skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that matters really. First, I don't see the point in doing moral rankings. If I live in the US and the US does a bad thing, that's what I should care most about (up to a point). Even if I thought, "well, my morality points ranking shows China's worse", that shouldn't affect my political decisions in the US, where I can influence US decisions but not Chinese ones.

But sure, if I have to pick which country to live in, on this metric I'd probably pick the US (we're smoothing over some extremely significant internal problems in the US here, but not directly comparable to Xinjiang, so OK, let's side-step them for the moment).

But that's a pretty selfish view. Good conditions at home don't justify imposing awful conditions abroad. To think so is literally imperial logic. I realize using phrases like "imperial" induces eye-rolling in some, but it's appropriate for the concept we're discussing here. The US's cold calculating cruelty is perhaps less obvious, but it undoubtedly impacts far more lives and deaths. So while I won't weigh in on whether the US is an empire (don't care), if you buy into the logic that "we're only evil abroad, at home we try to be nice", then that is imperial logic.
> Tens of thousands passed through Abu Ghraib too in Iraq. A truckload of torture and prisoner abuse done to people of only ONE ethnicity.

If we put Iraqis in prison because of their religion and ethnicity, there would have been millions locked up. In Xinjiang, people are put in camps because of their religion and ethnicity, that's why millions are locked up. Key word: because

> Some folks in the US govt who were in explicit favour of hard intervention in Iraq and who were deeply influential in igniting the Iraq war are the same ones criticising China now.

Sometimes murderers snitch on murderers. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be arrested. I mean, there is plenty of evidence on what's happening in Xinjiang, it's not like we are talking about taking war-hawks on their word.
Most recent newcomers to Mac and ex-Windows users get tripped up by the fullscreen windows, which are honestly pretty bad.

The way to use MacOS is to use the Spaces to group windows by theme / task. For example, I have one space where I have Slack, Skype, Teams, Discord, Mail and Outlook currently open. Another one has my main "browsing" Chrome window. Another one has my iTerm (the only fullscreen app). And the last "permanent" one has my "debugging" Chrome window. They're always in the same order (none of that "reorder automatically" nonsense), so I can switch tasks using the mouse (2-finger swipe left/right on the Magic Mouse), trackpad (3-finger swipe) or keyboard (ctrl-left/right). Inside a Space, I switch between windows using Exposé (swipe on trackpad, double-tap on mouse or F3 on keyboard).

I've been using macOS both in my personal & professional life like this since Leopard and I think it works pretty well.
Smartleaf runs out of high-quality third-party datacenters on hardware we buy, install and maintain ourselves, running Ruby on Rails and C++ and Oracle/Postgresql on Debian with borg backups. Is that close enough?

We also deploy with Chef and an in-house application deployment system written in Perl, do monitoring with mon, and understand that a sysadmin is a subject matter expert.

Hiring, too.
Ok, I see this specifically a problem with GNU option collapsing, overloading help and not returning an appropriate error for invalid usage when invalid options are passed to '-h'. Frankly, if I wanted to collapse lots of options, I would either make another option simply for that (or option concatenation option like '-c') or introduce sub-commands. Better design and more human-memorizable.

