skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's useful to decompose this dialectical into "material" and a "social" dimensions. The material dimension is about change in the world[1]: places are conquered, techniques are developed. We can acknowledge and think about these changes without assigning them a cause. The social dimension is all about assigning causes to those changes. The idea that one person invents something or that it is "in the air" is ultimately a social judgement[2]. People can believe whichever narrative they want and will frequently fight about which narrative is correct.

So, to me, it is 100% true that there is no final word on the social question. We both have highly ambiguous historical examples and every reason to question if the historical examples that appear unambiguous are simply shaped by the social consensus of their time.

I do not think we need to accept that there is no final world on the material question. It seems very possible for us to improve our techniques for fostering discoveries. That's not to say it's easy to see clearly (obviously our social ties mess with us here), but I don't think they are the same.

> At this point I think it's best to simply acknowledge that there's truth to both sides, and that therefore the debate is ultimately artificial

By this standard, isn't nearly all debate "artificial"? Two opposite sides can both have points, but how we weigh them can have enormous real world consequences.

[1] Of course, social changes are also changes in the world but let's not tie ourselves in knots too much.

[2] There is also obviously a material element here - someone does something, but I think that material action is irretrievably obscured by the social consensus layer.
Not so much. If the company is large enough then some teams will have enough clout to break away. Our company is mostly Jira / Confluence / Bitbucket, but our team uses GitHub SCM/Issues/Actions now. Since we've led the charge other teams are starting to migrate as well.

I have a lot of awful things to say about GitHub Actions but it's probably the best fit for our team.
Tenchu: Stealth Assasins should also be very playable still I think? At least I played it a bit recently on a PS1 emulator on a Raspberry Pi and was fun enough for me (as is Tekken 3).
Do these fees also cover the cost of the deliver driver for the restaurant? Because 15% still seems high, but that might not be a bad deal for the restaurants if it's covering the cost of delivery.
Currently it's at an entry/line level like you suggest, although theoretically I could flip (for lack of a better term) the algorithm and apply it laterally on a per character basis.

The data structure is a WAL storing all mutation events, each of which has a reference to another uniquely identifiable item (by some UUID:timestamp combo). Rather than treating each line as a uniquely identifiable object, I could treat each character as such.

Downside of the current implementation is that two people operating offline on the same line will see unpredictable results when they're able to sync again (basically it will just honour the most recent update event). The per-char change above would remedy that, I think!
History (ancient and recent) is full of geniuses who came up with a revolutionary idea largely on their own

Not quite. They are always building in the backs of those who came before, even ( and sometime especially ) the failures.

Simultaneous independent invention is pretty strong evidence for this. It still takes a uniquely talented person, but when a certain critical mass of prior learning and information is achieved, then for those uniquely talented people the breakthroughs may be the logical next step as they work through the problem. See Newton & Leibniz re:calculus as an example. The author dismisses this example, but both did truly do the heavy lifting, independent of each other, but still with the assistance of collaboration and shared thoughts.

The problem is that the author seems to not want to admit to degrees of "lone-ness". Either a genius did most of the heavy lifting, or they did not-- the author does not seem interested in examining the nuances of how-- and how much-- an individual achieved through relationships with other thinkers resent & past.

Even if we were to grant (incorrectly) that Newton would have achieved everything he achieved without any assistance, feedback, discussions, etc with other thinkers of his time, it would be truly ridiculous to think he would have achieved as much if not for everything & everyone who came before them.

In short, some genius intellects still benefit from fertile soil, and this does not at all take away from their incredible achievements that still required a genius intellects to put together. The author seems to think acknowledging this somehow takes away from the achievement: it does not. If anything, it elevates it: The genius takes everything that came before and the intellects of their own time, synthesizes it and then transcends it. That transcendence is incredible, but it did not occur in isolation.

And the of course there are discoveries that are achieved through gradual, often tedious chipping away at a problem. This is a lot of science, even if the massive paradigm shifts (See Thomas Kuhn's work on this topic) may come from a single unique catalyst. The catalyst needs something to catalyze though.
If anyone from Github is here, can you please allow attachments of unrecognized file types? You won't let users attach their binary .plist prefs files and this makes Github issues unusable for my project.
LCOE is not what determines market prices but supply and demand.

End customers pay market prices, not production costs.

I don’t have any advantage as a customer when electricity is super cheap when it can’t be produced on demand.
https://maputnik.github.io is similar to Mapbox Studio, but isn't going to give you all you mentioned.

