skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is a specific discussion direction you have in mind, you should put it forth. That clip helps add more context, for sure.

I don't have much to add, but I'll state that I adore Papert's vision, and that even those who disagree about "what we should do on Monday" should keep an eye on the vision. If it does not directly inform what steps to take in the short term, at least it should have an indirect influence. By a similar token, tearing everything down and trying to rebuilding it from scratch carefully is famously tempting and notoriously ineffective for software systems. Even with software it's hard to make that claim flat out, and I shouldn't dare try to draw an analogy to social systems, since, you know, revolutions happen and for good reason. But I am glad there are at least some people (though maybe there are relatively too many) with an eye toward incrementalism.

There are many similar ideas to Papert's and Kay's that could perhaps be organized under a theme of being visionary or radical or in stark contrast to the status quo. Coming to mind are: A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart [1] (2002) or much more narrowly Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations by Gian-Carlo Rota [2] (1997).

I'm also reminded of some work by Felienne that questions the idea that computer programming in particular is not amenable to traditional instruction. This idea is popular with this era's programmers (perhaps because for the most part, at least up until recently, programmers do not learn from school) [3].

[1] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_03_08.htm...

[2] https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf

[3] https://www.felienne.com/archives/6150
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Part of this is establishing a narrative that you will be less productive when burnt out than you are now, where you disappear an extra 20 minutes a day to be outside.

There was a point where I was worried about my fitness, which reached its apex when I had a long commute and a stressful job. Some research was published that changed my life.

Cardio improvement can be seen with 3x7 minute intervals, rather than the previous wisdom of 20 minutes. To get a 20 minute workout you have to disappear for at least 25 minutes, and already be in a certain amount of shape to go that long. It’s miserable and your coworkers notice immediately.

7 minutes doesn’t even have to get you sweaty, so it’s 7 minutes plus however long it takes you to get where you’re going. It’s like a long bathroom break, and nobody commented on where I had gone. 1-2 of those a day and then another 10 minutes at home (or walking to and from lunch) and I was on my way to feeling a lot better.

Also for me, physical activity tends to clarify concepts and decisions I’m wrestling with. I do less work and do it better once I know what I’m doing. I can often save myself an hour and a bunch of mental energy by disappearing for 10 minutes and coming back. Even if it only worked 20% of the time, my boss still comes out way ahead.

Sharpen your saw.
Part of this feels like sexual selection exerting its pressure.

It’s why the paradise birds dance.

Being physically fit used to be the main factor and while it still helps today, it’s only one smaller component of status.

I don’t see the physical fitness and intellectual posturing as two distinct areas that have separately matured.

It’s one sexual selection continuum - only the environment and what’s adaptive for attracting mates has changed.

There’s a new dance to learn.

I don’t think this is something we can easily overcome.
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Not a dumb question just there is always a catch: dynamical link saves you from rebuild only if the fix is carefully backported (by a distributor), which can introduce issues, too. The upstream has usually moved on in the meantime and the library isn't binary compatible.
is this netlify?
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I am sympathetic, use whatever works for you and I'm happy when open source works for people, but:

> but which OS works outside the box these days anyway? Windows is still a nightmare, setting up macOS took me 3 days the last time, Linux takes way more if you’re building it from scratch. Setting up FreeBSD took me 3 days, however this meant that I will NOT need to change it again for a very, very, VERY long time.

(I think he means "out of the box", ie, without spending lots of time configuring or fighting with it to get it set up.)

I think Mac OS works for most people without spending 3 days to set it up. For OP, he spent the same amount of time setting up FreeBSD as he did MacOS... I'm not confident this is typical.

> Every time Apple pushed an updated, my pf.conf and automount configs got broken on macOS. They either got deleted or they moved somewhere. Well, the last 2 times it just got deleted.

Aha. OK, I don't even know what this is... but ok, I can believe if you are using features are more unixy they will work better on FreeBSD with less tinkering. Which doesn't mean they work "out of the box", especially for non-technical users. Just that, sure, they aren't any better and are sometimes worse on MacOS.

> Unix is outdated and Apple does not care about it.

