skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a software developer. As a sysadmin, I'm paid less than a software developer with similar experience. I started doing support after college, even though I have a CS degree. At the beginning I wasn't sure if I want to this and was a bit envy to software developers. It took me several years to realize that I actually prefer to what I'm doing than full-time coding. I've been at jobs that I can travel to different parts of the work to support our infrastructure or build a company's server infrastructure from scratch and having significant impact on the organization.

There is always a different path one can take, especially at such young age as the OP.
> Cloud: A big networked oven that helps make your goods available all around the world at fast speeds.

That's almost certainly the worst metaphor I've heard for explaining what the Cloud is. "Networked oven" indeed...
To add to this, you can instead use the multisig wallet and add your family members but in this case you are not splitting the private key amongst n members but you're creating n unique keys that's required to sign before the owners can complete a transaction. When someone dies in your family, you can remove that person from the wallet.
"Photorealistic" might be a better word for what SwellJoe means.
Just tell them you're a hacker and then evade any further questions.
Not all gamification of life is a bad thing. The app seems very nice!

My problem in life is not waking up. Its going to bed early enough to get enough sleep. Encouraging an early bedtime would be a great feature :) IMO.
""[..] I personally have zero desire to work in a union or be forced to be in one."

I'm going to speculate that's only because you have good working conditions."

I have noticed (personal anecdote here so yeah not great) that a large majority of people that I know against unions have never worked in dangerous fields, office workers are ridiculously ignorant as to the workplace dangers of many unionised industries.
Looking at this paragraph:

>Because it’s not really “passion” they are looking for, but people who are merely willing to endure long hours. They aren’t really looking for the person who spends a few hours on the weekend on an open-source project, they are looking for the person who comes home from work and spends all night on it.

I feel that the author is describing a lot of startups or mid-sized companies. Personally, I think the size of the organization is not the best indicator of how rewarding your work there will be.
I’ve had the same thought—what’s the value of a decentralized ledger when you can trade digital assets just as easily? Why use digital cash when you can pay for your coffee with your Tesla stock or your Linode credits or whatever.

But I’m not nearly as certain as you that a pure digital cash will have no value in that world. Yes, Ethereum’s practical value (as a token redeemable for computation) adds volume and provides a price floor, which could make it a more stable store of value. But it also places it in a competitive landscape with other tokens that can perform the same function.

Bitcoin is a pure finance play, which should make modeling it much easier, which should give it some unique appeal. Plus the first mover advantage is huge.

Even if BTC never works out its transaction rate issues, I think it could solidify as a simple, auditable, modelable store for large value transactions.

Sometimes adding features makes a product worse. Twitter was more than Blogger even though it ostensibly did less. In the same sense, I’m not convinced Bitcoin++ will beat Bitcoin.

I am very intrigued though. The “BTC is Friendster” hypothesis is an ok one.
It saddens me to be reminded by your post that the valuable contributions to discourse provided by Consumerist came to end not too long ago :(
> For example at our company we have built a desktop app

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.
If instead of ditching Go he had posted some kind of help request to the 'gonuts' group / mailing list, I'm 100% certain that several people would've helped him with code reviews and feedback. I've seen this happen in the gonuts group countless times, including contributions/assistance from the core Go team that hang out there :)

As noted by other commenters, below, the code seems to have some issues. And, if it still didn't perform well after addressing those, somebody in gonuts would've helped teach how to profile it, and then expert-eyes could have looked over the profiler output and provided further feedback.
> Sometimes even a well-formatted, respectful issue feels like a thank you.

Very much so. I like if people find actual issues in software I helped write and report them. At least if there's some information to go on, or friendly asks for pointers what information to provide.

It's the "BROKEN! NEED FIX URGENTLY" without further information that's insulting.