But thanks for detailed response. Upvoted for explanation. :).
It's source code is still released under LGPL though.
There's no such plan I am aware of.
Local/regional companies outside of tier 1 cities. Before the pandemic they only hired locally and their salaries were good for the US but 1/3 to 1/2 of salaries in NYC and SF. Companies that were bootstrapped within an hour or two of Philly, Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, Sacramento, you get the picture.
A lot of the Ceephax aesthetic is taken directly from the BBC's Ceefax service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax
Here's the funny thing about abortion laws. The Democrats have had a majority multiple times since Roe v Wade or even Casey and they have consistently failed to codify Roe into law. Why? Because they really like the money they get for threatening a woman's right to choose, too.
Probably government related stuff.
Broadly speaking, managing 100 "cloud" servers is roughly the same amount of work as managing 2. Moving from managing 2 cloud servers to 100 is trivial. Moving from 1 server to 2 is an architecture problem. That architecture problem sometimes comes up when it comes to scaling too. it's the cattle vs pets problem. The last thing you want to find out is that someone ssh'ed in and installed a package that's required for your service to run, _during_ vertical resizing, and that sort of thing is far more common in systems with 1 server instead of many. If you're running containers, you would likely have even less overhead (and save money) by running on ECS/DigitalOcean/Azure App Service, and if you're running a big old monolith, you likely need > 1 instance for some sort of redundancy anyway.
And it pretty much is, especially the older versions of the Pi. It just has a large number of uses beyond education.
> I assumed they use satellite for actually communicating with and tracking the bottle?

I was going to write maybe they just get the data from bottles that make it close to shore and to a cell antenna, and if a significant percentage don't call back, then they could assume the currents take them out to sea.

But the diagram of the bottle credits "ARRIBADA INITIATIVE", and https://arribada.org says:

> We’ve interfaced our Horizon GPS board with our new Argos ARTIC R2 transmitter to get you up and running quickly, compatible with next generation ARGOS-4 satellites and the future Kineis constellation of nanosatellites.

Geez, I thought sat com would need big hardware, but it seems they've got it on a tiny board: https://www.cls-telemetry.com/argos-solutions/argos-products...
Show HN: Real-time distributed storage for files and key value databases
I agree with others that have said that it's a change in you, not in the world.

I'm watching my younger brother get into software right now for the first time, and it's delightful. Every day there's something new that he's thrilled about.

What's funny is that he's having a blast playing with the same types of tech that I make a living using and get bored by. A few weeks ago it was getting his hobby website up on the real internet with his own VPS and his own domain. Last week he was ecstatic when he got MongoDB hooked up properly to back the project so he could save things. This week it was getting nginx configured to properly work with Vue router so that refresh works. These tools seem outright boring to me today, but his excitement is infectious.

It's easy for us to say that tech today is boring, or the barrier to entry is too high, because we're now experts. My brother's excitement in the mundane makes me reevaluate my own nostalgia and cynicism.
I know of many specific examples in my field where the most thoughtful people who operate the most frequently in good faith have nowhere near the following of bad faith loudmouths.

I assume it's entertainment. People enjoy watching drama. Social media is their drama hit, and genuine communicators are frankly more boring.
> If anyone's ever programmed a TB-303 manually you can imagine how much patience it must've taken to score this.

Well, by his own words:

> It was made on a non midi TB-303, I copied the score from Bach's prelude no.1 in C which is all monophonic and quite simple to read and put in to the 303. Most patterns are 8 16ths long with accents on the 5th and 8th notes. The patterns are repeated twice per bar. I chained every pattern in each pattern group start to finish in song mode and manually changed the pattern group from I to II to III and back again throughout the song, used up about 36 patterns on the 303 + took about 3 or 4 hours!
Stomach ache, tiredness, nausea, dehydration, ...
Germany invaded Afghanistan.

In all of the other wars you mention the US acted alongside broad coalitions. If you're going to criticize the US you should also criticize Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy, Australia and Germany.
How Barbara Oakley Rewired Her Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014)
must be a reference to this https://www.news18.com/news/tech/many-duckduckgo-users-feel-...
> Both of which are topics we’ve evolved on as a culture over the last 20 years.

I think you propose agreement on issues where there is none which was partly the motivation of this bill.
I'd expect battery life to be similar (or maybe even better):

> By using your computer’s built-in website rendering engine (the same one Safari uses), and by blocking trackers before they load (unlike all the major browsers), you’ll get really fast browsing.
Some of my customers get upset if i don't enter their email exactly as written by themselves.

Even though they got the email.
My fear is that the 'All Birds Nerds' exclude 'Nerd Nerds'.

'nerd nerds' don't know what they are doing in terms of presentation or communication.

