skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By that logic, you can hire a freelance dev to do all the programming too.

The market for developer talent and designer talent are visibly different. Different in terms of supply, compensation (as a factor of supply), and risk (due to the compensation!). Risk here is you mostly take the word of the developer they're competent. We come up with elaborate interview processes for this (if you have an idea for a better process... ). For a designer, a portfolio clearly demonstrates they're competent. This makes outsourcing and freelancing more viable, increasing supply, and driving down the overall costs, in my opinion.

I won't touch on actual skill / investment in becoming a good designer vs. developer except to say I think there's differences there too, at least outside of the tail.

I would circle back to my second point, that even if you have an excellent designer, someone still needs to implement it and not make it janky. I think it explains, as a whole, why people gravitate towards engineering co-founders if they don't have the skillset.

> Consider that the #1 market cap YC company of all time - AirBnB - was started by 2 founders with a background in design.

I don't think Airbnb won on design or would consider design its moat. Designers can also be excellent leaders and executives.
Linux on the desktop was great when I was in high school and college and had tons of free time to investigate, debug, and understand things and very little money to spend on solutions. I learned a lot.

Now I have far less time and far more money. I use Windows. It just works.
No, only two criminal cases. The other 12 cases were civil involving detainee rights.
I’m not sure why you linked to docs talking about video decode acceleration in the browser after saying there is none.

Anyways, it exists, I use it every day, but it’s not zero effort — like most things on Linux.
I'd actually disagree pretty strongly with this. For most of human history the spoilage rate of pretty much everything we produced was so high that stockpiling goods for the sudden economic shocks was solely reserved to governing bodies. Remember how you built ten bazillion granaries in Civ? Sure, the game has taken quite a few liberties with history but we have evidence of communal food storage going all the way back to Babylon. When's the last time you saw a granary or any sort of food stock that was actually built and maintained by a government in the modern world?

Before the modern epoch it was really rare to personally stockpile goods due to the extreme possibilities of spoilage (everyone loves weevils and moths right?) - that's only been an option in the near history.
It's hard to disagree in general, but there are varying degrees of evil.

REI has 2x revenue and 6x employees compared to Palantir, but it would be impossible to argue that REI is more evil.
What crime were you charged with?
I would say most browser users do not care about developer tools. They are normal people, they do not debug stuff.
> minimal front-end javascript

uhhh, how about no javascript. and no CSS. and ideally, no HTML other than <html>, <head>, <body>; for posterity's sake.

also, for posterity, raw or bitmapped files with a header of width x height and just raw pixel values is going to survive way longer than whatever gif,png,jpeg format you might pick.
I second this. Like all of what you wrote applies to me as well. Manjaro 'just works' for me for quite a few years now. AUR is great, I've found some really obscure software there, and that also 'just works'. Like, everything has been so frictionless that it's borderline boring.
My favourite is ox tail. Takes hours to cook through, but once you can grab a piece with tongs and get all the meat fall off with a slight shake, gives an absolutely gorgeous flavour to a slow simmer meat dish.

Bonus: you can drain the liquid and put in in the freezer. Keeps good for a week or so. Wonderful gelatine and works with almost anything else as a base.
I think this whole question is naive and simplistic. Its unlikely we'll see straightforward trends like "less deaths from cold" (ignoring that such a concept is ill-defined and inconsistent in the literature the author reviewed); climate is a complex system and heat should really be thought of as energy -- not so much ambient temperature -- in this context.

To boot, "excess deaths" is a pretty nebulous topic and once you start analyzing differences between regions using their political borders (comparative politics), you're only making the concept more abstract. Just as an example of what I mean by this: something not analyzed herein was demographic differences between regions. What is the median age of populace in Nigeria vs. Greenland? Just citing this as an example -- my point is really that the variations between a Scandinavian region and equatorial one could really exceed the scope of any topical research.
I don’t think the memory management part has gotten anywhere at all. Open 10 tabs on Firefox and I lose 2-3GB of my RAM just like that. Chrome and Edge never cross 700MB.

Firefox is a colossal RAM guzzler.
It's like "Works on my system" manifested as a person.
IP geolocation gives latitude/longitude. Maybe we could sort such posts by proximity. Whether they'd be comments or top-level posts would depend on the format I suppose.
Aaah that's nice. I hope they don't bundle the charger then.
Has resilience changed over time?

