skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.md/mM8va
He was the ceo of the worlds most profitable (for a while) company.

Wow amazing. What a role model?
"Law" my *ss. At least call it Moore's Belief but rather just forget about it.
Sorry. I glossed over reading your whiny complaints.

> Why does Jobs command such rabid adulation?

Why? Because he was interesting and strange. He tapped in to the zeitgeist and ran circles around all other tech hardware companies. He pushed his teams, other companies and society to bend to his influence. His company did things people didn’t think was possible. In fact, with the iPhone, the culmination of all of his projects, he made every other tech CEO look like complete assholes. All cellphones, all telcos, and everyone that didn’t have an iPhone all of the sudden looked slightly lame.

Your comment has ‘woke’ undertones, and I am So Over It

Not every historically significant person is nice or fair. Some of them were truly mean spirited, some did things in their past we now consider wrong. That doesn’t mean you get to cancel them from history. Stop trying to control everyone’s objectivity. I decide what is interesting, fascinating and bizarre for myself. Steve Jobs was interesting.

There is something truly awful in everyone’s past. It’s just a matter of if we found out about it before we decide to cancel you, too.
Does the US have a monopoly on global talent that I'm unaware of?
Try Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Gruber's review:

* https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/03/02/becoming-steve-...

Gruber's review of Isaacson's book:

> Note that my complaints here are not about Isaacson being insufficiently deferential. That the book is not a hagiography is to its credit. The personal stuff — documentation of Jobs’s cruelty (and his talent for cruelty), his tantrums, his tendency to claim for himself the ideas of others — that’s not problematic. Isaacson handles that well, and what he reports in that regard jibes with everything we know about the man. My complaints are about outright technical inaccuracies, and getting the man’s work wrong. The design process, the resulting products, the centrality of software — Isaacson simply misses the boat.

* https://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_job...
Enhanced error log messages are always welcome on the ground :)

Reminded me of the work done in elm to explicitly improve their error reporting by deeply considering the user experience [1]

Repo for the newly included error_highlight gem is interesting [2], anyone have more background on this ?

1. Elm “the perfect big report”

https://elm-lang.org/news/the-perfect-bug-report

2. Error_highlight gem repo: https://github.com/ruby/error_highlight
And a cuckoo bird managers who said „i implemented slack on this project“ then threw out those little birds you mentioned and put his little bird in
What do you mean “disabling” things from the prior versions?
What's wrong with elisp? I'm far from being a lisp fan, but as an extension language it seems perfectly adequate for emacs.
I think that's what the OP is saying. It's like Microsoft had a 2 mile lead in a marathon, but still ended up coming last.
I have read nothing about Google penalizing users who don't enlist in the article?

Clearly Google has taken a political stance and also adjusts search results to stir people into a certain political direction (ironically it seems to be the direction the author of the article actually favors). But that is not the subject of the article and not penalizing users, either. It is a good reason to stop using Google, but again, not subject of the article.
Even if the iPhone delivered much more than what was already available on Windows Mobile (doubtful, considering that Microsoft's software was years of development ahead, functionality-wise), it's still incomprehensible to me why a company as massively experienced as Microsoft did not react as quickly as possible by copying iPhone features to improve Windows Mobile, but instead delayed their time-to-market for years by going the Windows Phone route.

Probably, it was not Apple's ingenuity that won the battle, but Microsoft's stupidity not to improve their product ASAP that lost the battle.
Well, first of all, if you bike regularly, you get all the training you need. The first couple of weeks are perhaps a bit hard, but that's about it for anyone in somewhat ok shape. And then there is the catch which is also the headline of the article we are discussing here: e-bikes. They allow anyone to go at a reasonable speed even uphill. That is, why they create a huge biking crowd.
The reality is that users overwhelmingly prefer "bloat", i.e. feature rich integrated tools. Joel Spolsky explained it many years ago: Sure everyone only use 5% of the features of Word - but they use different 5%, which is why nobody uses your elegant minimalist bare-bones word processor.

The alternative to "everything but the kitchen sink" software is Unix style "do one thing well" focused tools. Which is fine if you are a programmer who knows how to select and string tools together (with a bit of scripting thrown in) to solve a task.
When attacking Russia for a specific thing, bringing up the misdeeds of the US are a distraction, and "whataboutism".

When comparing the morality of the two nations (or criticising the "world police" status of the US as hypocritical) recalling American misdeeds is appropriate.

In the case the post was "what a corrupt state", attacking character of Russia generally, hence it's appropriate. It's worth pointing out that OJ Simpson published a book "If I did it", which could be seen as morally unacceptable too - but then there would be a difference between "that's terrible" and "America is terrible".
Point taken (:

> I think we could debate this.

