skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Police is of course not private, but managed to death by managers who receive market rate compensation.

Which is ofcourse the criticism against public institutions; we still have not figured out how properly to motivate people for efficiency outside money it seems.
if you assume tax revenue is spread amongst all the things that are needed, then this makes sense. Instead of X number of things getting fully funded, and then roads/sewer maintenance getting a pittance, everything is under funded to the same degree, but everything still gets a little bit of funding.
>Each commit of this project corresponds to a section of the book. For this purpose, not only the final state of the project but each commit was carefully written with readability in mind. Readers should be able to learn how a C language feature can be implemented just by reading one or a few commits of this project. For example, this is how while, [], ?:, and thread-local variable are implemented. If you have plenty of spare time, it might be fun to read it from the first commit.

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Free speech stands against the financial interests of social media. Reddit is the real estate for ads, and the best value for top global advertisers are safe spaces that are free of controversy. In the end, it's the advertisers that decide what is allowed to be published there.
Sure you can. At work we talk to a system that requires that we do exactly this. The solution they chose is entirely trivial and safe: include the embedded doc as a base64 encoded string...

And yes, I'm being sarcastic.
Or, a local ISP or the coffee shop you are visiting has an appliance that injects ads into http web sites. And those ads come from an ad network, that doesn't do a good job of policing malware that gets into the ad's javascript. (Malware-laced ad networks is actually the #1 reason I use an ad blocker, since that is the only times I've ever got computer viruses).
Take a look at my response to the other response to my grandparent comment.

I think the role of a university is just too large. Universities cannot do everything at once, so bloating is a concomitant effect. This bloating decreases the efficacy of the university system on all fronts.

A good college is all of what you say, but that's not what college is today (for most people who go to college, not top-tier Ivy Leagues and such). For the less fortunate, college is more of a "slog your way through four years of shitty living and disinterest to get a probably worthless piece of paper".
Interestingly enough, I find were having more of these conversations working remotely than we did in the office. I think part of it is that using MS Teams other people are a lot more accessible, just drop into the chat and leave a message. If they are busy no probs, if they aren't then they will reply and we talk about whatever. Sick of typing, drop into a voice or video chat. Want to talk work, then it's easy to share a screen. A lot easier than looking at a screen over somebodies shoulder.

Whilst I do miss going out for a coffee or some such, I'm finding that I'm actually enjoying the social side of working remotely a lot more than the forced socialisation that was occurring physically in the office.
was 12 yo. installed Windows 7 on our shitbox PC with 2005 tier hardware. but internet would not work (ancient ethernet driver for that chip with no updates for the changes that oocured with windows vista). I never knew how drivers worked. I just press install and it works. so I spent the next few years reading stuff. Now I understand a bit how these things work. and how operating systems work to some level.

Later on I got into programming because I wanted to impress my teacher with my visual basic.NET skills. (I had no prior programming experience at all and that course was in VB.NET). and then I discovered C++, C# (and what .NET actually is) and python. now I am a year away from graduating with a computer engineering degree.

I was introduced to linux through a friend. and used it for a bit and had it on some machines. and wrote some shell scripts to automate stuff. but I never fully embraced it. as I would only install it on machines struggling with Windows. either due to aging or faulty hardware. I know about what makes linux "better" and how one customize it to the kernel level. but Windows is simply a better workstation OS regardless of the great amounts of bazinga we hear nowadays. linux on server/embedded systems is greatness however.
us defense spending is 3.2% of gdp, less than a third of social security, medicare and medicaid at 9.8%: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget...
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Shutting down platforms for discussion is quite literally restricting free speech.

If you want to argue Reddit has a right to do that, sure. But that's not the argument.
Yet again an article about how it costs $X to do something with infrastructure but no explanation for why it costs $X. Until everyone starts asking "why?" and then addressing the resulting answers (commonly: kickbacks, overregulation, collusion in bidding, and simple "match the budget" bids) this issue will continue with every aspect of government-run service.
I think the idea of leaving interpretation of the values to the end application is a good idea. I forget the details, but there was something about this idea related to the TCP/IP stack, with error correction being done at the application level rather than at one or more intermediate levels.
Pretty good example of the kind of nonsense endemic on Reddit
That is more nepotism, and it is not necessary bad. People work better with people they know and trust.

Nepotism can lead to nefarious amongst a group with people who has a lot of power and money. That is probably what happened in US with Bushes, Clintons and Obamas.

