skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really sure what your point here is in relation to my post. That if we didn't have a legal system or governmental authority that we collectively have agreed to allow to arbitrate these matters, it would be left up to individuals to do, and that such a system is ripe (per your later comments) of exploitation by the rich? I mean, sure, but hardly seems relevant to the comment or the current state of most countries.
Agreed : )
No background images without ugly hacks.
I agree with the overall shape of both of the parent comments to my comment, but the main question I have is- what can be done?
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My point is that the reply was a direct comment on the title, which explicitly says "the most important". The poster is not saying that they are mutually exclusive so calling "whataboutism" on that is a strawman.
Yes but most influencers gain an audience through social networking.
DevOps Certifications: Difficult to Earn but Potentially Worth It
I actually used to calibrate and QC high end breakers for a well know company who's name is a letter and a shape. To pass QC the breakers would need to heat trip when run at 135% Amps between roughly 20-45 minutes. Both too fast and too slow were a failure.

The actual range was a bit different by Ampage which I never quite understood.
Speaking as a white boy who grew up eating flavorless casseroles of frozen junk and leftovers - I too like free t-shirts.

(Just want to be part of the crowd throwing their entire groups under the bus)
I don't mean to make light of struggling to find somewhere to live, and I know it can be difficult for many due to reasons beyond their control, and this really sucks. Everyone should have a place to live. I'm interested in exploring the hypothetical, when you say:

> keep person homeless because nobody will want to rent a flat because someone's kids stained the walls in the rented apartment.

If Evan's kids stain the wall, then Evan's kids are more likely to stain the wall. Currently, the expectation of someone being more likely to stain the walls is "priced in" to the rental prices everywhere. People who don't stain walls pay a little more, and people whose kids stain the wall cost their owners a little more, but on average it comes out (hope you can own a lot of domiciles).

If we start to be able to measure this, doesn't this mean we can more accurately price it? People less likely will pay less, and people more likely will pay more. I think you're suggesting that "Owners will just use the likelihood of damages as a threshold, and if you're 0.01 above the Unsafe/Volatile threshold you'll not be rented to at all", but that leaves a pretty big hole in the market. If there's not enough supply, then people are being kicked out instead of Evan _now_, and if there is enough supply, then you'd rather rent to Evan at higher rates to cover your risks than to not rent at all, right?

The current situation kinda feels like an "insurance" thing, with pooled risk.
The truth is we just don’t want to exercise, and all the other things that we would rather do, including productive things that we really do need to do, therefore push the exercise to the side.

Even though we know in the abstract that exercise will make our time more effective, we let ourselves be persuaded that we don’t have time because we enjoy working out mentally more than working out physically.
An aspect of this, in much of the west, is political demography. The voting population is getting older all the time. Politics increasingly serves their interests. Often these are directly orthogonal. Labour vs capital. Real estate values vs housing costs. Opportunity vs stability.

Even this pandemic, sadly, creates opposing interests. Younger people need workplaces to operate. Older people are more susceptible to the virus. Since the stock markets are fine, retired people don't generally have financial interests at stake.
This is an unhelpful redefinition of luck.
Another Facebook in the making only worse
I’m curious about your experience that pipes and redirects are harder with python. Do you mean slightly more verbose or just complicated and difficult?

I’m curious if you’ve tried the sh Python module [1]. In some ways it’s much prettier to read although the initial writing of it can be awkward to get used to at first.

[1] https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
I've been working in the computer graphics field for 25-years, the last 10 of which (and currently) have been in Japan. Before I got here 10-years ago, I had visions of Japanese studios having cutting-edge tools, all built in-house, created to automate tasks, making production efficient.

I was extremely disappointed.

I understand that Japan has a reputation of being at the forefront of technology and, while the manufacturing sector may have had extreme advances in the 80's and 90's, those advances have fallen, with nothing really of note since. No longer is Sony the leader in electronic hardware. Toyota is no longer the leader of car manufacturing efficiency. When was the last time you've heard or read about anything innovative coming out of Japan? There's nothing "disruptive" coming out of here. They are riding on their long-past reputation of being fore-runners of tech. In my opinion, it's not so much a lack of intellectual availability here, but rather, deep-rooted cultural phenomena that has been holding this place hostage for so long.

