skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The union will only push back if I’m in a majority group. If I’m part of a minority they won’t push back and will also prevent me negotiating individually with my manager if they’re using collective agreements.

That’s also what goes wrong in an HOA. If the majority want you to paint your fence then that’s it to have to paint it.
It unlinks the old file paths and creates new ones in their place. Files in Linux are reference counted, and they're only actually marked as deleted on disk once the reference count goes to 0; a directory entry is one reference, but the running process is also a reference, so even though the path /usr/bin/firefox has been replaced with a new file, the old file is still in use by the existing Firefox process. When you stop Firefox, the refcount for the old file will drop to 0, and when you start it again, the new /usr/bin/firefox will be launched.

The same idea applies to all libraries, where the old version of say /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so can still be referenced by the running firefox process even after apt has replaced it with a new version.

It's not a great system honestly, Firefox will launch new processes sometimes and the IPC system kinda breaks down when the parent process and the child process are from different Firefox versions.
The record for the shuttle was 6
It's way more dangerous than non-flammable inert gas. Why would you even try to whitewash it like that? It's just silly.

The amount of gas produced in a high school chemistry lab compared to a full tank is just silly. To compare a high school lab environment with safety equipment and assuming a trained teacher to a couple of knuckleheads with no safety training or equipment doing a balloon launch in a very drought striken part of the state is so not even close to the same.

But thanks for trying to make it seem so much less dangerous than what it is
My main issue with the move to Snap is not performances, it's all the bugs. Coincidentally I just wrote about this yesterday:

https://evertpot.com/firefox-ubuntu-snap/
Yes, of course, but I'm mentioning an every day scenario as opposed to a hypothosis.
That is in line with what I said

Most publicly available sources of sexual content are adult, legal, don't have children

So if you feed Pornhub to your model, which most porn is actually well tagged, as is many ML data, you really have to go out of your way to get any children

Not saying is not possible, I am saying is easy to avoid. Not as an impossibility to separate both as you suggested above
My rate is 1000 Euro/day. There is flexibility on the rate, if the project is particularly interesting.
There are over a billion Windows devices. That 1M might seem like a big number, but it’s 0.1%.
This is solid advice for anyone coming here without a degree. I say that because it mostly summarizes what I feel made me successful.
There is no such thing as Ubuntu mint.

And while linux mint derived from Ubuntu, the snap service is disabled by default while iirc system utilities (like the software manager) are provided as flatpaks.
Ockham's Razor doesn't apply in adversarial situations.

We know the big operators purchase these franchises (economic wrappers around fictional universes) to pursue profit. They modify the stories and characters to optimize profit, they've been doing it for about a century, and they're very good at it.
Forgive me if this is obvious but how do you get speaking opportunities? Are you applying to calls for presentations at conferences?
It hasn't even had nearly enough scientific research done on it either, since it's classed as drugs in most areas.
What do you offer for that rate?
Thanks. You have experience with unions in the real world, which the vast majority of American "progressives" don't.

The union often turns into another bureaucracy which has forgotten its original mission, and now exists just to feed itself. Your meat processing plant example is a good one -- the union leaders apparently just want to keep their cushy life and avoid trouble.

Nonetheless, as I said, if you're an Amazon warehouse worker and the company doesn't give a shit about you, then yeah, a union could look like the least-bad alternative.
Part of the New Deal legislation was the US Government effectively granted corporations monopoly power if they recognized labor unions.

It was FAR from an ideal framework, but it did mean we still had industrial capacity going into WWII.
Yeah, it can be a lot of fun to build a product up but it's also a shit ton of work and also whoever is in charge is, at best, faintly interested in best practices and desperately concerned with when the thing will be ready.

It does feel silly working on a big hulking code base but I have to appreciate the precision.
Or perhaps you're trying to make it seem so much more dangerous than it is.
Peter, I'm lucky to have called you a friend. This happened to suddenly and quickly, I'm reeling. You were magic.

He exuded love and charm. He would be overjoyed to see me and give the best hugs whenever we ran into each other. He is this super accomplished person but that was never the conversation. I've known him for years and it's only now that I discover his LetsEncrypt involvement. It speaks volumes to him, he was so focused on everyone around him and filled with love for them, never self-promoting, just loving and being amazing. He would give the best hugs, and few seconds longer than most, and you could hear him smiling while he does so. Thank you Peter
Nothing this simple, no.
The perfect gift for the back to the office crowd.
This was also my dad’s experience (in the 70s and 80s in the US). He saved up his money so that he could move to an non-unionized state. He worked his way from a machinist to a general manager, and worked hard to ensure his company remained competitive in the US as their competition moved all operations to China. It was a long play, but it paid off for his company. They’re the go-to for quality in their industry.

