skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ding ding ding!

Focus on identity politics started around 2014-15 (IIRC around Ferguson, MO riots). I always thought that that was a convenient distraction from the real elephant in the room - wealth inequality, poverty, classism - which was being highlighted by the Occupy movement.

It is almost as if "nefarious elites" pushed the media narratives about racism, sexism and all other -isms in order to divide the masses. Same as prior culture wars about relatively minor issues - who uses which bathrooms or abortion etc - which affect only a tiny subset of the society.
too much cash, not enough stuff.

jobs are coming.
I know people who are exceptional developers and they don't do it as a hobby, because they have other hobbies more important to them. They have tasks at work that are fulfilling enough and carrying it home or making it more than it is would probably burn them out. It's not like if you are a surgeon, then it is the only thing in your life.
> I think the narrative of WFH success is in many ways driven by the people for which WFH is a godsend due to really long commute times or having poor office workplaces (like open plan)

Who doesn't have open plan offices? There are about three people left in the tech industry these days who still have a private office.

> But it’s potentially a lot cheaper up front not to have offices, just like open plan offices were cheaper, so I fear MBAs may discount these drawbacks and make WFH the default in many, many places where it’s a bad idea.

Working in an open plan space is simply inferior to working remotely, except in rare cases where your team is in a bullpen and working full time on a specific project together. It's inferior for engineers because of distractions, and it's inferior for the company because of real estate costs.
It's a thought-provoking article, but contains several serious contractions in terms.

> For reasons that are complicated and that I don't fully understand, the software development community in the eighties and nineties developed a culture of anti-capitalism and liberal values that put technology on a pedestal for its own sake.

Liberalism is by definition pro-capitalism. It's not pro-capitalism in the libertarian sense of "free markets", of course, but it's not like Silicon Valley doesn't have its right-libertarians, too. I think this analysis has it exactly backward. I find the position proposed in The Californian Ideology much more compelling: The culture Mark is talking about was a fusion of market liberalism, countercultural signifiers, and techno-utopianism.

> The idea of free software, for example, has led to a software economy where you, the user, are no longer the customer, but the product.

This is almost exactly what the notion of "free software" was invented to oppose. "Freedom" in software isn't supposed to be about price, but about liberty. Free software can absolutely cost money, but if it starts treating its users like products, it is by definition no longer free software. Of course, this is exactly why "open source" became so popular...

> The idea of open source, too, seems largely defunct as a means of 'sticking it to the man'.

Open source was never about "sticking it to the man". Open source is a defanged version of free software, where the only freedom left is the one which hurts the man the least when exercised.

Post-Open Source by Melody Horn is also recommended reading here.
“Stop being poor” kind of an argument
What a creepy mystery, glad it’s cracked though.
Yeah - I'd guess it's less 'threat' and more 'things that embarrass the party leader'.
I think that is generally true- though there is great disagreement over the implementation.

Healthcare has 70% just in general? So is that public option, Medicare for All, or single payer? What does the support for these items look like when broken down?
It could mean that all applications still run unmodified and can show all the dialog boxes they used to.

That may not sound like much of a promise, but it is. Applications written for GNOME 2.x won't run under 3.x.
https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1173981287037751297...

> I hosted rms many years ago in the 90’s, what was supposed to be hosting your hero for a ~3 day thing became a ~2 month nightmare. I joined a small club “never host rms ever again”. To cope with it, I used to collect the horror stories.

> He met a woman on the first evening in town, and extended his stay. One day, I came home from work and she had moved in.

I don't personally know any autistic person, but this doesn't sound like autism. How many autistic person visits a new town, goes into a bar, and brings back a woman to your friend's bedroom, without asking the friend first? This sounds more like a run-of-the-mill asshole.
Couldn't you say the same about smartphone makers using Samsung's display panels, despite them being a direct competitor?
Lower margin parts. A good business, but when you have a high margin high volume product, Wall Street considers anything else is to be subtractive from earnings.

This is the microeconomic equivalent of the "dutch disease"
TSMC alone is >50% of all semiconductors. Add other Taiwanese foundries, and you will get in between 60% and 70%.

Add the fact that many globally single vendor members of semiconductor supply chain are also in Taiwan, including many consumables.

Yes, it's very close to truth.
The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class
This is awesome. Now I'd like to see someone recreate the original hand-written mechanism the killer used to create the cypher.
They might be "cool with it", but only out of ignorance that there are better models. Your argument boils down to "might makes right".
Is that still true? Honest question.

