skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ones that usually flock to platforms. Course then you have classic reddit and 4chan which had pretty simple designs.
Any idea how they do it?
By Obama, but he was required to pick a Republican for the slot, so McConnell made the recommendation (and would've likely filibustered anyone he didn't approve of). Trump made him Chairman.
> We can conclude that open-source projects are still
largely driven by a small number of elite members after over 20
years of evolution. While such high concentrations guarantee the
bottom-line project outcomes, it may be not the optimal situation for
projects’ long-term health of a project. Engaging the non-elite
users’ participation through mechanism and technology innovation
is still a challenge.

Oh how naive! Democracy! Egalite!
On the contrary, other projects where the leaders went away, clearly show that the race to the bottom line ("bus factor") only destroys a project, and is not able to fulfill the role of the elite developers.
The only challenge is to keep the elite developers, not to get more individual contributions. Without efficient leadership it goes downhill.

It would be more interesting to compare the current inefficient businesses practices of a non-technical lead without proper tooling, to the open source practice of the technical lead, with proper tooling.
Some of them will die.

It's that brutal. It's also something people used to do a lot of, especially if they were working outdoors.

I've seen house designs for the South which have an open central corridor. It catches and channels any wind and helps cools the rooms on either side.

I'm sure there are other tricks, but builders don't seem to know them any more, and architects build more with a view to looks than practicality.

Modern architecture - whether it's McMansion design, concrete box design, glass tower design, or suburban vernacular design - can be almost criminally stupid about environmental issues.

There are exceptions, especially in the occasional environmentally controlled low-energy office block.

The reality is that it's possible to manage heating and cooling far more intelligently and effectively in most kinds of buildings. But it's considered a fringe eco-hippy interest and not something most of the population needs to care about.
Yep, you're right. I forgot about that.

GTK3 in general looks a hell of a lot nicer than GTK2 but now I can't think of any GTK3 applications that actually run on OSX...
They're dropping support for Mercurial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket#History
Buckets of free/cheap labor that no longer exists in much of the world.
Scarf also aims to help developers sell open source software to enterprises. The idea of leveraging telemetry by default in exchange for payments specifically targets companies, who can certainly pay for that use case. An issue with Tidelift is that it's more for libraries, but CLI tools are not necessarily included in your project's manifest that Tidelift would see. Tidelift and Scarf can both help open source devs from different angles.
I drive a 2000 Civic with 205k miles (it was purchased used). It only gets about 25 mpg, likely because of a part failure in the fuel system that has been too expensive to fix.

I estimate 1000L (264gal) of fuel burned in it per year. That's about 755kg, and 35000 MJ (9800 kWh equivalent). The combustion produces about 2300 kg CO2. That's half the EPA estimate for "a typical passenger vehicle" [0]. An equivalent electric car likely uses less than 35 kWh/100 mi, so an all-electric power budget would be 2300 kWh, which at typical US power production is about 1400 kg CO2, about 60% my current footprint, on a strict operating basis. The battery represents about 5000 kg CO2, so it would be about 5.5 years until my "CO2 investment" pays itself off.

Given the current money-price differentials, and dearth of electrics in the used market where I always buy my cars, it doesn't make sense for me to replace my current car.

I'd also like to see a hybrid with a 20 kW I-2 free-piston linear alternator (probably from Toyota) before committing to battery-electric.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
For those interested in the thermodynamics, composting generates heat and methane/CO2 emissions. If the composting object (body, trash, etc.) sufficiently disrupts the soil nutrient level (metal content, etc.), it becomes less suitable for healthy plant growth.

There is a growing debate as to whether it is better to incinerate (cremate) for energy generation/offsetting, because the output can be more effectively filtered/separated. (One must of course plant organic matter to offset CO2 output).

This is why many European countries incinerate their waste to reduce risk of disrupting the land.
2 or 3 weeks ago I got my first call from "Comcast", which I do not have a contact for. I was surprised because I didn't even know the system as a whole was capable of that. I've never seen a non-contact name come up in my phone UI before, only phone numbers, or phone numbers mapped to my contacts.

On the plus side, when I get a call from a textual non-contact number it's a heck of a strong signal I don't need to pick up.
The gui tools bundled with git for committing and browsing allow doing most things one would require and are cross platform

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk
I've been in Germany for a while and I did not receive any yet.
However it was done, we have much higher productivity requirements nowadays.
There are good ways to check:

US: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/

UK: https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/search

Both have mobile apps I believe.
See previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745393

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...
Since we all spend more time writing code than reading, my current tech screen is a small program in the tech for the role we're interviewing for that has a mix of obvious and subtle bugs, some poor data modeling, etc. First step is to get it working to spec, then refactor. I find it very engaging for interviewer and interviewee, is hard to game and gives me a sense of what the person will be like to work with.
You've not seen the Linux desktops of some of the guys in our Unix Ops department. If you're allergic to clutter, you'd have a seizure.

