skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an employer (given our revenue didn’t deflate), I’d be happy to do that, but the administrative hurdles is what annoys me.

Laws of France says I can offer an allowance, but only if I gather every single receipt and do a pro-rata of, for example, the additional electric consumption caused by WFH. The administrative overhead of admitting a dozen invoices per employee of $7 each is probably around $7 each (their time, my time, the accountant time, and the opportunity cost that we spend 10%, 15%, 25% time dealing administrative matters rather than interesting software work - making our work boring is a huge cost). If I give it as a bonus (and pay taxes like on a salary), god knows whether I’ll be required to keep paying the bonus when they come back to the office.

I’d rather the govt say “Allowance is $10 per day”, but it is considered unfair between those who have to purchase their own desk and chair, and those who had the Aeron chair provided by the employer. We’ve succeeded to negotiate our social framework so much that moving in any direction has an important cost.

Having lived in Australia, it’s incredible how administrative overhead impacts morale in a huge way. In France you are always late for some paperwork, never free of mind.
Wow, you're seriously underestimating this issue. For instance, the German constitution ("Grundgesetz") has an eternity clause in it that makes it unconstitutional to remove the basic principles in Articles 1 and 20. Many other modern constitutions have such clauses.[1] By the way, Article 4, paragraph 4 in the German constitution states: " All Germans shall have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish this constitutional order if no other remedy is available."

If constitutional assemblies worry about things like that, it's not as silly as you put it for Gödel to have wondered about not having such features in the US constitution at a time just after WW2.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenched_clause

Edit: Not a minor nitpick. Article 1 AND 20. Fixed!
I'm really curious if Starlink et al. will change the region over coming decades. Its attractiveness is undeniable. I'd be surprised if remote places (esp islands) receive more interest if fast internet is available everywhere.
> English - nouns don't have a gender

Ordinary nouns might not appear to, but pronouns do; in fact, you can see two different gender distinctions in the English pronouns.

"Plain" pronouns have masculine, feminine, and neuter genders, he / she / it.

Interrogative/relative pronouns don't, but they do exhibit a gender distinction between who (for people) and what (for everything else). And since relative pronouns are applied to ordinary nouns, you can use relative who to identify which nouns belong to the people gender and, by implication, which don't.

(As a technical matter, you could also classify nouns into the masculine / feminine / neuter genders by looking at which pronouns substitute for them. This isn't really going to work in English. But the rules for who are strict enough to reflect a robust grammatical distinction in the language.)

The person/nonperson gender distinction is frequently read back into the plain pronouns, with it being reserved for nonpeople.
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Yeah that's what i thought, the article is confusing freedom with safety.

So what if the majority of their users want safety instead of freedom, why don't they make their own foundation? Should Toyota start making chocolate because their users like chocolate?

> The FSF failed to inspire new leaders

I thought this has to do more with the sociology of software developers. They are rich now, most of them immigrants with different ambitions, they are going for fast money and early retirement. Easy money makes it hard to grow the idealist in them

Also i think the author has a limited view of freedom. Most people don't have a use for their freedoms, that's true and human reality. But those marginal, extreme freedoms should be available to the few who will use them to expand the human frontier.
I've been drinking a large cup when I wake up and another cup at 3pm for 6 years straight. I fear it's already too late for me.
Yeah that seemed to be the main problem, each time Openmoko released a platform, they had already announced that it was deprecated because they were working on the next one.

I think my disappointment stemmed from this - I was expecting a (perhaps rudimentary, perhaps unpolished) platform that would make a base to start developing things on, but that wasn't there.

I'll keep an eye on pinephone, hopefully they've done their historical research in this area :)
Upvote from me. Up to you but I recommend put the email in your profile.
You can remove it later if needed which is not possible with the comment after so many hours.
No it doesn't, our resources are fine. Maybe oil is a problem but it's quickly being solved.
I like how you put paradox in quotes. I also annoys me when people call these things paradoxes. They're more properly called counter-intuitive phenomena. I wonder if there's a single-word name for that.
Slur always meant a pretty offensive remark to me, typically referring to a race or ethnic group.

If a news headline said, "Mr. Smith Uses Slur Against [Group] on Live Television", I would assume it was a racist remark. Which is, of course, a pretty serious thing. Mr. Smith would likely lose his job and his reputation, purely based on the inclusion of the word slur in the headline.

Putdown or disparaging remark seems like a better word to describe it.
> Still people want to create more distributions (mostly from scratch trying to emulate an android/ios experience more) instead of actually implementing missing features in the existing distributions or fixing issues in the upstream applications those use.

Even before doing that, I think the most important thing for Linux phones is getting HW-Accel to work. Any Android/iOS phone nowadays renders basically anything on the GPU and it makes the experience of using a computing device so much better.

