skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have noted, the article is based on a study that only looked at a small subject of OSS projects, so it's not very solid. But the results fit with many commenters' perceptions. It's surprising that so little is known about the dynamics of how OSS gets written, given how crucially important it is to the global economy these days.

(Even) more broadly; I wonder if a similar system will wind up dominating in some fields of science. There's been a bunch of cases where prominent research papers in AI or biomedicine have been published by entirely for-profit companies; one supposes they benefit in the same fashion that more traditional software companies benefit from publishing open source work, namely by building a reputation and cultivating a larger ecosystem around their expertise.
> 6-7k mg

Why not say grams? A thousand miligrams is a gram.

I've always "suffered" from low blood pressure. Never quite to the point of fainting when I stand up too quick, but it's been close a few times. Exercise for me means I have to go out of my way to supplement sodium or I start getting muscle cramps.

So I wonder, what does high pressure feel like? How do you know when it's too high? Or is it just something you notice on a device and know to fix because doctors say so?
I have some experience in this area. My thoughts:

Retraining can be done as part of the project, but you need to figure out what the project and sub projects looks like first. Then you an know roughly how you’ll move people around at various phases. It takes time to build new systems and time to train. Line those up and you can take advantage of them.

Be careful with costs. They will blow out if you aren’t mindful.

It’s going to be messy for a LONG time, which causes a huge amount of pain in the org. Be ready for this.

Moving to cloud brings a whole new set of problems you haven’t thought of yet. For example, cleanup becomes more critical (old resources cost money, but can’t be “seen” because they’re not physical and just a hidden line item somewhere).

There’s more. My email is in my profile if you wish to reach out.
They talk about this in TFA. That was a really old engine.
Could this condition be caused by chronic covetousness?
FedEx makes it easy for consumers. They bought Kinkos some years ago.

When a package is coming via FedEx, IHOP on their website, no registration required, and rerouted to the most convenient Kinkos. I pick it up when I want.

When a package is coming via UPS, I weep.
iPhone 3GS comes back from the dead in South Korea
I need some technical support to get Pharo up and running
Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind
DARPA created a 1THz transistor four years ago.

It's the fastest single transistor in existence. You could say... it focuses on speed, to the exclusion of all other features!
Show HN: End procrastination now.A menubar app to motivate you to get stuff done
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple quietly uses them internally. 100k companies with a horizontal app like this (and "source code management" is pretty horizontal in any vaguely tech-incorporating industry) probably includes all the big names.
What type of commercial providers are you saving money by moving to?
USPS is government-run (please, spare me the "it's a private business" and everyone else that's about to chime in with "well actually") so what do you expect when it comes to customer service? They're the cheapest option in general and deliver faster than UPS/FedEx using Priority Mail (though their Express Mail product sucks compared to the courier services of UPS/FedEx), so people are going to go with them due to Ebay sellers and everyone else abusing flat rate packaging.

Getting USPS to care is impossible. I actually got a reply from Jeff Bezos in addition to a "?" email because Amazon was using USPS on Sundays for delivery, but USPS is unreachable on Sundays and Amazon has no way of contacting them either, so when USPS deliverymen refuse to deliver packages to my very obviously open business on Sunday citing that we weren't there (bullshit), there's nothing I can do. I wrote it up, sent it to Jeff, and they blacklisted USPS for my route on Sundays and now use Amazon drivers.

Unfortunately, if you go through USPS, they don't care. Much like any other government service you use.
putting the screenshots of the workflow in a huge, horizontally scrolling google-drive hosted PNG is really obnoxious. Why not just put them in the article?
I don't think there's any confusion that people who are sensitive to sodium & benefit from cutting back should cut back. If you know it works, great! The argument is about everyone else, especially all the folks who have no idea whether reducing sodium helps them or not.
I look forward to the author's next article, "Joining a Gang is Good."

(I don't know if it is something he will write, but I think the reasoning would be similar)
It varies, but a call to your local jurisdiction can get a shade put on a light. My city painted a segment of the nearby intersection’s diffuser black so it doesn’t shine in my eyes when I’m on my balcony.
For some reason this links redirects me to a blog article about a dispute between archive.is and their registrar. Replacing .li by .is works.
People doing favors for those they know rather than a free, open, arms-length market

This describes most markets that are not in fungible commodities.
depends on what segment you are looking at (phones anyone?).

Never mind that MS have a long long history of playing dirty.

I distinctly recall that back when the netbook first appeared, MS did a 180 on their efforts to kill Windows XP because Vista could not run on such low spec hardware.

