skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some interesting excerpts:

". . . In their view, machines, organisms, and human society were all seen as self-organizing control systems, which, operating in a certain environment, pursued their goals (hitting a target, increasing order, achieving better organization, or reaching the state of equilibrium) by communicating with this environment, that is, sending signals and receiving information about the results of their actions through feedback loops."

That's probably an overly simplistic view of biology and ecosystems.

". . . Wiener was deeply critical of capitalist America. He did not believe in the ability of the “invisible hand” of free market to establish an economic and social equilibrium, or homeostasis in cybernetic terms. His social outlook was overtly pessimistic: “There is no homeostasis whatever. We are involved in the business cycles of boom and failure, in the successions of dictatorship and revolution, in the wars which everyone loses.”

Not much has changed eh?

". . .He believed that describing society in cybernetic terms as a self-regulating device would make it clear that controlling the means of communication was “the most effective and most important” anti-homeostatic factor, which could drive society out of equilibrium.16 Wiener noted that on both sides of the Atlantic “political leaders may attempt to control their populations” by manipulating information flows, and argued that “it is no accident that Russia has had its Berias and that we have our McCarthys”.17 His views of capitalism and communism were best summarized by his colleague and friend Dirk Struik: “plague on both your houses”."

Now about mass consolidation of corporate media and social media platforms, with fairly arbitrary censorship and an obsession with 'control of the message' in government-corporate circles, ahem. Antitrust for media sounds like a very good idea.
Because you are thinking about a single door. Cost of implementing and maintaining non-copiable RFID is much higher. My workplace uses Medeco M3, I have 7+ keys for the various areas I have access to, I can be given a key for a specific area for the time I need to do something over there, etc. Some areas behind electronic access as well but it is rudimentary and it did cost us an insane amount of money to just install that an a few doors because we have to use union shops that abuse us (took them weeks to do, four people showing up to find out they were missing a plate so they came back a week after and found out another part was missing etc for 3 months, no kidding...)
Just an observation. Ever since the announcement it seems like various groups on Reddit and elsewhere want to celebrate every difficulty that the UK experiences.
Honestly, that's a great outcome. At least if the coal plants are physically in China then China can, basically at its leisure, replace them with the solar panels that they themselves make. I definitely picture China as 100% nuclear, hydro, and solar/wind kind of 10-20 years from whenever they decide it's time. They have the manufacturing capacity and knowledgebase to do it, and seem to have the will to follow through.

tldr; I for one would prefer coal plants under Chinese jurisdiction than coal plants funded by the Chinese in other countries where they have less ability and pressure to replace them.
No, I don't think it applies to all businesses. Like, restaurants are tied to a location and reputation. An office not so much. Bigger corporations like McDonalds or Starbucks probably have more bargain power and a better picture of how much a location will pay out, etc.
Yes, telephones created magnetic fields when the bell rang. Simarly tube tvs degaussed themselves with big magnets. Either will erase a floppy.
"Appears to be _mostly_ a mediagenic phenomenon: the driver shortage caused a few stations to run out".

I believe it's more serious than just a mediagenic phenomenon, with only a few stations affected. From The Guardian: "Ministers are considering a range of options after BP said a third of its petrol stations had run out of the main two grades of fuel, while the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), which represents almost 5,500 independent outlets, said 50% to 90% of its members had reported running out. It predicted the rest would soon follow." (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/27/eu-lorry-dr...)
`git` generally doesn't work with lines of text. Mostly it works with opaque file blobs and directory trees.

`git diff` and `git merge` work with lines of text by default - but they don't have to. You can supply your own `diff` and `merge` tools with the `difftool.*` and `mergetool.*` config options, try them out with `git-difftool` and `git-mergetool` commands, and set the default with the `git.diff` and `git.merge` config options.

If someone wanted to create AST-based diff and merge tools for a given language, they could be plugged right into the existing `git` infrastructure and it would work with them absolutely fine.
This isn't really the primary issue with Signal, as the protocol is pretty well audited, tested, and cryptanalyzed. THE issue with Signal is using real phone numbers as identifiers.

I know this point has been made repeatedly, but it's important to beat the drum, since it's recommended for journalists and dissidents, and that this "feature" will quite possibly get you killed if you're a dissident in a totalitarian system with a very simple two-part process:

1. All it takes is ONE of your fellow dissidents to turn snitch (or be tortured, or have their phone cracked) and disclose all their contacts.

2. Burners are NOT anonymous. Everything from location analysis to CCTV footage from the physical place you bought the SIM will give you away.