Obviously this is very hard, as free hardware drivers (especially for high-end SOCs) are rarely available.
My wife's sister once said my problem was that I couldn't say no.
You can use containers, but those only apply to cookies, etc, everything else, settings, add-ons, etc, will be the same. Different profiles allow for different sets of add-ons, bookmarks, settings, etc.
I agree that the argument is naive. It entirely relies on the idea that government regulation (or more importantly legislators) are held responsible for issues, so therefore they need to be lobbied/pressured/made to perform.

Free software (in the FSF sense) has been able to be created entirely because a large number of programmers have positions/salaries/roles that allow them to do work outside those roles that has benefit or relevance to other people.

Linus was a student when he started Linux. RMS was a grad/postdoc/researcher etc. comp.lang.c had a lot of readers (and writers) that were in the academic establishment that had the freedom (both time and money) to develop and share useful software.
Yes, I mentioned it precisely because I had read that story.
Can we make machine learning more efficient using conservation laws?
That site looks useful, thanks.
German is from another language family, I doubt that neuter was introduced from Latin
So Anecdata for me. I live in the rural west highlands in a village of 200 people.

I have 900/100 FTTP and 4G connectivity is available anywhere in the village on EE. With lack of contention you can get 100Mbps down stream over 4G

I did have to pay for the FTTP install (FTTPoD) but when compared to the reduction in property prices it was easily offset.

Even without extra money for FTTPoD, the village has FTTC and a couple of cabinets so most get decent coverage, and the houses next to the exchange have straight FTTP.
> In Google’s case, the company typically lets users know which agency is seeking their information.

So, they dont have to let you know. :)

> Because of this, it’s important for providers such as Google to act as a check on law enforcement, Crocker said.

I feel safe now /s
That's great. I was impressed by your writing. I am happy to see such a topic. Please come to my blog and read it.
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I also don't like it and I believe it's not necessarily legal in all countries. Many European countries have a minimum amount of vacation days and companies need to make sure employees also take those (not all do but theres no enforcement unless someone complains). "Unlimited" without a floor might lead to more vacation days for some but likely to fewer days for most.

And if they were truly unlimited, why would anyone work part-time? You could just work full time and take 2 days off per week (plus vacations) at full salary. But I doubt many companies would accept that.
Having social media and these toy devices is semi-required. Plus, we don't get them for free, we pay a LOT of money for technology.
Again, tour managers don’t route tours. This entire thread is classic HN... interesting perspectives, but mostly a bunch of ‘smart’ people trading notes/ideas on topics/industries they know nothing about and/or read about once and now feel confident speaking on incorrectly.

> It provides strong confirmed information on where the fans are

You mean like promoters who put up guarantees? Pretty sure it’s not difficult to figure out which markets acts should travel to... follow the money...
Something simpler: Vue

Something more simpler: Svelte

Just try it and give it a chance.
What's the one thing you always need to look-up?
Yes. Yes I do. Make it happen. Tomorrow [1]

How? the existing handset manufacturers just need to make their phones functional enough for linux and/or provide the various blobs in a straightforward manner. And a suitable stretch goal? few or no blobs.

Alternative approach: release the blobs for old phones so we[2] can at least actually write our own updates.

There. No weird hardware needed. Just existing handsets. Just start there.

[1] next week is also good.

[2] or someone who is more clever, has more time available, or otherwise more motivated.
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Both the uni-directional data flow and virtual dom were not exactly new ideas when React/Flow came out. There were other libraries/frameworks playing with similar concepts at the time. Half a dozen new ones appeared in 2014. React won the lion's share of developer adoption.

I personally heard that 'objectively better' line incessantly from 2015 onwards, with 'it has the largest community' always being a top highlight. Facebook's backing and the celebrities that developed in the JS community around the time certainly played a part in it.
"and everyone who supports it boils down to the theory that if governments can just tax enough to hold off inflation they can spend as much as they want"

It doesn't boil down to that. That's looking at it from the wrong angle.

The line is that to spend there has to be something to buy. If it is available to buy and nobody else wants it, then why not bring that item into use (largely the unemployed). Spending stops automatically when you run out of things to buy priced in your currency at a price worth paying.

If you see somebody talking about raising tax rates and lowering tax rates in relation to MMT on a counter stabilisation basis, then that person either doesn't understand MMT, or you've misunderstood what they are saying.

The primary stabilisation mechanism of MMT is the Job Guarantee and the secondary one is government demanding a lower price for goods and services it purchases, which it can force on people because otherwise the system will run short of spending.

