skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Army orders next-gen World's Smallest Stealth nano-unmanned aircraft
This has been posted a few times today...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19359510
I find catered lunch a mixed blessing. Plus = free lunch. Minus = spend less time at lunch getting closer to co-workers (drive/line/wait/food/drive-back). Spend more time at office instead out around town.

To put it another way

catered lunch = just another meeting except with food

going out to lunch = break/mini social event with friends
Partial information is better than none.
> I realize our patent system is totally fucked up, but hopefully not so fucked up that things like "user authentication" can be patented.

You kidding? You have no idea how many user authentication patent battles have been fought.
Eyeballs
> a misguided mission to penny-pinch

What do you mean by this? I save at least 10USD a week by buying certain items from Aldi. 10USD is a lot of money for some people.
oof. It would be nice if there were some clarity on what happened on those flights - even if it's only for the families who lost people. That said it would be nice to know what is going that has resulted in such an (apparently) above mean crash rate.
Meta question: Since this article is a repost and the comments from 2016 and 2019 say the article is largely incorrect, by what process did it make it to the front page.
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tl;dr: this is a repost, and panned article, how's it here?
> Elastic, it seems to me, is the not-at-all rare company who is truly committed to using “open source” as a marketing gimmick

Don't think it was that nefarious. More likely that the original developers were committed to open source, and then took lots of venture capital money to keep coding and making cool things. Now those VCs want a return on their investment, and effectively have control over the product.
I was one of the core contributors to Famo.us' WebGL engine. Feel free to ask any questions about "mixed mode" (i.e. WebGL interlaced with DOM)
Having the respect of those who implement the spec. To my understanding, WHATWG has basically usurped all of the W3C's influence and just let it stick around as a figurehead. But it has no real power anymore to incite change.
WhatsApp's Wild East
I graduated from college and moved to SF in the mid-00's and it was still a ghost town after the bubble burst. In hindsight, it was the perfect time to come, because rent was still very depressed and my generation didn't have any of the bubble scar tissue.
I’m a huge fan of TBL but the solution will not come from governments and corporations, they have nearly every incentive in the opposite direction.

Slowly, slowly people are waking up to the realization that we the people must solve this ourselves, with a solution that cannot be controlled by any one party.

We did this with strong encryption but that was much simpler. The set of memes and values people need to understand will be similar but larger in scope.

It will probably take 10+ years to get there, but we’ll get there faster the more we stop looking up to hierarchical authorities for solutions, and looking around at their fellow netizens.
Yeah. I mean I only go out with friends for lunch on fridays anyway, but the purpose of the free food is definitely to keep you working longer.
The KV Storage API appears to be almost identical to the extension Storage API in Firefox, which is a joy to use.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Cliff Stoll now sells beautiful handmade Klein bottles out of his Berkeley home (by appointment) and is a lovely guy to visit. These are, for my money, the finest non-orientable manifolds available in the Bay Area today.

https://www.kleinbottle.com
Since you mention your public key on the profile- can you link me to your github? I'd like to 'get some inspiration' (cough... Copy ;))
When I tried the adjusted volume version of the higher frequencies, I didn't like it anyway heh.
You’re both right, in that regulation serves the group that most successfully steers it.

The notion that more often than not, incumbent corporations are the ones writing the regulations, is not exactly controversial. Given the recent treatment of net neutrality, I don’t hold out much faith in the open web getting a fair shake right now.
Is a US War with Iran on the Horizon?
Right? I am 27 and I would take a bigger salary over a bean bag chair at my desk and free snacks. I got bills to pay and mouths to feed. And honestly I work better in a cubicle with headphones than I do in an open office.
Wonder how the other shareholders did.
Indigenous datasets: A listing to help AI perform better in India
when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
This is vaguely discomforting but perhaps inevitable in a world where open source is sponsored, funded or developed by corporate interests.

The connection with end users and ideology has been broken as everything from the kernel to major projects are corporate funded and driven.

And most inadvertently acknowledge this when they raise concerns about the sustainability of projects without financial or corporate backing. The exploding complexity of things like browsers and projects like Systemd make the idea of individuals and smalls team developing alternatives without corporate backing a non stater.

Most open source projects in the last 10 years would see this kind of acquisition as an ideal outcome and for vc funded ones a necessary one. Even a 'fork' of Nginx at this time would most likely be driven by commercial motives so the 'vague discomfort' expressed in this comment itself is perhaps misplaced.
Amazon's internal policies towards open source and side projects are incredibly restrictive (in my opinion). If Amazon doesn't really want its employees to engage with open source, how genuine are the motives here?
I clicked on the GitHub repo in the hopes that it was going to acknowledge that shells have aliases built-in but that this is somehow different. I’m afriad to say that appears not to be the case. Worst of all, you can’t even use your shell’s builtins with these “aliases”. For example anyone who uses this and makes an alias with `echo` or `time` in it is going to be pretty confused.

