skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the main author of a popular open source project, I can see a growing divide between the OSS ecosystems of large corporations versus that of small independent developers.

Large corporations tend to stay away from independent projects altogether. For example, my project has several thousands of stars on GitHub and gets tens of thousands of downloads. I've interacted with well known startups on many occasions but I've only once interacted with someone from a very large and well known corporation which was using my project and it was quite strange because when I asked if I could mention the company on my customers page, they told me that they have a policy against using their name as an endorsement... Yet when I look at other 'mainstream/corporate' OSS projects, their website is covered with big brand names.

I think that the problem is both that big corporations are less likely to use independent projects and also that if they do use them (out of desperate necessity), they don't want to admit it unless they know that other corporations are also using it.
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Any idea what license it has? I can't any CC references.
I had a similar path, from MS-DOS 5 / Amiga OS point of view, something like SGI seemed great and I dived into Linux zealotry a couple of years later.

But then a rich library at university campus opened my mind to other models of computing and sundenly pure old UNIX wasn't that interesting any longer, only NeXT, which used UNIX compatibility more for winning over Sun's customers than anything else.
> One in 9.2 quintillion. Those are the odds that you will correctly pick the winners of all 63 games played over the course of the tournament. Mathematically speaking, there are 2^63 (~9.2 quintillion) number of ways that you can fill the bracket

This is wrong. Many of the games are not even close to 50-50.
Pushing a one line change to prod without review
No, this is correct. They've identified 2 known corrupted 'files', and by restoring them from 'backup' they were able to restore functionality. What is cool/notable is that the restore method worked on a running device, and they didn't even need to 'reboot' for the fix to take effect.
https://langserver.org has a very useful set of tables. It currently has 5 entries labeled "vim/neovim".
This, 100 %.
Depending on the company you either take personal leave, dipping into your paid vacation, or you have a day worth of pay reduced from your salary.

The companies that give you actual sick days are rare, but thankfully more of them are popping up as the old guard changes. one notable exception from memory is that kids coming here to teach English get unusually cushy conditions.
A million times this.

Every public interaction you make is an excuse for Facebook to shove it in the face of your friends. If you see this and angry-like it, it pops up on a few hundred more feeds. Rinse, repeat. Viral.

Facebook is particularly bad because their moderation team appears to be staffed exclusively by a pile of libertarian twelve year olds. I've flagged local drug sales, sexually explicit content (no, not casual or functional nudity) many times and had my flags rejected.
This is commonly stated, but untrue. Here are a couple of studies on this topic. [1] [2] And the always critical third link. [3]

The nature study carried out specific tests and indeed surgical masks did surprisingly very well at blocking particulate matter all the way down to 1 micrometer, with a significant effect on much smaller particles as well. PM2.5 = 2.5 micrometer / 2500 nanometers. The NIH study compared the health effects of individuals with/without masks in everyday activity in Beijing.

I think the assumption is that if the particulate matter is smaller than the size of the 'gaps' within a mask then it would be ineffective. I always just visualize a simple experiment. Imagine shooting a stream of particles of a given size at a wall. Now interject a 'net' of practically any size. Now interject multiple 'nets' (as is the case in typical surgical masks). It becomes clear that even quite large large filters will have a non-zero effect on stopping matter far smaller than the max size that can make it through.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/jes201642

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662779/

[3] - https://sci-hub.tw/
As much as Windows NT with POSIX personallity.
In the long term any vote based community turns into an echo chamber.

The popular opinions win.

The users with unpopular opinions get downvoted/censored and are either banned/leave.

Leaving one opinion behind.

Moderators also a play a huge part in this - which is why it's only an illusion of democracy.

I wonder if it would be possible to create truly neutral discussion platform that doesn't end up as an echo chamber.
According to: https://math.duke.edu/news/duke-math-professor-says-odds-per...
by using all available knowledge from seeding and betting odds you can get your odds down to a mere 1 in 2.4 trillion. Or perhaps even as good as 1 in 128 billion if this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Smkv11Mj4 is to be believed.
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I don't know about Japan, but I can confirm that in Kazakhstan doctors actively encourage sick people to wear surgical masks, specifically to prevent them from infecting others.

Disclaimer: I'm not Kazakh myself, but my wife is.
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That is super weird indeed. What is the name of this bad corporation?
What is the relationship of this product and https://cryptech.is/ if any?
What if your window doesn't span the entire screen? It's a frustrating and common flaw in so many modern websites and apps that they simply do not work unless the app is fullscreen on a widescreen monitor.

