skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Has privatizing public infrastructure EVER gone well?

There has been a huge amount of privatisation of infrastructure in New Zealand over the years, and it is hard to find good examples of consumer harm (unlike the harmful examples for private electricity networks in California or Texas).

The only real problem appears to be that the public keep buying things back or propping up private enterprise (giving billions to Toll for an uneconomic rail network, or bailing out our national air carrier Air NZ).

One counter-example could be our airports which are part private enterprise, and man they gouge consumers with their monopolies. Although I think Wellington and Christchurch airports are private-public partnerships with local government.

New Zealand is similar to Oregon in area and population, to give you an idea of how big our problems could get.
>we got our bellies full, and live in climate-controlled homes

I think it's this plus we have no time and the time we have is preyed upon. So, you're fed and more or less comfy, but you're also stressed and tired about that next paycheck. And if you don't get that next paycheck, then you will no longer be fed and more or less comfy.
The problem is when a civilization stops providing ways for its inhabitants to keep winning inside of it, the civilization collapses. In Western civilization, if there is no growth, how will you motivate people to keep working? The only thing left is to steal from the people who already have things.
> So what is different? Why do we repeatedly allow this to happen?

It's not so much an "allow" as it is a "what's the alternative?" The problem at this point is so deeply rooted (in the form of life-long politicians and bureaucrats), the only solution is a full-blown reset. Unfortunately, there's no way to do that without violent revolution. Considering the scale and diversity of thought in the U.S., doing that effectively with the least amount of damage is next to impossible (too many loose cannons with mental issues). It also requires violence, which, if you take a non-aggression stance on problem solving (my own POV) then it's a stalemate.

At this point, the only "fix" seems to be atrophy and circumvention. Atrophy in the sense that you just let it all run its course and meet its eventual demise (anticipating pain and suffering as the system collapses) and circumvention in the sense that you look for ways to excuse yourself from it.

Earlier revolutions happened as part of much smaller civilizations (exactly why the American Revolution was possible—far less variables and far more homogenous thinking among the dissenting class). In a country of 300M+ people, any "revolution" is likely to dissolve into chaos no matter how well-organized or how principled its ideology.
Not quite.

The text in question deals with either manslaughter (accidental death) or premature birth. Both are distinguishable from murder, the deliberate taking of a life.

And this is why the punishment is not capital.
Welp, I guess I have to say it for the 6th time (wonder when I'll stop counting). Teams on Linux is a complete nightmare, with the most egregious aspect being that it continues recording audio after you leave a meeting (which is easily proven by just joining a meeting, leaving and opening Pavucontrol). Someone recently mentioned to me in HN that disabling spacial meeting recognition or some crap like that fixes it, but I haven't been at my computer since to try it out.

It's been like this for at least a year and a half, and I've submitted it through the "feedback form" countless times.

Ps.: Interestingly enough, in Pavucontrol the application shows up as "Skype", with the icon and all.
Get politics out of medicine? I'm not holding my breath.
I think the WEF (World Economic Forum) is who I think of when I think of "the elites.". They have Xi Jinping give key notes and most recently had Henry Kissinger debate Soros over what to do with Ukraine at their annual private jet fueled get together in Davos. Many major government leaders like Trudeau are listed on their website as "WEF Young Global Leaders.". Vladimir Putin was even in there, but his page got deleted when the Ukraine war started.

I struggled through Klaus Schwab's "Covid-19: The Great Reset." Klaus talks about Degrowth as a future economic model. He also talks about the Doughnut which is the gap between abject poverty and the limits of the Earth's resources as determined by earth system scientists that everyone must live between. He also says that workers will not be advantaged due to large numbers of them dying during COVID as they were advantaged after the bubonic plague because they will be replaced with automation. I'll say that none of their programs and goals would be benefited by there being more people around.
This makes no sense. Using this logic, why don’t more countries attack, say Costa Rica, which doesn’t even have a military?