Never mind that later on you could find Dell selling Windows equipped netbooks with a rebate campaign that made the higher spec Windows variant actually cheaper than the lower spec Linux (Ubuntu) variant (what is the chance that MS was funding that campaign?).

Damn it, these days Microsoft waves the OEM license fee for tablets with a screen below 9 inches.
Dart VM != Dart server in this case.

The focus of Dart 2 and beyond is the client side [0].

You can definitely run Dart in the VM, but beyond the HttpServer API, server-side support is mostly a community effort.

My point isn't that this is a bad thing, it's that it makes sense for Firebase to be promoted because Dart doesn't have _official_ server-side support.

[0]: https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-2-80ba01f43b6
Perhaps the meditators were better able to recognize their actual lack of giving a fuck
The FIFA API is hard to understand but has all of the info as well. Here's a list of all matches in the group stages; I don't believe the round of 16 matches have been generated yet.

https://gist.github.com/dmlittle/9733711dcfa638b304884198d75...
Most people find out from having it measured at a doctor's checkup, but, if it gets high enough it feels like someone's squeezing your brain.

The lack of symptoms for most people is why the US has things like free blood pressure checkups, and automated machines in the waiting areas of pharmacies.
I couldn't find any documentation but here's the list of match endpoints: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330254
I don't have time at the moment to read the article in detail, but it sounds like the experiment tested non-meditators on work tasks immediately following a meditation session. I don't believe that this has much bearing on the overall levels of motivation on someone who does or does not meditate in general; it's easy to imagine that right after a relaxing mindfulness session people would be a bit sleepy and less inclined to carry out experimental makework tasks dutifully, but the meaningful benefits of meditation would presumably last much longer than such drowsiness.
I agree but I didn’t want to say that as it seemed obvious (at least to me).

Mozilla, a non-profit, which produces primarily a browser with currently a small market share, needs to do something to bring in some revenue. Having Google as the default search at one time (and may still be) a revenue stream for them.

But on the last point about advertising. I disagree with your statement. In many cases, advertising allows consumers to know about services and goods they might otherwise not know about. This isn’t inherently bad. I believe the adtech way, though, is because it puts at harm a lot of people’s data for, often times, a very negligible benefit in reaching consumers.
> Google has surprisingly shown strong support

IIRC, Flutter started at Google.
And Ian Hickson, the guy behind "HTML5", is one of the core contributors.
This happened to my friend in his 50s. He was a storage specialist working for a bank. Since they outsourced to IBM a few years ago he's been stacking shelves in a supermarket.
It'd need to use actual markup to display the text, so the images aren't really the problem. They could generate invisible DOM elements with the proper ARIA roles attached in order to support screen readers and then the way they render the text wouldn't matter.

The slides seem to just be bitmaps so they could also just attach alt text to them...
I understand why you find it unlikely. I share the sentiment, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt -- if this is a leader of a traditional company, managing tech may not be in their wheelhouse. They may be perfectly capable of carrying this change forward without help, but are first engaging in a respectable attempt to research the perspective of tech folk, to help guide their upcoming decisions. If so, we should be commending them for reaching out to learn more before making decisions that will impact so many people.
Why isn’t research more decentralized?
Googled, am surprised:

"FedEx recently stated that only about 3% of its revenues are derived from Amazon, while an estimated 7% of UPS’s revenues come from Amazon."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/11/22/wh...
The last version looks much better to me, and much more extensible.
Might not hurt to do both.
It feels like there's too much blood in my head/face.
No. He did it to himself, through his actions.
Push to End Daylight Saving Time in California Moves Forward
I read through your comment history to try to find some examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928482

There’s a recurring pattern: people ask you to back up what you say, and then you respond with “I won’t do that.”
I'd honestly rather run the risk of having to legally work somewhere a few weeks than the company having the power to simply dismiss me without cause. I always hesitated to simply be myself at work for fear of this sort of thing when I lived in the states. I lived in a small-to-medium sized, fairly christian towns. I'm a bisexual athiest that doesn't care what race she dates. And in general, I'm a good employee, especially for the sorts of jobs I had. Once place need actual cause to fire me, I can relax a little.
The army wants people that are married, they are more emotionally stable, have stronger connections to their nation and foster what they consider to be important american values.
> reducing sodium

What do you mean by that? If you're talking about salt, then that's sodium chloride, not sodium. Can't you just say reducing salt?
I've been out for decades, things have probably changed somewhat, but I think this is for a housing allowance and related expenses. I don't know if this is really the reason, but I've been told it's because a married service member is taught to be a more stable service member. Similar to the supposed justification for mortgage deductions, because owners supposedly have stronger ties to the community.
Hell, USA didn't sign the international copyright convention until 1980!
It is interesting historical information. Except for the introductory statement "Which contradicts the whole idea of an engagement ring" which essentially asserts an expectation that we should accept this historical practice as the correct basis of laws today.

