skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As it's own thing, it's entertaining to me...It seems like there's a lot of people that can't seem to enjoy things "just for the fun" that I don't get.

That is the main issue for most people. If they wanted to do their own thing for a new show, it would have been fine. Maybe you check it out, maybe you don’t. Maybe you like it, maybe you don’t. But they didn’t do their own thing. They made an adaptation of an iconic sci-fi series by one of the most famous classic sci-fi writers. They sold a bag of goods that had “Asimov’s Foundation” printed on the bag. So it can’t be too surprising when people open the bag, find it is a sprinkle of “Foundation” and mostly “generic sci-fi” sawdust filler, that they feel tricked. Bait and switch comes to mind.
same. even though I make good living, buying house seems difficult - it's a lot of money for many years. add closing costs and misc repairs, and owning appears to be quite expensive. I wouldn't know what to do if at any point within next 10 years I lost the job.
Yep, I remember that post as well. Was described as "Do-nothing scripting" and I've applied the concept as well.

Original Article: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495739
Many cheap places have other problems that are reflected in the price of the property (ie. There is a cost to living in a town full of anti-vaxxers/religious nutjobs/etc.)

If you look at California exodus data, its mainly people making less than 100K, population is increasing for people making more than 100K.

Despite this, property prices are still increasing elsewhere. This is a worst of all worlds scenario.
>It's also why the perennial "hiring is broken" posts and threads miss the point completely

I don't think they miss the point completely when many hiring processes don't test for team cohesion at all beyond a manager pointing a finger in the air and guessing what the fit will be based on a 15 minute talk. Given these people would in the same breath claim diversity in personalities is great and covering each other's weaknesses is essential. That's exactly how we end up with teams where not a single person has the spine to go up against clearly ridiculous requirements (that is assuming any perspective, not just technical), while claiming critical thinking is great.
Sounds interesting. I'm from b'lore too, so if you'd like to discuss this a bit I'd very much like it.
There are lots of reasons to prefer friendly teams.

* Just, generally more enjoyable and productive experience. Most things are really not that important, particularly in school (which is where this experiment was run). And anyway, the purpose is often not to be optimally productive, but to learn something. If you are in a class where you are just clinging to some rockstar and getting A's that way, you don't have to learn anything.

* Lots of technical decisions are really not very important. Your first solution will probably not be great anyway. It is preferable to get the group to agree on something and move forward. This can be done by having some very competent, less nice person ram their solution through, but a nice, semi-competent group with a good dynamic can also agree on a bad solution, mess it up, and iterate until it works.

* Most people are really not that competent as far as I can tell. I mean, I've met people who can carry a team individually, but they are very rare, not common enough to plan on. People with more ego than talent are more common I think, and they have a net negative value in many cases. A friendly, incompetent person is at worst a minor distraction.
So they thought they saw a market opportunity and it didn't pan out and now they're panic selling because they have too many houses on their balance sheet. Ain't nothing new about this and in any liquid market you will have people who think they can corner the market and make money. The markets see-saw between greed and fear and there will always be those who want to allocate capital to gain from it. If you're a value investor, you're actually waiting for something like what Zillow has managed to do i.e. over leverage themselves and now will have to rapidly get rid of assets as they're probably hemorrhaging money. They'll sell pennies on the dollar and I'm sure the likes of blackrock will swoop in and get those assets. Nothing new here guys!
Indeed it is, though this wasn't what Ajedi32 was arguing
I feel it's the point they are trying to make with the cloned leader (I wouldn't exactly say immortal). They are saying the fall is faster because of an ossified leader, but nonetheless the fall will happen anyway, because it's not just the leader that is ossified, but the whole society.
The government being "in" something certainly doesn't prevent scams.
We really don't deserve Firefox. I'm really glad they are still kicking.
> one way to drive prices in your city down is to have some even that renders it undesirable (..., defund the police ...)

there are so many problems with your post but the assumption that defunding the police is necessarily going to cause prices to collapse is probably the most obviously biased one.

the idea that you should view housing as simply a matter of supply and demand and not consider any externalities is an abominable position. All people need shelter, it's not something that people opt into for the enjoyment of it alone. By the logic you have presented, the top 1% of people banding together and buying up all of the housing and squeezing everyone else is perfectly fine if it makes the numbers look nice, regardless of how it affects people's lives. The way you have framed the problem is inhumane.