At this point, even mainstream pretty much admitted that use is an oligarchy: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Interesting point. Thx
I used the weasel words "so far". It's more like 2400 at the moment. The fact that the epidemic develops later supports my statement that Poland is a backwater country. Which doesn't mean it will go around us.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/poland/

The R (effective reproduction rate) coefficient is between 1.3 and 1.5 depending on the interval chosen, which is a very worrying trend. But remember Italy was 4.5 in February. Of course, if they cook books to hide financial deficit they sure can fake infection stats.

http://trackingr-env.eba-9muars8y.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk...
Here, fire is strongly related with farmers and also with crime activities.

For example is known that narcos expecting to land a cargo of drugs typically start wildfires at several Km of the landing point. They use that to trick the police to concentrate in the opposite extreme of the map.
Tumeric seems unlikely to work.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/cu...
They used the date of creation of the 10 Mb/s DIX paper (published in ACM in 1981) for the anniversary, but there was an earlier 1976 ACM paper:

* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1920/CompNet/files/p395-me...

* https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/360248.360253

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet#History
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Herbal medicine that works tends to be called 'medicine' once it has been corroborated and the active ingredient(s) have been isolated.

Unfortunately, this tends to mean that what you are left with - the herbal remedies with dubious efficacy - get left with the herbal remedy tag.
Man, it's too bad this author didn't read the other post on the front page about colorblindness; I can barely understand anything from his graph.

(Yes this post is from a few years ago, but it does provide a good example of the principles from the colorblindness post.)
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Old mobile version: https://i.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/reddit...
What is the use of this then? Humans don’t need structured data to exchange information and if this is insufficient to communicate it to the machine then it won’t be a great human to machine format either.
Don't believe so. Its the digital analogy of small talk with opt-in (read: IRC) :-)
I was at a summer thing for two weeks when I was 10, learning how to draw comics and illustrate. There was at the same time a course on making websites with MS Frontpage and publishing them on the city council's hosting service so I stumbled on that and ended up spending a few days putting my drawings online. After that, I played around making computer graphics for a year or so before we had a HTML course at my school.

That was kinda it, I ended up spending time with free webhosts and visual page building tools. This was around 2003 or so and after that I started to learn how to use FTP tools and and make websites from scratch.

From 2003 to 2007 I made a ton of basic sites for a ton of different projects like counter strike clans, tutorials, video game cheats etc. In 2008 I set up my first WordPress site to write reviews about electronic music and that kind of blew up and I outgrew my shared web hotel pretty fast with over 100k daily visitors and 1tb monthly traffic so after that I had to learn how to self-host on Linux VPS servers and how to build lighter sites with less db queries to keep up with the demand.

My site got hacked twice due to bad plugins and not understanding basic web security so in 2010 I moved into static site generators and separating file hosting (as that was 99% of the traffic) and the website. I finally ran the site down in 2013 because I lost interest in the music scene due to it changing too much.

These days I'm doing mostly client work, but I'm self taught so I have to be careful about the projects I pick as I'm not a stellar JS dev. I can do most basic operations from hosting and Linux server admin to frontend development and web design but most my of contracts are these days in UX design and usability studies and less on the technical side.
This one is excellent! Thank you for sharing it.
was it discussion ? or more ?
Hundreds of millions of people, currently growing by 10 million per week.
Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon here, either.
It was 1993 and I was homeless, living in a squat, working for bands by selling T-shirts at their gigs - I'd hitch hike to where they played to get paid £20 for the night before sleeping rough nearby. During this I collected names and addresses of their fans so that if the bands got new T-shirts there was the potential to contact the fans and let them know.

One of the bands - Elastica - wanted to shoot a music video and needed 100 fans to be in London in 2 weeks time... the band asked me if I could send a letter, I had 2,000 names and addresses and I got a few friends to volunteer and we hand-wrote 2k envelopes in 5 days and posted them with a phone number to call if you wanted to be in the video... then we went to the management company and manned the phone. They got their 100 fans and had a waiting list of another 200.

The band management company asked how we did this and whether they could put us on a retainer to do it in future as they had big plans for another band - Blur - and I pointed out that it was infeasible to write so many envelopes so often. But I believed a computer could do this, so if they bought me a computer and covered postage and packing, I would build a way to keep in touch with the fans of their acts.

They bought me an IBM 30386 and I had it in the upstairs of the squat. There was a hole in the roof so this part of the room was covered in tarp, and we stole the power from another loft as the hole in the roof granted crawlway access to other lofts. I had never used a computer before as I came from poverty, but I got a book from a library, a reference book on basic, and used that to programme a simple database based on text files, with index text files that I could then mail merge into envelope labels. Scaled that slowly up to be a full database (single user of course), and then a stock control system as staying in touch with fans meant we expanded into selling T-shirts mail order - which produced a surprising amount of revenue.

