skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basecamp as a company has always been about building in public. If you don't want things to happen in public you shouldn't have joined Basecamp.
That's a good point. What would be a better name than "pool"? I suppose we could call it "picks".
Why does it take 33 posts to tell a story on Twitter? I know why, but _WHY_?
I'd love to use Elementary OS, but their use of Vala is just such a turn off.
That language is dead except for a tiny gnome niche.

If they wanted the mac devs for their sleek look and feel they could have switched to swift.
And if they wanted to gain easy popularity they could have switched to rust. But vala... there is no developer pool to draw people from, and they're not apple where ObjC might have been an obscure but in the end really productive ecosystem.
As someone outside of the tech industry, this surprises me. I’m a writer, but when I wanted to learn to code, I did loads of coding exercises, including FizzBuzz. A couple of years later I could knock up a FizzBuzz algorithm in JavaScript or Python and probably other languages too—and I’m really not very good at programming, certainly not at a professional standard. Why is it such a Shibboleth in the tech industry?
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None, I have an e-bike (and a traditional bike).

I do drive my wife's car at the moment as she isn't able to, it's a Skoda Fabia.
> Developers tend to commit things, recommit, undo, redo, move things around.

I see 2-3 distinct final commits in that list there, ones that should be separate and not squashed into one:

* commit, recommit, undo (squash these ones, and depending on how much "undo" does could eliminate this entirely)

* redo (what exactly is in this one depends on how much "undo" did in the prior, and how the "redo" was done)

* move things around (feature is seemingly already working and this is a distinct separate "improve the code" step)

> Is this valuable history?

Keeping that last one separate is absurdly valuable when trying to figure out why the code acts the way it does, when a bug is reported later. A lot of bugs I encounter were in those steps when someone makes a simple typo moving the code around, and having it in the history makes it obvious it wasn't an intended change.
I'd agree that at first glance this reads like crank material and the question to answer is "why not?" instead of "why?". It is extremely vague and doesn't parse into anything that seems meaningful.
The quality of tap water in Shanghai is pretty bad even by Chinese standards - there is a reason why boiling water is the norm.
When your body runs out of glucose in blood and glycogen in liver, it starts creating new one from protein and fat [1] for the few processes that need it, while switching most metabolism (including brain) to use fat-derived Ketone bodies as fuel [2].

This normally happens when fasting, and is no big deal. It's how people survive days without food.

Now there's something going on with how brain processes ketone bodies and glucose differently and there some research about how that affects things like Alzheimer's disease but I don't know that much about that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
Do give credit where it is due, Karnataka state government has been quite transparent in reporting Covid data, and there isn'a a deliberate misreporting or suppressing. There is a even a telegram channel run by the government where Covid updates are provided at regular intervals.
Gonna go out on a limb here, no one prosecuting the war on drugs actually wanted to get rid of them, they just wanted to criminalize their political opponents.
Interesting that all of the pro-cryptocurrency folks read this as an attack. I quite carefully did not place value, positive or negative, on it. Perhaps the fact that you read it that way reveals your true thoughts on the matter.

No, I don't support all laws in pretty much any regime. But I do believe that the ability to enforce laws is important. The only thing that consistently works more poorly than having rules is not having any rules at all.

You are of course welcome to move to a lawless state if this is really what you want, but I suspect you would not find it to be the utopia you dream of.
Are we going to have a India second wave discussion every single day?

How is this "hacker" "news" @dang .. it's only unnecessary political bickering about how bad the government is from a bunch of India haters. Same talking points imported from Twitter everyday.
There are many effects here, for start if food places start going bankrupt remaining ones can raise prices and pay some sensible wage.

And anyway, if getting unemployed means that you will die - then society has a large problems. (assuming country in XXI century, does not apply to historic situation where resources were not sufficient to feed everyone)
> Making fun of ethnic names

They're not necessarily ethnic, some people just have funny names:

https://theawesomedaily.com/50-funny-names-that-are-so-unfor...

https://www.newidea.com.au/funny-names

In your opinion just how genocidal are these articles on the pyramid of hate?
Except, here, you don't even have to save. You get to keep both the money you made over the past year and six more months of salary. Literally having your cake and eating it.
Absolute clusterfuck it is right now in India. And thank you international media for bringing this to light.

This could've been averted if the government wasn't busy promoting quackery [1], pandering to astrologers and hardliners by organizing a massive religious festival in the middle of pandemic [2]. And they did fuck all to improve the medical/oxygen infrastructure for the past one year and are promoting fake news that puts the blame squarely on provincial governments. [6]

Our supreme leader Modi was busy canvassing and praising crowds attending his rallies as recently as 17th April while the country was burning. [3]

Modi's heir in the making who has the potential to make him look like a saint has recently threatened to file cases against people and seize their properties if they take their grievances to social media.[4]

And even now, the government is more concerned about their image than controlling the situation. And the establishment's toadies are busy online(I see a lot of them here too) defending their dear leader even now with the same enthusiasm they show to credit him for anything positive.

