skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does very directly answer the question of "why."

You answered the opposite question: "why not."

Neither of us know enough about BM's business model, plans, codebase, etc. to know whether open sourcing makes sense, and if so, how. I trust BM is doing something reasonable here. The only point is that the decision isn't obvious.

In terms of 0.00001%, my experience is that bigger businesses care a lot about business continuity. I'm at a large organization, and it's cheaper to buy than build. At the same time, it's lower-risk to buy open-source. That's where things are trending.
> A positive about that whole experience is that it's made me way better at clickbait, which seems to have worked because you've been interacting with my content at all.

Sure, it's also made me less likely to install NixOS.

Funny way to try and help a project, but what do I know, I haven't been in a cult and I'm terrible at clickbait.
The U.S. is a special case because of it's grandiose claims. We are supposed to be a nation by the people and for the people, a nation that is supposed to be a bastion of liberty against the dark tyrannical forces of the world that routinely attempt to enslave man.

Corruption in this context is more severe than equivalent corruption in countries differently constituted.

It's like a catholic priest who has sex with women on the side. Many men do that, but a priest is supposed to be held to a divine standard. Therefore the priest's actions are interpreted as a severe form of corruption,whereas the actions of a common man doing the same thing are perhaps not even seen as a bad thing.

America is like a high priest of liberty. When there is corruption here, it's even worse than equivalent corruption elsewhere.

Practicality speaking now, this is a huge problem because many people still believe that
America is still abiding by its high ideals. This has the effect of making people blind to corruption. "That could never happen in America," is the attitude of a lot of people who still believe in the premise of this nation.

I'll admit that these are difficult questions. I don't necessarily have the best answers. All I can really say is that there's a spiritual sickness here eating away at us that undoubtedly comes from a long accumulation of lies and betrayals that undermine our collective faith in the nation.
Weston A Price is an infamous quack. I'm disappointed to see he mentioned positively here.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/sbm-weston-prices-appalling...
Sure, I actually agree. But I'm also a) not American b) not black c) not an anarchist, nor a liberal [I'm a radical socialist by conviction, not a liberal]. So take following with that in mind:

There are two separate things here, to be analyzed separately: slogan/demand vs . an actual proposed policy. I think it's a huge mistake to confuse the two.

So I dunno, I don't walk around saying "that's the wrong demand", or "say something else, you don't want that." I'd rather understand where it's coming from and who is saying it, see?

Slogans are tactical, part of a movement, and the activists involved do not have state power, they pretty much never will given the structure of the US state, and as I see it the purpose of the demand is to primarily to point out the injustices, contradictions, and limits of the existing system.

In that respect "defund the police" is probably somewhat successful from the POV of the people who propagated it, who are mostly, from what I can deduce, anarchist movement types. (And yes, they probably actually do believe it. But I'm not an anarchist, so) They've made a broad swathe of the public see something that is frankly true from my POV and others: policing as we have it now has an awful history, and frankly its primary purpose in our western society is the routine maintenance of existing power structures and inequities, and in the US especially this takes a fundamentally racist form. It's getting increasingly hard to deny that, even for mainstream liberals and some conservatives.

Is it universally true? No. No phenomenon in society works that way. But on the whole there's a structural aspect of policing that may not be reformable in our current society. I saw a poll the other day that a very large % of black Canadians (my country) trust the government, but do not trust the police. I think that's an interesting and powerful distinction: Especially in light of how police have behaved here at e.g. various anti-vaccine/anti-COVID measure protests vs how they have behaved at other protests (BLM, etc.) in the past.

I think "defund the police" is a "transitional slogan" which might boil out into something better in terms of a more concrete demand if the movement it floats along in grows.

That's my take.
There is experimentation in cooking, but not usually in restaurants while serving actual customers. That is the time for just making the recipes you practiced.

There is very little reason to write out (say) the same algorithm a hundred times because you have a hundred different users who need it, but a cook can't just ctrl-C ctrl-V a dish.
> In my career I feel like I have seen hundreds of examples of me saying the systems equivalent of “lets put the dining table indoors?” to be told that the dining table is outside because the original budget meant the front door could only be yay wide so we had to leave the table in the yard and put a tent over it. And I’m just left standing there agape at how we eat in a cold wet tent every night instead of fixing it.

I have, too. And then I usually haven't managed to put the dining table indoors. And then new people came in and asked the same question you ask, and by then I was one of the people who tried to put the dining table indoors, and explained how it wouldn't fit through the front door, and how I tried to get it in through the window. And then the new people try to put the table indoors and fail and next thing you see they're either leaving the house or explaining to the newcomers why the table is outdoors.

