skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something similar happen on Amazon. I bought a pair of winter gloves then got a letter a week later in the mail offering me $30 (twice what I paid) if I left a 5 star reviews. The letter even left a message at the bottom saying not to post a review with a picture of the letter! That annoyed me, so of course I posted a review with a picture of the letter, then Amazon rejected the review since it didn't review the product.

I'm never trusting online reviews anymore. Especially when the companies pull BS like this.

Edit: I just revisited the original email that I got from Amazon. They rejected my review because I left feedback about the seller, so I went to their seller feedback portal and left a message and never got a response. I still feel like this is a dark practice though, a review highlighting the fact the seller is farming 5 star reviews should still be posted, even though it's about the seller and not the product.
As a fellow traveler that adopted Linux a bit later in 1995
I used it as my main desktop at the university.
For my needs back then it was a foot fit and it was damn fast
compared to the undergrad Sun terminals at the labs.

(They had nice servers, there were just far too many people using them)
(People scheduled a lot of things for the middle of the night as well).
(no dialup)

So, my firat year of Linux on the desktop was 1995.

I have never been an OS fanboy.
I use what is most convenient.

UNIX on the desktop has been done already with macOS.
It is great.

Linux on the desktop is done with Chromebooks at least originally.
Not so great.

Linux inside Windows fits somewhere in there but I dont know where.

I wish Microsoft had kept the WinNT 4 architecture to implement
a Linux sub system.

However, the "Year of the desktop Linux" is not a question of "being able to"
but of mass adaptation.
IMHO Linux is stil not ready for that.

I still have significant hassles getting Linux to work well with all parts / systems of a laptop.

Yes, I can buy a laptop specifically made for Linux and it will be much easier.

But bow we have reached the point where "Linux on the desktop" means getting normies to buy a very specific new laptops to run Linux well out of the box.

I use Windows1 + macOS my laptops and desktops.
(Often with a few Linux and FreeBSD virtual machines)
I run Linux and OpenBSD on servers.
I would like to have Windows Server on a couple but $$$$$

I think that

>""Linux runs all top 500 super computers, billions of personal devices, most >servers on the Internet, on all continents, on all oceans, in the air, in orbit, >and on Mars. Oh, and in the air on Mars. All big corporations use open source in >some form.""

Is a detractor for Linux on the desktop.
Nearly all huge financing of Linux comes from giant corporate entities that
deal with 100.000s (millions?) of computer server farm in data centers.
Their priorities are extremely and even conflicting with the needs of a
a desktop Linux for normies.

There is also investment in Linux on smartphones, routers etc.
The priorities here are also conflicting with what a regular desktop
user wants.

Ubuntu and some others are investing in Linux on the desktop but its tiny
sums and efforts if you compare them to the efforts above.

Let us just be happy with macOS for regular desktop users.

Why should a single OS dominante all markets at the same time?
I think that is frightening more than anything else.
I want many more operating systems to choose from.
(Not yet another Linux distro)
Avgas 100LL is going to be around for a good long period of time. Not a single local airport around me locally has rolled out the new fuel yet so I’m not sure I believe your point about airports wanting it ASAP
It can be reduced to this:

Any business founder who has taken funding, VC or otherwise is automatically disqualified from the title of "self-made" million/billionaire regardless should they choose to sell. Period.

I think those who have bootstrapped their company with their own money are fine being called self-made.
Sure! So far, Odin has been awesome for doing custom allocation. Everything in the core library that allocates takes an optional allocator parameter, which means that you can use quite a few of the core libraries comfortably even in embedded contexts, and make it all sit on top of an arena in WASM's weird memoryland if you need to without an issue.

Outside of the WASM context where Odin runs into some difficult friction, systems-level work has been reasonable. I wrote a good chunk of a C/DWARF debugger in both C and Odin to compare, and Odin was by far the more pleasant language to write it in, my Odin code was much smaller because I didn't need xmacros, and I had proper namespaced enums, tagged unions, and slices, but still looked/read pretty similarly to well-written C or Go. I did have to wrap a few syscalls myself though, because the core library doesn't quite cover things like ptrace or networking yet.

I've put a fair bit of work into getting cross-platform networking into Odin's core library, hopefully we'll see it show up soon enough, and get some of those common nice-to-haves crossed off.
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I think it is artificially inflated. The web took off to such a degree that that is where all the high paying jobs were. So people came over from other places and brought their complexity with them and imposed it on web development. The fact that you now have to have a build system to create a website is like something taken straight from application development.
To be blunt, you are stating "opinions" without any basis in facts; hence it is hard to take you seriously.

Separation of Concerns, Modularization, Reusability, Type Hierarchies, Type Composition, Interface contract-based programming, Frameworks etc. were all made mainstream by OOD/OOP. These are things taken for granted by programmers today. As somebody who has been doing OOD/OOP since the early nineties i can tell you it was the single biggest reason for the explosion of Software in the past few decades.

