skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting comparison because I think it actually highlights something deeper here, which is that the kind of shamelessness described in this post is an effective—if not optimal—strategy for a fundamentally different type of reward.

Paris Hilton, for example, was certainly already in a privileged tier of humans—as were/are many others who are born into similar circumstances. It seems, however, that the reward she was optimizing for (building a platform around her persona, effectively turning her life into a consumer brand) was not the same as everyone else in that circle. Her shamelessness seems like a very effective policy, in that context.

Ibra (one of my all-time favorite players) is also a perfect example of this. Despite being a high-level competitor and objectively world-class player, he is also interested in using his personal brand as a monetizable tool in a way that many other top players do not (though, it's fair to mention that players like Maradona have done this historically as well). For example, Ibra's move to the MLS—and the fact that he was paid a record breaking 7.5 million per year—certainly required him to be a great player, but it's also fair to say that the platform he brought with him made him especially attractive to a team looking to sell jerseys and season tickets.

So yes, I think you're right that the table stakes to shamelessness being effective are the essential building blocks of success in one's field—Paris Hilton/Donald Trump have to have wealth and access, Zlatan has to be world-class, etc.—but I think that what that shamelessness buys them is a different kind of success, one they might not achieve without shamelessness (or without some parallel promotional strategy).
>I think the “shameless” approach is becoming a dominant strategy today. It was first popularized in modern canon by Paris Hilton

This--and most of the post--reads like a lazy high school paper. It's just cobbled together nonsense.
> Atlassian seems to make a lot of money, so I guess they're optimising for something that matters to someone

My personal theory about Atlassian: they have realized (like SAP did before) that once you convinced management to use your product you no longer need to worry about what the users think.

You don't like that the ticket form has 50 fields you don't need? No problem! All you need to do is to convince your manager to contact support and tell them to track less data about your progress. I bet your manager will love that.

And once they got the foot on the door, who is going to convince the company to migrate away from them?
Web-based applications on iOS are already very dangerous to the app store when developed properly. Apple would have to intentionally sabotage safari in horrific ways to get the cat back into the bag on this one. PWA is just a tiny distraction in the grand scheme of things, but it is a good place to have this conversation regardless.
> I'm a native Michigander who moved to Austin from Seattle 4 years ago

Did you leave Seattle for work? Would it, or the PNW generally, be another option? (Just curious.)
Agree that tends to appear / is selfish. My personal experience supports this as well.

However, the moment you start to engage in mitigating behavior you are taking on the other persons frame. You give up your own agency.

This forces you into a defensive position and most people aren’t going to change their minds. They are still going to judge you selfish regardless of how you mitigate the situation.

So why waste the energy? It’s easier to take the small “I’m selfish” hit up front than to stretch it out.

That’s my point that if you are going to do something that others think or in fact does impose negative externalities it is better to accept the straight judgment rather than to argue.

Better in this sense to increase the likelihood of keeping your friends.

People tend to remember how they feel and the more they argue and you still do what you want the angrier they get. Because now you’ve hurt them twice once by being a bad person (which is kinda forgivable) and two by not listening to them (not forgivable).
Counterpoint: If viruses are alive then anything can be alive, given that some machine exists which would make copies of it.

ie. if there was a shower-caddy copying machine, then suddenly shower-caddies could be alive.

In a world with a different life architecture, viruses would likely just be random an uninteresting molecules.
Maybe this offers some answers (Gaber Mate - How emotions affects our cognitive functioning) https://youtu.be/UYvxlkCGmbQ
I can agree with you to some extent, but the conversation on taxing the wealthy seems like a red herring if it does nothing to solve any of the major problems we face, so let's talk about both things at once instead of just posting tweets about how so-and-so's wealth sky rockets during a pandemic. I think rather than saying I've changed the argument, I feel like the original argument omits half the story. Anyway, just my $0.02 - I do certainly believe that if we want to look at what's "fair", then the mega rich have an unfair tax advantage, but I think for the other 90% of us, we would see a greater benefit being taxed less than if the rich were taxed more, because the funds ultimately end up mis-managed. I guess I'm a little cynical.
It takes roughly 15-20 years to build a nuclear plant, looking at Hinkley Point C. In that time you could have half the lifespan of a set of solar panels.

Nuclear cannot be build fast enough to deal with climate change. We need renewables until then.
That'll be $7, Apple pay?
I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25593536 from the larger comment chain said it pretty well. I also just commented something that may be relevant to these thoughts as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594659. The child comment by pickpuck is also quite informative.