EDIT: I hope the OP / author isn’t too put off by the criticism. Props to you for writing something and sharing it, and keep coding! But also take some time to reflect on what you’re building and the context of its use. Cheers!
The cloud that creates an Itunes like solution for OSS, creating a business model for OSS and earning the respect of developers will make bank like Apple did. Am hoping for one of the cloud players to adopt this strategy.

Disclaimer: Views expressed above are my own and do not reflect any opinions from my employer.
We replaced F5 with Avi Networks and we are a global fortune 500.
Who made Michael Bay the military's media director?
So true. How many takedown requests per week do you think Apache.org gets from megacorps of the form "Our employee asked for help, and their debugging logs published our internal URLs. please delete this post and all replies" ?
Andreesen blocked me, a little nobody, when I had a different opinion than him when he was supporting an argument for an investment in some kind of app targeted at young people in Southeast Asia. The app was supposed to aid them in their entrepreneurial endeavors (or somethign like that). His comment was something along the lines that the app would be highly utilized because just about every young person in Southeast Asia is entrepreneurial. I commented that that's not what I see in Thailand where everywhere I go I see nothing but kids making silly conversation and sharing selfies. He called me a racist and blocked me, which was particularly amusing because my son is one of those kids. So could I be racist toward my own son?
And for people wondering why this is relevant, Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi Nord.

(American stores with the Aldi brand are owned by Aldi Süd. Nord [North] and Süd [South] are separate entities owned by brothers, and they voluntarily avoid competing with each other geographically in Europe. The easiest way to tell them apart is with their distinctive logos.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
A big wart in shell aliases is that you have to reboot all your terminal tabs/windows to see them.
Didn’t Google get burned by doing that and “accidentally” collecting Wi-Fi network data?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...
I also couldn’t find accuracy stats online or any form of explanation of how it is so accurate. The Copenhagen museum states that only atomic clocks are more accurate than the Jens Olsen clock, but there is no support for the claim.

For a mechanical clock that needs to be wound once week I find it hard to believe it is more accurate than a high accuracy quartz with plus minus 10 seconds a year.

Maybe they reset the time each time it is wound.
Endless War Between Elon Musk vs. SEC – Who Will Win?
I'm sure one of these already exists. I kind of like writing docs or rather tutorials. I often wonder if there is a startup there, docs as a service. Hire us, we'll make your docs site and write all the docs.
Either its so good that its worthy of being standardized or its not and google is flexing its monopoly muscle and trying to kill competition.

Many here hate Microsoft, some probably copy others not knowing what's to hate but the minority that knows the 1990s knows what was so bad, and if they still use anything google then shame be upon them
> baffling URLs

Yikes. No more difficult to understand than a phone number, and people managed to memorize the most important ones and keep an archive of the rest. I'd argue domain names can be even easier to remember as they're just words, not just a string of numbers.
I was wondering about an ESP32 as a display device. Elsewhere in this thread there are links to video being driven via the ESP32.

I have this crazy idea of a 8-bit avr with an xmem interface connected to ESP32 GPIO. Assuming the higher clock rate of the ESP32 is enough for it to bitbang pretend to be an SRAM it could give the AVR of 64k of 'video ram'.

It's a bit weird delegating a more powerful processor to a subsystem, but at this level I don't think it is so much about the practicality as the aesthetic.
Is this post generated with AI or something? It has that should-make-sense-but-doesnt vibe to it.
Exactly, as can be easily seen by the score of my comments. I'm 99% sure the downvotes are coming from the supporters of the Russian opposition (fanboys of Alexei Navalny, in particular).
While I agree with you, companies should really know what a free-as-in-free-beer license means for an open source product, AWS effectively plays the helpless victim in the linked blog post. If it was a simple "we knew this was going to happen, so we forked it" they would have made a
short announcement instead of a 1500 word essay on the issue.
I use vim so I use a terminal nearly all the time. But I also do non terminal things and none of my personal computers have anything other than i3. If I only needed tiling in a terminal I would just use tmux
Were you thinking of Checkpoint (Nokia) IPSO[0]?

The earlier versions were based on FreeBSD 2.2.6.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point_IPSO
I'll take the basic creature comforts, but just think about how much money all those massage stations and fashion shows cost, and how big of a chunk that must take out of everyone's paycheck.
I'm struck by the connection between this and the Air France Airbus 332 which crashed en route from South America to France about a decade ago.

It seems that the 737MAX (at least, the one last year -- we don't know about the latest one yet) crashed because a faulty sensor caused the computer to automatically point the nose down in order to avoid a perceived stall risk and the pilots weren't able (or didn't know how) to disable that.

