skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democratically organised open-source organisation
i want to create an open source project blog... i am hoping someone can give me any advice on what i'm trying to achieve... are there any examples out there i am able to study? i would like advice on the direction i can take my side-project to align my projects goals to what potential end-users want?

i am a software developer and i do not understand much about businesses and organisations. this seems to make it very difficult for me to find out more information about what i am trying to achieve. i have tried searching "open source business model", but all i could find out was things about was advice on running companies from the perspective of some kind of CEO-type figure.

i was optimistic enough to think i could finish it by myself, but it seems that to create the project that i am trying to, is too much for one person... or at least too much for me to do by myself.

as a result of personal effort, i have made several functioning components for the project and i remain passionate about my side project. i am wondering what my options would be to be able to continue my project as open source.

while open source will allow for other developer to be able to work on the project with me, i am not interested in any particular help from the software development perspective (the main purpose of the project was to challenge me as a developer)... my main difficulty with this project is the organisational aspect. i have no idea what i am doing when it comes to business, legal etc (basically "things-that-aren't-software-development").

i thought maybe i can create some kind of blog that i kept up-to-date as the project progresses. i can add some commenting feature so i can get public feedback on the direction that i am working towards.

i have made a start at: https://glitr.io ... but this is a new method of working for me and i do not know anything about working this way.

i could use any advice/ideas anyone is able to give. thanks.
Yes, programming languages come and go, but I don't see how that matters. Some future historian will either have access to a working copy of xz or they will not. If they don't, and they want to implement it, having a copy of the source code is far better than anything else you could give them. Sure, future programming languages will be quite different, but humans will certainly be able to read and understand C code. If humanity has forgotten how to read C code (and lost all knowledge of it), how are they going to read this documentation you seem to prefer? Human languages come and go also..

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaeo-Aragonese

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

Any argument you can make about historians being able to recover dead languages you can make the exact same argument for their ability to recover dead computer languages, and there is no better or more accurate specification than the actual code.

So let me add to my recommendation, in addition to a copy of the xz source code, include a plain text copy of any 'how to program in C' book, or just the wikipedia page for the C language. That is more than enough for them to construct a program that can decompress xz files, once they relearn how to read whatever long dead language the book is written in (Ancient Pre-Cataclysm Earth English for example).
If this "no privacy from Apple" widget is using separate low power or parasitic power circuitry, it is entirely possible for it to be running and operational in a switched off phone with a battery on 0% charge.

Buy a Nokia, perhaps?
This story kinda reminded me about Mark Rife:

> “Last Thursday, a guy I went to college with, Mark Rife, committed suicide. As I understand the story, three years ago his wife Sarah died due to complications from a fall off a 75 foot waterfall. She fell; he dove in after her. Against all odds, they thought she had recovered. Life had returned to some degree of normal; but then six months later, she died in her sleep. Mark was devastated.

> In a video he left behind, Mark describes leaving Sarah’s funeral, driving who knows where and simply wanting to die — but he remembered the time they watched the film Juliet and Her Romeo, a film he loved, and he remembered Sarah’s question: “Do you think Romeo would have still killed himself if he’d waited 1,000 days?”

> So, Mark went on a 1,000 day odyssey, with funds from Sarah’s life insurance policy, to give him time to see if his choice would still be the same. Would he still want to kill himself? Mark traveled, explored, met knew people. He says he “followed every impulse.” Mark had been a pastor in Hawaii, and he left his life behind.”

> Long story short, after 1000 days of living and exploring 22 countries around the world, Mark Rife decided that he DID want to kill himself. He didn’t want to live in a world without Sarah and he was out.

http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/the-1000-days-of-mark

Mark blogged every step of his 1000 days of travelling and seeking happiness. Tumblr deleted his blog the day he killed himself. To their credit, Vimeo left his video up https://vimeo.com/27856790
Just cycle though every website on the Internet and have the PC pause when the requested page is loaded obviously. It worked for Teletext.
> It seems you are making a big issue out of language learning, which is more of a practical matter, such as taking not being able to fully comprehend a local's driving directions to be discrimination. It might pay you to explore this issue (a commenter here called it "baggage") within you.

You know when you start saying stuff like 'a commenter here called it "baggage"' it sounds like those fascist dictators who couldn't say "me" or "I" but would in a convoluted manner refer to themselves in third-person. You can throw away that ego you have in the bin where it belongs and just say "I said I have no baggage".

> not being able to fully comprehend a local's driving directions to be discrimination.

You have a huge difficulty in comprehending the simple English that I am speaking. Where did I say we had difficulty comprehending local's driving directions? We caught the locals giving wrong directions because I understand and speak Tamil. So I knew that they were fooling us and when I spoke in Tamil they giggled and gave the right directions. If you are going to justify this sort of maliciousness with your logics then go ahead. You are only doing a great disservice to your people.