Wouldn't be worth both our time though.
As far as I have been able to figure, 2048 bit RSA is good for the ages. It would take some fundamental breakthrough like quantum computing to break. No conceivable incremental improvement in current computing technology will come close to touching it.
I think you overestimate the reputation of the US and underestimate how much it has rapidly declined the last decades.

I also think you underestimate how much effort it takes to really start over and become properly integrated in a new country.
It is a very enticing prospect for many to side-step this issue entirely and still get an almost unfathomable salary for some countries.
Can you eat grass? I know I can't...

Yes, producing meat requires animals eating a ton of plants and they also need a lot of water.

Except that can be mostly grass (that humans don't eat), and the water is just rainwater (that the animals in question will piss later, so it will end on the ground anyway).

The reason why animal-based farming exists is because it is the only way we have to get any food in certain parts of the planet where the only thing that grow naturally is grass.
> The problem is that NFTs doesn't solve a problem that existed.

In a way they do, they solve the problem that crypto was only about fungible stuff (money) before, now there's also non-fungible stuff. I think the point of NFTs is not exactly to prove that you own something, but to offer people an easy and non-fungible token to exchange with other people. The goal is not ownership but exchange (some would say speculation). At least that's how I understand it.
> If you're a small-volume user, a label printer might not have a good payback time - but it avoids throwing away an entire page of labels when you want a single label.

And if you are a nano-volume user like me (I label external HDDS/SSDs mostly), you can do well with a low-tech solution i.e. a fully mechanical label printer [0]. I use it twice a month and for that frequency it's absolutely perfect.

[0] like https://www.amazon.com/DYMO-Organizer-Xpress-Label-12966/dp/...
the fact that prints are reasonably difficult to duplicate that there will only be a limited number in circulation

How so? The author can (and probably does) sell signed prints all the time. How is a print difficult to duplicate?
> You can't copy and enjoy my property for free, you can copy and enjoy an NFT for free.

Your wording here makes it seem like you confuse the NFT (the pointer to the content) with the content itself.

If your property is an authentic piece of fine art, it can be copied/forged. An NFT doesn't prevent unauthorized copying; it only asserts ownership of the official copy, similar to a receipt of the transaction (which must be publicly and immutably stored and displayed in public).

The "NFT" is not the property itself, hence copying is not of the NFT itself; it is a notary's public assertion that a transaction of the asserted property (URL) happened.

I agree that NFTs don't solve the issues you raise in your second sentence.
If you don’t understand how iPhone could have defeated Windows Mobile, it’s hard to take you seriously on your other points.
Calling things you don't like FUD doesn't make them less true.

The website you linked is just a collection of random (and often contradictory, just read a few of the “energy” topic) opinions posted on medium.
Pretty much. It’s worked its way up the food chain into formerly mid-range ladies’ brands also being flimsy, trendy stuff that looks like crap within a year because it washes poorly, is very dated, or both. It’s nearly impossible to find a plain, well-made, machine-washable solid-colored ladies’ cut t-shirt, even before all the Covid disruptions.
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Don't think the article is arguing that 'broken' countries are poised to benefit here? They specifically say "political and monetary stability". The US does not have a monopoly on that worldwide. In terms of affordability - the US is one of the least affordable places - do you have any idea what an entry-level SE salary can get you in other countries?
that's just like your opinion man.
the original iPhone had no 3G (only Edge supported), no copy-paste, no app store (by design!), no MMS.
Edit: and most likely no enterprise directory integration (Exchange et al)

BUT it felt the most futuristic piece of technology money could buy, and the high price point made it a luxury good that stood out of the Blackberries and Windows phones.

I like to think it was bought by CEOs and CTOs and executives who forced their IT dept. to support them because they were just so damn cool.
No they do not have to trust anyone. They designed it that way. Maybe this level of oversight is the only level the market will bear, but it was still a design decisions.
In California you have up to 6 months after buying a car to register it and get a plate. There are tons of cars driving around without license plates.
> France has a Gini coefficient in line with other OECD countries.

We could debate whether Gini is a good measurement, but we'll probably agree that in any case it could be better? We have resources to house and feed all, yet people die from cold/heat on the streets or from lack of food, in france, in 2021.

>> one of the most racist countries on earth

> Citation needed.

I don't have a scientific measurement of it. However, it's not exactly a secret France has a long history of colonization and racial hierarchies, and using "women's rights" as a decoy for oppressing foreign people. So not only it's racist, but it's not "just" lightweight xenophobia as you would find in many places.

As for a direct quote saying France is the most racist country on Earth, i would refer to this short documentary about the struggles of undocumented people: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MMgxpU5Jyv4 (to watch with your favorite invidious instance)

EDIT: There was also a nationwide debate about a decade ago about removing equality of races from the constitution, arguably because since races don't exist biologically they should not be mentioned. That should be a redflag.