If 'nerd nerds' are 'hip' it's completely by accident.

I also think 'nerd nerds' just say whatever, meaning that occasionally they will say something un-PC, or lacking in empathy and be 'pushed out' for that reason.

There was a time (and some people are still like this) where utterances didn't imply an ideological alignment, it's just something that's said.

In 'All Birds Culture' everyone is careful how they communicate.

I'm sure there are some nerd nerds at AirBnB and frankly not everyone in All Birds Nerd culture is the prototype either but the 'mainstay' at AirBnB would be All Birds Nerds.

Someone who wears a 'Metal' T-shirt, completely un-ironically, because they like Metal, and wore it 5 times without washing it, because they forgot, and have disgusting greasy sideburns just 'because they like it' ... and an article of clothing made out of snakeskin ... that's probably a nerd nerd.
If I was asked to jump into a T-34 against modern ATGM's I would revolt more then the tankers already are.

A T-34 would be next to unless in Ukraine, and would just be a death sentence, a T-34 probably isn't even worth fielding against the more modern armour and ATGM's that are in Ukraine.

Not to mention that Russia likely doesn't have any tank groups trained on the T-34 so they would need to spend time doing that as well.

If Russia calls a general draft they are beyond desperate, their actual contract army is already doing incredibly poorly in Ukraine, called up conscripts would do even worse.

Its worth keeping in mind that Russia still needs to defend the rest of its territory whilst invading Ukraine, they are incredibly paranoid about NATO and if Finland/Sweden join NATO they will need to deploy more troops to that border to try look like a real super power again.
This is perfectly alright and waaaaaay more libertarian than collectivist.
Routable is my go-to.
I don't have the delete button, but I've emailed support. Thanks!
> Part of the "crisis" feeling of the first wave was the unknown (and likely much higher) death count that could arrive if we didn't take action.

Maybe. To me 800-1,000/day was in itself a crisis and pretty frightening. The fact that we didn't get to 2,000+/day is ... better? but in the moment of April 2020 there was plenty of imminent fear versus fear of worsening.
Damn you must be terrible at math
You’d be surprised how much business is still running on paper …
Is that so? I'm pretty vocal about the atrocities my country perpetrated and continues to perpetrate, and I've yet to be shadowbanned.
No.Having just sampled your blog, you have strong, well articulated opinions. People don’t have to follow your advice.
Their business size doesn't really look THAT much Yacht-friendly though? $121M in revenue, $28M operating income with 445 employees[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qt_Company

It doesn't look like they are in the take over the world then monetise business, more like make a niche product and charge for it business. Then kind of makes sense to charge enterprise level license fees and operate with enterprisey licences and not bother too much with making the world a better place?
What about climate change would cause headaches? Temperature changes seem an unlikely source, and CO2 concentrations would be changing much higher in the atmosphere, not anywhere close to ground level.
I don't think so.

There are waves throughout history where, at times, it's the Wild West and the opportunities and possibilities abound. One such time was when the Internet had become a global backbone, hardware prices were racing to the bottom, we were seeing new display (LCD) technology, battery tech....

But then Corporations happened.

Ads moved in to dominate the web, dollar-chasing sites (also often corporate) drowned everything else out. Search engines too started directing you there — toward the mainstream, dollared sites. As other posters have noted, the devices themselves locked down. Hobbyists go pro?

It's difficult to imagine something like the BBS culture taking off now. But I do believe these things are cyclical, so I am still going along for the ride, hoping to find the fun niches (Raspberry Pi perhaps?).
You thought tech was cool?
> A post about Chinese torture camps makes an impression that torture camps are exclusively a Chinese thing.

I don't think it does, and I don't think it's a good idea to attribute meaning when there is no one if you want to keep an open, good faith debate. At any point in time there are lots of terrible things being done in the world, to a various degree and to a various number of people. You can't talk about all of them every time you want to talk about one of them.
Deaths trail by weeks so the death count is not reflective of mortality rate.
I was just thinking about progz! I miss those and cant even find any examples of them documented on the internet. Where has the rainbow color text gone?!
This model doesn't work that good with human and animal figures.

