skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of amazing talks by Dan North, where one of the ideas he shares is that the entire idea of technical debt is wrong - it implies that "good" code a team produced is an asset and "bad" code is debt, and applies a set of moral judgements where teams that produce this debt are bad.
Instead - code is neither an asset or debt - it's just cost. It merely is a direct result of whatever effort the team has spent in the past, but at any moment it could be greatly simplified or even replaced by a new open source library or commercial tool. If good code was an asset, replacing it with something would be rare, but history shows us we keep replacing libraries and entire products despite some of them being made up of really great code.
Every source I followed had nothing to do with the hyperlinked item it claimed to provide a statistic or number for.
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
Or use a `make` from any of Msys, Msys2, Cygwin, WSL, Gow or any of the assorted GNU util ports.
While i can't disagree with Michael's points, i feel like this is one of those occasions when it's not that one side is misrepresenting, but that rather both sides have a piece of a greater truth. Michael's research is very notable and addresses a serious epidemic of mental illness and addiction, but downplays an increasingly just as real epidemic of homelessness based on socio-economic factors.

Admittedly, my interactions with the homeless, while much of which occurred while i myself was homeless, did seem related to addiction/mental illness. However, i also met many that clearly had a good head on their shoulders. It's much easier than many may realize to have stability taken from you, and once that occurs, it can be harder than ever to get back on your feet (it often has a snowballing effect), because while you are without shelter you live in a constant state of stress. I was one of the luckier ones that quickly bounced back, in no small part due to the rare kindness of a stranger.

And to expand on that snowballing effect, i have no doubt that homelessness can indeed be just as capable of leading to addiction and mental illness as the inverse. It definitely put my mind into places it has never been before, and without the kindness of a stranger, i can see how the stress of homelessness and the way the majority of society alienated me, avoiding eye contact and the like, and other subtle indications of my sub-human status, could have quickly lead down that path.
If CDE survived as FOSS, why could open look not have done the same?
I don't think you understand what "literary culture" means. It can't become "just more personalized." How tragic for you that you had to read things by dead people.

As he says:

Much of what passes for social media discourse makes little or no sense, until one considers that most assertions are assertions of identity, not of factual or true statements, and many social media users are constructing a quasi-fictional universe not unlike the ones novels used to create.

A "literary culture" transcends identity. So you're a member of <X> (I use "X" to avoid triggering anyone): who TF cares? Making a true statement about the human condition that's relevant in Periclean Athens or 17th Century France or now is what enabled those dead people to live on through their books.
‘Playstation Home’ in 2009 Looks Better Than Meta-Facebook’s ‘Horizon Worlds’
Brian is the man.

Love his web page on dutch bikes in Amsterdam. Inspired me to get a real dutch bike and put 30k miles on it! https://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/
Except for drought problems.
So before Borgmon existed, the quota unit was basically an entire machine? No virtualization?

Oh wait, this was probably 2008, VMWare had only just figured out JITed software virtualization a couple years prior. Makes a bit more sense now. And now the containerization thing makes a tad more sense: Google basically skipped over the "use QEMU" (or more recently, Firecracker) phase everyone else is now going through.
Weren't there headlines recently about a Google deep learning model producing the most accurate weather forecasts? Weather after all is the system from which chaos theory was first inspired.
I can share what worked for me, although I am by no means a pro

I found the book "Reverse Engineering for beginners" quite useful. Its a bit tedious but if your serious about it and go through it a bit it'll give you some solid practice.

Also, write, compile, and reverse own snippets of your code to get more intuition about how things work.

Finally work on a actual target, not something crazy like Photoshop or Word but at least something real to get the practical experience. It might be a bit of a grind but when you do manage to crack/hack whatever it is your trying on, its an euphoric feeling
I agree that at one point maybe being oblivious to systemic problems could go along with being decent. But these days I don't see how being a decent human is compatible with either, "I don't want to learn whether you're getting the short end of the stick" or "I know you're getting the short end of the stick but I'll never do anything about it": neither seem decent to me.

I'll also note that although those particular theoretical frameworks were originally popular ways to understand certain problems, there are plenty of other ways to understanding.

As an example, let's take the microagression where white people want to touch black hair. This is a common problem [1][2][3], and one certainly can situate it within a whole host of racist microaggressions and a broader theoretical framework. But one can also just say, "Dude, black people are not pets. Keep your hands to yourself." Or in the middle, the handsy person can listen to black voices on this and get a personal understanding of why it's a demeaning thing to ask/do. That doesn't require any theory, just the sort of empathy and respect that is at the core of human decency.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/01/08/stop-as...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/b5c3fa4e-e6c0-11e9-9743-db5a37048...