I think this is probably accurate, Apple is no longer interested in maintaining the OS (and installed/supported packages) as an up to date unix competitive with other unixes.

> Doing forensics is almost impossible

What do "forensics" mean here?
The answer is probably downvoted because of the systemd comment but I think that busybox is statically linkable, is it not ?
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Since there are so many distros, it is honestly hard to keep up with (even if you are involved with the commuity). In (very) broad strokes (i.e. if you use a well supported distro), you can expect:

- Calls and SMS seem stable, even when the phone is asleep

- Battery life Screen on time is measured in hours, and sleep time is measured in ~1 day

- Anbox is usable, but not easy to install

- convergance is stable

- MMS is non-functional: https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

- GPS/location is only usable if you have a GPS signal

- Camera is pretty stable (though the front camera had a green tint)
> Since my duty cycle for a Mac Mini is rather less than 20%, the economics even of on-demand instances immediately make sense

MacStadium's prices are "rather less than 20%" of AWS's prices. To make sense, AWS would have to be comparable to MacStadium's pricing.

And don't forget the 24-hour minimum. If your duty cycle for a Mac Mini is only 20% per day every weekday, well, you can't rent a Mac Mini for less than a 24 hour period, so instead of paying for 20% of a month, you'll be paying for 20 work days, 60% of a month. On AWS, that would run you $546/month, 4x as much as you'd pay MacStadium for the entire month.

AWS's price is only comparable to MacStadium if you need five 24-hour periods per month (or less).

And, sure, AWS's prices will decline at some point, but I'm not expecting an 80% price drop this year.
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

and

https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

Upd: from a consumer point of view, the answer would be "because it is innovative" [0] and it has much faster RAM and GPU [1].

[0] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

[1] https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...
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> I don't know what KYC is

KYC = Know Your Customer

> but I'm not US based

When sufficiently large sums of money are involved, it's hard to conduct legal business and not play by US rules. Swiss banks discovered this, at considerable expense to themselves and their customers. Cryptocurrency exchanges are going through the same discovery process right now, in both the legal and the philosophical sense.

> > Instantly liquid programmable assets

The unfortunate property of the liquidity of cryptocurrency assets is that they have a tendency to get siphoned away or evaporating in ways not anticipated by their owner.

> > Financial censorship resistant

> Is this a feature? Don't we as a society want a way to control e.g. drug lords and tax evaders moving their money around?

That's precisely one of the questions at stake here. Some folks appear to pine for the benevolent overlordship of the likes of, say, Ross Ulbricht.
How spread out can the receivers in a Very Very Large Array be? My understanding is that with radiotelescopy they can be widely dispersed, but I'm far from an expert.

Really, you just need manufacturing/contractors in many places. This part built in Pennsylvania, that one in Michigan.
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People cheat for all kinds of reasons. I'd say in many cases it bears little or no relevance to their proficiency as an IC. For example, I've seen people cheat in a Computer History class (compsci elective) presumably because they just want an easy A to push up the GPA. It doesn't necessarily mean they can't code.
To the author, it would seem so. There might be a clue in the site name, too: "Freedom Be With All".
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It really depends on what you're trying to correlate. When it comes to trying to read anything out of how someone does in something like ICPC, I compare it to doing well as an athlete: there's definitely something transferrable in there, but it's hard to claim that it's any specific technical skills.

If you're good at competition programming, you can probably sling code pretty well, but that doesn't mean you're good at writing maintainable code in team contexts. But if there aren't other red flags I'd take it as positive signal that you're smart enough and hard-working enough to learn to do it quickly.
As of today yes, but who knows about tomorrow. Termux might be facing a harsh future given the changes in Android 10.[0]

Actually switching to a pure Linux phone and might be the more viable long-term solution.

[0]: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
> Why is Windows a nightmare?

Telemetry, the window manager, BT support, Ads, Cortana for a start.
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My understanding is that a lot of the great books we know are heavily influenced by unknown editors who can easily be considered coauthors.
Honestly, I don't get all the hate systemD receives. It works well enough, creating launchers for services is super easy, and in all this years It never gave my a headache.
I'm in a sales engineering style role, the way our incentives work is 'pool based'. Sales success funds the pool for our team, and the pool is distributed among the team based on performance.