I'm currently 53. When I was 19 or 20, I had a college classmate in her 70s iirc who talked about legally needing her husband's written permission to even get a job when she was in her twenties. This was the degree to which women were treated as property. So, yes, around 80 years ago, marrying well was just about the only hope of financial solvency a woman had.

I'm a former homemaker. I raised two special needs kids and followed my husband's military career around the world. Between that and a serious medical crisis, I've been really dirt poor for years and spent some years homeless.

So I think quite a lot about the degree to which society and husbands really ought to compensate women more for their labor and personal sacrifices in raising kids and supporting male careers at the expense of their own.

But policies are always two edged swords. Given how incredibly poor I have been, I am incredibly leery of the existence of actual laws still on the books that are rooted in the historical artifact of treating women literally as property of their husbands, even if that law is supposedly in the interest of the woman who is otherwise expected to accept being treated as a man's possession.

I have worked hard to try to find my voice in a world that is often openly hostile towards a former homemaker and her views being treated like a real person. I get crapped on a lot by self-proclaimed feminists who are often childless career women who seem to not actually be happy with their lives and are taking it out on me for various reasons.

The world needs very much to find a way to help people both stay home to care for children when that is the right answer for the family and also help them get a real career afterwards when that time has passed. The law in question is part of the manacles that keep women oppressed and poverty-stricken.

Please note I was careful to not attack the GGP. I just commented that it made me feel better about a detail of my life that I occasionally lament as evidence of a lack of "romance" in my life. I had something better than romance. I had a husband who genuinely cared about my welfare, something that is typically lacking in marriages based on the idea that he basically bought her because he has money, even if it isn't as explicit as such arrangements once commonly were.

The engagement ring laws cited are part of a polite form of selling oneself into slavery. It should be ancient history, but in 49 states, it is still the law.
That doesn't do anything at all on my Mac...
For your reading pleasure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
This? https://pypi.org/project/PyAutoIt/

Curious if you have tried the other method (I have not): https://stackoverflow.com/a/9371563
I wonder what u/Alupis is thinking today? via a HN thread in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951624

> Seems rather sad state of our Patent system here in the US where a 19 year old with no prior technical background, who was a Chemical Engineering student, a sophomore no less (meaning barely finished or finishing General Ed. requirements and just starting Major courses), can write and file for a highly-technical patent involving radios, sensors, embedded devices, and the like...

> It's very doubtful she understood how any of that works, or would work in her product/patent. Underlying story seems it's absurd this was patent-able.
My non-technical grandparents use Excel for tracking expenses. Yeah, they couldn’t do complex formulas or macros, but that’s irrelevant.

Using basic spreadsheet software is at least as ubiquitous as owning a home PC in the US. You can assume pretty much everyone can work their way through it, maybe with some help.

Meanwhile, you could easily argue that filling in the same data in a web form via a browser would be less intuitive for many people.

And regardless of which is easier, keeping the data private is clearly a priority.
Tolkien at least had that attitude towards LOTR being printed in paperback in USA in the 60s (never mind that the publisher did so on questionable legal grounds).
I imagine it is going to take you a LONG time to do this. Some apps will migrate easily, others not so much. If you want to look after your people build a program of work in place that helps you realise immediate benefit while giving you the change to reskill people as you migrate to newer tech.
I wonder why there hasn't been a media outcry like with Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Richard Scrushy, et al. People wanted those scoundrels drawn and quartered, but no one's calling for her head. Is it because of her sex?
It's worth noticing that China has been unable to figure out to build high-performance jet engines, to the point that most of their military and civilian engines are imported. The metallurgy is apparently quite difficult, commercial product volumes are high, and customer expectations are even higher.
You could either call it discrimination against unmarried servicemen or extra support for families in the military.

But yes, if you're married you get a significant raise. Your wife also gets extra benefits, like health insurance.

This, predictably, leads to marriages of convenience:

https://www.today.com/news/us-soldiers-shop-wives-get-more-p...
@eb0la is probably right. The trends and challenges in the Enterprise favor p2p solutions to solve several different problem vectors.

The first is Scale. Ever greater scale in terms of data, number of endpoints, workflows, locations… you name it. Moore’s law means more computers doing more things at every point in the Enterprise, but especially at the edge. Scaling enterprise systems will be one of the great challenges over the next decade and not just for the web monsters. Everyone will need to contend with scale. The good news is nothing scales like P2P. It’s organic. When every client is also a server, greater scale simply means even more supply and faster speeds. It’s the reason 20 engineers at bittorrent could build software that moves whole percentage points of total Internet traffic (link to recent exabyte blog post?), traffic volume ten or twenty times the size of even the largest websites with thousands of employees and large infrastructure and operating budgets.

