skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do miss the days when tech was more whimsical. Everything from video game UI to clippy to general design styles. Much like how I enjoy older movies because they feel more sincere than a lot of modern, mainstream movies where every sincere moment gets interrupted by a flippant joke or jarring tone change 10ms later. It feels like nowadays media is designed more to look cool than to _be_ cool/fun/etc.
KDE Connect works well in other environments, I use it within Xfce, LXDE should work as well.
It makes sense if you believe value to be an objective thing, where each good has a fixed value that is a fact.

In a slightly more complicated model - or the real world - the value of a good or service is informed by things like control and location. Value is not objective, but subjective. Value can be and often is created by moving good from a location where they are values little to a location where they are valued highly.
When one executes code from a Makefile, one expects arbitrary code execution. When cloning a repository, or updating a clone of a repository, one does not expect arbitrary code execution. Moreover, one can inspect a Makefile before running code from it, by cloning the repository and looking at the Makefile with a text editor; but one cannot inspect what will be cloned before cloning it (and even if you could, for instance by looking at it through a web interface, there's an obvious TOCTOU risk).
The French short documentary 'Le savant, l'imposteur et Staline'
is available free to Canadians:
https://ici.tou.tv/le-savant-l-imposteur-et-staline-comment-...
(FR captions only)
Well made with lots of appropriate imagery.

And an english version is available to rent/buy:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/scientist/392774148
KDE Connect does not require you to use KDE as your desktop environment, last I checked.
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Trade almost always creates value for both consenting stakeholders. It should be the default assumption and anyone arguing the opposite is talking nonsense.

In rare edge cases it can be argued that trade doesn't create value for consenting stakeholders:

(1) Information asymmetries that don't rise to the level of fraud, which cause one counterparty to make an uninformed decision.

(2) Trades that appeal to the dopamine system but otherwise work against the individual, e.g. with social-media doomscrolling, gambling, drugs, fast food. In this case the individual has diminished agency to make the best decision for themselves in all cases.

Anything else? [I'm ignoring externalities here]
We submitted the AMI to amazon. Waiting for approval. Should be within a couple of days. You can see more detail here: https://github.com/AlmaLinux/cloud-images. As you can see all the Amazon AMI stuff is in there now and the box is checked.
Why would AWS provide a feature that makes additional transaction and storage charges (as well as subsequent reads to see which is the correct version) irrelevant?
Aside: Kaspersky is a Russian company.
I started using KDE Connect via the Gnome extension just a few days ago, and it's been great so far. I have my phone muted all the time because notification sounds annoy me, but I don't mind the desktop notifications. I've been missing a lot less due to this, and it works instantly and seamlessly, and I spent almost no time configuring it all.

Just earlier today I had my phone playing music connected to a bluetooth speaker. I was just getting to my computer and out of habit, hit the volume down media keys. I was surprised for a second when it worked, because immediately after hitting the key I remembered the speakers were connected to my phone, not the computer. Then I realized it was KDE Connect just working :)
You mean that header image? It's super small on my phone.
I worked at a company that used CapGemini. They were given the task of moving data from one drive to another.

Took them a week. When they had finished, they had forgotten/didn’t know that the parent folder needed to make child folders inherit permissions (Windows file server being used). They couldn’t figure out what the cause of the problem was, despite being told. In the end an employee ticked the correct box and propagated permissions.

These guys can’t move files from one drive to another. In a week.
Anyone who has the audacity to send me an SMS in the year of our Lord 2021 has my full and undivided negative attention. WhatsApp or go home.
> You can only be so much better at nursing than the average qualified nurse

I...disagree rather strongly that this, to the extent it is true, differentiates SWE from nursing. Comparing workers with identical responsibilities, the same is true in SWE, in both cases there are large impact multiples possible within the field, but they come from roles with greater responsibility; in nursing, because different roles require different credentials, this is reflected in the fact that a more competent nurse will be more likely to take on a more responsible role within the same credentialed category, and also be more likely to acquire greater credentials over time compared to a less competent nurse. “Nursing” isn’t a binary credential, but a whole set, starting with a basically heirarchical set: CNA -> LVN/LPN -> RN and beyond that various Advanced Practice Nursing credentials.

SWEs likewise have wide variety of scopes of practice and responsibility, but because we have no structure in the profession, they are assigned ad hoc and even with common titles there isn’t consistency in substantive roles, skills, or qualification. But, again, that’s a product of the absence of structure and credentialling, not an argument for it.
I recall how when we had North Korean hacking activities and official attributions people would say, but how do we know it was them and how do we know the government isn’t making things up?