Ultimately, I've realized that talk like this is cheap, unless you can actually improve things. That requires leadership skills and some political capital in your organization. I don't think the author of the article deserves an engineering leadership role simply for complaining about things. (They might still deserve an engineering leadership role for other reasons, what do I know...)
Now is the time to do something about that then.

Perhaps hand out an e-mail address and/or something else that does not require people to agree to some corporate ToS/privacy policy where people can reach you to the ones you do care about staying in touch with, preemptively for when they or you stops using Facebook, be it by choice or force.

It is not acceptable that a single or a handful of corps should own the digital social room. If you rely only on them, then it is you who close people out, not the ones who choose to leave or get kicked out.

I get that it's a sad situation but you can not put the blame on the ones who left. Learn from that and you won't have to experience it again.

I guess I am part of your generation as well because I recognize your description.
I'll add a +1 to this as the kid of parents who divorced (when I was about 11). Home went from being an unpleasant place to be to being a nice place again. It is horrible to feel stuck between two people who don't want to be there.

It was one of the best things that happened for me. And my parents.
that exact sequence is possible in lots of desktop environments, with their own list and exception handling. Many people here show that the result of the fast (and fun?) steps result in something that other people can't change much, and have a lot of non-obvious footguns. Last, if you like it, no judgement from me about that!
"luxury beliefs" feels to me like the right found a way to say "privilege" without actually saying it, haha.
> You seem to be attributing the cause of this to 'Telling men and boys it's cool and fine to divorce' and not attributing to say... declining material and social capitol in the lower four quintiles of wealth

It's six of one, half a dozen of another. As the Chinese philosopher Confucious was already well aware of, a tight-knit family is the foundation of all other social structures.

> Finally, historically speaking, decrying the next generation as depraved, lost, and needing traditional discipline

Except that it's not merely "the next generation", i.e. youth that's being so described. The ongoing fraying of the social fabric in late-stage modern societies, especially among those most vulnerable to marginalization due to a broad variety of added factors, has been ascertained quite objectively.
It originally cost $800,000. You're getting that for $300, plus a lifetime of free upgrades.

> Before this change, the pre-built versions of Resolve had been the only available options, selling for between $200,000 and $800,000, which was common industry practice at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve
That was helpful. It'd be great if there are tips like these (even Wikipedia links like this is very helpful) are also present in the posts like the blog post.
> Morocco isn't Russia, but handing your life support to a distant and culturally different country… seems daft.

Perhaps, but making yourself a vital part of keeping the lights on for a country with a brutal colonial history within living memory, a much more capable military, and a military base 36 miles from Tangier… seems even more daft.
"If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it".

Lie of the year in 2013.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-y...

This guy has less than no credibility when it comes to disinformation. He pals around with Ben "echo chamber" Rhodes, the master of disinformation during the Obama presidency.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/ben-rhodes/
This! Most of the flaming identity cultural wars are basically a distraction. The problem as always is class, and elites vieing for control.

Yes progressive values are a thing, but its media representation is nuts, on purpose.

The it's us vs them narrative leads to subjucating all values to pure "survival". This promotes long term irrationality. The powers at be know this and capitalize it.
On both "sides".
In my biased opinion this sort of Machiavellism is more common with conservatives, but its definitely common enough in non conservatives.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/do...

There's the 40 page document of all the medical reasons you won't qualify for military service, one of which I have. Everyone says just join the military, but I suppose 7 year old me should have thought of that before I chose to get bone disease.
Emacs Elfeed
Was the title different from the article when you flagged?
Looks like there's been some progress on this front since I last looked.

Maybe Wikipedia needs to be updated.
What tools did you use to build these charts?
> This highly educated and affluent person prioritized stability for her own children. But refused to publicly endorse this value so that less fortunate children could also benefit from family stability.

Why would such a person ever do something like this? This is basically living a lie? Has society gone so low that it’s considered admirable to take such a position?
PKI solves other problems but not this one, where people wanted a valid test but the testing facility cheated.

Invalidating historical tests isn’t particularly valuable. After they’re more than a few days old the result rarely matter nor be subject to scrutiny. Notifying affected patients is important but they did that just fine with PKI
I am not! Once they got in bed with cryptocurrencies, I closed my account. But I forgot to delete it from my profile here, so thanks for mentioning it.
I find his overall argument that it is "trickle down values" that are responsible for many of the overall social ills of the poor extremely lacking in evidence, and if anything I think he's confused cause and effect.
Hilariously off base. There were multiple mechanisms used to keep women from talking about abuse - not just physical. Divorce was shamed, “airing dirty laundry” was shamed, the economics of leaving, etc.
> That being said, what do you feel is the cause of a drain in motivation on the endemic level?

