skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, in theory, democracy ensures that inefficient leaders lose office, except that reality rarely lives up to theory.

It's not just replacing inefficient leaders that's an important mechanism for "efficiency", it's also restructuring organizations. Democracy, at best, just means that you have different leaders, but the mostly the same set of bureaucrats operating the same programs. Private enterprises, on the other hand, allow us to whole-sale replace entire purveyors of goods & services with entirely different structures of organization in a manner that's difficult to reproduce for a monolithic public monopoly.

Imagine what retail would have been like if, instead of Sears being essentially replaced, we just elected a different set of leaders to run the same organization.

> IRL, the business models of most major tech companies are pretty impervious to most inefficiency.

When a business is unable to collect enough money to continue operating, it goes out of business. Almost no major tech company has been able to continue operating without either sustaining themselves, or collecting investment.

> Most of their leadership is beyond the reach of shareholder discipline too. Monopoly makes a good moat.

Sure, and monopolies are bad for the same reason. But most industries aren't run by monopolies. You only hear about the ones that are, because they're so noteworthy.

> Sure "some" mechanism exists for them to go out of business. That's about as useful as the ballot for creating efficiency.

I don't think that's true at all. You can count on one hand the government programs that have gone defunct in the last 60 years. The number of private enterprises that have gone bankrupt, defunct, or M&A’d out of existence over the same timespan is almost countless.

You're 100% right about the banks and bailouts, though. That's not a private enterprise problem, though — that's a "our government is doing a stupid thing" problem.
Entrepreneur Raised $82M to Help You Order Your Favorite Pizza
Funnily enough, in Aaron's 2007 comment explaining the basis for him to be called a "co-founder" [1], the top reply is someone berating him as "disingenuous" for calling himself that [2].

Note that on the Wikipedia page for Chris Slowe [3], another person who joined Reddit very early on, he is also described as a co-founder, but he doesn't appear on the About page, even though there's been no public falling out between him and Steve/Alexis (he stayed at Reddit post-acquisition, then jumped to Hipmunk with Steve, and is now back at Reddit).

The thing is, for any company that makes it big, there will be ambiguity over whether particular people are considered founders vs early employees vs key people post a merger or acquisition.

But for the sake of the origin story, the simplest is the best: two longtime friends wanted to start a company together, so they sought out Paul Graham, got into the first YC batch, started working on Reddit and got it to its early growth and success, then continued on-and-off running/directing the company even through to this day; it makes sense to call those guys the founders.

None of this detracts from Aaron's legacy. He achieved a huge amount in his life, and his time/role at Reddit seems minor compared to other things he did.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Slowe
In Toronto, Canada a simple renovation of a subway stations entrance (painting, tile, basic refresh) can take several years. All the while they will rope off large sections or shut down escalators for months while there is ZERO work being done.

There was a Subway station called Runnymede that took about 5-7 years and when completely you couldn't tell they did anything. I am sure it cost 10's of millions of dollars and could have been completely started and finished by a private contractor in a couple months.

The city has never been manage properly because there are no consequences to the ineptness of the Politicians and bureaucracy that run it. You could complain (a lawyer friend did) and they basically either ignore or make up some story how difficult it is to lay 200 sq/ft of tile and clean an escalator...These things take years of hard work and planning....

Surprised the city doesn't come crashing down under it's own weight of dysfunction but they seem to prop it up by the endless tax or fee increases.
Some IT departments forget they serve their users and aren't their jailers.
Looks like Saint Dick will be delivering our sermon this Sunday morning ;)

>>> mutant freaks spawned by atomic war

I don't think people appreciate the depths of Cold War era "obsession" on the effects of radioactive mutations. Leading directly to DoE funding of the human genome project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Radiological_Resear...
You're probably right. There must have been some activity that drew the attention of law enforcement. It is a de facto obligation for cafés to offer free internet, so it's surprising to see such a law enforced in Grenoble of all places. My friend's café in Paris just has a password protected network, and I know for a fact they do not log traffic. I have seen other cafés with a registration system, and I'd bet those networks maintain logs. For the smaller cafés, even if they knew they had to, I'm not sure they would have the technical know-how to maintain logs. They've had some problems with piracy in the past, so perhaps that might have something to do with the arrests in Grenoble.

If torrenting or some other form of piracy happens on a network, ISPs send letters to that IP's customer, giving them a warning. Perhaps these café owners were repeatedly warned to enact stricter measures against piracy (i.e. logs), and, failing that, they were arrested for failing to comply with other regulations that are actually enforceable. I can't imagine a café owner could ever be charged with piracy for maintaining an open network.

