skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have three choices for the desktop:

-one that seems to treat anyone as an idiot and it's an walled garden
-one that is broken
-one that kind of works but is boring and it is kind of a new skin on a very old paradigma interested most in keeping backwards compatibility

20 years ago as an OS enthusiast, I was in Heaven. Apart from Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, we had a lot of new operating systems, each trying to work on a new paradigm: BeOS, Syllable, SkyOS, and some more which I forgot.

People were enthusiastic about the the OS landscape and we thought some new breakthroughs will be just around the corner.

But what happened is everything is aligned to money and if the money don't follow enthusiasm and ideas, then we end up with a boring landscape.

I think innovation in the OS landscape is at its worst but that it is because it is not rentable.
The first link is discussing whether directors have a legal duty to maximize profit, which, as the article describes, they do not (their duties are open to much broader interpretation, which the article also describes). But, of course, there are numerous nonlegal forces that incentivize profit maximization, some of which are noted in the aforementioned article, and these forces are so strong and ubiquitous that their result - profit maximization - should be taken to be the default, which is what GP was saying.

Second, a random statement from Tim Cook, which itself is the subject of numerous forces and incentives, is hardly a strong case against the argument that, almost universally, corporations act to maximize profits (which, we as Americans, also often pretend is a universally pro-social motivator).

I'll also note that both of your sources focus on short-term profiteering (e.g. ignoring long-term benefits of renewable energy in favor of short-term profits), but are actually supportive of long-term investments, which are, of course, made with the purpose of increasing future profits (e.g. " it is [...] not corporate law [...] that [drives] so many of today’s public companies to myopically focus on short-term earnings; cut back on investment and innovation [...]" and "thinking in terms of long-term profit and returns is an important way of putting society’s resources to their best uses"). Focusing on long-term investments, in both cases, is obviously also motivated by profit (with the second arguing that long-term profits are actually a social good, which is the case only when compared with short-term profits).
> You don't get justice in a police station, you get justice in a courtroom. The cops may do all sorts of things to you that they're not supposed to, and there's nothing you can do to stop them. But now you have a good chance of getting the whole case, or at least any evidence they obtain as a result of these actions thrown out the window, and potentially stand to gain from a profitable civil suit.

Much more likely that you'll be offered a plea bargain to either end it with time served or go to trial and be threatened with 15 years or whatever. Then you have to balance just having it be done against how much you want to risk a jury having a bad day, lawyer bills, and months or years of process to maybe have a moral victory when the judge says "yeah, this evidence is inadmissible". Meanwhile you're not getting a payout unless they beat you and it's on camera.

The system knows how to take care of itself.

edit if you'd like to know more: https://www.cato.org/commentary/prisons-are-packed-because-p...
And then, in the US, if you have comprehensive coverage, they'd pay the claim.
My personal, flawed, biased, etc... theory on this is that whilst facebook still lives in recent memory, its no longer the "in" social media.

Telling people to ditch Facebook because its harmful and all that is easy if you don't use it (either at all or anymore).
The truth is that government is fully capable of being exploitative and abusive, but so is private enterprise.

We dont want either to be exploitative or abusive, but the ideology that the “free market” is our savior and that “government bad” is just played out un-nuanced propaganda at this point
is his name will?
Also automatically recall silently, if the line timed out. Basically notify me when it got through to a human. Maybe record my interactions with automated systems and then offer me a dialog for a pre-fill next time. Would be a real, valuable edge for me. I hate spending life time in phone queues.
Qt/C++ allows you to develop software for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Yeah can you imagine actually killing your food instead of letting someone else do it and just buying it wrapped in plastic at the store. What a bizarre idea.
Interesting... That crunchbase article directly links to 3 other VC/private equity firms that invested heavily: ATA Ventures, Partner Fund Mgmt, Fortress Investment Group. Usually I only hear about George Shultz, Henry Kissinger (and I was thinking the wal-mart family, but they're not listed).

At any rate it's either close the "loophole" or accept the fact that proving intent to defraud is much harder than proving stupid. But at least we get to call them stupid.
If it comes down to cutting/modding the frame, I guess it is time to start looking at other options. The one thing I've noticed is that the gearing seems unnecessary while using the motor. With pedal assist, starting from a dead stop is quite simple. I'm sure that there necessity will be obvious if I ever find myself without power in the battery, so I'm guessing removing the gearing is a non-starter
Wait, is your argument really to ignore the data and go with your gut?

Wow, in the past 200 years, we've seen the eradication of smallpox, treatment for Tuberculosis, vaccines for pneumonia, all issues plaguing humanity for pretty much all of recorded history.

A rural farmer in Nigeria can access price data in real time using a cell phone, while democracy in India allows dozens of politicians from every state argue on live TV simultaneously to get their views heard.