For example Discord is borderline unusable if it is one of two windows side-by-side on my laptop, and completely unusable if you have three. This can't even be an unusual case for people on UNIX derivatives using tiling window managers - Windows has had functionality to tile windows like this since 7. Whatever happened to responsive design? See Telegram desktop client for an example of how it should work - the layout actually changes as you resize the window.
I didn't want to point at specific examples to see if other people recognized the pattern but here is a few of them (actually could only recall one... I will flag when I see them, but not sure it will get recognized as it's a series of comments):

My top comment being highjacked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19410185

While you are here, this comment is just linking to a paid tutorial for no apparent reason other than self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19416821

I can only recall those because they are linked to my history, I don't remember which thread the others were on.

I didn't look at their history and saw many more, it's just that yesterday I saw a new one on a front page post and though it got out of hand.
Once an emulator gets fairly polished, it's not unusual to spend a week or two on a bug to discover you need to add one bitwise and to mask a couple of bits out of a value somewhere.
This time for sure, right?
Eh, call me cynical but I'm gonna join the rest and say that this looks like yet another attempt to reinvent Emacs that'll eventually just be left to die somewhere. If all this time reinventing Emacs poorly had been spent developing Emacs instead we could've had M-x flying-cars by now.
This can't actually be true, because rats and pigs are not closely related to each other. Pigs are more closely related to whales than they are to rats, which means that if (say) we were more closely related to pigs than to rats, we would also be more closely related to whales than to rats.

In terms of taxonomy, primates are an order of mammals. It follows immediately that humans are equally closely related to all non-primate mammals. (That's not true either, as you can see by e.g. the designation of marsupials as an "infraclass", a level between class and order, but it's the first approximation to reality.)
There's weechat-matrix[1] which supports E2EE and the accompanying python library, nio[2].

[1]: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/

[2]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio/
Weave Scope can do that: https://www.weave.works/oss/scope

Edit: Not affiliated
What do you think of http://rdf4j.org ?
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Sure, if not implemented as methods that return the value of an internal variable, how can one achieve the "readonly" goal?
This is not unexpected, QED (quantum electrodynamics) predicts this. Classically it does not happen because classical electromagnetic fields are in linear superposition. QED has loop diagrams involving virtual fermions that mediate scattering, this is also the reason why these events are rare.
I disagree with a few of the assumptions made here.

> germans will never come out with cost-competitive electric cars

1. because they don't have a Giga factory

2.because they would cannibalise their own petrol car demand

3. they want to push hybrids as the future but its never going to be cost effective as a pure electric tesla

4. china could level the playing field but due to large tariffs, it is unlikely they would make a significant impact in the next 5 years in US and EU.

> tesla stands to make the most amount of money from its performance variants of the model 3 ( which is a cheaper porche in terms of performance). producing cheaper model 3 puts pressure on the balance sheet by unveiling the model y it reduces some of that pressure but keeps the company profitable for longer.
Because ethanol increases the octane rating?
Even if you can occlude your facial features, you're probably still licked if the particular implementation has gait analysis. We need to develop a fremen-style movement system to subvert the sandworms, I mean surveillance
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Transactional reactivity means that state changes are being made in an isolated data snapshot and then, once atomically committed, are consistently propagated to corresponding visual components for (re)rendering. All that is done in automatic, seamless, and fine-grained way.
Where do I put my cross to make more money as a tea farmer?
slightly different market, very common infrastructure and design
> Tumblr rejected all things Yahoo

Having worked at Yahoo, I understand this stance.
> Everything became "oh, look how witty and clever and snarky we are" rather than humor developing organically.

Yes, agreed.
It’s the AGPLv3 they really won’t touch. Companies still use gcc.
According to the Google Group, Alexander Belopolsky (involved in pyq) is a member of Shakti. That would explain the Python relation.
I’m in that situation. I know Lyft exists, of course, and will switch if Uber gets too aggressive on pricing, so your point has merit, but I literally don’t have the app nor account there yet.

OTOH, I believe Uber is already quite profitable in my city (Boston metro), so I don’t think a future of Uber as profitable overall is unachievable.
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> I’ve found it's just easier to automatically presume that everyone has dietary restrictions...

Could you explain more how you do this in practice? Do you list out all ingredients in a menu? Or do you have a list of standard dietary restrictions that most people have (pork, shellfish, dairy, beef, coconut, peanuts, horseradish, salt, ...) and just remove all of them?
Sussman of SICP fame gave a similar analogy. Not really about messaging but about biology in general - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
Buyer beware: Amsterdam seeks to ban buy-to-let on newbuild homes
What OS are you running? I'm really curious on your setup if you're running Linux. I have the same Thinkpad but it's impossible for me to the the idle wattage like that.
My gf showed me an post on 9gag that had a lot of truth; "knowing how to code nowadays is the equivalent of knowing how to read in mediaeval times"
The first one is just someone asking for a product recommendation, and someone else giving a recommendation. Nothing about that looks like astroturfing.

