skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about clicking on a link from a desktop browser. No warning at all.

...and on mobile it is beyond sensible to make a warning when leaving to view external links: mobile apps and mobile browsers do do not have the capability to show the exact url you are about to open (in desktop you call hover over a link), which can lead to all sorts of bad things, first of which is spoofing your ip address.

Hell, even we in our open source xmpp clients show a mandatory warning with full URL you are about to open, so you know where you will land. This is a safety feature, not malice! (I'd actually add it to desktop web version of Twitter too)
Not an ad hominem and you haven't refuted him at all. That you perceived what he said as a personal attack speaks more to how you truly perceive your own values than to anything else.
I’ve been using Kimai [1] for a bit over a year to track my freelancing work for various clients as well as the work I do for my own projects. I can definitely recommend it!

It's easy to install and very pleasant to use for tracking time.

Entries have an "exported" flag to mark if you've already billed for a certain hour or not. You could also generate invoices directly from Kimai but I'm not using that feature because I'm creating my invoices in another program.

[1] https://www.kimai.org
You're completely missing the point I'm making.

Other countries aren't exempt, but other countries also don't write case studies on how everyone else should operate.

It's absolutely baffling to me that Germany touts a more secure messenger, but can't get card payments working seamlessly / consistently. To your point, I was visiting there earlier this year & card payments were completely offline for 2 - 3 days.

But sure, roll out a more secure messenger.
> It’s a reappearing issue with Linux that you run into problems other operating systems don’t have to this degree.

I've supported both professionally, and no, you don't. I blame the claim on a lot of people using commercial operating systems feeling a bit guilty, like they're supposed to be on Linux to be a real developer. They respond by criticizing an OS that they don't really use for the problems that they imagine happen all the time. Instead, what's happening is that they, personally, always run into problems trying to figure out why something won't work in prod, or trying to get their VMs to work like the tutorial, and they assume that people who use Linux as a daily driver run into problems at that rate. They never pay attention to Linux unless something critical has already broken.

Also, whenever they decide that they're going to try Linux again to see if it's ready for them yet, they always choose Arch (it used to be Gentoo) or the latest trendy distro that has a MacOS aping desktop. Just install Debian, it's easy.
I expect CA was as surprised as anyone when the GoF cargo-culted his ideas into OO software development.

So far as I'm aware he never claimed any particular expertise or experience in software in any of the original books.

The equivalent would be architects taking the design principles of Multics and using them to lay out buildings.

That would be a bizarre thing to do. And it's no less bizarre in the other direction.

What seems to have happened in practice is that the GoF used CA's work to give their own ideas about patterns in OO software development more credibility than it would have had otherwise.

It's not that the idea of OO patterns is inherently bad. But pretending that it's somehow genuinely based on some speculations about built architecture is neither convincing nor credible.

Having said that - the CA quote above makes perfect sense, and it is about beautiful software from the end user's POV.

Which is a view that's often missing from CS and developer culture in general. Typically there's more effort put into forcing humans to act in bureaucratic, corporate, and computer-constrained ways, than in forcing computers to behave in ways that are inclusive, accessible, ecologically stable and robust, and organically open-ended.
Maybe if they’ve been maturing that experimental design for 36 years then you’d have a point, but they haven’t so you don’t.
Yes. Ultra high net worth individuals actually have separate banks within the banks. They will have a private banker for their accounts. And the private bank often has a separate balance sheet and policies.
"Only essential data were to be collected and, wherever possible, much of the follow-up information was derived from national electronic health records (EHRs)"

It reminds me Andy Grove clinical trial proposal [0]

In short, if it doesn't kill patients in a small phase I trial, give market authorization. Then follow patients through EHRs for a few years, and if too much of them die then revoke marketing authorization.

Derek Lowe writings on the subject are, as always, very interesting [1].

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1212118

[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/reaction-andy-grov...
"I don't really like this kind of idea because it really goes against a kind of fundemental freedom. "If you don't like it, you can leave"."

I'm not sure it's a fundamental freedom, but it is important.

If a law exists over the whole world, there's no competition and no alternative to compare against.
A billion $ donation: estimating cost of researchers time spent on peer review
Citation: I have actually drank at the bars in McMurdo.

Your link is Pole, not McMurdo. It sounds like that is people bringing their own, or buying from USAP for the field, which is allowed. It may have changed, but when I was there, McMurdo bars only served beer and wine.
Damn, that's some cold shit right there
So much this. I've been a lifelong voracious reader and only recently have I started to take writing seriously as a way to determine what I really think. I am now far more articulate, rigorous, and confident in my own beliefs than I have ever been.