I think the OP probably doesn’t have a problem with actual defense projects, but if you’ve been paying any attention over the last 70 years, you will know that the US has attacked many countries under the guise of “defense”.
The North American Black Locust tree, a continental native tree, of the legume family, is considered invasive within North America, in New York and Connecticut and Massachusetts and the rest of New England, mid-west prairie areas, and the west of the continent.

Its original range, before European arrival, is believed to be in Appalachian Mountains, Pennsylvania to Georgia, and the Ozarks.

It has been used as a pioneer species to restore treeless land in other continents, including Europe, Asia and Africa and Australia. Spain has used them to restart forest in desertified areas, for example.

- Black Locust (Robinia_pseudoacacia) --
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia

- Black Locust --
New York PRISM
https://www.wnyprism.org/invasive_species/black-locust/

- Black Locust --
Massachusetts Audubon Society
https://www.massaudubon.org/learn/nature-wildlife/invasive-p...

- Rethinking Black Locust --
by Maureen Sundberg April 15, 2019
Ecological Lanscape Alliance
https://www.ecolandscaping.org/04/landscape-challenges/invas...
Who gets to decide which industries are allowed to "let people in"?

I mean, the current situation is great for programmers/software engineers. At other times in history, situations like this have been great for other practitioners. How do we decide? I don't want to lose my job, or have my salary depressed because Microsoft thinks they're paying too much for workers. Who's to say that Microsoft isn't just whining?
under capitalism, this simply doesn't happen. More efficiency due to automation or other factors always result in constant hours worked, resources exploited more efficiently, humans squeezed harder and less worker's autonomy.

Any reduction in the work time was won by unions and as soon as they were destroyed, we got stuck with the 40 hours workweek.

Your narrative worked maybe one century ago: now the world is on fucking fire and everybody is in therapy. Nobody believes this stuff anymore.
> The fibre network is owned 50% by central government and 50% by private or local government owned corporations

Does the government actually have an ownership stake? I just thought they provided some grants and debt financing?
thought you were going to say "moving towards us so quickly that their electromagnetic wavelengths are blueshifted"
VSCode is magical in my experience. I say this as a 20 year emacs user, and 10 year Vim user.
OK but even sometimes finding an up-to-date HTML renderer can be hard.

Very few people are out there packaging up-to-date webpage renderers into easy to use libraries. Many times you end up using the one built-in to your UI toolkits and those are often very neglected.
There is no philosophy or spectrum required. It is an issue between a man and a woman at an extremely personal level. If the man is not involved then it is for the women to decide. As for when in the pregnancy the baby should be terminated plenty of medical doctors have given their opinion and most states with abortion rights have a reasonable cut off. It is not a complex issue as my original point states. People are brainwashed into thinking it is so they ignore all the pressing issues. Any man that pretends to care about this issue is not a man but a brainless droid. To bring religion or philosophy about when life begins is turning a simple issue with simple cases and edge cases into an issue that cannot be agreed upon. Men who care about abortion have no life and should use their energy to do something useful
This is a poorly designed process because, as this pricing change underscores, Slack is not permanent unless you pay them in perpetuity. Why would you place so much power over your internal processes in the hands of a third party? It may save a crazy amount of time and effort (it does not) but it will cost a crazy amount of money through lock in subscriptions or eventually being forced out of the ecosystem because your chats are 90 days old.

You could accomplish the exact same thing you’ve done by pasting the Slack discussion into the ticket or a text file with a link. Except you’d now control your future. So you’ve saved less than five seconds by copy pasting a Slack link instead of highlighting a bunch of Slack messages to copy paste.
Then we'll be sitting ducks for the extra-terrestrial invasion...

Really though, good luck getting to that state.
Now, add VAT to income taxes, and change the referential. Top 1% gives back X% of their income as taxes, top10% gives back Y%. If Y>X, you have inequality issues.
I'm old enough to remember WML which was a mobile non-HTML hypermedia standard. I enjoyed using it but it was obvious putting an HTML browser on a phone was always going to win out.