I'm even OK with somebody expressing urgency, as long as it's clear they're willing to invest enough time themselves.
hey, this is really cool and stuff, but it eats my ram for breakfast and it's kind of glitchy.
In my opinion, Fabrice Bellard showing a VM in HTML5/JS with Windows 2000 is a great honor for Microsoft, not a harm at all, quite the contrary :-)
Show HN: Sunboxlabs 2.0 – Self-Contained Solar Kits
I wouldn't assume whoever designed the specific desktop implementation and the software these people run is completely naïve about their workflows.

> You ask how to do something and you get variations of "don't do that".

I usually add "do [something appropriate] instead, which will solve the problem and not introduce a [horrific IT risk]".
Right! :) The only thing missing was the cables getting hopelessly tangled.
It's not the job that's hard to explain, it's explaining the willful lack of income that's hard.
'Capitalism failed': Jacinda Ardern signals major economic shift
I wonder how many comments they received with > n words, for, say, n = 10.
What I actually do: "I work on safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles."

What I tell people: "I make websites."

Because what I've learned over the years is that there's no faster way to kill a dinner conversation than explain any part of what I actually do.
what are you talking about? I have been building this website for a couple of weeks...Show HN is exactly to promote your work...
I used to work at a federal agency processing these comments. This practice is not new or unique to FCC. There is a segment of the population who respond to just about ever request for comment the federal government puts out. I think more should be done to cut down on bots. The legal argument thing seems a bit pompous. I've never heard that before and I've reviewed, and filed, a lot of comments.

Unfortunately the FCC's action was predetermined and the result long ago decided. Comments will not change that - BUT if you have filed a legal comment, you can used that to sue later.
If (when?) net neutrality ends we can crowd fund ISPs to slow down the tubes coming out of our political establishments.
Multiple audio interface support is experimental. This is a feature even AAA DAWs do not have, and if so, they are "amalgamated interfaces" rather than separate simultaneous connections.

If you get into a crash-on-boot loop, remove the "autosave.vcv" file (or edit out the Audio Interface modules from the JSON with a text editor) and relaunch Rack.

For TR-style drum machines, third-party company Hora has released a set of modules at https://www.facebook.com/Hora-Music-1826383014249093/ and https://gumroad.com/horamusic.
My categories...

1) Ditch traditional media completely. No CNN, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, NTY, WashPo, WSJ. Get local and world news on reddit. If it is worth it, it is being covered there. One page and you are up to date with most important things. These outlets are essentially "argument from authority", trust us because we are CNN. No thanks.

2) No TV (No breaking bad, no homeland, no NFL)

3) Facebook: I was never into it. Not searchable by google/duckduckgo, not interested. I am sucked into WhatsApp because of social circles.

4) Twitter: If it shows up as links in the web pages then I am reading those tweets. Same for Instagram.

5) Netflix: It's been a year or more since I had good couple of hours with Netflix. I pay just so that I wouldn't crave for it. I don't mind paying $2 or 3 for a movie rental and then watch it with family or friends. Paying for Youtube Red and Google Music is best value I get out of $9 these days. That use to be Netflix but then it stopped being best value once most of the past top movies were watched, and the new cookie cutter stuff that Netflix produces is not original, AI produced movies are not as gripping or flawed enough to relate to. And Netflix needs to learn about selective focusing, blurred backgrounds, bokeh etc. Everything in perfect focus all the time looks hyper-real and cartoonish at the same time.

6) HN/Medium/Blogs/Youtube/some-reddit/forums related to my hobbies: My peer-to-peer entertainment. Mostly consumed on laptop. Out of these Youtube is the only thing that I would use my phone for, and for youtube you need to pay attention to consume, you can't watch video when you are with other people, it just doesn't work. You can't get distracted by youtube as you do with facebook/twitter/whatsapp. No deals/shopping/promotions alert subscriptions, that wouldn't work of course.

7) Emails: Checked only when I know someone had sent me an email because that person told me so through other means, or when I want to send an email. Outside of work, email is no more a distraction.
Great write up, I’m developing for iOS (solopreneur). Is your company UK based?
Aquatic ape hypothesis [^1] is quite convincing.

