jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's interesting that atoms have tiny fragments of antimatter inside them. That implies that some day it might be possible to build an engine that runs on extracting this energy. Space drive, any one?
Just need to double your job about 25 times and then you'll make as much money as Jeff Bezos
You're putting words into my mouth.

I stated that I believe the community would be better off if this existed. I have not asked anyone to go and do this.

You asked if I thought it was possible to do this without funding. I do. That seems obvious -- it's been done before without funding, it can be done again. The fact that I think it's possible without funding says nothing about whether I think it's the ideal way for something like this to happen.

Debian is not unrelated, I specifically used them as my example because Debian maintainers forked and maintained IceWeasel during their dispute with Mozilla. They are the ones who have done this before.

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> There is no business to be had on a "crippled-but-leaner" browser, so no one will have any incentive to work on it for free.

You and I seem to have dramatically different takes on what makes software valuable and what motivates people to work on it. I don't care if there's no business use-case for a "crippled-but-leaner" browser. There's a principled case for it -- Many people would prefer to use a web browser that doesn't have ads baked into the shell. That preference gives the leaner browser value.

The fact that some people prefer software like this is what makes that software valuable, regardless of whether anybody can make any money from it. This is a statement of inherent value, not a statement about economic viability.

And secondly,

> And if you are not willing to offer money nor volunteer your time to do it, why do you think others will?

I think that others are likely to do this based on observation. There are people who choose to work on projects like these because they personally prefer software that works a certain way, out of principle. Again, the only statement I'm making here is about the likely existence of people who are willing to do this sort of thing for free, out of principle. I am saying nothing about whether or not they deserve to be paid, and I'm not making any moral argument about who is and isn't entitled to use their work or make demands from them.
Sorry not sure what you mean? This is exactly how Safari, Chrome, and I guess others I can't immediately test work. Seems good to work as expected from other browsers?
I'm going to guess by not declaring a change of residency and keeping everything flowing through their American / Canadian SSN + bank etc.
But the automatic single-click selection doesn't fill the X clipboard (meaning it isn't pasted by middle click), so when I want to copy it I have to triple click anyway. Since it looks like it's selected, I frequently forget to do so, which results in pasting something I didn't mean to.
I wouldn't get a telescope for direct observation. We're all used to stunning images from Hubble and from amateur astrophotographers. But even if you get an 16" semi-professional monster with all the options, you will not see those kinds of stunning views.

I've used a 20" (!) Dobsonian and as an experience it was pretty meh, aside from the novelty value. Space simply doesn't look that impressive that through a telescope - not even a huge light bucket. And a small affordable scope will be even more disappointing. You can see Saturn's rings and craters on the Moon and the satellites of Jupiter with some rough impression of banding, but most nebulae are faint, small, and not at all spectacular.

Instead, I'd consider astrophotography. It's not a cheap hobby, but it's also not as cripplingly expensive as a high-end scope. And you can produce genuinely stunning results by layering the sharpest and best images with software. This sidesteps the problem of poor seeing (optical distortions caused by air movements) which limits good direct viewing to large objects and cold nights.

The amazing thing about modern astrophotography is that amateurs are easily outclassing the images produced by professional astronomers fifty years ago. And you can start without a telescope at all by fixing a DSLR to a tracking telescope mount. There's also a lot to learn so you can start simple, produce some decent visual results, and then continue to be amazed as your skills improve.
Mobile networks are excluded from most of the law. But if this applied to them then yes, that deal would be prevented and that would be the point.

But the binge-on thing where any 1.5Mbps or less video is zero-rated is basically acceptable.
I mean, there's an email address and, if your really curious, you could have read the blog post linked in the main site that has my name associated with it.

https://dev.to/duensing/introducing-slow-social-4a90

But I see the larger point, there's trust that needs to be built, but I think the standards are going to be different for different people. The German legal requirements are also something I didn't know about. I do my best to protect and guard the personal information, and only request what's directly relevant for the app.
Can you list the 5 things you built before along with one sentence which describes their target customer? And have you considered selling those 5 things on to others? Just because you couldn't find the fit in your timeline, doesn't mean that someone else couldn't...and buying is faster/easier than building. A non-techie who might want to give selling software a try might be very interested in your pre-revenue opportunities. You would basically be paid for building MVPs. See abandonedassets.io
Have you ever tried to program a controller? It's hard too. You need special hardware, special software and know how to connect them all up. It's not just copying and pasting code from the internet. It's sufficiently discouraging for those who think microwaves are wireless battery chargers. :)

If you're curious, you should poke around http://endless-sphere.com/forums/.
If you'd like an exceptionally easy way to bootstrap a SPA (whether you need mobile or not), try out reapp: https://reapp.io

It includes react-router, and quite a few good libraries/examples for flux, requests, immutable.js, etc.
It's interesting to hear from someone else who also doesn't form mental pictures.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I understand what other people mean when they say mental pictures. If I close my eyes and try to imagine an elephant, I find myself describing the elephant essentially with words. There's nothing like an "image" in my mind, though I do sometimes have mental ideas without sentences (for example, I could easily imagine a flow chart right now).