Another way to make rent more affordable is to raise the tax rate on income generated from residential rentals to the point that people are not buying up all of the housing stock for the sake of investment alone. Income from residential rentals is taxed at the same rate as ordinary income, the kind you get from actually doing something. Why would anyone work if they can just own someone else's house instead?
I've been planning to become a mathematician in my 70s for some time.
I always thought the most clever thing that could be done in this app category, would be to design and standardize a microformat for presentation customizations, that could be written into the SQL-standard “comment” metadata field that’s attached to almost every SQL-standard DDL object (tables, views, procedures, triggers, etc.)

Then, admin panels could all interoperate in terms of showing e.g. “pretty” names for things; and could also pick up presentation metadata burned into the DB’s objects at creation time (by e.g. your app's DB migration logic), even if the admin panel is not able to change the data itself.

(Of course, you could use something like this for more than presentation metadata; you could use it to encode type-binding hints for particular ORMs, for example. Think of it as the equivalent of the old macOS “resource fork” for the object — an unstructured thing that could be informally structured into a sort of user xattrs storage if people are willing to cooperate.)
> Investors

Sure, medium/large flippers may have investors putting up the money.

And I agree that Zillow is not likely backing out of the game all together. They just had an expensive lesson learning what they don't know about how to go about this. But their current strategy was also only viable during rapid price increases. A completely different one is needed in other market condition.

Making money flipping in a flat market is even harder: It takes more work to find depressed homes at below-market prices. There's no good algorithm that will do that without boots on the ground looking at the property in person, not to mention the surprises you get when you open up the walls or floors to start a refurb. That doesn't mean Zillow can't do it: what I'm saying is that it's very much not in the realm of their core competencies. Building out large scale logistics networks for this IRL is much different than their current line of business. I'm sure they'll try again, but I'm also almost as sure that they'll have a few more significant stumbles along the way.
Incentives - exactly.

"People managers" prioritize interpersonal manageability while owners / "sufficiently incentivized" / technical managers have more weighting towards competency and execution performance.

At either end of the "sociable vs competent" spectrum (a reduction for sure), an underperforming or rude colleague will invariably decrease output from ordinary team members. The impact variable must be closely monitored and responded to.

Quarterly eNPS-type feedback helps keep these cycles tight.

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You can install other extensions by using Firefox Nightly [1] which is quite stable actually.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
> if someone baked the chacha20 cipher into vsftpd (replacing TLS), I would take it for internal use.

Um. TLS can do chacha20 just fine if that's what you want. In particular in TLS 1.3 you can insist on only doing
TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 if for some reason you really don't like AES or maybe block ciphers in general.
> However, if companies have working hours, why couldn't websites? What a funny thought.

You may be surprised to hear that some websites _do_! I was trying to search for the page but can't find it at the moment, but I've experienced this with a Dept. of Homeland Security page that would only be available during certain hours. I believe it was due to some batch-processing related task but can't recall exactly now.
Has any person who has access to the site actually requested the source code? If not then there is no license violation right?
> [citation needed]

Please tell me, what stops North Korea (or Iran, or any other US-hostile nation) from printing as many USD as it likes? Don't tell me "risk of being cut off from the US financial system"; they already are. Furthermore, NK already tries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+counterfeit

> Why would any state on earth illegally print Nicaraguan money when they can instead print their own legally? What's the goal? Is this really the easiest path to achieve that goal?

You seem to have just asked "Why would any state on earth illegally print the world reserve currency when they can instead print their own legally?" That seems pretty self-evident, but you can look to Venezuela or Zimbabwe for answers.
Interesting, I was not aware of that.

I did not take termination into account in the second paragraph. I was referring to AGPL being addressed to anyone instead of a specific party. This means that a full revocation of the license would revoke it from everyone, even though that's not possible with AGPL. This does not apply to terminating licensees as you mentioned which appears to be what they mean and is possible under condition.

But because of the lack of a violation a permanent termination in 30 days would still be invalid.
"So in this "democracy" people who don't own a house have no voice and no right?"

You don't have to own a house to vote. This isn't the 18th century where only land owners vote. If you have a sufficient number of renters, they can outweigh the owners.

For example, a municipality in CA decided to raise taxes on land lords of rentals. Land lords didn't want this, the renters did (probably misguided since the cost gets passed on to them).

"Why does this remind me of some other mechanism for opressing undesirables?"

You could tell us instead of being rhetorical. Otherwise the obvious answer is that you are missing details in your comparison and wrongly concluding that it's about oppression.
Claims about Tipu Sultan's "cruelty" come primarily from English "scholars" who were actually fighting against him. It was a well-known policy of the British to portray their enemies as tyrants to gather legitimacy for their warmongering. Any such claims should be taken with a massive dollop of salt.