The city recovered relatively quickly in 1871, but has still failed to completely recover from the 1968 riots:

Following the riots, Chicago experienced a food shortage, and the city's needs were barely met by volunteers bringing food to the area. Results of the riots include the increase in pace of the area's ongoing deindustrialization and public and private disinvestment. Bulldozers moved in to clean up after the rioters, leaving behind vacant lots, many of which remain today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Chicago_riots
Don't B-Corps work for the "public benefit?" That does not necessarily align with the needs or interests of the workers and the profit motive still exists. It is not hard to imagine a B-Corp working for the public interest while still paying its workers too little, offering limited benefits, or even engaging in various abuses of its workforce.

As to the point about mandatory union affiliation, as I said the entire purpose of a union is to allow workers to negotiate the terms of their employment on an equal footing with their company. For the reasons I gave mandatory union membership is necessary; personal choice serves to divide the workers and gives the company an advantage in every negotiation. To put it another way, managers do not have any "personal choice" on their side of the negotiation -- the company negotiates as a collective and the job of individual managers is to negotiate on behalf and for the benefit of the company. So if the workers exercise a "personal choice" to negotiate individually or collectively, the company, which always negotiates as a collective, will have an advantage in every negotiation.

So I suppose it really comes down to whether or not you think it is a problem for a company to have a huge advantage over its workers when negotiating the terms of employment. I personally think it is a problem to give such a large advantage to employers, but I can grant that it is a matter of personal values and worldview, so maybe your values are different. If you do assert that there is no particular problem with companies having such a large advantage, then to be intellectually honest you should not speak of a "market" for employment, because markets do not function effectively when they are so extremely one-sided (see e.g. the failure of the "market" for home ISP service).
The world wide web is only 28 years old.

We've had computers for 76 years at this point.

We're discussing this topic in modern English, but if you look back 500 years William Shakespeare wouldn't be born for another couple of generations: vocabulary and grammar have changed a lot since then, and if you look back a further 500 years (to 1021AD) the "English" spoken in those days was a lot closer to Frisian than anything we'd understand.

To get the big picture of what 500 years means ... the oldest surviving writing is roughly 5500 years old. We've had agriculture for roughly 11,000 years. And you're asking for a personal legacy to be legible and usable after surviving a span of time 10% as vast as the existence of writing itself?

Think archival grade materials and ink, then add translations into Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish -- there's a much better chance of it being readable if you have more than one language. Then maybe add a dictionary, just in case words have fallen out of use. Make multiple copies and distribute them around the world, including tectonically stable desiccated regions that are currently lightly- or un-inhabited and likely to remain so: the criteria for deep disposal nuclear waste repositories are applicable (minus the "deep") bit, so Yucca Flats would do, or the Atacama Desert or the McMurdo dry valleys in Antarctica.
My favorite part of this excellent answer, and to me the most important part, is the yearly reading tradition.

The other idea might be to encode your website in a song that's popular today but complex enough to be worthy of study by future generations.
I've been waiting for a device to smarten up my TVs so the kids can stream on it but without YouTube. If google goes through with this I will buy some Rokus :)
That's not true. Chemicals are -everything-. Unless you think everything "artificial" is bad then I think you will be open to realizing just because something manufactured doesn't mean it's bad by default.
Entertaining and seriously demonstrates to us all how tiny we really are on this planet and without push, shove and money and judges in cahoots with others against you what chance does anyone have in court? That’s why I became an arbitrator and make judgements on natural justice as opposed to the law.
From the article:

> One study failed to find any excess cold-weather deaths in Siberians even at temperatures as low as -52C (-62F).
Ask HN: Thoughts on Getting a Masters in CS?
Overall just curious on what other CS people think about getting a Masters Degree. Is spending the extra 1 1/2 to 2 years of schooling worth it and will it make getting a job as a Software Engineer/Developer more seamless?
Going to choose to interpret this as “seeks counterintuitive results without heed to science”. If this interpretation is wrong, kindly supply clarification and ignore remainder.

Posting level of epistemic certainty makes this not so. This is just a hypothesis and summary post.

But also in a UI question, it appears that people are unable to read content without updating their priors significantly, even with a low proposed information gain multiplier.

This helps understand comments like this.
Is this for real? "Overemployed" sounds like a dystopian double speak term.
Global warming is going to increase both cold and heat related deaths, given that it's likely to (and has already started to) produce more extreme temperatures at both ends of the spectrum.
Nintendo is over 100. There are breweries with *thousand* year leases to the British Monarchy.

Lots of kinds of companies have survived major world transformations.
> I love the implication that 100+ year old companies that build race cars don't have solid engineering culture. Aren't ICE vehicles far more complicated?

