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I am a big fan of WSL and used it extensively for a while across multiple development environments. Also like using Windows a lot and feel more productive on it than Unix based systems.

However, I started to run into a lot of issues with the file systems being a bit too commingled though, especially when using things like VSCode’s WSL integrations where you’re regularly reading/writing to the Linux file system from Windows (or vice versa).

I guess I mention this to say that I ended up putting Ubuntu on a Hyper V VM and it was a huge improvement. If you enjoy WSL, but need something a bit less integrated, I highly recommend it. Using VSCode’s remote container/host extensions work just as well (if not better for things like Docker).
I like to say "countries that don't produce tangible goods are at the mercy of those who do". Push come to shove, the service economy is worthless. What matters is production of real goods that you can hold in your hand. At least agriculture is still a top priority despite calls from weirdly misled groups to end subsidies.

Personally, seeing how easy it is to laser cut metal or get a CTO part or a PCB in China makes me jealous. There are similar services in the EU, but not as good, more expensive, and not as widespread (i.e. you can find them in Germany and the UK, but not in many other countries... at least postal services work well, I guess).
Exactly!

A fun example is city and state and country fields in a row!

We tend to see banks or businesses with locations in nyc, ny, USA. And quite unlikely to see a business hq in New York, Hawaii USA. If it even exists.
This articles seems to equating societal advantages to game theoretic advantages-- they have severe differences. Human systems don't always benefit from, "equality" and, "democratization" despite those terms being very, "friendly" in terms to the contemporary culture. It's good to democratize workspaces but by comparison it's illiberal to democratize someone's girlfriend. Inviting the public to do grown up science is an interesting idea but in terms of lofty ideals but without a workable, "human model" you get, "drown the public in dopamenic engagements and then use data-collection to develop statistical models as a socioeconomic model" to progress science and technology and I think we can mostly agree that this is not a good thing. This same reasoning has applications in other, "human" domains-- sex cultures benefit from secrecy and exclusivity, artists often benefit from the creative process not being, "democratic" and it seems that it would be unwise to let untrained people manage the greater macroeconomy through voting or popular consensus. Financial, social, and creative elites get this. That's why institutional and social gatekeeping exists.

Real equality and Liberalism go along with Universal Education; Franklin and Rousseau (and others) seem to typify a progressive society as a being a kind of social arrangement where nobody is deliberately or arbitrarily held back from the process of becoming self-determining through education and for the most part, "democracy" has been considered a, "vulgar" form a government since antiquity even amongst the Founding Fathers and Enlightenment thinkers. Consider a modern society where the media system has been hijacked to, "manufacturer consent" for abolishing democratic institutions, libraries, and schools through popular consent and social degradation. It's worth noting that CPAC's having a conference in Budapest two weeks.

The only silver bullet for human systems is education. Equality and democracy without universal education is worse than the forms of government it/they historically displace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism#Lippmann-Dewey
>You live in Berlin? By an apartment and rent it out!

How the hell can OP buy an apartment if he's already struggling to get by?!

I swear, sometimes I feel like the HN userbase live on another plane of entitlement.
it harms only the poorest, because above all equality means societal stability
> But not for most markdown files, at least how I use it. I only start new line when I reach a new paragraph, and I think this is normal for most people who ever write something in markdown.

Markdown treats lines separated with a single line break as a continuous line/the same paragraph, and you need to add two or more newlines for Markdown to interpret it as a new paragraph.

Git works just fine with Markdown.
I second this. Most stressful experience I've had playing a video game. You will most likely find yourself shanking some random person in the middle of the night for food, despite negative consequences. The game makes you desperate, very fast.
I wish there were a third-party arbiter for account management that's trusted and most companies use as a last resort. It might involve paying a fee to have your case heard with some of it refunded if you win. Basically, a way for people to demonstrate that they're real and serious about the account, and a way for companies to outsource this headache.
Yeah the locality is another great point. It's really cool to have a file per major feature, and have interfaces, implementations, and unit tests all in one file co-located. And I do add documentation even in the "semi-literate" case; I just mean I don't worry about the weaver producing a proper-sounding article (since, frankly, I don't expect anyone to ever read it, anyway).
I think when the distinction is made it's because people are imagining that those who work harder will have better outcomes than those who don't, even when given equal opportunity.
This is such a key insight. For me at least, “time management” is really about managing my energy levels more than anything.
my commute is 15 minutes on a bad day and I really don't miss it. I legitimately, figurativaly and literally, can't comprehend what you're describing.
rest/spread is a nice bit of syntax worth using in code, but when refactoring be aware that it is not a 1:1 replacement for use of the classic JS 'arguments' builtin. They have different performance characteristics, and in particular a `Function.apply(this, arguments)` and `Function.call(this, ...args)` have different underlying implementations by spec even if they appear to do the same thing, which can mean the latter may be much much slower than you expect, potentially triggering additional garbage collections. I've had to flag this in code review a couple times :(
> If the government were competent at enforcing the rights of laborers, then unions would not be necessary.