I'm surprised how many of these "alternative voices" reject western narratives about India but are all too happy to parrot colonial talking points about Muslims.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this article doesn't really seem to be talking about actual competence, but only projections of competence in social interactions.

There's a big difference here: You can act like you know everything and still have lots of bullshit ideas. Anybody with enough experience in a field will quickly figure these people out and put them in the "ignore" box.
USS Connecticut Grounded on Uncharted Seamount in South China Sea
Trustworthiness, more specifically having a clean record of integrity as opposed to just projecting a feeling of "you can trust me", is non-negotiable for me. If I don't think you're trustworthy, you're a risk to be managed and I can only really fit you into a Machiavellian mental model of "I can trust you only as much as our incentives align". I've had to work with people like that simply because it was out of my control, and it's tiring.

There are well-meaning jerks who are just rough around the edges but care a lot about doing the right thing. I might not like them very much, but I'll take a competent jerk over someone whose integrity I don't trust no matter how competent or polite they are.
Has any beta tester actually requested the code? If not then I don't think there is a violation.
That is an odd "non-goal" indeed, and also unfortunate; it's like making a painting app but not giving users access to basic colors.
This is such an enlightened approach. Why stop at software. Shoe makers should absolutely start licensing their foot ware so that permission to wear their product can be revoked for violations of their Code of Conduct.

Just imagine has much better the world would be!
You said it was a 4 car accident? She hit you from behind and you hit the car in front of you which hit the car in front of it? Did you end up hitting the car in front of you twice because she hit you twice?
A lot of people hate systemd. However as a user who came into Linux after systemd was established. I m pretty happy with it. The more I learn about it and use it the more I appreciate it.

This may be wrong but it feels like people were stuck in a local maximum and don't realize that if they move more than a little from where they were, then they'd actually be in a better place. On the other hand, solving again a problem you 've already solved, is not the most enticing part of the linux experience ;)
WAY back in the DOS days Qbasic and command.com could both change foreground and background colours via system hooks (INT bios calls) without using ANSI. I know this because Qbasic console apps could be colourful without having to load ansi.sys in config.sys

I am thinking that .foregroundColor and .backgroundColor do the same thing via legacy emulation in conhost.
I think there is confusion with the original (very large) satellite dish services. Those were marketed as ad-free.
The former so called president of the US.
winget

They have sort of started to do it. But it seems to be very adhoc in how it is supported. A couple of packages I use are 2-3 versions behind in that system.
I once went into a music store and they sold an old studio tape recorder - I say old but it looked new, everything aluminium and all. The thing about that one is that it came with a manual that included all the schematics for the electrical components, so that you can repair, replace or rebuild the electronics if needs be. They weren't so worried about others copying them at the time, I guess - I mean it was a specialist product for a niche market, and just because you have the plans doesn't mean you can reproduce it in a cost effective manner.
I'm a long-haired musician PhD-dropout, and his story is a great inspiration.

Even though he has nicer hair and is a much better musician.
Quentin Tarantino to offer seven uncut scenes from 'Pulp Fiction' as NFTs
You can underfill a balloon so it has room to expand as it gains altitude...
> Guardian Agent: SSH forwarding means you can remotely connect on to other systems over SSH without needing to install Mosh on every one of them.

What? Isn't guardian just an agent? You can use ssh forwarding without it.

Guardian does look nice but seems abandoned.
> German even has a word for people who are knowledgeable in their field and nothing else: "fachidiot" (literally field-idiot).

While I don't disagree with the sentiment, English has the word "dragon" - doesn't mean dragons exist!
It may not actually be correct if nobody who has access to the beta website has actually requested the code.
Zillow also gets a lot of revenue from referrals to mortgage lenders.
So you prefer old and known/already exploited security vulnerabilities?
The point is that outside a small number of countries, very few people even care at all about baseball. The Netherlands doesn't call their national long distance speed skating championships the "world series", even though they, or the occasional Norwegian, usually win the world championships. In the same way, the epithet "world" does not apply to that American league.
> Dull, pretentions stories where nothing makes sense...

That seems like a problem with you, not the story.
> it's not "early Asimov" by any means

He wrote the first Foundation story when he was only 21.

That certainly qualifies.
I've never seen any good data that supported the myth of institutional house buying being a big enough phenomenon to affect homeowners.

It was never apparent in the homeownership rate (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N) which has been broadly stable for decades, and the jumps over the last few years are, if anything, towards increased homeownership, not less.
While in high school, I had one or two professors give kudos to my writing. Joined a sci-fi/fantasy forum with active writing competitions, reading clubs and the likes. Got some kudos from there as well. Wrote first, totally unpublishable, shameful novel.

