skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure who you think you're arguing with but so far most of your rebuttals attack points I never made.

I never said that humans aren't "self-interested" or that humans, in the abstract, can be described as acting optimally within given constraints.

I said that the constraints influence behavior (which you agree with) and I said that the current economic system results in a tragedy of commons (which you also agree with). I also said that it is also possible to avoid the tragedy of the commons (at least locally, for a given commons), which is demonstrated by successful commons existing and having existed under different constraints.

None of that seems to be anything you disagree with, yet here we are.

Note that both examples you've given — rentier capitalism in Berlin and New York, and (presumably) Soviet-style bureaucratic socialism — suffer massively from alienation, which demonstrably leads to inefficiency and disregard (e.g. littering). This is well-understood enough that creating a feeling of "ownership" or "autonomy" (without introducing monetary benefits or democratic sharing of actual control over the company) has become a management strategy to motivate employees under capitalism.

As a counter-example to Berlin under capitalism in Germany, consider affluent rural areas where you see barely any littering. These regions however also have a high rate of home ownership and parallel social support networks, which I assume is what you're gesturing at as "repeated interactions" (but in this case often spanning literally generations). But these systems are unstable under laissez-faire capitalism as they present an inefficient resource use in the greater economic system and will over time erode as residents move away for job opportunities and properties are sold off and reused for more space-efficient apartment buildings.

To summarize, I'm not saying a tragedy of the commons can not exist under other economic systems, I'm saying there are systems under which a given tragedy of the commons can be averted and that this is not the case for the current one.
Probably. Yet, the solution parent pointed out as an opportunity will -- probably -- try everything not to.
PayPal will not help you if you inadvertently buy a scam product.

I bought a TV light strip doodad for $20. What arrived was an empty box. It shipped from the US, but they wanted me to ship it back to China. PayPal could not have cared less. They agreed I needed to send it back to China. I escalated very far up their chain. Nothing.

Apparently this is a common scam and PayPal does zero to help.
They've learned to lie better.
There’s a Samsung firmware hacking community: https://forum.samygo.tv/
They don't usually jiggle with text, just match it with corporate forms. Substance will still be there.
ok fine, you're an engineer!
I use VM with an encrypted disk.
Why does the author keep saying that the original Person definition can crash the app? That's not true, is it? You'll just get races, as far as I know.
Maybe finding a line of televisions we could reliably lobotomize would work in the short term (a la Librebooted ThinkPads).
No way.

I have my mom Texting me that I shouldn't drive my Tesla because of this, and I should sell it and buy something else.

How many of those people will read the follow up paper from the NTSB?

This is literally the definition of smear. Shout something bad about a successful X, and by the time the actual truth comes out, the damage is already done and people have moved on.
For many OSS is a breath of fresh air. A project where you're in charge, free to set your own goals and deadlines. Free to tinker and experiment. Free to say "do it yourself" when someone gets a wrong idea and goes against your creative vision. Money create exactly the kind of obligations you're running away from. Even if it's not demanded, you're still feel pressure to provide support, make your code fit for some purpose. And for what? Some chump change?

> Why do people expect that their employer should get this stuff for free

Because it's offered for free.

> developer should have to beg for a few crumbs

They shouldn't. Developers unhappy with their financial situation should pick up some contractual work or offer their product as SaaS.
100%. We just got a sceptre from walmart. Stupid big for the price, great picture, and did I mention the low price. Oh, and not one smart feature; just television with various inputs.

I haven't TV shopped in literal decades. It astounded me that there was (a) a market for more advertising on your television via smart features, and (b) seemingly low-end models are the only ones that are available as 'dumb'. Other manufacturers have regular tv's, but they are never available, and cost as much as the smart versions. The whole thing is weird.
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> OSS model, unfortunately, is broken.

I don’t think this is true. The mode works phenomenally well (eg, Apache, Linux, Postgres, etc).

But it doesn’t work for all projects and isn’t the same as commercial software. If I create a project with the goal to make lots of money, then I probably won’t succeed.

Conflating “doesn’t work for me” with “broken” is not using all the available evidence.
You somehow seem to think that amount someone earns is somehow related to how good they are.

> $11k/mo is realistic. It's already a large pay cut.

Yes, sure, in Silicon Valley anything is possible but for the 99% rest of the world, 11K USD per month is ridiculously high and even people with decades of experience won't collect that unless there is a specific situation. It's definitely not normal outside of Silicon Valley companies.

> Are all those people capable of managing Babel?

Yes, I know of at least 10 JS developers with decades of experience who could handle maintaining Babel if it was up to them, and they don't earn close to 11K USD per month today. I'm sure they'd be happy to work on Open Source and effectively earning more, but many be happy just working on Open Source full time.
>This was an eye-opening experience for us. We saw how far behind Linux is on the tracing tooling side.