I wouldn't say that, but unions should fill the same role that local government should fill. They should respond and resolve local issues specific to their area, so I wouldn't expect my union to negotiate my healthcare just like I wouldn't expect my town to negotiate trade deals with foreign countries. I do however want the unions there to deal with issues specific to my workplace, just like I do want my town to have a local government to deal with issues specific to my town.
> I've found that far less people in software understand and are curious about algorithms than there were 15 years ago, despite the fact that almost everyone studies them now for interviews.

It may explain why no-one succeeds my interview test, but then I wonder what I should test on if I want someone correctly smart.

My interview test is simply to find a string in a string and return true. It takes two for and one if, everyone fails, I generally stop them after one hour when there are booleans scattered everywhere. The way I give the exercise is “Please program a .contains(), without using .indexOf(), and no need to optimize anything, I’m not looking for anything fancy.” A 49 years old java programmer even complained that the test isn’t fair because it’s stressful to program in front of people, so now I take the habit of sitting in the next room, but then people try to overdo it and deal with UTF-8 before having the basic algo working.

I’m pulling my hair wondering what’s this parallel world I’m in, or whether I’m introducing a bias which makes everyone fail (2 interviewees per month for 5 months).
hi, I don't understand why they use ffmpeg for bitrot checking and not a simple hash checksum or a merkle tree.
Seems like it would be nice if there was peer review on an experiment's setup before papers were released.

The current process is wasting everyone's time.
I am confused what you're saying.

Let person A practice Chess 2 hours a day.
Let person B practice Chess 2 hours a week.

Person A makes the cut to join the high school Chess team, while Person B doesn't.

Most people would say if both person A and person B had the same opportunity to practice Chess that's sufficient. It seems like you are saying they should both be allowed to join the team. Regardless of the effort they expended.

Am I misunderstanding your point?
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In the justice system of most western countries, the general trend is: "Rather 10 criminals who go free, than one innocent person behind bars".

To live up to that statement, society pays. Through the nose - letting criminals walk free is annoying, we do pay the cost of trying to find them, and we pay a large cost gathering evidence to make it stick in court even when e.g. the cops are 80% sure. Courts are very expensive; judges have a salary. As a society we pay this, because, well, take the frustration of OP and now imagine the penalty is not 'banned from ebay', it's 'in jail for life' or even just 'most employers will no longer employ you because criminal record'.

eBay could choose to pay these costs. It will mean:

* Paying for a tribunal of sorts, paying to have them set up procedures and checking that they live up to them.

* Accepting that most fraudsters will just go 'free'.

* Accepting that fraudsters who do get 'caught', still spend a lot of time 'free' whilst the laborious process runs its course.

* To manage fraudsters, rules are created and publicised which interfere with legitimate business to some extent; everybody on the platform will have to deal with the fact they can no longer do this. (Laws that oversimplify - in society parlance: Walking through a red light even when there are clearly no cars at all is still illegal; that anybody can clearly see it was safe to do this doesn't change either the fact that you could be ticketed for this offense, or that police should just arbitrarily let this go).

In this case, 'society' becomes 'ebay users'. Do ebay users want to carry the burden of this cost? In any case, ebay users carry the burden of paying for the salaries of eBay's board which may well be excessive.

Why isn't there an ebay alternative? One that is more expensive for buyers and sellers but has all this? In large part, network effect makes it infeasible to have many ebay-esques out there. None of them would be any good at that point, and/or you get services that make it easy to post to all of them.
The system you describe isn't perfect, but almost certainly is a net increase in fairness.

Is there a reason we can't solve the equality issue for historically marginalized groups, then fix the systems again to address the smaller set of folks who were disadvantaged by the changes?

Basically, can we Zeno's paradox our way most of the way there, solving and disadvantaging smaller and smaller sets of people?
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Not necessarily. The fewer IPs in your ISP's dynamic pool, the bigger the chance that you will get the same one. In the extreme case when there's just one free address (I have seen this happen with some really shitty ISP) you'll 100% get the same one back.
How much Brazilian beef is in a US Big Mac/Whopper?
Some of the choices are a bit odd but it's an absolutely brilliant library. It's super simple to get started with and fairly easy to extend. If you do end up adding support for a standard protocol, please consider submitting a PR. The developers are super responsive and helpful.
I know this isn't what you're saying but "seeds are stored in the leaves" sounds like the botanist equivalent of "pee is stored in the balls" haha

But actually the hypotheses I've seen align more with the original poster's ideas. Plants don't want their leaves eaten. That's why they produce so many secondary chemicals to make leaves taste bitter or hard to digest. Most plants don't even want their fruit eaten actually. A plant has to spend a lot of "evolution points" (to borrow a phrase from TierZoo) to adapt to being able to survive the digestive process of whichever seed disperser it wants to attract.
That's also a good reminder about the "security" of biometrics.
> Is Facebook the 'Wright Flyer of social networks' or is Facebook
already the Saturn rocket?

