skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sourceforge circa 2002?

Sourceforge has one thing that other services do not seem to have: it is user centric instead of developer centric. With that i mean that for any project you get information that would be interesting to the (potential) users of that project, such as up front information about what the project is all about, collection of screenshots (where that applies), a big fat button to download the latest release (instead of a repository snapshot - note that a release can be different from a repo snapshot, e.g. it can contain pregenerated configure and/or makefiles and documentation whereas a repo snapshot may only contain the "source" for those - and of course a release may also be in binary form), comments and reviews from other users, discussion mailing lists/forums, information about the project's category/tags and similar projects, etc.

FWIW of all the above, the only thing that sourcehut does is having an optional "what is this all about" page (article). Though even that still puts it above the likes of GitHub (that front load each project's page with the file tree of its source code) - again from a users' perspective. Though even a self-contained Fossil repository is still better than that (but you still need to do customizations to make it more user oriented).

Of course that might be just a sign that (considering the popularity of GitHub) the majority of developers do not care about users :-P
You're absolutely right. Aside from a few stubborn hold-outs, the blind people I know stopped browsing with Lynx, or Links or w3m, in the early 2000s at the latest.
It’s in IKEA assembly instructions that this maxim shows itself in its most harmful form.
Never had to actually build it, but I've had to explain to multiple people over the years why a dropdown select element for ZIP CODE is a bad idea.
Isn't that cancel culture though?
Well the western world is an even juicier market for China.
> It was designed to be extremely simple and reduced in scope to the minimum of what a processor needed. It went into space. Radiation hardened versions were made.

But you won't find them in calculators just lying around that you can scavenge. Remember, the narrative driving this is post-economic/supply chain apocalypse.
Okay, but I don't even use Chrome
Nice. nextdns.io [0] is another alternative, which may not remain free forever.

dns.adguard.com [1] is decent for a free offering, though offers no custom rules.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012687

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18788410
... intended outcome...Isn't that why there are no clear guidelines and limits to a lot of regulation?

"Ninety percent of everything is crap."

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."

People tend to make rules that reflect the kind of environment that is typical for them. Federal government is large, bureaucratic, etc. It's no surprise that rules coming out of it implicitly assume that everyone works in a similar environment.

Another contributing problem is that people need to justify their paycheck. Writing more rules is how politicians look productive.

I don't know what the solution is. But assuming malice rather than trying to understand the problem space in more neutral terms is not a constructive path forward.
A better solution would be for all hearthstone pro players to start talking about hong kong on solidarity.
I can say that there are plenty of homeless people in New York. And some do freeze to death each winter, but the city spends a lot of money to avoid that as much as possible.
> Ubisoft straight up said the changes were for compliance for their plans to expand into Asia. With not a single mention of a lower age-rating.

Their very first bullet point is "A SINGLE, GLOBAL VERSION".

All the example changes they showed would very likely have lowered the game's age rating across the board, which right now is 18+, the worst possible and considered poison for sales because many parents do still care about them.

Violence removed (Germany), substance abuse removed (Australia), depictions of gambling removed (again Australia&UK). The whole package of changes had the potential to get the game rated down to something like 13 years, maybe 16 years in Germany.

You can't disregard something like that and then focus on Asian markets, while only using it as a synonym for China, as if China is the only country with these kinds of regulations.

As a German, it just irks me, when it was the norm that we would get specially censored versions of games, replacing humans with robots and making hostages in CS unkillable, there was no outrage about the authoritarian German government "forcing US companies to comply".
This sounds way too close to the Ministry of Love from 1984.
I don't quite get why scrambling XOR is necessary. Isn't avoiding consecutive bits already achieved by EFM?
Cancelled and just sad I only had 500 characters to rake them over the coals with.
They opposed expectations and pressure that you somehow should code at home. They make it like a required condition to be a very good software engineer, which is wrong.

Even if you want to improve yourself professionally, coding is not always the best option for everyone: you can study more the industry, domain you work in, improve your communication skills, build connections, improve your physical and mental states, draw, etc.
I agree. What is Blizzard going to do, cancel Hearthstone esports?
Yeah I'm writing a local history book as one of my side projects. Maybe I should lie on the sofa like a slob instead, but it doesn't seem as healthy or fun to me.
...yes, they can? You're prompted to provide credentials (in some cases biometrics is fine, in others you must enter the password) if you/an application is trying to do something that requires escalated privileges.

Do you use macOS?
Friends and I went to Magfest one year. We were at the tables and had some Magic the Gathering decks. For some reason my friend began playing against me with a entirely made up set of rules and terminology. So I went with it and made more stuff up. All entirely devoid of anything resembling Magic.

