skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of Illich's most important ideas was the "Radical Monopoly," using cars in cities as an example, where the car operates as a monopoly technology, dominating what was previously a commons. The only way to rebel against it was to walk and ride bicycles, even though your participation in cities in these modes would be less efficient, higher risk, and generally inferior to that of using a car.

And yet, just in the last 25 years people inspired by Illich who were cyclists and pedestrians formed movements (also using the ideas of Jane Jacobs) for walkable cities and neighbourhoods, and bike lanes. I think these movements have had some success re-establishing a new commons carved out of the one dominated by cars.

I think the internet, and the internet giants form one of these radical monopolies. The equivalent to being a cyclist 25 years ago but on the internet today would be using things like BSD or linux, Pinephones, Matrix, DDG, and in particular, it would mean largely eschewing the browser as a means for entertainment.

Maybe there is a new commons movement just ahead of us?
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I've always maintained that the fact that UK could hold a referendum and leave whenever it wanted was proof that it never lost an ounce of sovereignty. Compare that to the situation with Scotland, where they need Westminster's permission to even have the vote.
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What in hells name is an #await doing in the HTML render function?
Yet, Walmart seems to rely on GCP and Azure for atleast some of their cloud requirements
Barring an understanding partner/very good friend who is a good writer who will put maybe a few dozen hours into at least copy editing, you're very easily looking at breakeven at best for many books. (Cover design is arguably less important if you won't be in bookstores.)

If a book is supporting some other activity, it can still absolutely make a lot of sense. It's tough to make a lot of money directly but it probably won't cost you a lot either unless it involves traveling for research etc.
There are an awful lot of lines in the sand that have to be crossed prior to "oh, we just rig up nukes to this computer that checks for incoming missiles and fires back."

Using nuclear weapons is one of the most bureaucratic processes the government has by design. There are an awful lot of people in the loop that must work in concert to make something like that happen.
See http://www.hubbardresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/In...
The application uses Yahoo finance to fetch the market information. It is generally delayed by 30 minutes for exchanges like AEX or other european exchanges.

What I generally do it query the endpoint in EURONEXT's portal https://live.euronext.com/en/intraday_chart/getDetailedQuote... directly to get the current stock information which is almost real time.

You can also track intraday price from EURONEXT via - https://live.euronext.com/intraday_chart/getChartData/FR0000...
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At Correct Computation (https://correctcomputation.com/, we are hiring), we are developing a tool called 3C to provide automation assistance for the conversion of C code into Checked C. A completely automated approach is impractical (i.e., without making lots of changes to the target program's code and adding lots of overhead), but we have found a "best effort" approach works well.

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Interesting. I know that in my community the spike in covid deaths lags the new positive count by almost 2 months. I'm not sure how they decide something is a COVID death, I just watch the daily new positive and daily deaths numbers.
It's not the warmest places but the warm + humid places because evaporative cooling ceases to work. Lagos has a very high average humidity and temperature tot eh point where a few degrees more could make it unlivable, parts of Texas seem to be the same. - http://www.lagos.climatemps.com/humidity.php

The wet bulb temperature is the thing to watch:

> A sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.[9] Thus 35 °C (95 °F) is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to adequately cool itself. A study by NOAA from 2013 concluded that heat stress will reduce labor capacity considerably under current emissions scenarios.[10] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
> It's interesting that the conservatives in the UK have chosen sovereignty over free trade.

It's interesting that Eurocrats chose pushing further political union over being content with free trade.
Any chance the new CEO has a conscience and will do something about the atrocious track record Amazon has in how it treats its employees?
Being bored at a desk job, would be my guess.
I've spent some time really studying memory allocation. It seems to me that almost any high-performance application will take advantage of the fine-details of memory allocators to optimize themselves.

There's something to be said about garbage collection as an actual strategy (!!). I know people think that garbage collection is slow, but... very smart people have put their minds on the memory problem.