Taking the time to write down what I am thinking really puts it up into the light and better equips me for communicating my point of view to others in a way that is robust, concise, and internally consistent. Even if they will never read what I've written.
> Social Media alone is enough to make a parent take a step back and wonder what is the right time to introduce your children to the internet.

I can't help but wonder whenever I hear this message: do you know, really?

After taking with them a little, it often comes down to pretty ... innocuous things in my opinion. Sure, there's always peer pressure and they'll be constantly judged etc, but that's just a an exaggerated baseline of what teenagers always had. Surely troublesome and not good for their mental health, but they'll probably get over it eventually.

From my perspective, the biggest danger that current social media created is that the creep factor is gone for stalking.
To make a pretty regular example, let's say there is a teenage girl that's feeling lonely. She starts a live stream to talk with people. Some people show up and are super positive! They even give her some stickers (which are literally just money on TikTok she can check out...). Isn't it great to be valued? I don't think I need to write the rest of the story, as it's quiet obvious where the grooming eventually leads.

It's especially hard to swallow because the money she could make is astronomically higher then she'd ever have a chance of making anywhere else. Good luck explaining that...

Seriously, the original social media was so frickin tame. It's so much more twisted now that money is involved and everything is moving towards 1 person with an audience vs "your group of friends" before.
Isn't that kind of appropriate, though? You create a world where there are enormous technological and sociological forces that are outside of your characters' control, and those forces change who the characters are. That's a big part of the point.
The large degree of federation in the German government is something that has traditionally shown some of its ugliest sides when in comes to digitalization (e.g. every state comissioning their own underpowered solutions which are 95% identical in spec instead of pooling resources).

I think that's exactly why Matrix might be a good fit, as the technical federation aligns well with the pre-existing social federation. I'm really optimistic for that project!
Going forward a Trump strategy may be more useful - blame someone else and divert responsibility from yourself.
And for some things you still need to send a Fax... oh my!!! a FAX in 2022!
Amuse yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_amU-6EQI
Can you provide a reference to a discount grocer (since you are replying to a comment about affordability) that offers curb-side or delivery without fee? I am not aware of any.
It's not about getting your hands on the wheel. It's about knowing whether to brake or speed up, and which direction to swerve. If the system is confused by the scenario and wants you to take over, it's presumably not as simple as maneuvering around a parked van on the shoulder - it's going to be in a complex scenario.

If you've been playing an immersive game on your Steam Deck (or a VR headset), yeah good luck good with knowing what to do when the car bing/bongs you.

If you think people shouldn't play games, what exactly does "you can NOT pay attention" mean? If the difference is solely liability - that's great but it doesn't make a difference to people in other vehicles (or to pedestrians).
My favorite MMT detail is the currency lock up accounts to reduce inflation. Basically they prevent people from spending money until inflation decreases. They claim it's not confiscatory as people will get their money back eventually and not taxation because it's the same amount of money. Despite their claims it is indeed both of those things as the real value of the money has decreased.
Please consider seeking the help of mental health counseling both for your own sake and for those close to you.
The one I go to (Portland, OR) used to have Stumptown on tap (that was awesome). But since WeWork went public, they’ve been getting contracts with some SysCo-esque food provider for cold brew/kombucha/seltzer. I forget the name of it but the cold brew is OK, not great but definitely not terrible.
Taxing revenue has turned out to be a terrible idea every time it has been tried. It creates perverse incentives that encourage companies to be inefficient and wasteful.

One of the biggest policy problems with revenue taxes is that the effective tax rate is much higher on smaller companies than larger companies. A large vertically integrated company like Apple would pay a lower effective tax rate on an iPhone than any of their competitors, giving them a natural advantage. These are pretty dis-economic policy outcomes and the main reason no one seriously considers revenue taxes.
I love anything where the URL is the UI :-)
Thank you for your comment. I was only beginning to understand computing in the 90s and by the time I had a grasp Unix workstations were long gone.
But we really should not make energetic decisions into a free market question. Of course market prices are a fundamental aspect, but going all-in on a single, cheapest source will be a huge liability and the whole thing should be planned for. E.g. it really makes sense to have a base load and a quick to turn on/off load for spikes in energy usage. Nuclear is very useful for the former and I don’t see not using it (besides renewables of course!) a great decision.
Thanks.

I suppose the "more money" is that you would expect more conversions as people spend longer on the site and less time clicking away from the ads?
> It was the worst we'd seen to that point but with some bad luck, it could be substantially worse.

