skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or did you have something else in mind when you meant farm co-ops are capital intensive?

I disagree with your characterization: it's the potential sharing of capital expenditures (for storage, processing, distribution and advertising) that drives cooperation. In many cases these costs are far more than software-based services. Cooperatives of this nature often have significant capital contributions required for membership.

> True but bonds don't exist in a vacuum and must compete with other alternative investments including other bonds by other businesses/governments.

Agreed. I would note our current legal environment makes it challenging for cooperatives to raise capital since most of their potential contributors, who see the community "main street" value, are effectively prevented from becoming investors, even if they are willing to do so. Retail investors have their arms twisted (401k) to put their savings into the stock market... rather than into main street. Moreover, since they are not often SEC qualified investors, they are prevented from investing even if they wish to do so. There are some limited exceptions for local organizations, but these rules are hard to navigate. These barriers to capital should be addressed.
The thing about Unicode is.... anybody who tried to do it “more simple” would eventually just develop a crappier version of Unicode.

Unicode is complex because the sum of all human language is complex. Short of a ground up rewrite of the worlds languages, you cannot boil away most of that complexity... it has to go somewhere.

And even if you did manage to “rewrite” the worlds languages to be simple and remove accidental complexity
I assert that over centuries it would devolve right back into a complex mess again. Why? Languages represent (and literally shape and constrain) how humans think and humans are a messy bunch of meat sacks living in a huge world rich in weird crazy things to feel and talk about.
Put huge hydraulic cylinders below the ship. The obvious problem is, what are those cylinders anchored to?
Firefox's reader mode works great and includes a dark theme.

The icon shows up in the right side of the URL bar, but you can always force it by prepending the URL, e.g. about:reader?url=<url>
isn't it exhausting, being so mad at the world all the time?
This seems like a very simple question and I am inclined to treat it as a trick one, but I will be trusting and try to answer it.

The difference is huge.

A package manager installs, removes, updates etc. components of the OS. It manipulates files in /bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr and so on.

In Endless, the root filesystem is read-only and immutable. It is not possible to modify any of the files provided with the OS in any way, including all of those paths above and others.

Flatpak apps are containerised and all of their components are within the app bundle, typically in `/var/lib/flatpak` I believe. (I am not a GNOME user and don't use Flatpak much, but I have a couple of Snap apps installed.)

Nothing goes anywhere else or is allowed to install dependencies etc.

Think of it like a Smartphone. Android and iOS are both *nix OSes. The entire OS is essentially a single image, kept in Flash, and booted into RAM each time you turn on. The user can't change it in any way. Apps are kept in a separate chunk of flash memory and they can't change the OS. OS updates are a single big file that updates the entire OS partition in one operation.

It's a little bit like booting a Live USB with a persistent storage file: nothing can change the SquashFS, but you can add your own files and have them survive a reboot.

Endless works the same way. It is comparable to Red Hat Atomic Workstation, Core OS, Chrome OS, and SUSE MicroOS.
in Georgia they can just fire you for whatever or for no reasons! It's called "at will employment" here. It also means people can quit for whatever or no reasons without much paperwork
You’re right. Also your example of “employee growth”might shock most people — setting a goal to leave the office at 4:30p early would simply raise eyebrows at most companies.
Shall we start with ones which insist that fair and equal means what they choose to mean instead of what they mean universally?
I mean... That's explicitly addressed in the article,and not to make it personal, but it feels like you're inadvertently and very ironically proving his exact point - finding a sentence, taking it out of context, and then working hard to disagree or go on a tangent to discuss your preferred topic / perspective.

"Again, there's a vast and sprawling ecosystem of current and historical horrors that made this situation possible – but we can't say that it's a situation that could never occur in a just world, because even in just worlds, things get stuck."

There's a million problems out there, but this one is a simple. And yet some will still find a way to ignore that particular simple yet important problem,to discuss their preferred problem.