Hyperview isn't that interesting because it's a non-standard proprietary technology that isn't really "on the web". So you either have something like that, an actual full-featured HTML browser, or have something consuming a fully defined JSON API. It doesn't feel like there's anything interesting about non-HTML user agents on the web. HTML automatically makes them all irrelevant.
“There exists a limit to growth” and “we are remotely close to hitting the limit” are vastly different claims.
Thank you for linking this! I just ran the gauntlet comparing all these tools and this is the first that feels sane. YNAB is fine, but they did me dirty in 2008
They're very good at managing that image, it's true. It's hard to believe that we're in an equitable spot as consumers with reports showing the big three are among the most profitable telcos in the world.

That's not even starting in on the obvious price coordination that highlights the dearth of competition in the sector.
Damn you, HN, this seemed funny to me
So you would prefer a monopoly that serves a small family and investors vs. a monopoly that has revenue go back into the government?
Looking at human history, that will never happen. As long as there is scarcity in the world, and as long as sovereign states exist, geopolitics and thus the looming threat of war will always exist.
Uhhh, if you have LinkedIn Navigator, check ex-Slack engineers. Everyone who was pre-IPO without many RSU's has already left.

Management has already left, in true Salesforce and Oracle fashion they'll be pushing Salesforce VP's into senior leadership roles at Slack - starting with regions.

1 year acquisition anniversary is next week, so you'll see an influx of more, and then the final exodus will be 1 year later when KPI's for 2-year employee retention bonuses runs out.
I've thought a good policy would be govt asset sale profit gets held in trust for ~12 years.

This way it cant be a balance the budget act, and the cash might benifit your opponent 3 election cycles down the track.

It probably wont stop overselling of assets but would definitely take away a short term incentive.
I was, but you inspired me to look up the origin of why it was Thursday - for some reason I had it my head as a Douglas Adams concept ("I could never get the hang of Thursdays"), but despite his various other parodies of creation myths, surprisingly it seems he never mentioned that one!
Paid by whom? And how do you know what anyone actually believes?
One feature I wish you could do is add people to a group chat and keep history. Or prompt if you’re adding to a chat to convert to a channel and keep history.

I probably once a month start a group chat and need to add somebody to it and all context is gone
We use it for our family chat, and so far it's been a total pain. Google changes things so regularly, but with little awareness of the impact those changes make. At one point they deprecated hangouts for chat, but required hangouts still for viewing video on mobile, while also enabling partially supported chat on gmail. What ended up happening was there was a period where I had to have all 3 apps on my phone to use it, and I'd get a notification from all 3 for every message: https://twitter.com/pwnies/status/1404895098194644994

The one thing I will say that's great about it is their search functionality is top tier.
> The only thing slowing down technology today is wall gardens.

Hopefully with the EU's DMA this will change.
OK, thanks. I suppose I could add an "it" before never, if editing were still possible.
I'm technically a Roman Catholic. My parents told me that if I performed the rituals, like communion, I'd get a new bike and it would make grandma happy. My father's belief system:

Dad: "It's freezing in this church".

Mum: "Shhhht! We're in session, have some respect".

Dad: "At least it will be warm in hell".
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft hates you! Oh, wait…
This also puts an end to burner phones.
》First find something you want to manufacture

I'd add that it's something that you want to manufacture for which there are buyers, otherwise the inventory won't go anywhere and they'll waste their investment.
Do you know if there is a name for that XMPP/Atom pubsub service, and if web publishers can put up some kind of icon so people know they can subscribe to that kind of a feed?
I chose mpv (and before that, mplayer) exactly because it doesn't have all that bling.
Interesting. I was unaware of the state of telcos in NZ. I found this wikipedia article to have some additional content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_New_Zeal...