All vector tile sources use tags in various ways, so Maputnik (and the resulting styles) do as well. There isn't a standard tagging schema (and all MVT sources tend to differ slightly), but OSM's tagging is often influential on the resulting schema.
first step of any agile transformation is to get yourself neck deep into atlassian products. 2nd step is to setup complex JIRA workflows and reporting and use it to break all agile principles. third step is for your devs to take none of this seriously and put fake data into JIRA which your middle managers never catch onto. then your engineers who actually want to get shit done leave and you're left only with people who put fake shit into JIRA.
I had no issue on macOS 11.4, Firefox 89.0.1 (64-bit arm)
Ask HN: My workplace views engineers as “difficult”. Is it toxic?
At my current employer, I've heard upper management frequently refer to engineers as "difficult". From what I've seen, said engineers point out technical issues with long-term proposals, typically in a firm but unemotional fashion. Counterproposals would help, but sometimes an idea just does not make sense.

This sentiment has been thrown out a lot, often paired with the expectation that engineers should just be enthusiastically implementing what they're told.

I'm trying to discern whether this attitude is toxic or just a typical run-of-the-mill technology startup conflict.

Are there concrete flags that you watch out for in this kind of conflict that would be a signal that you should leave?
The oped touches on one thing I noticed during my time at the University of Cambridge. Almost everyone I talked to there had parents who invested heavily in them either monetarily (hiring nannies, intensive pre-school/after-school care/private school) or time wise from a young age. Increasing access to early child education as argued for by the author seems like no-brainer to bridge some of the gap between children of parents who invest more in their kids’ future and children of parents who either can’t or don’t want to.
>Contrast with staking, which will end up being large existing tradfi ('legacy bank') stakeholders, and they will control, censor and centralize the beast.

Banks can already use their capital to fund mines right now.
Also they wouldnt be able to censor it due to how easy it is to punish bad actors in PoS vs PoW
It's fairly recent. He bought it because an audiologist thought (mistakenly) that it was required for a new hearing aid. I know that I can't expect all the useful standardized gestures of Android to work, but this iPhone seems to have no gestures at all. The only way we've figured out to reach the settings (hearing aids seem to constantly require fiddling with settings, but that's because hearing aid manufacturers don't value software and it's not the fault of IOS) is finding the one settings icon on the several pages stuffed full of icons. Then one is faced with a list of about 75 items, and you have to remember which item has the subitem you're looking for. Everything I need to change on Android settings is a pull-down from the top, and one or two more clicks. If one needs to go back to an earlier menu, there is a "< back to" link somewhere on the page, but it's tiny, always in a slightly different spot, and on Android there is always a large button for that purpose at the very bottom of the screen.

I'm braving the onslaught of HN downvotes because I really hope that someone will suggest a solution to my problem. I really want to help my father use his iPhone.
The book has sections about Mexico as well. The basic gist is that the fundamental institutions that result in the inequality have persisted, even if the government has been overturned several times. The overarching theme of the book is about what types of incentives result from various types of institutions, and how positive and negative feedback loops can form therein.

Ultimately, Mexico has suffered significantly from the government granting monopoly rights to particular businesses (friends of the government) and by not respecting property rights. Both of these trends have spanned governments and go all the way back to the Spanish colonialists.

There is little incentive in Mexico to innovate and invest, because if you are too successful, you will likely run afoul of some wealthy friend of a politician who will use his power to ruin you. From the point of view of the political elite, this makes sense, because they are all rich and in charge. But this behavior impoverishes society on average.

Concrete examples in the book include the banking industry, which was effectively monopolized by 2 banks with government support in the 19th century. Contrasted with hundreds of banks with fierce competition in the US in the same time period. This resulted in high interest rates in Mexico (and thus little incentive to invest) and low interest rates in the US (which was rapidly industrializing).

A more modern example is comparing Bill Gates vs. Carlos Slim, who were vying for the title of the world's richest person when the book was written. Bill Gates made his fortune by founding an incredibly successful company. When it was engaging in monopolistic behavior, it was successfully prosecuted by the government. Contrast this with Carlos Slim who made his fortune largely by being granted favorable monopolistic deals by the Mexican government.
I suppose I made a big generalization there. Yes, people do sometimes use the threat of suicide to gain social leverage. That in no way is equivalent to saying that people who suffer from chronic pain, chronic depression, who are gay, trans, or work in high stress jobs have much higher than average suicide rates. If you hear statistics around suicide broken down by those demographics and see yourself as a victim of terrorism then that says more about you as a person than about anyone else. If someone directly tells you that what you are doing to them makes them feel suicidal then call 911 and walk away from that person. Beyond that, it's not your responsibility. If you keep feeling terrorized by a situation like that, I suggest talking to your mental health professional who can help you develop better coping skills.
Pine64 is using Rockchip SoCs in other products. In the past they have done SBCs with a SoC before putting it in more challenging designs like the tablet and phone, maybe there will be a RK3566 phone at some point.
The Constitution doesn't restrict local governments nearly as much as it does the federal government. And, of course, at least some schools are private and even less restricted because of that.