As we learned the hard way with SARS 2: Coronavirus Boogaloo.
It’s not really your own email server though.
Is there any evidence/source that shows the suspended journalists actually linked ElonJet's Mastodon account? I thought they only mentioned ElonJet's Twitter handle.
Ok, I guess it changed since I was there a few years ago. You're doing God's work. I hope people are tipping well.
We live in California, so it's much more viable here than a place like NYC.
IMO yes. As I see it, this is countries with high taxes being jealous of countries with lower taxes, and so instead of maybe lowering taxes to become more competitive, they - along with the bloated EU leadership - bully the countries with a logically lower tax into raising theirs, so the bullies feel better about themselves and don't lose "their" tax money.

This is the inherent problem of the EU, from both a social and economic standpoint; the member countries lose their competitive advantages over other countries because the socialistic EU bureaucrats can't handle any one country a) having any type of competitive advantage over another and b) not conforming to what they want.
This is something I think about a lot with 3 kids. I personally believe that we need a balance between allowing devices/internet (because this is 2022) and restricting few things.

For me, social media is an absolute No and I will fight my kids until I can't. For example, there is no way I am going to let my 8 year old do Tick Tok or Snapchat and what not. It is way too toxic even for adults let alone a child who has not fully developed mentally and emotionally yet. However, we restrict by talking to them openly about why we don't think it is a good idea and then show them that we are still giving them these other freedoms. Most kids appreciate that if you are honest instead of just saying No.

I don't think you can restrict using apps or parental controls because those can be bypassed once kids get smarter. We have 0 parental controls on the devices they use. I want my kids to learn the difference between good and bad by having access and freedom but the right information.

On the flip side, we don't restrict them from doing iPad/laptop to play certain types of games (.e.g word puzzle) or even minecraft etc. We don't restrict them from doing things on internet like google slides for creativity etc. We don't restrict them from watching Youtube or movies for kids under our supervision.

The other thing is to not give them too much opportunity to do devices/internet. If they are busy with an activity, they don't care. If they have nothing to do, they "get bored" and want to be on their devices. So create enough opportunity for them to do activities ideally something that doesn't involve internet/devices etc.
So far, our kids have been very good with boundaries and the freedom they have to do things. I know that if you restrict everything, that won't work.
This, and it's in particular true for this very part of Berlin, a city that is well known for literally having been "built on sand", see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palast_der_Republik#Abriss_zwi... which is about the demolition of the comparatively big building of the Palast der Republik which was just across the street on the other side of the river. That building had to be carefully and slowly dismantled to avoid sudden changes in the hydrogeological (?) equilibrium of the load-bearing layers.

Given that amateur seismic stations located 8 and 14 km away from the location were able to pick up a signal from the event[1] of a 1000 tons of water falling to the ground from a height of ~ 2 to 15m, one should image the building itself should have had some sort of influence to its immediate surroundings.

[1] https://twitter.com/ErdbebenDE/status/1603654695293263873?re...
Care to enlighten us as to who is now operating the original factory producing less “cool” boots? RedWing has started outsourcing to Cambodia and the quality has dropped significantly. I have been searching for a replacement. White’s are all I have found.
I watched the heck out of that show back in the day
Ever hear of the Sam Vimes Boot Theory? Terry Pratchett in the Discworld novel Men at Arms has the Vimes say:
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
Good catch. The proof could simply state that, like all integers > 1, N must have a prime divisor, and that divisor cannot be any of the listed primes, since dividing N by any of them leaves remainder 1.
Nepoteenism.
Disclaimer: this happened over twenty years ago.

1. I worked with developers trying to implement a UI using Oracle's app-builder of the time (Oracle Forms? I don't remember). The devs spent an entire summer, with Oracle support, just trying to get the system set up and configured to build "Hello World." They gave up and we abandoned the project.

2. I needed to install an Oracle product on my computer. I had an Oracle provided CD. The install was non-obvious: multiple install files with multiple options and ways to get it wrong. On the CD was a set of help files, with an app to view them. The app did not default to showing the help files: you had to select which base file to start with. The choice was not obvious. There were broken links in the help system -- meaning links that tried to point to other files on the CD that weren't there.

In short: Oracle -- not even once.
Monopoly, Capitalism, Social Dilemma, Solution
I have FSD Beta. These uncut youtube videos were a large reason of why I bought into FSD Beta, and I will say they show it in a much better light than my on-the-ground experience. I'm not even accusing the posters of selecting only good videos to begin with (although I'm sure that's also happening) - but the videos really don't do justice to the "in the car" feeling.