What, pray tell, can you say that the world isn't a better place
> It could be that an armed phone thief requires you to unlock your phone.

This exact scenario happened to me. They made me do a factory reset right in front of them, before handing the phone over. I didn't have any opportunity to do anything other than what they asked, and I probably would have been killed if I tried.

I don't see how I would have been able to make use of such a feature in that scenario or any similar scenario (e.g. getting arrested at a protest). It's a nice idea, but I think its usefulness might be limited to things like airport security lines.

Fortunately, they didn't realize that Find My iPhone persists through factory resets (nice!).

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to use the web interface, and ended up accidentally wiping my phone, including the Find My iPhone tracing stuff, so I never managed to trace it anywhere.
a) there's a big prominent link at the top to the author's blog with her credentials

b) "The effect is small and I'm not convinced" is not a reason to doubt the conclusion, it is the conclusion

c) "I don't like the website that posted it" is a pretty lousy reason to dismiss something
Very prudent. Thanks.
Define "due process".

My experience is that the courts will define/apply it however they feel like, usually to your detriment.
Can Google and Apple Destroy the Dapp Ecosystem?
Facebook's reach is far greater than Twitter's. There's no T in FAANG.
Now do the other side of the analogy with liberals and gun free zone signs.
Ubuntu is famous for breaking spectacularly as soon as you start install PPAs or non-stock packages. I'm still convinced that APT is not the right tool for a desktop OS, it's way too complex and has too much automagic to withstand a user that wants stuff like the latest versions of GCC, etc.
Haven’t read the paper yet, but a great list of authors! I have worked on Knowledge Graphs at two companies, and I am fairly opinionated about them. I think that large fast KGs (i.e., no OWL reasoning) are a good tool for organizing different data sources, but I have lost my interest in KGs for Knowledge Representation (in the AI sense). Just a personal opinion, lots of people in the field would disagree with me.
> But for sheer feature richness, you've got to experience the two desktops associated with Linux, KDE and GNOME.

Are there only 2 desktops associated with Linux? Granted those 2 are from the early days, but there's a lot more. I'm writing this from a Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop, haven switched from a KDE distro because configuring a dual monitor setup on KDE doesn't work very well.
This is referring to amazon’s warehouse jobs, not tech jobs
Have you tried Cave Story? It doesn't get any more indie than that- every single aspect of the game made by one guy. And it is also an incredibly tight and polished platformer that follows all the genre conventions, and then violates many of them intentionally and thoughtfully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Blue_Book
20 years ago there were a bunch of half-baked OSes that had very narrow hardware support, little to no security models, and horrible developer ergonomics that made doing native GUI Linux apps seem easy by comparison. It's actually good that these died out.
Can we blame a manager for the suicides of burned out workers?
I hear this argument, and it makes sense...

But a lot of us still pucker up if you mention the word "IE6" and we never want to risk going down that path again. :)

There's a balance between diversity and monopoly that can be struck.
So there are rival ad networks that charge way less than google? How does this fit with the anti-trust narrative? The customer clearly has choices.
You're entitled to a choice...you are not entitled to the ad network with the most reach.
Recreating groups is a hard reset on connections between users. That is, if you migrate from the old group to a new one, you effectively disconnect from all members of the old group and connect to the new.

With LinkLonk you gradually update your connections as you upvoted/downvote content. In a regular group your connection to all other members is a boolean 0 (you are not a member of the group) or 1 (you are a member of the group). On LinkLonk your connection is a float - 0.01 or 0.5 or 3.7 - depending on how useful you found their previous contributions.

As for taking the time to onboard, I agree, this is a problem for LinkLonk - the initial set of recommendations is purely popularity based and there is no topic focus to it. But try upvoting a single item and you will get connected to the other users that upvoted that item. Refresh the recommendations and you will see more content from those users, which should increase the signal-to-noise ratio. Or try submitting a new link and you will get connected to the RSS feed that posted that link.
From the FAQ on the game's page:

> Is it the same engine as Stardew Valley?

> No, it’s a new engine written in C#/Monogame… however there are some areas where I can reuse code from Stardew Valley, so that is nice
Same here. The only reason the last install was a fresh one was because I upgraded the storage on the laptop.

My home folder has files that have been with me since 2006 or so. This laptop is 7 years old and this is the third fresh OS install it has in its lifetime - With one exception, it's always been updated to the latest Ubuntu version as needed with the Ubuntu tooling.

What I have been doing to prevent data loss (that never happened) is to keep the interesting parts of my home folder on a separate filesystem and symlink them into my home folder. This allowed the previous fresh install to format the root partition and I didn't need to worry about my data being deleted.
Because people like low cost stuff. You can buy formaldehyde free plywood and MDF, but wow it's expensive compared to the formaldehyde containing products!

Vinyl flooring that has become very, very popular recently is probably worse than wood composites with regards to air quality and overall toxic effects.