I can't criticize. I paid for every square inch of the screen of my 27" iMac at home, and darn it, I'm going to put something on every last one of them.
You're right, taking advantage of desperate people is OK if you give them a slightly better quality of life than homelessness offers.
Party loyalists are the opposite of prostitutes. Prostitutes can be bought. Party loyalists are True Believers. They don't make a lot of money, and they spend years refining their messages with each other. They have a sincere belief in what they're doing, and believe it to be the best way to run a country.

They may well be wrong, stupid, or even malignant. They certainly have some strange bedfellows: winning elections or votes means crossing that 50% level, which requires making friends with people whose interests are only partially aligned with yours (as opposed to the people whose interests are diametrically opposed to yours). Their loyalty is at least partly sunk-cost fallacy: it takes a long time to be a party insider and they can't just hop over to any other party without losing those years of trust built up.

But what they aren't, is prostitutes. For better or worse, they believe.
The West Coast Main Line is easily at capacity. There are upper limits (as dictated by the government) on maximum fares, but we can still expect fares to decrease at peak times if there is open space on trains. Likewise with off-peak; empty carriages don't pay the bills, and if they're running twice as many trains then either (a) twice as many people will travel, or (b) fares will decrease until they start filling up.

The problem at the moment in off-peak times is that they dare not reduce the price because there are trains that run during the day which fill up, and there's no good way of differentiating fares between the ones which do and the ones which don't.
First known teleportation device was called the Fax which brings us to the reality that teleportation can be achieved by transferring the information through space rather than translation through space as most people imagine it.

This, once reality (at human scale), will bring an important ethical dilemma since for a short time there will be 2 of the same person, which for all intents and purposes are the same, even more so than cloning. Obviously, after transfer is complete, the source would have to be killed.

For non organic matter this could be great and perhaps the basis of some sort of matter to energy converter (it takes energy to create the duplicate), in time, storing the information of stuff you have transferred in a database can do without the initial step, and simply recreate the stuff.

As with any tech, there is a double edge sword to be mindful of.

Be careful what you wish for then push that teleport button as needed.
Generally, they blame a "temporary worker", bribe a disinterested party official, and stop putting the poison in that particular product... For now, anyway.
Epic win response lol
Just because you utilize a credit card doesn't mean you have debt. I pay my credit cards (including my Apple Card) off entirely every month. I use them for the rewards and the convenience not to pretend I have more money than I really do.
In fact, Amazon is so overrun with low quality products that I'd even go as far as saying the average Walmart product is better quality than the average Amazon product.
I’ve been waiting for an update on this on his channel for a while, really interesting stuff.
Ah OP mentions that, I read the comment wrong or it was edited.
I’d say “modern” or “web-like” versus “traditional desktop”.

It’s not quite objective but I agree you’d probably find 90 or 99% of respondents prefer the web look for desktop apps.

The time when desktop apps looked like a consistent toolkit is gone. Now it’s more important for a desktop app to look like its own web version than to look like the next desktop app.
This should be called what it was originally "spooky action at a distance". Calling it teleportation is marketing.
NextJs now is available: https://github.com/webkom-co/airframe-next
You make some fair points here but overall your argument seems to come from a point of paranoia of the communist boogeyman.

You deride a lot of public transportation points but don’t offer an alternative. Are we to believe automotives are satisfactory by your own yardstick?

* Automotives have way higher health risks than your pathogen boogeyman. Blaming 100M deaths in 1918 on public transportation is a reach when Germ theory was only really widely accepted a mere 50 years earlier. On the other hand automotive incidents remain the top cause of death for individuals ages 15-34 in the United States

* Goverment incompetency in public works is not anymore unique to public transportation. The government still operates the roads and bridges that the automotives drive. Look no further than Boston’s big dig where a project was overrun by 10 years and several billion dollars.

* Again, government mismanagement is not something unique public transportation. Are we to pretend cronyism didn’t exist before the SJW Boogeyman?

* For your final point, why are the externalities of cars not applicable here. It’s certainly not 0 - without the obvious threat of climate change, I’d rather have alive annoying tourists than dead adults from automotive fatalities.