> I don't see how that's racist. No religious symbol are allowed in school, even christian cross are banned.

Denying people their identity is racist. Or fascist, whichever you prefer. Also, on paper, no religious symbols are allowed, but in practice christian symbols are widely accepted and only muslim symbols cause "problems". That's what's especially racist about it.

Laïcité (secularism) is the principle which states the State cannot mandate what you must or must not believe. Under pressure from the "far left" (teachers unions) and the far right ("ripost laïque", "génération identitaire"), the word has been redefined to mean that you cannot have displays of religion in public spaces (unless they're christian displays). That's the exact opposite of the content/spirit of the 1905 law of separation of Church and State which i strongly recommend you to read. The documentary "Un racisme à peine voilé" may also offer you some perspectives on this topic to see beyond the newspeak.

> Why would residing in a country grant you citizenship?

It's in the etymology: citizenship is derived from the "city" where you reside, unless you're a slave in which case you don't have such status. It's only natural that you enjoy political rights wherever you live your life, don't you think?

Most countries have provisions for granting citizenship to foreigners. The french conditions are tough and require to know quite a lot about the (imperial, not popular) history of France and show allegiance to the authoritarian principles of the State typical of a far-right agenda. As a french person with anarchist politics, i could not pass the test (same goes with many other french people).
Previews are handled sender side iirc, so still from the client just no inadvertently.
> satisfied users of a product

LOL. Do you have a business listed on google? I'm yet to meet satisfied owners to be honest.

For example: I rent a room for classes weekly, and I have no google sanction way to show that on the map, because I don't own the business location itself.

All the structured data, the rich result, etc stuff from google is a mirage, and despite the fact the I can hand write the correct JSON-LD they want, it doesn't even make a dent in the search results.
Dell Precisions have both a trackpad and a trackpoint and feature 2 times 3 buttons (one row on the top and one row on the bottom of the trackpad).

I think that old Thinkpads always had a middle button because it was used combined with the trackpoint to scroll.
WARNING, triggering content: lots of filthy swearing.

still, a nice summary of what NFTs are good for :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxaHugHihh0
One of the themes (reflected in the title, even) of "Becoming Steve Jobs" is precisely that Jobs changed. For example, it starts out with a formative episode from early in his career that the authors use to illustrate how Jobs constantly used failures to re-evaluate his approach to work and life, as develop his character.
Not a strict biography format but folklore.org has many stories about Steve written by those that worked with him.

Here’s one from one of the original Mac engineers, Bill Atkinson: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
A big difference is the Pyjion generates .NET compiler IR manually, while GraalVM generates Graal compiler IR automatically through partial evaluation of a declarative specification of an interpreter specialised to the program (the first Futamura Projection.) In my opinion that's far more powerful in terms of removing abstraction. But Pyjion also seems like a very cool project.
This means you can now chroot into the Linux part of your dual-boot system, doesn't it?
For better or worse, I think he embodied the tech culture of our time more than anyone else. My bet is that he will be remembered as a capital figure for putting half of the planet on a smartphone, which is a huge cultural change (not necessarily a good one, but still).
If he's "second/third leaguer at best", who would you put in the first league?
Woz had an aircraft accident after the Apple II and kind of fell off the ball after that. So much so that Jobs had to go to Bill Gates to get some very necessary coding work completed. Woz had a brilliant but relatively short streak at being the top engineer of his time.

Also, there is a autobiography of Woz, iWoz[0]

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/iWoz-BYWozniak-Wozniak/dp/B006Q4IWX...
That's the big question. Will there be any cultral shift in recognising NFT's as legitimate signals of "value" after the hype dies down? You can stretch the hype train out by convincing some big brands to get on board, this will push the price up just by force of recoginition but are the fundamentals sound for what values the NFT? as like you say, there's no real scarcity and we still rely on meat space for settling real disagreements about ownership.
I am not talking about the NFT but about the artwork.

If you had an image file format that embedded an NFT and every device would refuse to allow copies then that would be something. But right now NFTs seem pointless to me because I can always just copy the underlying image once I see it online.
They don't have to be numbers, you can have any data type but the type is always consistent along each column.
I think it’s more than fair to highlight Google’s attempt to enlist thousands of users to lobby the government on its behalf. Why would a bit of transparency and exposure to this information bother you so much?
Not sure what it would mean for VSCode to be the new Emacs. I assume it already has a larger user base and almost as rich a package ecosystem. The question for me is, will useful development of Emacs modes cease in the future? And will that energy be focused on VSCode instead? I think there’s a chance of that. But ultimately a lot of people who like Emacs don’t like VSCode. I personally think VSCode has chosen the wrong level of abstraction for the API it exposes to extensions, and I think its community doesn’t value UIs that are primarily text based. There are things in VSCode that I hate that can’t ever be fixed. That’s not true in Emacs. It’s always surprising to me when people complain about keybindings for example, when they have complete control over them. I’m also baffled by anyone who thinks VSCode has better documentation than what’s built into Emacs and each of its modes. I’ll be sad if I ever have to abandon it, anyway.
this won't happen on Slack or Matrix though
As far as I understand, VSCode extensions do not have the level of unfiltered low level access to the internals of the editor. In emacs there isn't really a difference between extensions and core features. It is just all code running in a lisp vm (and it is also the reason I'm sceptical about having other extension languages in emacs).
because NFTs are built in (and for) digital artifacts. In the digital world the actual "artifact" (the object of art) is digital. NFTs 'solve' this problem by not caring about the fact that the artwork can (and will) be freely copied with no cost.