In contrast, the 332 crashed because a faulty sensor misled the flight crew into pointing the nose up and getting into a stall.

In both cases, crashes resulted from reliance on a faulty sensor -- but in one case it was flight crew and in the other case it was software. Solving this isn't going to be as simple as saying "the flight software should defer to the pilot" or vice versa.
Smartphone Addicts’ New Tactic to Break Their Habit: Buy a Second Phone
Curious how you think Kong falls short of Nginx. Isn't it built on top of Nginx via Openresty/ngx_lua?
Planes don't just fall out of the sky. Having 2 major crashed on the same model could indicate mechanical defects.

When microsoft faced an issue with statistically increased failure rates they initially played the plausible deniability game ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems#Re... ). In fact this is the only response you will ever get from a public company with short term looking stockholders.

I definitely wouldn't buy that xbox for $300 if I heard similar news reports, but I sure as hell wouldn't buy that $300 plane ticket and bet my life on boeing's words.
Choosing the Adventurous Route: The Career Path for Non-Managers
I mean sure, I would take a small pay cut for a private office, but I'm not sure that's what they thought they were asking.
F5 is loosing huge customers to a company called Avi networks. F5 employee told me F5 is scared of Avi. Might have been a move to try to compete.
Shocker, people care about the place where they're expected to spend the majority of almost every day doing mundane work for an awful bureaucratic behemoth. If that's the work you do, for whatever reason, I hope to god you're doing it somewhere that will at least make a shallow attempt to court you. I also hope the work is interesting. If neither of those are true then that ain't a good situation to be in.
I honestly and personaly think is better and no snark here ok or affiliated thinking ok I think initially that in a business wise or business view stricly ok I think I would probably keep my core ´´pulo do gato`` logic on coding lines right for my sustainable material reality of sustainable way of living righ...with confort yah people enjoys it we all enjoy right...

if you find hard to see how to keep your company afloat opening your main magic step of the code arquitecture that financialy monetarily strictly speaking gives you the bread of everyday and the building blocks of your little dreams right...then you as I would too my friend , not only have the freedom to do so , furthermore...An Conservatory approach is Always the best way...righ...

I would keep usually probably 1 step above the open one a little ´omitted` yeah to use a more beautiful word...so, because of the bread of tomorrow right:

The Old circus Master Edvar and this is absolutely TRUE!

Said MAster Edvar that for a Circus Woman or Man, the Art of Blowing Fire, as impacting and beautiful as it is ( I , Marco Taves, have a picture of myself me blowing a meteor of 3 meters high or much more and 2 meters thick Ball Of Fire from my own mouth spitting lumpenõl(german)/querosene(portuguese) )

so...

Edvar Master said that:

Blowing fire is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow!!!

SO!

I open source what I in this example would could but keep 1 little step: Not for the bread of today, right...But mind you: The bread of tomorrow yeah...

And this paragraph above is the important one in this comment ok

I mean no much analogies with the pulo do gato, ok, we make good analogies, or we do not make any analogies, ok!!! Thats what I do but you have freewill, right!

so...

the story of the Onca[1] (Panthera Onca) and the pulo do gato[2]

thanks

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar

2- explain later or googlefu yeah...

thanks!!!
They look even more upmarket than that in Australia.
Elon Musk says the SEC is making an unconstitutional power grab over his tweets
Pure software open source projects should not accept VC money and expect to stay purely open source for long.
Zendesk | Software Engineers | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE | https://www.zendesk.com/jobs/view/?job=a3c838ff-cf85-4701-ae...

Email is one of the most critical communication channels for Zendesk. Our system sends and receives millions of emails a day and our customers rely on us to keep the processing times fast and maintain high outbound delivery rates. The email team is a core product group that does platform, operational, and feature work.

About you:

* You are curious and love solving difficult problems

* You are mature, empathetic, and have strong communication skills

* Colleagues describe your code as beautifully clean, efficient, and maintainable

* You have deep experience with at least one dynamic language, preferably Ruby

* You know your way around relational and key-value datastores

* You have experience working on large-scale, business-critical systems

Some nice-to-haves:

* You have prior experience working on the front-end (React/Redux an even greater nice-to-have)

* You have ops experience and have worked with Docker and K8s

* You are familiar with email standards (and how they’re broken)

* You understand or have worked with SPF, DKIM & DMARC

* You have a Bachelor's (and/or graduate) degree in Computer Science or related
I literally cannot find a shell that I’ve heard of that doesn’t support aliases. Surely some must exist, so I’d be delighted if anyone here could point me towards one.
You're the second person to point this out, but I don't see how company ownership is relevant. Aldi and Trader Joe's are completely different stores in terms of design, inventory and pretty much everything else — they're a world apart.
I feel you've way over-generalized here.