Depends on what kind of engineering. Having an old company that is good at mechanical engineering struggling when it comes to software is not surprising, it's the norm.

I'd also disregard the race cars; that is often a wildly different group with its own unique culture and specialists. Tech can and does move back and forth between the two, but if we're evaluating culture, you have to acknowledge that the racing divisions are just different teams with different cultures.
--force-with-lease

Which BTW I learned it exists when magit switched "p -f u" to use it instead of plain --force.
From the article: "It works by analysing the ‘top lists’ of editorial pictures on stock image website Getty. Using machine learning, the algorithm produces a daily score based on the types of photos used in global news reports. Lead author Dr Angel Zhong said investors could use this information to better predict daily stock market returns, based on the mood of investors worldwide."

Not, "Angel Zhong Fund announces 142% gain for year."
Maybe in regard to their new APU's, but everything else I think PC's are just as great.

There has also been some really nice Windows laptops in most recent years. I got a business HP laptop (think it was probook series) for work when I started 2 years ago.
It was awesome, great trackpad, keyboard, battery life, speed etc.

Had to move over to Macbook Pro 16" due to some technical setup in the workplace. It's great too but not ahead on anything really. Lower battery, more heat. Slower. Also Intel though. Lot of issues with connecting non-Apple displays.

Also heard the Dell XPS should be great.

I just think many people think Macbook good, PC bad. Because they ARE willing to spend 2500$ on a Mac but their last PC they spend 1000$, and then they to compare.

But I concede, currently Apple APU's has no match.
Low Tech magazine has a solar powered website... that would cover the hosting - https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowte...

After that all you need to do is figure out how to have the domain name registered annually. Not going to lie ... thats a pretty tough problem. You might be able to become a domain name registrar and have a trust administer any fees to ICANN... but that is still fraught with problems.

happy hunting!
Is this available to stream online anywhere?
Trackpad support has gotten a lot better with Wayland and its libinput support. I have a Macbook Pro and trackpad support under Linux via Wayland is comparable to macOS.

Wayland and libinput support multitouch gestures. Two finger scrolling and four finger gestures work well.
Not even remotely. I am completely aware people have deep religious beliefs. (I've been on the receiving side of deeply religious beliefs multiple times in my life across cultures, religions, countries and continents :-).

My method for putting things in perspective though, is that when people say "let me do this because of my deeply held religious beliefs", on its own and with no other supporting arguments, that should hold no more, and no less, sway than "I really really want it" (and again, that takes me some work, because emotionally I too am conditioned to give religion extra sway and credit, with no supportive reason I can come up with, hence the need for internal conscious translation)

I am eager to hear non circular arguments otherwise.

Edit: semi jokingly but completely seriously: I am willing to grant another "really" for each instance of "deep",e.g.:

I want this due to my religious beliefs = I really want this

I want this due to my deep religious beliefs = I really really want this

I want this due to my particularly deeply held deep religious beliefs = I really really rreaaallly want it.

Again it comes down to religion in actuality being a personal choice and decision rather than immutable property beyond person's control. Any argument of immutability tend to become circular and refer to specific religion itself.
Your notebooks are very useful, thank you! May I suggest making their background white, or the color text less saturated? The keywords, function names etc. are very difficult to read, I have to paste the code in another editor.
There are plenty of Italian and Swiss banks that are over 300 years old. They’ve survived reformations, wars including World Wars, plagues, purges, and the transition from feudal monarchies to empire and to democracy. For example, the British banking giant Barclays was founded in 1690. Here’s a partial list of other ancient banks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_banks_in_contin...

I think it’s more reasonable to assume that they’ll survive any future calamity (especially something so close as 20-30 years) than to assume that our current age is somehow special.
I don't think it's necessary to go into all this trouble. Tablets made of the much, much cheaper clay are still accessible today—4000 years after they were created.
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> keep it in a safe-deposit box

on a practically non-declining 2000km high orbit where USSR Uranium nuclear reactors are parked.
What does that have to do with a cop lying in court and continuing to be a cop after that? Judges won't be able to make just decisions if lying cops are allowed to continue to be cops. Allowing garbage-in-garbage-out seems like a systemic issue to me.

Judges generally aren't involved I'm the removal of an officer. That typically happens via IAD, and even then the union tells them to resign so the IAD investigation ends and they can just go to a different department.
Red Hat continues to grow, but IBM’s struggles continue
That is amazing. Why is the Flexport CEO apparently the only one trying to diagnose and solve this critical problem? It's not even that hard. He lays out a relatively simple solution:

1) Executive order effective immediately over riding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.