But when someone accuses the US we never add any salt. Not that I don’t think it’s false, it’s just that the lack of consistent skepticism is interesting.
I call General Intelligence any system that wonders for no particular reason if others systems have General Intelligence.
I just created an account but did not feel comfortable uploading data, having already associated my account with my identity via Gmail. Would love to run something locally.
"I want to copy and paste the URL in a new tab and change a few params to compare the results."
Hopefully - we never find out the extent of our (and their) capabilities.
There you go! After 30 years the light turns on.
Hoarding of any type is a disorder, just like how addiction used to (still is) be considered a moral defect.

Cough syrup not being evil -used as intended to alleviate symptoms but not cure OR chugged like a panacea ambrosia delivered by the gods- is such a weird analogy to write as the burden of use falls on the individual rather than the collector.

How dare people prescribed highly addictive advertised as nonaddictive cocaine start taking it spoonful up the butthole~
My down payment on the new mortgage I'm taking out at the bank is not wash trading.

Whether you believe something has value or not doesn't matter. Velocity and liquidity matter.

No Satoshi can't sell his billions in a day but he can milk the market for millions daily. The market is that mature _today_
They're just going to call up an expert like they do with every industry.
Storrent: A BitTorrent implementation optimised for streaming media
S3 (and most AWS services) are extremely price elastic; i.e., the lower you make them cost, the more people use it (a la electricity.) That's why they've done stuff like drop from 50ms billing to 1ms billing, etc.
That's exactly what uFincs is, a modern version of GnuCash! I had the exact same thoughts as you did :)

The simple tech stack breakdown is that the client-side is React + Redux + TypeScript + Sass. Of note, I use redux-saga, which has been an absolute boon for some of the more complex flows.

Design system is completely custom.

Backend API is Node + Feathers. Database is Postgres.

Marketing site is served separately from the app and is React + NextJS + Tailwind CSS.

I intend to write up a more complete breakdown of the tech stack sometime in the future.

In terms of how long it's taken to get this far, longer than I'd like to admit... there was a version '0.1' that was built as a capstone project over the course of 2019, then the redesigned version (uFincs as it exists now) that's been ongoing since the start of 2020.

And the user situation can look... misleading. I only 'officially' launched last week, so for the longest time the only user has been le-moi (and some friends that did testing), but I actually did just acquire my first paying customer yesterday!
Also a cool thing is that it will automatically pause your music playing on your computer, when you get a call. And resume it, when you end the call.
The code they're shedding off is drivers. They won't ever get rid of old syscalls because Linus refuses to break userspace, ever.
You can use KDE Connect without the full KDE desktop environment. I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon and it works just fine.
> by applying heat

More heat than is common for home appliances I know! A commonly referenced stat is 825 C. There's really a gradient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate#Calcinatio...
"Huge" means different things in different contexts. A compiler optimisation that delivered a 4% increase in speed for a whole class of well-tuned C programs would be regarded as huge by people who follow compiler technology, but would not strike most users of computers as a big deal. I take it "huge" is meant in this sense of extraordinary within a class of potential improvements.

If you can accumulate a series of 4% improvements, then even the computer consumer will start to see the significance.
As someone who had a Nexus 5X die about a month after the warranty expired I really hope we will see more of these actions. There is a notion of how long something should work for (a toaster should last for at least 5 years for example), and with phones we've reached a point where I don't see a point in switching every two years.

Android has been nearly stagnant for the last 4 years (and maybe more). The newer features are not game changing and a Snapdragon 801 is still pretty good for anything I do on my phone.
In case folks are interested, I wrote an open source Chrome extension that removes the FLoC API on every page load so websites can't get your FLoC cohort ID: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/floc-block/amoljng...
You as a user has absolute right to choose whatever app that fulfill your own standards around usability and features, w/wo any app stores.
What kind of deep integration are you looking for with a preferred state framework?
With permanent WFH municipal broadband is a major bonus. I live somewhere with fiber and it is glorious.
Need maintainers for open source project
The weirdest thing is how gleeful you are in supporting socially exclusionary practices.
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This whole thread is a simplistic take, mostly in the other direction. When I was a teenager I woke up at the crack of dawn. And given the number of bright eyed fellow students in the same 'early bird' classes, I was hardly the only one.
Exactly. This is just a level of ignorance that for me makes whole article not worth reading.
Thankfully most people have over $11 million and therefor your proposal really does impact the majority of the users?