Yet, in a typical Microsoft way, if you want to use that Message Analyzer tool now:

>Microsoft Message Analyzer (MMA) is being retired and its download packages removed from microsoft.com sites on November 25 2019. There is currently no Microsoft replacement for Microsoft Message Analyzer in development at this time.
"One frame could render in 20ms and the next in 25ms, which is completely fine."

No it is not fine, if you want to have a real smooth gameplay. So also in game loops, you can adjust for that, by checking timediff.

But sure, the difference is that, if you miss a frame in a game loop - no real rockets crash, so there is probably (and hopefully) not as much effort put into that, like they do on SpaceX.
Reminds me of something I noticed in the discussion about Hedy Lamarr. It's not uncommon to hear people say, "If she was a man, you'd hear about her being a great inventor." But her co-inventor, George Antheil, gets talked about much less , and often only in conjunction with her (search for discussions about either of them on Reddit, Hacker News or the like to see examples of this).
You statement stands on the assumption that rationing in itself has no price to pay, which is definitely not true. Rationing is complex, and expensive activity, even if you take the easiest form (e.g. 1 liter to every citizen). Also, rationing which takes into account differences of needs is even more hard, and more often than not is close to impossible. Without it rationing is inherently unfair, and may lead to more strain in society. Finally, it does breed black market, and corruption. All in all, there's no sense in it for a mild, and days-term shortage of something which is not drinking water.
Interesting, some Chuwis caught my eye several times, but I dismissed them for uncertainty of Linux/BSD support. Is that even on their radar, or don't they care about it at all because
F** those few nerds, they can reverse it themselves if they think they have to. I mean, in general it should work, because standard components, but in reality it depends on how the firmware glues them together.
What part did I miss? The two developers making $2k were part time, only one went full time, and current all of them work part time for $6k/month.
So you still eat red meat, even though it is classified as a Group 2A carcinogen and is far from sustainable? You clearly only really care about your taste buds.

Great priorities!
Why don't we have Wayland yet?
It would also disrupt food, drinking water and sweage. And all transportation, so even fuel would not be available. Without clean water and sanitation at home cities would be death traps.

People living on an area with rivers and wild animals could do a bit better. Unless they are at reach of people walking out of the cities.

Think about a zombie apocalypse, but with starving people by the hundreds of thousands. Starving and, if in the US, armed.

Keeping food and water at home for at least for a couple of months is a very sensitive thing to do for this kind of events. Think about a new pandemic but this time the virus has 10% or 20% of mortality. Exactly.
In the US, any donation to a nonprofit can be earmarked by the donor for a particular purpose. They're legally bound to use your money only for that purpose.
* Waymo not Waze

* Operates in a tiny geographically fenced area

* Despite success, has not expanded to any new areas or rolled out any further.

* As a consumer, I have no access to buy Waymo, but I can buy at least the current implementation of Tesla Autopilot.
Odds of Xcode for iPad arriving right around then?
I’ve had good luck with the outsourced service reps. It’s over chat usually and they know which canned responses to use for common scenarios (didn’t arrive, DOA, counterfeit, etc).

What problem were they unable to resolve?
It's actually fairly normal in many countries that libraries compensate authors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right

The amount is probably not very large though, the German Wikipedia page says ~11 Mio Euro for 2010.
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I think this comes down to how you think over purchasing in a shortage works.

Is it a large number of people buying just a little bit extra just in case or is it a small number of people buying a whole lot extra just in case?

If it's the later rationing seems reasonable; if it's the former increasing the price a small amount would work.
The GP was talking in relation to W/Kg, and the output per Kg is definitely not e=mc^2. It helps reading things in the context.
You can, but if you cause an accident - you now have 8 cameras recording your every move. I bet I know how that goes down in court.
It’s not engineering incompetence when the floor is constantly changing under your feet.

How many apps coded 5 years ago even run on modern iOS. Apple expects engineers to ship at least one new version a year and don’t care about backwards compatibility. Have a ton of apps on my phone that no longer launch for various reasons.

Not saying I endorse it or agree with it. Just saying this is the world Apple built and don’t intend to change.
I tend to think that may be why we're dormant at night. To keep off of the big cat's radar.
They did the right thing if their goal was to move Erlang developers to Elixir. Not so much if they aimed to onboard Java or C++ developers. If they did, GenServer had to look like a Class like and they would use { } instead of do end. Strangely it seems that they aimed to Ruby developers (like me). That's why they picked do end and similar names for modules and functions. But Ruby developers wouldn't mind a GenServer looking like a class with proper function names instead of atoms in argument lists.
Agreed - it's all BS. I get no benefit from the company pushing wellness crap.
Tokyo Olympics: poll shows 60% of Japanese people want Games cancelled
From that link (permalink to answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61887923) :

> Nowadays you can try:

> sudo service docker start

> when using WSL2, if you are running on windows version 2004 or higher (I assume).