> Everybody is racist/classist/casteist/etc. to an extent. Do you see that in yourself as well (in regards to your driver not being able to comprehend the driving directions given by a local)? If so you might well be on your way to understanding what the word "identity" means ... B-)

I see you have absolutely zero comprehension skills because you thought my driver could not comprehend when I clearly mentioned that the local gave the wrong directions and he was caught red-handed. You are prejudiced, a racist and couple that with ego and we now have a recipe for disaster.
From day one I’ve wanted a way to disable the automatic-reenabling feature.
> Why do you do that?

The short answer is because it makes me feel better.

The long answer is that it prevents tracking my movements within a store. Stores appear to be increasingly installing and using such trackers, and I do not wish to be tracked.

Not being able to be identified personally, or to be identified as the same person who was there last week or that I also went into other stores isn't sufficient to me.
> As far as I know Apple’s declarative API doesn’t have the same low rules limits as Chrome’s planned one either.

Safari content blockers have a limit of 50,000 rules.
I honestly don't know a single person or a business who shuts down computers for 16 hours/day consistently.

Not a single one.

Power consumption should be measured as 8-10 hours at 50% load, and 14-16 hours at idle.

That easily doubles your estimates, I think. Not to mention the places where power is more expensive than $0.12/KWh
This is a big reason I chose a cheap state university for my MBA and have paid for it in cash while taking classes part-time. I absolutely wasn’t willing to take out $165,000 at a 9% I test rate for some of the top tier programs and private schools.
This seems cool. I was trying the demo out, but I had to sign in? Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of the 'Use Sample NDA' button?
Also, couldn't the BLE beacon be used by "smash and grab" thieves to find devices in your car?
Ricochet, for one.
Worth mention: Craft Design Scissors https://www.shopkanso.com/products/craft-design-technology-s...
A thread from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=932956
Sure, gender is different from sex. The point stands. There are major biological differences between females and trans women. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just a part of life. Pretending everyone is equal is just lying to yourself.

But of course, people should be treated equally (in most cases).
Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic
This is interesting and (like everyone else) I have a few questions:

- Will this be based on open, industry standard protocols?

- It looks like there are multiple applications combined into one giant system in the web- and Android apps right now. Will those be interchangeable (with say, third party implementations)? Are the apps somehow connected (do the music player and the gallery for example get their content from the drive)? (Basically, does it follow something like the Unix principles [1]?)

- Can I self-host this without AWS? If no were there any privacy/ethical considerations taken around the decision to go full-AWS?

I know these are critical questions but as a potential customer I'd like to know this kinda stuff. I understand if you don't have answers to everything atm though and I like the spirit of this project! :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
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For comparison, activating all uBlock origin registered filter sets takes 281,078 network filters ＋ 210,016 cosmetic filters.
Yondr pouches don't actually block RF, they just physically prevent you from using the phone because it's in a sack held closed with a magnetic lock.
Guess the experience varies country to country but at least they generally reserved selling for the ad breaks. Unlike say a paid unboxing video.
^ Legitimate Ways You Can Make Money Online Using Facebook (Tested and Trusted)
Sorry, what does it mean? I'm only familiar with the term when it comes to currencies...

I think electric cars centralise the problem of air pollution, which in turn makes solving the problem from a centralized place more efficient and can be improved as technology improves.

It's like when centuries ago, urban places didn't have sewers and just let the excrement flow down the open gutters on the street (we are here with combustion engines). In time, sewers were built, but the untreated sewage would flow in to rivers & oceans (similar to as if electric cars became the norm now). In time, sewage treatment plants were also built (power generation shifts to fossil fuel-free).

Same way as we now look at open sewers in disgust, I'd say down the future we'll probably look at combustion engines in disgust and say "how the heck did people live like that?"
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Thanks.

> You make it sound like everyday Hindi and everyday Urdu are far apart, but I'm not sure if that's true: if you took a Pakistani Urdu speaker and an Indian Hindi speaker, both from the middle class with only a modest amount of education (and therefore limited access to specialized vocabulary), both would have no trouble at all talking to each other.

Hence this from the parent post: It is only the mash of Hindi-Urdu called Hindustani (popularized in modern day by Bollywood) that's mutually intelligible to both Hindi and Urdu speakers alike, and only in its spoken form.

> And when you ignore vocabulary...

That's the crux of my point. The punjabi dialects vary mostly in phonetics and not so much in vocabulary. In my case Gujarati and Lisan ud Dawat aren't exactly mutually intelligible in spoken form and most def not in their written form. As for Hindi-Urdu, it is mutually intelligible when in its hugely popular Hindustani [0] form, which is what your saying as well, I think.