No. This is Facebook [1], that flappy steam powered umbrella machine
that shakes itself to pieces and kills the pilot.

Honestly, I think if there were any reason to think "Industrial
society is eating itself", social media (and tech addiction) would be
the number one suspects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw_C_sbfyx8
There could have been a problem with recently created accounts posting a few listings right away, posting a listing for an item which is similar to that item some fraudsters have been selling, or maybe their resident prophet read a sacrificial bull’s entrails and told to beware of the topic starter.

You never know. And they won’t tell you.

And this arbitrariness is the problem precisely.

And no, an argument that telling the reason would help the crooks is not going to work, or the place wouldn’t be swarming with them already.
A “big idea” that sounds abstract to a literal thinker, should be seen as a hunch or an intuition about a situation. It can never be explained in satisfiable depth to a literal thinker. Only in hindsight will it be obvious.

You expect proof, or a literal pathway of thought and explanation, because it has served you well. This is the guaranteed route to proving an idea, if such a literal route exists. Such ideas are grounded in axioms that exist or can be built on smaller already established truths.

It is far more difficult to explain literally a strong hunch, that an excellent intuitive thinker has but which is lacking the necessary foundation axioms. Maybe this hunch or novel idea cannot be structured upon existing truths, because it looks beyond its current viewpoint. Or maybe the idea is about a situation that is happening outside the established system.

This doesn’t make this idea less valuable to pursue further. It might just be several magnitudes harder to wrap ones head around.
Additionally scapy is GPL and dpkt is more permissive. They both make mistakes, it can be illuminating to try both side by side. Scapy is more forgiving. dpkt is more performant.
So reading through this it's kind of interesting to look between the lines. There has always been vapid social vampires in our midst that would leech from others around them in any way that they could. It could be in monetary support, social and emotional support etc... And these vampires would do it naturally never thinking to give anything in return. The rise of the selfie cam and social media has created even more of these vampires.

Now when I read this article about mindfulness promoting selfishness what I actually see is people who are preyed upon by these vampires stop being prey when they embrace mindfulness. I suppose when you are the vampire and you are no longer to Leach your happiness from others you would consider that other person selfish. In reality this is more that people embracing mindfulness are incredibly attuned to their surroundings and the people that they interact with and realize what's happening and simply are holding up a mirror. These social vampires like the vampires of fantasy see nothing and thus call other selfish for refusal to be prey.
A few years ago I think they wanted to ban me because I had never sold anything but listed up something that was just taking up space in a closet —IIRC they suspended my account and I had to call them to get it reactivated. I also think having an account since ‘01 saved me from the hammer ban as the nice customer service agent seemed be surprised I would gasp want to sell something on an online auction marketplace after all those years.
It depends. If the vomiting guy is well dressed in what could be considered expensive or stylish and clean clothes it is an excellent target. Probably someone with money and lessened ability to protect themselves. Also might be doing some drugs or other things which also makes contacting police less likely.
> it's probably too long for me to ever get around to writing it (or for anyone to be interested in reading), though…

Just publish a volume every few years, and fascicles as necessary, and then eventually…
Google Farmbot :-)
> Most of the services you use are supported by advertising

Advertising (static banners, in-house analytics by different companies) is fine but tracking the entire human population across the entire web and aggregating the data is not. Things might seem stable right now, but do you really trust corporations and governments to keep that data safe in perpetuity and to never use it for nefarious purposes?

To give you an example, right now you have the US on backwards path of banning abortions, how would you feel about the government using browsing history and analytics collected by Google and other corporations to track down women who are seeking or thinking about an abortion? Regimes and laws change, data stays forever.

> Thankfully these out of touch, delusional opinions are a minority.

Considering the progress we're making with EU regulations such as GDPR, you're certainly wrong. People are starting to become more informed with every passing year and are starting to pay more attention. Industry practices are also slowly changing to make it easier to opt-out of intrusive tracking, which is a net win even for those who don't pay much attention to their privacy posture.