Do other people see actual images when they imagine something?
If you want to keep a % of equity make sure that that you have all shareholders agreements tightly wrapped up and consult a lawyer. Although this might not always be sufficient I was a founder in a Techstars company where the founder fired and rehired all the employees under a different company after I left.
This is why you need to hash reset tokens too

http://sakurity.com/blog/2015/03/27/slack_or_reset_token_has...
This assumes it's a proble and not a symptom of a problem. If someone takes the little money they get for food and necessaties and spends them on drugs, they are clearly on need of help and we as a society should help them combat that destructive behaviour, not shun them.

If someone is happy enough with basic food and shelter, no luxuries, is it a problem if they just sit around? isn't this better than fostering a dangerous criminal with disdain for society, thus endangering everyone in the local community?

if someone wants more (e.g. a Gaming PC) then they will have to work for it. Food and shelters should be considered human rights by virtue of existence. We will flourish more as a species if we move away from that hyper-individualist view from which we see the world, to a kinder, community-oriented view.

Let's not be assholes. If I get 100k a year, losing 1000k for another person is no problem, assuming I'm not a greedy bastard with a hardon for cash.
Robocars CAN be more safe: "just" a matter of getting all the sensors/software/harware reliable, redundant and error free. If we are "there yet" I don't know.
Don't forget that Android also runs on the Linux kernel and there are more Android phones than desktop PCs running any operating system.
Diabetes kills 1.4M a year. Do we reorganize society to make people walk more? No, it kills slower and more spread out.

I agree with the reaction. We needed to flatten the curve to protect hospitals and hospital workers. That is the only justifiable reason for the closures in my mind.
It's interesting how fast they find their favorite clips when I give them a phone in Incognito Mode Youtube for 15 minutes. I seed it with a normal kids clip like a Peppa Pig or something but somehow she used to find this weird car slowly crushing colorful objects channel every time.
> We went through a full court press as a society to try to stop COVID

That's a very generous assessment considering there were so many deniers and so many people who refused to isolate themselves.
How different is that from at-will employment though? You can be fired at any time and for more or less any non-federally-protected reason (and can quit any time too). That seems pretty uncontroversial in the US at least.
kind of agree with this statement in a free market sense, but the problem with these winner-take-most markets is there are often no reasonable alternatives.
I did web dev professionally for seven years until I started writing Swift a year ago. The learning curve for native iOS development is a little steep because Apple doesn't write adequate documentation, but resulting application delivers a superb user experience with extremely low power consumption.

Web apps and APIs are not the answer to the biggest problem we have today, which is the lack of open alternatives to Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store. While it is true that Apple cripples their browser to make web apps second-class citizens, browsers will always add a layer of indirection. Even if the performance loss were made negligible, it would encourage the creation of user interfaces that target the lowest common denominator available on all platforms.

In my opinion, the best way to fix this situation in the long-run is to design completely open mobile devices. I'd love to replace my iPhone and iPad with devices that are repairable and run a mobile-optimized version of Haiku. We're not as far off from that as you might think; metal 3D printers such as the Markforged Metal X will make it easier and cheaper than ever to make cases that turn a pile of parts into a working phone.

What does this have to do with web apps? Well, if you're spending all your time keeping up with web development, perhaps it's time to learn some new skills and push things forward in a different direction.
What does it mean to use something "against society"? If I run a service that analyses images that people upload and people have the lawful right to upload these images, that's my business. Neither you nor anyone else gets to have a say in private transactions between me and someone else no matter what form of analysis of a being offered. My algorithms do not require your approval.
They were planning the roadmap (pun intended)
I wonder how this will pan out for me. I'm increasingly thinking that just being employed is what's wrong for me. There's definitely something wrong, and it's not that I'm employed in the wrong place. It wouldn't get better just by switching jobs. Interesting to hear that some have had the same experience.
> What are the significance of those blue lines when they show a trend over empty black space?

The blue lines are not trends, but prayer times plotted on top of the graph.
I didn't know about Acorn, it looks pretty good. So far I really like the UI. It's not like MS Paint but lightweight Photoshop, which is also good for quick editing.