The people are to blame too ofcourse for relaxing but what can we expect when the leaders at helm proclaimed the pandemic is over.

PS: I had to post this from a newly created account cuz I wouldn't want this to weigh against me when I apply for a passport. [5]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/56172784
[2] https://science.thewire.in/health/leaders-listened-to-astrol...
[3] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/west-bengal-assembly-electio...
[4] https://thelogicalindian.com/trending/yogi-adityanth-oxygen-...
[5] https://thenextweb.com/news/this-indian-states-police-force-...
[6] https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/no-centre-did-not-allo...
Somewhat off topic: Whenever I see these user-friendly Linux distributions I think they would be great for mass deployments in schools or similar. Is there any technology that gives Elementary (or similar distributions) a deployment workflow like Chrome OS; ie zero-config (for the user) to log into a central service and configuration of the user account while being easy to administer?
Okay, half the tax rate and my point still stands. I responded to your other points in another comment of mine up thread. Feel free to address my rebuttal there.
On a tangent: having just read a long blog post about Europa Universalis IV & co. it struck me that that genre is a line of which an early exemplar was HAMMURABI.
My takeaway is the organisational design (one week hacking / writing report / planning) is not working at a sustainable pace.

The problem is finding ways to work at a sustainable pace, even ignoring medical emergencies.
Community of the software engineers with passion for the fastest code
https://archive.is/jJB4A
Ok, maybe a better example is being a secret agent for the CIA.

The CIA is able to recruit people for the Clandestine Service who could easily make millions at a bank. They get paid about 90k a year, for more work.

Why? Because they get to be freaking secret agents!

Are they being exploited? I know some folks who used to work for intelligence agencies. They seem to think so. The “secret agent” factor is bullshit. They have to live in high cost of living areas. And 99% of the time the job sucks.

Mostly just office work.

I certainly see something exploitive about that … offering one thing and not giving it.

The military is famous for that shit.

I’m sure there are other industries that do the same. Hollywood comes to mind. So does programming computer games. Etc.
This is such a strange statement. Do you think your company's policies will apply to other companies better because it's larger?

I would also argue that Basecamp's "internal disputes" very much reflect the current broader political climate.
I'm very curious how you got there. I certainly don't hold that belief. I do however hold the apparently very controversial view that we should have laws, and that they are pointless if they aren't enforceable. I think the only thing that really pins down about me is that I'm not an anarchist.
I'm from India. I extremely doubt that the air pollution has anything to do with this. Our healthcare system has completely collapsed. People are struggling to find medical oxygen and are dying outside hospitals without getting any care. Hospital are literally begging for oxygen on Twitter every single day. Significant number of these could've been saved if the Government had prepared for this by improving the healthcare infra. Instead they overconfidently declared victory, kept on hiding data, organized religious and political rallies.
The worst is that it has just gotten started and would keep getting worse in the coming days.
K-shaped recovery. There's a ubiquitous economic bifurcation that isn't obvious to the middle- and lower-classes.

Want to know what economic inequality looks like? Well, there you go.
> I'm afraid many of them will be in for a rude awakening.

This is what stood out to me. Basecamp pay 90th percentile Bay Area salaries regardless of where you choose to live. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm not sure that's going to be easy to find without relocating.

Even if you're not a rabid mercenary you're certainly going to feel the impact, if not on your day to day life then on your future plans, of taking a possibly massive pay cut, if you don't want to relocate.

Maybe remote working will become more the norm post-pandemic, and that will put upward pressure on remote salaries, but I don't by any means think that's a foregone conclusion.
Your understanding of money is seriously flawed. Fiat currencies don't lose purchasing power over time by design. Central banks have a public mandate to maintain price stability and to create a low level of inflation, and that's what central banks do. The rate of inflation/deflation isn't an intrinsic characteristic of any currency (including cryptocurrencies) but the result of a particular monetary policy. For example, a country could instruct its central bank to reduce the increase in the money supply at a constant rate, like bitcoin does, instead of maintaining price stability. Nobody does this because it's thought to be a terrible monetary policy (would be pro-cyclical, leading to large price swings and deeper boom-bust cycles), not because it can't be done.
Chris Christie spoke about when he got Covid prepping for the debate. 7 people contracted Covid during that prep session. He got it the worst, the second worst was Donald Trump, the next worse was Hope Hicks who was in her early 30s and a daily runner.

http://tal.fm/736 about 49 minutes in
He explicitly said that they were welcome to use some other platform, just not the company one.
This is such a Florida thing to do. It is hilarious. That’s why Florida will not be a tech hub
We are working on it and the functionality is already usable - try it out! https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/pull/985

(Note that the UI for activating / deactivating the barrier will likely be changed before merging this PR)
I don't know about the glucose ...