This is not to say that your point isn't valid and important and crucial and worthy! But I'm a lefty pinky socialist liberal from Canada,and even *I am exhausted and daily rolling my eyes how we can't discuss the weather or paint of my kitchen or anything without going into... Other stuff.

(With that in mind I'm up voting your post as it definitely contributed to discussion,even if not in a way you maybe intended ; I don't like the habit of people down voting an opposing point of view ;-()
>The global shipping industry exists to facilitate exploitation of the developing areas of the world with manufacturing capacity.

You do realize the reason why people work in the sweatshops is because their previous situation (subsistence farming) was much worse? It's not like the sweatshop owner rolled in and forced everyone to work at gunpoint.
I think that's probably a good heuristic but it's actually just a proxy for the underlying domain separation, which is actually why two things should go into different services.
Joe himself once said on stage (it was a video with him and Kay on stage, not sure of the name), that Erlang is either the most OOP lang or the least. I think he meant, that it depends on what OOP you look at. If you look at Smalltalk and message passing, as Kay highlights as the prominent ideas, then it might be the most OOP (or somewhere close to), while it is a 180 from mainstream OOP, when we look at the actor system and how distributed systems work.
I wonder if we could liquify the soil and float the ship out of the mud.

One could imagine 15 pile drivers pounding on the shore and a couple of tugs reversing the ship.
spot on. Every time this comes up, it's the same BS.

The actual figure for the UK grid (there is no separate Scotland grid) is just over 40% of net electrical energy demand supplied by renewable sources. If Scotland was severed from the grid it would require fossil fuels and nuclear just like the rest of the UK.

The 97% figure is arrived at by taking British renewable energy that happens to be in Scotland and subtracting that against Scottish energy use. This is in no way accurate and ignores time - there are many periods of time where Scotland's wind turbines aren't spinning and the region is drawing power from the rest of the UK grid.
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> relatively new ... idea

The ghost of Henry Stimson would disagree.
There's no mention of M1 in the article
>Sick world.

Half of Europe will allow you legally to abort a potential child with Down Syndrome for ethical reasons.
What if the child matures and their parents die and there is no relatives to take care of them? That's really dangerous.
But hey, the so called "free" Americans will know better. Sure.
A more detailed explanation of "backward shift deletion": https://codecapsule.com/2013/11/17/robin-hood-hashing-backwa...
> perhaps California developers talk a big game but don't put their money where their mouth is? I would expect the same bootstrapping of cooperatives but it doesn't really happen.

I suspect a big factor in that is a lack of a safety net in the US. FAANG engineers with enough mileage to have some savings have families and mortgages that make it hard to give up their employee provided healthcare and risk their own savings on a new venture.

I was foolish enough to go into startups as a new grad with huge student loans and though I have enjoyed it, it has not been good for my physical nor financial health.

> I think cooperatives would struggle to gain a monopoly holding because they're not as ruthless as investor-driven companies. They tend to treat their workers fairly and focus on quality of life, over relentlessly pursuing high quarterly growth targets. That's a very good thing for the employees and probably the customers too, but makes the company less competitive.

Biggest obstacle is not being able to burn billions of dollars on growth and expansion with no clear path to profitability like the Ubers and WeWorks of the world.

A coop could probably get to monopoly scale through mergers with other coops in adjacent industries. In the case of gig work, there's no reason why a NYC based drivers coop couldn't slowly expand to food delivery, logistics, car rentals and etc, then jump to other major cities in through mergers with smaller coops in those markets. There would be a lot of benefits to having a single middleman platform with some sort of a social credit system (reviews) baked in and a large user base to launch new offerings to.

> If that were the case then developers all over the US would make bank. They don't; only in startup-focused areas like the Bay Area and NYC. It's the same here in the UK, you can make a ton of money if you work in London for hyper-capitalist companies, but outside of London most developers are making 40-60k max. Which is still good for the UK, but not the 6 figure incomes that even shit-tier developers can make in California.