I have learned about it at freediving course as it explains our natural capabilities of apnea.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
But they aren't.
He doesn't actually believe the Earth is flat, he's just lying to the flat-Earth...community, if one could call it that, in order to raise money from them.
export default function MyComponent(props) { };
I presumed for a moment someone had built a web server running off the Minecraft redstone circuits.
Random note: the fact that you're showing an iPhone device frame but using Android screenshots is one of those things that makes me unreasonably unhappy.

I do like the idea of the app though.
I believe Netlify[0] does that, and I've heard of others but can't remember right now.

Edited to add a link

[0]https://www.netlify.com/open-source/
- The site is great, esp. the testimonials :-)

- In the app, cut down the introduction texts and steps. It takes like 30 taps to get the alarm started.

- Also, I found the pulse of the focused area (the circle) annoying and distracting when reading the text just next to it.

- Use briefer descriptions of the things in the guided tour(s). Every word you can remove is often an improvement. And, again, get rid of steps. I'd recommend 3-5 steps tops (and entirely!).

- Somewhere you write "Try to tap here to do something..." => Get rid of the "Try to". As a user, I know how to tap - just write "Tap here to ..."

- Make the sound selections (radio button lists) play the selected sound on tap: by default the top entry is selected. When I tap it—as I initially don't know how it sounds–it doesn't play the sound. I have to switch to the second entry and then back to the first one.

- 42 MB is quite large for "just an alarm clock." Most people won't bother, but keep in mind that even in 2017 software should be performant and, if not necessary, not bloated.

Besides these minor points, I have to say that the idea is great! I am really looking forward to use the app tonight :-)
Yes, right now it is completely a glorified database.
It's always been a database. It's a different database.

We're using it for compliant sharing of and collaboration on private information records between non trusting organizations and businesses.
You could do this with something like a highly distributed Cassandra cluster.
But some of the inherent rules to a blockchain allow us to provide higher security, higher data persistence and availability between nodes, auditable records, and accountable participants / contributors.

And it's not centralized, it's completely distributed - just not publicly available to anyone who can download a mobile app.
This makes me wonder if indie game developers should get some experience in marketing games or working with marketers/people on indiehackers.com first before trying to launch their own game to make it more successful.
It's not exactly subtle (watch the video):

https://labor411.org/411-blog/1688-this-is-the-anti-union-vi...
Does the right to a trial applies only to citizens in the US?
"Give someone an inch, and they will ask for a mile!"
I think some programmers want to carefully select a type specialized data structure, and others just bury the problem under a pile of array iteration.

And to hell with compile time. If the build takes 10x as long but we run 5% fewer prod servers, that pays for itself in minutes. And if type and nullability checking prevents one prod outage, that saves more time and stress than every build I've waited for this year.
>However, doesn't someone who commits treason give up their rights as a citizen?

Habeas Corpus is a right of any person, not any citizen, so this is moot.

Even if it wasn't, obtaining a treason conviction is exceptionally difficult... particularly since we are not at declared war with any nation state, so it's an impossible crime to commit right now: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii
Upside-Down-Ternet (2006)
Why 3D doesn't work and never will (2011)
Some thanks would definitely be appreciated at least to balance out the negative minority.

As a maintainer of a project¹ that many use, I've had private messages encouraging me to commit suicide etc. Not ideal.

¹ https://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils
Couldn't agree more. Although to be more precise, ETH/ICOs are threatening the standard financing model proper in Silicon Valley, and not SV as a whole.

I basically see the future as being both really dystopic and utopic at the same time:

So (mostly rich) people will be able to invest their money without any friction, but this will destroy the rent-seeking institutions that weren't meant to exist in the first place

=> power to the geeks and the rich, but you won't be able to make any money by just making "deals".