Even here, I'm surprised by the free speech advocacy of the justices. It doesn't seem consistent with plenty of other rules that are allowed to stand. This school could have punished the same cheerleader for the same words if she'd said them in class or even at practice. As far as I can tell, she was only protected because the school can't punish her for what she says totally outside of school property and activities.

The wording of the decision makes it sound like you're free to speak profanely anywhere and anytime you want, but schools clearly punish people for profanity all the time and that's never been stopped.
> I see that there's a lot of mindshare on privacy and "computing trust" these days.

This is the opposite of respecting privacy (unless you mean e.g. the privacy of DRM code), all of this stuff is "trusted" as in TCG.
There is a great deal of panic in recent years about transwomen competing alongside ciswomen in athletic events, but how much data do we actually have on this? Are these instances of success just outliers and transwomen not even placing, ignored?

How many areas of life and society are we willing to exclude a minority from before we are satisfied that the playing field is leveled? How many minorities are we willing to target?

This is a complicated, messy issue and society at large isn't going to be perfect at it in these early days. Knee-jerk reactions, like those we're seeing from conservative politicians, are hurting people who don't have the power to fight back.
>and the stakes are usually lower.

You don't really mean this, do you?
Just a quick note, this is the same company that until ~2016 was saying of video games:

"If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song."

This is the same company that has more recently described Itch.io as offensive and indecent. This is the same company that has gone out of its way to basically block game streaming entirely from its platform. It's the same company holding back web apps/experiences.

So I get the security angle here, I really do, but forgive me if I'm suspicious whether security is the primary reason why Apple is locking down their store. On my side of things as a game developer, I think Apple is a large part of why gaming on mobile phones looks the way it does today. They made one model economically viable, and they aggressively chased off anyone who was treating games like a serious medium, and they still have those attitudes towards gaming as an art form today.

So for them to act like this is just a debate about malware is really disingenuous. It's also a debate about the cultural control that Apple exerts, and their ability to basically shut down and manipulate markets by deciding what software innovations, game genres, and content in general are allowed run on their phones.

A lot of us don't want Apple to have the control it has, not because we don't care about malware, but because we fundamentally don't trust Apple to be a responsible moderator/gatekeeper to the mobile market. The company has the criticism it has about moderation because they've burned a lot of bridges with developer communities over the years. If Apple really was just caring about privacy/security, this debate wouldn't be as fierce as it is. I actually really like the direction iOS is going on privacy. The problem is that on multiple other moderation fronts, their developer policies are anti-competitive or puritan/regressive.
I've always found that having the right network or luck matters a lot more than the hard work.

The hard work is maybe necessary to capitalize on luck but ultimately some people land high paying jobs where they don't have to work hard and can take afternoons off to golf, purely out of being lucky about who their family is.

Other people have to work themselves to the bone to earn a fraction what those people earn.

Hard work isn't necessary or sufficient for success.
The fact that there are many apps competing for this businesses, but the costs to the restaurants are still so high, seems suspicious to me.
Right! I agree, and really was just stating the only possibility I see.
There are good schools and there are bad schools. Pumping money into bad schools doesn't help, as many urban areas have found out.

Schools are institutions and have all the inertia that any other institution has. Send a good kid to a bad school and they'll perform on that level. Send a good teacher to a bad school and they'll half-ass it long enough to get the experience on their resume and move on.

If you wanna make a bad school good you break it up and sprinkle the students teachers and administrators among schools that are doing alright. Those people mostly then go on to perform at the same level as those around them.

People vote for shoveling money at the schools because it's a feel good measure and doesn't require doing anything difficult.
Reading the article I couldn't find anything - is there no minimum amount available? 15% of a $5 order obviously not enough to deliver it. Or is this more of a measure to move the fees onto the customer so they are more explicit?
>Is there an easy answer as to why Costa Rica is doing so well?

Yes. Anytime you see an article that says "X country runs on 100% renewable" ... it's hydro-electric power every time. So if your country is blessed with a type of geography that makes hydro electric power viable, you're golden!

Solar and Wind cannot power a modern economy without fossil fuel back-up.
Could be due to Strict privacy settings?
indeed, that's where we ended-up, by using Linear which provides the layer of abstraction. it's just disappointing because it's a long-standing issue, and relatively easy to solve (based on the fact many 3rd parties have).
"The media about crt"

s/media/propaganda/

Keep in mind you're being fed a narrative. CRT has been around for decades, and isn't something you can apply in a grade school curriculum (as Gloria Ladson-Billings said, it isn't something you teach in undergrad at college... it's a subject for post graduate study/research). There's a reason you're hearing about this now.
FBI Hacking and Tech Contracts Are Vanishing from the Web
Where is the memory encryption done? The L2? The DSU?
> there are apps outside of the App Store that you aren't willing to ignore.