[3] http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/07/25/touching.natural.black....
Kind of a cringe video. Zuckerberg doing a convincing impression of Data from Star Trek. It's like that episode where Data tries to understand human emotions, and only succeeds in vaguely faking a smile. Except this time he wants to build a virtual world for humans. But he doesn't understand it's limited by his android brain's concept of what humans are.
Time Series as Vector Embeddings
Personally, classes feel particularly unnatural in Python.

Closures are also weird though, I get your point. I wouldn’t use them in code that’s widely shared.

The upside is truly private data.
Classic racing and flight sims such as Grand Prix Legends, Mig Alley/Battle of Britain and Falcon 4 are available for linux here:

https://github.com/sim-museum/esports-for-engineers

(this is free, and does not use steam)
> There might be some synth or guitar pedal that you are in love with, or even several, but it rarely turns out to be critical to your personal sound.

The 303 defined acid, the Juno gabba and early rave, and sliced 4 bars of a single song defined jungle. Maybe in what you're saying is true, but on the other hand for other genres, synths = genre
Sincere question...what does it mean that the translation is written from a Woke lens? What should I be looking out for as different/hallmarks of propaganda or a viewpoint?

Also is anyone else influencing interpretations outside of the british that would be notable?
What ridiculously pretentious old-person grandstanding. Let me guess--was the late 1990s the last stretch of some golden age where the youngsters of America were, for the most part, sophisticated, nuanced, intellectual critical thinkers? The glorious 1990s PlayStation and Nintendo games, network and cable television programming, popular rap and metal music, and print-magazine content of that time were something that people who were your current age then were seeing as insidious time-wasting garbage that was inarguably "fucking up" the minds of teenagers and 20-somethings. You've simply just fallen behind and gotten old; is the feature phone you carry with you a Nokia or a Motorola?
As someone who previously worked for, and is also the child of, landlords, I can attest to the fact that, yes, there is some work and some risk, but you're wildly overselling it.

The reason "everybody" doesn't do it is that in order to do it, you have to already have money (even if you can do it on a loan, the terms won't be favorable unless you have significant starter capital). At that point, it's basically free money, yes, to the extent that you can pay someone to do all the actual work for you and still make a comfortable income.
The Mountain of Tongues
This is just thinly veiled communism with buzzwords, dislike of the rich because they're rich and identity politics complaining about how the music production is “white” without defining what makes music white or colonialist.

>Francisco’s agenda is clear: democratization leads to consolidation, which leads to platformization, which leads to profits.

No its not clear, its their fantasy projected.

>Adobe, whose extortionate Creative Cloud suite includes Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, and Premiere Pro, has near-monopolistic control of visual and design culture, as well as the education institutions that teach art and design. It is now essentially a compulsory investment for the precarious creative worker in those fields; the means of cultural production are being rebranded as capital investments.

What does this mean? It has a monopoly over design culture? So all art made with Adobe looks the same? You can tell if art was made with photoshop? You can tell what photos were edited by Lightroom? You didn't need to buy them before since now the means of cultural production are being rebranded as capital investments?

>Musicians need more recourse to seize their means of production.

The companies release plugins and cheaper software, what does this phrase even mean? Do they have a monopoly? Do they not have the ability to produce music now? Do free alternatives not exist? Why is the writer so bothered by this specific one?

> According to Angela McRobbie, this centralized model has morphed into what is now described as the ‘creative industries,’ which privileges the economizing of individual self-expression, subjects it to the free market in lieu of government funding or patronage, and downplays the collective identities that help to create politically engaged art and culture.

Who? Some random name that I never heard of? What does this mean? Products are cheaper and more accessible, so it’s economizing self expression? They want the government to pay musicians since that’s how all music was made before these plugins?

You can’t make political art or culture since these tools are too white or colonialist and you can’t have creatives collaborate or have a collective identity?

> Despite non-Western tuning systems being easy to implement in theory, they are not readily accessible for most software instruments, an issue that musician and researcher Khyam Allami has recently addressed with his transcultural generative music apps.

They’re easy to implement, yet the people saying it’s easy can’t implement it themselves and they’re complaining about it while relying on a corporation to make it? How ridiculous is this?
> In the USA at least, there is no legal expectation of privacy on a public street.

Depends on the state. In Massachusetts, for example, expectation of privacy doesn't matter. What matters is whether the recording was secret or not. Note that "secret" doesn't mean "the subject knew", it means "the subject could have known." If you're walking around with a zoom lens and a camera taking pictures of someone a block away who has no idea? Not secret. If you're in front of me with a camera hidden in your tie pin? Secret.

Security camera on the side of the building? Not secret. Security camera hidden on the side of the building made to look like a bird's nest? Secret.

> So, for news reporting purposes, you can publish photos of a crowd in public.