As a concrete example, early in my career i had programmed in C using the Windows API; both 16-bit and Win32 (Thank you Charles Petzold). It was difficult, tedious and a lot of work. And then Microsoft introduced MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) Framework with Visual C++ IDE. With a few clicks of the wizard, i had a complete skeleton application with a lot of hard work already done for you. That was a revelation for me on the power of OOD/OOP. Things i had slaved over in Win32 was now at the fingertips of every noob who could type. The same revelation happened (but not to the same extent) when i moved from Xlib to Motif on Unix platforms.

I had pointed you to Bertrand Meyer's book OOSC2 (in my other comment) as the book to read to understand OOD/OOP. Another great book to study is Barbara Liskov and John Guttag's Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design.
If these societal constructs fail what good are they?

Don't get me wrong, I think they're all probably decent as investments, buy they're a completely different asset class.

I put BTC in the Gold/Silver category in that it can be a hedge against societal issues. In this particular moment, I see BTC as a hedge against the ongoing de-dollarization and eventual inflation or plain lack of purchasing power that could cause.

I also see it as a means of censorship resistance.

Further BTC or any sufficiently distributed money is a way to limit bank/government power since they actually have to tax instead of minting new money.
That Bezos quote is insightful. For companies that just help people pick which product to buy, steering customers away from bad products will increase satisfaction and repeat business.
Oh, I certainly appreciate being in one. Much more quiet and less bumpy.

But one doesn’t need to own or event rent a Mercedes for that.

While I can see how it could be reasonable for a professional driver to use such a car, I fail to see how it makes sense for most other (non-ultra-wealthy) people.

And making owning any specific thing, especially such a generic one, into some sort of personal life goal really is beyond me.
On the contrary, that window is both huge and also you're assuming exceptions require expensive allocations but they don't.

Exceptions are for exceptional situations, so the performance impact of them when thrown is rarely of concern - both in C++ and in pretty much every other language with exceptions. There's a reason something like Java still uses error return values for an awful lot of things, after all. But importantly exceptions means that you're not doing return value checking for errors that rarely happen, which can get expensive on the whole. As in, exceptions gives your code a path to both be cleaner and faster on average - they are really very useful when implemented well.

The problem with C++ exceptions has nothing to do with the memory allocation cost when thrown (which as mentioned, there's other strategies you can deploy than the default of just `new`). Rather it comes from the significant impact on binary size and the reliance on RTTI.
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> have no social media accounts, this was my first stay at an Airbnb

See what happens if you ask a bank for a loan with no credit history.

Of course these are only tangentially alike, but public history is an important way to distinguish organic reviews from AstroTurf.
Here is a paper on the solution used on this building.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309136628_Avoiding_...

And a link to a few simpler pictures - scroll through them to the right.
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/walkie-scorchie-sol...
I agree, I missed the point. Come to think of it, this is probably the biggest advantage of functional over OOP.
> author is also stupid enough to assume tall people can't be funny

The author is not stupid, nor did she assume this.
"I knew this was going to happen" ... "But there was a lack of tools or software that could be used to analyse the problem accurately."

It makes me think of ray-tracing. You would think an architect would already have a ray-tracer with accurate materials set up for rendering visualizations which could show the issue.
But what I really want to do is write: the year of the auteur novel
Name one risk that would make survival on Earth even remotely as hostile to life as Mars already is.
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Effective bike advocacy in the face of declining city budgets
You should read about the experiences of African Americans. Many cultural facets and political tensions held over from slavery are alive and well.

Financially, income inequality in Sweden is vastly lower than in the United States as it is, and in the United States much of the inequality falls on racial boundaries. A recent Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study found that local white household’s median net worth was $247,000 while for African American households it was $8. Yes, eight single dollars. The Black population in Boston has been well established for well over a century, and much of its white population came in waves of western European immigration in the early to mid 20th century.

Not talking about this problem hasn't solved it so far because systemic self-perpetuating inequality doesn't just go away if you ignore it.
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This reads like a critique written by someone who has never actually worked on frontend. The choice of framework has no bearing on how visually appealing the site looks. It would be silly to posit that a company would, for example, choose to build their site on React primarily because there are a lot of visually appealing websites out there that happen to be built with React.
> people born with family whealth (sic)

Most successful Phillips Exeter graduate doesn't quite have that ring for the Horatio Alger idea that is being pushed.
Awesome, thanks for the reply! Looking forward to seeing those hit core hopefully!
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So again, you are talking about social psychology, where much of the crisis occured and persists. The SPE, even done properly, is not foundational to any work that nearly any psychologist does.

Introductory survey textbooks are essentially enrollment propaganda. They are bad places to seek expertise. Some psychologists make it part of their life work to write better ones. But it's psychologists who are criticizing and working to improve the field.

Sorry to say, I have to disengage to drive my family home.
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>> You can disagree with it but being Catholic doesn’t make you crazy.