Cryptonomicon did such a wonderful job of capturing a certain something from the 1990ies. I haven't enjoyed his more recent books as much. Seveneves was depressing. Dodge had really bad reviews and I haven't bothered with it.
Sure, so why don't you let this person tutor your kids. Nothing wrong with that right?
Large organizations often are risk averse with regards to legal matters. They don't want to be sued for misusing a license. The threat of litigation has a real effect, even if one particular individual is unlikely to bring a case.
I recall reading it's several orders of magnitude more potent and its typical use is elephant tranquilizer. Far higher potency means it's easy for a small mistake in measurement to result in a really high dose. I would imagine that seems risky even to people accustomed to heroin.
Yeah after FDR in the 40s, the Democrat party enjoyed a long regime of dominance. That trend didn't reverse until Reagan in 1980 and it would still take a decade or so more before that shift began to reflect in state and local elections as well.
True. Industrial Dance Music is not the same as Intelligent Dance Music.
This looks nice, and 10 bucks a month may be OK for many US based people in your target market, but I feel that you are scaring away many potential users by only giving them 14 days to evaluate, which is really not much considering that everyone is busy doing everything else in their lives. Have you thought about adding a permanently free option, or at least giving people several months? The free account can be quite limited in terms of functionality but at least you are giving people more breathing room to test it out before they have to decide.

(This is just an opinion from an outsider. Personally, I have an aversion against anything hosted by third parties, so I am not in your target market anyway.)
Gentrification is a process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses.[0]

Cities like Fremont, Union City, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino were pretty much 80% white 50 years ago. They're now about 24-34%. With housing prices at $1-3M here, do you think that most of those white people went on to afford even more expensive homes elsewhere? Mostly not, they're priced out of their hometowns. You can see this in California migration patterns, where many more Americans emigrate California cheaper states than immigrate (you could consider some of them "gentrified") while CA adds population from immigrants internationally, and thus the population is steady.

Of course, it's "techies", really affluence, displacing non-techies, rather than any racial motivation.

Upon checking, it doesn't look like overall Hispanic populations are being displaced out of the Bay Area. It looks like some areas like SF and Fremont have slightly lower Hispanic populations from 2000-2018, whereas cities Hayward and San Jose increased by a further amount.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
You make it sound like anyone with the will can just take ASML product and create a leading fab. If that was the case Intel wouldn't be in the mess it is in.
On the contrary, I think this is a huge red flag. Just go along with the interviewer, maybe highlight that this is typically and entry-level problem, but solve it. You really don't want to hire someone who not only can't solve fizzbuzz, but also refuses to hear about it and complain that it's 'beneath them' (what a annoying attitude!).
Not sure about in the US but here in NZ, birds of prey such as Australasian Harriers thrive by eating roadkill. It's common to round a corner and find one struggling to take off from the carcass it is eating in the middle of the road.
At the end of the day, it's people involved, and people have the capacity for understanding and empathy.

A safe course of action would be for the maintainer to respond with a message like "thank you for bringing this to my attention. Many products and services depend on this package and would be disrupted by any immediate action. I will bring this to their attention and work with them to remove the dependency as swiftly as possible and then remove all available versions of this package from where they are hosted."

If someone brings lawyers to the table due to lack of immediate action, maybe then we can proceed to a more immediate, if disruptive, course. But no need to rush there if there's no external pressure to act that fast.
Whiteboards, space, and low ping communication.
My take is it applies to a certain personality type (not sure what kind, not my specialty - just see the patterns) - on last year's profile I got some sort of award for just joining a sub or making a comment or some other no-value low-effort action. shrug It maybe ties into whether giving away awards for any reason was part of your school/childhood? Wasn't part of mine so not embedded in my psyche? (just pondering)
This is a survey of people who joined MENSA. I would posit that most normal, healthy, high-IQ folks never bother, and there's a selection bias at play.
This is my preference as well.
> Again? Not sure where you said it

Here, it was in the comment (and not an edit :) ):

> It would be further be complicated by the file in question being a database file. You typically can not license databases in a meaningful way under GPL. Even if you could, reading a GPL'd database has no chance of carrying GPL code obligations over to the consuming program.

But I actually just wrote again because I made that point in another subthread, no criticism implied.
You can use @typespec and @behavior to type parts of elixir.

https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavi...
> Raku and Perl remain incompatible so e.g. the existing large Perl ecosystem can't be leveraged from Raku.

Au contraire, they remain compatible along the lines shown in this example from a StackOverflow answer[1]:

use Text::BibTeX::BibFormat:from<Perl5>;
...
@blocks = $entry.format;

I'll be happy to dialog about this compatibility, but the key thing is to start with an open mind; a recognition that the original vision predated Parrot; and a recognition that Rakoons have never relinquished that original vision even while many of us are delighted that Perl folk are keeping Perl healthy as a separate thing in its own right.