A generational garbage collector is designed to tackle fragmentation head-on. Every "generation", the garbage collector recompacts all the data, "squeezing" your fragmentation out of the memory area.

Because some data is "longer lived" than other data, the compacted data is placed into a new generational-pool, where it is left alone for the next collection. IE: All data that survived a collection at time T will be left alone at collect time T+1. Maybe at time T+2 will it be re-checked... and those that survive the check at T+2 will be left alone until T+6.

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This generational strategy minimizes the copying / moving of data around the fragmentation issue. Still though: moving / copying data is the singular catch-all solution to fragmentation.
I'm not saying we shouldn't protect the environment, control air space, restrict the use of radio frequencies, etc. I'm merely stating that, for better or worse, true unregulated commons no longer exist. Any hunter gatherers that still exist are merely tolerated.
Why don’t things like malloc get fixed? I’ve known about these issues for years. Does the core team not know?
How does holding money have an "unlimited loss potential"? You just buy back at whatever value the stock is at the time.

I would argue that money is a neutral position (adjusting for inflation which is nowadays quite low). After all, we buy stuff with money, not stock.

Now, selling short, that has an unlimited loss potential, but it's very very different from a cash position.
This! If you are serious about losing money, use leverage and make sure there is no theoretical limit to your loss. Losing 100% is for beginners.
So can somebody TL;DR this?

Taken this new more realistic data into account, what levels of sea rising are we looking at in 5 years? Or 10? Or 20? Or 50?

Say you are pondering buying a beach estate but are not on the idea of sinking underwater. What would you pick?
They would fine him, send it to collections and ruin his credit, garnish his wages, etc.
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Oh yeah, forgot about that one.
You are mistaken that the IOR represents the annual expenses/income of the church, or even a large part of it. The IOR is a bank that provides financial services to Catholic institutions, such as religious communities and Vatican offices. When money is held, it's put in very low-risk, liquid investment accounts, such as government bonds. The clients of IOR use it so they can carry out religious and charitable operations worldwide.
If you enjoy writing a book why would you value your time?
> This is very true and the main point people brought against the EU's article 17(the "upload filter") mandating a scan of all user-generated content for copyrighted material

How can that be your interpretation of article 17 when it literally says : "The application of this Article shall not lead to any general monitoring obligation." in it.
One role of the PM is to close gaps between departments and make people work together toward the same goal. It is very hard for a manager to do the same thing. For a PM it is easier because he is not the boss of anyone and don't try to gain power over other's stuff. On the other side if a manager is trying to do the same thing, you will have other managers try to protect their department.

As for Apple, yeah they are one of the most successful of the planet, but the feedback I have, is that developers would love to have PM to work with.

The issue is not to have PM or not. Anyone company in the world understand the benefit of having a good PM. But a lot of PMs are shit and just make things worse.
I have thought about making a course on Udemy or Pluralsight. Did you consider those options before building your own? I am curious because I don’t think I have the skills to create something as nice as you did and also would like to know the pros and cons you discovered.
Microsoft's mimalloc looks interesting also: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc

HN discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249743
I wish I could claim credit. I found this online and thought that I’d love to try and make one of these myself.
The number of CVEs is for the most part a function of how-often-does-someone-look-at-it and only for a tiny part a function of safety. If I remember correctly, sometime ago a lot of CVEs appeared for OpenBSD, because someone seemed to have started looking for vulnerabilities and found a lot of quite trivial but severe ones. Therefore I am somewhat concerned about the the OpenBSD-libc, but neither have I looked at the code nor am I an expert. I see the point that the wrappers are probably safe, but yet the full libc is loaded and available for malicious code.
But to be fair: The libc is able to handle – either by caching or by implementing the functionality – some syscalls without actually invoking a syscall and such a library allows to have an unstable API for syscalls and might allow other mitigation tactics.
As a compromise: Why not multiple libraries (libc, libgo?, librs?) that are allowed to do syscalls? Yes, a larger code base to maintain but imho enforcing a single library is worse.
It can be. Some offices are hazardous (sick building syndrome, mold) on top of the problems associated with a sedentary lifestyle. Whereas some physical jobs are amazing (work outside, lots of breaks, stay in good shape because you’re moving a lot). It really depends on the specifics of the job.
Apple iBalls, with contextual rubbing!
Indeed.. link prediction and fraud detections are two of many things we support internally in Alibaba.