I’m sympathetic to unions, though, as many companies really are a terrible place to work, and employees need better representation in those situations. I just wish there was a better option than unions.
> I'd love to see a holistic mile-high view where someone thinks through resource usage (across different types of resources), convenience, and security). Implementing snap without that type of homework seems premature.

I agree.

Process sandboxing should be independent from program packaging and distribution. It should be a core feature of your operating system (and it already is!) and not controlled in any way by the people who distribute the software: mozilla, canonical, etc. If you decide to sandbox some program, like firefox, or gimp, or inkscape, it should be easy, and out of control of other people. You get to decide the amount of resources that you want to give the app, and not the app developers themselves! Why this is not obvious to everybody is beyond me.

Unfortunately, both snap and flatpack fail to use this sane approach, and try to shoehorn unrelated stuff like package distribution, dependency packaging, and app stores to this simple problem.
Schrodingers cat is half alive.
Well that is to be expected, because much like theatre musicals don't have that WISYWIG immersion expectation at all.

To test your belief, it would make more sense to picture a "serious" historical movie where the actors portraying the founding fathers don't look much at all like the faces on the dollar bills.
This whole article is one giant time sapping piece of click bait.

The author makes the unexpected claim that businesses want a non zero amount of fraud. And so as a reader you are tempted to read on because you haven't heard this before. But essentially the argument is that fraud is needed as an unavoidable byproduct of allowing trust/credit in the system to facilitate transactions. However, if businesses could have the trust without the fraud of course they would. I wouldn't be so upset if the author had been more upfront about what this was about. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who are learning about the fraud and trust/credit relationship for the first time. Just don't try and spin this in a way that it isn't.
Depends on your age. If you left college 25 years ago and haven't use that knowledge since, of course it's gonna fade. My uncle left Hungary in the 1950s, aged 18. By the 1990s he couldn't hold a conversation in his mother tongue.
The major error isn't a tactical one but a strategic one. Until recently, interest rates have been at historical lows for over a decade. Governments should have taken advantage of that to embark on massive scale investments in producing energy self sufficiency. We could have had a government funded scheme to put free solar panels on every single roof and a wall battery in every home. Then we would not be having the issues we are having right now. The majority of domestic energy use would be handled and we would only have to find the energy for industrial, which we could do with wind, solar farms and nuclear. The investment would pay for itself: if households no longer have energy bills to pay, they suddenly have a wad of extra cash each month that they will most likely spend which HMRC can enjoy taking it's VAT cut on (and most likely at 20% rather than the 5% they charge for fuel).

So why didn't we do this? The cynic in me thinks it's because despite the progress we've made, the energy companies are still the ones with most power in this world and they are desperate not to give any of it up. Embarking on a program like this would be a massive redistribution of power and wealth to the common folk. The day when there is a solar panel on every roof will happen but the energy companies will do everything in their power to prevent it. They even tried getting legislation through in America to tax households with solar panels installed to make up for their lost revenue.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/13/solar-power-...
1. It takes 20 years to build a nuke plant, 2 years to do wind and 6 months to do solar. Solving the problem 20 years from now is not solving the problem.

2. In case you haven't noticed, the wind subsidies are now negative. Wind subsidizes natgas, not the other way around.

3. If the lithium supply gets cut off, existing EV's don't stop working. If gasoline gets cut off, gasoline cars are stranded. EV's are crucial for self sufficiency.
Most people would have heard about JFK over AM radio or word of mouth.

Desert Storm (1991?) was after Challenger (1986?).
Is there some good Linux alternative not obsessed with snap and chance to have a proprietary app store in Linux?

For me it is as bad as when Canonical put ads in start menu ( https://www.howtogeek.com/126995/how-to-disable-the-amazon-s... )

Huh, that was Ubuntu 12.10. I wonder who will appear in Ubuntu 32.
Hydrogen infrastructure/cars/etc is unworkable for a lot of reasons, but safety-wise its no more dangerous than natural gas or propane - the later of which tons of gas stations sell.
Formatting an Existing Erlang Codebase
How to format an existing codebase without messing git history. Using the VerneMQ project with `erlfmt` as an example.
Things like this are the reason I stopped believing that software improves. Now I think it just evolves - and I think of evolution in the biological sense in that it's just a random walk without any intention behind it.
That's not universally true. Most of the contractors I know are a mixture of PAYE and dividend (pension requirements don't apply to directors and paying nominal NI secures a state pension on retirement). It's usually the setup a good accountant will suggest.
Surprise surprise, people are not perfect emotionless economic units!