Signal is an obvious honeypot. Moxie's total refusal to even allow the option to use throwaway identifiers while burning precious development time on silly things like emoji support makes their purpose very evident.

Sure, use Signal to send cat pics. But stay far, far, far away if your life or freedom is at risk.
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That's why most political compasses are 2 dimensional.

Most left v. right discussions are essentially a projection of some opinionated vector across the 2d landscape into a 1d line which they can then use to slander either end of the vector as authoritarian or communist or whatever. But these actual definitions lose a lot of information in that projection.

The 2d map has left (socialism) v right (capitalism) and up (authoritarianism) v down (anarchism). Its probably even more complicated than that, you could at least add a 3rd dimension of time but projecting everything into a 1d line is nearly meaningless at this point.
I don't think so. An important missing element in SQLite's format is larger block support. Modern filesystems do this via extents. SQLite has a strictly fixed block size and no support for forming larger blocks from contiguous runs of basic blocks.

Another missing element is that SQLite's support for large blobs is via linked lists of pages. That's fine for sequential access, but unacceptable for random access.

For a database to be usable as a filesystem backend, it must at least be composable with itself without sacrificing performance. Lets say you built a kernel module or fuse module using sqlite as the backend. How well would sqlite itself perform on a file in this filesystem?
What do you mean by that? They can fill jerry cans or siphon out fuel at home
I am not arguing that both are not trying to attract people to become addicted. I am arguing why one causes users to have suicidal thoughts and the motivation behind it. In your terms, because it brings in more money.
I'm surprised they didn't mention Unison (https://www.unisonweb.org/), whose big idea is an immutable content-addressable store of ASTs. I really hope it changes everything.
> But to be a FAIR system, you need to be able to parse out what portion of the time to move distribution is based on random chance vs. individual agency.

Delays are actually accounted for in these systems - generally in multiple ways:

* In the case for instance that there is an out of stock, or you need to go to another picking location, the system re-calculates the required distance/time considering the out of stock and this is accounted for in your score.

* If there is, for instance, a mechanical issue or something stopping you from being productive, you move onto an 'indirect task' where your time is no longer tracked as productive time.

> It could likely catch people who are truly slacking off. But... so could a human manager with basic observational skills.

We are talking about observing staff in a 1 million sqft warehouse across 5 floors of mezzanine, in a maze of aisles, and also the manager and associates shift patterns could be different - it's just impossible. I was a department manager (not for Amazon) and it's just impossible to eyeball picker performance in any sort of fair way, you have to look at data.

Additionally, dependent on the laws in your region, disciplining/firing someone because 'a manager observed them being slow' likely isn't good enough if it comes to a tribunal.

I've got direct experience with how these performance management systems are configured and work, so if anyone has any questions let me know!
Brexit may be a (small) part of it, but it certainly isn't the whole picture. Btw much of Europe faces a shortage of drivers as well.

There are a number of factors at play including delayed testing because of covid, relatively low wages, and perhaps drivers shifting to more local deliveries e.g. supermarkets post covid due to changing demand. I was speaking to a taxi driver who said the taxi industry was being decimated by this
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I don't get it? It's just a weak summary of Conventional Commits without any context.

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
I am probably one of the few that use my iPhone more or less like a dumb phone, so pardon my ignorance.

Is the iPhone mic able to pick the entire audible spectrum (and then some)? Does this mean companies like Neumann, Shure, Rode should feel someone is coming for their lunch?
Land’s End and Marshall Meadows Bay should suffice.

Although at this rate, Northumberland will be accidentally seceded to a newly independent Scotland, and the entity of Cornwall will become part of an independent Wales.
One of the things this article doesn't mention is the upcoming Olympics.

Xi wants blue skies at the Winter Olympics and what the emperor wants, the emperor will try to get.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-10/china-aim...

This isn't a new phenomenon. China has done this before major international and political events in the past. This isn't even the first Olympics they've tried this with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/sports/olympics/29china.h...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...
No because standard house keys with "do not copy" on them, you can make them yourself with a key cutter and a few blanks you bought on ebay or alibaba. Medeco blanks are much harder to find, and the cutting requires specific equipment (nothing a custom CNC can't do though)
> It's intellectually unfortunate that there's so much kneejerk hostility on HN to basic gender analysis. One's understanding of the world is enriched by thinking about how gender roles work, so the hostility to gender analysis is basically throwing away useful knowledge.