No more crazy than some people in the middle east. They are not crazy but you can say they are religious fanatics or as the people in the U.S prefer to say Right-Wing
Recursion in production code? Say it ain't so...
I don't think exhuming someone's dead body after several hundred years is really "honoring" them. I just don't see what the objective here was (regardless of approvals) apart from "wouldn't it be cool if..." type attitude. What does the world gain here apart from a bit better understanding that a historical figure was genetically predisposed to diabetes etc (which FWIU has no really relevance to his research)

I just don't see the value in desecration of 5 people's graves just to sequence Mendel's DNA for no obvious reason apart from just for shits and giggles. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
There are two good summaries of Atomic Habits that I know of:

- https://srinathramakrishnan.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/brie...
- https://www.chrisbehan.ca/posts/atomic-habits

Each are about 16 pages long. I've been reading 3 pages a day of this as a good reminder.
Interesting. Unless I’m missing something, my Honeywell T9 thermostat already handles most of this. I’ve got 4 remote sensors hooked up to it. It’s fully programmable without any app. (I think it needs WiFi for initial setup, but it’s been fire-walled off since.)

It also connects with home assistant over Wi-Fi. Combined with my home-kit window AC unit, I have full control over scripting, with the thermostat able to operate independently if Home Assistant fails.
No, it is built from pure expressions. This means that our list is defined in one block (everything within the [ ] tokens) and immutability is enforced by the compiler.
Maybe, but the final solution is definitely harder to follow because the function definition now doesn't contain all the possible code that can run. You have to "find all references" and read the code of all the callers to know what it might do.

It's more loosely coupled and that always makes code harder to follow. So I'd say it could go either way. Depends on the specific example.
True, but except for the inflation/coinbase-size/2008-style-bailouts part.
Uh right, but you can infer from annual household income so low that there's no way "millionaire is middle class" is true.

"Millionaire is a low bar for one of the highest paid professional groups in the world" is a very different statement from "millionaire is basically middle class." The latter really distorts people's understanding of the state of our society and their position in it.
I think Observables are much simpler to grok than some hundreds-line multi-file combined reducer/actions amalgamation.
It does, the process is the "antimalware service executable" and I find it can occasionally start running while I'm in the middle of trying to do something else.

I notice it right away because the fans on my laptop will spin up to max speed for a few minutes, even if I'm just doing something basic like editing a document. I'm not sure why it tries to run what appears to be a lengthy scan when it can see the machine is not idle.
I use it because I view the dollar as a debt based slave system I'd prefer was replace with censureship resistant sound money. BTC is pretty okay at that, but my preference is currently Monero.
Bezos apparently thinks Amazon makes money when they let consumers buy knockoff and fake products, too.
Not destroying the Earth seems pretty critical to everything. Getting the technology to travel to and live on Mars would help that goal. Think of the benefits things like generating power in space and moving heavy industry off of Earth would create.
Frankly I'll back AirBnB over an HOA any day. HOAs are a societal cancer.
Agreed, Austral looks really cool, and the author's explanation of "what a linear type is and why we use them" was the clearest I've ever heard.

I was surprised it uses an Ada-like syntax -- I thought the standard wisdom for new languages was to either imitate C or Python ;-)
> You don't just get trust for free, you have to build it by creating moments like this where people can demonstrate vulnerability around each other.

This is bullshit. I trust my accountant because he's competent and honest, not because he's been vulnerable in my presence. What you're describing is unprofessional.

The last thing I want to know about (or experience from) my co-workers is anything personal or intimate, unless it's relevant to the job.

If I want to know my coworker better that's my choice, but otherwise it's somewhere between irrelevant and unwanted.
Private policing predates public policing,[0] and so asserting that this is is a new development is not really correct. The same is true, incidentally, of firefighting: private insurance companies formed their own private brigades to protect their policyholders' property.[1] Lots of things that we tend to think of as "naturally" public services have only very recently taken that form.

[0] See p. 1193 et seq. of this article: https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/fi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting#Early_...
Definitely, assuming we build underground settlements here.

The difference is that on Mars, we're for the most part forced to build underground.

On Earth we have to choose to do so, and we haven't done enough of that so far.
I wish more people would. Without sharing more public stories like this, there's nothing more some of us can do. My wife used abnb twice: once OK/meh experience, one horrible/abusive. Never again. But that was... 8 years ago. How can I 'take my money elsewhere' when... I'm not giving it to them anyway? I already did "take my money elsewhere" 8 years ago. And I know others who have too, but we're small individual voices that can't be heard over the advertising (and... negative review deletions) of the last decade.

10 years ago (or more) the "hey, we're getting a neat little off-the-beaten path house experience for a great deal!"... probably was a selling point. Today, abnb/vrbo/etc is just a corporatized juggernaut.
I converted a van to an RV, and now we stay in RV sites. Never going back to AirBNB/VRBO/Hotels! I know, useless for international travel, but within the USA it has become--by far--the most congenial option.
Well, doing cool stuff is a matter of preference. NASA is paid by the public, not from donations, right?
Sun used to sell PCI cards with a complete Intel computer on them. You'd use your Sun workstation for the hard stuff, and then you'd let the P3/Celeron running Win2k handle Outlook or whatever other Win32-only software you needed.

I saw a lot of new-in-box examples cheap on eBay prior to Sun's implosion, so I suspect they weren't particularly popular and were primarily targeted at a few important customers that had some box to tick.