Internally it was a ton of fun with the improv. We had incredibly good chemistry in it all. But externally it was a riot. Our game expanded to cover a huge table space. Others were starting to gather. Our play became a performance for everyone else, especially those who weren't in on the joke.

Definitely one of the funnest moments I've had.
I'm not giving them a red cent. They can be anti-democratic on someone else's dime.
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It's pretty obvious too.
Interesting to see the latest replies to the linked comment debunk it using video. People’s memories are slippery indeed!
>Other issues are completely out of whack and could take man-years to sort out fully.

What were these?
I'd wager Hacker News has a strong population of people who've been down that road. Over the years I've read many accounts of people dealing with burnout.
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You don't care about their nationality, you care about what country you can associate them with.
You then want to use it a measuring stick for that country's university and research system. It is of course not a perfect scale, but you take what you can get.

For instance, this prize tells you that Switzerland, the UK and the US (or more specifically Geneva, Cambridge and Princeton) seem to be doing something right and that it might be a good idea to change your university system a little in their direction.
For me it was playing video games all day while writing scripts for those video games to play them better. I learned some real skills from video games. For example, I was leading huge teams size 48 in real time, part of an organization with 300 people at 15 years old.
I do sometimes worry about that, like when applying to jobs I am competing against other people who are out there doing side projects and contributing to open source. Hopefully employers don't place too much weight on those factors for my sake!

I like to refer to my kids as my side projects! As they get older I would like to do things together which to me seems like the best option.
For very different reasons. Venezuela is "communists in our backyard" and Russia isn't about human rights, but about global hegemony, human rights is just the big argument.

If there was an actual point in "it's about human rights", the US would come down on Turkey like an anvil on a cartoon character in old animated movies. Instead, the US appears to support Turkey's new expansive invasion of Syria that goes hand in hand with their genocidal desires to annihilate the Kurds. It's never about human rights on the international stage, it's about power.
Yeah, I actually posted the video you linked, transcoded from the con's DVD of the talk - so it's hardly as if I'm afraid of its content being known. It's a two-parter, by the way, and the Q&A is in part 2. My commentary is timestamped in the description; if you haven't yet seen it, you're really missing out on a great opportunity to call me names.

You're welcome, of course, to maintain whatever interpretation you like of the events under discussion. But the video doesn't show the 20 or so women who got up and left immediately after he said that. You've yet to offer a compelling argument for why I, or anyone, should rely on your interpretation rather than theirs.
Why did we have a Cold War with the Soviet Union, but are buddies with China?
Firekube from Weaveworks, GitOps + Firecracker
From flooding or what? Seems like there is a difference...
To that end, I've started a list on github

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina
There are already lots of regulations that target e-commerce [0]. Net neutrality isn't about the freedom to serve any content you want, it's about the discrimination and prioritization of certain types of network traffic [1].

[0]: https://www.justia.com/business-operations/managing-your-bus...

[1]: https://www.eff.org/issues/net-neutrality
Far be it from nazis to portray themselves as something they're not...
Elizabeth Holmes hasn’t paid her attorneys in more than a year
People are often patriotic. You feel a certain connection to someone who comes from your country.

But yeah, I agree. One fun example:

I am Faroese. On a technicality, Faroe Islands _could_ be considered the highest rank, at 1 laureate for a population of 49,489[1].

Niels Finsen was born in the Faroe Islands to Icelandic and Danish parents. His higher education and scientific studies were conducted in Denmark.

So an ethnically Icelandic-Dane, Faroese-born, who studied in Denmark.

Does this count as a Faroese Nobel Laureate?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...
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Tencent also owns a sizable amount of GGG which operates Path of Exile.
How about Julian Assange?

'Cancel culture' may not be censorship in its technical definition, but isn't that effectively what it's achieving? A comedian, for example, tweets some half-baked remark that some (loud minority) find offensive. Of course, they do respond to this negatively but the media also runs with it and this group of loud people call for the cancellation of shows, appearances, and sometimes even call for the firing of the person.

You are correct in that this person, even after all of this, has outlets and ways to practice their freedom of speech - but it's essentially sending other people a not-so-subtle sign that there are certain things they simply shouldn't say, lest they would like a twitter mob aimed at them.

Occasionally, older public remarks are even dug up by journalists and used to smear the character of those people who made the remarks today. There needs to be some form of restitution, but one currently does not seem to be well defined.
What about the Iraq Protests?
There are many arguments for freedom of speech.