Disclaimer: my experience is in computer graphics, so is limited to that industry. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt. But when I was jumping around different studios back home, before moving to Japan, there was always a dedicated technology team present, from small 10-person outfits, to huge 400-people studios. CG companies know that using software just out-of-the-box was not enough to produce animation profitably, so they invested in tech teams to create tools and production pipelines that would make the production process faster, reduce human error, and ultimately, make the company more money. I was blown away that this mindset was not present in most of the studios here. Most of the studios do not want to invest money into a tech team, as the benefits of technology are not exactly tangible or visible right away to the executives. There is also a deeper issue with taking pride in "doing it by hand". There are more issues, but both of the ones described above point to a pretty "old school" way of thinking.

Of course, not every person I have worked with agrees with any of the above, but the mindset is present enough to stifle innovation in my field. Where there IS innovation, it is created by non-Japanese folks. Much of this technology is quickly forgotten after being used briefly.

I live here, so I guess it can't be that bad. But I have to say that there is a particular naievety present. Even when proposed with new ideas that make sense, there is almost always push-back.

Holy cow, I could write a lot more, but I'll just leave it at this: Japan is absolutely not the technology utopia one may think it is.
In order to get a paycheck today, you have to:

1. Connect with ownership on a personal level. Relate shared life experiences. Stabbed someone to death? Beat someone half dead resulting in life long paralysis? What great break room conversation.

2. Waste a decade studying to an interview. Who cares for such childish pursuits such as humanitarianism and contributing to the expansion of our shared collective knowledge. This is a job interview we're talking about. For reference please see the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show or the rehab demo scene from A Clockwork Orange.

Bullying. Violence. Churning people for money like some slow motion organ vampire. yeah. That's about right. Don't like the work don't take the money.
Interesting. Is that from windfalls like inheritances or big insurance payouts?
Indie Hour: Spacewar!
You can rephrase the headline:

For reliable excess returns, startup employees need to correctly choose one out of 500 companies.
A religion is simply a culture based on a non-rational foundation.
This is going to be a biased survey. Apps like Blind skew in a direction that is the opposite of the prevailing culture in the company, particularly because the users often don’t feel psychological safety in voicing their views in normal channels like message boards within their company.
Web Socket Behaviour on GKE
Median is immune to outliers, so it's generally what you want to look at even in spite of inequality.

That being said, you can even look at the per-quintile levels -> https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...

See table H-1, All Races (it's an Excel spreadsheet). Across all quintiles, including the bottom 2, inflation-adjusted income has increased.

> When you factor in student loan debt

The median number of years to recoup the cost of a bachelors degree, adjusted for inflation, has gone down since the 1980’s, from about 22 years to about 10 years -> https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/09/the-va...
Getting Started with the NRF52840 in Rust
I'm not sure what use it is to consider the "average american". I'm concerned about the cohort of people who are barely scraping by, you seem to paint a picture that these peoples lives have improved because their "real income" has grown substantially. Ok so they were barely making rent at 15k/year, and their real wages increase by 5k/year since 2010. Has their rent remained stable over the last then years? Perhaps these quotable numbers aren't all that useful except to further marginalize?
I like how Plato puts it at Laws 4.709b where he speaks of god, luck, opportunity, and skill.

"but human affairs are nearly all matters of pure chance. But the fact is that, although one may appear to be quite right in saying this about sea-faring and the arts of the pilot, the physician, and the general, yet there really is something else that we may say with equal truth about these same things.

Clinias:
What is that?

Athenian:
That God controls all that is, and that Chance and Occasion co-operate with God in the control of all human affairs. It is, however, less harsh to admit that these two must be accompanied by a third factor, which is Art. For that the pilots' art should cooperate with Occasion—verily I, for one, should esteem that a great advantage. Is it not so?"

Plato's remark at Euthydemus 280a is also relevant:

"And your reason, I said, is this, that you would fare with better fortune in the hands of a wise one than of an ignorant one?

He assented.

So that wisdom everywhere causes men to be fortunate: since I presume she could never err, but must needs be right in act and result; otherwise she could be no longer wisdom.

We came to an agreement somehow or other"
Look at the cloud certifications... you don't need them to use AWS cloud but you get incentives to certify your people.
Did you click on the article? Quoting from the top of the landing page, "It [privacy] concerns the very fabric of society." Writing about privacy as a concept isn't nearly the same thing as trying to draw legitimate concern to an important issue. An important issue, but inarguably neither the most pertinent concept or concern of our time - currently.
>Really what you want is for gig / delivery style jobs to be unionized, or for it to not be legal or easy for sole operators to work with a bicycle and a backpack

So basically do what some states have done for plumbers, electricians or other trades with a licensing body and professional cartel?