Transaction graphs can be huge. Web graphs are huge. Also there are also many other huge graphs and use cases, like spot irregularities / intrusions from network traffic graphs in Alibaba Cloud. Some bioinformation algorithms also requires the ability to process big graphs.
Because there's no such thing as a truly general purpose memory allocator.

Memory allocation is built to some purpose, and the programmer who uses it should be aware of its problems. There's probably a technical reason why the original glibc malloc does what it does (probably better optimized for low-thread counts)
It tells me which axis is longer, so I can responsively move the menu there. Also I flow content differently - lists get columns if wide enough.

Here, play with your window width to see:
https://hypertele.fi/0000000000000000
When you have anxiety and there’s a “reason” for it, it’s not actually anxiety. This is called stress, since you know that the underlying cause is work. It’s an important distinction, similar to panic attacks versus anxiety attacks. Knowing the cause is half the battle.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you got to the frontpage of HN the first time you posted your site which presumably generated the bulk of that 8k, right?

If you hit the jackpot (I.e. front page of HN) on your first try, yes it's going to feel like it's super easy to make money off building a course.
#0 - Be pessimistic about the stock market.

This is by far the most meaningful way most people lose money over the course of their lifetime.
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I see a lot of articles about how to improve your team or your workflow, that are written for managers or tech leads. I also see a lot of articles about how to improve with specific technologies. I'm curious if anyone can recommended good articles or books about how to achieve success as an individual contributor, in the big picture? Or if anyone has some advice to share on the topic?
For keylogging and mouse/keyboard automation you can use this:

https://crates.io/crates/enigo

And this:

https://crates.io/crates/device_query/0.2.0

respectively.
Obviously there are people who make very good money off books. And one advantage of books, compared to say stock trading, is that the "only" risk is your time. (There may be some costs but probably not a lot unless you go into large-scale promotion.)

That said, it's pretty speculative to make any significant sum though the right book may be helpful to very helpful to support professional activities in various ways.
"Require" might be a strong word.

But here is why I find this project attractive: I like to check out my watchlists and stock investments occasionally when taking a quick break. But, I want to avoid being sucked into the browser where the temptation is strong to check out reddit/hn/twitter, and then lose 15-20min.

With this, I can just keep a terminal tab that I can flip to with a hotkey. This way, I won't leave the terminal, and the risk of additional distraction is lower.
Reddit Trader Loses $19M in 2 Days Holding GameStop Stock
UK says new study vindicates delaying 2nd virus vaccine shot
The decision maker is usually someone in the C-suite or a little below it who cares very much about whether the system gives them the reports they asked for, whether it ticks all the boxes on the operations plan someone drew up for them, whether middle management are frequently complaining about errors, how much resource is needed to switch from service Y etc.

That's a different product focus from the end user (who probably finds the new operations checkboxes demanded by the decision maker a horrible pain) and instead of actually using it, their perception will be shaped by middle management feedback and some claims made by the enterprise salesperson about how much money their business can save from staff being able to complete X faster or Y being shared, but it very much is a product based decision. Otherwise the lowest bidder (or at least the lowest bidder with an SLA) or incumbent would win every time.
> And as a side benefit it will help me make ends meet since I’ve lost so much money but still need to pay bills and such.

I feel your pain. Thursday was rough.
Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5B last year
Short lifetime can be a benefit for anti-Covid medication too. An antibody could cross react with a vaccine and hamper the immune system response, preventing it from launching a proper reaction and creating proper immunity. You don't want the person having to wait for weeks while being vulnerable until they can get a vaccine after a successful therapy with antibodies.