Your only strong point, to me, is high availability transportation. However is high availability actually needed or is it just the comfort of knowing that is actually desired. How many people actually need to be able to drive anywhere at 3am on a consistent basis - and for those that do why wouldn’t they be able to accept the economic premium of doing so?
Right, I was addressing the fact that forking isn't even necessary here. It's true people can always go get the source if they want to use it for free. But someone just bypassing Scarf to use the source code directly makes them:

a) more likely to contribute code (since they have it), so fine with me!
b) much less likely to be using it at an enterprise, which is the main target
What does git offer that mercurial doesn't? Of course, except a lot of popular hostings. Probably in some parallel universe mercurial could win, and people would ask same questions about git.
You can run it privately: https://man.sr.ht/installation.md
https://www.theatlas.com/charts/B1RjK9Q_

> January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share.

shit hit the fan in 2001
Depends on who you donate to, see this for example: https://www.newsweek.com/donated-body-sold-army-brc-arizona-...
Why would anyone use a third-party web service to carry out cyber analysis? These tasks are easy enough to do/code.
Conversely, some Wawa convenience stores are only getting Tesla superchargers, no gas pumps (and Tesla automatically dings your CC on file for Supercharging). Interesting to see the dichotomy.

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Apologies to Gibson.
Nah, send them the Space Force. That will teach them...
This is a pretty terrible write up; and I honestly don't know how the author subjectively arrived at the conclusion that only QT, GTK, and Electron are worth testing. I sort of wish context was given for this as the summary, as "get shit done" could hardly be implied from this list.

Just my two cents.
An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (2017)
This can backfire. I have a similar set up, area code and number from state I used to live in, half way across the US. One of the businesses local to where I now live uses some sort of "least cost" attempt at routing calls out of call centers in or close to the area code of the number they're calling. The result? A call from an agent at a business which is 5 miles away from me sounds worse than the transatlantic calls I used get from my dad in the 80s.
I wish the United States had the will power to similarly try and influence Brazil to stop the deforestation in Amazon.
I actually disagree with this. Patreon doesn't target contributions from companies, only other indie developers for the most part. I've seen massive OSS projects that only get a very small amount of donations, so it's not a great solution for most developers.
Slitherin – Solving the Classic Game of Snake with AI (Part 3)
Unleash the democratizing power of software developers and the community as a fundamental first step to achieve the development of Secure Artificial Intelligence.
> This rings true to me as well, but why is this the case?

Because the Apple macOS ecosystem already has an coherent design at the point where I (as a macOS user) would hate to bring another app that breaks the coherence.

Also Apple's official apps are generally much better than the MS ones or Gnome ones (see IE vs Safari) which makes the expectation of users higher.

IMO Apple really made a great, healthy ecosystem around the macOS.
There is nothing hypothetical about climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_recor...
I understand that there is now proof of the usual V-shaped wake angle not always being ~39 degrees depending on subsurface currents.

I'm a bit confused about the ring waves part of this article. How is the boat leaving a ring wave when it moves? Or is the boat just being lowered into the water to form a ripple? You can't tell this from the top-down view.

For some reason, the way that the article was written made it seem that a boat moving through the water could leave an off-center ring wave wake, which makes no sense.
I don't maintain a GitHub at all, yet I spend plenty of time digging through FOSS code at all levels. I generally don't contribute because any type of fix I'm doing is typically just a one-off for my own purposes, which may clash with the intent of the overall project.

I despise signalling for signalling sake. I just enjoy debugging, learning how things work, and doing the smallest tweak possible to fulfill my needs.

I minimize my digital footprint intentionally; people have a habit of trying to get to know you without engaging with you directly when you're too open, and I hate that.

I throw away and redo things in different ways on a regular basis. I change my working OS, workspace structure, buildtools, programming languages, etc. Keeps beginner's mind firmly in place, and helps keep me humble.

Point being, your vetting process completely fails to take into account someone that simply doesn't put themself out for everyone else's perusal, and who actually values their privacy.

Your method ironically would turn me off of most candidates. The Art of Software Engineering for me is to take what you have, look at the hole that needs to be filled, then coding a piece that looks like it belonged there the entire time. It's about building what you want with what you have.

I can admire idiosyncratic code that works in clever ways. Just as I can run screaming when it comes time to refactor it.

Point being, sometimes people's value add isn't conducive to being posted on GitHub, or isn't for personal reasons.
Trump Orders American Companies to ‘Start Looking for an Alternative to China’
Bonus points when its a glass product.
How do you enforce this? How can a consumer know that their contractor isn’t cutting corners? Sometimes the only solution is to stop the problem at its source.
Well the thing is "unfair working conditions" is subjective and lacks binding force unlike say illegal trade with a sanctioned country. So the consequences are "whatever the consumers decide".
Uber Got Lost
I try to be charitable in my assumptions about the motives of civil servants. I think their jobs are more difficult than most imagine, and the press coverage isn't always fair.

