skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One very important element that I think is missing from your moral argument that SciHub is engaged in theft is the countervailing weight of the degree to which the advancement of science is slowed down in a world without SciHub. Without SciHub, only the wealthiest institutions and individuals have access to the latest scientific developments. Even then, the degree of access can be limited. Harvard, for example, does not allow access to the number of journals that are available for free via SciHub.

Without SciHub uploading the newest articles, the vast majority of institutions and individuals are unable to access the latest science. This results in the pace of global scientific advancement slowing way, way down. That means that cures to diseases, for example, are either not discovered or the progress toward discovering cures is delayed months, years, or decades. That means people die who did not have to die except for the greed and corruption of the publishing companies and the academic publishing system. It means people suffer unnecessarily. It means progress toward climate change solutions is stifled. It means species that didn't have to go extinct, may go extinct. It goes on and on. It means progress in all fields, in all nations is stymied. It means you, your family members, and your friends may suffer and die from diseases and endure calamities that were entirely unnecessary to experience.

The moral argument involved in this debate is ENTIRELY different than Napster. No one dies because they don't get to hear J Lo's latest hit.

There is a giant difference between moral and legal. It was illegal for Rosa Parks to not give up her seat for a white person. A white person in Montgomery, AL circa 1955 may have attempted to claim that Ms Parks was guilty of "theft" - that she "stole" a seat from a white person. But by doing what she did, she sparked a movement that has begun to create a different and better world for African Americans. Was Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white person an immoral act?

What Alexandra is doing is illegal according to the laws of many nations. But is it immoral? I argue that not only is what Alexandra doing moral, but there is a moral imperative for the work begun by her to continue. If anything, Alexandra ought to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her courage and dedication to the betterment of all humanity. I'm not kidding.
Yep, just look at Germany which used to be very diverse, now I'm not e en sure there's a TV. station in Low German
The fact of using the same binary names makes it totally shady.

They seem to have taken advantage of the fact that the original author did not create official packages to basically steal the name in Ubuntu launchpad.

If the forkers are sincere they should not use the same binary names, eg "nsmd". That is totally unethical, and is technically a trojan as it misleadingly replaces on program with another without making it clear to the existing users that is a new package by a new team altogether.

Even the page at https://libreav.org/software/new-session-manager has broken links to files dated 2017 clearly named "non-session-manager"
Theory, we’re so used to little dopamine hits from social media and shock headlines it’s the only thing people will entertain?
no work job. you show up, but don't work
> we should be heating our hot water tanks, swimming pools, or anything else that needs concentrated heat

That comment about swimming pools nearly made me leap out of my chair. I was already convinced to get a heat-pump, but I was just planning on putting excess heat under the frost-line to save it for winter. To think, if it was insulated and disinfected properly, you'd have both a cheaply heated pool, and a huge thermal-battery.
One of the most incredible essays I’ve read in a long time. The author describes a bizarre situation exacerbated by tragedy. There’s no clear remedy or villain for what she’s going through, and that’s just the way life is.

I liked the “Cat Person” story when it came out, but I would much rather see this essay be made into a movie
Integrated information theory has one attempt at actually measuring how conscious a system is. It calls it phi.
The best summary from them looks to be:

> Overall, compared to Bazel, Earthly sacrifices some correctness and reproducibility in favor of significantly better usability and composability with existing open-source technologies

Exactly how much correctness is getting sacrificed is pretty important. A key insight of Bazel is that you can’t have speed at scale without correctness.

Would be good to have Earthly described within the framework of “Build Systems a la Carte”.
The quote you pulled out mentions "distributed execution" being completely contained in a "single-program system" - isn't a single-program system, by definition, not a distributed system?

With the emphasis on distributed systems, I was waiting to see how the approach would help synchronization, replication, network dependencies, etc. But all the examples show calling other services as functions or spawning new processes. At the end orderd starts listening for requests, but I don't see any example in the article where the example program talks to another computer in the system. Perhaps I am missing something?
If I'm interrupted while I have a lot of unstructured thoughts floating in short-term memory, I try to ask for a "couple seconds" and scribble down some key words on a post-it before switching attention. Looking at the post-it later brings most everything back.
Playdate preorders begin next month, and here are the first games
For those curious about Ressler and Thompson's book (referenced but without the title), it is "Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It".

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/302027/why-work-suc...
FWIW the actual audio stack of linux systems is pretty broken too. Ever try to use some pretty standard bluetooth headsets with Linux? Never works. I always had to delete and re-pair for every conference call. And you have to go through this nonsense

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/install...

if you want your audio to sound better than a snake in a swimming pool, and nobody will ever tell you that. On iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, bluetooth headsets pretty much "just work".