The tl;dr is it's not about there being a way it could have been accessible it's that there was no out of the box answer that both did what the project needed and what was needed to have the button be accessible. If you are here to point out there is a way it could have been done well of course, so could everything else on every backlog of every open source project but things get taken off of the backlog by people planning work and putting the time in to do them not by people mentioning there are easy ways it could be done hence why this wasn't done (and also why this/any piece of software isn't perfect as everyone would like).
Might as well, good way to burn excess energy imo. CPU mining for other cryptos would work as well (XMR comes to mind)
Many people also believe (without enough evidence) that they are more helpful than harmful.

If you are 85 with a pulmonary condition, you should probably get it. If you are 39 and in good health, you should probably avoid it. I'm not a fervent anti-vaxxer, but I have more chances of getting hit by a truck than dying of that hard flu, which I did get. Getting injected with a substance we know relatively little about doesn't make sense in view of what it seeks to prevent. I'll take the virus ( again ) over the vaccine any day.
I think it's desireable for there to be a zoo of definitions of life. Life isn't a precise mathematical concept, but a family of related concepts.

Self-replication is almost essential, but it's not hard to imagine a future AI that is highly dynamic, intelligent, etc, but does not create copies of itself.

Metabolism is pretty universal. I'd define it as a process that consumes free energy. Arguably viruses don't satisfy this definition. Computers do satisfy it. Most probably don't consider the sun to be alive though, despite it consuming vast amounts of free energy.

Minimizing internal entropy is an interesting one because it's not objective, it requires a model to define entropy. Something can look to us to be high and increasing entropy because we're using the wrong model to understand it. Viruses are static though, so they are definitely not decreasing internal entropy.
How do you interview systems administrators?
During our hiring process we have a virtual linux environment that has some broken services (these are broken automatically by a script). The applicant logs into the server and attempts to resolve the service down issues. This is conducted live over a video conference and consumes a lot of valuable time when we have numerous applicants.

Any suggestions for a more automated or efficient way of testing/interviewing technical knowledge with out having "multiple choice" questions?
I did not downvote you, but I think the general spirit of the Hacker News community is to ensure that comments make good faith efforts to contribute something novel to each discussion. Humor is tricky - certainly humor contributes something, but if you're going to make a humorous comment here as opposed to a more entertainment-focused forum, it should also attempt to expand someone's perspective on the topic. It should be funny or entertain because it lights up some new parts of the brain. Grandparent comment is educating everyone on the origins of PWA to dispute the article, with a proclamation of bewilderment that we got to this place of term misuse, and parent is just giving a very general reason for this happening.

Your joke, at best, is an unrelated and in this case unnecessary example of "misuse" but unfortunately doesn't add anything substantial to the conversation. Even if we "get" the joke, we do not want to trend in the direction of low effort jokes dominating our discussions.
I am wondering how other HNers are doing right now? Are you all good and ready for 2021? If you already in 2021: Happy New Year!
One thing for sure: My New Year's Eve with an imposed lockdown would be quite boring without HN.
I don't think flash proves anything. It's an extreme example after all.
Seems like someone is sad their Republican talking point isn’t having the intended effect.
It has that slowness that makes my soul die a little every time I bring up a page, every time I click on a link, every time I make an edit, every time I...

What’s the opposite of “delightful”?
We could also have an option for consumer protections to prevent corporations from exercising some types of control.
> It was crazy that the 5th graders could stare at me doe-eyed as I explained volcanoes and robotics, but the 7th and 8th graders just zoned out on their hidden phones (god, that's a huge issue as well) or incessantly talked to one another.

My experience as well. I taught 7th and 6th grade and the 6th graders were especially fascinating as you could see the transition happening throughout the year and for different students.
Also, most of the discrimination in STEM happens later in life, in the workplace - the only real effect of getting more girls into STEM is to have a larger pool of women entering STEM careers so you still have some left after driving a bunch of them off. Businesses donating to STEM-for-schoolgirls programs is a way for them to assuage their conscience (or to do PR) without having to ask what they can be doing directly to solve the actual problem.

And I'm afraid this increases the perception that men are naturally fine at STEM and women need special support because of inherent gender attributes (and not because of social problems that we could just address at the root)... which at the end of the day makes life harder for women in their careers.
Msmtp: About Authentication Methods
I mean the journald format isn’t magic or anything and 99% of what it stores is plain-text. The only issue with “corruption” is that the tooling is bad at handling it. Which is a valid complaint. But in an alternative universe people would be complaining about plain-text because less crashed on any utf decoding issue.