Would love to be convinced otherwise though....
I not a fan of javascript either, although I write js almost evey day and use Atom mainly because I could not find a better open source desktop editor that looks and works like Sublime Text. If anyone cares to write one in C++, D, Rust or Go, I'll happily use it.
> 'Hi, can you implement <Feature that takes a month of work>? Thanks!'

and

> 'Can you implement <Feature that takes a month of work>?'

Are very differently loaded questions! The first one very much indicates no concern about the implementers time, and is very often seen coming from people that have no idea the complexity of the work involved with the "Thansk!" indicating the implementer would automatically accept it regardless of their own priority, while the second one is way more innocent and open for a reply back with "not sure if I have time for that atm".

EDIT: In short, it's a matter of etiquette, the same way nobody wants to deal with a complete fucking asshole (sorry, personal scars here...).
Can you provide a link to an example of doing this or something similar?
Man that's expensive. Here in France, contractors tend to cost less than 400€ a day. That's almost 4 times cheaper than you are.

I guess that's the difference between consulting and contracting.
Same in Norwegian :-)
That Interstellar Asteroid Is Pretty Strange
So what is the benefit for distributing this data?

I haven't played multiplayer MC in quite a while, but from what I can remember, lag could be a bummer, so I could see how being able to connect to a low-lag "local" server and yet still play alongside players from around the world with their own low-lag connections would be nice. Yet if someone places a block on the ground and it still takes a couple seconds for that block placement to be distributed to my local server's Mongo instance and sent to me, I don't know how much the user experience is really improved for anyone.
Conversely, I was happy to see what my dad did and with that knowledge decide not to do that. That it wasn't for me.
dunno man, the following seems easier and cleaner to me:

pacman -S simh

apt install simh

pacman -Rns simh

?? On that note is there anything that will get rid of unused docker layers when you get rid of an image? sort of like -Rns in pacman? or aptitude remove except for docker images?
The proprietary nature of the software doesn’t matter. All that matters is that their FILES can be read and written. And with Office XML, since 2007, this is a solved problem.
"It is all a matter of actually knowing how to write proper JavaScript, or just using TypeScript to compile code that looks like JavaScript."
I didn't pay much more than that to transfer about £20k from Australia to the UK a couple of years back. I think I paid about £12...
The way to win is to pass legislation through Congress that regulates Internet Service Providers as public utilities.
It made me go to from "damn, I want to try, but I'm android" to "woot". Love the reviews too.
Really appreciate the feedback, I'm exploring several options for this that will be added in the near future and think that you're right, snooze is only half the battle.
I’m specifically talking about things not under the Go 1.0 compatibility guarantee because those things are obviously reverted. Different Go packages from the Go team have different guarantees, for example being compatible with the with the last two Go releases only. I’m on mobile so I can get you examples later after thanksgiving festivities are over but this definitely happens, but you wouldn’t notice unless you read a lot of the Go commits or run into the issue yourself.
Do you have a basic understanding of how conception works? It is needed to understand why men must proactively find a partner to copulate. The ones that don't have the minimum capacity to succeed at this are eliminated. And this proccess is still running.
The software is proprietary, but the actual files use a variant of an open ISO/IEC/ECMA standard.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
They're called mexicans.

I'm joking, relax.
General Motors Is About to Do Something Big with Self-Driving Cars
Show HN: HTTP/2 server built in Elixir
Italy has the same mechanism (it's called Cassa integrazione guadagni). It is sometimes abused for companies that ought to have gone bankrupt decades ago, but Italy has decent welfare policies and worker rights policies, especially compared to the US.
I'm working on the exact opposite migration at the moment :)
(Most of our stack is Go, but we use the excellent Faye library written in Node)
The Node code is really well done. https://faye.jcoglan.com/
Nothing wrong with the Node codebase. In our case we just had to add a lot of business logic. I could have done that in Node (we did for a long time), but I decided that with the latest set of changes we'd bring this component in line with the rest of our infrastructure.