This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers

2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.

3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port complex.

4) Force the railroads to haul all containers to this new site, turn around and come back. No more 1500 mile train journeys to Dallas. We're doing 100 mile shuttles, turning around and doing it again. Truckers will go to this site to get containers instead of the port.

5) Bring in barges and small container ships and start hauling containers out of long beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up.
This is not a comprehensive list. Please add to it. We don't need to do the best ideas. We need to do ALL the ideas.

We must OVERWHELM THE BOTTLENECK and get these ports working again. I can't stress enough how bad it is for the world economy if the ports don't work. Every company selling physical goods bought or sold internationally will fail.

The circulatory system our globalized economy depends has collapsed. And thanks to the negative feedback loops involved, it's getting worse not better every day that goes by.

I'd be happy to lead this effort for the federal or state government if asked. Leadership is the missing ingredient at this point.
Well, Debian is free, open source, is more or less fully documented (and translated!) and has over 50,000 software packages that meticulously tested before the stable release every two years. That's not me being emotional or manipulative. It is a fact.

I don't actually need to prove that software is (also) about ideology, as you just acknowledged it. But anyway, it is also a fact that if you use Windows, you are giving even more money and power to 1 American company that currently has like 85% total market share. Distribution of wealth and power over human (digital) life are clearly ideological issues.

What is emotional is your statement that you think Windows is far better, that you think Linus Torvalds work somehow makes Debian undemocratic, that you think the documentation is terrible to read and that the vast majority of OSS you've seen is buggy etc. Being a software guy, I'm sure you can recognize a pattern, here :).

Also, I understand that your time with GNU/Linux is supposed to impress. But to me it just means that you came in at least a decade after the FUD-era in the late nineties, which may explain why you can't see how the counter-article maps near perfectly to the old arguments about community, hardware support, lacking software and "not for everyone."

Lastly, I'm not trying to start a flamewar. I'm just pointing out that the counter-article, which some other posters found well written, is classic FUD.
Refer to section 13.

The requirements imposed by the AGPL are unambiguous: if you host a server using code from an AGPL codebase, you are required to provide networked access to the source code for your modifications.

There's nothing particularly "partisan" about it: it's a remarkably straightforward, cut-and-dry AGPL violation. Stretching immediately for partisan motivations shows your hand a bit, as does comparing enforcement of a copyleft license to the SCO debacle.
What's the market Graphcore is going for here?

Even their own performance releases are not really favorable over nvidia's current offerings. This is definitely not enough to justify the risk of moving to a new hardware/software stack:

https://semianalysis.com/graphcore-looks-like-a-complete-fai...
you just may not recognize that as fish.
Make a lot of dollars and pay a handsome salary conditional entirely on the website fulfilling an availability SLA, and then some company will ensure this vapid task for you manually. There is certainly no way to automate this today.
Make a front payment for 10 of the oldest businesses each to store a copy of your website for 500 years. They have been around more than a thousand years, likely at least some of them will be around for 500 more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
I kind of think this makes programming all about the IDE.
Three Point Zero aka GNOME 3.0
Jefferson was a slave owner who lectured others on morality and liberty. He used to beat and whip his slaves. He raped at least one underage slave to pregnancy.

It's true that the Constitution is a good document (especially if you're a white man).

We can lose Jefferson without losing the Constitution. We don't lose the Constitution by getting rid of a statue celebrating Jefferson.

(Related: I look forward to Weiss and Goldman celebrating the water-colors of Adolf Hitler [masterpieces, IMHO]. Gotta separate the man from his art!)
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This is interesting because your go to was an existing, but non-English language, rather than a completely different language that is an amalgamation of other, existing languages, gone through several generations of memes, in-jokes, meaning reversals, etc, to the point of being unintelligible from the former.
Eschaton in Singularitys Sky?

"You shall not meddle with the lightcone of the recursive time-travelling super-intelligence you created?"
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> Well, yeah, that's true of all normal websites too.

Not exactly. While you may miss data that isn't requested specifically, you can crawl the site and get most/all that is accessible through links at least. Stuff only available through search results won't show, but if it's discoverable through browsing, you can get it.

The same can't necessarily be said for custom interfaces that are JS heavy, possibly with non-link click actions, custom sliders, a graphical representation of a map that expects a click on a region, etc. An old style page that lists all the regions (like states, or counties in a state), or even that has a dropdown in a form? Those are much easier to crawl and archive.