Thanks! Though, it's bit on the pricey side of the scale for an occasional usage.
> pick an open source library you use regularly and let's go through and look at some of the things you do with it, what you like about the API design ...

People who have plenty of time to prepare, eg carefully study and think about that API before the interview, will tend to do better in the interviews.

Although they aren't necessarily better at coding.

Meaning, you're slightly favoring people with lots of spare time. Not saying that's a good or bad thing, just maybe something to be aware about.

Also, what open source project they happen to choose, will matter I would think. That's a bit like tossing a coin as part of the process
Indeed, what described was not superstition; there doesn't appear to be an exact word for what he was talking about (cargo cult is perhaps closer but not quite right), so it was a fuzzy match.

What you responded to, however, was superstition and as a result your comment had basically nothing to do with the article. I hope you can forgive my misunderstanding. :)
Well, from all appearances Warner Brothers saw the wild success of Avengers and decided they needed a big superhero mashup, thus the disastrous rush to create a Justice League movie without the gradual build-up of story lines and characters that the Marvel films produced.

Apple takes the Marvel approach to their technologies: releases features (of varying initial quality, admittedly) that gradually improve and are incorporated into bigger and better products.

Siri has never been best-in-class for anything, but has been a big part of making Apple Watch and AirPods so successful.

Apple invested in their own CPU designs for more than a decade before finally unveiling the M1 lineup.

Apple chose to shrink the Mac operating system to fit the iPhone, instead of porting the iPod OS, which gave them a unified set of APIs, and has made it practical to have Catalyst as a (still somewhat raw as I understand it) toolkit for writing software across iPhone, iPad, and macOS, plus of course iPhone and iPad apps can run natively on M1.

Most of Apple's competitors lack the freedom or the desire to bet the company on a specific direction; Microsoft of course has released Windows for ARM but has not, and cannot, tell their partners they have two years to switch or get left behind, for example.

Apple can set long-term strategic goals and follow through on them.
Absolutely. The fact that China almost completely disregards IP and shows no signs of "innovation" slowing down disproves the notion that you need government backed monopolies on inventions in order to encourage innovation.
Suggestion: Keep an eye out for Google iOS updates. It will be interesting to see where they fall in comparison with FB and others.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/05/google-privacy-details-app-st...
For what its worth I also love difficult books and didn't think The Book of the New Sun was very good. (I did finish it, and re-read a few parts.)

It aims at a great curiosity but like you say, is far too drab. I think it misses.
Unfortunately not. The underlying mechanism they're using to enforce this is essentially: if your app can write to a directory, it can't execute from that directory.

Apparently this is plugs a vulnerability known as W^X. See their explanation in the issue here[0]. Personally I would love to know how many real-world exploits they can blame on this specific vulnerability, stacked up against the number of truly useful apps like Termux that have now been hamstrung.

Also, this leaves the state of running native executables on Android as something of a joke. Any executable you want to run has to be named `lib<exe_name>.so`, and included in your jniLib directory at build time.

It's clear what side GOOG has picked in the war on general-purpose computing[1].

[0]: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128554619

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
The enforcement of one language or dialect over others is a pretty common tool among nation-builders; the sharpest example in my mind is Parisian French taking over France [0]. Xi's CCP is definitely pretty nationalistic, so it's not surprising that they'd attempt to promote the speech patterns used around Beijing as the true form of Chinese.

It remains to be seen whether Cantonese has enough critical mass to resist being displaced by Mandarin, although Wikipedia suggests that ironically it has been prospering at the expense of smaller Southern Chinese tongues [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergonha
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_shift#China
The FCC also designated this 6Ghz spectrum for indoor use only below a certain transmission limit, unlike the 5GHz channels which you have to stop using if there's other traffic.

It's a good case of dual-use of spectrum, though more spectrum should be made public either way.
Perhaps they pretended to be an extortionist and a hitman in order to convince DPR to send coins to their address in exchange for a "hit" on the "extortionist".
It's an accurate description. What do you want them to do? Pretend WW2 didn't happen? Pretend that Germany or Italy sent significant amounts of troops to invade China?
When you work in PacMed, where the entire company was basically located at the time, you pretty much rub elbows with people across all departments (literally, you're stuffed in there so close) and so you can make sweeping generalizations about the engineering team behind Amazon.com. Without making any comments about warehouse workers and the like.

Which is what I did.

This is also not one persons perspective, but a common perspective in Seattle, so common that I knew about it in 1996, repeatedly heard horror sorries for the next 10 years ,and still went to work there after hearing horror stories from other ex-employees. Yeah, they caught me at point where I was a bit desperate.