I'm an immigrant who grew up in NYC and up until this year I would have never considered moving to a small town in middle america due to a lack of jobs and a shitty walmart and car centric lifestyle. In New York I can quit my job on Monday and have a choice of 4-5 job offers by Friday. Now that companies have been forced to be more open to remote work I can imagine people in the middle of nowhere having the same options and I anticipate that it will lead to a major repeat of the white flight, sending a ton of white collar workers out of the cities and into suburbia.

Starting a tech company used to be a very expensive venture that required knocking on doors of VCs and racking servers. Now that we're starting to have the infrastructure in place to work remotely and can spin up machines on the fly for under $100/month things will probably change. The pandemic will accelerate this trend.
The same security flaw that lets “baddies” pwn us, also lets us pwn baddies. The same indefatigable crypto that keeps us safe and makes online anything possible, also lets people conspire in secret to overthrow governments

On a more personal scale, think about jailbreaks/rooting, DRM, "trusted" computing, and all that other user-hostile stuff. The same crypto is also being used to enslave users and enforce monopolies, in which case the security flaws are a way to regain freedom and control. Leaked information is invaluable for the third-party repair industry. Who's the authoritarian one now...?

The world is definitely not black and white. IMHO, governments being afraid of strong crypto and viewing it as a (defensive) weapon are prescient. Why this fact isn't realised by more of the general population is indeed a real issue.
Neither do I, but I didn't have the time to spend hours in a deep-dive to read the court opinion directly.

So given the choice between 1: Say nothing, which is known to not spread lies but has no potential to help anyone, and 2: Extend the article's potential misrepresentation by repeating it as fact, instead I chose option 3: Include my confidence interval in my comment explicitly which enables readers such as yourself to make their own judgment call, but which opens me up to obvious "criticism" by people who are so thrown off by the straightforwardness of this strategy that they can't help themselves from repeating the clearly stated choice while pinning it with their own judgement.

Think of it like this: my comment is a function with a parameter for "trust of this article's summary" for which I trust my reader to provide a value that works well for them, and in turn I give them a comment that they can evaluate themselves.

I hope more people choose option 3, but I can sympathize with why they wouldn't. :)
They also make £0.5-1bn in annual revenue from North Sea oil.

It's an achievement for sure but it's like the Marlboro Man boasting he's quit smoking while still selling cigarettes to everyone else.
If you try to label X, it will fall into hype bullshit territory. Humans are largely stupid animals. We hear something is good and we parrot it, until we hear it is bad and we parrot it, and we use our very limited experience to reinforce our narrative.

Stop labeling X. Show the metrics for each way of working to empirically prove outcomes. Use what can be proven works better. Where there isn't one conclusive better way, do a meta-analysis and define the edge cases. Only use the case that has the best outcomes for your needs. Move on with life.

Or we could keep navel-gazing and admit that we actually just do what we like, not what works best.
There is a keyboard lock api, and you can capture Alt+Tab, but only when you're already in full-screen mode. Mostly Chrome only: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_keyboard_lock
He doesn't seem in any way angry to me. He even admits it's funny.

There's no denying the shipping industry has a dark underbelly of exploitation.
spouse faced the same with facebook- reached out earlier but had another offer then. Reached out later but ghosted.
Dredging is so much easier than digging, but it still works as a very conservative lower bound. That's 3km a month, so a diversion of 6km would take at least 2 months.

But earthworks of that size have to be planned and approved and the labor organized. It could never be done in that time frame.
Because Canada has a massive Oil sector, Scotland doesn't so much - and with a tinge of hypocrisy they want a bigger share of the revenue proceeds from North Sea Oil.

Canada's economic influence in the world is fairly strongly tied to Oil to the point where over the last 30 years it's correlated with the buying power of the dollar, and certainly the economic veracity of most Alberta.