Which is what I did in the listing above.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115721
I'd rather be protected by regulation than pay more for what I shouldn't have to pay for in the first place.
Immutable Double-Linked Tree Construction in Scala
Appreciation: "This burrito is amazing"

Fetishization: "This burrito is so amazing I'm going to start using a Cholo accent, drive a low rider, do up my apartment like the inside of an Azteca, and rename my business to some obscure Spanish phrase"
> If runtime safety is turned off, you get undefined behavior

You already know someone will teach their students to always have it off because its "slower" or something.

Make something idiot-proof and the world invents a better idiot.

Another language that does safety like this incredibly well is Ada (Ada/SPARK), and I'm unsure why people aren't more hyped about it. So many people hype Rust or Zig or whatever new language, and yet there's an incredibly safe and expressive language that's used in high-reliability applications like missile guidance systems, that nobody seems to talk about.
https://www.spacex.com/careers/index.html
Great, so the bug would need to be proven. A newspaper can't decide what happened the day of the crash with no evidence.
There's a lot of engineering that just isn't at that level of critical. If it is, then they do it in their CAD software. If it's safety related, there might be just one person in the department who handles that kind of stuff.

Now, I have a relative who is a retired nuclear power plant operator. They did things a bit more formally there. ;-)
You can always scan your local radio spectrum. Wifi devices generally operate on known and documented frequencies.
Hey it is not Reddit, but at least these are not off-color jokes.
Do you have a method of seeking out companies that don't do this?
You completly missed his point.

You seem to complain about it being more based on a PR angle rather that facts and truth, but the whole point of what parent is saying is that this is a game Musk himself is pushing.
Fake News – Black Community Center Hit by Racist Lightning Bolt
I have written a BrainFuck generator for writing a BrainFuck program which could replace the hex0 seeds. See https://www.iwriteiam.nl/BFgen.html
How many birds have crashed into your windows? At my parents house, this happens a couple of times a year.
They could easily do that. But they want to use their Word component to compose replies to emails. So it needs to go through the WordHTML at some point..

And from that perspective, it's better to break the mail as it's coming in (so the sender gets blamed) rather than at the moment the user clicks reply.
Might be worth a read on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Doesn't matter what you think of the character, it has nothing to do with this instance.
It makes sense to keep food and water, only if you also have protection. I mean a weapon. Because those 20 million zombies are coming.
> some global technique to solve PCA (SVD), which cannot take advantage of the parallelism of GPU / TPU

My reading of https://developer.download.nvidia.com/video/gputechconf/gtc/... suggests that it's just the usual modern SVD algorithm, in particular the QR factorization part, that's the limiting factor, and with some thought there are ways to do better.
I want to be allowed to do my work and then I want to go home. I can’t be weller than that.
they re also incentivized to write OSS that benefits huge conglomerates, but not individuals so they can attract the big donors. It's broken many years now. Copyleft licenses can at least salvage some of the wreck
Do you have more information regarding Uline being far right plutocrats?
Desulfovibrio Bacteria Are Associated with Parkinson’s Disease
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
Assumption but I wonder if the thread sanitiser crashes the app on thread access violations in debug builds so you can debug?
Amygdala hijack
Parent wants to open his network to strangers. He’ll be liable to any traffic they’re sending. So it’s a good idea to anonymise this traffic with Tor.
>If their gambit succeeds (shorting), the value of your shares diminish.

The causality here seems kinda confusing. People shorting an equity doesn't make it go down automagically. They don't have control over that.

They might be right that the stock will go down, but more likely, the shares are going to be used by someone riding trends of some sort.

If you're a long term investor, you don't care about short term trends. If you're planning on holding the stock for _years_, regardless of the performance over the next few months, then it's a nice way to generate income, and with less risk than doing something like selling Covered Calls on them.
My insurance rates are the "same" as a similarly priced Audi or such.

As Teslas are safer over time, one would expect rates to gradually go down. Some repairs are a bit more expensive, so could be a bit of a balancing act.
Twitter scammers impersonate SNL in Elon Musk cryptocurrency scams
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitter-scammers-impersonate-snl-in-elon-musk-cryptocurrency-scams/