Bars to entry and a strong incentive to keep the status quo once you're in will certainly jack up prices and pay and businesses who have to follow the law will have to get their gig services from the cartel members but everyone else will just consume less of the services. Considering that these gig economy services are mostly consumer facing I think you'd just see demand fall off a cliff if prices were raised by regulation. The survivors would have high wages but unless some other employment option is available labor force participation will suffer.

I think if it was as easy as cranking the regulation knob to 11 someone would have already done it.
Existing certifications in software are just attempts at making money off gullible people (EDIT: at least to my experience, most are). I'm talking about real, government-backed certifications: that is, you can't sell serious software products that don't get a sign-off of someone licensed, and that licensed person then has career liability (and in extreme cases, monetary penalty or even jail time) for failures of that software.

As far as I know, software is the only field that can get away with something like this:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Imagine finding something like this on a pack of aspirin.
I like reading the end of the post. Good on GitHub's part to give some respite to the developers.
Well, good for the people and customers, too.
Jekyll is written in Ruby, but you're right that being used for Github pages makes it popular.
I think the industry has moved past believing that dynamic linking has a net security and usability benefit over static linking/sandboxing, even if you heavily bias toward preferring security. The three most "modern" and popular linux "package managers" made in the last decade (Snap, Flatpak, Docker) all bias toward static linking and sandboxing (in the case of docker, forced sandboxing, but the others are opt-in).

Sidenote: I include docker as a package manager in that list because recently I actually ran into a very large and popular command line application that, per their documentation, prefers distribution and execution via docker over anything else: aws-cli. They don't keep any other linux package managers up to date, despite having a package in snap and distributing a .tar.gz. They recommend invoking it via docker. Rather interesting, and I'm surprised we haven't seen a frontend for "docker as a pm" gain traction, to increase usability over "go into your .bashrc and alias aws=docker run aws/aws-cli:latest $*"
As easy to filter out as adverts.

Don't suppose that they won't use all the same tricks to inject it after the fact, or from obfuscation.
It saddens me to read this sentiment. I agree there is a huge uphill battle to fight here to change the current situation, but there are a) plenty of people who value their privacy and are willing to make changes to the products and technologies they use in order to preserve their rights, and b) developers creating technology, tools and products that will protect your online privacy.
But you're not going to go back 20 years. No one's going to come along with a time machine and send you back to the year 2000. And, unlike vi, emacs isn't part of the POSIX standard, so your production servers aren't going to have emacs preinstalled. If you're a new programmer, with zero experience, why would you bother learning a program that is going to make you less productive than your peers and isn't going to give you any advantages when you're debugging in production? What exactly is the payoff to this "investment"?
It's the "Titan class" card of this generation, which is the shady way Nvidia explained it wasn't a Titan. "Titan class" != Titan
Do these people really create their own morals though or just live without them? I'm pretty much a nihilist, but spend a lot of time thinking about ethics and my own values because I know we need them for society to function.
Can still hate them for playing the game, if that involves disdain for ethical principles one actually believes in
The most proper way to celebrate this milestone is to publish a memo that was written in Excel itself.
This. “Agency,” also called “ownership of decisions,” is really what all this talk of “saying yes” and “saying no” is all about. The can even include ownership of the decision to “just go with the flow and do whatever in the moment,” but the intentionality of that decision is essential.
If doing realtime interaction it's unlikely they'd negotiate more than one connection (reusing connections or not), so the test they've done hardly seems useful.

I also have huge issues with a lot of those studies; 100ms from 200ms -> 100ms is immensely different than 1500ms -> 1400ms.
Yes once you own too much your possessions starts to own you.
AI generated voices gone wrong
Going by that guy's numbers, someone in 1986 had to work 73 hours per week to afford a semester of college. I either don't think those numbers are accurate enough to reflect people who "put themselves through college", or that people back in the '80s didn't actually put themselves through college.

Edit: To clarify, he says "net tuition", then throws out a $15,000 number for modern colleges. That's on the low-to-medium end of the per-semester cost of a modern public institution, so I'm assuming he's also listing the per-semester cost for the 1986 tuition.
It is also different because the scrapers are acting as agents of individual users.