There's generally much wider latitude for use of a person's image in relation to press coverage of a newsworthy event.

> However, as soon as you step onto private property, this changes.

Not in Massachusetts, where secretly recording someone is illegal, period.

> it is not kosher for photographers to take photos of customers in these settings and publish them without getting a signed model release form the subject of the photo

Publishing is not a very relevant term. People have a right to control "commercial use" of their image.
The insight that Discord was helpful for converting subscribers was cool.

I feel like these technologies while old, are still nascent in terms of what they’re capable of doing.

Like everyone is learning how to become literate with these new tools.
Of course. I think the vast vast majority of people abhor racism and discrimination in the US and Canada yet our countries are described by the woke as bastions of this kind of thought when the vast majority of the evidence points to it being two of the most welcoming and accepting of differences.
Composable by Design, Sensible by Default
https://beginners.re and

https://www.begin.re/.
In the US, unpaid work is generally against the law (Fair Labor Standards Act) unless you qualify as an intern under the guidelines. I think you’ll find companies reluctant to take you on without pay because of the risks. If you can find a place that takes on interns that’s a possibility. Your university probably has an office that can help.

Early in your career you should consider focusing on getting any real-world programming experience, including learning business domains, how to participate in a team building real software, and making connections that can help you throughout your career (and whom you can help eventually). I wouldn’t focus on a language or framework, those are more alike than not and come and go over time.
Not the same thing though. The ceiling here is about affordability, not the value of the asset. A house is a need for the individual buyer, not an investment.
>if we have a clean grid they can be produced with almost no carbon emissions

Everything is possible. But not everything is practical.

Energy density matters. Especially in industrial applications.

For example, electric passenger vehicles are a great solution because the weight of passengers is negligible.

Electric semis hauling freight? Not so much. The payload has to be reduced by a significant amount because the battery is so damn big.

I don't know what the extraction process involves, but I've been to a few mines. Truck, the size of a house moving massive loads. And lots of big stationary machines, which I assume are already electric powdered.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084492
> they've figured out a way to deliver groceries in 10mins (!) with a sustainable business model in the 6 months they've been stealthily operating in Mumbai

I dunno man, smells fishy. I never understood how the whole 10mins delivery thing could work economically, much less in a place with low purchasing power like India. Or maybe its just a sign that wealth inequality is rife in Mumbai such that people are willing to pay enough of a premium to cover low cost labor that makes it profitable. Maybe thats also why I'm not a billionaire yet.
In a metaverse, you could put a 3rd person perspective with a higher vantage point on the character's arm/wrist display and use it to navigate.
So you store ~4 files per second? a Pi with USB HDD could serve your needs ;-)
Nothing in Linux-land excites me anymore as much as running everything in unprivileged userland. Having the most bleeding edge software is overhyped, since it introduces instability into your system... especially if you carefully design it such as with Arch Linux. I can't believe using MacOS 12 and homebrew taught me the values of this. Flatpak or bust!

For example... I have Steam and Chromium happily running in a Flatpak install and it has zero more privileges that my non-sudo user account has.

No sudo in sight and for a start this gives me peace of mind. Zero trust needs to be a bigger deal in the Linux community.
I think it’s interesting that one of the biggest drugs imported into the USA is tobacco. There’s a large market for cheap cigarettes that didn’t get properly taxed.
The takedown says that GrapheneOS's code "has not been made available under an open source license", but https://grapheneos.org/source says "GrapheneOS is an open source project", and links to the Open Source Definition. What's going on there exactly?
That's interesting. I've never lived anywhere where that's a problem, at least not to that degree. The places I've lived have low costs of living with the wage disparity holding most people down. A truly urban city where half the people are in a high rise, like myself, has its problems too. Which is what the NIMBYs are worried about I would presume. Tough to scale transportation and everything else around it. It really takes one of the older cities that were designed from nearly day-one to be densely populated. Everything is already in place. For example here all the roads are mostly perfectly square making for efficient movement and trains are the heartbeat of the city.
Why don't you move to Europe, and find out for yourself? I thought much the same as you, twenty years ago. Grass looks greener, etc., etc.
Similar to behavior driven testing. For example behave framework.

It works exactly like wish does above but creates a whole language out of it.

For a human it reads very natural but understanding which combination of human words that map to underlying handlers is a hopeless and unnecessary level of indirection, and is why anyone shouldn’t touch these tools with a ten foot pole.
Hypixel and other mega servers already do this on their own. I'm sure some sort of irc/matrix implementation would work for interoperability.
> Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord

What's amazing it 1/3 of that money could solve World Hunger -

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/26/economy/musk-world-hunger...