In 15 years following online scams and schemes, the twitter crypto giveaway the most profitable and lucrative I have even seen. There is nothing that compares to it in terms of consistent $ and profits and no risk of consequences. You'd have to sell millions of dollars of pills to equal the daily profit of a single twitter scammer, so this much smaller footprint makes the scma especially hard to trace and effectice and under the radar and quasi legal. By tracking wallets, I estimate the total take to be $40-60 million on twitter alone at today's prices of bitcoin and ethereum and doge. Total complicity by twitter to allow it to continue for years on end. It makes you wonder if twitter employees are not being bribed to allow the scam to run and then pull it down after elon makes a new tweet. The scammers make way more $ than twitter engineers that's for sure. Americans are being scammed by this and congress should demand an explanation as to how it can continue. Attorney generals need to be notified.
Babel is an complex perpetual maintenance solution to bad engineering in the first place. I'd rather be a "ossified tech lagger" then having to deal with that.
Of course there is. But I'd hope the CEO revives compensation to make that worth while.
No, because most sellers have:

- Incredibly slow shipping

- Painful return processes
I completely agree... in principle. That being said, I actually think we tend to underestimate the value of trusting experts. Often times the sources out there that one could be quoting espouse conflicting and ambiguous conclusions and it ironically takes an expert to be able to parse through them all. If we could all trust experts a bit more and, rather than ask for sources, instead ask our experts to explain their reasoning to us, I think we'd all be better off in the long run in that we'd actually be learning from them rather than trying to constantly bootstrap becoming experts ourselves.
I had assumed with was happening with Comcast's wifi option already.
Manufacturers just have to have credentials and someone nearby to have a comcast network device.
You have to pick your fights. I'm not sure this is the hill to die on.
That's what I did with my newer Samsung smart TV. Really would like to just kill the network capabilities of it physically, though.
> the author is trying to limit damage to the memory of the old one due to guilt-by-association with Brexit

To me that seems like an attempt to shoehorn the authors personal dislike of Brexit (and the white cube) into the topic. I don’t think would likely dislike an arts festival due to Brexit.
But writing really good books surely is?

The numbers are quite frightening but honestly, it is a crowded market with millions of professional, semi-professional and hoobyist authors all trying to stand-out.

I have read a few books recently, that are quite well-known, and didn't really find the quality very high. These are books that have gone through the high barrier of publishing and distribution so they can't be "garbage" but yet, they were underwhelming.

On the other hand, I have read some books which are outstanding and unique. They have a USP over other books, which is why they should and could succeed.

In such a crowded market, one should not expect to make a good full-time salary, just like most footballers and musicians would be lucky to make enough to live on, let alone a good salary.
Tell that to my 30-year-old sister - who still has migraines and extreme fatigue a year after catching covid, who was healthy, an avid runner, and had no preexisting conditions before.
The algorithm doesn't matter-- we can see the results of it filling otherwise reasonable people with vinegar and shaking them up.

E.g., Glenn Greenwald-- who won a Pulitzer and civilly debated both Michael Hayden and a former Bush-era drug czar-- has tweets where the content is, "Fuck you." What is the point, and why does that attract users in the first place?

At least with Facebook it really did connect boomers with long lost boomers from summer camp.
Interesting, and funny sounding, although apart from not translating, I don't really know a better translation for root in this context?
Work can also bring self-fulfillment.
> fun

Fun?!? On my HackerNews?!?

Burn the heretic!
I cook daily, Italian and German and American Southwest. I'm upper middle class. I live out in the country. I grow my own ingredients.

But I have some empathy, for people who don't have the leisure I have. For instance, I have sympathy for folks who want hot prepared complex food without spending the hour to make it. Nobody imitates a Big Mac or fried chicken sandwich in seconds. Eating oatmeal at home after a hard day is very far from my idea of a good life.
I, Leonard, do not know of what you speak. ;-)
a friend got X250 with no tuning to work continuously for something like 26 hours.

But thinkpads didn't tend to remove batteries to get slimmer then.
Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan? [audio]
I wish I could set up automatic replies to mails lacking plain text.
Do you really think the seat belts are the problem here? I mean, they're not a big cost driver.
Honestly, one of the side effects of this sort of thing, and the splintering of streaming services into on-line cable bills, is that what used to be hard to find movies and tv episodes are no longer hard to find to add to my home collection. So that's a positive, I guess.
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On the subject of paying OSS projects, it makes me think that the idea of a part-time OSS "employee" might be a good one. Almost all businesses benefit from OSS but almost none of them pay back to the community. What if a business budgeted for a part-time employee and just sent the money to the OSS community at large. I mean, that "employee" IS helping and develop software, from a certain point of view. Without that work their other employees would have to work much more to reach the same output.

I wonder how virtual employees would work for taxes. Maybe the government could offer a discount for them. It would be cheaper for a company than a "real" employee. No health care, no social security, no office or equipment; just a salary.
No, I did not.

When the truth is the PR angle, it should be pushed.

A lie shouldn't be made up to advance PR, but if someone is reporting an actual lie? Anyone speaking up their truth has my 1000% backing, even if I do not agree with that position.

I am not willing to join the post-truth era of American politics.