But of course, distribution is a headache.
From my perspective, that back and forth is a natural part of software development. If they wanted red and once they see it they decide they want a different shade, to me that's good software development (as long as it doesn't turn into bikeshedding).

Often people aren't sure themselves what they want until they see it, or they get new/better ideas after seeing it in motion (or decide they don't like it). Good software dev is like boiling water. It's tumultuous with a smattering of chaos, but in general drives towards the goal.

It also allows you, as a developer, to take more ownership of the software as a solution. At the end of the day you're helping solve someone's problems. For me that's satisfying, even if it's a small problem.

And it's been my experience when you do that well, people love you for it.

And to be clear, I put customer in quotes for a reason. Sometimes the problem you're solving is that batch job needs to be realtime, or that one query is slow as the data got too large, ad nauseum. It's not always non-technical people.

What I never want is a PM to just tell me to make a query faster without being able to discuss with the people it affects what their use case is so I can start optimizing for the specifics rather than just in general (although sometimes that's the right approach).
In the 2020's, the internet will hack venture capital
> Mainly, finding where the heck it installed that program in the maze of file/folder locations

whereis ?
The frontpage of HN seems to be a sort of 'holy grail' for some HN readers, but you always have to remember that it's only a good thing if "HN readers" are your potential customers. If they're not then it's just a distracting spike in traffic that will do very little for your sales. And HN readers are a pretty diverse bunch (geographically, financially, and as far as interests go) so it's unlikely that many of us are likely to be buying unless your product has a weirdly broad appeal.

It's far better to get 50 page views from potential customers than 50,000 page views from people who aren't truly interested in buying what you're offering.
But how unregulated were the commons? If you were to somehow destroy the commons that the community relies on, would you get away with it?

There was always some breaks on outright maniacs, even if it was just getting lynched.
Samuel Eilenberg, one of the founders of category theory, used to tell to his students "You should have you own category". Meaning, that when you work on category theory you should have in mind applications to something. One of his students used to say "my category is Cat". Cat means the category of categories.
Yeah a lot of comments focused on courses, but they talk about how to make money with courses. “Build a following, then sale”
I used Espanso a while back on my Win 10 machine. It was nice, but I got noticeable lag compared to the smooth replacing of AutoHotKey (AHK also uses less resources).

I might switch to Espanso in the future though, given that AHK is not available on Linux.
This is outdated. That is for article 13 which became article 17 in the text that was voted on. Article 17 contains this paragraph: "The application of this Article shall not lead to any general monitoring obligation.".

That line, as I interpret it, makes the whole blog post that you linked invalid.
> ScriptForge libraries: an extensible and robust collection of macro scripting resources for LibreOffice to be invoked from user Basic or Python scripts

The Python integration is the thing that should make LO go high.
My journey to releasing my first app – #2 The Design
It helps to instrument the journey of your work from jira all the way to build, deployment, run and monitoring (observation).

From that you can get measurements on how long each stage takes and the duration of each transition.

From there you can compare team A and B. The transition times is where the human time cost usually sits.

Just getting the time when a Jira or feature is raised, to the time it is picked up to the time of the first commit to the time of the first test and final build does already give you valuable insight.

The points you raised towards the end can be answered if observability of your CI/CD pipeline is actually in place or at least a place to start a line of inquiry.

Naturally the blockers will be aggregated into some of the values but as you work through the journey, they will start clustering at certain stages and maybe highlight a significant problem that needs to be addressed.

There's a wealth of data being left on the table that can help inform management decisions.
Epically Nerdy Interview with Elon
> colours are ordered by usefulness

And then I finally realized they’re RGB vectors and additive:

000: black

001: red

010: green

011: yellow

100: blue

101: magenta

110: cyan

111: white
What’s the point of free if you have nothing to sell?
I've seen this in python as well. gunicorn has two helpful flags to do this automatically (--max-requests and --max-requests-jitter) which will reboot every X number of web requests handled.