It's a natural reaction to the fact that opportunities are shrinking in terms of quality and payoff. There are lots of "jobs" but they don't offer long term stability or growth.
How is the Spanish claim on Gibraltar weak? They border it, it was taken from them at gunpoint, and it's extremely dependent on Spain for services and labour.
>they were less embedded in strict norms, and freer to do whatever they pleased,

I would argue that strict norms - if they don't come into contradiction with what is natural and proven in time as beneficial - might imply more freedom than some kinds of "freedoms" or "rights" imposed by force if those "freedoms" or "rights" come into contradiction with the natural way societies and civilizations evolved.
It's hard to say there's a direct causation. I left France myself because I felt the problems shown in these indicators were so deeply rooted in the French psyche that there was simply nothing to do. For instance, dropping the unemployment rate to a level akin to Germany would require us to see life like Germans do: practically, minding social cost of social welfare, admitting mistakes and correcting course rather than doubling down etc.

I voted Macron because he was the only one suggesting maybe the French people are the root cause rather than the political color of the president, but I understand this guy did it that way: everyone will make the president own these indicators and judge him accordingly, and of course be permanently disappointed and vote more and more radical. If you look at the landscape this election it's 30% "fuck it all it's the foreigners" LePen, 30% "fuck it all it's the 1%" Melenchon and 30% "fucking hell dudes, we dont know what it could be but the 2 others are scary so let's just stick to the evil we know" Macron.

I've never heard someone clearly stating without being shunned immediately "guys, the problem, I think I know, it's simply... all of us" :D And yes even external factors will be blamed on the president, especially if he proposes to adapt to it: why would we proud light of the world adapt to american or chinese competition, we can simply do nothing at all while posturing on the streets we re fighting for our "social acquisitions" as we call our rigid policies.
How to delete unwanted features from Firefox and bring back wanted ones would come handy as well.
The author provided data and graphs to highlight the problems in America he believes are being caused by a root problem of society having low expectations for men.

He doesn't provide any data to reflect what society's expectations are. Those are just his thoughts.

That's a big distinction.
What a bizarre take. You should continue to volunteer your personal information to an ad-tech behemoth… in order to prove you’re not an addict?
I imagine a machine. Something similar to that automated coca-cola machines which you choose the flavor of your soda, pay it and it spits it.

Imagine a machine where you could choose a book from project Gutenberg, pay it and have it instantly printed for you.
It's not running DHCP. All my machines in the local network have static IPs and DHCP is disabled. I used to use DHCP on the router. The issue persists independently of DHCP
There are real time GCs when one is willing to put the money on the table.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/
> How many people don’t bring their own anyway?

I never bring my own, because there's always good soap at every hotel. I used to have a soap caddy when I was in college and it got so gross, and was occasionally lost, that I just don't want to deal with it.

I'm picky about shampoo and conditioner, so I bring my own in travel containers.
Social media also encourages people to present a highly exaggerated and curated, if not outright fabricated, view of their lives to the world. Others in their networks then compare this to their actual lives and feel inadequate.
In simple terms, intuitively, major sounds more funny, it's good to cheer up listeners.
I also like having CLI tools that only work properly in the same terminal the developer uses! Browser incompatibility was such a reliable source of joy back in the Bronze Age days of web dev - I've missed it, and I'm really glad to see lots of smart folks doing the incredibly worthwhile work of reinventing the same concept for a new generation.

(It's an impressive achievement on a technical level, sure. But that's orthogonal to whether it's useful, and for practical purposes it's not. "Any tty will do" is a good thing.)
There'd be many more, if copyright terms didn't keep getting extended forever.

It is a shame.
What about young women? Aren't they supposedly the gatekeepers to procreation? The ones that have evolved to choose what's best for their kids (a two family home)? Did they stop choosing right?
Same. Even when I realize some process has been using 100% CPU for a while the fans still don’t turn on.

This used to be how I found runaway processes on my previous Intel based MBP.
Sure, it's a hack, but it's a useful hack that works in many places.
how you leave the legal framework without exiting the "common market" (single market)?

the answer is: you can't
> I'd say that the painful parts you are going through are outsourced to some shit company designed to nickel-and-dime you

One problem is that DVLA doesn't have an integrated back-end database that stores all driver data consistently. Some of their systems are new and whizzy (e.g. participating in an online auction for personalised number plates) but others are from the stone age.