I'm a Linux fan and all my computers run Linux but Bluetooth audio IS broken.
Building materials all went through the roof. They’ve not came back down and hvac hardware followed suit.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/skyrocketing-steel-lum...

https://www.benningtonbanner.com/local-news/cost-of-building...
ubiquitous machine intelligence spying by networked devices in the home on behalf of or by the state? I don't think so. Technology wasn't there yet.

This is a more competent telescreen.
A related topic is binding. I hoped to see linkage to a site with a bit of spine about it.
Honestly, this sucks and it renders the font useless for a lot of purposes. I wanted to use it in an embedded system, but that seems out of the question now.
You may like to check out how (Western) artists responded to photography. Edgar Degas' paintings of horse races and ballet dancers are a great example. Photographers of the time hadn't quite worked out how to frame a photo, due to technical and other difficulties with this new medium. This meant that images were often cropped unusually, which introduced a new aesthetic. Degas and others picked up on this, with unusual cropping, blurry figures, and a candid, voyeuristic point of view.

I'd also recommend Egon Schiele's portraits and self portraits, in comparison with photos of him and his subjects, as an example of how things developed further.
My first job out of college was a practically fly-by-night video game development house that had primarily D-team members except for a couple of contractors and me.

After my first successful project for them, their biggest client started demanding that I be assigned to their next big project (or one of the external contractors). We both ended up taking jobs elsewhere, and that client quit using the developer.

And the client? They were a full-on shovel-ware developer that barely cared about game quality. They just needed a game that would run reliably enough that Nintendo would approve it. So to be fired as a developer by that company was really embarrassing...
Question is the hash symbol (#) 4 pixels wide possible? I saw it there but it seems to me it requires at least 5 pixels.
Ah SMTP is the protocol that we used to send email over internet.

The term SMTP server is used when you are the person who send out email.

The term MX server is used when you are the person who is received email. As in, someone use an SMTP server to send you an email, by connect to MX server list on your domain. You can find MX server by doing a `MX DNS query` on the domain such as `dig hanami.run mx +short` or `dig github.com mx +short`

SMTP email limit only apply for users who want to use our SMTP service. Think sendgrid/mailgun SMTP service. It means when you want to send email through your own domain.

For incoming and email forwarding(someone send you an email and we forward to your domains) then it unlimited.

The reason is that when you use SMTP service, you can just write a simple loop and send lots of email using our SMTP server. We don't want that, our service is only for daily email, not marketing(newsletter, promotion) or transaction email(password reset etc).

Incoming email, on other hand is send out by other people to your service, and we will happily forward as many as possible.
Yeah my Jabra headset works flawlessly on Ubuntu.
Yeah, and it can lead to fun things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24882921
And, in general, adding a source file can automatically insert a record into the build system if you follow a convention.
As always it depends on your threat model.

Are you trying to torrent without being banned by your ISP, or even to do some mildly illegal stuff such as buying drugs, hate speech or hacking some irrelevant company? The VPN is probably fine. NSA aren't going to risk giving up their backdoor for something trivial

Planning to run an international terrorism ring aimed at taking down western governments? I certainly wouldn't trust a VPN for that.
I replaced two of these screens (MBP 2015 13" and 15") under the program (ie. for free), but they refused to fix a MBP 2014 13" for free. It'd cost me 600 EUR to repair. This was in 2018. At some point they start the repair program, and some point they stop it, and IIRC the limit was 4 years for consumers here in NL. I keep using these machines (replaced some hardware on it such as keyboard, battery, screws, and my wife uses one too), though they each got their flaws. I'd consider a M1 (but my boss ain't buying me one :). Mac is still a superb UI and workflow with Unix under the hood. I think the later models are even worse for gaming, with the ones before M1 you could maybe use TB + eGPU. I just stick to a Linux machine for gaming, with Steam, all kind of emulators, and Wine.
> In every one of these theaters I am always shocked to see how few people a classic pulls in. Went to see Blade Runner “Final Cut” at AFI on a huge screen and there were like 40 people. 2001 in a 70mm print was about half full. Inception or Interstellar in IMAX (the real one, 70 ft tall screen) was less than half full.

Maybe you chose bad examples.. but all of these movies are movies I like quite a lot and I would not have gone to see any of them in the theater. Why? Because I've seen all of them a dozen times already and I'm sure I'm not alone. If they want to pull in more people, they should probably pick movies people haven't already watched repeatedly to the point of fatigue.
I hope that technological symphony is again reached when shrinking nodes is no longer a cheap escape hatch. It seems like we'll soon be there if we aren't already, but increasingly exotic and expensive fabrication methods have been delaying that for much of the last decade already.

I suppose when '7nm' and smaller processes are economic enough for non-primary CPUs, hopefully also with rad hardened designs ready for use in the new space age, there will be interest in making both basic compute SoCs already optimized like this, and supercomputers constructed from variations on the same components.
I appreciate this perspective.