I hope this comment will be seen as constructive rather than hostile: Personally while I was initially sympathizing to the cause of inclusiveness, I have now developed hostile feelings simply because this constant presence has made me tired. There is no place on the internet or IRL (at least where I live) where you won't stumble on these things. I am not interested about any of the gender stuff, I have been sure of what I am and what I am not since I can remember myself, so all this constant presence makes me tired, and it frankly feels like propaganda trying to forcefully change me into something I'm not. So pushing so agressivly an agenda that to the majority of people is irrelevant (and I believe this is true otherwise we wouldn't exist as a species), I am actually surprised of how little hostility is received.
I agree, I think from a technical perspective most of these plants are fine and they could be used for an additional time. Since the last will shut down next year, I would assume the plans are locked in by now.

Nuclear has some advantages for base loads in some scenarios, but it cannot really compete with renewables down the road.
The hatred for atlassian products, IMO, has a root cause in a few facts:

1) it's an enterprise product, so the typical enterprise issue of: it's not being sold to the users, the people who it's being sold to don't have to feel the pain, and checking off features is more important than UX.

2) that said, it's not the worst enterprise. It is possible to configure atlassian products to have a really smooth UX (can't say the same about speed, the last I used atlassian, it was really, really, slow though that may have changed). However, wrangling the product (and its users) is almost a full-time job, and atlassian is known to have breaking transitions that mess up your workflow with no recourse to go back to classic. Change management is hard.

3) a lot of higher ups who make the choice of using atlassian even if they are technical and once were a user of atlassian products, used it in an era where it was simpler or worked in an environment where they were privileged enough to have a full-time wrangler from 2)
I'm convinced that the only thing keeping people using Atlassian products is naive managers and antiquated IT/Ops staff who've learned that mentioning "Jira", "Confluence", etc. in the presence of their seniors results in some micro-fractional justification of their existence.

To paraphrase Thomas Sowell: "The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of [using Atlassian products]".
The world really needs "one ring to rule them all". (e.g. something that sucks in content from all those places and makes them organizable if not findable)

I worked at a startup where, every two weeks, we had a retrospective meeting and the complaint went around that we had too many places to store documents and that we couldn't find them.

Often the same people who were complaining would tout that we add a (N+1)th place to the N places we already had (N>20 by this point.) I'd be the only one to point out the irony in this, people wouldn't get that it was ironic, management would approve, and it would happen again two weeks later.

It might have been funny except for this: it got us in trouble when we were collaborating with customers and customers would get mad that we were sharing documents in ways they thought were insecure. When it happened more than once with the same customer, we lost some very good customers.
Also to points I've seen made elsewhere; Apple has begun placing trademark material (ie logos) on individual parts (including ribbon cables, etc) to make use of trademark enforcement for otherwise legitimate third-party refurbished parts. He notes this in his videos discussing why he cannot source screens for phones anymore.

Where previously they could have third parties remove cracked glass from broken screens and re-laminate them to make legitimate refurb parts. However, these were deemed unauthorized refurbs (but not illegal/unlawful to make) so instead they used the logos on cables as justification to have customs seize them as "counterfeits" on behalf of trademark enforcement.
The biggest problem about knowledge management is that it gets stale pretty fast, and people don't see it as part of their job to keep it up to date.

That's more like organisational problem, but I'd wanted to tackle it from tech point of view, I would look into some mechanism that would ping people periodically to make them review and update their docs - email notifications, cross peer review, something along these lines.
Yep. I’d rather we have political conversations that were frank about the trade offs and focused on material change.

An example: Medicare for all. Bottom 90% will save money, top 10% will lose money, healthcare system will be free at point of service and won’t be tied to employment. Doctors will still be rich but will make less money. Anyone invested in insurance industries will certainly lose here.

I’d argue that discussing policy in material terms is only unpleasant for the powerful, because they are a minority trying to convince the majority to vote against their interests. When it’s all laid out it’s clear where the majority’s interests lie.
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You also get the impression the UK wanted to have its cake and eat it too. Some of the Brexit political promises are pure delusion. I think a few over zealous Brexiteers might be conflating not getting rewarded with punishment.
Not really enough context from the screenshot to figure out how bad that misreporting was given the fog of war etc.

People like Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss and Balaji Srinivasan seem to think the author, Ashley Rindberg, is a neat guy.
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Cybernetics, as a search query, opens up access to a great collection of tech-critique mixed with philosophy and solid intellectual rigor. 100% recommend checking it out. "The Cybernetic Hypothesis" is a good place to start (MIT Press has it).