Most developers want to build features that service the majority, then add more functionality later.
Can someone please explain to me what all these terms are: Enterprise IT, legacy systems, dev shop? Every job advert for a software engineer asks for Java + React (slight exagerration).

Also I still dont understand why companies with their own software departments are asking Accenture to work for them. If Accenture employees are often substandard why not just hire more devs themselves?
Promotes rapid responses, which doesn't promote well considered, goal-oriented, and empathetic responses.
I believe that the ISP monopolies are also interested in long term profit.
Wind encounters far more resistance and obstacles when sweeping over land, ex. cities with buildings (tall and small) and other man made structures and then there are various natural ones - trees, hills, etc.

Windmill probably is much less of a drag (pun!) as compared to above.
So you saw a project that was on time, on budget, and viewed as a success by the client (not spun to be a success, but actually unreservedly a success)? Because I never have from projects driven by consultants, and while the plural of anecdote is not data, I literally have never seen anyone speak of outside consultants delivering except from very boutique consultancies.
The recommended humidity level is 40-60%.
Tl;dr anyone?

I'm guessing it's something to do with the US dollar being overvalued.
You're talking here about the second half of your previous comment. This reasoning is ok by me, though I have to wonder how often, and why, do programmers need to decide dynamically in mid-flight whether they want to wait instead of wake (or whatever choices futex() offers), or that they need one handle instead of a vector.

I'm talking above about the first half of your previous comment, where you say that having operation names in the function names would somehow require multiple calls and break atomicity. I can only understand this if Linux syscalls are parameterized to do one thing and then another thing and something else, in one call—which sounds horrible, but still can be expressed in function names.
I totally understand. The old Redux adage is "don't use it until you need to". Most apps won't need a big, opinionated state management – but when you do, it's nice having something robust, verbose, opinionated, and rails or django-like.
There are reasons in which it is an appropriate or desirable alternative to a preliminary hearing. The California Grand Jury Association cites multiple surveys that have been taken of California district attorneys, who listed the following factors as influential in the decision to seek a grand jury indictment rather than using the preliminary hearing:

• High public interest in the case;

• The fact that a preliminary hearing would take more time than a grand jury hearing;

• The necessity for calling children or timid witnesses who would be subject to cross‑examination at a preliminary hearing;

• The ability to test a witness before a jury;

• Where the secrecy of the grand jury may allow defendants to be charged and taken into custody before they can pose potential danger to a witness' safety or flee from the jurisdiction;

• Where the identity of undercover agents needs to be protected;

• The existence of a weak or doubtful case which the district attorney wishes to test;

• The opportunity to involve the community in case screening; and

• Whether the case involves malfeasance in office.

https://www.pooleshaffery.com/news/2014/december/a-crash-cou...
More like give them a scapegoat. The risk is still there and in the same place.
Why? Seed banks aren’t driven by commercial interests.

In fact, commercial interests have made agriculture very fragile and very monoculture.

I see the same problem with cultural languages, where there IS no benefit to the culture in question. Any commercialization by an outsider will be subject to what?

Patents? Copyright? Targeted ads? Imagine a maori teacher having to pay royalties to some company-X, just because wanted to teach their native language to their students?
They probably wouldn't be running the same OS if it was licenced under a BSD licence - the GPL encourages Linux-like projects to be both open and centralized which is why we have Linux today.
The market can remain irrational longer than you or I can stay solvent
Considering they don't even whitelist their own critical internal services I doubt it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472455

However I wouldn't be surprised as part of the profile they build on each user that there isn't some kind of influence metric they can use to work who the high profile people are.

It could even be as simple as watching the inbox for when the "high profile verified social tick approved" emails arrive.
I feel like a lot of the issues surrounding Git spring from its original insistence that the git repo exist in a subdirectory of your source directory, meaning that you can't have multiple checkouts in different directories. (I'm aware that you can do this now, with worktrees, but those are yet another distinct concept!) If the repo existed somewhere outside of your source directory, then a) the stash just becomes another directory (or directories), and b) so does the staging area. You could do anything with them (e.g., build, test) that you could do with any other directory of files.
If people are free to create their own currency we're free to mock them.

Apparently you seek some sort of regulation to stop people writing mean things.
One reason would be the capability. There's no doubt that there are US citizens able to produce complex software including malware. Same could be said about China or Russia. But when it comes to North Korea, I really have doubts about their IT competence. Sure, they probably have some good programmers able to create ordinary IT systems. But working on edge of current technologies - that's what I have my doubts about.
Sounds like labor theory of value. Not really that great of a theory.
Good service, but their stupid whois privacy guard email system means you would need to turn privacy off to transfer a domain away from them, that always put me off.
Glosses over the real reasons, both high costs and cost overruns are incentivized.