Unfortunately, a lot of the effects from these materials aren't immediate and typically don't affect a large portion of the population, so it can be hard to get people to realize it's bad on a large scale.

There has been more of a focus on indoor air quality over the last decade, I expect that to continue and that we'll see more of a push for materials that have better air quality properties.
The chat demo I mentioned is strongly consistent and does not use cache at all.
I'm curious how this can both avoid the average-of-averages problem (presumably by using the original full-rate data to compute multiple aggregates) and also supports backfilling. Is there a danger of the full-rate data expiring and having a different behavior for backfills past that horizon? Or am I wholly misunderstading both these features?
I have fond memories from school in the 90s, I think, where I found an irc client which had Tcl scripting. I didn't do anything spectacular but I do remember loving the language at the time.
Standing up to a bully is asking to be punched in the face. Cops can make your life difficult. And they will.
This is not just speculation but personal observation. I am in the position of knowing several russians and americans (while living in nether country), and I do think this is a pretty pronounced difference.

It's not people in the street perhaps that is the big contrast, but in social interaction.

The americans pretty much always smile when they greet you regardless of whether you've met, and do the whole fake "how are you" routine. I've never encountered russians doing that. It's not that they never smile, but that the reasons for smiling aren't quite the same.

It may be a generational thing as well. Russia is a lot less isolated from the west today, so these cultural clashes may be fading away.
On what basis are you calling pg a nitwit? What has he actually done to merit such a slight?
...And this parent post seems to mean, with self-harming rhetoric, that the «veiled analogy» depicted a context of anti-intellectualism - as just written explicilty nearby. Yes, well noted.

The writer probably wanted to subtly refer to relevant Danish-American actress S.J. (a cryptic critique of the frugal accomplished Northern Europe?) in her statement "If I pay bucks for a movie ticket, I do not want to go there and think" (quoted from memory). Too subtle, let us not speak in riddles! (Even that «transphobia», presumably to be read as "fear of [monetary] transactions" - privacy, availability, inflation, currency as a token without intrinsic value: with such obscurity, little of the message can pass.)
Revenue, but a much larger part of the profit.
Can verifiy. 20 yrs ago I worked for an investment/financial mgt company. Brokerage/MF/401k/IRA etc. I had to submit for and get permission to buy or sell any individual equities.
> Why is it so impossible

Because it requires imagination. And then careful planning. And then execution.

In the shot, there is a crowd in the streets, there are people on balconies and in the rooms acting in concert with the camera etc.

These days this is offloaded to overworked underpaid CGI artists at a second production unit.
I just want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed that site. It feels incredibly grounded and a place where the author can have some fun. It tweaks some sort of nostalgia nerve while still having some good insights in his writings. The page on Aesthetics[1] makes me happy to see.

[1] https://corn.codeberg.page/aesthetic.html
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
Because other people don't want to. Like Barbie said in the 1980s, "Math is Hard".
Indeed. go is an example. I much prefer interfaces and structural inheritance.
I vividly remember as a kid in the 1980s seeing coverage of strikes in Korea. They seemed absurdly violent. The image that stands out to me was a striker had fashioned some giant burner/flame thrower thing out of (I suppose) an Lpg tank and was driving the cops back with it. Hilarious and exciting to a 10yo boy.
> still refuse to recognize that the problems are systematic

I think you're reading into other's worldviews too much. Most people likely agree it's systemic. Many would not be convinced by the proposed solutions, because they do not think they would improve the situation. Moreover, large numbers of people do not think the situation can be improved, that this is just the natural state of the world (for which they have thousands of years of evidence to point to).
Could it be that you are trying to use Linux like people use OSX and Windows? For instance, manually installing lots of things to try to get your system setup how you want? Messing around with tons of drivers for your funky hardware? Installing lots of applications from third party sources without checking if they're in the OS's own repo? The secret is to go with the flow, and use company-curated, community-and-history-grounded OS releases. Then you install almost everything using the system's package manager. The odds of breaking something if you go with the stream drop so close to 0 that it's not worth worrying about.

And the last and most important trick is to buy from companies which support Linux for enterprise customers.
Imagine waking up in a forest with your tribe. One of your cousins has an infected foot after stepping on a branch a few days before and it is known that he will soon die in agony. Everyone is hungry and there is nothing to eat, so you prepare hunting and foraging parties and hope that you will find food before starving to death.