That was the start... and by then it was 1994 and a lot of the bands that were nothing were about to be something.
Freshman class sizes have to be way down right? If I were a parent to a kid of that age, I'd be encouraging them to take a gap year or knock out credits at a community college.
For the uninitiated, this is from the sci-fi series, “The Expanse” which has found a home on Amazon Prime. Highly recommended for those interested in an interplanetary sci-fi.
Cool article. I like the topic, and I think it makes some fair points. I do have to question the use of the quote from GNU, because it doesn't engage with the GPL where the GPL is. The GPL is not a guide for how to create a software project that survives. It's not a license optimized towards maximizing funding for project. The GPL exists as a tool to protect the 4 essential freedoms.

It's possible to have long and boring discussions about how Linux would have turned out if it had been MIT licensed, but they've been had before. for GNU, the GPL, and the FSF, it's clear that if your project can't survive while protecting the users 4 freedoms, then it does not deserve to exist.

If you want to engage GNU and the FSF (and supporters of either project) in a discussion about dual licensing and the GPL, the 4 freedoms have to be central. It's not an engineering discussion, it's a moral and ethical one.
In Aaron Swartz's own words from May 2007

> One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that's what I've been doing. I'd be happy to stop if that's what Steve and Alexis wanted, though.

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

This comment by spez is also interesting https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_th...

It seems AS was given the title of co-founder by contract, but perhaps, the language was vague enough or they didn't fear retaliation so Steve and Alexis decided they didn't want to acknowledge him as co-founder.

Edit: here are some more details: https://observer.com/2011/07/rumors-acquisitions-did-reddit-... including comments by PG.
You could write to the author or follow their social media: https://www.sigbus.info/
If NestedText is meant to be written by non-programmer humans, the details of null, undefined, 0, false, "NO", nil, or whatever else, would likely also be lost on them.

Most likely if their input is meant to be machine interpreted they would need to be trained to provide specific inputs anyway. I like that NestedText doesn't hide that problem. It lets the user organization decide how it wants to manage that problem, and what symbols or words are understood by the people authoring the files.
It can happend when towns grow quickly and the city sell the parcels for a significant amount of money.

In Denmark parcels are often sold for $50-100.000 in popular areas. This gives the town a significant amount of one-shot money.

If they use that one-shot money for running expenses rather than investments (in e.g. subways), then the town will go bankrupt when there are no new buyers of parcels.

It's somewhat like a ponzi scheme.
I got started in Linux when I was in my teens and played with amateur radio and Packet Radio (AX.25) in particular, some time around 1999. Back then I wrote a lot of small programs that helped me in my hobby so I almost never coded the for the sake of coding, but to solve real problems. That led me into a very happy career of EE and CS. If I had not started playing with CB radios some time around 1995 things would probably have gone quite different, as (before that episode) I was dead set on becoming a carpenter.
I am a pro in python.
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This is so interesting! Somehow I had never learned of the "random delay" that apparently is the basis of how Ethernet works.
> concrete examples of how the GPL directly benefited the projects you mentioned?

The GPL is the reason for many source-code contributions. Compare this to the way Sony use FreeBSD to power their PS3 and PS4 consoles and contribute little back to the FreeBSD project.

There are other reasons companies may contribute changes, including that it spares them the trouble of rebasing their fork, and it may earn them goodwill, but copyleft is a strong reason too.

A good concrete example really is that of compilers. Apple used to begrudgingly contribute code to GCC, as the GPL required them to. LLVM has no such requirement, so we see proprietary forks crop up. [0] If I were to contribute to a project like GCC or LLVM, I'd rather my work didn't end up in some non-Free fork.

That Apple later invested in LLVM turned out to be pretty great for everyone. GCC is still doing fine, and we have another industry-strength Free Software compiler suite. I'd rather Apple didn't use a proprietary fork for their own secret-sauce, but I can't be too grumpy given how well LLVM/Clang has done.

> there were occasions where it let free software ideology get in the way of technical excellence

It's an FSF project, so this criticism doesn't really land. FSF projects are not aiming for technical excellence at any cost. It's a bit like saying Free-range ideology gets in the way of my food budgeting.