Maybe it is better to think about NFTs as public official (blockchain-backed) certificates of donation (or support) rather than assets.
How do you exchange something that neither of you own? Beyond bragging rights, you will need some way to establish legal ownership of something because you own the corresponding NFT. So why not sell that ownership directly without the level of indirection that is the NFT? I guess the reason is that you have decoupled ownership and the ability to sell that ownership, making it easier to speculate independently of legal domains like countries.

Really, it's just adding a level of indirection, as always :-)
I've personally been remote since 1999 and run teams from around the world since then. The largest was a company I grew to ~130+ people over 18 countries. I know you are underestimating the rep of the USA outside of politics and the dysfunction :)

Remote is a great opportunity and one I've used at every company I've built. But, the thing that draws global talent is money, and American companies have all the money. If anything this is going to hurt local companies who can't compete for top talent hiring out of the USA :)

I will note, i think Canada is doing a great job of being pro-immigrant in a way the USA can't and American companies are opening lots of offices and hiring there.
I guess that's what MS is aiming for, although as someone who has been using WSL at $JOB for the past 3 years I think they still have many rough edges to work on.
> No one actually wants inflation — if they have better options, they avoid it every time.

I don't like taxes either, but I also like living in a developed country. Inflation is a kind of tax, so nobody likes it, but at the same time pretty much everyone likes having what this tax provides (in the case of growing money supply, it's the ability to have money at all in circulation in the economy for the layperson).
When going down this path, it should be remembered that many diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases, are the result of lifestyle choices.
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Not if it’s on the same physical disk.
Other than the classic issues like time zones etc. there are some weird rules and regulations regarding worker insurance. A buddy of mine used to get into flak for being outside the US for too long even though he was in sales and always exceeded his quotas. This was the case all before Covid and apparently the rules have still not changed for them.
hey siri: set a reminder to publish my grocery bill on the blockchain
The thing to watch for is not the balance of trade, it's the balance of trade and investment. As long as investment balances out trade, and enough of that investment is going into productive assets, it's all good.

Many countries, including the US, have run trade deficits in the past for multiple decades and it's been fine. In those cases where it's not fine it's because the economy had nothing (or not enough) foreigners wanted, e.g. Russia in the late 90s.

Yes if your economy collapses for some reason you'll have a deficit problem, but in fact past deficits don't affect that. They don't matter because the deficit was already invested in domestic assets. Since those assets change in value as your economy changes, it nets out. The foreigners already invested their money in your economy and they suffer as you suffer. However the past deficit isn't going to cause any such collapse. There would have to be some other additional factor.

That's what history tells us actually happens, anyway.
How this differ from real life? Other hand you know that you have fake Gucci and getting caught especially if you some celebrity is at least embarrassment. NFT are like no brainer way to monetize games and some fortunate people are going to make billions when they nail platform which helps games to monetize NFT.
> How does an artist get paid?

If you run a MLM scheme then you aren't an artist, you are a conman. NFT's is a solution to get conmen paid, it isn't a solution to get artists paid.
Some important differences:

The print is beautiful and hanging on my wall.

The print won't evaporate when the url suddenly points to a server that was shutdown from lack of payment.

I know I bought a print, nobody was trying to trick me into thinking it was the original.

And, most importantly of all, the artist got paid.
> That's only racist if it discriminates against a particular group.

Agreed.

> Little girls can't wear crucifixes and little boys can't wear the kippah either.

From what i've witnessed when i was working in schools, and what i heard from various kids i "tutor", i can assure you that's not the case. Even teachers get away with wearing a christian cross because they are not the ones targeted with this law.

> France's secular approach

I'm ok with secularism. It means you can have any beliefs and the State should not oppress/discriminate you for what you believe or don't believe. The State is supposed to be neutral in such manners, as explained in the 1905 law.

However, since the 80's the French state is clearly not neutral and is redefining "laïcité" as a tool of oppression against muslims which does not apply to other religions. I would recommend you read the 1905 law to understand how the meaning of the word has been deformed by a far-right agenda.