> I don't think it differs grammatically from everyday Urdu either, with the possible exception of ezafe.

That's one difference that has Perso-Arabic tilt to it. The Urdu/Rekhta literature has other elements [1] that diverge from high Hindi that it couldn't possibly pass off as the same language as Urdu, imo. Exhibit A: https://www.rekhta.org/ghazals Most native Hindi speakers would have trouble parsing through most of those Urdu ghazals, I'd reckon.

> At formal and literary levels, however, vocabulary differences begin to loom much larger (Hindi drawing its higher lexicon from Sanskrit, Urdu from Arabic and Persian), to the point where the two styles/languages become mutually unintelligible.

Exactly. For a language like Lisan ud-Da'wat spoken by a much less number of people, there's a common ground with Gujarati which is simply to speak the main language Gujarati itself, even if the core vocabulary and grammar are similar between the two. The only thing working for Hindi-Urdu mutual intelligibility, imo, is that Hindi is spoken by a large number of people who are exposed to Urdu, on a day to day basis, and vice versa.

I guess, like someone mentioned [2], 'a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_alphabet

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6759103
Apple has their own apps. Do they collect data on children?

Will they let some high profile devs slip by? Apple is known to be anti consumer.
Does the model from high school actually work that well?

High schools definitely seem cheaper (though I’m not sure how much cheaper), but I don’t think high schools have as much incentive to increase performance.

Regardless, I think the bigger problem here is we don’t really know what we want from colleges. They’re a status symbol, a rite of passage, a place to learn about the world, a place to try out adulthood, a place to party, a place to demonstrate intelligence, a place to learn career specific skills, and a place that promises to lift people out of poverty.

Those are all very different things.

I think we’d be better off if each of those goals were separated into different institutions. Colleges have become little utopian towns in which everything a young adult would want is wrapped into a single package. It’s like the space shuttle: it’s been designed by a committee that wants it to do everything. Expense and compromised performance is inevitable.

I think parents, kids and employers are as much to blame as the institutions themselves. You can get a lot of what college promises from different sources for a fraction of the cost. But we don’t accept the alternatives that should be driving the cost down because college is such a deeply ingrained institution, and is considered the only onramp for most forms of success. We accept the price because we feel like we have to.

The key to a good negotiation is the willingness to walk away. Until we accept that there are alternatives to the fantasy package that is modern day college, I don’t think the price will lower.
Yori: CMD Reimagined
I have had to retype this comment many times to restrain myself...calling people who cannot endure "cowards" is shameful and I wish you could see how wrong it is. Yes we should try to stick together and that is a huge part of the problem, but not the fault of the people who cannot survive. They aren't just bailing because they are lazy or have nothing better to do or are not "sticking with society" in some strange obligation, rather because they suffer pain you cannot comprehend, because if you could then you would never demean them in such a way.
Read Alex Kozinski and Misha Tseytlin's classic essay "You're (Probably) a Federal Criminal" – http://alex.kozinski.com/articles/Youre_Probably_a_Federal_C... - in the US, there are so many federal crimes, so expansively defined, that almost every adult has probably committed at least one, and the only thing keeping them from prison is that they aren't on some prosecutor's hitlist. And I don't think this is an exclusively American problem either, it is a problem in many other countries too.
> I do a lot of aosp builds for some of my clients

If you don't mind - what kind of job are you in that you can do AOSP professionally? I always saw that as a pure-hobbyist thing.
A starting point... after which the countless "out_port" incantations begin.

All just to get to unchained mode (aka Mode-X) with hardware scrolling & split screen, 256 kB VRAM, VGA latch fills and VRAM to VRAM latch blitting. It was amazing to be able to set or copy four 256 color pixels by writing just a single byte.

Of course VGA latch blitting didn't make any sense on 486s, but on 8088 it could be almost 4x performance boost — 256 colors with similar CPU load as CGA's 4 colors! At least as long as you needed to blit something to an x-coordinate that's divisible by 4...
Minor nit: you probably mean "suite" instead of "suit".
And don't forget manufacturing costs! You'd be lucky to take 20% of the retail price.
$500/month is quite a lot. Are you hosting videos? Or some high traffic image site?
What does that have to do with the topic at hand? I am talking about irrational hatred for a language. Not about how a language can be misused. The misuse of language is secondary. What is the point of knowing about slang and cant if you aren't even going to learn the language in the first place?
Disclaimer: I'm not an HVAC professional, but I did apply closed cell foam insulation to one of the rooms in my house.

In my experience, the spray does a very good job of sealing the joints where applicable. That's probably not the right type for an attic, but more insulation would generally be better than less.