I don't know much about the specifics of GCC here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Optimizing_C/C%2B%2B_Compi...
Capital is so cheap these days, Lafayette should:

(1) borrow to fund infrastructure spending; and focus that into new local jobs and economic activity

(2) A boosted economy will allow higher taxes to be collected

(3) Better infrastructure will attract investment

But in this scenario, politicians will skip step 2 because it's unpopular; and the cycle will continue in a future generation.
Old version: https://ns.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/j4fsi1/reddi...
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I have been a professional developer for 20 years, 10 of those remote. He is right. If people learn how to work and communicate through async text, you can come up with ideas, exchange thoughts quite easily. Problem is, most people love to hear themselves talk so dismiss ways where they aren't the 'center of attention'. I would say in 20 years, less than 5% of the 'meetings' or 'coffee chats' couldn't have been done through slack/irc/whatever.
I have no doubt their investors play a role as well. Though some argue the Tencent investment is good for Reddit [0], I can't help but wonder what the nudging looks like behind the scenes.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/tencent-reddit-nononono/
What a great resource. I will certainly pick up the book when it’s out.
Municipal bonds are barely above the inflation rate. Split what 1,600 x2 = 3,200 ways a 6,250$ per person investment at those rates really isn’t that expensive. It’s roughly what everyone building a septic system would cost. Especially, if it’s sized with the expectation of any kind of growth.
Google research lets sign language switch ‘active speaker’ in video calls
If you're asking this question, you don't understand the principles of freedom of speech. Read the Aaron Swartz essay linked above, and while you're at it, watch this, from Noam Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oV42OMQoE.
> But I think these goals are different, and are now becoming so clearly differentiated they must be split apart.

I disagree, I think a demonstrable strength of the Anglo-Saxon university system is the integration of teaching and research. Look at countries especially in Europe that don't integrate and see how their universities suffer.
I don't believe GP is debating whether Reddit is popular. People will put their "content" on whatever platform appears "free" and easy to use.
Just the one question: alternatives?

Not necessarily already established and crowded platform, but also free and open, privacy friendly ones that can be slowly brought to self sustaining levels by enthusiasts, so that they can attract normal users.
Increasingly so alas
The common solution to the ‘contribution problem’ inherent in dual licensing is a CLA. That never really appealed to me. It makes it harder to accept occasional contributions, while I also find it somewhat dubious to ask people to transfer copyright to a for profit entity without paying them for the work they did.

One thing I wanted to try, but never really got to, was to ask contributors to license additions to a GPL project under the MIT license. These can be shipped under the proprietary license. As long as the original authors continue to do a large part of the work, most code remains GPL preventing proprietary forks and safeguarding your proprietary revenue model.

[edit: clarity]
Reddit today is the opposite of what it was in the beginning. Unsurprising that they’d write out Swartz in their quest to be a friendly corporate face.

Alas, a new competitor will replace it soon. Virtually no one has brand loyalty to Reddit and their audience is becoming narrower and narrower.
There has been at least since 1951 since the famous publication of Arrow's impossibility theorem.

Extract from Wikipedia :

"The framework for Arrow's theorem assumes that we need to extract a preference order on a given set of options (outcomes). Each individual in the society (or equivalently, each decision criterion) gives a particular order of preferences on the set of outcomes. We are searching for a ranked voting electoral system, called a social welfare function (preference aggregation rule), which transforms the set of preferences (profile of preferences) into a single global societal preference order. Arrow's theorem says that if the decision-making body has at least two members and at least three options to decide among, then it is impossible to design a social welfare function that satisfies all these conditions (assumed to be a reasonable requirement of a fair electoral system) at once: [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
At PixLab, we believe this is the right approach to license SDKs & C Libraries. We did this with our embedded Computer Vision Library (https://pixlab.io/downloads) and it did works quite well.

Corporations really hate anything GPL related and will ultimately purchase commercial licenses at high cost to get rid of GPL if they are interested enough in your product.

Note that dual licensing was first popularized by Sleepycat software makers of BerkeleyDB now absorbed by Oracle. They were profitable during their short lifespan thanks to this approach.
As a non-American, I lost track of this case - was there an investigation into prosecutors who went after Aaron? Are these people still prosecuting other people?
I was sharing an office with my co-worker; we work together on the same topic and that was ok. But interesting conversations? Not happening at all. In the end, we're no friends or no particularly good team. Moving to remote work allows us to cut that bullshit quite effectively.

I'm now working remotely, but sharing an office together with friends (we're hanging out together anyways, so still makes sense in terms of isolating). We have lots of conversations, help each other and give spontaneous lightning talks on how to use $tool better.

I think having people around you is important, people that encourage and help you develop yourself.
so... what is knolling?

it is not explained, only youtube link, cannot access
I noticed the author is a civil engineer. Asking a civil engineer if you need more infrastructure spending is a lot like asking a barber if you need a haircut or asking an orthodontist if your kid needs braces.
They were more than happy to call him a cofounder until now. Clearly they always throught of him as the 'diversity' hire. Now they want to pretend that he never existed. It makes me wonder if Alexis Ohanian also married Serena Williams to get diversity PR. I wouldn't be surprised at this stage.

It's a direct attack against everything that's good in the world.