For what it's worth, I looked around Le Monde and some other news sites to find more information, but there isn't much info to expand on the fact that these people were arrested.
Sea level has the advantage it is happening here, it is measurable and has a predictable financial impact. Not saying this is the proper way to look at it but it is a way to get it through to some people who may see their grounds flooded in their lifetimes. Actually it it already matters now if the next generation buyers believe the place is going to be flooded during their lifetimes. The more certainty we get the more it will impact prices and insurance. People do not ignore those and there are plenty living close to the sea. Again it is a lagging and not proper way of looking at it but we need to reach people who are not able to absorb more complex stuff.
S'funny because a few months ago, before I was robbed of my job, one of the big question in the tourism field was "what should we do about GDPR and logging regarding WiFi access in rented cottages and the like ?". No experts had any answers and it all came down to a laissez-faire attitude.

My stance was: just rent out a WiFi portal for 5 bucks a month to offload the responsibilities on a third party. Just in case.

The fact that the UMIH hides behind a mention of this problem in a newsletter speak volumes of how well informed they are and what services they bring to adherents.
The diagram is misleading. The reason is irrelevant.
Deepfake Putin and Kim Jong Un anticipates the end of U.S. democracy
You are thinking of the end-to-end principle http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
Personally, I'd be quite happy if service workers (e.g. cashiers, wait staff, receptionists, etc) wore masks permanently, regardless of what happens with Covid.

If I were a service worker interacting every 5 minutes with the general public, I would want that normalized for myself.

Likewise anybody who visits people's homes, or anybody who's usually in close quarters (e.g. doctors and nurses, dentists, beauty salon workers, etc) with people.

Hopefully after all this mask-wearing will be as normal and expected as keeping one's breath fresh, not wearing too much cologne, etc.

There'll be those who mess it up, but doing so will come with social stigma.

(This is all more a wish/hope than a prediction)
> > Solar tiles that will print money

> Can you actually provide a source for that statement? Solar roof was to expensive and didn't sell well, so they made them cheaper and they are mass producing them now. They are not printing money, but they are increasing the numbers they sell and it should turn into a nice buissness.

"They" who? Not Solar City.
You can't get causation from an observation study.

You can however get a lot of attention for "finding" a causation.

So to answer your question, it's quacks selling correlation as causation.
That looks like a nice tool, though it has to be said that "myrepos" can allow you to carry out operations on multiple repositories with ease.

For example I have all my repositories checked out and I can just run "mr -j5 --config ~/.mr-work.conf update" and all work-repositories are updated - with five at a time running in parallel.

To keep things in sync I wrote a little utility that will dump all repos belonging to a user/organization and generate the appropriate mr-config:

https://github.com/skx/github2mr
That's true, forgot about that part (and why I take them into account as "2 shots" in my max daily coffees).

There's also a couple Nespresso (maybe Keurig and others, too) capsules with double the caffeine content: Kazaar and Napoli.
You did a great job at expanding on the question, but didn't answer it :)

I think the main problem with your argument is that the reason we do work is not always so clear. Sometimes our work is just pointless in the bigger scheme of things, but we still have to do it. It can be hard to find motivation from within yourself in this case, and it's easier to play the rockstar developer role.
There are a lot of issues with the upvote/downvote concept:

1. It favors people who are more careless with their votes. If pro-Coke users only downvote poor comments and upvote well crafted ones regardless of beverage choice, and pro-Pepsi users downvote any pro-Coke comment and upvote any pro-Pepsi one, you're going to have pro-Pepsi comments at the top and pro-Coke comments at the bottom. The better behaved group is going to have less of an impact.

2. It favors people who skim and read carelessly. If you're reading the original article, if you're taking time to fully read someone's comments, if you're taking time to see who they are reply to and the context, your voting output is going to be less than someone who quickly skims things and carelessly throws out upvotes and downvotes.

3. It favors individuals that spend all their time online over ones that have a more balanced life. There is simply going to be more votes coming from terminally online people. This is particularly an issue in cases where you have to pass the filter of people who vote on new submissions in order to get to the front page.

4. It favors group think. There are a lot of people who think that a top comment must have some validity, and that a downvoted comment must have some problem with it.

5. It can give people a skewed idea of where the community stands. Even if everyone in the community had an equal impact on things, a 45%-55% split in the community could still leave someone with the impression that one view is completely supported in the community while another is almost universally rejected.

They don't. As the earlier points indicate, a small minority drives the conversation, and posting habits outside of the upvote/downvote system play a huge roll as well.
> Nobody really understands the hurricane of feelings one is going through, it doesn’t really make sense to try and explain it to people.

It can be done but it requires finding the points in a person's experience that mirror my own to some degree. Building on that, you can paint a picture they can understand.

