skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S.F. might change 44 school names, renouncing Washington, Lincoln
Christopher Lasch wrote an entire book on how he considered the very concept of "progress" to be a rather recent phenomenon, and the problems it creates.

https://www.amazon.com/True-Only-Heaven-Progress-Critics/dp/...
Detroit was once one of America's finest cities, basically the embodiment of the American dream. Once the economy that floated all that ended, it ended too.
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All of the managers I’ve worked with on the “great” end of the quality spectrum have excelled at being sh*t umbrellas. Perhaps that speaks also to the quality of the orgs I’ve been in, as well...

This is a (the?) differentiating quality between effective management and not.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. It's such a calm, meditative book. In fact, IIRC it has a chapter on fecundity that is similar to this essay.
> I just don't understand how those words magically enter the recipient into an agreement.

There are a lot of people and organizations who make legal statements or disclaimers that have inaccurate or even zero meaning. Sometimes, those who are making these statements are less concerned about being legally correct, and more concerned about influencing those who read the statement.

In other cases, some people have misconceptions about what the law requires of them for protection, and make unnecessary disclaimers. People love to do this with copyright.
Leadership skills, whatever this means...
Yes, doing so well that they're in disbelief about the catastrophe that is about to destroy it all, or most of it. Only global warming would start a war of survival never seen in history. Sprinkle that with an insect apocalypse and we're doomed.

But I understand what you mean though. Violence used to be the way of life and inseparable from it whereas nowadays some parts of the world are doing relatively much better. But it might be short term victory.
Whether one fully understands or not, rewriting always results in chance of
breakage. Ceteris parabus I always favor rewriting if only to allow the
rewriting programmer easier maintenance going forward. When the breakage
reveals why the old code was written in that peculiar way, the hope is that
the cost of breakage is less than the time cost of understanding the
peculiarity. Obviously, for big stakes, e.g., the Google search algorithm,
this "move fast and break things" ethos is untenable.
I used to think that then I burnt out. When the manager does nothing but the crap, the manager is going to leave. The proper way is to distribute the crap evenly.
There are two ways to arrange media and censorship: centralized or decentralized.

Definitely, decentralized/democratized media (Facebook, etc) is very difficult to do well and today seems to require centralized censorship.

But that can't be the right solution. And neither can going back to centralized media.
The legal risk should scare people. If I reflash my dash cam, then I’m the only liable party. The insurance minimums in most states are criminally low. Whereas if I’m using something built into my car, the manufacturer’s deep pockets should at least deflect most of the liability away from me.
Adapting Code and Culture: How New Relic Went Open Source
When I think of non-communist "grand secular societal program", the only thing that comes to mind are some aspects of the NSDAP’s program.
Most of those comments came from the account described in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796344
most things are going very well. a few things that matter a lot to ordinary people are not (healthcare, education, housing in some locales).

some of the dysfunction is just baffling. the rent for the apartment I live in increases faster than my salary. this is in a city where the population has been decreasing YoY for at least a decade and in a neighborhood where I can see two large apartment complexes under construction out my window. how is this possible?
we recently found out that the cambridge analytica scandal was widely overblown and essentially fake news:

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/...
.. maybe because you would be whitewashing the language,
People do not like being publicly shamed for not adhering to some vague and not-generally-accepted obligation.
Adverse reactions are not something to be taken lightly. A proper investigation is required to determine what the root cause is. One person making a youtube video would be extremely misleading. You have to look at what medications they're currently on, if they're fully healthy, etc, etc. information is neutral, but people can misapply what they think they know and project their ignorance in a way that will be amplified. I work in biotech (vaccines) and I see this kind of faulty thinking applied to vaccines quite often, so maybe I'm more sensitive than most.
I think the trick may be deciding what to do on the web side and what on the Rust side. In the case I was mentioning, I used the web side only for display. All the file handling, app updates, full-text search, etc., I did in Rust, and it worked very well on both MacOS and Windows (didn't check Linux).
They're for the most part on my PC inside lightroom.

Then all that gets backed up locally to a synology NAS.

Also backed up via Backblaze.