It also fundamentally alters the surplus/deficit scenario - it's a 'major component' (though not nearly like Norway).

iPhones and many foreign cars in Canada are about 25% more expensive than they were a few years ago for example.

Environmental issues aside, there is a lot of downside - it's not just like all that industry can be shifted from one part of the economy to the other.
I've seen a few of them, the highly optimized ones usually fall back to some form of manual memory management, which then becomes way more complicated than in a language like Rust which has all this by default.

What I find so beautiful about the native/close to the metal languages is that you can have clean code that's also near optimal, without optimizing a lot. Compared to the lengths people go to get some Python code to run fast it's the easier way.
If you're a large retailer and have been able to negotiate good rates with a payment processor and are in a country where interchange fees are capped (e.g., EU countries), then I can see it. But I doubt that it's the case in the US where those fees have to fund 2% cashback programmes etc.
It's definitely captured my attention. It seems like the kind of thing that a) shouldn't happen or b) if it _does_ happen, should be resolved quickly. The fact that it _did_ happen and is taking much longer to resolve than I would have guessed is fascinating.
It's always surprised me that we haven't seem more attempts at co-op like models in spaces like this, and I'm happy to see it.

Uber/Lyft strike me as thin businesses in the value that they actually provide both to riders and drivers. Yes, they were responsible for some initial innovation, but now the cat is out of the bag, and the concept could absolutely be applied in a business structure that is more profitable and friendly to the people actually delivering the services.

Getting initial traction with riders, and adequately investing in trust & safety strike me as the two hardest parts up front. On the flip-side, they should benefit from less regulatory scrutiny, and less pressure from investors vs. the heavily funded players like Uber & Lyft.

I'm rooting for them and hope to see this go somewhere.
I understand where you're coming from, and I sympathize with your comment (indeed, I am suffering from it as well), however I disagree that it's an Islamic world issue. It's common in underdeveloped / developing countries, a large amount of which are Islamic countries.

As for why it happens or why it's common... there are plenty of reasons, really. (obviously, I will talk about my country only, and what I see) Personally, I believe that the most important one / the root cause is that the law isn't enforced, which erodes peoples' trust in it as well as people's respect, and you end up with people exploiting that (a vicious cycle, as you said). Not only that, but when the law is finally enforced, it's usually not enforced fairly[1].

If anyone is curious about Islam's stance, well, Islam explicitly says:

وَلاَ تَأْكُلُواْ أَمْوَالَكُم بَيْنَكُم بِالْبَاطِلِ وَتُدْلُواْ بِهَا إِلَى الْحُكَّامِ لِتَأْكُلُواْ فَرِيقًا مِّنْ أَمْوَالِ النَّاسِ بِالإِثْمِ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ [البقرة:188].

Translation: "And do not consume one another's wealth unjustly or send it [in bribery] to the rulers in order that [they might aid] you [to] consume a portion of the wealth of the people in sin, while you know [it is unlawful]."

روى الإمام أحمد عن ثوبان قال رسول الله: لَعَنَ اللّه‏ُ الراشيَ والمُرتَشِيَ والرائشَ الذي يَمشِي بَينَهُما..

Translation: The Prophet (S) said, 'Allah's curse is on the briber, the bribed, and the agent between them.’

And there are more.

I do not blame you (nor anyone else) for the correlation, I just wanted to clarify.

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[1] This is off-topic, but there was a huge issue in Egypt with regards to people building apartment complexes and buildings illegally, through bribing the province officials. Well, recently,the government said that enough is enough and went to crack down on that. They placed huge fines on the illegal buildings (supposed to be paid by the builder in question / building owner, but he/she actually have no incentive to, so the people who paid were actually the building residents), and said that if the fines aren't paid, the buildings will be bulldozed (and indeed, some were).