I like the example of telling a person they need to keep eight words in their head all day long with no notes. Then they'll be quizzed about those words randomly throughout the day. If they fail, they have to sit quietly in a chair for the next hour.

Then I ask them how pissed off they'd be if they were interrupted in the middle of a task by me asking them to list the words in reverse alphabetical order by the fifth letter. Repeat several times an hour with different sorting and filtering criteria.
Such a story! this is very inspiring and I would like to read what happened next!
Keeping logs seems like a high bar for a non expert with a commodity home ap/router. A $US40 WRT54G only has 4mb of flash, for example. Are they expecting lay people to spend 10x that or more to set up an external log aggregation server with DPI and audit trail?
I don't understand the distinction you're trying to create. Yes EU investments are redirecting part of their budget to France, budget to which France is a contributor.

That doesn't imply in any way that any EU funding is a funding by French people money.
I built my first computer when I was in middle school so I could play video games. I thought the people who hung out on Slashdot were pretty cool, so I decided to learn Perl so I could build my own website, because that's what people talked about doing. It turned out to be harder than I thought. I never figured out how to actually build a CGI (and in retrospect, I was pretty far from understanding how the web really worked) but I managed to learn a little something about programming. I remember writing Perl programs to do my math homework for me. I gave up on learning more Perl because I was working through a book (llama book I think?) that had three chapters in a row devoted to regular expressions. I couldn't get through all three.

I got into Linux when Ubuntu Breezy Badger and I read that it was an "idiot proof" version of Linux. Spent way too much time copy and pasting commands from forums over the next few years but I remember having a lot of fun with Compiz.
Fair, I realised that the difference wasn't that large after I posted.

I'm just so annoyed by Python's (lack of a) packaging system that it makes me prone to hyperbole. It's been frustrating me at work all week, and I suspect that it will be a low-grade annoyance for me in my career for the next few years, as I'm a Data Scientist and hence need to deal with Python a lot.
e.g. see also https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/29236
I have one big issue with Commercial + GPL: It de facto prevents small players from using the software commercially.

It is prohibitively expensive for non dollar-based economies to pay for USD commercial products.

Sure, we are probably not the target demographic, but we exist
Not to mention VPNs exist
I have a lot of respect for your ability to make a blog about something that is already overwhelming enough to "just" be suffering.

Being both high functioning and with severe psychiatric issues is very weird when dealing with the world: you can sometimes drain your energy to almost have a "super" ability to do things (focus, make stuff, communicate, whatever it is), yet you're actually suffering immensely and it often doesn't help that you might get praised for the very same things that you should get help for. There's fear of losing some of those bits when you enter a path of medical treatments, there's immense energy spent doing inner work that people who are considered "healthy" never really have to be doing. It's like the neighbour is driving up a hill while you're hiking up a mountain with a broken leg.

So here's a hug.
Federal prosecutors don't screw around. Just take the plea bargain.

Also, the authorities in general don't like to be scorned. If you get away with something once, keep your nose clean afterwards.

Just some practical lessons unrelated to the passion play.
I always loved The Ritzy
> that they didn't find broadly interconnected networks within the data.

That seems to agree with what the parent said. It sounds to me like if a broadly interconnected network was found, that would be a failure on the part of the people trying to facilitate the tax avoidance schemes - the closer to homogenous noise the graph looks, the harder it is to trace. Based on that, I'd say that there's no utility in trying to prove the negative, i.e., that larger networks do not exist.

If the people hiding their assets actually did their job well, they would expect and hope that you (as an outside analyst) would come to exactly the conclusion that you have come to.
They're a very niche interest - only really viable in student towns and areas with a proportion of comfortably off arts-loving middle classes.

But TBH cinema has become a bit of an ordeal. It's such a weird experience - simultaneously sterile and massively overhyped in almost every possible way.

I'd started enjoying theatre more because that has a real magic - possibly because clever physical stage effects and real people acting in front of you engage the imagination in a way a projection can't.

But that's not any more likely to survive this than cinemas are. Although low budget theatre productions are more likely to restart more quickly because they only really need a large empty room, some lighting, and some props.
Also, the media mafia in France is particularly strong and French politics are firmly in their pockets, a bit more so than in the rest of the world. Which means that they will hold on to as strict a suppression of free internet as possible, as long as possible.
I think if I were to pitch something like the small London theatres, there'd be a market. The differences:

* Smaller screens

* Comfier seats

* Higher quality snacks

* Plus beers, cocktails, small appertiser type meals (e.g. sliders or similar)

* Films known to have cinematic/spectacular appeal from any time rather than just the latest releases.

