skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... so I suppose they had a reason to not trust people.

When you teach people that they aren't trustworthy, they tend to end up not being trustworthy.

Perhaps if the UK bosses had given their employees a bit of trust, they would have lived up to it.

And, on the flip side, perhaps if your Scandinavian bosses had implemented the same draconian monitoring measures, there would have been more people from your office doing shady things.
I actually had a similar conclusion originally, but then I also saw the level of fraud by our UK customers. They where maybe 5 - 10% of our total sales, but 90+% of fraud cases.

My take away is simply that there's less trust in the British society as a whole and it's not necessarily a fault or problem isolated to a single company.
> I think a better future would be focused, shorter-term educational programs, taken flexibly through one's early career years.

A better future would be free education. Get knowledge and experience without the financial burden. College is more than studying. It's also about making friends, connections and getting to know yourself.
> Interestingly enough if was always the British employees who would do things like steal customer contact lists when they left or do deals on the side, so I suppose they had a reason to not trust people.

If you're already treating me like I've done you wrong, then trust is gone and it wasn't by my choice. That cuts both ways.

If someone feels like they are being treated as though they've already broken a social contract, then they probably have fewer qualms going a step or two further.
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I devoted some time to Differential Synchronization in my article on CRDTs, if you're interested: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history/...

My sense is that it's not a particularly flexible approach, and falters under adverse network conditions, even though it feels very tempting.
Just almost a good example. In this case, the biggest part from the bill would be the time to drive to your home. Also it is not just one minute work. It is also the time he took the phone call, prepare, maybe load some special tools on the car, then drive, work, drive back, clean everything, replace some tools, oils, make the paperwork and so on.

I did once a kind of such work as electrician, once on a weekend I got a pikett call, the work was done in 10 minutes. I wrote 1.5 hours, then of course a drama .. but finally, even these 1.5 hours was not enought with all the time I spend frome home to back home this saturday morning, because she could not open here electric door.
Your post reminds me of the bureaucratic futility in the movie Brazil. They need a Robert DeNiro character to swoop in and cut through it all like a gordian knot.
What's your take on dhall-lang[^1] for configuration?

[^1]: https://dhall-lang.org/
The Language of Chess (2017)
You do?

Heatsink and case were totally optional in my experience (or a case would make thermals worse).
Power supply maybe, if your phone charger did not already work. SD Card or flashdrive; I have many of these lying around.

There is something to be said for having keyboard, pointing device and screen included with a used laptop, but the stuff you list it seems you just don't actually need.
The project website autoplays a terrible sound on page load and gave me half a heart attack. You should remove it
> If podcasts were solely promotions of speakers, no one would listen.

A podcast isn't solely self-promotion, that's like a TV show only with ads. Of course they give you "content" as well. But the purpose, from the perspective of the participants, is to grow your audience. Ie. increase your celebrity. Which is why I thought his advice to avoid celebrity while at the same time actively trying to obtain a greater level of it was p funny.

> Mike Tyson or Bernie Sanders or any other guest on Joe Rogan's podcast doesn't need further promotion.

Yet they go on for specific promotional purposes. Mike was returning to fighting, Bernie was in the middle of his campaign for President.

> If you're a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast you already are a celebrity.

Again, this has nothing to do with seeking further recognition / celebrity.

> To state the obvious: people listen to Joe Rogan podcast because they are interested in what the guests have to say

Ok you're just repeating the same thing over and over.
Why is Adani betting big on Airports?
Suck dick, dumbass.
The morality and/or ethics of the situation aside, I've still never gotten a satisfactory answer for why we should care that the iOS ecosystem is a walled garden to the point of wanting the US government to step in, but not maintain the same energy for the PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, etc ecosystems.

I know that the deep down answer is that many of the people in these discussions think gaming is frivolous. But my PS4 is objectively far, far more powerful than any phone I've ever had, and comes with a selection of applications beyond just games - a web browser, photo/video editor, music and video streaming, a social messaging system (and social network, via the third-party Twitch). And going by hardware alone, it would be capable of much more than that if only it wasn't so prohibitively expensive to develop for.

How is that so different from what the vast majority of people use their phones for? Yet people are far more up in arms about the $100 yearly fee for the Apple Developer Program than about the thousands of dollars ($2500 for a dev kit) it costs to even build and run a game on the PS4 (plus you have to be a registered company).