To be clear, the realization of Larry's original vision is not constrained to interop with Perl. Raku has extraordinary potential, some already realized, for pan-language compatibility via its Inlines[2].

The steady improvement of the exemplar Inline[3] for the last 6 years; its evident maturing; its suitability as a solid blueprint for upgrading all the others; all of this bodes well for being able to use a lot of the world's best existing code from within Raku this decade, with Inline::Python quite plausibly shining in this regard within the next 2-3 years.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/45181464/1077672

[2] https://modules.raku.org/search/?q=inline

[3] https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5
How does security and anti-cheating require (or is helped by) pop-ups?

Social logins are user-initiated. That's fine.

What's not fine is that as soon as you visit the site, a giant in-frame "GIVE US YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS" newsletter popup shows up, covering the content.
>> Who is actually calling for permanent, "close the office" WFH for everyone?

REI sold their corporate campus in a move to 100% WFH:

We have made the decision to pursue a sale of our buildings and land in Bellevue’s Spring District—and, with that sale, to step toward a new model for our headquarters that will better serve the way we live, work and act as a force for positive change.

Remote working will move from a temporary solve to a more engrained, supported, and normalized model for many of our headquarters employees.

Target recently sold its downtown offices as well:

Minnesota-based Target says that flexibility is behind the decision to shut down the company's City Center operation in downtown Minneapolis, and relocate 3,500 employees to other locations in the city and elsewhere.

"None of us knew what the future would hold or how long we’d be working from home, but in just one year we’ve proven that we can drive incredible results, together, from our kitchens and basements and living rooms," Kremer wrote in her email.

With the end of the pandemic hopefully in site, Kremer says Target is moving toward a hybrid system called "Flex for Your Day" that will incorporate both virtual and on-site work and collaboration when employees "gradually return to headquarters later this year."

Capitol One is doing the same thing:

Capital One Financial Corp. said the majority of employees at its U.S. call centers for cards will work from home even after the coronavirus pandemic ends.

For the rest of its staff, the card giant extended remote operations until the end of March, according to an internal memo. Capital One had previously said employees would work remotely until at least the end of this year.
If I were writing on the history of this topic, I would start 80 years earlier with Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace - Babbage saw his general-purpose computer as a mathematical equation solver, while Ada Lovelace (who was originally hired to translate his lecture [1]) envisioned the creative use cases that general-purpose computing would eventually have.

[1] https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematic...
To give some hope to some of you: I stopped drinking coffee back in December. I was a heavy drinker before. I stopped because my stomach wouldn’t stop being upset permanently, and I had a sore throat all the time. And no, I didn’t drink cheap shit coffee, quite the opposite.

It all vanished after I stopped drinking coffee. The first day was brutal, the second a bit better. A week later, I was fine. Now I drink green tea all day and feel quite good from a stomach perspective.

And, I truly hope green tea is not transported on the same ships as coffee!
> Sex trafficing [sic] is not a real thing

Human trafficking (for non-sexual exploitation), sex trafficking, and non-coerced criminalized sex work have differences; but they all are very real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_protocols

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Trafficking_and_Vio...
> aside from hobbyists everyone who seriously develops software caches all dependencies in a own repository like nexus etc.

This is a bold claim to make, and one that isn’t supported by my personal observations. Many ‘serious’ software developers have no such intermediate repository for their dependencies.
> researcher Ruth Karpinski and her colleagues emailed a survey with questions about psychological and physiological disorders to members of Mensa.

I think at least part of the conclusions can be attributed to selection bias.
Gosh. Started reading the headline and thought: oh no, another NFT?
Then I read the rest of the title. :) :)
So excited for this!
But if people have more money, wouldn't that mean producers could raise their prices and people would still be willing to pay it?
The patterns shown in this tutorial are outdated and not what we currently recommend. "Modern Redux" code is very different than what this and other older tutorials show. We've introduced newer APIs like Redux Toolkit, which is a set of utilities that provide a light abstraction to simplify the most common Redux tasks, and the React-Redux hooks API, which is generally easier to use than the traditional connect API.

I strongly recommend reading through the newly rewritten official tutorials in the Redux docs, which have been specifically designed to teach you how Redux works and show our recommended practices:

- "Redux Essentials" tutorial [0]: teaches "how to use Redux, the right way", by building a real-world app using Redux Toolkit

- "Redux Fundamentals" tutorial [1]: teaches "how Redux works, from the bottom up", by showing how to write Redux code by hand and why standard usage patterns exist, and how Redux Toolkit simplifies those patterns

The older patterns shown in almost all other tutorials on the internet are still valid, but not how we recommend writing Redux code today.

You should also read through the Redux "Style Guide" docs page [2], which explains our recommended patterns and best practices. Following those will result in better and more maintainable Redux apps.