That's the default state.
How to Hire Better Employees in Less Time for a Fraction of the Cost
"Physical danger" is not caused by someone having a different opinion. Nobody has the right to change reality to suit the fragile worldview they've created for themselves. Rather, any rational worldview should be strengthened by investigation.
It takes 36 days on average to hire an employee. In marketing, that number is closer to 90 days. And most marketers only stay at tech companies about 18 months. Good little article here on several different options (not just marketing related, but that's where I focus).
Absolutely. Our company issued us Windows laptops but all of our devops/SRE/cloud services and workflows were developed and built by and for MacBook users, with no thought as to the other half of the company that would need to work with them. It took me twenty minutes to get WSL installed and running, and now I can actually support the things I’m paid to support! I have inadvertently also become the SME and one-stop WSL support shop, for everyone else in the same boat. Which, as it turns out, is a great many people….
> The law will take the side of the system

>> courts - an agent of the state - being overly deferential and siding with the state

I am highly cynical about this methodology but it DOES work for the group, even if it is inefficent at it (and progressively getting more inefficient). Over the long run cops learn that they can't do X or Y, except for a few "new" abuses (e.g. civil asset forfeiture) we are probably better off than we were 50 or 60 years ago. At some point if we get too inefficient about it (which we may have already crossed), though, the equilibrium change will move towards regression since it is a cat-and-mouse game to some degree; cops are clever and talk to each other to strategize against protections, too.
> Who is forcing you to work 40h? I personally don't do that. You are free to negotiate your own contracts.

This is such a privileged and arrogant stance to take. The VAST majority of people are NOT free to negotiate.
12900K has 8 high performance cores (with 2 hardware threads each, look up hyperthreading), and 8 efficiency cores for a total sum of 24 hardware threads.

Previous Intel generations have only had so called high performance cores (except, maybe, for the Atom line of CPUs), even though not all of them have had hyperthreading enabled.
Why Squid Game is a critique of meritocracy
Why would you run "git rebase -i" from the command line if you have magit? It's cool that it works, but it's far from normal. Just do it with magit and you won't get the "flashing lights". The rebase workflow in magit is one of the best parts.
> just a way of tabulating the aggregate desires of rich people, most of whom are at least slightly pathological,

He lost me here. Guy is just a communist hoping for another Bolshevik Revolution.

Maybe it is true of the uber rich, but the majority of millionaires are just normal people who saved, started a business, and just invested.

If I was to judge someone character strictly off their economic status, you’re likely to find on average that the average rich man is a more moral productive member of society than the average poor one.

If he was talking about the bureaucrats way of getting rich by accepting bribes and funneling taxes to their pockets he might have had me. As it is his ideas would just make it worse.
I was expecting a reference to Phil Spector's wall of sound arranging technique, and was pleasantly surprised!
Vortex RISC-V Gpgpu
Based on the article, it seems like a CLI implementation of SublimeGit.
now, in addition to that, imagine not shutting up, saying the wrong thing, and getting thrown in prison for 5-10 years. Relatively speaking, all of what you mention is a "walk in the park". It doesn't make it ok, it doesn't make to fun. It doesn't mean we don't need reform.
I can’t read the article due to the pay wall, but this makes sense. If you own the software to buy, the software acting as the intermediary, and the software to sell, you’ll make 3x more than a competitor who only owns one piece.

(I don’t use the products and I’m sure the names have changed, but dv360/dcm, whatever they call their exchange, and dfp)

I’ll leave the morality/legality/etc of as an exercise for the reader.
If you don't like it, report me to the moderators and let them delete my comment(s) if they feel you are right. As far as I am aware, I have a right to post anecdotal evidence without a huge legal trail proving that I am right. And it's your right to not believe it.

Why not stop there?

EDIT: And yes, this absolutely is one of the unfounded claims that can be found all over the internet. Have I claimed otherwise?
Also an engineer at FAANG, just started working on a startup in this space. I’ve got an idea I think is valuable, I started out thinking like you, came to the conclusion that the UX is mostly solved, but using ML, there’s a lot of value to be built on top. If you’d be interested in working on something, let me know. I’m at about a light MVP. Shoot me an email at mike97345@protonmail.com
And 33 comments and counting on HN, most of which can be broadly categorized as "Twitter sucks too, here's why".

Flame on!
Not exactly farming or SV-like, but "A Short Hike" (https://ashorthike.com/) is a laid-back, wholesome, "no-stress" kind of game I can highly recommend.
While some of the basically factual whaling information is fascinating, some of it is also perhaps dealt with by skinning.
Immutable Web Apps and NPM – A recipe for stable deployments
I've spoken with both Amazon delivery workers and Amazon warehouse workers. Small sample set, but the delivery workers seem reasonably satisfied, and the warehouse workers seem abused.

In both cases former employees were more willing to discuss working conditions than current ones.

I've also spoken to Whole Foods employees. Those who were working at the time of the Amazon acquisition universally despise the new management, and those hired since the acquisition are indifferent. But everyone's afraid to actually discuss this inside the store -- they believe they're being closely monitored.
Ask HN: How did you choose a name for your business?
Do you have an advice on how to come up with a good name?
Any tips you could share on how do you come up with a product name?
A Million Dollars vs. a Billion Dollars, Visualised: A Road Trip