As a specific example, when the car suddenly slams on the brakes, especially at slow speeds, it doesn't look like a big deal on these GoPro cameras - but it feels like a much bigger deal when you're in the car and you feel the g-force of your body reacting to the sudden unexpected deceleration. Some of the more transparent and honest reviewers like "Chuck Cook" even add an overlay showing these forces in real time on their videos - but seeing a number briefly spike is a very different experience than feeling it live.

I would say FSD is getting closer to "safe" (not there yet though imho) but it's still very far away from "comfortable".
>Well good news here for you, trades settle in T+2 and have for some time.

T + 2 is WAY too long. I click a button to buy/sell, money goes to one party, the stock goes to the other party, transaction is final and complete within milliseconds. That is how it should be.
Unlike many other professions, I don’t think there is much crictical thought from the tech community as to what tech and programming is and isn’t for.

A few people engaged in “hand ringing” but not deep, regular discourse on the evolving nature of what we want “tech” and “programming” to be going forward.

Despite delivering transformative social shifts, even this last decade, where is the collective reflection?
I've used Oracle in a number of projects and I'm inclined to say that it's passable, but if given the choice I would look at alternatives for new projects.

One of the main reasons for this is that setting up local instances (even with Oracle XE) for development or CI processes (e.g. for full end to end tests, that test the actual database layer) is just not as easy as with the alternatives. It might scale up well, but it doesn't scale down that nicely at all.

In addition, I had numerous things breaking when attempting to export and import some data and setup a local database instance for a project that hadn't really been developed with that in mind and up until then had just used a shared database for multiple developers.

That said, Oracle has some nice features to it, such as automatic indexing (which oddly enough doesn't let you manually delete those indices, which is annoying), SQL Tuning Advisor in SQL Developer, some nice performance tracing and reporting functionality, a pretty good procedural language (PL/SQL is up there with PL/pgSQL), good performance in many cases (except I've had the query optimizer pick the wrong plan and have a query take 45 minutes instead of 3 seconds if a hint wasn't present) and a lot of enterprise oriented things I don't use or need, but someone else might.

Tooling wise, I'd say that it's okay. The SQL Developer tooling is okay (maybe apart from their data modeler functionality, which corrupts files and breaks), though personally I like MySQL Workbench as well and dislike pgAdmin somewhat, so my opinions might not be very mainstream. The drivers are available and can be installed without too many issues, there are relatively few surprises there, outside of maybe how widely supported they are (or rather, are not) in certain third party open source tools out there, like various migration utilities.

I suspect that many pick Oracle because that's what has worked for them in the past, some pick it due to the old adage of "Nobody got fired for picking IBM" which can hold true for Oracle in certain environments, others have a mindset of free being bad, or maybe they are perfectly justified in wanting some more support from the vendor.

Frankly, pick whatever fits the task at hand best and is suitable for your own needs: be it PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB or something else altogether. If given the choice, I'll personally optimize for technologies that are likely to give me the least amount of headaches, as long as they still fit the project goals.

That said, comments like this were interesting to behold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
Then there's crows and ravens... https://www.sciencealert.com/crows-ravens-corvids-best-birds...
IMO the real problem here isn't the technology itself, but cultivating an unhealthy relationship with it and not using it maturely

The most interesting thing in this article to me is the classist accusation. I wonder if this luddite trend is just some sort of counter signaling, where if rich kids decide to not use smartphones it's provocative (and they get flip phones from parents on a whim), but if poor kids don't it's because they're poor
To be clear - disengagements are not crashes. People often disengage in a Tesla because the car is driving too slowly/cautiously.
Maybe I'd agree that if Godot succeeds in disrupting existing game engines, it won't just be because it's "super indie". Again, disruption is about "cheaper and good enough for some audience". You should read The Innovator's Dilemma, or at least a summary. Everything you're claiming about Godot is still on track for the disruption story (albeit slowly, but that's not surprising for such a complicated product developed without big funding).
That's not at all true. If you read the story, Micah summarizes his previous stories about Musk and Twitter, including the banning of other accounts. He was specifically suspended for tweeting out the Mastodon link to a college student who tracks Musk's jet.
You have to be big enough that a bank will take time to work it out by hand; and I suspect the bank that gave him the loans was also prime on doing business with WeWork (and potentially an IPO).

The closest "normal" people can get to this is with real estate.
ROFL!!