* 'The Room' playing once a month

I would absolutely pay current cinema prices, plus food + drink for an afternoon of comfort and films that I otherwise wouldn't see, in the atmosphere they were meant for. I guess it brings it closer to theatre in that sense as you tend to have a better idea of what you're seeing, whether people like it, whether you already like it and whether it's going to be worth your time/money.
Define "effective". Can a government do anything they want when they fear the people, no. Can they legislate in progressive ways that build an economy and keep people safe, absolutely.
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This posting, for the curious:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419
Ganz meine Meinung. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858477

> "The facts—man, happening, amount, place, time—are true in each case. They could be sworn to by the whole membership of an interfaith conference. But the interpretation placed on them—who communicates these facts to whom? why? when?—makes them into propaganda."
Deep Work was a great book but the summary found linked on HN is SO much better.

The way to do deep work is to not do shallow work ever.

Hire people to do shallow work for you.

If you can't sell the product of your 'deep work' yet, try, say, flipping burgers or Shopify.

Hope this helps.
The good thing is that it’s becoming more normal.
Can it compile itself ?
The closest thing I could make some people relate to was that it was like being on LSD, just that it comes in waves.

I also happen to have experimented with lots of psychedelics in the prior years and I’m not gonna deny that this may have intensified the symptoms. Mania felt like an acid flashback.

All this sudden energy and creativity, but also the scatteredness (not sure this is a word). It was too much to handle.

At the time I was programming up to 10h per day. I could not remember names of people I met the day before, also I had blackouts. My brain was not able to process. With your experiment I would have failed miserably because sitting still for an hour was not manageable.
More of an input for developers than actual suggestion but collaborative art boards like MagicalDraw[1] aren't new among digital artists and they're quite robust

1: https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php
Not 100% sure but probably because the top mod was an anti-semite and 9/11 truther. It doesn't seem like it was a particularly active sub though.
Yes, when coding always ask yourself how you would tell your grandchildren about what you accomplished.
>Governments want people with some money but not enough where they’ll start to think they can stay at home playing the stock market. If the majority did that, society would collapse.

People still need to eat and live their lives. They'll have more revenue for doing that if they don't automatically have to give half of it to government.

Taxing spending removes a repressive socio-economic influence on people among different classes of economic status.

Poor people stay poor because that way they don't have to give away half their income. This has a much bigger socio-economic impact than most middle-class taxpayers are willing to admit.
Programming is only a means to an ends for me. I once took a summer course in C++. It was so boring, made me never want to program. But then in high school, I learned to write programs on my TI-83+ that could do my math homework and confirm test answers. I got into web development, but back then there was no CSS yet, and I also thought that was incredibly boring. After graduating college, I went back to it with help from a friend who had some freelance clients. Today, I get a lot of enjoyment learning the latest technologies in web dev and UI, as well as back-end (Node.js) because every year new things are possible!
I shall not force my own political opinions on users of my code.

I shall forego code of conduct for the users of my code and let them behave freely.
Got home PC with internet connection in 1995, when I was just 6 years old, and immediately fell in love with the machine. Started toying with QBASIC a couple of years later, read through Knut in middle school, the switches for math-oriented high school and implemented Mixx interpreter as a school project. Dropped out if uni and after several years as a game designer switched to engineering, which was a pretty easy transition.

Had a Linux as a main system couple of times, did LFS, but still don't consider myself very knowledgeable about it.
Trump-linked consultant tied to FB pages warning election will cause civil war
I can relate to that, I would say 50% of mine survive, I usually stop just before clicking the submit button. Anyways you have your reasons and I respect that.
> It is a de facto obligation for cafés to offer free internet

What do you mean by this?
> ...just to get my graphics and sound working at the same time after a system update

Sounds like you’ve never used a modern Arch based distro. In 2 years of using Manjaro as my daily driver that’s never happened to me.
You’re right, It’s starting to get worse with the cold weather.
You don’t even need to force everyone to stop driving. Once density increases, distances get easier to cover by bike or by walking, adding policies that make people liable for the cost of space to put a car (ban or realistic fees for on-street parking) people will reconsider owning a car. Basically you can still drive - there’s still roads, but you need to stash your vehicle on your property. And then people will start considering whether they still want that garage or maybe a bigger flat would be cool, too.
Robert Metcalfe gave a great interview with Tim Ferriss not long ago. He has some sharp insights and stories to tell.

https://tim.blog/2018/02/14/bob-metcalfe/
I used to think like that, then I met someone who's best friend committed suicide while under the influence of psilocybin mushrooms.
Psychedelics are powerful, and it is irresponsible to suggest, let alone guarantee, that they will benefit everyone.