... but burning out can really destroy your life. I know it destroyed mine. It took me years to recover, and I'm still not 100%.

I started working for an early stage startup right after school when I was 19yo. I didn't sleep. I didn't eat properly. Our team was small. Responsibilities super high. And I burned out.

Oh, I have so many stories from this time... like when I hadn't slept for 3 days and my body shut down when I was driving home from the office – I was so tired that my body went to sleep behind the wheel.

I wrote about it here:
https://remotehunt.com/blog/4-day-work-weeks-in-remote-compa...

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Edit 30m later: I went for a run after writing this comment (you know, to be outside and be less stressed out), and while running, I remembered that I once had a "pop" in my head too. My "pop" could have been different from the author's, of course, but I would describe it as a "pop."

I went to the ER immediately, and they did some basic blood pressure tests, etc. Then concluded that I probably had an anxiety attack (they get this often). Docs gave me some pills that took my anxiety away, and I was fine afterward. It was another sign for me to slow down.

But it's hard to slow down when you're already far down the burnout road. In debt, but a family to support, etc.

If I hadn't had a family at the time, I would have probably just quit the whole society game. Moved to a small hut somewhere near the beach. Alone, without a phone to reach me.
> It was a physical issue.

> My physical brain ran out of physical fuel.

A bit limiting of a view on the events in my opinion. Our mental state directly influences our health. Attributing these kind of symptoms solely to physical factors misses the point, that the mental space is as real as the physical one and ignoring it has real effects. In an effort to be more like machines I think programmers forget that we do not operate by the same rules.
Each sachet of P&G™ is provided to global emergency relief organizations or non-governmental organizations at a cost of 3.5 US cents, not including shipping from Pakistan by ocean container. Transport, distribution, education, and community motivation can add significantly to program costs. Sachets are generally sold at product cost recovery for 10 US cents each, for a cost of 1 US cent per liter treated.

10 cents for 10 liters, or a penny a liter. still a lot more than 3.5 cents, but not crazy.
> until it mutated to a deadly version

Do we know this, yet?
Sample apps built with Neutralinojs
Android did not have that and we pay less. But so. Like walled garden in a world where nobody know that you are a dog. And you have alternatives on both desktop and mobile.

Success is not a crime.
If something seems that way to you, and you want to say to others that it seems that way, you could explain why.

It’s not like it was developed by random nobodies, and it’s not like the default assumption should be that some work is the result of cranks (the default assumption should be agnosticism towards it)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch
>they get to work as opposed to staying at home and degenerate (mentally and physically)

I almost spit out my drink. You must have a pretty small imagination if you think that working for somebody else is the only way to stimulate yourself mentally and physically.
The beautiful psychology of "this is boring and not that hard... Except if you slip up you'll be greviously injured"

Digging a hole is hard work, but it's very difficult to hurt yourself doing it.
Perhaps. I think separating the last mile and the service provider is an important thing, but I think it might be best for both to be private but legally separated. Then innovation can happen in both arenas without anti competitive shinganigans happening
How do you know?

It depends on how fast the virus population doubles. And how fast the immune system kicks in.

If the virus population doubles every second then the person who swallowed 30 virus particles will be at 300,000 in just 14 seconds.

If it doubles once per minute, it is 14 minutes. If it doubles once per hour, it is 14 hours.

The question if that is a meaningful headstart depends on how fast the immune system reacts. And if it reacts faster to 300k viruses than to 30.
Nowhere did I disagree with what you've said, except for your final sentence. The interesting thing about cryptocurrency is not that it facilitates illegal activities, but that it does very little else - and that is in fact quite different from the rest of your list.
now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
> What I am seeing in Delhi is people from all walks of life without any comorbidites succumbing to the disease - peoples in 30s, 40s, and even 20s.

Roughly 10% of people need hospitalization when infected with COVID, and when hospitals are full, some of those people are going to die when they wouldn't have had they received care.
Has an official NFT been released yet?
Bitcoin Cash is the original and confirms in the next block for pennies.
Is there a link between cryptocurrency speculation and artificially low, centrally planned interest rates?
> once an organization reaches a certain size, these discussions become impossible because the average level of a discussion is just so terrible (and there will always be a minority who actually don't want to engage with anyone else, they just want to burn it down)

I can relate with this based on my experience. Setting proper goals and incentive solves not all but many problems. But with big enough and diverse crowd there will be always some issues.
Basecamp.com/Humans.txt
No one is “forced” to pay rent or food or for education or healthcare. Yes, you are correct.
This is exactly what government does in Belgium for specific types of jobs, like home cleaning aids for example.