They punished the people who bought residence in the illegal buildings (some of whom actually didn't know that it was illegal). But the governmental workers / officials who gave out the fake permits and took the bribes? Not a single one was punished.
> After you had already resigned? Glad it worked for you. I had a horror show and have met several people in similar situations.

Out of curiosity, what can go badly? They offer a counter and then fire you a couple months later, after they've found a more "loyal" (or just cheaper) replacement?

> Sounds like you work for a very decent company.

The manager was a very decent and reasonable human being. He's since left and I wouldn't try it with his replacement - the new guy is detached and doesn't really give a shit about what's going on, he certainly wouldn't bother with trying to retain me with counteroffers.
I'd say it's not the capitalist model per se but particular preferences of the investors. The same way as investors preferred young white male founders (maybe until recently) to all the other combinations of the three parameters. Similarly they prefer entrepreneur-owned companies to collectively owned ones for whatever reasons they have in mind.

In fact it's perfectly possible to raise money for a coop, or a steward company [1], i.e. not owned by anyone, or owned by the employees but via non-economical shares. You issue special class of shares for the investors - could be redeemable for example - and make a commitment as an elected executive of the company.

[1] https://medium.com/bettersharing/steward-ownership-is-capita...
> They don't face any liability if they decide not to engage with a violent suspect. They might lose their job, but that's an ongoing choice they make, not an obligation.

I wanted to say that this is hyperbole, but it's just an obviously flagrant misuse of a word.

Rules of conduct that dictate a profession are obligations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligation
only today my wife showed me a Qanon conspiracy post (the ones with the red circles and the various article screenshots) trying to link the boat's present situation with Hilary Clinton, human trafficking and The Plan to arrest the deep state.

Needless to say, we both had a good laugh at that one.
How different are we on the inside?
The CDC has the Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC) manual[1], as well as a website covering this topic[2].

[1] https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/ppt/cerc_2014edition_Copy.pdf https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp

[2] https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/index.asp
I think the solution is keep building those continental grid connections. Norway can with its substantial hydro work as a battery, for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/18/brexit-loom...
Google is the top of the new world order! Bravo!
As a landlubber, I can say that ships, canoes, and kayaks are all boats!
Franklin had much wisdom to share. "In the dark, all cats are grey"
Instapaper Outage Cause and Recovery (2017)
Steady the buffs old chap, 4 out of 10 is hardly mostly
I have yet to see a good case for alignment over indent-wrapping.

For example, if there is a map of object properties that is ~20 or so items long, with an alignment of each value you cut down on the jaggedness of each line. I see that jaggedness as an advantage, where each line is slightly more unique, and thus easier to scan in context. Additionally, the key on the front of the line is generally what you are searching for, so alignment generally does nothing for searchability anyway.
I gave up after his comments on the first OO objection. This blatant ad hominem and sweeping generalizations pass for good criticism? Not in my book at least.
Interestingly US law makes a distinction as well. You can’t bribe officials of foreigner governments, but paying money to speed up otherwise normal work said official would do is legal (to the US govt).
I think this is what was (pre-pandemic) happening in London. Bolt came in, cheaper than Uber and paying the drivers (slightly) more.
Uber burned a lot of cash creating the market, and to some degree on all the self-driving cab nonsense.
Right to repair: People spend more time at home, and stuff is breaking down
> That's how a cooperative can compete with a megacorpo

Hum... I guess you forgot about the main competitive force of cooperatives. On service based industries, they let the service providers capture most of the value, what should attract better service. (But some times it doesn't, those things are complex.)

It's not about the IT people at all.
> If you have an ecosystem of 100 microservices, but blue-widget-microservice is throwing errors you know which codebase you need to look at.

If you have a system with 100 well-defined modules, but blue-widget-model is throwing errors, you know which codebase you need to look at.

No modularization technique has a monopoly on this characteristic.
I think part of that has to do with it being a pythonic choice as well though. Python actively encourages you to segment off your environment for everything you do, that mentality continues to packaging and deploying.