I feel comfortable with this system, but it certainly isn't ideal for sharing and etc.
I'd expect to have the same experience on most $300 Windows laptops, though. And even on better computers, what is that doing to electricity usage and multi-tasking performance?
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing!
i think almost certainly not. i also tbink we’d have much less political correctness and wokeness
Spent nine years living in San Luis Obispo, and somehow I never encountered a single clam in Pismo. Was I missing something obvious?
I am never a fan of posts about "do x in y language in z lines" because inevitably there is a library involved. These posts should really involve a pure implementation in the language.
> That creates problems for anyone who ever wants to sell their business to or sell services to any larger company

We ran into that, sort of, although the only one it ultimately affected was the author of the free software that we wanted to use. We were a small company doing development for a major Japanese software distributor. He wanted a virtual CD product that would make images of your CD-ROMs and let you use those images. We were using zLib to compress the images, but he said it was too slow. zLib has settings to sacrifice some compression to gain speed, but they would not gain enough speed while maintaining the minimum amount of compression he wanted.

I found a zLib compatible library that some grad student at a nearby major university had written in assembly for speed. It was very good, handily beating zLib, and he even used the same assembler we used (Watcom). The library was GPL, which was not acceptable to the distributor we were writing for, so I contacted him about a different license.

We agreed on some reasonable price to use his library in that product, and some reasonable larger price for a license to use it in all our future products. But then he started worrying--our products were for Windows. What if we caught Microsoft's attention and they bought us, and his code ended up available for all of Microsoft to use.

He wanted to negotiate a license that would cover all of the kind of thing to make sure his code could not end up at Microsoft or some other big company. Negotiating that would require our CEO's involvement, and probably bringing in outside lawyers. The CEO did not have the time for that nor any interest in it, and told me to figure something else out.

I did. I went back to zLib, and I added a slider to our UI which went from 0 to 100, labeled something like "Faster ripping" on the 0 end and "Smaller Images" on the 100 end. If the slider was set to N when ripping an image, I used zLib at maximum compression setting on N out of every 100 sectors ripped and stored 100-N out of every 100 sectors ripped uncompressed. The distributor was delighted with this. (I have never been able to decide if I should be proud of this solution or deeply shamed by it).

25 years later, and nothing from then ended up at Microsoft or anywhere else, and that grad student lost out on several thousand easy dollars that I'm sure would have been very nice and useful for him to have.
It is exactly how a monitor works, but this is more than just a change of label. This looks like a lamp. Form factor matters. There's a reason people don't normally use monitors as lamps despite the fact that they do a perfectly good job at emitting light.
Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
Writing documentation is 100% where the smallest bugs in your english skills come out, whereas speaking allows so much more in the way of context clues to let grammar mistakes slide. It's so tough. If it's any consolation, I have corrected documentation grammar errors from native speakers too
Hi and thanks for very in depth comment and all these recommendations.

I have seen Dirt Rally 1/2 gameplay on YouTube and I really liked it. Unfortunately it will probably not run on FreeBSD ... and even if then my graphics card would not like it that much :)

I also read some good things about Divinity Original Sin, thanks for adding another small part to making me finally play this game sometime.

I will check other Zachtronics games as per your recommendation.

I played Age of Wonders about 17-18 years ago and I liked some of their concepts, I also liked Disciples 1 and 2 games. Also quite similar to Heroes of Might and Magic.

From the 'Tycoons' I played Transport Tycoon and Airline Tycoon. Also liked the first Theme Part and Theme Hospital.

Also first Portal was really nice.

Regards.
> Yes, here is the first google result.[1]

So you would have supported Twitter blocking all mentions of the Panama papers until this conviction last month? Or would Twitter judge ahead of time that a crime has occurred and thus permit the hacked materials to be released?

> In those instances, it is up to the whistleblower and journalists initially before eventually the court decides.

But only journalists of a certain political bent? You seem to be advocating adding Twitter, FB, and other for-profit corporations into the conversation here.

> Assange is the one who is not on the same moral footing as those two.

Assange was the journalist who published Manning's releases. This seems incoherent to me.

> Trump's taxes likely did reveal numerous potential crimes.

The NYPost article revealed the crime of crack possession. It was not so long ago that the FBI did a sting operation to get the same sort of footage they used to convict my city's (DC) mayor. And the FBI clearly thought they had some information about a crime, which is presumably why they were subpoenaed.

Obviously, that's a stupid argument - but that's the point. You are just going to set up arbitrary thresholds for what is a crime and what isn't post-facto to justify blocking what you don't want and allowing what you want.
It's really interesting to look at history and take in how English became the world language. Spanish, French and German all looked like they'd come out on top at some point, but they all lost a lot of relevance after Europe was shattered in ww2.

And now we have once again two competing languages dominating the world stage, american English in the west and Chinese (or Mandarin I guess) in the east.

I can't imagine a future when these merge naturally, because they don't have any common ground to speak of.