I don’t think it’s a good look for the “Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management” to call perfectly sensible decisions by people whose net worth is many orders of magnitude smaller than his “dumb” just because he can afford to pass up a guaranteed million.
I think is an important point, but it misses things like verifying your transaction with your bank in an-easy-to-do-hard-to-fake-way. Like if you were sent to your mobile bank app after completing a purchase and had to FaceId verify that it was you, then fraud rates would essentially be zero.

Yes such a system is annoying, I know because we have something kinda similar here in Europe, but because all the merchants are using it, I have no choice but to go to a retailer who doesn't use the system (I probably would if I could, because I tend to use my computer to do things).
There are 100 clients who expect to pay $15 / hour for every one who will pay $125. It's really really hard to find them but you will find them if you ask 101 potential clients.
Writing custom Scrapy middleware for proxy pool integration
Financial transaction records are kept by banks for 5 years and no one cares
> I had the (false) impression that in most of Western Europe, unions had won the political debate decades ago and this stuff didn't happen.

Your impression is not entirely false.

Compared to the US, Western Europe is paradise on earth for employees.

There are so many rights taken for granted by Western European employees that your average US-peep could only dream of.

Where Western Europe does have problems is around contractors and the so-called gig economy (zero-hours contracts). That's still a bit of a grey area in many respects.
Personally, I'm very skeptical of these plans atm. I just went to go buy a Toyota Rav 4 Hybrid XSE. I have cash, so purchasing should not be hard - yet there are no Rav 4 Hybrid XSEs available and they're not taking orders due to availability. This applies to all EVs in my area. This was not something I've anticipated and I don't know how they're going to meet demand.
SpaceX would have failed if they didn't receive the billions of government subsidies

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...
Yeah. Germany got it right (as far as I can see). Anyone know why the situation seems so different there vs here in the US?
I’m a mentor for Underdog Devs and love it! Happy to answer any questions.
> evolution in the biological sense in that it's just a random walk without any intention behind it

there is plenty to complain about modern software but "random walk without any intention behind it" is neither fitting nor in any way true nor helpful diagnosis
CS is unimportant in 99% of jobs. What's important in a job is making an impact in the company you work for. This means building product features, improving systems etc. but this rarely intersects with "CS" problems
I take your point, but I think the distinction is that some drugs can make you feel euphoric, but psychedelics affect you on a deeper, psychological level. You're not just feeling an absence of pain or a rush of pleasure (though that can happen, too), you're also thinking in a different mindset.
This is akin to: data vs. information vs. knowledge.

Knowledge is information that happens to be at the right place at the right time aid with a particular context of process or need. Otherwise it's, at best, just information.

Data vs. information is covered by Shannon.
And the only version of Firefox I can see in Debian Stable's (and Testing's) package list is Firefox ESR 91. That's exactly the situation Canonical wants to avoid. The current version of Firefox is 104, and even the current version of Firefox ESR is 102.
Oh, just ecological destruction, millions of deaths from air pollution, climate change, that kind of thing.
True, but we don't always get the balance right.

Take, for example, many sites asking for the CVV code when using a saved card. In many cases, why?? If I supplied the CVV once and I haven't changed anything since what's the chance a subsequent order is fraud?

There's also the problem that some anti-fraud measures would have to be implemented by the credit card company but they're not the ones that eats the cost. I could see a market for a credit card with better terms but where you must approve every transaction with an app on your phone--but how do you make that work in the current marketplace?

I have a credit card that supports virtual numbers--but it's a pain to use. Their benefit, but a hassle for me.
true, but challenger wasn't 24/7. it was looped/repeated to be sure, but not 24/7

Edit: here's a documentary about how JFK changed TV news: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450362/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Last month a friend was looking to buy a minivan (3 kids ages 1-3). The dealers either didn't have inventory or were charging $8-10K over MSRP. I suggested he try Cartelligent. They found him a car within 3 days at <$2K over MSRP. It was delivered from a dealer 130 miles away.
HOA's are designed to short-circuit democracy. It's a firewall to keep towns from bothering upper class people and keep the poors out.
I'm all for refining my own thinking, but over the last 6-8 years, when I've tried, I've gotten a lot of insults. The most memorable was "latrine level liberal". I hadn't done anything to indicate my biases, merely asked a question about apparent contradiction.

The closest I've come to a decent conversation, when trying to understand current conservatism, was a DM conversation on Reddit. I didn't learn a whole lot, the dude was basically operating on reflexes and subconscious.

I'd really like to understand, but if repeated attempts end up with me getting explicitly insulted, I have to conclude uncharitable things.
Breath of fresh air is the phrase I'd use too. I didn't even realize that they were a hardware company, but after using the OS, I'd seriously consider buying their gear when the time comes for a refresh.
The takeaway is that a wealthier person can take greater risks without endangering their livelihood.

