skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a full time open source independent research in an extremely tight financial spot, due to my cursed idealism, what means of surival are there for someone who can't stop working on my obsession?

I am an honest to God searcher of the truth, so I'd hate to turn this into a commercial project. Also getting a job would be a highway to a psychiatric hospital due to being overworked. Done that multiple times and wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy,

Anybody have experience on how to make this lifestyle work, or do I have to give up on my dreams and get into to the line as the rest?

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http://sigma.eruditenow.com

* had I been the kind of person who have enemies
They could factor in the repo's "pulse". More active projects get a bigger slice.
Note the comma: I was specifically referring to the advice against attempting to polyfill it. The Babel reference was attempting to convey the idea that instead you need something on the same order of complexity as a compiler to do this properly, but the details about JSBI are why I linked to their writeup rather than trying to summarize it.
That's exactly what pcp-dstat does. /use/bin/dstat is a symbolic link.
Arturia microbrute is a great first analog monosynth.

The Arturia microfreak is an interesting new digital synth in a similar form factor.

The Yamaha Reface CS is an 8-voice virtual analog synth with a very understandable layout. Basically a juno 106 in an apartment-sized form factor.

As someone else mentioned, the volcas are a great starting point, and the korg monologue has an oscilloscope built in that makes learning sound design surprisingly understandable.

Just my opinion, but I think you should stay away from the Roland Boutique synths. I found them very unpleasant to use and not inspiring at all. I have not used the 808/909 drum machine boutiques - they may be better.

You can always go vintage. E.g. Some of the 2000s grooveboxes (electribes, various roland mc-xxx things) can be had for $100-200 on craigslist, and will be a ton of fun.
If you are doing deep structure compare to check if an object was "changed", you're doing "mutable programming" wrong.

IMHO, if you're doing deep compare on anything for any reason, it's usually a sign that the data model is on a shaky ground.
By simply asking that question you're already more likely to get a better result than if there was a known-wrong choice bundled into the standard library.

But really that's just a tutorial/discovery issue, which has many solutions. And not even a skill isolated to programming - how do you pick the "right" item on Amazon to buy?
In which country do you think this might happen? Sounds pretty absurd where I'm from.
The "increased environment age" is justified by longer lifespans, but these longer lifespans are greatly affected by the income inequality gap. The people that need SS the most aren't experiencing great increases in lifespan length, so are therefore hurt by the raised retirement age.
I tried getting sublime to work with a 60k file code base, I got the indexer down to 20k but the CPU usage of the indexing process was always at 100% when building (diagnostics showed it wasn't doing any index db changes) even though I filtered out most of the build cruft, third party code, and useless sub directories.

Vim with cscope/ctags is the best of both worlds. Index your project once -- no penalty when building. Symbolic searching is a must have on any large code base (declaration, usage, etc).
And I am probably going to vote pirate party this weekend at the EU election. Because the industry still hasn't acknowledged the shift in culture. Societies move so slowly...
Not wrong, though.
Huge thanks for all you great minds who answered this! I got many helpful tips which I'll definetely start experimenting with while waiting for my diagnosis. Once more: thank you!
I think this is a bad development. The allure of getting paid for something you do for free can be too great. This may lead to OSS devs, especially those who do the work for free now, expecting extrinsic reward for their work. Extrinsic reward for work that once provided intrinsic reward can lead to cessation of that work, if the external reward lessens or goes away. A new type of dev may emerge from this who won't have the same values as the ones who do it free of charge.

I can see this support feature changing things, but it won't in the way you suspect it will.
Thermal Stabilization of Viral Vaccines in Low-Cost Sugar Films
Sure. And that's what most research is: Take an existing idea and make it better.
Well, I'd certainly exclude C from modern high level language, but I am obviously forced to concede that's not what I said before. :)

Instead, I'll have to confess ignorance; I didn't realize that C's goto was that insane but it seems it is. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6021942/c-c-goto-into-th...

I'll have to ask the reader to suitably modify the post above. The tamed goto made available in most modern high level languages can't break the analysis, because the compiler will reject it, i.e. https://play.golang.org/p/2tA7Bpof611 (hit "run" to (try to) compile)
I love TCL, personally. It's my favorite language to play around in.
> If it did that then there would be more lobbying the legislature to change it while complying with it and fewer lawsuits being filed because people disagree about what's necessary to comply with it.

I'm not interested in theoretical arguments contradicting easily verifiable facts.

> Then why do they have a bunch of settings where you can turn it off?

You can't turn the privacy violations off that Google commits for their own profit.

> It seems like you want "free" services funded by targeted advertising but you don't want targeted advertising. Is that not an inherent conflict? If the end result is that you end up paying for your services with money, why don't you just start there?