However, realistically speaking... If we actually do manage to become a singular community, one language would win at some point. I doubt it'll happen while we're alive, but it'll surely be an interesting topic for historians of the future... As long as we survive long enough I guess
An important point for my proposal is that we only track scores for individual humans, not aggregate entities. I think this makes a difference in a lot of ways.

A new company can (should!) hire some people with solid local experience, so can have a score (we still need defaulting rules for individuals, of course).

Individuals risk reputational damage if people elsewhere in the project behave badly, which should increase cooperation with controls. Similarly, well managed companies will find it easier to hire, while poorly managed companies will find it more difficult.

Companies that have a lot of poorly scored individuals because of poor historical practice will be extra motivated to bring on people with a history of working on well managed projects, which would help knowledge flow about how to keep projects well managed.
For me, the shocker is the penultimate paragraph, stating that many computing programmes at many institutions no longer teach logic. I could see that for a fourth-rate community college (maybe) but if we are talking about universities here, then it's time to close down those departments.
I think it's more for equipment rentals - think renting skis or a snowboard. Less rent-to-own and more try-this-hobby.
Exactly. The only work I don't do is tires and paint/body. Those I could do as well, but the equipment and experience (respectively) required make them wildly inefficient to do personally.
> Do public infrastructures and services cost more in inflation adjusted dollars and achieve less? That's a pretty significant claim which needs serious evidence.

Yeah, it would have been nicer if claims like this within the article had links to supporting discussions of some kind. On this topic, at least, I've seen numerous discussions on HN, so I googled a little bit and found some articles that look familiar:

https://fee.org/articles/the-unbearable-truth-about-infrastr...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122460

EDIT: Replaced the second link with an HN discussion about it from earlier this year. Couldn't find one for the other article.
If you don't want someone to copy it, don't put it up on the internet.
> It's seedless, so wouldn't happen.

So why are seeds explicitly mentioned in the EULA?

(Also, why is "but not limited to" in quotation marks?)
But that's not what malloc is? Malloc gives you a pointer to a fixed length block of memory that you can use to store data. S3 associates data provided by you to an arbitrary key. That's totally different, functionality wise. The only way they're related is that they store stuff.
The author spends most of the article discussing how mysterious and unknowable the underlying causes of abundance are. And then closes out the article with “this time it’s different”. That seems inconsistent.
There are areas of economics where it's more complicated than simply 'supply and demand'. Positive network externalities, things like that, but by and large supply and demand are a good place to start. And it is very applicable to housing.
What services are costing more outside of healthcare.

Housing and Higher education are obvious standouts. Relative to other countries networking and cellphone service are absurdly overpriced, but so is tax prep, highway construction, and other government adjacent industries.
Companies really struggle with this, and in both directions. Startups and scale-ups tend to overcompensate to the point management hires get interviewed as super-ICs, where they'll be expected to answer technical stages at (or even above) the company's top IC standard, but only get a couple of basic scenario questions about management that anybody could answer. Sometimes you get lucky and they're good at both, but it's a big source of the "management by yelling at people" and "I can't have a 1:1 with you, I'm fixing a production issue" schools prevalent in such environments.

It's rare to find a company balanced in the middle where they're looking for someone who clearly "gets it" and can talk about technical solutions, but also has the ability to solve the people problems. (Often good managers were also skilled ICs before they made the jump, but lack of everyday practical use leaves them with a layer of rust. In an hour interview with someone you've never met before it's hard to tell the difference between "rust" and "has heard of the concepts but doesn't really understand them" though)
1) in the 1960s, we saw the rise of "operations research", a field of study specifically aimed at understanding and improving how (mostly large) human organizations operated. It was seen as part of the great hope of the future, but because it explicitly said that large organizations, including governments, could function better and do great things, it became seen as quite a problem for conservative/libertarian philosophy which wanted more support for the view that government is, as you put it yourself "always incompetent". OR is now fairly unfashionable field, and the continuing search for better ways to do things within human organizations has lost a lot of the urgency it had in the 60s and early 70s.

2) You have almost no idea how incompetent or wasteful most private organizations are, unless they are so bad that they go bankrupt and dissolve.
I might as well just say it, it wouldn't be too hard to figure it out from my posting history at this point. I live in maryland. I should warn you though, while the coronavirus response has been pretty good imo, there's plenty of unrelated insanity in this state. also if you're a software engineer, I hope you like working for defense contractors.
Higher education also.
This doesn't answer the question, merely tells us what we already know: not much
> Manager is a path, but an IC shouldn't need to become a manager to keep growing in their career.