Medical license application is also made worse because it requires the DVLA to interact with the NHS, using paper forms to request medical info and for the NHS doctors to request payment from DVLA for performing the medical reviews.
Women want the office to be warmer. Science now backs them up (2019)
I meant the fact of a divorce involving children sucks (for the kids especially).

I wasn't arguing that parents with children shouldn't divorce at all.
Each couple will need to consider the pros and cons as best they can.

I myself was a product of a home that tried both 'stay together for the kids' and 'extremely messy 6 years long divorce' in that order.
That relationship was doomed from the start, it would have been better if they'd never met.
My dad is/was a high-functioning drug addict (among other thing), divorce was always the best answer for them.
Even if you have expectations, many opportunities may be gone. Just look at the lack of non-college work in the US that pays a living wage. Now try to get one of those jobs if you're competing against others who have no criminal history if you have a minor one.

I have a job as a dev and even I'm tired of this treadmill. Taxes, COL, healthcare, etc. No time/money to do the things I want. No real career, just a job. Lies and discrimination at work. I don't blame others for giving up when their circumstances might mean that's the best option for them.
Depends on the immigrant family. The ones from Mexico and Central American certainly don't have much, but those coming from East and South Asia who immediately start businesses on arrival have access to more wealth (either personally or via social connections) than many native-born Americans will have access to in their entire lives.
> This. These services aren't toxic if you don't follow toxic accounts.

This is so wrong, on so many levels. They will capture your clicks, your usage patterns, your interests, and the internet will present to you in a non-neutral way, in a way which will not be in your interest, but in the interest of whoever is paying for the results of your data analysis. A way which will influence your perception of reality in microscopic and permanent ways, because they will know you more intimately than you know yourself.

Do not interact with surveillance capitalists. You will lose.

One should instead protect its behavioural breadcrumbs and try to use non surveillance ways of communication.
That all depends on the relationship between the siblings. I have 6 siblings and because of life choices we rarely keep in touch. My spouse is in the exact situation.

Why? Is it possible our busy schedules, ability to relocate, and less dependency on each other are reasons why this may not be as important as it was at one time?
So are government benefits super generous or are these men just unable to make good wages despite "the man's attempt to work like a dog"?
Check again - the ambassador status was granted last year.

The genuine best efforts spanned from 2017-ish (negotiations didn't start in 2016 after the vote) to 2019. It took a while for the UK to realise the EU no longer wanted to be friendly and cordial, and that's when the UK's own stance finally changed.

A bilateral treaty between the UK and EU is not "international law". A bilateral treaty contains exit clauses that can be invoked if necessary. The Geneva Convention is an example of an international law. Though I don't know specifically what you are referring to in your example.
Something here that doesn't seem to make sense to me: The idea that the middle class determines relationship norms that are then followed by the working class/poorer people. I didn't see the argument for why this would be the case and I'm not sure I buy it just on its face. But ok, since he's quoting from something else perhaps he just didn't quote the argument. Assuming the claim is basically correct, that relationship norms are determined by the middle class (for example, perhaps due to middle class influence on how relationships are depicted in TV & film), then what's the explanation for poorer people following the cultural shift toward less commitment or later commitment (the stuff about "as long as they are not married, it is acceptable for either partner to walk away at any time"), but not copying the shift toward having children later?

As I see it, what's happened in the middle class is that relationships don't reach the stage of full commitment until much later (walking away is considered to be normal and healthy prior to marriage, people expect to have several relationships before "settling down", etc), but having children before you've reached a committed relationship is still very much thought of as reckless and bad.

So overall I just don't really buy this part; it does not seem well supported by the rest of the piece.

Quoting the paras just as a reference for which part I'm referring to:
"The educated class decides cohabiting partnerships are just as valid and important as marriage. And they also believe it’s okay to walk away at a moment’s notice from a cohabiting relationship.

"Poor and working-class people follow suit. To the detriment of themselves and their children."
No, it is garbage. A huge series of completely unsupported claims.
Why would you assume that? Most websites bloated or otherwise don't need to keep a socket open 100% of the time to function at all, and I strongly suspect most sites that do use websockets also pass considerably less over the wire in absolute terms than this does when it's rendering stuff like those fancy progress bars.
I assume control, with the investment coming from the UK they want to have control of it. If it has to go via the EU they would loose that control and could potentially lose access.
German government recommends restricting access for Russian software engineers
It wouldn’t surprise me either if it helps in some legal situations - if someone runs over your cable in Spanish territorial waters vs international waters for instance, it’s probably easier to get paid back.