The second is Reliability. Making workflows reliable is quite expensive with traditional architectures. Building in redundancy for high availability can be very expensive and grossly inefficient in the client-server model. Conversely, P2P is naturally resilient and reliable when there are many potential sources for the data. If one is not available, no problem, pick among the thousands of alternatives. P2P is resilient while remaining efficient in resource utilization.

Finally, as mentioned above, there is a growing need to operate at the edge of the network, where resources are spread over a wide area and potentially over low-quality networks. If the experts are right, there will soon be 10 times the data volume at the edge as in the cloud. (see gartner). Managing workflows at the edge of the network will require a centrally managed P2P solution (like Resilio) utilizing a combination of technologies to solve all of the above.

Managing Enterprise workflows reliably and at scale, in the cloud or on the edge, favors a p2p solution and you already see it in various IoT, container orchestration and edge computing architectures. Expect to see more.
> proton-proton collisions per second…referred to by physicists as “luminosity”

That's an interesting way to reuse that term!
Most food packaging measures sodium in mg, so I feel using those units is easier to reason about for most people.
When did you last try it? That certainly was the case 10 years ago or so, but current versions of Libre office at least in my experience, do pretty well with Microsoft Word layouts.

My other observation was that a lot of the "formatting" that I see in office documents is unnecessary and only there because the software makes it easy.
Yes, I served in the Marines for 4 years and I experienced this firsthand. Unmarried service members often times get the short end of the stick: less pay (if married, you get extra money for housing and food, and separation allowance if you don’t live with your spouse), crappier or more duties (hey! Give the unmarried people stuff to do after normal work, they have no spouse to go home to!), and more. This leads to a whole set of issues: people - especially junior service members - get “contract marriages” where they get married just for the extra benefits money and benefits, which leads to a high divorce rate, and people getting charged under the UCMJ for cheating on their “spouses”. It’s dumb and insane and people should all be paid the same and receive the same benefits
Jobs in the private sector do not come with lifetime guarantees. If you have new jobs you could train them to do, great. Otherwise, give the people you will lay off notice and severance, and let them figure out what to do.
This is a very materialistic culture. All around us the story is told that to be successful and live life to the fullest you have to make a lot of money, own expensive things, the latest gadgets, sports cars, mansions, be surrounded by beautiful men/women on your own yacht, etc. Few would deny that people with such material success "have it made" or are "living the life".

That's what many people's whole lives are focused around. Their families often pressure them to be (or at least dream of their being) rich doctors or lawyers (or, more recently, tech billionaires), etc.

If you don't make it in these material ways, for whatever reason, you're often viewed as a failure, as a loser, still living in mom's basement, and so on. You might be working at a shitty job, making very little money, being treated like crap or a replaceable cog, unlikely to ever afford to retire, watching your family (who are also poor) be bankrupted by medical bills or not being able to afford the medical treatement and care they need as they grow older.

None of this is likely to help your self-esteem, it might even make you depressed (surprise!), and when you run in to psychological or physical difficulties from your decades of working at a no-future job and being treated like crap while others in the media or in rich areas of town are sipping cocktails or going vacationing in exotic locales while you continue to sweat it out at the factory or the call center or the online retail warehouse where you're even penalized for taking bathroom breaks and can't afford to go on vaction (if you get any), you might feel like you're on an endless treadmill and you might actually start to have trouble coping. Imagine that.
A little tangential: POSIX reserves the suffix _t for itself [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-...
> So /usr/bin technically started out as his or her home directory […]

That sounds wrong. /usr/bin existed at least as early as V6, but the 'bin' user's home directory was /bin.
So all the genlock magic and TV station usage was the unintended result of a never released laserdisc peripheral!? :-)
Put the battery we have now into a Nokia flip phone from the 90s. It’ll probably run for weeks.
Ketamine is a very safe drug. My guess is in many of these cases the patient was also on some other drugs (prescribed or otherwise), which a) likely contributed to the need for sedation in the first place, and b) contributed to the respiratory arrests. That is, however, only a guess, I obviously have no specific information about these cases (I can speak from personal experience that the vast majority of people I end up sedating have been using drugs or alcohol (off the top of my head I can't actually think of a single exception to that)).

A very minor pedantic point... "EMT" generally refers to providers with a few months of training, and a very narrow scope of practice. The providers administering sedatives would be paramedics, who have a couple years of training (the report cited by the article does use the term "EMT" though).