Taxes are a very distant third or fourth in the control stakes. In MMT they are essentially a garbage collector. There to ensure we don't overcommit the system.
I bought caffeine pills when I went on a multi day hiking trip, because I was really worried about withdrawal :-) In the end I didn't need them, one cup of coffee I was able to get in the hut in the morning was enough.
Well I happen to agree with you, but it's a tough argument to get into on the Internet, so I avoid it when possible.

To me, a license like MIT is "obviously" more free than GPL, which is more restrictive. The FSF has a somewhat circuitous argument for how GPL results in more net freedom, somehow, but I don't buy it.

Both are free enough, I suppose. There's something about the FSF project of using the master's tools (copyright restrictions) to dismantle the master's house (copyright itself) that's never sat entirely right with me.

The solution is easy though: use a permissive license to release my software. So I do.
The title made me worried someone had tried to weld an object system onto English. The language is enough of a shitshow as-is.

It turns out just to be a book for learning English, but written by Polish computer scientists. Sounds interesting. I'm glad I never had to learn English as a foreign language though.
The Constitution and Amendments though typically only work when they expand rights/freedoms rather than contract rights/freedoms. A good example is the 18th Amendment [1] which was drug prohibition of alcohol in 1920 which was reversed with the 21st Amendment [2] in 1933. The addition took away rights/freedoms and it led to a bad phase in America as well as created mafias and underground black markets that sapped money from the regular markets. Interestingly, the country went through the Great Depression towards the end of that timeline.

James Madison, who wrote the Constitution, most of the Federalist Papers AND the Bill of Rights, wrote the Bill of Rights specifically for individual freedoms so that the states would not want to rewrite the Constitution in another convention. Any addition to the Constitution that doesn't add more freedoms, rights or expand the power of the people and their pursuit of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" as stated in the Declaration of Independence, will be misguided and discarded. Using amendments to strip away the main body of the Constitution, unless for more rights/freedoms, would be an incorrect use of the design goals.

Almost immediately after beginning to meet in 1789, the first Congress, led by James Madison, began to consider amendments to the Constitution proposed by the state ratifying conventions. George Washington and Madison had personally pledged to consider amendments because they realized that some amendments would be necessary to reduce pressure for a second constitutional convention that might drastically alter and weaken the new federal government. Fastening on Anti-Federalist criticisms that the Constitution lacked a clear articulation of guaranteed rights, Madison proposed amendments that emphasized the rights of individuals rather than the rights of states, an ingenious move that led to cries that these amendments—now known as the "Bill of Rights"—were a mere diversion.

"I will now add what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights..."

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787 [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_...

[3] https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/dema...
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4G in the highlands has massively improved in the last 5 years thanks to the ESN project.

The area I live in (west highlands just past the Rest and be thankful) has good 4G coverage anywhere in the village and even on the road up to the A83 now.

Whilst the ESN project has been a bit of a disaster overall it's really helped rural connectivity.
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The effectiveness of seasonal Influenza vaccination depends on two things. First we have to guess which Influenza strains to vaccinate against, if we guess the wrong strains then it doesn't much matter that you're immune because you got a different strain anyway. Second the virus drifts even if we guess perfectly and it might evade the vaccine.

When you get the jab, both these things are still hard or impossible to know, so as long as the side effects of vaccination remain very mild for almost everybody it's worth a shot (pun intended). Some years it works very well indeed.

It's worth distinguishing between deaths due to measures imposed to manage the pandemic (which we could have hypothetically avoided by just allowing the pandemic to run its course, presumably killing millions more people) and those due to direct consequences of the pandemic which you can't avoid except by hypothesising "What if magically this virus didn't exist?". For example hospitals get overrun with patients and withdraw all but emergency care, resulting in excess deaths, but you can't wish that away. Or people are too scared of the virus to seek help so they die unnecessarily, again nowhere (except maybe China at the extreme?) told people "You must not leave your home to escape a violent partner" or "Don't call an ambulance if you have a heart attack, you might get infected" so those deaths aren't a result of a policy decision they're a consequence of the pandemic itself.
Absolutely. You learn so much more during the first years than just technical content. It's all about behavior at work, socializing, office politics etc. Sadly, anyone deciding if people should work remotely has already done that and is most likely in a position where they have a family and enough space at home for a nice office. Few people in upper management work out of a studio apartment in their first job.
Not based on my family outgoings, but if you want to use gut feeling rather than scientific measures that’s fine.

Ale prices themselves have increased 73% since 2000, lager 85%, according to beerandpub.com

Annecdoatally in 2002 I was paying £1.60 in a student bar in the south west. Earlier this year I paid over £5.50 in a sam smiths in london, you might think it’s increased, but those were two very different pubs though. London prices are far higher than the majority of the country, and the range is even higher now. Perhaps CPI should be measured on a regional basis, as rents in london increased due to high demand and high paying jobs, prices of goods and services had to also.