"Cybernetics" as a descriptor went out of style by the 2000's I think. Prior to that, you can find writing from ideologues/philosophers/academics who grasped what tech would look like and put it through analytical frameworks wrt its impact on systems outside of tech. I think they were able to do this because by the 1960's, the capabilities of tech were becoming clear if to someone in the right networks or from the right background. Pair that with the 1950's-1980's generating some heavyweight philosophers like Albert Camus (although idk if he ever wrote about tech) or writers like Huxley who blur the line a bit, and you can find some really interesting insight on tech.

The cybernetics writers did a good job of understanding that tech would change everything in some fundamental and abstract sense, so they focused meta-analysis to cohere the "so what" of it all (impact on ethics, governance, politics, sociology). An example is analyzing the trend in tech of `if system is discovered -> then attempt to codify and automate it.` This provides some scaffolding for thinking through AI-driven governance, for instance, but with a little more intellectual rigor than a substack article. It's similar to the value-add of reading really good sci-fi, but this time from Camus or Nietzche versus William Gibson or Neil Stephenson.

If you feel that our times warrants some level of serious analysis, find like there's a general void of comprehension outside of small pockets and policy circles, and therefore decide to settle for pulling insights from a sort of disappointing blend of cypherpunk writing, Peter Thiel-isms, Lex Fridman interviews, and Andrew Yang because at least "they get the big picture of what tech will do": writing on cybernetics is good to check out.
This seems as much about the weaknesses inherent to ad-hoc taxonomies as anything. Once you give people the means to organize their stuff into trees, you always get a few folks who go hog wild and get a little too fixated on divvying things up.
More generally, people have limited capacity by how many fuel containers they own. I don't think there is a massive supply of unused jerry cans anywhere, and and in any case it would take several cans to equal a single car tank.
The point being you aren't changing the code of a robot while it's being used.

There’s a time delay that separates these things. That completely changes your approach.
> admit it, tabs are fragile and a pretty weak implementation

Could you elaborate? I don't have a personal opinion here and have only worked in orgs that require spaces, but I'm not familiar with the criticisms of tabs.
I was there when Agile was invented. In my opinion, Scrum has always been the worst embodiment of a good idea.

In terms of content, teams of experienced developers have always worked in the spirit of Agile (of course there are exceptions). This informal understanding was and is superior to a formal horizontal Scrum implementation. For example, it preserves seniority and true accountability - two things that Scrum pretty systematically destroys in my experience.
Initially, I was hoping for additional solutions to problems in the vertical direction - management, customer relations, etc.... But that never materialized, at least in my environment. And since I've been in the industry for more than 20 years, that's not too little.

These days, mandatory Scrum is a contra-indicator for any project that crosses my path as a freelancer.
Europe also has a shortage

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl...

This is widely reported across a number of publications
I'm fine with using tabs, but my tab width will be set to 8... be sure to obey line length limits with that in mind.
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Virtue ethics is the cultivation of the virtues, such as moderation, perseverance and courage. This is in contrast to deontological ethics (basing the ethics of a particular action on certain rules), and Consequentialist ethics (judging the ethics of a particular action by the results {it has been observed that Western society is generally governed by Utilitarian ethics, which is a subset of Consequentialism that judges the ethicality of actions by how much happiness they produce}).

So the problem with the latter two ethics is that they assume the virtue; the rules may not always apply to the situation (e.g. please don't tell the ax murderer which bedroom your children are in because Kant thinks you should) and the value of any particular consequence is usually, if not always, situational.

Virtue ethics takes care of everything by giving the individual their own compass, so to speak. I think some people have the idea that trying to live virtuously is unpleasant or a real drag, but as a recovering drug addict, I can tell you I wouldn't practice it if it was.
Well, it's unfortunate, but not surprising. It's not like there are any examples of left authoritarianism in recent history
> when people don’t have capacity to buy any more.

I'm confused, can't they just fill up jerry cans, or if garages aren't allowing this, just siphon the fuel out of the car at home?
Software would be incredibly "low upkeep" to last as long as HTTP. You don't have to use a new programming language just because it exists. Time zone info is a data file managed by the OS and has no business being baked into specific programs. Translations are likewise data files and should be modular so that you can add or replace them without invalidating the program. Sensors change much slower than software; the oldest and crustiest operating system image you'll ever meet is the one coupled to a multi-million-dollar sensor in a lab or a hospital.
Really? You have specific sources? Pretty sure last time I checked there wasn't much 'SECRET' communication about Saudi human rights abuses for example. Not anywhere really. . . I mean, we want to ban solar panels from China 'cause 'human rights' but where's the ban on Saudi oil imports?
People tend to find creative ways around this. Jerrycans have been used to carry additional fuel for example.
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