It's hard to know without the code, but the author seems to be doing a few things wrong:

1. You only need a few channels, not N. Maybe 4-5 is enough.
2. In terms of goroutines you only need as many as are actively communicating with your server. So creating a new connection creates a goroutine, sending a message to a channel creates a goroutine etc.
3. You need something like Redis if you want to support multiple nodes

For inspiration check out this awesome project:
https://github.com/faye/faye-redis-node

This will perform well in Node and even better in Go.
I guess you’re talking about well published changes resulting in new major versions being released?
Breezy: a fork of bzr for Python 3 support
Is English not your first language ? That's an incredibly common phrase.
The dithered highlight on the sphere looks odd because it was calculated in a non-linear colorspace. You can get better looking results by converting to a linear colorspace, dithering, then converting back to sRGB. Eg, in ImageMagick, using the same 8x8 matrix:

convert Dither2-Exp_crop_resize.png -colorspace RGB -ordered-dither o8x8,2 -colorspace sRGB Dither2-Exp_dithered.png

Result: https://imgur.com/a/81bNg
Great work, but...Java? Is this for compatibility with mods?

One of the biggest pain points with running a Minecraft server is the onerous memory requirements. Java needs a ton of memory to get out of bed, and after that it's not always pretty with how the allocator works. That's fine on an enterprise server with 64GB of memory, but not cool when you're paying $10/mo. per GB of memory for what should be an inexpensive hobby.
The author is promoting gratefulness, and that is awesome. I try to do my part when I can with hand-crafted emails or messages.

For what it's worth, in our work on the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks [1], we have received a great deal of positive feedback and gratefulness. We really appreciate it since it makes the project so much more fun and meaningful for us when we hear that people have found it useful (or at least interesting). We never cease to be amazed at the generosity of the community. All of this often makes me wish we could spend more time on the project. (We're working on getting Round 15 out soon!)

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
At least not since Obama missiled a US citizen and his teenage son w/out charge.
Your words were dismissive of union members whose opinions differ than your own (they're less educated and missing the bigger picture, incapable of evaluating anti-union FUD on their own).

Don't be disingenuous, "they don't know what's best for them the way I do" is a very fair representation of your words. Maybe you do? If you're going to take that position, own it.
Smart contract auditing and development work is massively in-demand thanks to these speculative valuations. I'm doing a certification in Solidity development from B9 Lab to target this market.

Don't get me wrong, Blockchain is valuable - but I feel like it's in the same delusional market state as the internet was in the late 90's.
Dish-washers are just about the only household appliance that currently are more ecological than the human labour they replace.

Which makes me wonder: aside from liberating people from menial tasks (which is great! It leads to more equality[0]), could robots also be more sustainable than human labor?

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing...
> They discontinued it after less than 10 licenses sold.

How do you know that? Can you share a link?

I don't think Scrivener for Linux was ever sold by Literature and Latte.

Lee Powell from Literature and Latte stated in a 2011 comment⁰ in Linux Journal: "We don't have the resources at this time to tweak it into a polished, native-feeling Linux application, and so it will continue to run as free beta software for the foreseeable future, until such time as we are able to give it the extra attention required to move it towards an official, commercial release"

The latest Linux version of Scrivener I can find is from October 2015 and is still a BETA – so from 2011—2015 Scrivener for Linux was always in beta and unsupported. The release announcement reads: Version 1.7.2.4 is identical to the current Linux 1.7.2.3 version, but with the beta expiry removed. Version 1.9.0.1 also has no expiry. Both versions remain unsupported.

I am asking you again to state your sources, and in the absence of that I'm gonna assume you're talking out of your ass.

⓪ - https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/scrivener-now-linux#com...
① - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&...
Those must be the worst analogies I’ve read in a long time.

Please avoid analogies if possible. They rarely help, and mostly just tell a story that sounds plausible but has nothing to do with what you are actually trying to explain.