We're going in the right direction.
I wish this applied to fire trucks. I’ve been woken up too many times by a fire truck blasting their horn at 2am when there’s no traffic in the street, waking up 200+ people in the process.
Not necessarily let me give you an example.

Welding is overwhelming a male profession. At least 85 percent of professional welders are male.

Is it a goal to make 50 percent of welders male and female? Why? How about equal representation between asian and white welders ? again why?

In todays world women welders are encouraged and hired with little difficulty. You could argue that they have close to an equal opportunity as anyone to become a welder (perhaps more so).

Just because this metric group does not work out proportionally to the population base does not necessarily indicate oppression.

It is possible that many women for some unknown reason just don’t want to be welders… maybe that’s okay.
FYI, if you shift-right-click files in explorer there is a 'copy as path' option (why this is hidden by default is mysterious to me). Not nearly as useful as that utility, but good to have if you can't install extensions!
I think outcome is more like opportunity + luck. Identical twins are a great example, plenty of pairs grow up in nearly exactly equivalent environments but still have radically different outcomes in life. Like a Galton Board ('Plinko')[1], seemingly identical balls (people) can start from exactly the same position, but the indiscernible differences in their makeup combined with the exponential chaos of the branching pegs (life) mean they often end up in completely different places.

That's how I see it at least :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton_board
This is the correct answer.

Perhaps its because I work on the backend side of businesses (specifically the tax part) and so I actually get to see the financial numbers, but I am aware of over ten thousand jobs in SoCal alone that were saved by the PPP bailout.

It's disturbing to see the vaguely sociopath comments on this thread by tech workers who were largely unaffected by COVID complaining about "interfering" with the markets and about "bailouts."

A lot of businesses were hit hard by COVID. For tens of thousands of businesses, the COVID PPP loans were the only source of revenue they had at a time when government restrictions (i.e., the lockdowns) were inhibiting their sources of revenue. (And guys, we were in a pandemic that killed millions worldwide. Even after the lockdowns ended, many people were scared to go out for months.)

And even with the PPP loans, many small businesses didn't survive the lockdowns. Margins are low in many industries. Not everything is tech where you can bumble along without profits or purpose for a decade surviving on fat VC money.
Rovelli is an astounding communicator. Here's a wonderful lecture he did for the Royal Institute on the nature of Time: https://youtu.be/-6rWqJhDv7M

His communication style is a model of lucidity and kindness that more specialists should emulate when talking or writing to general audiences.
Does it use the lidar for object detection for the blind?
I think that's an interesting point.

But I wonder just how much equalization of "opportunity" would be needed to reach an acceptable equality of outcome.

As an extreme example, could it go so far as to prevent some parents from passing on their values to their children?

E.g. if being of a certain religious viewpoint was negatively correlated with whatever measure of "outcome" was currently in vogue, would equality of opportunity mean barring its adherents from having or adopting kids?
There's a big difference between allowing someone with an illness to naturally die by not donating your organ to them, and deliberately carrying out an abortion with the intent to kill a developing child.

The law (and the field of ethics) has always distinguished between acts of commission and acts of omission, and also taken into account the intent of the actor. If a stranger's house is broken into and their TV stolen, and you could have prevented that by sleeping over at their house, that doesn't mean you are an accomplice by sleeping in your own house.

Anyway, I'm glad you're thinking about this, because it's a complicated issue and it needs multiple perspectives to sharpen our thinking.
Your bash scripts won't work on Windows, either. If we are here talking about bash being a "common default" maybe we shouldn't leave out the operating system that has about a 90% global marketshare.

If your development team doesn't have the time and resources to support a multi-platform development environment, they shouldn't do so.

Apple didn't change their business model, the GPL changed their license, and it's a license that's simply not compatible with any closed-source software business. Does your employer let you integrate GPL v3 code into your products?
I don't see the parent comment communicating those ideas.

There is no statement in the comment that there is currently "some semblance of equality of opportunity" only that "most humans would agree striving for equal opportunity is a universal goal". This is a directional statement, not a statements about current progress in that direction.

Nor do I see any statement that group outcomes are explained entirely "because of some characteristic within those people."
Alternatively, maybe they are better educated and clearly understand the nuances of the field more than some random internet forum poster like yourself.

There's no way they didn't notice, lol.
Outcome is at least the combination of opportunity and desire.

The fact that i graduated as a software engineer says nothing about my other opportunities that i _chose_ not to persue. At scale i can see those effects averaging out somewhat, but i see no evidence that a a fully egalitarian society would produce entirely representative outcomes across all subgroups/occupations.
Shame minimization.
That does not sound right?....Usual IT positions in Europe (50-80k jobs) always took max 1-2 months for me.
How should journals handle submissions of non-reproducible research?