Since 2008 according to the British beer and pub association, annual beer inflation has been 2.8%. The most expensive beer since 2008 has increased on average 5% a year.

Beer will be higher inflation than other measures like Big Macs as the tax has increased on it - both duty and vat. Pre tax beer prices were 1.43 in 2002, 1.91 in 2008 and 2.42 in 2019.

That’s an 08-19 increase of 2.2%
There has been a remarkable decline in the UK, I assume it's similar elsewhere:

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Just a minor nitpick. It is article 1 AND 20, not articles 1 to 20.
I don't even believe people bathed once a week in 1950, or at least that's the first I'm hearing of it.
Nothing came close to the Foobar conversion interface.
I didn't have to bother with splitting album flac files, tagging, picking v0/v2/v3, everything just a click away once it's inside Foobar.

I've been using Flacon, MusicBrainz and a combination of shntools but Foobar experience was miles ahead.

Will give this one a try.
Invariably having your children addicted to technology and media with the fear of missing out. This idea that there is "something happening online and I must know".
I have a friend who lives like this. He also insists he doesn't smell. In reality he often has a noticeable odor. Whether you'd find this odor offensive or not seems to be at least partly cultural.
It's usually the 180 day rule. So unless you move abroad that shouldn't be an issue. But moving abroad has more issues here. Nationwide is a bank and customer data leaving the UK could cause regulatory headaches for them. So I'd be surprised if they let people work from anywhere in the world.
Finnish and Estonian also lack definite and indefinite articles (i.e. "the", "a"). Some of the work of articles is done by the use of the partitive. But in general, it's gonna take a new learner a while to get the hang of it.
What do you mean? Are you suggesting that somehow modern people have lost the drive to violently compete for resources if they became critically scarce? That seems unlikely to me. I think the old phrase "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy" is as true now as ever.
> No. It's just post-hoc justification of the design.

Do you have any reason to think that? E.g. documented or discussions at the time?

> Once again: no. Because it already knows it's unused and stops the compilation.

Hmm… ok, I see what you may be saying now. Am I right in saying that you would prefer that Go would silently ignore any non-underscore imports that aren't referenced by name?

So if I import "fmt" and don't use it, then the compiler won't even try to open the associated pkg files?

And if I want the compiler to override that (because I'm importing for the side effects), then I'll have to do the underscore trick to force the import even though it's unused?

Is that what you mean?

That seems like it would be a gotcha. As a reader of the code (not the compiler) I would then not be able to see the list of imports and actually know which ones actually get imported. Like, dammit why doesn't sql support pgsql? Imported the pgsql driver, it's right there!

If you mean "no, not silently ignore. Give a warning", then that runs into the (eyerolling) "the Go compiler doesn't have warnings. It runs effectively -Werror. It's eyerolling because it's clearly not true, as they've simply outsourced those second class warnings to govet and other tools.

But anyway, Go's forcing of this makes it so that the reader actually knows what actually gets imported.

I hope you at least recognize that because of side effects (which is true in Python (code executes on import), C++ (global variable constructors), C (attribute constructor), and others, importing and not using does not create the same behavior as not importing at all?

I don't want the compiler to make that choice for me.

If the Go compiler second-guessed an import, it would be an outlier among languages. The three others I listed don't.

And Go is baking IWYU into the compiler. You may not like it, but it's not stupid.

> There are other ways of dealing with this than halting the compilation entirely.

Oh I agree. I find the "unused variable" compile error to be hugely frustrating during development. Having to work around with "a = a" or wrapping code in "if false {}" instead of commenting out is ridiculous.

But the import one I agree with.
When people not use something, they are not ready for it?

I think they simply don't need it.
And he is still there, which probably shows how hard is to find another leader who would not bend over to the interests of big corporations.

The 1st reason behind these attack is to replace him with someone who can be easily controlled. Ask yourself a hundred times if you really want to replace someone who has odd ideas or is unlikable to some, with someone else who would destroy in a short time the work thousands developers did in decades.
Sophistication and uncumbersomeness (?) are not necessarily good things.
Perhaps that was an artifact of casting Benedict Cumberbatch in the role.
They are easy to produce but they are also needed in tremendous numbers, because a bunch got stuck in the USA (which tends to export less stuff) rather than in Asia (which tends to export more stuff, especially to the USA, where all the containers are).
Mainframes were battling minis were battling micros in the 80s.

The mainframe/mini battle was the 70s. More importantly it was IBM and the BUNCH vs DEC/DG/etc.
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I'm assuming the catch with this is that you are letting your data be stored on some randomer's set of disks. which means availability is directly tied to the interest of nerds who are loaning out their hdd space for a pittance.

https://crowdstorage.com/faq/#where-is-my-data-stored