Seems to be that the tables need to be turned: if there are apps that I can’t ignore, then they need to be required to be available on a common, accessible platform like the web, and not locked to any proprietary platform whatsoever.
I hope that this ruling applies to UT Knoxville too.

They kicked out a student and cheerleader based on false accusation of her using "a derogatory racist slur" in a leaked private conversation. (She said "nigga".)

https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Incoming-UT-cheerleader-use...
Can Google and Apple Remotely Install Apps on Your Phone?
It's not just a feature. It's in direct opposition to the feature I want - to have a 2 trillion dollar company act in opposition to other trillion dollar companies shoving shit down my throat. They are mutually exclusive features, so you can expect people to be polarized.
The point here is if unions come in and start having unreasonable demands, this expensive automation you're talking about becomes comparatively affordable.

Society should take care of its humans, but this doesn't mean go into private companies and demand all the box movers get their pay tripled. It doesn't work this way.
> Jira seems so universally hated that it feels like any competition that ticks a few basic needs could start hurting them.

I regularly meet with tech companies in the 2~10 person dev team range and easily 70%+ still use Jira. These co's have the choice of choosing Jira (i.e. it isn't being jammed down on them by a corporate overlord) yet there's still hate? I don't get it.

I'm beginning to think the Jira hate is simply an echo chamber about perceived overhead of project management by IC (mostly engineers), not Jira the actual product. Yes, Jira is complex, but it doesn't have to be. Most dev teams I know just need a tool to organize task intake and allocation. And most smaller ones use Jira because in most cases it'll come batteries included for a dev team.

PS - according to their financials, Atlassian is doing just fine: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/TEAM?tab=financials
Yes, but the moat has a lot to do with integrated products. This would be a step that way for Github.
(Addendum: "baﬄe".uppercased() does correctly return "BAFFLE".)
I'd always wondered and never asked why turning off a fridge was bad for it. Thank you!
Apple argues against sideloading iPhone apps as regulatory pressure mounts
I'm assuming a brownout is usually a drop in voltage (a reduction in output power), so a backup battery wouldn't need to handle 100% of the load, just some fraction, for a short period of time.
Suppose two meals at a restaurant cost $30 for takeout. Depending on how much you value your time, spending even $20 to have those meals delivered to you might be worth 20 minutes of commuting back and forth. A 67% delivery fee could still be a bargain to you. The government should not interfere.
> It's not alleged, he published a written apology.

The point is it's not legally problematic. He apologized because some people said he was being inappropriate. We have no evidence that there was actually sexual harassment by any legal definition of the term. There's nuance here.

> These weren't random private parties, these were work & industry events

Do you have a citation on that last part? I can't find any info indicating they were work sponsored events with vendors and the like.
This is so close to reality it really hurts - like a good The Onion article... excellent satire.

Powerful tools are flexible enough to be used correctly by knowledgeable people and help people become knowledgeable. Badly designed tools are tools which don't help people become knowledgeable and don't prevent unknowledgeable people from harming themselves or others using them.

Atlassian tools, like JIRA, are almost always powerful and flexible -- capable of great good in the hands of knowledgeable people. However, they are not well designed tools, and so - the vast majority of JIRA installations and setups are just as broken as the orgs which install them and JIRA offers absolutely zero assistance or resistance to that brokenness.
The skill required to be an auto mechanics is hugely underrated by people that doesn't know how to work with cars. They are one of the few craftsmen jobs still left.
> Librem 5 does not have suspend-to-RAM yet

Stuff like the above-mentioned N900 could reach weeks of uptime without any suspend-to-RAM (and at least a couple days with wifi on). There is something definitely wrong here.
What to expect from Microsoft's next version of Windows
Shipped today. https://github.blog/changelog/2021-06-23-issues-forms-beta-f...
How many terrorists has the TSA stopped again? I'm old enough to have done a significant amount of flying pre 9/11 and the creation of the TSA has only made the flying experience worse without any value add. I've since concluded it is just a low skill jobs program.
AI improves human side of support- funded $8.7M
Chatbots only go so far. If you're SaaS you've data up to your eyeballs. We've been funded to build intelligent support operations for SaaS. We've customers and we're hiring.
I think smartwatches fill that niche now - at least those models with physical buttons. I'm actually impressed by how ergonomic the music listening experience on my Garmin is.
Not in URLs, but related:

Larry's 1st Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon
Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon

https://thelackthereof.org/Perl6_Colons