The second one is from an account who doesn't push their tutorial in most comments. A search for [author:vram22 gumroad] shows no submissions for that domain, and a handful of comments.

It's fine for people on HN to push their product, so long as they don't do it too much and so long as they're clear that it is their product.

If you really think something is being shilled it's far better to email the mods to let them know than it is to start meta-threads.
I think the semantic web never worked because of seo spam. The closest it got to adoption in any form was the keywords meta tag. We know how that ended up.
Are you using Dokku in production? I'd be interested to hear how the experience been so far. Are you running it on one single beefy VM or what is your setup?
Ah, I hadn’t realised OP was talking about the region of Romania - and yes, it’s heavily industrialised, with a single lane in each direction road as the main corridor. We saw a truck barrel off it into a field, when it was trying to overtake another truck.

Agreed that there’s no good reason not to.
I use(d) Perkeep (Camlistore) for this but the current version is broken wrt Pleroma (which might be Pleroma's fault) and Pinboard. I'll definitely give Timeliner (and possibly a Pinboard datasource) to fill in the gaps.
Conventional software engineering is extraordinarily brittle, in the sense that any random mutation to a program is likely to cause catastrophic failure: it is very likely that it will not even be valid anymore, or behave in a completely different way. In this scenario, complexity is the enemy, and we take all the well known-measures that are taken in human engineering to manage complexity.

When one dreams of a biological approach, one is interested in replicating the "graceful degradation" aspect of biological structures, which is the opposite of brittleness. If you remove one random cell from your body, it will make virtually no difference. If you remove 1K random cells, you will still not notice anything. If you remove 1M cells, maybe it's not so nice, etc. Biological systems have fewer central points of failure and are much better at adapting to unexpected situations. In this case, complexity can be our friend. I believe it is possible to learn how to design systems more like nature does, and I think this is Kay's dream.
"the NYT was actually one of the first to try and move past their print origins and try a new business model..."

One of the first?

Actually, the San Jose Mercury News had its Mercury Center up and running in 1992[0]. For a time, only the Mercury and WSJ were serious players.

[0] https://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_newspaper_that_almost_s...
How much is 70k after taxes in Austria?
I'm reasonably sure most "back" issues are more related to the muscles than the spine. (people /can/ have spine issues, I just don't think it's as common).
Regarding our IMPALA implementation: It currently also only supports discrete actions. However, our SAC algo is extremely strong. It learned (continuous) Pendulum-v0 within only a few dozen episodes, so you could try that one instead.
As for ease of use: We believe our code is quite user friendly (take a look at our example scripts and configs) and also well extendable due to the strictly enforced modularity of our components and our abstract data flow definitions inside an algorithm.
from [0]:

>Because of the absence of proper blinding, and the inconsistency of the findings, we conclude that further studies are required to evaluate whether or not a causal relationship exists between MSG ingestion and headache.
> why does search sucks so much in open source programs..

If you have/can get command line access to your mailboxes, mairix[1] is pretty good at indexing and searching.

[1] https://github.com/vandry/mairix
So you think their business being endangered because of changes caused by tech makes them incapable of reporting about it. And that makes it totally fine to sweep their critical reporting about tech under the rug and ignore it, because there cannot be a strong bias of those criticized to live in a reality where they're not in the wrong?

Yeah, I see a much stronger/more direct incentive for the second one. And this makes blanket statements in the spirit of "media cannot be unbiased about tech" on this site kinda worthless.

Media does screw up and can be bias. Criticizing that on an individual case by case basis is fine. Spinning a general they-vs-us narrative less so.
So all you need is:
Follow the first 3 steps in the landing page (install the app on your account) and then add --log-junit unit-tests.xml to your test step, and finally send the file python <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomato-bot/tomato/master/t...) unit-tests.xml

Thats it
Self promotion within limits is fine for HN. See, for example, this valued contributor who posts links useful content they've created. Most of these appear to have been upvoted, not downvoted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:minimaxir%20minimaxir&s...
Just a quick comment: as I noted in my other post it is normal for companies to give 20 days of sick leave. Often you can't take them, though ;-) I don't know a single person working as an employee of a large company in Japan that doesn't get 20 days of sick leave. But those stresses are very important. Most foreigners do not get permanent jobs and are not employees. They are contract workers, who get no sick leave. The number of contract workers in Japan is growing, though.
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How is semantic web data being used today? Has there been any research to build a general AI using this?
There's so much human effort directed at developing sci-fi level technologies to target advertising and eventually help sell you crap you don't need. We could have Mars colonies by now if that effort wasn't wasted on something so meaningless.
I talk to most of my Uber drivers and almost always ask about the economics. Most of them seem to have a good grasp on the fundamentals and fall into one of two categories: subsidizing the car they already have and supplementing income or driving full-time in a car dedicated to ride-sharing. In the first case, they’re pretty obviously easily covering the marginal costs. In the second case, I can’t know, but they should able to evaluate it on their own pretty easily, just like the local snowplow operator.