Basically every journald using distro immediately forwards the logs to syslog so you can just pretend it doesn’t exist and call it a day. I don’t because journald’s metadata and filtering is super powerful but nothing is stopping you from just grepping like usual.
Synology is selling an experience, like Apple, not hardware. It's a plug-it-and-it-works private-on-premise cloud. They are not competing with Google or Apple in the sense that customer usually decide on-premise or cloud-based and only then look for a solution (prices are on the same scale, so the reason to choose one over the other is usually not price).
> Also while the summers in Arizona are hot, at least they are not humid. Its a much more easy to tolerate dry heat

And by "hot", it is meant 50C in some places, in which cases planes cannot fly because of density altitude issues:

* https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/20/533662790...

IIRC, there are cooler places in Arizona as well (mountains?).
Which post, the one forgetting that string literals in JSON are quoted or the other one that paid no attention on the nesting of JSON objects :P
base698 says:"> I feel on the political side it would be more likely for the reds to leave.<"

b/c reds are the only ones who have the money to relocate.
to me, the defining sadness is that the past decade has been the death of apis, the end of interoperability. the word web evokes a weaving together, a connectedness, and that, to me, always extended far beyond the link.

of course, what everyone is worried about today is too much sharing, too much tracking. we've focused only on the down-sides of connecting, only on the practically malicious surveillance that connectedness has brought the far of & mighty trackers & ad-networks. we've focused on mis-/dis-information & conspiracy theories & a shocking rise of brazen demagoguery connectedness have enabled.

to me, we have seen the evils coming out of the box, & sealed it shut, once more trapping hope inside. i still envision the web as a place for small services/preferences/aspects of personality to exist on focused, narrow sites, that these services work & aggregate together across a variety of other sites. new specifications like Web Share show promise, but are hampered by lack of adoption & implementation being limited to narrow sets of platforms. works like Foreign Fetch (RIP) highlighted the real spirit of adventure to me: the idea that a ServiceWorker could offline serve other sites, other domains. even given the new radical http-cache-partitioning security measures in place, would-have-been/could-still-be works like Foreign Fetch continue to highlight to me the real spirit of connectedness & the web.

i also see a role for ambient connectivity. Project Eddystone allowed Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons to advertise short urls, that the user could see about them as they moved. primarily used by stores & spammers, this sort of immediate real world linking, to me, is something people & individuals have the best chance to connect & share their world through: a directly advertised link anyone around them can see.

third, last, i really hope the semantic web comes about. i want us to begin to interact with the page as more than a giant canvas, a single entity. the data of the page ought express itself. we ought develop tools to surface & interact with data, in-place, where it is encountered.
You can use Systems Manager with on-prem or other non-AWS servers: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/AWS_Syste...
The anti-porn religious lobby just destroyed the livelihoods of pornographers
'Too much' might be swallowed up by ITER, but given its potential to benefit the entiriety of our species and planet, I earnestly believe we should be dedicating a % of the entire world economy to pushing the development of fusion energy, in whatever form it ends up taking.
> "boys only" program,

Even the "boy scouts" are just the scouts now: https://www.scouting.org/
I enjoyed homeschooling much more than public school. Both contain subjects that seem irrelevant, but with homeschool I could knock all that out quickly and move onto my favorite activities of reading, coding and playing outside. Then I went to public school and spent hours bored out of my mind because I didn't understand why different subjects mattered, and some seemed to be indoctrination which was both annoying and boring at the same time.

I like the older approach of emphasizing reading writing 'rithmetic, and then teaching practical skills and classics. All obviously relevant skills and knowledge for everyone.
That would be a great argument, except I didn't start out with the intention of assassinating anyone's character.
The above thread is literally the 3rd search result for "Karax state management". You know, a very reasonable search query when someone's trying to determine whether a frontend framework is ready for production use. This does not bode well.

> Well, offer up your language of choice, and I'm sure we could work together to find some online comments to assassinate the creators' character.

Yeah, okay, let's play that game: you asked for it. Let's try to search for "Reagent state management", also the foremost frontend framework for a relatively obscure language (Clojurescript). I guarantee you will not find Rich Hickey making an ass of himself on the first page of results. I'm fairly certain you won't find it in the results at all, because he is more mature than that.

Let's try again for Scala.js: "Slinky state management". Again, no sign of Martin Odersky acting like an immature jackass anywhere in the search results.

Words matter. First impressions matter. If you don't realize that I'm afraid you are in need of growing up yourself.
Interesting question would be in which of the two programs more technical skill will be acquired.