Why on earth would I pay for a service I can get for free? It's not my problem that Google doesn't charge for their services. No, they aren't trading services for privacy since you cannot trade services for privacy in the EU anymore.
No, it's not cheaper as you have to factor in the backup energy you have to build to support when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining.

I would urge you, if you are really interested in the truth and a rational position on this, to go and do the research. |

I did which is why I am very very aware of the difference between speculation and demonstration and how much of the claims of wind and solars ability to power most of the worlds energy needs are a completete utopia.

Again less than 1% of the world's energy is the consumption of solar and wind, and that's with all the political tailwind it has gotten.

A lot of the cost of building nuclear is extreme bureaucracy and the kind of security metrics are being asked, yet it's still much better than solar and wind in the long run, much safer, more stable, cleaner, scalable and cheaper.

So yeah lets remove the subsidies. Wind and solar will fall apart.
> I heard an interesting idea the other day: give all males a vasectomy (or some form of long-term birth control) at the age of 14. The purpose is to make having children a conscious decision instead of a "whoops!" and put downward pressure on the overall population.

Wtf did I just read?
The safety and improved switching speed is good, but why the fuck does it have to connect to the internet? We already have a giant risk with both vulnerable infrastructure connected to the internet and horrid IoT security practices; the solution to that problem is not to combine both issues into a single product.

Also I like how they are praising the potential energy savings of this and then mention their next big hurdle is reducing thermal losses compared to mechanical units, which pretty much implies it's turning your fusebox into a shitty space heater
Thangrycat: A Serious Cisco Vulnerability
IMO both of you guys should take a look at Pulumi. You could still use a makefile but using their TS clients to access the APIs is much more intuitive and easier to diagnose than shell scripts.
Finding New Opportunity for Old Coal-Fired Power Plant Sites
If the proposal is mandatory restrictions on CO2 emissions then giving every citizen an equal share of the allowed emissions vastly beats giving those to industry or taxing people. Doing this also creates awareness about CO2 usage among the populace.

Opinions on climate change are irrelevant to my proposal to give the credits equally to everyone or some other scheme. If the population isn't in favor of a carbon regulatory regime, then it doesn't matter how it is implemented, we'll just replace the politicians who act outside of our preferences. The point of giving everyone their share is that it is literally fair and not just a scheme to enrich carbon alarmists or activists.

Of course the lack of opportunity for graft and criminality is exactly why my proposal won't happen. But we should tar and feather any pol or bureaucrat who implements any other scheme.
> I have access to one of these data feeds of bid requests, and for the most part, they're right. Pick a random entry and even after hours of searching and correlating with the other data we have on file, it's unlikely I'd be able to identify exactly who it was (ie. Their name and address) on that website.

That's you, but what if Vodafone buys this data? They know the personal data of their broadband users but they don't necessarily have religion or other personal preferences... should they?

Or how about when it's me? Maybe I just know this space better? I can get email addresses from pretty much anywhere, md5 them, check against the email hash from Lotame (or someone; it's almost always unsalted md5), and match that against Google's Bidstream. Bingo: Now I have email to "intimate" data[1], which probably surprises a lot of people!

[1]: I like that term better than both "special category data" and the older "sensitive personal data"... I think I'm going to use it
How do you achieve FDE on a Pi type device? The author states the companies strict data policies, but seems the solution is carrying unencrypted data, and a modifiable boot environment in their wallet?

Not trying to point out any shortcomings, I honestly want to know if people reading this have a solution. Many people are relying on Pi(s) to self host data to keep it secure, despite the Pi as a platform not offering any protection in this regard.

EDIT: (Forgot to mention the Microsoft folding keyboard as the "best" of the super portable keyboards, which is still not that great, but has saved me when my MacBook has developed stuck keys)
I have been dreaming about a government system of laws that uses open source version control with a github-like ui, maybe even a constitution. If I had my own country, that's how I would do it.
These days I just search the music I want on youtube and then youtube-dl it.

Things youtube don't have (I am french and I know that a lot of french punk/rock/metal I like is not easily found) Spotify is unlikely to have either.
There's a difference between deliberate underfunding and an inability to pay. We could theoretically "fund" the military in the same way that social security is set up and then claim it's going bankrupt. It still wouldn't make it unaffordable.

The point is that millennials are being conditioned to expect a vastly watered down social security in order to manufacture consent for watering it down (or handing control over to wall st)
Stats like "2%: The percentage of Patreon creators who earn more than the federal minimum wage through the site" are pretty meaningless when there's zero barrier to signing up and asking people to fund your hobby.