In seattle, the horribleness of working there is pretty widely known.

Not sure why its so shocking and unbelievable here on Hacker News.
Indeed, we should all wander through the net with no inkling of others opinions in order to mitigate some dubious risk. Enlightened people read every article, decide for themselves and then sit silently.
Agreed. It has actually given a very nice excuse to developers like me. Whenever your manager comes up to find why something that you are working on is not up, you can simply reply with something like this -

If AWS with some of the smartest engineers can be down for that long do you think that our crappy service will be up 100% of time?
Build fake projects? Geez, I think you already have the wrong mindset for starting your own business. If you are going to put the time into building a site, try to monetize that thing (no fakes.) Who knows, down the road you might be making enough money off that site or collection of sites so that you can quit client work.

I also think that you are suffering from the classic symptom of trying to get everything just right before starting. When building a web app you want to get that thing up as fast as possible, even if it's ugly. Build a minimum viable product and connect with customers each step of the way. Test for interest, etc. You don't want to spend too much time getting everything correct just to find that you wasted your time because nobody cares for your idea.

Take a similar approach with web development. You could start out banging out sites in Drupal or Wordpress and each of these content management systems require more configuration than actual programming. You can learn these quickly and with minimal to no PHP. Your interest may be more in building web applications from scratch and there is a market for that, but you don't have to start out there. I know of plenty of people making a living strictly from building sites using already available content management systems.

Look through sites like Odesk and Elance for the types of jobs available. You might find the occasional gem in these places and even land a regular client. Don't feel bad for your lack of experience, you just need to be able to sell yourself and communicate well. Trust me, there are far worse people actually landing the jobs there.

Make sure to network through forums, Twitter and other locations where fellow developers and designers hang out. Twitter is especially good for getting a regular voice in the community and getting your name in front of people. Help out people in Twitter and forums and you will occasionally get someone hitting you up for doing some work.

As you are connecting with the community, look for ideas for building add-ons which might be in demand. This is a great way to give back and get your name out there. Offer some simple add-ons for free, but you might be able to make money by selling other add-ons.

As you beef up your freelance business and development chops, you can start moving more in the direction of building applications from scratch and perhaps working with other tools. There is a lot of exciting new things going on in the world of web development. I have been playing with Node.js a lot lately and it's a new community where you can more easily gain a good foothold as a pioneer as opposed to PHP. However, the market for this may not be as easy to get into at first.

There are also lots of methods I haven't mentioned or even thought about. Another big part of business is strategy and tactics. Figure out where you want to be and be creative in formulating a plan to get there. Do this and you might be able to leapfrog (greater income) people who have been doing this for a lot longer than you have.
Ah, but we all know a bunch of those projects probably have no comments at all. Spaghetti!
It's not that it should be free, it's that it will eventually be free.

You seem to be looking at this from a kind of moral point of view, but "information wan't to be free" is not meant to be a value statement. It's meant to be an observation about information.
An EBS node in a EBS cluster is connected to two networks. One is used for the traffic to and from the EBS volumes(Primary network), the other is used to replicate the EBS volume on a EBS node to a different EBS node(Secondary network).
Amazon wanted to upgrade the capacity of the primary network. Their standard step doing this is to shift the traffic to a redundant router. This step was executed incorrectly. This resulted in the traffic not being routed to the primary network but instead to the secondary network which has less capacity.
All this traffic satured the secondary network and resulted in the EBS volumes becoming "stuck".
When the traffic got routed the right way all the EBS volumes were trying to remirror. Part of the remirroring process is that the EBS volumes search the cluster for free space to remirror to.
The EBS cluster couldn't handle this load and new capacity was needed for the EBS cluster.

Amazon offers a 10 day credit equal to 100% of their usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances and RDS database instances.
This credit will be automatically applied to the next bill.
I don't see the point to this post but if anybody that is reading wants a project, I suggest the following.

A website that can recommend hairstyles. Maybe social, maybe an algorithm that figures out your head shape and matches it to styles.
Seems to be stripping phone numbers and thus fails to send anything when I select a number from my contacts. I am in Finland and numbers look like +3584012345678, but the text gets sent to 584012345678.

This gets confusing, as the sent items are shown correctly in Android Messaging, but the messages are not delivered.

Also: Please add support for delivery reports.

(Copying my comment from the google extension page without a few typos.)
You are right, I misspoke... "Stock Android" includes the Gapps.
For registered users it has been active again for the past two months—this is just the first stable release from that work. There was a noticeable silence from October through January, but lots of activity ever since. Hopefully it continues.

I tried Atom during the lull and it's gotten really great, but ultimately went back to the plugins/snippets I know and love.