Got into university (electrical&computer eng), exploded outwards (socially). Published a couple of short stories, attended a handful of literary workshops. Started mental outline of First Great Novel, which became gradually documented in a deep yet unorganized way. Multiple attempts at writing the first chapters failed, mostly due to intense (or at least intensely experienced) personal issues.

Never succeeded in pulling this off part-time. Again and again opted for professional growth against the artistic life I had been daydreaming about (and increasingly, as the years went by, obsessed upon) as a teen. Ended up in a CS PhD (27 at the time of writing, third year of study).

Covid hit. Found true love. Life and income have stabilized. Finally feeling dumb and courageous enough again to give writing another chance. The premise of the book is:

what if people started, beyond their control, to transmit their actual feelings through the air via their breath?
I have used 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) to ask systemd to restart a service (by adding "RestartForceExitStatus=75" to the service unit file).
Imo you shouldn't use a typical Linux distro package manager for project dependencies either, unless you're only ever gonna deploy every app you're developing on that machine to the same version of the same distro.

This is not because there's anything really wrong with them for what they're designed to do, but they install packages globally, and different projects may want different versions of the same thing.
Has Fedora fixed its package management? I eventually deleted my Fedora partition and installed Ubuntu because package management was so painfully slow.
Homebrew is still here to stay. If Apple provide a package manager, then it likely that people will swarm to that but again it depends on how much capabilities and feature parity it have over other package managers. Microsoft is working on this with their Winget. Homebrew is great for casual and daily users since we don't have to keep hunting for software updates.

And Homebrew does have a progress bar for each app. The bar is for the downloading but other than that, I don't think it need a progress bar for installtion since they are quick to install than using the GUI installation.
> it's not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked

The sad part is that many of us struggle with social interactions and end up being unliked despite our best efforts. No one cares about what you achieve, unless it's useful for them, or if they just like you because you "have it".
Run Cronjob That Stops EC2 Instance When SSH/Sess Mgr Connections Are Closed
Can't you keep both python 3.10 and python 3.09, for older apps that rely on it? Sure, not optimal, but hard disk space is cheap these days .. Ideally, each app would list hashes of packages it depends on, so that everyone is happy.
Agree as well.

I loved the premise of the books, but I just couldn't find myself to care about any of the actual characters.

I think the same story, but where at least some of the characters are truly immortal (reasonable for far future sci-fi), would be better.

Basically a mashup between Peter Hamilton and Foundation would be cool, his work does a good job of showing "far future technologies".
Hey man, long time lurker, first time poster here. I'm also brazilian (living abroad) and interested in doing some sort of volunteer work teaching CS basics. The idea of doing it in my mother tongue to underpriviledged brazilian kids sounds awesome!

I also have my email on my profile, please contact me with a bit more info...

Obrigado e tudo de bom pra vc!
Are you looking at trending or specifally seeking that type of content? My twitter feed has little of this and there are a lot of accounts that just talk about their work or cool things they build or have found.

A big part of the idea of twitter is to curate who you follow rather than use it to see what the lowest common denominator is interested in.
I bought the vegan one before I left the UK (can’t find it in Berlin). It’s not great, but not terrible. (Vegan cheese however, has been terrible every time I’ve tried it).

Now I’m using tofu or soy mince or similar depending on what meal I’m making. Those do need flavour, not having much of their own (unless bought pre-flavoured, smoked tofu works well).
Not many surprises. I'd place trustworthiness higher than friendliness, but both of those qualities are the things that matter in terms of making your job easier. A reliable mediocre programmer is better than an unreliable good one: you can plan around the first one, you can't around the second one. And friendliness just makes all interactions easier. The skill of your teammates is not as important as being able to know what to expect from them and communicate properly.
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Low trust, low performance. Nobody wants you, go away.

High performance, high trust is too costly. They aren't applying for the job, they are getting hired without the annoying hiring process.

High performance, low trust is the asshole of the group. If you're on a team and you're the one doing all the work. You're going to be resentful and become an asshole.

Low performance, high trust are the dead weight of the group. They make more problems than they solve.

The more dead weight you get, the more you require the assholes. Worse yet, the assholes become powerful because what happens when they quit or get fired? You are left with a team of low performance. You don't want to be in that situation. So the assholes end up getting promoted, bonuses, raises. All the metrics will be designed to benefit the assholes.

Lots of people think you can hire low performance people and train them to be higher. It rarely works in IT. Things move too quickly, by the time they are good at anything, that thing is obsolete. Hence you need 5 years experience for the entry level job.

The middle path is the way!