Usually this money comes from outside sources, such as higher-level governments, but even when it is purely local, individual stakeholders may treat it as money coming from other parts of the city. In this environment, there is an incentive to demand extra scope in order to spend other people’s money on related but unnecessary priorities.

There is little reason to be efficient when spending other people’s money without their input or any long term consequences.
Why are major telecoms companies asking Accenture for help? Do they not have their own devs? If Accenture employees are this bad you might as well hire anyone with software engineer on their CV.
Strange, that's not what I've read. Obviously some people were doing that, but all the articles I saw suggested that there just wasn't a lot of excess capacity in the toilet paper industry, so even just a lot of people buying 1.5x the normal amount was enough to DOS the toilet paper supply. Have you seen evidence to suggest that people buying years' worth of supply was the dominant factor?
The Lost World of Socotra
Whose products are sanctioned against use in US government systems because of ties to Russian intelligence services.

But you should take both these statements with a grain of salt when either side of the field stands to gain (or lose) something.
What about grass-fed beef like we have more of here in Europe?
Not sure it's really meaningful to simply say they're a "Russian company". More specifically, they're a company that has been accused of cooperating with the FSB in attacks against the US government.

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

Whatever the case, it's probably wise to take their statements with some skepticism of bias in this regard.
If you are a software engineer, working on municipal broadband or starting a local ISP is a really intense way to expand your skills.

For the past year, I've been volunteering at NYC Mesh (nycmesh.net), which is a non-profit that provides fixed wireless broadband in New York. I thought I knew a thing or two about networking — hell, I've even given a talk in the network track at LinuxCon in the past — but working on NYC Mesh really showed me the limits of that knowledge and has helped me learn a ton more.
It's human nature to give things that fit your preconceived notions and biases the benefit of the doubt over those that don't, even when you're aware of this effect. The best we can do is try to be cognizant of it and be really self-critical about our knee-jerk reactions.
Shortly after that he does acknowledge that collective labor may be more valuable than individual labor.

However we can all agree that Amazon doesn't create $91B of value when it buys something for $91B in cash. The entire supply chain behind creating the thing Amazon buys, plus the raw inputs, creates something of value that Amazon then consumes.

You could maybe argue that in a market without Amazon, the workers may have been paid only, say, $85B, so Amazon has transferred $6B from consumers to workers. Even then, the value of transferring $6B from consumers to workers is unlikely to be $6B.

If I tighten the last bolt on a car that is worth $20k, I have not created anywhere near $20k in value.
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Nice! Hope it gets done.
Same, it's part of what my brain miss. And it's not only nostalgia it's about emotional background and goals. I was all for engineered everything. But now I feel a void. Especially when the tech is oversold to make money through low hanging fruits.
While not expressed in this article, in the followup to it from Basecamp: https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26967835 )

> I've read that reply many times now. I can't in my most critical reading find evidence or origin for the charges that this constituted protected-class discrimination or harassment. But obviously I'm not exactly an impartial party in the matter, so we followed our standard procedure regarding such complaints and sent it, along with all the context, to external labor lawyers for review. They concluded that no discrimination or harassment had occurred, and we shared their findings with the company.

> ...

> This was the second such discussion in a few months that had to be closed out following an acrimonious devolution that pitted employees against each other, and stressed these complicated power dynamics between managers and reports, all on a company-wide stage that invariably pulled everyone into the spectacle.

> Together with other acrimonious debates and inappropriate discussions with roots in societal politics on our internal communication systems, this formed the context that led to the recently announced changes. After going through repeated, worsening incidents like this, we took a hard look at why we kept doing this, and kept getting the same unproductive, unhealthy results.

Alice and Bob are having difficulty working together.

There are additional stresses of the power dynamics of having a manager involved in it.

HR and Legal have both been involved in this.
I second that recommendation, but I liked all of David Graeber's books and essays; his untimely death was a real loss.

I was searching for a decent/academic review of Debt in order to post it here, but found one on Github [1] giving an itemised list of the book's main points, as seen from the reviewer's perspective, and containing a link at the top of the review to a .pdf of the book itself (on libcom.org and it seems to be complete).

https://github.com/advancedresearch/mix_economy/issues/19
Making money on these things is like playing the lottery. You buy a small ticket hopping that it is your turn to become millionaire. And it happens with the same frequency of the lottery. One in every few million will become very rich, like the ones who bought bitcoin initially, and the others will be spending money chasing their next lottery ticket.