People shouldn't be misled into have unreasonable expectations of how easy it is to make a living this way, but I'm not sure how much of that is Patreon's fault. It's a platform, you still have to create the value and attract customers.
For those who didn't notice, there are two follow-on posts that I also found interesting:

https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20180511-Tr...

https://petergarner.net/notes/index.php?thisnote=20190205-Tr...
Space shuttle is rocket with wings and additional 2 million parts.
I stopped torrenting a long time ago. But if the media streaming market shards too much I would start again.
Ssshhh! Maybe if we don't tell them they won't get to us!
It is a loop, but passengers are not allowed on that segment. If you manage to stay on the car, you also get to take a quick peek at an abandoned station.
We had jails, but we didn't have virtualized network stacks, pluggable TCP congestion frameworks, or bhyve.
Hobo Nickel
UWP and Xamarin have a lot in common with WPF. The XAML used for UI work is very similar across all three platforms and many of the controls are very similar, if not converging on the exact same. (On the one side, with XAML Islands you can even have UWP XAML inside your WPF XAML or even have UWP XAML inside your Win32 app. On the other side, a lot more of UWP controls are moving to open source up and out of Windows itself in the upcoming WinUI 3.0 library.)

Even with Windows phone "dead" and maybe you don't need Xbox or HoloLens or Surface Hub or the best experience on ARM devices, there's still a lot of advantages to UWP for GUIs (or arguably the best, most comfortable, most adaptive experience on Desktop/Tablet). There's also a lot more opportunities for "hybrid" development to migrate Win32 applications a piece at a time (instead of needing to restart form near scratch an entire Win32 application to move towards UWP), so the birds and bees are living together better now and it's no longer a "war" between Win32 and UWP. But the implication is still that all of the energy on making better Windows UI controls and experiences (such as Fluent Design System 2.0+ work) is going into UWP controls and experiences. You can get there slowly from Win32 or start fresh with UWP. If you know UWP, it should be easy enough to use Xamarin for cross-platform UI work on mobile, even with Windows phone "dead".
Mutating the H5N1 bird flu–on purpose
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http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/ms-v-hokeji-2019-live.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-vs-ruotsi-hockey-live-tv.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-vs-ruotsi-hockey-live-tv01.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-vs-ruotsi-hockey-live-tv02.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-vs-ruotsi-jaakiekko-elaa.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-vs-ruotsi-jaakiekko-elaa-tv.pdf

http://slovenka.zenskyweb.sk/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-v-s-ruotsi-live-fitv01.pdf

https://www.kustavi.fi/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-ruotsi-live-elaa-tv01.pdf

https://www.kustavi.fi/sites/default/files/webform/suomi-ruotsi-live-elaa-tv07.pdf

https://www.kustavi.fi/sites/default/files/webform/verige-finland-live-hockey-titta-pa-tv09.pdf

https://www.kustavi.fi/sites/default/files/webform/verige-finland-live-titta-hockey-pa-tv.pdf

https://www.kustavi.fi/sites/default/files/webform/verige-finland-live-titta-pa-tv08.pdf
> There's no Silicon Valley whipping horses in this story

When Patreon says this to the press: "Finally, ‘starving’ and ‘artist’ no longer need to be joined at the hip"

...they're inviting scrutiny.

There's nothing wrong about setting that target, it just is really outlandish. If that motivates them, good for them. But there are millions of starving artists, and a company that makes a serious dent in that problem would have to be enormous.
I find it ironic that this is an article about someone who works remotely is surprised that everyone else works remotely.
> That's sad. Was it because of disagreements?

No, he moved to work full-time on Upspin: https://github.com/upspin/upspin
Named after a region where the company's founder adventured down to in a Econoline van and made a first ascent up Cerro Fitzroy, which is part of the mountain range shown in the company's logo. It would be worth taking a read on his history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard, the man is an absolute giant in rock climbing and alpinism.
I think as long as we base the kernel of the Government on Rust (for a fearlessly concurrent Government), we'll be in the clear. Also protects against terrorist memory tampering.

Congress could submit new laws to Blockchain to combat tampering and ensure proof-of-work.

My startup is working on Artificial Intelligence to predict laws that model cities like San Francisco or New York would want to implement in the face of acute social woes, so if Government 2.0 could provide a RESTful Lobbying API, that'd let the People move fast.
The Art of Doodling
Fixed it for you:

> I love TCL.

> It's my favorite language

> to play around in.
Apologies. Looks like HN does not allow me to edit. :(
Agreed, I like Spotify quite a lot. But for movies, Netflix simply ins't cutting it these days. Try searching for any movie from 2000 - 2010 [1] that made more than a million in the box office on opening weekend. Most of them are not there. I want to watch films like Harry Potter, The Dark Knight, and Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, they are either scattered across a dozen different services or simply not there at all.

What I would like is a rent-on-demand method. Xbox almost gets this right: they have plenty of titles you can rent for up to 24 hours. You typically pay between 3 - 6 dollars per film. More recent films are more expensive. However, I would like to see the cost go down, especially for older titles. Basically match any Redbox prices (1-2 dollars), and provide a way for me to stream it on-demand.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_film
Even lawyers have a hard time dealing with secretive no-fly lists - I wonder if face triggering by resemblance to data on a list is accessible enough to contest.
But it's really not. Pretty major difference between floats and arbitrary precision, like how you'll get different arithmetic results passing in 42 vs 42n. Just like any language that doesn't let you mix float and integer operands. Also, what's even the return value?