Try anything without them. Like "eiffel tower on the moon" or "armchair shaped like a mango" or "picture of a beach on sunrise".
> However, my understanding is that the GDS team is greatly diminished these days and the consultants are back across separate government departments again.

That just seems to be the natural cycle of life. Some (somewhat independent) part of the government does something good and admirable, all of the self-interested politicians and other functionaries see that success and want to have a part of it, insert themselves and their interests into the thing, and in the process end up ruining it because they had no idea what they were talking about and should instead have left that work to the domain-experts which managed to make it successful in the first place.
I've loved Legowelt since Discoroute. As other people pointed out he's very prolific. His dj sets are a treat too. Check out his SoundCloud!
2 years into being forced to use them for work and this is the first time I even hear anyone mention this. Thanks!, I'll be checking it out first thing in the morning
No one is leaving twitter to join some alternative where the only thing that binds the members is their bizarre adoration of Elon Musk.
It would be way less of a problem if they would commit to removing the DRM by a certain date. At the very least, they should commit to doing that when they stop supporting the platform and making the proprietary addons to it.
Ketosense – An Arduino based ketosis detector (2013)
Has be ever met LAMP?
It is absurd that we've somehow managed to create a system where manufacturing is too easy, doesn't employ enough people, and that's a looming crisis. If production per person increases, let's give everyone a couple days off.
Peergos secure P2P network leaves beta
....seven consecutive zeros.
Look at industries that typically have a very low level of digitalization.
I think I read once the lowest ones are: Oil and Gas, Agriculture.

And then you pick local smaller companies and then you have you what you look for.
In Illinois there's a pretty major divide between Northern and Southern IL. A lot of people draw that line well north of Springfield.

I would say it broadly follows what some are calling the "Rural-Urban divide" - certainly the suburban areas are included. With some wrinkles of course. DeKalb is definitely "northern", but Mendota is definitely more "southern".
You did not answer - you listed my options and I was asking for the reaction of the collective. Because I know that functional illiteracy is becoming a serious problem, I'll do my best to help you: "How exactly are they going to limit my options to those, what are they going to do specifically?"
Fuel[1] accounted for a substantial portion of the overall lift, we've actually come in under expected inflation which is why you're seeing markets up today.

Gasoline, unleaded regular - +48.8% (+20.1% over last month)

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
Neopets for social engineering/scamming - converting "disposable" digital cameras into reusable (solder in a USB port, do...something to gain access to the memory to download files) was my introduction to hardware and firmware/software hacking and reverse engineering. Nowhere near enough of it stuck at the time, and I kinda wish I had gotten more in depth then, but ~19 years later those core interests have turned into skills...
Maybe I'm an outlier, but my story contradicts yours.

I started developing S/W professionally in 1986. It was cool for more than a decade. Then around 2000, software shifted to web dev and mobile, and I lost interest. Before 2000, we wrote code largely from scratch. After 2000, coding increasingly became copying-and-pasting from some ginormous S/W framework written by a committee. (That's why AlphaCode works.) The coder becomes a user. Don't write a function, call somebody else's function. That's programming by proxy.

Tech has changed. To me, that style of programming is a lot less fun.
I almost thought this article was about the film "Office Space."
The worst thing on macOS is how they are removing all affordances that made the Mac so nice to use.

