skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore's criticism will always come from 'White Educated Liberals'.

If you are earning a comfortable 6 figure salary in a developed nation, living in an extremely safe neighborhood with access to great education and healthcare, you kind assume all those things are easy and the only thing that matters is food/music diversity and counter-culture.

For the rest of 7,950,000,000 people on earth, any country that provides safety, basic food, health, decent education is a heaven and wouldn't mind if their own country is like Singapore
It may sound ridiculous to you, but those numbers aren’t codified by law, and anyone who wants to change that is more than able to try. There have been tons of efforts to do so - some very heavily capitalized, but none of those companies have ever really taken off.
I have suffered under a few such C-levels and their incompetence is maddening.

Preceded by:

These people need to be publicly named and shamed

You first.
https://bps.space/ great video
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How does it compare in terms of "philosophical freedom" compared to intel IME? Does it need many binary blobs?
So we all agree then
My friend? Have we met?
Are there actual examples of high-ranking engineers transitioning into tech company C-Suites? Maybe these kinds of roles shouldn't be careers, but something you do for a period of time.
That happens, but I don't think that's really relevant to pg's tweet. I mean, if a founder is willing to hire a buddy and deliberately overtitle them, that's easily the fault of the founder and, for better or for worse, shouldn't be a mystery if things go south.

That's very different from what pg is referring to, where, even through all the best of intentions and due diligence of a founder, a shitty C level is hired because they excel at bullshitting.
> Only on Wikipedia would that sort of prioritisation be normal.

perhaps if you addressed your concerns to their prioritization committee, you could effect some change.
Ah, the seventies.

> an arterial tourniquet was placed on the right arm, thus preventing local blood flow and paralysis

Don't cells begin to die off in seconds after blood flow stops? Did the researchers wire up an infusion to the arm?
Opera browser's forums shutting down made me sad, because I had a very long very old post talking about how the browser window was a container of information.

My final ask was a way to save a single window into a session, which would complement Opera's ability to load a session of windows.

Making the browser a better organizer of information, where subworkspaces can be open & closed, remains a priority for me, decades latter (because I still have too many tabs open). I had some progress reading out & snapshotting current tabs across devices, but I'd like a weekly list, and ability yo annotate better the tabs that cross my feed.
1950's America also benefited from having created the biggest wartime production economy the world had ever seen, combined with most other "advanced" economies having been turned to rubble. At the end of WWII, the US's GDP was greater than the rest of the world combined.
Google ran out of Linux laptops? Even at my humble place of employment we can just give any old computer to IT and they will install Linux on it without any fuss. I would imagine the IT wizards at Google also know how to do it.
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The problem is people hate new housing. Until you change public perception of this relegating this to the government is going to make the situation worse.

Right now, private builders can bribe people to allow construction if the market price is high enough. If the government had to do it, there would be basically no new construction. It's politically unpopular and very expensive, so it's an easy project to axe.
What about Pulumi? I love it
Getting rid of the apps I think is the most effective - and as a bonus - much less opportunity for intrusion and manipulation.

Although if we are specifically talking about social media such as Facebook then I mainly advocate at this point just to dump it. You can still use the separate messenger app and function even with a fully deactivated account.

Instagram I found (for myself) relatively easy to spend a small amount of time on every few days but the amount of advertisements has just gotten insane. After not logging on for 3 days or similar it appears to now be giving me about 5 ads for each real post of someone I follow (half of these are "suggested posts" which are not true advertisements but are really not much different). You would think they would be able to track the fact that when they do this I almost immediately close the app and use it less. I am just amazed they do not start with at least a few page scrolls of no ads and then slowly transition them in.
Idempotent, Normalized, Graph, One-line, Readable, Portable, Simple, Flexible. OData and GraphQL killer.
Free Software's only relationship to Open Source is that you can relicense OSS with the GPL just by kissing it (as long as you comply with any minor strangeness in the OSS license.)

Open Source tried to steal the energy of Free Software and steer it in a business friendly direction, but they didn't steal the term "Open Source" any more than Free Software stole the term "Free" from "free beer." These are just terms of art, certifications by two very established and influential certification bodies, and wittering on about whether somebody said they were "going to open the source and let people have a look at it" in 1973 is as irrelevant as the fact that plastic polymers are organic but not "Organic."
Those target a demographic consisting of schools and non-developers. Internal Software Engineers have different needs.
Internal promotion.
No, but why? Anyway I'd be happier if we stop abusing a measure for nomenclature..
It’s even worse when the IL is the CEO.
"The order requires Opendoor to pay the Commission $62 million, which is expected to be used for consumer redress."