You need to make a deliberate decision about your data, not deck the halls with just-in-case programming. The software you write will be much better for it.

Besides, even if you could justify a bunch of typeof checks and you were doing it everywhere, Javascript already has a way to spare you from repetitive code: a function.
Read a while back about a new storage backend named zheap that was meant to obviate the need for Vaccuum. Was from a year or two ago and at the time they were aiming for PG 12. Wonder where they stand now. Looking at their Github, it's still active:

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/zheap
I don't think they're referring to multiple threads when they say different part of the program, but instead that you should be able to reason about mutation locally.

For example, if I pass an argument into a function, it may be 'unexpected' that the argument is mutated - I can not reason about that mutation locally (unless it's very explicit or a known idiom such as push).

However, within a function, avoiding mutation seems pointless as you should have no trouble reasoning about it. At some point you really are just throwing away performance with significantly diminishing benefits.

Shared mutability across threads is definitely a huge pain in the ass though.

In the end I think we're all just trying to reduce the state space we have to manage in our heads when we read and write code, and removing mutability reduces that space.
RFC for Blockchain-Flavored WASI
From the article:

[T]he jury focuses solely on games released in Germany within the past twelve months. From my understanding, a game needs to be available in a German edition prior to the end of March to be considered.
> Those who don’t have paid subscriptions probably aren’t that interested in music in the first place.

Or aren't interested in supporting closed corporations that benefit financially more than the artists who produced the music in the first place. It's a predatory system trying to get grandfathered in from the (g)olden music industry days, and to be fair involves bigger fish than streaming services (labels, promoters, etc.).

I'd provide a counter argument putting blame on artists: those who aren't selling and promoting themselves via a personal website or websites like Bandcamp probably aren't that interested in monetizing their music career.

As someone still paying monthly subscriptions to streaming services, I've recently begun to purchase more DRM-free music in lossless format. I get the best possible quality of audio, directly support the artist (or more directly than via streaming), and I get to keep the music indefinitely, as long as I can manage the storage requirements. It's not cheap nor easy, but I believe it's the fair approach for consuming music, and look forward to the day I disable my streaming subscriptions.
Japan has been running a national debt at somewhere between 200% to 300% of GDP for at least a decade now. They seem fine. The deficit is actually not a big deal in comparison to the threat to the economy posed by climate change or by endemic poverty. The obsession with opposing deficits in the face of crises that are WAY worse than any vague threats posed by a large deficit is bizarre and really just a covert way of trying to make sure rich people never have to pay their fair share in taxes.
Congress didn't mess it up, economic reality and math did. It never should have been designed to rely on population and productivity growth.
And right after your paraphrased quote, after describing one of the reasons those wealth taxes failed one: “Too many people just start from the assumption that it’s impossible,”

May I inquire, are you starting from this position as well?
> put downward pressure on the overall population.

Most of the developed world already has below replacement-rate fertility (in some cases significantly below).
Firing Up the Neural Symphony
Those feel like they were created by orders from top management, because of some strategic decision (microsoft needed a flash alternative, or a Windows 10 store UI framework etc).

They don't feel like the product that would come if DevDiv did their best to produce a sane UI framework. They feel rushed, semi-overlapping, half-finished.

I imagine it should be possible to make just one more xaml framework which is cross platform, and much better than WPF (and it's derivatives), and much better than the js alternative (Because of deployment, not least).

I'm not sure if there is any incentive for ms to put their weight behind it however.
When I built GitButler[0], I did so fully expecting that GitHub might come one day and kill it by providing a better integrated solution. That's the natural order of things, ultimately, whoever owns the platform, controls it and 3rd parties can't do much. That's also the reason I've shifted my attention more towards open platforms lately.

[0] https://www.gitbutler.com
Depends if political stability can be maintained. The Earth produces enough food now to feed about 10B people, a roughly 50% increase over total world population. We still have famine because of distribution problems: the food doesn't get to people who need it, and instead gets hoarded by those with power.

Global warming isn't likely to cut total arable land or food production (if anything, it'll likely increase it), but it definitely changes the distribution of arable land. Current breadbaskets like Southern Europe, South Asia, and Brazil might see frequent droughts; currently desolate areas like the Sahara or Canadian Shield may become fertile again. If countries can work out trade deals so that food gets to where it needs to, things can work out. If they start closing borders and saying "fuck you I got mine", there will be widespread starvation and war in many regions.
The Athlon XPs did run hot. I don't have a handy link right this moment. Maybe someone can look it up..