We have a breakdown of how management intends to quantify performance, by categorizing different performance measures and giving them different weights (ex: sales impact is 40%, leadership is 20%, etc.)

This system makes a trade-off- it isn't as objective as a percentage commission structure, but it does allow opportunity to be rewarded for work on re-usable assets, troubleshooting with your peers, and spending time on knowledge acquisition/sharing.

I'm really interested in how this looks at other companies
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That's an 'evaluation virtual machine'.
I use Ubuntu which mostly works in these regards. When I first switched from Mac to Linux on a MBP, which has spotty Bluetooth support, the solution was pretty easy--I bought a low-profile USB Bluetooth adapter with strong Linux compatibility, plugged it in, and never thought about it again.

So IME it's not really a big deal.
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Or you can just use the "Reset PC” feature and disable "Restore preinstalled apps" to reinstall the OS without the OEM bloat.
You're asking for something similar to a Lisp machine, or perhaps even an Amiga. Everything runs in the same address space and has access to all available library functions; "processes", such as they are, are in no way isolated.
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I literally thought this had already happened years ago. Have no idea why.
None of those large radio telescopes were ever really in the game of detecting near earth asteroids.
For that large optical survey telescopes, such as PTF, ZTF, PanSTARRS and the future LSST (and many more) are much more important.

However for accurately measuring their position and velocity in 3D space radar measurements are extremely helpful (since they give you distance and radial velocity which those surveys can't give you). And for that Arecibo was quite a good tool in the toolbox, but not the only one. And the other telescopes used for this are in the 25m to 100m range (the Goldstone solar system radar has a 75m dish and 500kW X-band transmitter).
In addition one doesn't have to use the same dish as transmitter and receiver (as long as both telescopes can observe the object at the same time obviously).
A continuity of small improvement iterations driven by founder and successor. A drastic contrast to the insatiable programme of "so I've won at ice rink maintenance, hand it off to some clerk, let's see where else I can find even bigger profits" that could have been the alternative.
my first thoughts aswel.
I saw someone claim that changing the font to Comic Sans made her see the text freshly and catch many problems.
As someone who once used facebook, maybe a decade ago, but currently does not, I can confidently say I've seen little to no social expense to not using it. My real friends and family keep me abreast of the important things that are happening offline, and I get to skip the rest that happens on Facebook, which is essentially noise, baby pictures, and toxic politics.

I think it's almost entirely FOMO that is keeping people on these horrible "social" platforms. Best decision of my life was to leave.
These security features are only nominally about protecting the user. Apple implements them to protect their services and platforms from competition and sells them via the privacy argument.

Does it happen to improve the security situation? Yes, for many people it does. Is it worth the cost? That's debatable, especially because of Apple's apparent apathy (and occasional hostility) towards the community.
I'll mention two pain points as a former windows developer.

I used to develop windows shareware, all the way back to Windows 95. Back then you could write to the installation folder "c:\program files\myapp" and life was simple.

At some point MS figured this was bad security, and you needed to write to the Windows Rigistery (HCKLM / HCKLU) to store your app settings. And write to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\ folder to store your data files.

So all of this resulted in 3 different places you needed to write your data to now. But then it gets even more split because, in some cases you needed to run as an admin during the installation, and your appdata will be stored under the admin account.
Also, at some point c:\progrm files\ was split, and also they added c:\program files (x86), and I believe the c:\program files\ is virtualized. And the Windows registry is also split for local user, and machine settings, and admin settings.

Two issues I ran into:

1. c:\program files\myapp\ I could not trust what I wrote there. I believe its virtualized. So I ran into issues where I would delete a file in my installation folder, and old version would be put back by windows in the background.

2. When a regular user installed my app, and it need to write to HKLM, the app will need to be elevated to admin to be able to do that. This also resulted in another split of settings. Because there are per user settings and per machine settings.

In conclusion, app installation became a confusing mess!