Those individual users likely go against FBToS in doing so - but the browser extension maker is not a party to those ToS.
He also didn't claim it was advice, nor that there is any causal relation between saying no and becoming really successful. It could have just been an observation about everyday reality he's facing.

It's just the writer cherrypicking more or less fitting quotes to the opinion article they would have written anyway.
The problem with salad is that there are people who don't care much for some ingredients and won't touch them. There's no such issue with strained soup: you either take it or leave it, there's no picking and choosing, the differences between the ingredients literally melt away (well, or they get chopped up!).
MY ISA and Pension Funds are still down from where they where pre covid.

25 % of people in the uk have < 1k in savings
AI-Startup Founder: ‘Don’t Follow Advice: Including This’
But if you consider that the 7 day trend includes some of the days that the 30 day covers, it would seem to indicate that the spike in the last day is still orders of magnitude above what preceded it.
Uber Postmates Combo Could Be a Raw Deal
Yeah, I’m kind of shocked to see so many masochists in this thread. Built-in subprocess is nice and all but I’ve had a lot of joy using https://amoffat.github.io/sh/ to do the work (and the maintainer is super responsive). I sometimes don’t have the flexibility to have external dependencies but I’d use it everywhere if Python just folded it into the default library.
> inheritances

No, because this study analyzes historical tax filings, and inheritances are not counted as taxable income.

> big insurance payouts

On average, probably not, because big insurance payouts are (by definition) actuarial anomalies. They're tail-risk events.
100ms TLS session setup time with RTT <15ms seems rather unacceptable to me.

Can you provide the timings this command produces for you?

curl -s -w 'TCP=%{time_connect} TLS=%{time_appconnect} ALL=%{time_total}\n' https://YOUR_REMOTE_HOST_GOES_HERE -o /dev/null

That should provide an easy to use ruler to compare measurements.
Proficiency? Proficiency in what? Proficiency in learning a completely irrelevant language to spend two months getting up to the same level everyone else gets to in two weeks?
Thank you for giving a nice example. You people assume so much and know so little ...
That screenshot is of GNOME Software, not of a Flatpak app. GNOME Software decides how it describes apps.

The GNOME designers are working on a redesign of this area: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/software-mockups/-/blo...

There are other software installers that can install Flatpak apps, e.g. KDE Discover.

So this is a valid criticism of GNOME Software, but not of Flatpak.
Yeah I'm the same, I wrote a quick clone of rss2email in golang as I tend to avoid running python code on servers I run.

https://github.com/skx/rss2email/

Since feeds go to your mailbox you can easily read them from multiple locations and also search them via your mail client.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Comparisons_with_anti-...
Make sure you use HTTP 1.1 or newer and keep-alive. That way, you only have the SSL negotiation overhead on the first HTTPS request, as for all following requests, the connection will be re-used. And then, 100ms for the first request and 15ms for each following request sounds reasonable to me.
Yeah. As long as the industry is run by ad people, you can forget about ethics in it. Best way is to stay clear of that, but it's getting increasingly difficult.
Poverty would be fine if I had the chance to work on what I want to work on. All I need is a computer for my work. I could work on mathematics, physics, I could write a novel. I could read academic papers day in day out, gorge on information. It would be wonderful.
Prediction Markets, Polls and the President’s Covid19
0.35 kwh * 24 hours * 365 at $0.1/kwh is $300
I've listened to a number of his recent episodes in full and haven't really heard any culture wars topics addressed. Is this related to his recent episode with Joe Rogan?
This is 100ms for establishing a TLS connection - that's not the same as 100ms latency for all of a video stream.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. The first 3 links are for household income. They are comparing 2 income GenX/Millenial households with 1 income Boomer households.

Here is generational wealth: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/03/precariou...
The numbers don't necessarily represent how people put themselves through college, on average — it's just an apples-to-apples comparison of what it would take to "put yourself through college" in 1986 vs today.
Grokking Simplicity (On Manning Early Access Program (MEAP))
One difficulty is that the "principles" aren't really pixels anymore, but things like triangles, rasterization, and SIMD programs that run. Understanding the historical context of super old "graphics adapters" might not equip you for the (quite ingenious, imo) insights that underlie their transition into the "GPU".
It's been a Ponzi casino propped up by a relentless torrent of cash oozing into it straight from the printing presses for a very, very long time