It says a lot that the United Nations World Food Programme wouldn't got to someone like that and offer immunity, in exchange to solve the most complex and pressing issue of our time.
Alcohol and tobacco are also hugely addictive and harmful. This has been obvious for many years, yet the $$$ from these industries still keeps them afloat.

Why should the government be allowed to tell me what I can and can't do with my body? If you want to meth yourself to death that's not hurting anyone else.
Exactly! It's a bunch of unfounded opinions.
I don't have a steam account so I'm mostly playing RTS games that are fun to play when other people are around.

0AD, OpenRA, Widelands are some nice improved remakes of the genre, and can fully recommend to check them out.

Other than that I'd recommend to check the appdb of wine and proton in case you want to run Windows games, their database usually contains helpful fixes and patches.
How Tuple founder Ben Orenstein made $8K in sales without even a product
So I don't know what a(1) is supposed to represent (and am purposefully not looking it up before thinking about this due to your comment about the man page) but presumably it is pi/4 (as 4 times that is pi). If you take pi/4 and round it to 8 decimal digits of precision you get 0.78539816. If you multiply that by 4 (and round it to 8 decimal digits of precision, though this result already has that precision) you get 3.14159264. I guess you are assuming intermediate results somehow have tons of excess precision? (edit: After writing this I checked the man page and a is apparently arctangent.)
> Michael's research is very notable and addresses a serious epidemic of mental illness and addiction, but downplays an increasingly just as real epidemic of homelessness based on socio-economic factors.

No, this is just plain false. There is plenty of research on who is homeless, and all of Shellenberger's claims are refuted by actual research.
The nearby state of Maharashtra has alcohol freely available and Mumbai is considered one of the safest cities for women in India as well. As someone who has lived in both places, I'd say Mumbai is overall better for women in many ways. Also, alcohol in Gujarat is very easily available illegally and the reason for its continued prohibition is largely that politicians derive a _lot_ of money from bootlegging. At this point, the nexus runs so deep that it would take some kind of a massive revolution to upset it.
Hmm. You make some good points.
Is. :D
For many years, they were consistently and very diplomatically saying that they had no plans to offer Backblaze Personal Backup to Linux users, because Linux users would use a disproportionately large amount of storage and it wouldn't make sense to offer them a flat-rate alternative to the pay-per-GB B2 option.

e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/jsrqoz/personal_...

It seems that they may be changing their tune, at least as of a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/m3xynu/backblaze...
What does big Pharma have to do with it? These drugs are incredibly addictive. So addictive that normal people throw their whole lives away from one course of painkillers. Your solution is to let people get them more freely. That means more people throw their lives away
I tried searching for "Let's go Brandon" to see if it would return any funny results. But it only found "Brandon". A little disappointed.
In a solution or even a colloidal solution, no. That’s the basic definition of a solution anyways.
Victimhood? I didn't get any of that from the page.

The "consent" the page is talking about is her belief that the image should be retired from tech work since it's a crop of a nude image from Playboy.
CEOs are very involved in strategy, especially when a company is going through a transition. A CEO that can properly navigate the business world through 'handshakes' is important too. Boards pay them lots for a reason. A good CEO is much harder to replace than a few engineers.
It's pragmatic in a thoroughly robotic sense. Most humans have this thing called empathy tho.

> Unfulfilling and hopeless

It's the human condition.
Probably about as detrimental as engineering people using business terms incorrectly, or not understanding goals and priorities outside of a narrow technical domain.

People use words incorrectly all the time, or ask questions that seem to want a quantitative answer when none exists. Doesn’t seem like a big deal.
It’s a substack article… I’ve not seen a single one that was anything other than bad conjecture and an inability to understand logic or reason.
I think you are experiencing a culture shock after receiving a honest answer from a business.

- drive you send arrives damaged

- drive you send gets lost in transit

- your friend hears about this great new offer and sends 100TB of drives expecting $7/m offer to stand and someone at Backblaze to build pods out of his random drives.

- etc etc
> If you want to meth yourself to death that's not hurting anyone else.

Desperate addicted people do desperate things that often do hurt others.

That includes acoholics.
Why would you want this when you have blade templates or further down .jsx or .vue templates?
Which may not be a good alternative.
Firefox 94 advertises VPN in new private browsing tabs
While it is true that concrete and steel cost resources as well, in a resource constrained world, we will use what we already have in place as these things are quite durable.

I don't envision a future of mega skyscrapers and bullet trains, nor do I envision a world of Oculus clad employees driving a virtual forklift.

Rather I view the world continuing to exist as we currently have it: forklift driver is prompted by his UI to go to the next location to physically grab an item.
Well in Italy we’re not so distant with a +180% ca.
I suppose today's that day: I wasn't pretending, since I use all platforms.