Using only that article as a resource (lazy, sorry), it seems that the telco infrastructure improved because of competition. It doesn't really seem to be a private/public issue, but that multiple companies got into the action.

All of Iceland's infrastructure was sold off in one huge chunk, forming a private monopoly. This may become a decent test case for whether government-operation or private-operation makes a difference. (In contrast to the wiki article, which suggests that competition is the thing that matters.) Like the grandparent comment, I expect very little from the private operation of Iceland's telco infrastructure, but I'd love to be surprised.
Author's premise is wrong.

Once growth ends, the pie isn't growing. Pie not growing means the focus becomes dividing the pie. Dividing the pie means endless infighting, politics, and anger in a society. This may work in certain societies, but it will never work in America.

Second, a growth-oriented society will naturally outgrow and overtake a non-growth oriented society, by definition. Societies choosing low growth will fall to the side.

Third, you need an outlet for people in society who are entrepreneurial. Steve Jobs starting Apple is the exact same mindset as a punk kid spraying grafitti on a billboard. It's just a different implementation ambition and rule breaking. If you impose a non-growth mindset on society, what will all the glorified "crazy ones" [1] do? Nothing good.

The answer, of course, is space exploration. Elon Musk has talked about this in detail many times: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1544720926020968453

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4NS2zdrZc
Probably it's easier to argue this on a small company, where the developers have a bigger impact. But I think in most companies, nobody asks the developers about these things. If the company is already invested in Office, then it's a no brainer to use Teams. It's free and supposedly does everything Slack does. It's well integrated with Outlook/Calendar, etc. When you already have a free solution it's very difficult to ask for a paid service with similar functionality. I don't like using Teams, but that's not a hill I'm willing to die on.

To be honest, the only complain I have about Teams is how resource hungry and unresponsive the application is. But I think it does (or should I say "attempts to do") some things better than Slack. I like the way Teams displays the chat threads as conversations instead of a long, narrow and claustrophobic column on the right, for example. But, again, nobody asks me :)
Yes, this seems crazy which is why I mentioned it. Seems unfair that applecare doesn't cover it.
ooo that's nice of them. I'll immediately be using free slacks to ingest millions of log messages a day as soon as this lands :) my development logs searchable and organized by channel is gonna be great
I know, it sucks, but I'm saying what solution is solid and works.
Download it from the Internet? Key in the source by hand and compile it locally? Type in the bytes with a hex editor? I mean, there's a lot of possible ways. Note "possible", perhaps even "plausible", but maybe not "probable". And a lot of it would come down to the details of the local situation.

And if you're wondering, I can confirm that I've definitely worked at places where you were not allowed to plug in a USB device (I literally saw a co-worker get the "tap on the shoulder" from Security for doing that), but yet many (most?) Internet downloads were allowed. Does that make sense? Arguably not. Does it happen in the real world? Absolutely yes.
The Go Memory Model
DeFi Worked Great
You can have endless growth as long as productivity is increasing faster than population loss. Increasing productivity needs technological advancement. Alternatively we can stem the tide of population loss by having humans live longer, or by waiting for the current generation of non-breeders to die off allowing the breeders’ children to reproduce. Likely they are more genetically predisposed to reproduction.
My current project was switched from C# to Go almost 2 years ago. It was a management decision, and while the team all generally has found something or another to like about Go, we all miss C#.
a quick google showed this

https://www.elra.eu/the-present-landscape-of-land-registrati...

The traditional land registry was from 1853 which seems was just a good enough description of what one owns.

In 1995 a land cadastre was created and it came into law in 1998 to replace the old system. A land survey was started to move presume land ownership from the old into the new system. This land survery / chaos was definitely still going on end of the 2000 years in Crete.
I disagree. .NET actually literally is better supported on AWS. But, if what you say were true then that is a reason to never use .NET anymore.
Laptops are made of commodity parts these days. Very few have anything that Linux doesn't support.
The page is very confusing to me because it looks like a Trello/Kanban board.
This is overly simplistic. And pieces are just flat wrong.