Why should an iPhone be treated as an open, general-purpose computing device if a PlayStation is not? Why should Apple be forced to make it one?
> But if you had asked me when I graduated from high school if I could have seen myself doing what I now do I would have laughed at you for the ridiculousness of even suggesting it

Seems to me you weren't that smart after all.
I am not a musician or music producer but I like bandlab a lot. But only on mobile because the browser version is simply unusable on my linux (whether it's Chromium or Firefox.

If you want to know what a musically inept person can produce with it check out the first two songs (VRWorkout and Happy Workout) in the VRWorkout non-VR demo mode here https://vrworkout.at/game

If you are on mobile that won't work because it has not touch controls but here is the link to the files in the github repo
https://github.com/mgschwan/VRWorkout/tree/master/godot_proj...
Maybe, but that didn't stop them from ZFS on the Mac.
Keep your GitHub forks up to date
If I read this [1] correctly, the fund covers only technical decommissioning work, "liability resulting from
spent-fuel management (e.g., costs for on-site interim storage) and all costs related to final nuclear waste disposal is not covered by these estimates".

Even only the decommissioning fund requires a payment of 5 cents/kWh, which just itself is a cost that solar can compete with.

[1] https://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/26...
Alas, yes. And it doesn't cause any real problems apart from aesthetics.
It is what helped me personally to deal with situations. The moment where I personally realized the name for emotion I felt was the moment where I was able to think about situation differently and solve what was causing it. It both made it easier to pretend calm in the moment and to find to correct response toward people I was dealing with.

It is not like emotions were something special here. Having names for things helps to analyze, talk and think about those things in general. That is why patterns book was useful originally.
Hi buddy. Thanks for taking the time to create an account on HN to reply to me. You should maybe also reply to my emails. :-)

Any step forward here is good, but the main problem remains: the number of ports takes precedence over basically any other consideration by some long-time members (including the DFL), and the project suffers. You can see some of this madness laid out in the page you linked:

1. Testing subsets of C++11 on platforms that no users actually use (again, I did the analysis and presented the data in 2017);

2. Testing compilers for ports that are already dead and have had no new ScummVM releases since 2015;

3. Testing for C++11 features on unsalvageable binary-only compilers from 2003.

I actually did a whole lot of work to try to bridge the gap and satisfy everyone. I rewrote the CI system, created about a dozen Docker images with up-to-date compilers, and modified the `configure` script so that individual engines could opt in to using newer language features while old engines and backends could continue to build so people could keep their ‘trophy’ ports. I proposed a new release policy where builds would be automated (instead of the current situation where random people are individually responsible for manually creating and uploading binaries), and it would be the responsibility of porters to make Docker images with functioning build environments to hook into the new build system. This all seemed very rational and would’ve solved a lot of problems, but it never happened, at least in part because the guy who does nothing except build the Dreamcast binaries refuses to own an x86 computer because he thinks the ISA sucks and so would have had some trouble making the image to automate the build.

Obviously any passion project run by volunteers doesn’t have to follow trends or even care what their users think, but it’s clear that ScummVM holds a unique and important place in software preservation, so merits a little more care and thoughtful stewardship. I think that it (and its users) deserve more than they get when folks hold up “number of ports” as a critical metric and then use it to block important changes that would significantly improve the project in every other way.
I don’t have the link, but watch Karpathy’s recent talk on this topic on YouTube. He goes into detail about how this works. I’m not sure what their approach was years ago but it has changed significantly since.
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If you agree then why are you defending that they deserve this outcome?
They cited the Reason Foundation as a source for one ‘fact,’ so that should give the reader a hint as to their leanings.
The utility of money cannot be made constant with a tax, so I’m not sure what you consider the distinction between a regressive and progressive tax?
I would vote with my feet if my employer were to introduce such crap. Thankfully it is forbidden by law here in Germany.
This is an odd criticism. JSON, the popular alternative, also has this 'issue'. In fact, almost any non binary solution, like protobufs, will have this issue, as it's a text, not byte, encoding. The reason for outlawing these characters is that they aren't text, they are, as the name implies, control characters.
Tricky question - because the entire discussion about social “fairness” and “stepping up in social ladder” in Germany happens around “likelihood to have a university degree”. Now, pragmatically speaking: the apprenticeship and university system in Germany allows people to flexibly qualify themselves for (well) paying jobs at minimal cost. There is another truth to that people rather want “not to be spoke out”: not everybody has the “right” qualifications for completing an apprenticeship or university degree. Having taught at an applied science university it sometimes was beyond my comprehension how Germany tries to “bump up university graduates at all costs”. But to be fair: I don’t think many of those people would have succeeded at an apprenticeship either...