I looked at the department of labor's website for hard numbers. May 2021 U-3 unemployment is below 6% and seems like a very, very typical level for any point over the past 20 years. If someone is saying "I can't hire people because no one wants to work"...I'm having trouble seeing how that's any more true now vs. in 2014, 2006, or 1999.

Sure, there's an increase in people collecting unemployment vs 2 years ago but those were at historically low levels. What we have today seems much, much more normal/typical.

Labor force participation did drop 2% pre->post covid: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
AMS on Social Media
Are you noting in agreement, disagreement or singing Hey Jude song?
Shit happens all over the place.

I can point at it happening in the scuba diving industry.

High school never ended for some people.
It can't be a small wart on the project either. If there is one small section that is inconsistent with the rest it's going to be a pain point.

I love F#, but don't think it's ideal if it's shoe horned into a C# project. You then have this boundary layer you have to maintain.
This was a good read but I was struck with something else… has anyone noticed on long form content the scrollbar being “stuck” at around 85% and never moving after a while? Is this a hack to keep people reading? Am I imagining it?
Sir, you win the Internet today. :)
Just shitposting:

How about “the number of bits a subsection of a system is able to encode about the rest of the system surrounding it”
Mine doesn't. I have a Jabra 75t elite, 20.04, and after trying to unpair and repair 3 times I have to run this goddamn script to keep the microphone volume up or it always auto-adjusts it to 0.

https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/jabra-stop-cha...

Also, if you didn't do what my parent post's script did, you probably have shitty audio on your Jabra.
Not really seeing what's special about this
Certain concepts are more difficult or less difficult to express depending on the language. I think somewhat differently in Korean than English. Translating existing text can be very difficult and nuanced because of how concepts can be expressed differently.

This also ignores the issue that the majority of the world would have to abandon their language, no matter what language is picked. And how do you pick a language? It’s entirely arbitrary. You can argue for Chinese just as well as you can for English.
I noticed that the contractors who sell projects tend to be good looking guys. The ones who finish it tend to be not so good looking.

Especially when the customers are female.
Surprised how many devs don’t check mobile browsers these days. iOS Safari.
I'll disagree:

Languages are tools for communication. In a world where everyone can easily talk to anyone else, that tool can't be 6000 separate languages.

Old people don't like it, but languages are always changing. Latin became ~20 different languages after Rome fell. If someone had enforced a "no language left behind" policy, French or Spanish would never have been spoken.

What's important is that we can talk to each other, not what vocabulary and grammar we happen to use.

[I wrote this in my second language]
No, you're gonna need a citation for my statement; I already know it to be so. You can google as well as I can. I'm not here to win an Internet argument, merely to inform. Whether you agree with me is not my concern.
AC uses less energy than heating in very cold places. Cooling from 120F to 70F is a 50F delta. Warming from -30F to 70F is 100F.
Cabs in Manhattan sucked if you let them know of your intention to leave Manhattan before you entered the cab.

An experienced transiter would know that when the cabbie asks, “where are you going?” the correct answer is to get in the cab and say “I’m doing great. How are you my friend?”.

Only then would you inform them of your destination.
On Arch, my Bluetooth headphones are working great. MPOW-x3 and sony wh-1000xm4

My biggest gripe is that I can't use the microphone at the same time as the headphones, without switching to tin can mode.
Heh, yeah, you can see the difference watching and reading old news. On the one hand, they were factual, on the other hand, pretty boring.

The Moon landing would've been "It's official, we can now settle other planets" today :D
C# is OO by default, F# is functional by default. Both support either but it's easier to use the tool dedicated to the style you want to program in.
I’ve stepped into the wrong dark colored, ride share Prius before XD
this is the first I've heard of it, and I've spent some time on 4chan. Frankly I'm skeptical. 4chan already blocks you from uploading images that have extra data embedded in them.

EDIT:
To add to this, how 4chan actually doxes people is very different. They typically post one very large image, which is a detailed collage of images with bits of information relating to the subject they are trying to identify. This is so the image can be easily downloaded and reposted. They did this a lot to help with identifying Antifa vandals a year ago.
Sometimes, yes, but not generally. I know people who can't help themselves from spending whatever money they've got on random short term pleasures. Even when they receive a windfall, it's quickly gone with nothing to show for it. They certainly don't invest in a more energy efficient house or even bulk buy household items or other boring money-saving things when they have the opportunity. There's ways of thinking and behaving that make people get poor and stay poor. That's not even a bad thing. Some of these people seem quite happy. They're not trying to be rich.
For people at CERN to make bold claims, with citations
If they had picked a different name for the forked project, none of the drama would exist. By picking a very similar and the same acronym, the gang is doing something underhanded.