In addition, the easiest way to start a new project is with the official Redux+JS template for Create-React-App [3]. It comes with Redux Toolkit and the React-Redux hooks API already set up when the project is created.

[0] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-1-overview

[2] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide

[3] https://github.com/reduxjs/cra-template-redux
There can be other wrinkles. Builds of $dayjob's Rails app failed even though we had the gem itself cached locally all over, because entries for the BSD gem versions had vanished from the rubygems.org metadata, and we weren't caching that. There are multiple workarounds, but we may not be done debating them before rails-core decides on a replacement.
People immediately say "Censorship isn't censorship if...".
Did the same, was on a pre-order waitlist for a 3080 for months before I cracked. But all priced out it was only like $500 more for the prebuilt vs buying all the components myself. Which considering the markup on 3080s on ebay seems like a bargain.
Business is very similar to software engineering. To be great, it’s an art, that most of the time often requires more broad skills.

But you most of the time need also basic knowledge of fundamentals, and that can be enough to be just ok at your job.
Not at all? This is FOSS. If this was a critical issue that blocked people from using the software, or aggravated a developer enough, then someone would go fix it or be paid to fix it.

Developers don't have an obligation to implement every feature request. Clearly this is a nothingburger
Redesign, and re-certify a car selling at less than 10% markup.

You will be underwater for the car's entire remaining lifetime on the market.
This was my experience at a large corp as well. You just had your desk packed up and moved whenever there was a re-org or someone decided that your team needed to move elsewhere.

Thankfully they took your knick-knacks and set them up for you, so it wasn't a really big deal, but the idea of a permanent seat seems crazy to me.
Same thing happens when someone rants about the New reddit (redesign) or some other "I don't like this at all" post/comment about reddit itself - people start giving it awards if they agree. shakes head like Foghorn Leghorn
Why are there so few demonstration videos to be found of this? The one tyingq listed is one of the few concrete ones I've ever found. I remember reading about it in the 90's, but never being able to find it actually working.
They may have trippled since that site stopped updating. I'm still working out what we can actually claim as traffic but the unique IP count per day seems to have jumped by quite a bit
Ironically, one of the first uses of coal-powered steam engines was to pump the water in ship canal locks so goods could be moved to and from water-powered factories.
I think a better approach for enterprise and high end hardware would be socketed capacitor or diode banks. Those are the parts that usually deteriorate or fail anyway.

This way you can keep the components close to where they need to be and still get that modularity you're looking for.
The End of Industrial Society
I am normal, healthy, and a Mensa member. What exactly do you mean by that?
I wondered how long they’d hold out with everyone around them, including their Canadian neighbors, legalizing it. That’s a lot of tax revenue going somewhere else. And sure enough, that’s pretty much what those quoted in the article said.
It’s been six years since people started saying “the lightning network will solve this”
so It held up pretty well, because he made several mistakes along the way, which made much harder than It is to figure out.
> It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ. For example, people preoccupied with intellectual pursuits may spend less time than the average person on physical exercise and social interaction, both of which have been shown to have broad benefits for psychological and physical health.

Is Mensa really an "intellectual pursuit"? I'm not sure exactly what Mensa does, but maybe people insecure enough to join an IQ-restricted club are more likely to be those who suffer from setbacks in other parts of their lives.
Thanks for describing how the playback feature works, there's another vessel two back that ran into trouble as well:

https://gfycat.com/JointFirmGrayling
yeah, that is one of the things I do after a fresh install. I am using Nextwaita from gnome-looks. It changes very little from the vanilla gnome, except for a slighter grey color scheme and less padding.
> That fixes the "i can not deploy problem" if my customer needs a urgent fix.

Only if the issue is fixed upstream before your cache expires. Obviously, breaking Rails gets things fixed quickly, but what if it was a less-actively-maintained gem?
Saying "software licensing is a joke" and "hypothetical zombie apocalypse" may be provocative and/or funny, but it distracts attention from the underlying logic. In my view, when conversations start going down this path, they become less substantive and interesting, because the meaning becomes muddled.

I try to always remember:

* One person writes a comment one time. N people read it. N >> 1. Therefore strive to be clear.

* "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazing. It seems possible that the killer would have required a fairly advanced education to create a cypher with this complexity. Not too many self taught encryption creators exist out there.
> I'm begging to shop there.

Yes.... exactly....
But, you know, that's how it works: the problem doesn't get fixed unless someone both a) cares, and b) can do something about it. Why would a developer who isn't getting paid do work they don't care about? If you're interested, maybe you can finally be the person who cares and does the work.
> They pretty much do allow subs to do whatever they want

Haven't been on Reddit in a few years, eh?