I personally know several(!) instances where “the smart and brilliant sibling” went for university, the “quiet one went for an apprenticeship” - and the pay off has been substantially more beneficial for the people taking the apprenticeship road even though the “college siblings” didn’t exactly fail or end up unemployed... I know it’s anecdotical.

But in Germany, they seem to push a rather weird political agenda in this direction which doesn’t help anybody.
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and time travel. O'Brien must suffer.
Exactly. As a counterexample, I'm approaching 40 in the best physical and mental shape of my life. You simply have to take responsibility for your own health, especially if your job involves sitting on your ass for extended hours every day.
In my opinion the best solution to this is https://fairtax.org/
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Boomers are the children of the generation that came back from war.
> Panasonic has been experimenting with showing ads when you adjust audio volume and European broadcasters have started using HbbTV to serve targeted ads.

Who ever thought that would be a good idea? Do these people have no common sense whatsoever? People will dump TVs and TV watching and switch to PC set top boxes, internet streaming, large monitors before they accept this sort of nonsense.
Not tremendously helpful without discussing examples. Do you have more information?
Given that this is a London-based company and we're talking about a pre-Brexit time-frame, I'm pretty sure this practice is in breach of EU regulations. However, the employees are in India so that adds another level of complication... and also makes it a lot less likely that anyone's going to sue.
It looks a lot better if you allow CSS and images from *.nyt.com. A bunch of images still won't load, but the layout and some images are there.
Hm, using your own link, I see "Federal aid to highways" totaled at $43,421,077,419, and I see "Total excise taxes" at $42,329,411,402. I do a subtraction and I see a $1,091,666,017 deficit. Seems to suggest that, in fact, the Highway System does not pay for itself, but rather we pay for it, no? (It get worse if I just use gasoline taxes and ignore the rest.)

I do see their balances coming up positive though, thanks to a very massive balance transfer from the General Fund per the FAST act (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/22), straight from US taxpayers' wallets.

I also see no mention to climate impact anywhere. $36 billion dollars of gas taxes at 18.3 cents per gallon suggests sales of nearly 200 billion gallons of gasoline were burned. That's a hell of a lot of climate damage that everyone's being forced to pay for.

So, you were saying about us not subsidizing the IHS?
The value from a degree arises from the fact that it is difficult and you can fail to acquire one. If everyone has a degree then not only does the signaling component of the degree disappear, the competitive advantage is also disappearing because everyone has the same baseline of competence. Electrical engineering or software engineering might be lucrative industries but only because companies can't fill all their openings. Once there are more workers than jobs we get the usual "McDonalds" hiring patterns.
That part about the "business guys".. felt it. We should just quit and form a nation.
BTW deafult firebase email validation is not nice, use the js functions to proxy.
Loved your blog - but I think the parent's question was how to gain the skills of working/designing OT/CRDTs etc on their own. (I am clarifying the question - since I'm interested in the answer as well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence#Espionage

This is a Federal prison that holds this kind of prisoner. It holds prisoners in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement is torture and is a human rights violation.
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I think this is regulatory. I have seen multiple articles like the attached which have caused Tesla to basically handicap it's own autopilot. As another said I have no idea how a company with a car is not ahead of a company without one.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-model-s-model-x-aut...
What they say doesn't sound too bad, but: 1. They can say pretty much everything, but then behind the scenes work towards the opposing goal (and, 30% of every sale is a pretty good reason to do so) and 2. as others pointed out, Epic already realized selling Fortnite outside the Play Store was a futile endeavor.

I mean, how many here are using F-Droid over the Play Store? And we're not exactly your average persons...
...iTunes is completely uninstallable on a Mac though?

The answer (as with most Mac-related things) is to disable System Integrity Protection. For some strange reason, most of the people who complain about the loss of their freedoms on macOS leave SIP enabled and I wonder why.
Why on earth did Intel acquire McAfee in the first place is still a mystery to me. And I dont know how many times it has changed hand since, and now we are back to IPO.

I actually think Oracle would be a better fit for McAfee given their enterprise nature.
> [...] and for that purpose it's horrible because it maps very poorly to data structures in most programming language.

I disagree with you.

A XML file is, by definition, a [context-free grammar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar), the same type of grammars used to specify programming languages.