Before the (significant) wage subsidy, they used to almost always be paid under the table. Now they earn a proper salary with all extra security that entails.
Intel has enough cash to finance a possible comeback down the road. I'm shocked at how people seem to minimize their future options.
You absolutely can "unring that bell". You outlaw government granted monopolies
Lol. My mom's house has solar panels. Is she suddenly rich?

I have a Toto S550e bidet toilet seat, towel warmer, and gigantic waterfall showerhead.. am I rich too?

Acting rich and being rich (of which, there are many gradations) have almost nothing to do with one another. Thomas J. Stanley wrote a number of books on the subject.
> most ransomware attacks are pretty unsophisticated

As weird as it sounds, this is both correct and incorrect at the same time.

It is correct, because ransomware is not particularly sophisticated by today's standards. Couple of decades of R&D has made the building blocks robust and uninteresting.

It is also correct in the sense that the attacks used to breach systems are unsophisticated. A vulnerability is published for an internet-facing system, and in just couple of days the underground toolkits are already (ab)using it.

It is incorrect in the sense that the crews who breached the systems are not the crews who deploy ransomware. Computer crime has evolved to a fully functioning economy, with high specialisation among its participants. Crew A reverse-engineers patches, updates their vulnerability exploitation engines and goes on to breach systems. (In a race against time, because there are other crews doing the same.) They then sell access to crews B, C and D.

Crew B are after financial information and will exfiltrate anything that can be sold to morally ambivalent hedge funds. They may also grab R&D material, because corporate espionage is a thing. Crew C will grab all the personally identifiable data and have intimate knowledge how to best monetise it for various types of fraud.

Crew D will deploy the ransomware, because they have all the sophistication you need to run their extortion operations at scale. These days this includes the ability to handle massive volumes of off-site backups, because why not. "Pay up or we leak it" is a perfectly valid extension to their business model.

The gangs I referred to as "Crew A" are known in the industry as Access Brokers. There are of course other operators too who work in a more asynchronous fashion, such as money launderers.

The economy powering the criminal enterprise markets is certainly sophisticated. And while most of the technology in use doesn't qualify for using that word, the internal operations these gangs run certainly do.
If you are interested in text processing tools, I have books on grep, sed, awk, perl and ruby one-liners. Free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

I'm also maintaining a list of resources here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/linux_cli...
"If only 1.7m tests are being conducted per day, what can that 386,000 really mean? Is it that 0.0004% of the country has come down with the virus since yesterday, or that nearly 23% did? Obviously, the true number lies between those absurd extremes, but who knows where?"

Why is there not a proper estimate on how big a part of the population is infected? And with which strains? Surely with a randomized, representative survey you could find this out, instead of all this speculation? It also would give authorities better grounds for their decisions.
Probably an IRC channel (the original hashtag).
Wouldn't it be better to set a cost to tearing up the road rather than limit it to one road tearer upper?
Are you objecting specifically to the 100? It seems clear enough to me that it's not supposed to be a very tight estimate. Would "an order of magnitude or two" be better? Or "an order of magnitude or more"?

And it definitely suggests that the amount of under-reporting varies by area, so it's even more unfair for you to multiply the entire country's number by 100 as your goalpost.
It was like that 20 years ago. You can see the pollution.
From a brief read (there aren't many details on the website) it sounds like they are trying to reformulate physics along the lines of object orientation. I'm not sure how this is going to handle fields (such as gravitational fields) or how this is supposed to be better.

"With support of the Templeton World Charity Foundation". The Templeton is highly controversial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation#Rece...
> That's disrespectful to the people you serve.

Perhaps this is not an enlightened view, and I would not have used the word “serve,” but employees serve the leadership, not the other way around. This is a company, not the government. As a citizen, the government serves me. As an employee, I serve my employer.
> science fiction book Accelerando

For those who haven't read it yet, it's available for free on the author's website: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
Yeap. Since the 1970's and Reaganomics, the middle-class was continuously decimated to almost nothing.

In the US: you're either in tech or banking/finance, or you're shoveling coal to earn your cockroach protein block. From where I sit from yet another overpriced goddamn gentrification ivory "mixed-use development" tower of yuppies, I can see 50 tents of homeless people. This wasn't the case in the '80's.
I'm not an expert but it does seem incorrect. As I understand it (correct me if I am wrong), the brain cannot function alone on ketone bodies and always needs some glucose. Even when fully depleted and in deep ketosis, the liver will synthesize glucose via gluconeogenesis.
Take a look at https://chialisp.com

It’s a functional language for smart contracts.
What an excellent illustrative write-up. I don't even know what a four-stroke engine is all these years! Thanks to the author, I do know now :)