How are you defining infrastructure? Why is there an assumption it's good for the company buying it? There is virtually always a bidding competition, these assets don't go for cheap.
The most critical of skills to succeed in software
This is basically how Lulzbot started: 3d printing parts for 3d printers. I know at one point they were experimenting with making molds and pouring parts, I think out of resin. But when I toured their new facility a few years later, they had a giant farm of 3D printers, so I gather that didn't work out.

I have since gotten into 3d printing and have printed molds and poured silicone with good luck. Some of that silicone has been the final part, some were then used as molds for pouring resin in. I've even added glass fiber to some of that resin before pouring to make some pretty sturdy parts.

Maybe some of the parts you are 3d printing now could be done with resin? Bondo makes a product with glass fiber in it, but most of the parts I'm doing are fairly small, and the bondo has long fibers in it, when I make my own fibers, I just cut fiberglass and can make it whatever length fiber I want.
These are examples of Bayesian reasoning.

Although in this case the paper's authors did attempt to account for such errors.
Loma Linda is more like 60 miles from the pacific.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Loma+Linda,+CA/Huntington+Be...
> A majority of the telecom infrastructure in New Zealand is privately owned, and the service there is generally very good and not especially expensive.

It used to be quite expensive. This only changed thanks to the ruling[1] that the conduct of charging monopoly price was anti competitive.

[1] https://comcom.govt.nz/case-register/case-register-entries/t...
Perhaps with that attitude. There's a lot of amazing things humans have accomplished that were once thought impossible. We are likely very, very early on in the anthropocene. Thousands of years from now I'm optimistic that the world will be a better place and that they'll look back on us as barbaric environment destroyers.
Seems like you got the good end of the stick wrt authentication. At least twice over the past year and a half my account got stuck in a login -> redirect -> logout loop for days. If I had to regularly log out of Teams I suspect this would manifest itself more often.
Well they actually have competition and regulation, with a diverse set of telecom options and expanding public broadband to boot.[1]

I think all of Iceland's internet getting bought by one company is not a reasonable comparison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_New_Zealand#Pricin...
> Honestly I think this is obvious to anyone who is not financially motivated to think otherwise.

The problem here is that there's no grand conspiracy to pursue growth. People make the individual decision to pursue growth because of the individual benefits.
Some people have mentioned window managers, but nothing comes quite close in terms of extensibility and feature as dwm[0] and xmonad[1], which is a near dwm reimplementation in haskell with many more interesting features.

Both programs are configured by writing code, which compiles to a binary that you then use. Xmonad and xmonad-contrib are maybe more accurately described as haskell libraries that make writing your own window manager trivial. Highly recommend if you enjoy configuration, you can do some really cool stuff with it.

[0] https://dwm.suckless.org/
[1] https://xmonad.org/
If it is anything like the UK, it's a simple cycle of:

- Under-fund the public service because it "costs too much" (ignore the value it generates for the public).

- Service performs poorly when underfunded, so you can manufacture consent to sell it, argue that private ownership will be more efficient.

- Sell it, creating short-term income you can use to spend on stuff people (and your mates) like (often tax cuts), making your government seem effective. You can also sell it to your mates who then get easy profit milking a natural monopoly for profit, probably kicking some back to you in the form of a cushy "advisor" gig when you retire.

- Inevitably end up making the unprofitable parts of it public again when the private providers simply stop doing it, or go under trying to. You then have these expensive bits of public service with no income-generating bits to offset them you can point to and say public services are inefficient. Private profits, public losses.

- Hey look, public services cost too much! We should under-fund some other ones...
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Discord is great for voice and gaming but not a good tool for anything vaguely professional. Maybe Element/Matrix?
Indonesia's Internet Apocalypse starts on July 21st