What does the FTC actually do with the money in cases like these? Give it to harmed consumers?
> I can't help but think there's an underlying prejudice in the way he and others think countries should develop, where as they get richer they should be more like rich countries he's used to (ironically enough, the problem for many seems to be that Singapore _isn't_ the same as the other developed nations they're used to).

Gibson didn't look hard enough; there was definitely counterculture in Singapore at the time he wrote the story. A bit lazy on his part, but he's not a trained journalist. And there still is one now, although much less so than in the 90s.

The vibe I got from my time there is that most Singaporeans who are counterculture-inclined just leave for larger countries, in the same way a bohemian-inclined Swiss person might move to, say, New York or Berlin.

The larger problem Singapore has is that there's very little space for the arts in general, let alone counterculture.
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I thought blocking someone prevents them from replying to your tweets, and doesn't just prevent you from reading their tweets.
> Singapore doesn't have the de facto slavery problem of the Emirates, though.

Singapore imports a lot of Indian (and other South Asian), SEA, Chinese migrant labor as well, to live in conditions that are not great. I mean, not as bad as emirates, but not that great either:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/06/19/singapores-migrant... (recent treatment during COVID lockdowns)

> Food is definitely better in Dubai.

Singaporean hawker centres are pretty world famous.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8160...

The easiest to trigger would be:

>(C) a connected organization (as such term is defined in section 301(7) of such Act);

which references:

>(7) The term "connected organization" means any organization which is not a political committee but which directly or indirectly establishes, administers or financially supports a political committee.

So with $1 donated to some PAC, you organization is now legally a political campaign.
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I'm not sure where the argument is going with this one, but Zillow did poorly for a variety of reasons. They bought at low prices hoping to sell high and tanked their business (Owned By Zillow, not the site). Homes owned by Zillow stayed on the market _significantly_ longer than their traditionally held counterparts.

As a homebuyer in the past year I can personally attest that of the 4 realtors I dealt with, not a single one felt inclined to show a "Owned by Zillow" home. In all showings they were poorly maintained and prepped. It *felt* like an abandoned home.
Thanks, I was talking more about the autonomy core side of things.

So to narrow it down a bit more, my question is a bit tied to safety, but also to general development. Given a set of logged inputs from a machine that had a field issue X, am I able to reliably reproduce (hopefully deterministically) what happened on that machine? (and therefore what went wrong)
> The edit history on wikipedia shows an article was created and then deleted in 2014, not "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel".

Gioia is referring to this page, which was created in March 2018 and rejected in May 2018, which is indeed "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel":

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=842614385

(However, the stated rejection reason was that the draft article did not provide the required level of independent reliable sources.)
The land is the investment here, not the building. Buildings generally go down in value over time, just like most other things. It’s the land that’s gets more expensive as demand increases but supply doesn’t change.
Not a different use case, all draw shapes to users' screen. I've seen people ship games with electron. If what GP is saying is correct, AAA companies should have no problem deploying CPU/GPU-intensive games using Electron.

Leaving the sarcasm aside, I'm tired of people arguing Electron has no performance/memory/whatever cost. It's worse at everything compared to native programs except developer experience.

I understand valuing your developers' time more than your users' (which is a bit backwards but whatever), but don't argue that Electron is not a tower of abstractions that has no cost at runtime. That's just not true.
The irony wasn’t lost on me ;)
Henrique De Castro's hiring and firing at Yahoo is one of my best examples of this. But $60 million for a year and change of work sure is a great way to fail!

https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-coo-henrique-de-castro...
Jack Ma escapes Beijing’s crosshairs by giving up his power
Could you explain what you mean by this? Why would an official Linux client lead to more abuse compared to the current situation of several unofficial clients in common use.
Before you build a thing, it has not been built yet. To have that thing, you have to build it first. Having built it, you then have it.

No breakthroughs of any kind are needed for grid-scale storage. It is just civil engineering. It won't be batteries.

Nukes have never, at any time or place, anywhere in the world, operated without massive public subsidy. There is no reason to expect that ever to change.
One of Satoshi's wallets has been recently active, proving that someone holds the keys: https://medium.com/crypto-universe/satoshi-nakamoto-wallet-w...
>You won't convince someone to build a new apartment building if they can't make money

You don't really need to. Do what Singapore (or Vienna) did. Create a Housing and Development board, build the housing that you need... and that's about it.

These bizarre contortions that people go through of schemes and tax credits and mechanisms, it's the same as the healthcare sector, one single bloated mess.
> Everyone is pushing a narrative

But this an exaggeration. Some people are truly equivocal on a question, yet still able to muster the effort to write about it.