But I'm really struggling to find a charitable explanation for how Ajit Pai is conducting himself as FCC commissioner.

Can anyone think of a plausible theory that doesn't involve malice [EDIT: I should have said "self-serving" instead of "malice"] or extreme incompetence on his part?
80% of the population spent their lives in extreme poverty, toiling in the fields from sunup to sundown.
If Apple didn't publish this information in 3 months people would be complaining that Apple hid this information from its customers and there would probably be a couple class action suits. Damned if they do, damned if they don't!
There is nothing in 68 about states rights or relative populations. Central to 68 is the connection between regular citizen voters choosing Electors, directly, amongst themselves. They were to be deliberative, self-evidently independent from partisan party politics, chosen from the general population

Federalist 68 proposes a mechanism we have not used since before the Civil War. The ballot would have been write-in only, and the name you were writing in was a person who lived in your own state, not a presidential candidate.

but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose

The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE

Unfortunately, the Founders appear to not have anticipated the wholesale corruption the party system would employ to sabotage both common sense and deliberate design, by making laws at state level to explicitly make Electors not from the general population but exclusively party loyalists: people who have sworn money and allegiance to their respective party. Who and what you are really voting for when you tick a box for a candidate, is not the candidate, but the candidate's party and that party system, and the state laws say the popular vote result is to cause that party's pre-selected loyalists to become Electors.

What we have isn't anything like Federalist 68.
A full Ethereum accounting of the PlusToken scheme
Kubernetes may be a useful framework, but "amazingly helpful" is not a word I'd use for it. To me, it's a half-assed collection of five hundred nearly identical (but all slightly different) yaml files masquerading as "abstraction". And because they're yaml you can't refactor out the common part.

Well, to be fair, yaml itself doesn't exactly have a stellar reputation, but I've never seen fifty lines of yaml that could convey so little information in any other place.
Funny story: 'Super size' was a hoax. You got the same sandwich, larger fries and a larger cup. But with free refills, the cup size is irrelevant. So you got a few more fries. At the time (super size is gone) I bought both sizes and counted. The 'super size' fries had 15 more fries. That's what you got for your 80 cents or whatever.
> To me, this is kind of like saying you should just run stuff as root, because there might be a privelege escalation vulnerability which lets the code run as root anyway.

But I never said it was preferable to run directly on the host. There are other choices.

> My goal was to make things more secure, not completely secure.

There is no such thing as completely secure. The argument against docker is more along the lines of "is it really as secure as people think it is?"

> I've heared this too, but as far as I know it's only because there are potential bugs in the container software that allow the malware to escape.

I'm not sure docker was designed for the purpose of secure isolation, so if it fails to securely isolate, I'm not sure it would count as a bug.
>Chinese inspectors have started screening the phones of Cathay crew for anti-Beijing material.

If that doesn't persuade ordinary Hong Kongers to love and trust the mainland authorities, I don't know what will.
Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore
If capital-A “Agile” ever ends, it will be replaced by something with a different name that takes exactly the same form. How do I know? Because I’m old enough to remember before there was capital-A “Agile”, and the original XP/Agile manifesto came along and within a few years was bastardized into exactly what came before it: the expectation that with enough meetings and unreasonable enough demands, software development could be a perfectly predictable, cookie-cutter endeavor, as uneventful as manufacturing sheet metal.
Much higher productivity demands for luxury products. If we want back to produce a variety of direct human edible vegetables the productivity would not be necessary at all. When you're raising corn, soybean and wheat for cattle then it's obviously a much bigger higher order problem.
Not an ADA guy, just curious:

1. does this library provide a way to clear secrets from memory?

2. does it provide means to ensure that the secrets will not be swapped to disk on page fault or copied in memory?

3. does it bignum implementation provide a way to clear the internal buffer?

thank you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to build their entire house, but I found that one relatively easy thing that helps a lot is attic insulation and a bit of DYI. It turns out that contractors often do really shoddy work when it comes to insulation because it's exceptionally easy to skimp on materials to save money: they buy the cheap fiberglass stuff and they use too little of it.

You can buy 15-20 bags of cellulose insulation and rent the blower machine from home depot, and you can do the whole attic in a few hours yourself. Including a rental van, that cost me around $600.

This alone made a noticeable difference in my house in Toronto (where it can easily get to 32°C/90°F in sun in the summer)