated as we don't really know if Apple was going to terminate those too as they belong to a separate company according to the court documents.
Dumb question - but with all these tech IPOs, how does one get in/invest at IPO time without buying on the open market?
I've noticed that when i'm bored or switched off at work, i'm more likely to go on Twitter and start arguments with people i don't know. That usually makes me unhappy, which makes me more switched off at work!
It reminds me of Pico-8. Albeit it being a virtual retro console it does encourage building games that have certain limitations. Some of the games, such as Pico Tennis, are very fun to play in the browser on a phone even.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
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I think this also is subject to the fact that today the US navy has not entered any area in force on a wartime footing. You can't just go around with your Phalanx armed if there might be anything non-hostile around you today (be it just an oil tanker of your foe - the PR by causing a massive oil spill is horrendous). A phalanx (or probably the 25mm cannons on the newest Arleigh-Burke destroyers) will quickly tear your swarm to pieces.
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https://youtu.be/ziCQqmEllZo

A great analysis by Mover, a real pilot and DCS player.

https://www.cwlemoine.com/about/
The whole point is that the initial argument was not "AI bad", it was "should we allow weapons to kill without direct human involvement". That is the moral issue with AI weapons. The GC was merely pointing out that we have already done this with things like mines.