That's not a particularly scientific approach, but when we're talking about old houses, you're almost never going to be able to do everything the way you want 100%.
I agree. This invention does nothing of real value. Perhaps it makes you life a bit more convenient but it's the difference between ordering a pizza in 30 minutes and ordering a pizza in 10 minutes. This can't enhance human well-being- it's simply a toy for rich techies who can afford to pay a premium to get their stuff all the faster.

I wish Mr Bezos would focus on something of real value- asteroid mining and transferal of polluting industries off-world.
BLE is insanely battery-efficient. And in most scenarios with a lost device, it's either stationary or will be stationary for a sufficient period of time to be discovered, so a ping only once every hour is probably more than enough to locate it. Or a ping with exponential backoff as battery depletes.

Sending the locations from these pings likewise also uses negligible battery, as Apple already coalesces timers and network traffic like push notifications.

I don't understand the mentality where people think Apple would have announced this without doing any testing on its battery life impact.
I can't even tell what they do from the page.
Plus, the company saves by not having to pay for more office space, parking, cafeteria, yadda, yadda. Instead of cramming people into an open office like battery hens to save money on high SF office rents, people can work remotely, commute less, and save the company money on offices. The cost of communication software is far less than even the skimpiest open office rent and build out.
I'm not sure I really understood this. If you wanted to delete 10 bytes, couldn't you just read a sector, then copy the sector back sector[10:]?

Edit: then delete the last ten bytes.
With respect, if you're not targeting Google Search, then you're not targeting "Google".

You don't help your case by misleading your prospective customers, who are themselves self-identified "geeks" who might be able to help you make this goal a success.
I'm actually on a final salary scheme but I'm only 33. If I stay in this job for a long time and work for promotions I could end up with a massive sum without even putting anything aside. If I also invest my money into the stock market then I'll be very well off in old age.
Having read the article, I'm not sure I agree.

First, leases aren't mentioned at all. Second, committing changes looks a lot like optimistic locking, due to the version number they're assigning to the lock.
Completely depends on your use-case. Writing/building/running Java, JS, Python, or anything else architecture-independent? Data processing? You're set. Building release binaries for a native-code application? Yeah, no. But it totally depends what you're doing.
4GWe is a stock design for a PWR nuclear power station, 4 reactors of 1GWe each, sharing the infrastructure.

UK lagged behind the times, yes. Doesn't mean it shouldn't catch up skipping ye olde misdesigns.
Don’t think phone. In the keynote I think they showed it with a Mac, which isn’t available with cell service. Or as someone else mentioned maybe you have an iPad without cellular.

It would be useful for those.
Family swamped by avalanche of bills after son’s death: 'It’s continuous'
Sure. I pulled my data in the standard takeout.google.com/ process. The result is a json (? iirc). I parsed the json into x, y, and rasterized it using gdal.

https://imgur.com/a/ZhyTsDV

See I wasn't sure if I lost it in the couch in the living room, the office, or the bedroom.
This got me within a few feet.
It's Bluetooth Low Energy, though. Should last for quite a while?
You can derive a new public key from someone's ECC public key, and they can derive the corresponding private key by applying the same transformation. It's somewhat magical! I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is using a scheme based on this instead of ElGamal, they already use ECC extensively.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
The T2 chip is a derivative of the A10. It has similar power requirements to the SOC in modern iPhones.

They could probably use a cut down derivative of the W2 chip used in AirPods with the audio codec etc. removed. I’m guessing phone batteries reach a point where they’re still storing energy but can’t provide enough current to safely boot the whole phone. The BLE chip could sip on the remainder of the battery for a long time.
Mobile is much more difficult to monetize than consoles. People have become accustomed to getting mobile apps for free.
Mine was down 5 minutes, already back up. SSL connection failed which would point to the Heroku load balancing stack and they deal with the SSL handshake.
Yes, that. One source of electricity is as good as another to the car, so once cars are converted to EVs, the problem of pollution can be solved without involving them.
Thank you!

Offline first[0] is planned for Q3/Q4 2019 :)

[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
Ha, this is an awesome use of the data. What a cool plot showing the "density" of pings.
He isn’t dismissing those people or their hardships, he is saying that the actual number of 40% that many politicians use is disingenuous.
That's a good resource. I beleive a lot of these optimizations are in TensorOperations.jl but given the head-start, there's probably still some good ideas on the table in that library which people should be learning from.
Posted many times. Some past threads for the curious:

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800243

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3064098

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211574

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=List%20of%20inventors%20killed...
You'd have to do this for every sector in the file or increase potential fragmentation. Alternatively they could support an offset in the beginning, but it might wear out the decide much faster due to lack of alignment. In either case though I feel the capability would be nice to have regardless...
Yeah, Thank you!

Fixed :)
Will the last BI vendor please turn out the lights
Jonathan Blow on solving hard problems