I don’t buy the narrative that the company is built on the backs of a bunch of exploited drivers (assuming you believe taxi drivers are not exploited; if you believe they are as well, that’s probably a different argument than the one I’m refuting).
I have been a fan of RDF/RDFS/OWL for a long time. I started adding RDF in various forms to my main web site shortly after TBL, et al wrote the original Scientific American article. I have also written two semantic web/linked data books.

The uptake for the semantic web has been spotty. I was hired as a contractor at Google to work with the Knowledge Graph and over the years I have had a lot of consulting work in related areas.

That said, if I were building a custom Knowledge Graph for a company or organization today, I would likely use a graph database like Neo4J. Maybe not though - it would depend on the application.
Its interesting to know that they are finally testing. I remember reading about Reaction Engines back in 2012 (I was in college) and them working in this technology. Back then it was in primordial stages.

How does this technology compare with Ramjet technology and X51?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51_Waverider
Probably about as well as trying to predict the result of a coin toss.
Eh, what? At the time (1994) the handbook was written reasonably priced alternatives were MacOS and Windows, both of which froze all the time and had horrible programming environments.

AIX, non-free, was notoriously horrible, too.

And the Wirth systems that you promote here were actually free.

So what exactly is the great stable commercial alternative in the 90s?
Not really, they are mostly around 100 bucks, some have integrated PSUs and might be >200, but 300$ seems like a lot to me.

I'm using a Silverstone ML08 (about 100$ at the time), which is slightly bigger than a PS4 pro but fits a full length, double slot GPU.

The ML05 is even smaller, costs about 50$ but fits only a single-slot GPU.
There is probably a _right time_ to start pulling more libraries into the standard library.
The few times I emailed hn@ycombinator.com I didn't get any responses.

Anyway, I just wanted to see if others thought Hacker News was being astroturfed, I never said those are sure case of astroturfing.

For example this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19419362

Ok looks like it might be, but then I have to check the comment history to make sure this user is legitimate, which look like he is legitimate. So I guess I have to check the comment history of every user that makes a link to a paid product... sounds like a pain that could be automated.

Also, like for the commenters weirdly supporting China, I think the comment history is made in such a way to disguise the nature of the account (otherwise it would be too easy to figure it out, basic spam gets killed very quickly on HN thankfully)

(edit: Looking at your history, your account is 4 years old with two comments in this thread and one comment 4 years ago, may be a highjacked account)
If it's about the same as the P50 I picked up, the NVidia card is not the default, so it only factors in if the user selects it. The off-center keyboard is a minor nit, I really wanted the numeric keypad (and love the keyboard in general).
I wouldn't say that cooking for an elderly bunch of diabetics is the norm, so I'd say you're unlucky rather than the parent being lucky to not cook for people like you described.
How exactly do you go about handling this, show them the ingredients while/before cooking?
I have considered it for avoiding ubiquitous video surveillance and face recognition. Plus also worried about pullution, though dont know how much protection it provides in taht sense.
The more likely sign is not fillings, but acid damage, which softens teeth and cause biting and grinding to wear down the surface of the teeth. You can have no fillings and still have very noticeable acid-related damage.
Works sometimes, but not everystime.
As a hydrogen engine it is also carbon neutral. That makes it more environment friendly than both the existing jet engines and Musk's methane rocket hopper.
In his book programming erlang Joe Armstrong talks about how erlang is OOP in the original sense. You spawn a bunch of light weight processes, and each process is like a living function with its own brain. Pony is a new similar language. Each process can only communicate with the outside world through message passing. You can easily define the semantics of sync vs async, and what to do if something fails. If something does fail, you've decoupled the error handling, and you can respawn processes, even if it was caused by a flipped bit of ram. If you're just synchronous message passing, then it should be just as reliable as java/ruby, and not much slower.

There's still some down sides in that now you can easily get race conditions on human error, you're dealing with distributed systems problems. You have to worry about defining your communication interfaces and keeping them updated, and resilient to change. Message passing has a lot of trade offs.
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The bottom half of the example diagram shows traffic between the "backend" and "keycloak" that clearly isn't browser to nginx traffic.

You'd need to be running wireshark on a network interface that could see all that traffic, so yeah - sort of "at the server level" - in the sense that you'd need to be sitting on the server's network(s) to sniff that.