A wealthy person, could, for example risk buying an older used car that would potentially need costly repairs. In case it needs these repairs, they will suffer some financial losses but would still be able to derive utility from the car. In case it doesn’t need them, they get rewarded for the risk with a functional car that costs considerably less than a new one.

For a broke person the same decision is much harder. Not being able to repair the car would unlock undesirable 2-nd and 3-rd order effects, like, not being able to go to work.
Rollover fields are helpful, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700482 for why
£75/hr was my last freelance rate for some PHP dev work I did.

Got a few too many plates spinning at the moment though so only doing oldschool Linux sysadmin stuff (pets vs cattle) outside the day job. I'd probably bill cheaper for that as it's less of a time sink and the tasks are either easy fixes or interesting.
If you allow companies to consolidate and exert unlimited political power, workers need to be able to self-organize to ensure their interests are represented. Full stop.

All of the things you complain about happen on the business side of the table. People are people and do stupid shit with power. Why are Azure VPs buying shit from Amazon? Why do companies park burned out executives for a few years on gardening leave?
Someone's already working on an Eclipse plugin.
For a new install, sure. But so often in my lab we get computers with "ubuntu preinstalled" and stuff.
It is a dumb financial decision. You could find a third party you could agree with to give you 20mil now for whatever the coin toss brings you.
Yeah. Its complete garbage reasoning, and filled with words to elicit fear. I flagged the article because it seems like marketing trash on the level of gold bug ads.
Or, 1-2% a year if you spread it over the next 8 years to get ready by 2030.
> the effort is mainly about achieving some sort of theoretical or business goal

snap app store is proprietary and controlled by Canonical
Yes. And in any case, until a person is ready to take and heed advice, the advice given is nearly always wasted on that person.

Usually being "ready" requires life experience and usually that life experience requires failure and pain. The more pain, the more likely they will see the value of advice though some people will paradoxically become less likely to take advice if they are not the type to learn from failure or pain.
U.S. tax payers projected to not give a shit about how much money pharmaceutical firms are projected to lose.
Great explanation. But I'm not so sure about "The optimal amount of fraud in society is 0".

Especially if we broaden fraud to include other crimes. There are costs to prevent other badness in society as well. Firstly it's the cost in taxes/allocating resources to its prevention: Do we really want to allocate a really large chunk of our shared human capital to police marginal criminal activity? How much more polices, judges, attorneys, lock makers, etc would we need to stop the last bike theft?

Secondly and arguably more importantly is the cost of freedom. A lot of the digital surveillance initiatives that are discussed and dismissed here on HN are enforced in the name of zero tolerance against (really bad) badness in society.

I think its hard, or impossible, to create a somewhat large society with zero crime rate. At least if we still want even just a sliver of the freedoms we are accustomed to in liberal democracies.
I think most jobs are like this. You quickly learn how to work on a codebase, how it's deployed etc. There are always constraints on large codebases. From there it's mostly just figuring out business logic. From that point, years have passed and you don't know how to start a codebase from scratch again
> Compared to the US, Western Europe is paradise on earth for employees.

No, it isn't. For example,

> 80% of the French earn less than €3k a month (equivalent to $36k a year) and 50% less than €2k a month ($24k a year). This is BEFORE taxes on income.

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1564868574879129600
Does anyone know what the $200k is used for? What kind of upgrades does a dealership need to sell EVs?
I really liked the 2022 -- there is a lot to chew on if you are a film buff as it is very self-referential in context of French Cinema -- but it's likely not everyone's cup of tea at the surface level. Technically, like (or surpassing) his Carlos miniseries, it is exceptional. Great acting as well. Lars Eidinger's was quite excellent imho, as was Vincent Macaigne's. (Plan to revisit the 1996, for Maggie Cheung. /g)
> 99% of science being published today has no political motivations.

That's probably not true. Based on the charts here [1], it is safe to say that at least 20-30% of successful NSF grant applications have political/ideological terms used in the abstract.

Maybe more importantly, it's really hard to know how much research isn't being done or published because of the current political climate.

> And then COVID happened, making everybody an armchair epidemilogist overnight.

Well, I don't see that as a bad thing. Blind trust in authority isn't an admirable quality in my books. Also, the other option really was to become an armchair epistemologist. You had to somehow make decisions.

> Science is political

But it shouldn't be. At least not this much. We have choice to encourage or discourage that.

[1]: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/increasing-politicization-and-h...
Commander Keen was the first game I ever played. Took me a long while to figure out he had a raygun. Shooting was some weird combination of inputs, like ctrl+space, not the first thing you try.

... also

* Raptor: Call of the Shadows.

* Magus.

* Jill of the jungle.

* Mystic Towers.

* Terminal Velocity.

The Psygnosis logo was legit the coolest thing I ever saw when I was single digit years old.