> open standards people

Who are "open standards people?" Are you talking about the individual folks who author/edit/audit/etc. RFCs? Or small-ish groups of people organized into a committee who then create and publish various standards? Or giant corporations and non-profits butting heads to eventually produce some semblance of an agreed-upon standard?

> 5 billion users do not care

5 billion people don't care? I'd argue that there are less. If you asked a selection of that population a question using terms and phrasing commonly used in tech circles their eyes will indeed likely glaze over and their reply will be equivalent to a "don't care" because they genuinely do not care about an open chat standard nor should they. However, asking something like "Would you like to be able to chat with the same friends, families, colleagues,
using well-known identifiers[1], regardless of which application you use?" You may begin to hear some "care."

You see and hear a similar argument with the folks who argue that a majority ("most") of Internet users "don't care" that their information is being Hoovered up around every corner. If all we were asking is "Do you care that ostensibly non-identifiable information about you and your browsing habits is being transferred to <some service> so that <some service> is able to provide you with a pleasurable browsing experience," you'd likely get something along the lines of "don't care." Instead present the individual with every data point collected from them, along with what is inferred by their data in aggregate (and everything else that goes in that package), and couple that with the difference they may expect in browsing experience between continuing to permit <some service> collecting their data and not. Now that they've been asked a question, using words and terms with which they may be more familiar, you might begin to see a shift from _everyone_ not caring to some amount less. Or not.

[1] "well-known identifiers" is still eye-glaze inducing, but am too tired to come up with something better.
Technically a millennial here: would take a salary cut any day to not work in the average bank or auditing firm.

I worked at a PwC office for a while but couldn't stand it. In this case I ranked the work place as more important than salary.

Of course there's a point where this doesn't hold up. I would not work for free, but the last time I did a round of interviewing and got multiple offers, the top contenders were 100% based on non-salary motivations, such as the team, the atmosphere, work-life balance, free healthy lunch and even natural light.
Probably not a ton. But technical writers need resumes, too. Some of them might also be programmers. Or interested in transitioning into a programmer-writer.

I pointed someone in this direction on an hn thread a few years ago.

My educational background is in writing, but occupationally I'm primarily a programmer. I do some work on doc contributions, too. It's a nice way to give something, however small, back to a project I use but am not prepared to contribute code to.

I think it can also build naturally to more substantive contributions. People who did not write a system but have to understand it well enough to document it are well situated to ask questions that expose design flaws, write blog posts/tutorials that help you onboard new users, triage issues, help out on any forum/list/chat, and more.
That's a straw man though- just because the action makes sense doesn't mean it supports open source software.
Does the link just come back here ?
> I definitely wouldn't buy that xbox for $300 if I heard similar news reports, but I sure as hell wouldn't buy that $300 plane ticket and bet my life on boeing's words.

I suppose we agree, but just to a different extent. I could conceivably buy an Xbox knowing that it might crash at some point. But I wouldn't buy an airline ticket knowing it might crash at some point.
I used to disagree on this point, but based on the way things have gone lately I think it's worth reconsidering. I definitely use the term 'FOSS' to try to convey that I'm talking about the term open source to mean free software. The trouble is, I don't necessarily want to be looped in with all of the opinions of rms, for example. rms has a different idea of what 'free software' entails, as evidenced by GPLv3. (Personally I still vastly consider GPLv3 to be an acceptable open source license, but you can see Linus Torvalds disagrees pretty staunchly with its added restrictions.)
With an open standard, I don't see why you can't host your own social network similar to how people host their own email servers or websites right now.
Only if the deal had any chance of hurting consumers, which it does not. Customers in Europe have many supermarket chains to pick from, including a near-perfect clone of Aldi called Lidl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidl

Besides, why should the Government force a company to open stores where they have chosen not to?
you can also mark it as favorite for future.
Someone on a flight once explained to me that the noise on an airplane is a large factor of why flying makes you tired: your brain is constantly processing all that background noise and looking for patterns in it. Since then I've always worn earplugs on flights, and usually also big over-the-ear headphones over them (just turn the volume up slightly higher). It's been a big improvement in flying comfort.
Every new Elon headline I see these days, all I can think is, "what a shame"
Not _exactly_ true. You just need to re-`source` your dotfiles. For example, in Bash this looks something like `source ~/.bashrc`. I have this aliased to `src`, personally.
Downvoted because I don't think this comment adds anything.
It seems, time to use Amazon Drive: $12 for 100Gb annual. I was dropbox paying customers for years but stopped my subscription in 2016 in favor of Google Photos and iCloud. I realized there's nothing to store there other than a general photos/videos, all my docs takes less than a few gigabytes of data. Also I was changed for nothing, like restore file deleted a minute ago.