One way this happens is that some specific issue puts the author's internal values in tension. An example would be recall/impeachment of some corrupt official, where the tension is between the two goods of removing the bad actor from power, and maintaining the norm of orderly transition of government power.
The original inventor(s) often doesn't make much money, at least not proportional to the power of the idea. It's usually somebody who comes along and implements it better who gets rich. Truly innovative things often take tinkering to become practical.

Examples: TV, jets, VCR, desktop computer (existed in 60's), GUI, personal digital assistant ("smart phone"), neural nets.
I don't get the mirrors either. If at least once faced south the walls could be covered in solar panels but mirrors? Who's going to clean the mirrors?
Firefox's switch to dynamically unloading opened tabs has regressed my use of the UI from precached anything I might want to have open or remember later... to a rolling snowball of tabs cross multiple 'windows' (idea sessions) and several profiles (cookie sandboxes).

Yeah, it's bad enough that the tab search feature is useful and also that I'd like some better way of re-organizing the dataset.
I’m considering switching for a side project. Was leaning toward either using k8s to orchestrate some sort of “self hosted serverless” or Functions/Lambda it.
I don't think that's possible, but there are things we can do:

- Tax empty houses a REALLY high amount after a month of occupancy loss. This puts extremely high pressure to get the house sold after the month. Living in your house while you sell it? No penalties.

- Make renting a house extremely painful for landlords. Renting can be replaced with new forms of community ownership - communities that own X properties in many cities and people can swap (for job relocation and other things). The Landlord business IS the oldest rent-seeking business. Buy a property, rent it out, pay nothing on it for 30 years and at the end of that - it's yours. In my opinion that should be illegal. People that disagree are landlords and people that think renting is the only way. Invent new ways to do short term house ownership. This is the startup capital of the world (HN).

- Require unused office space to become homeless shelters if unused after 6 months. Government will pay for the lease at a fixed maximum price. Get your shit leased or house the homeless.

The jist of this is that if we did things like this, we would probably have no homeless, the price of homes would come down, and everyone would have a home. In fact we would have such a huge surplus of homes, most people would be able to easily upgrade.
I am currently in the exact same situation, also in France. And it seems to me that the more we see the progress that has been made on gender equality (by simply talking to your parents… or looking at the US) the more we see the long road ahead:
- why do I have to leave my wife and baby alone at home for many weeks?
- why do every nurse, pediatrician or midwife makes you feel like a outsider (sometimes with this nice condescending remark: « Oh nice, I see that the father has came »)
- in many maternity, why do fathers need to fight to stay with the mother and baby (in France, some I know literally hid in the closet so they were not kicked out in the evening!)
- why do I need to go to the women restrooms and face judging looks simply to change my baby?

The worst of it is that, in the end, it sometimes feels easier to fit into the mold and be a bystander in your baby first months. But I am fighting hard this tendency.
50 Years of Prolog
It's beyond P2W and closer to a slot machine that rewards you with items. Consumers are easily fooled because it's a very blurry line. Games are meant to reward skill first, while slot machines reward the "roll of the dice".
Indeed. And the worst part, leaning is contagious. At some point, good people start wondering why they should lift if everybody else is leaning. They either quit, or start coasting.
Open Source isn't a generic term, it's a weird term. The only reason it seems generic or natural to say is because of the OSI, which makes it more like Kleenex than champagne is like Kleenex.
I guess good luck to them. I still don't understand why organizations this large cannot maintain a native experience that is tailored to each class of device.

This fake paradise of "one app to rule them all" is absolute madness to me now.
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I would, except it's not a 'native dialog'; it doesn't yield first class citizen UI interaction, it lives in a tab in the browser.
I think this is the AAA step forward.

Setup the thread.

Parent comment for categories.

Let all us technical-idiots plinko to the right spot :) (We are all geniuses and idiouts on our own personal specturm)
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My experience is that diminishing returns happen, but the big question is when they happen. I’ve run a few medium sized email and postal campaigns, and evenly time we were shocked at the response rate by contact #10. It was always higher than we expected.
Because you need them to outlay capital now in return for likely future profits? That's literally what investing is.
Only 218?
I have 1000 tabs open over various computers, not sure it's a good thing though, 10% I need, 20% I forgot to close, and 70% I'm totally going to get around to reading one day
I'd rather housing in the US follow Japan's model and depreciate to a value of nothing over 30 years.

Why? It'd drive investment into other avenues, keep commodities cost low, and get more people into houses. The current housing market is stupid.

-A disgruntled millennial who despite great savings can't afford anything
Messenger did.
Skype on the other hand switched from React Native to Electron.
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Usually C-level execs is all about connections or where they went to university. They are not smarter than folk in the trenches.