I 100% agree with this, but have never really REALISTICALLY seen any of this methodology in the companies that I've worked at. Here's what I usually see instead: if someone is a staff engineer, then they worked their ass off to get there and are generally really good coders, and have wrapped their heads around the business/domain really well.

The managers I've seen are generally skewed towards incompetence, which to me, shows that interviewing to become an EM is MUCH easier than it is to become a staff engineer, yet the pay is identical. So you mostly have staff/principal engs that are VERY smart, and more often than not, have EMs/directors who have stumbled their way upwards by being lucky.

The question is -- do you want to be a principal engineer when you're 45, know the business, the code, the domain inside out, be paid well, but STILL have to answer to directors/managers who are 15 years your prior, who are entirely incompetent and have essentially lucked/bullshitted their way into their roles, and deal with all of that crap on and endless basis or do you become that person and attempt to fix it from the top?

A different angle: most companies have no idea what a staff engineer is, and how to promote from within. However, I've seen midlevel engineers do some decent work, maybe complete a major project, and be promoted to EMs. What's the point of trying to become a staff engineer (assuming part of your goal is to grow your wealth) when you can just easily become an EM at most places and make the same exact amount of money, and just do what you love (i.e coding), on the side. Of course, to each their own and all of that. But at the end of the day, it is much much easier to go into management and incompetence your way around to the top where goals are nebulous and not super calculable compared to being senior IC.

I should finally note that I have had a couple of EMs that were really good. However, those are far and few between IMO.
> Libertarians will tell conservatives that this doesn’t matter. “Build your own Facebook! Build your own Twitter!” But Facebook and Twitter are the most powerful media companies on earth, and most other media companies have become dependent on them. And this is not going to stop with social networks. The next frontier is payment processors. Good luck launching your next direct-to-consumer subscription product when your most passionate fans can’t promote it on Facebook and Twitter and you can’t accept PayPal, Visa, or Mastercard.

There are alternatives to big centralized tech. I run a Mastodon and Pleroma server. They are federated and distributed. There are also more walled-silos trying to enter this place like Parlor and Gab (Gab briefly was federated, which turned into its own controversial mess).

We can and spin up more/alternative platforms. The problem is multi-fold: the Internet allows us to run alternative platforms, but the vast majority of people are so sick of social media, they are reluctant to try anything else.

The new platforms are always pulling in a diaspora of a particular type of users whose voice is not heard anywhere else. That makes the new platforms one-directional, like Voat:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/voat-what-went-wrong/

There is a lot of complexity here. Those who want power have always tried to control the media. It happened with Radio. It happened with Newspapers. It's been happening with the Internet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwTCO4qa-RQ
If Amazon employees started tipping 0% at restaurants in Seattle, they would be legally correct. But that would certainly impact the way restaurants needed to operate.

Sometimes communities get built up on a shared system that involves a certain amount of shame, embarrassment and feelings of communal good and following norms in order to continue.

Open source software seems to be that type of community. Sure, you can be a freerider and tip 0%, but at a certain point others in the community may glare at you with a "really?" face and of course restaurants will eventually just raise their prices.
If it does become endemic, the question is, what disease would it cause? The deadly Spanish and Hong Kong flu viruses didn't disappear, but rather evolved to cause yet-another seasonal flu after a few seasons.

If the Covid virus does the same and causes yet-another-cold, who cares? Whereas if we're fighting Covid-the-disease for decades to come, well, God help us!
English can be confusing - https://youtu.be/kXH3HDE9Czo
Rebol/Red is more like Python/Cython - able to be fast but falling back to an interpreter for dynamic things. As such there are probably more "performance footguns" (though any such thing is ultimately subjective based on programmer awareness). Nim feels more like what C++ (or Python) should always have been. Not sure if this helps. It's kind of a "big" question.
I've always felt that Kurzweil doesn't properly appreciate the limits of his expertise.
If we're in "we can't rely the 3PAO's assessment or the JAB's (or DISA's) review of this cloud vendor" territory, then we're probably dealing with workloads far more sensitive than FISMA High or Secret, in which case it absolutely makes sense to DIY.

But most workloads aren't that special.
It was fast because they didn't have to go through an environmental review process ;)
This seems quite possible from everything I've explored, and also is something I want to try soon. It's also interesting to use Nim through JS for a scripting layer for an application written in Nim; where they both communicate through shared data structures or something.

Here's a repo I found: https://github.com/Jipok/Nim-SDL2-and-Emscripten
i meant to say something like "the dispute is not about the legality of their actions", but i missed it :)