Downvoters: why is this not interesting? Traditional textbook way of learning might be better than making things too much fun. (it still has to be fun, but intrinsic motivation is better than extrinsic). We will never know if we don't measure the outcome.
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Kubernetes Pondering
I don't know if better software can replace stupid management but I've been quite happy with Youtrack. That said you can do some extensive micromanagement with that as well, though it requires some coding to do the truly intricate stuff, which just might be enough to prevent the managers from getting any funny ideas ;-)
What is lying exactly? I find that most people claim to have a moral rule against lying but have idiosyncratic definitions of what that is.

I saw a lecture video the other day where the speaker told an anecdote about how he got to work at a fancy place with a person he looked up to. To get a chance at talking to him, he said he'll be in town next week for a conference and they could grab lunch together one day. The conference was a lie, he just didn't want to look so desperate that he'd fly in just for this chance at a lunch discussion. Had he laid his cards bare, maybe the important person would have felt more pressure that if he accepts the lunch invitation then he already owes him something because the guy went through all the trouble to fly in. So by lying, our guy took pressure off the situation and got a relaxed discussion and eventually the gig.

This is just one example. How about negotiation strategies? How about lying implicitly by misrepresenting yourself through clothing or otherwise? How about downplaying your romantic interest a bit, to avoid scaring away or overwhelming your desired partner? How about lying by omission?

It just isn't socially feasible to be always reporting true statements of fact without some hint of "manipulation". I mean even just putting up a poker face while you're very nervous is a form of misrepresenting your inner state of mind. Selling anything, including yourself in a job interview or at a date requires downplaying weaknesses and emphasizing strengths in a very partisan and totally not neutral and balanced factual way.

Outright lying is for losers. You can achieve the same goals and more by just being good at technically not lying or lying in socially acceptable ways. (similar to how crime is for losers and the big players get laws written according to their interests).

People protect their self image with so many patterns like: "I would never X (lie, cheat on a partner,...)" "How about that time when" "well, that doesn't count, it's complicated, I had reasons" etc.

There aren't any hard and fast rules.
I found value in learning about my "Mr. Nice Guy" behaviors and doing self-work to overcome them, to the extent I can do so. My nice-guy tendencies did great damage to my life. Yet at 61 years of age, many things are wired in so deeply that I'll probably never be able to undo them.

I think what you may have seen is a man that wasn't a jerk, but also communicated a (reasonable) lack of concern for how he was viewed by others.

"Mr. Nice Guys" are deeply concerned about how they will be seen by others, so there's a lot of self-censoring and manipulation that goes on for them. They also sort-of look to others to figure out what values they should hold and espouse ("Who they should be") rather than trying to determine their values based on what they most deeply believe to be right.

Dr. Robert Glover (psychologist) is the go-to guy for anyone interested in more on this.
This is what's dangerous about affirmative action type programs. They're discrimination going in the other direction with the objective of equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. The ultimate equal outcome is communism - everyone ends up equally poor. That doesn't seem like the right direction.

On the other hand how do you get more girls into STEM without programs like this? Maybe it's the best of bad options.
It would be nice if any of the alternatives would be in line with Jira cost for a large enterprise. I can’t recommend this to anyone if our cost for issue tracking would quadruple overnight. Not to mention the migration costs...
Complex system science allows us to see new paths forward
To be fair, the origin of the term probably has more to do with 50's and 60's Westerns than with any idea of present-day Texas. You'll also find references to "wild west" / "vill vest" used in pretty much the same contexts as "texas".

Though we also have the harsher term "Amerikanske tilstander" ("American conditions") that especially in the 80's was often used in politics by the left to evoke an image of a failing state.
As I write this we're now months into a children's book project using WordPress that would have taken _weeks_ with Flash. Our studio depends on CSS and HTML wonks who are hard to find and expensive. With Flash, the extra engineering steps were not needed—we could publish right to the web; every site was uniquely beautiful. It's a big loss for us. The workflow we had with Flash twenty years ago was faster and less resource dependent than what we have now.
I'm implying that "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages boys in education" will get more attention than "a gender difference which ostensibly disadvantages women in engineering".

On a forum which is organised around engineering.

And people will claim that the latter gets more attention, despite being shown evidence to the contrary. That's pretty average sexism.

(I also would note that this hasn't been up for long enough for people to be up-voting for the content, given that you can only access it as a 23-minute podcast.)
Elixir is stable in that sense as well. Which IMO is very nice as I don't feel I have to relearn the language if I leave for 2 years, and I have to rewrite a 2 years old project to make use of any new idiom and syntax sugar.