In the business world, this is a clear case of trademark infringement and they would be sued out of existence.
Works for me. Splats work for any iterable.
The 6 “world’s most trusted news sources” linked by Knewz in its farewell message say it all. This was an aggregator for right-wing boomers with a ‘fellow kids’ name.

I’d suspect this was a minor pawn in News Corp’s battle against Google, as the article notes.
> The HOA of my neighborhood allows 4 species of trees.

WTF? What's the attraction of such a place. Cheap rent? No coloured people? Why would one choose to live in such an artificial place?
The angular size of Clint Eastwood is or can be made the same, by adjusting your distance from the screen. The difference is everything else about the experience, everything except the apparent size of Clint Eastwood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter
In decades of taking NYC cabs I have never once seen a cabbie pissing in a bottle. Nor have I ever even heard a story of one doing so. I have also never had a cabbie not turn the meter on. In fact it doesn't even make sense because if a cabbie really wanted to scam you they would simply take an inefficient route and run the meter up. I'm sorry but those things are actually hard to believe. They're certainly not common occurrences.

Taxi drivers in NYC have an informal network of places where they can use a proper bathroom. They're actually easy to spot if you know where to look. So there would be no reason to do what you claim. Also any taxi driver knows the TLC could revoke their hack license for a meter violation like what you mentioned so none of them are going to jeopardize their livelihood with such foolishness. Again this is very hard to believe and would indeed be very freak occurrences if they happened.

Yes you will have the occasional dirty car or bad driver but getting scammed is not something you ever really need to worry about with yellow cabs in NYC. Even if you're a tourist. Yellow cab drivers are some of the hardest working salt of the earth folks and you're making them out to be something they're not.
So the quality of service of a product is secondary to the wage dynamics of those who provide it? The point of the person you responded to is that for the consumer this was an unambiguous win, the industry is better for riders in nearly every way. Marginally does not even begin to approach it, it is a giant leap forward in quality of service that further extends to many things (reducing drinking and driving for instance).

I’d say the real problem with the outcomes here may be venture capital. That is what made the rich richer and allowed them to explode on a model that didn’t require them to be profitable. It’s possible this business model can’t succeed without that support, it’s also possible it could with higher prices, better wages and more time.
The best way to manage this is to have a Tier 1 peering agreement, so you pay nada for bandwidth.
> Would it be ok to work to develop a competing business and then quit to launch that business?

Yes, this is absolutely OK.

The experience, knowledge, and connections you gain by working for a particular employer belong to you, not the employer.
Lad has some pretty stiff competition in NestJS[0]

[0]: https://nestjs.com/
This is only true for large companies that care about nothing but their shareholders and quarterly reports. There's another group of companies that not only care about delivering real value within the budget, but also have fun while doing it. I'm fortunately in a company part of that second group. The reaction we get from clients when we deliver more than they asked for, repeatedly, is priceless.
I bet they later spoke about randomised algorithms like[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog
My XM4s used to pair fine on Arch too, but not anymore. I think the mic issue isn't specific to Linux but the headphones themselves.
Could somebody ELI5 me on the motive behind the broken meters? Is it just so they didn't have to report the income? Or a more complicated fiddle?
I recently left my employer after about an year and half. I was on the edge of a PIP - so I thought - and constantly felt like an imposter. Making it past the year-mark surprised me.. and it was getting better when I quit. My manager would insist on the bi-weekly 1:1s that I was not on a PIP.

In comparison, I can only imagine what a hell Amazon must be, a soul-destroying place to work for most people who aren't in the top 25% or something like that. As an employer, Amazon sounds like an evil machine.
The Room, like all great comedies is lightning in a bottle. It's a key that fits a lock nobody knew about, and I'm not sure what you'd learn by studying it. If I could rephrase your statement slightly, what is funny is the delta between what was intended and what ended up happening.

I am going to say something unkind, even though I am literally sitting next to a framed and signed Tommy Wiseau head shot and generally adore the guy. It is very obvious that the room springs largely from what appears to me to be some sort of brain damage.
You might not want to use magic not because you don't understand it, but because you don't want to rely on the future maintainer understanding it.

If you want to write future-proof software, you have to do it as simple as possible.
The simplest explanation is that bandwidth is in fact not expensive and most people are light users.
A measurement of how much electricity it uses is not speculation. Don't go too far in your skepticism.

Edit: Unless someone has a specific reason I'm wrong, I stand by this. A criticism that makes four good points and one bad point is worse than a criticism that just makes four good points. I don't see any reason to call out the electricity use specifically as "pure speculation". It's only part of the cost but it's not a made-up number, and it's not a number that should change significantly between the lab and the real world.