They removed:

- scrollbars

- toolbar labels

- color

- separator between title bar and content

- resize indicator

- document icons

A lot of things are still there if you know where to look, but I feel like learning macOS is a lot harder than it used to be. Watching my kid struggle to drag a window is infuriating. There's no logic why it's possible to drag the window by the top 50 pixels only, unless you know the history that this used to be the title bar which looked different than the rest of the window on earlier versions of macOS...
Those literally got me started programming back in the day. The developers name was GerbilFan, I believe. There was a few different versions of the Pokemon battler app - some of them were Gym-editions (meant to be used by friends of theirs I guess?) that, if I'm remembering correctly, let their team have powerful Pokemon guaranteed. I actually learned how gradients work because of the gym-themed background gradients in the program (blueish for water, redish for fire, etc).
I know a social media analytics SaaS company, they're pretty successful at ~200 employees and 100% bootstrapped. All their servers are in the basement of the main office building.
When China shuts down their internment, officially condemns it, gives restitution to the interned, and stops censoring any education, discussion and criticism of their internment on message boards in their own country but instead welcomes it as part of the self-correcting mechanisms that allow a nation to continually bend towards greater justice and not repeat the old injustices, then the situations will be equivalent.
Open a terminal in a directory;

Find Files $ find|sort|egrep -i 'file.name'

Find Text $ find|sort|egrep -iR 'text.in.files'
To put that another way then: they seem to feel they have some freedom to decide which components should be covered by the KDE agreement.

(To put a finer point on the specifics you mentioned: I believe they once had a policy of making the QML-to-C++ compiler available only to commercial customers, and not to FOSS users, treating it as something distinct from the 'core of Qt'. They later changed their minds on this. [0][1])

Presumably they could start work on a whole new toolkit, call it something other than Qt, and be free of the KDE agreement. This would no doubt be much more work than a typical major Qt release, but they do presumably have the option.

[0] https://www.qt.io/blog/the-new-qt-quick-compiler-is-coming-i...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448296/is-qml-translate...
This is such a solved problem - I grew up in an urban area that was mostly apartments, so nobody's house was suitable for music practice. Everyone I know who played music rented nonresidental space to practice, usually a wearhouse space.
> Accusing me of bad faith added nothing to your argument and violated the site's guidelines. Maybe skip that next time?

I called out bad faith argument then steel-manned your argument and responded in good faith. In this case I felt calling out a bad faith argument and FUD was concisely pointing out part of your argument, which I take to be part of being a critical reader. I assume good faith until evidence suggests otherwise, which it did in this case.

> Large swaths of what you've listed above aren't commercial products, though, AFAIK.

I point out that there are many open source projects that fuel businesses and then go on to explicitly list businesses that have as their core product a piece of open source software. You conveniently left out the line directly underneath it listing those businesses. I qualified each of the sentences correctly.

> I don't believe I said it kills the opportunity. Just that it makes it much more difficult.

This is the original sentence you wrote:

"""
SuperCollider's license effectively stops you from designing commercial products. Even the free version of Elementary allows that.
"""

---

You continue to argue in bad faith. Me pointing it out highlights that you are engaging in behavior that is undermining constructive debate.
> keep the US population "on their toes"

...and obedient to corporations.

Such mechanism give corporations the power to decide who gets terminated and loses health insurance. It's very effective at discouraging people from doing anything that goes again the grain, like getting into an union.
I also always pick out the nicest cherries.
Pepsi Prog was the one that led me into an AOL warez mailserver chat to obtain a pirated copy of Visual Basic 4 to try and build my own prog. At 11 years old.

I later forwarded the email with the VB4 installer attached to it to another AOL user. AOL detected that and terminated my family's account.

Good times, indeed.
I have crippling migraines 4-6 times a year and I've had them forever. When it happens, I cannot handle light, cannot handle sound, I have a hard time thinking through the brain fog and I just want to stay in a quiet room with very low light waiting for it to pass which takes anywhere from 12 hours to 36 hours. I've lived in quite a few different countries both rural and city areas so it's not location dependent. I stay very hydrated so it's not the issue. Diet doesn't seem to change much either (although I do eat a bit too much sugar but my mom who has the same problem definitely doesn't). So, it's exhausting but I live with it and thank my lucky stars that it's only 4-6 times a year so it doesn't impact my work or life that much.