I will make it clearer with the examples below:

/* a simple data structure */
struct Point {
int x;
int y;
};

<point>
<int name="x"></int>
<int name="y"></int>
</point>

/* a recursive data structure */
struct Person {
std::string name;
std::vector<Person> children;
};

<person>
<string name="name"></string>
<vector type="person">

<person>
<string name="name"></string>
<vector type="person">
</vector>
</person>

<person>
<string name="name"></string>
<vector type="person">
</vector>
</person>

</vector>
</person>

To me, it is immediate to see the correct data structure in both examples.

If I had to write the second one in JSON, for instance, I would lose the "template type-information" of the list (vector).
Good point, I'd throw in that "nothing in life is free". Maybe the model could be changed from "7 day trial" to "first month half price"...
Its also frequently pretty bad for english
Well, California high speed rail is being built.[1] And there is Brightline which doesn't really qualify as high speed, but it is newly operating, and it fills a useful niche.[2] Ideally, I would like to see many more such projects.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline
Reminds of an exchange, potentially misattributed ([1]) to Picasso:

A woman approaches Picasso in a restaurant, asks him to scribble something on a napkin and says she would be happy to pay whatever he felt it was worth. Picasso complied and then said, "That will be $10,000."

"But you did that in thirty seconds," the astonished woman replied.

"No," Picasso said. "It has taken me forty years to do that."

[1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/
You never generated random numbers? What are you doing on HN?
> Absent links to research papers confirming outlandish claims on plastic bags' environmental safety. This article reads as a petrochem industry mouthpiece.

Putting on my tinfoil hat...

There were quite a few past posts recently about how plastic is not that economical feasible to recycle, about how the Packaging and Petro-Chemical industry is offloading costs to the 'recycling movement', and about how plastic is creating mass scale health issues with hormonal disruption in both animals and humans.

Those posts gained traction because the issue is beyond obvious and the general population is concerned. This likely triggered the alarms in the industry who then payed to slip some "counter-argument" piece into HN.

I understand that there is no obvious technological solution and that there is no 'economically' interesting replacement for our society's plastic addiction. Nevertheless, going all 'tobacco industry' on this issue is only going to buy them time. They should put the money from their stealth PR into actual R&D instead, in order to solve this mess.
Oh that is a great find, thank you, that one looks like it would work great for my use case!
Quite the contrary. I work in a call centre and we’re intensely stressed by the constant, microscopic surveillance. Everything is watched and logged and can be used against you, and the targets they measure you against creep ever higher.
I recommend the LockPickingLawyer channel on youtube. It's fascinating how easy some locks can be picked.
Using my logic, tax assessments that don’t change based on income are regressive, and tax assessments that do are progressive. It’s not complicated, and it’s a widely used definition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax

You may think a flat income tax rate isn’t progressive enough, but it’s not a regressive tax.
I wish DDG would restore support for literal, quoted strings.
> g to get proper search results.

the difference being, for me, that DDG produces deterministic results, I can share search terms and get the same list.

With Google that's impossible

I also guess Google learns from my g! searches on DDG to rival with it and give the impression it knows better

Repeat the same search on another computer or with another user and complete different results appear, usually not better than DDG plus ads

DDG real weakness is localized content. Content in my language is way worse than what Google picks up.
One pet peeve is that I'd like to search Hacker News, however searching with Angolia sucks (via !hn). I get more relevant results if I do a site:news.ycombinator.com filter in Google. Would appreciate a bang for searching on HN that uses Google or Startpage.

---

I have my own search keywords in Firefox, if you're using Firefox or Chrome I recommend setting your own search keywords. You have more flexibility in adding stuff that's relevant for you, and it's going to sync on your mobile device too (it's the reason for why I'm using Firefox on iOS). It increases privacy too. Makes no sense to send all of your searches to DDG first.

Safari is the only one where you're out of luck, and need DuckDuckGo's bangs.
Probably nobody cared about internal us fires. On the weekend a new war started between Azerbaijan and Armenia. And there are a lot of other wars in that region where someone might hide one or another flights.
I really like this critique of environmentalism, as an environmentalist myself. While I think it should have ended with an argument in favour of some sustainability law, like a carbon dioxide tax, it clearly remembers us that still we are so much stuck in ideologies when it comes to saving co2 and that this could potentially be, because it makes us feel better than really saving co2.
I've been reading up on plasma flow control, which is pretty fascinating. It looks like there are some near-term opportunities for plasma flow control on commercial airplanes (on the leading edge of wings) to improve efficiency.

It also has potential to produce quieter drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_actuator

Finally, I'm particularly interested in the use of large-volume plasma-based propulsion in airships.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/825/1/0...
"First Breakthrough for Future Air-Breathing Magneto-Plasma Propulsion Systems"