One of the most famous centers around the idea that no one should have the ability to decide what can't be said because that assumes infallability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Freedom_of_sp...

So, yes, from this perspective, freedom of speech exists to protect Holocaust deniers.

The idea that the Holocaust deniers will "create a new oppressive government" seems extremely paranoid to me. I don't think there are very many Holocaust deniers and I also expect that, somewhat unintuitively, banning Holocaust denial would create more neo-nazis. Banning an idea confers a certain amount of glamour.
How do you think Kaepernick was benched and then fired, or do you think that the NFL is filled with a bunch of SJWs who also somehow think we should all stand for the flag?
It is wild, but it's also part of their own rules: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGVTuRlXkAA0ovF?format=png

Honest question: Can we call this unfair if it was already laid out as part of their rules?
> Every designer (and so should every web developer) knows that the sweet spot for reading is around 60 characters and a column of text if readable between 40 and 60 characters.

That is interesting. For source code, I've always preferred maintaining a maximum line length of 80 characters. But there are plenty of people who prefer significantly longer line lengths because they feel it's more readable that way.
Comparing the causes of WW1[0] and WW2[1], seeing the name "South Park" on the WW3 wikipedia page [assuming the world still exists] would be the most bizarre thing I could imagine. That being said, it may just happen!

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II
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This line of reasoning is utterly ruined for me by people who equate the mildest form of criticism with "people are saying insert group shouldn't exist".
Agreed - having a pet project at work can really make you well known. It's far more realistic since you're already in the working mode in your brain. At the end of the long day you could not get me to code anything anymore. But while I'm at work I still have some mental strength left to do the code gymnastics.

Who knows, that pet project might get picked up by the enterprise as a product or an internal tool that others might use. In my past experience, some of the pet project dashboards that I made to make my life easier have been picked up by higher ups since they improved troubleshooting/time to recovery metrics.
Blizzard, Tiffany, NBA, what happened with South Park... we're on a roll this week, and that's only what made the headlines.
> I don't consider myself to be on either side, but a counterpoint for you to consider: "if you're not with us, you're against us", or "pry my guns from my cold dead hands"

You’re mixing up two different things. There’s a difference between shutting down discourse, and expressing an unwillingness to compromise. The two examples you give are the latter. There is nothing wrong with being unwilling to compromise, and expressing that in an emotional way (e.g. the Resist movement).
Not really.
One super power now has majority ownership of the other. They can now conquest with little business disruption ;)
I've always suspected The MIT Press Reader had a secret agenda. The first hint was at the footer of the page:

Illuminating the bold ideas and voices that make up the MIT Press's expansive catalog.
usual human nature?

german won nobel prize -> germans are smart -> im german -> i must be smart
Gioui is a library for developers, though. End-users don't end up here.
I really think it depends. You would not say that it’s a bad idea if someone did more sport, started a new language or went hiking. The point is: it might give you a lot of energy and doesn’t feel like an extra burden, and, may potentially develop into something bigger. In any case it’s better than binge watching Netflix
Sometimes we forget that getting disappeared in china is not just a meme.

Police will show up to arrest you just for posting comments online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOAbkTs_a4
To me it is more absurd that you act as if it is impossible to search for what you are looking for using more than one word.

You aren't supposed to memorize a word soup. You are supposed to search for what you are looking for based on some hints you may remember - e.g. gio gui library for golang. Even duckduckgo which isn't always the best when it comes to searching vague stuff gives gio as the third result (google shows the gio repository as the first result).
ZIO support for SwayDB released with v0.10.3
> Among the bigger countries, Switzerland has the most per capita Nobel prizes.

Be wary of any "per-capita" statistics. Statistically, averages work only if distributions are symmetric. Mean is a poor indicator of an asymmetric distribution.

So, the question is - Do we have symmetric distributions for talent within each geographical area? We see similar arguments in sport but the assumption of symmetrical (normal) distributions for talent within a geographical area is most likely not the case [0]. There are many other factors like income, population density and "coaching" centers that lead to existence of asymmetric distributions. Hence, "per capita" statistics are quite meaningless and mask the real factors that contribute to Nobel Prize winners.

Primarily, the proportion of GDP to research and scientific activity are a better measure to compare countries against [1]. That ensures that most predictive factors are accounted for.

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0274...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968020/
Nothing. But it's in their best interest to keep it working since they're going to charge you for the upgrade that continues to work.
A very much related article, which can even be considered a response to
the articles like OP of sorts, is “I Can't Do Anything for Fun
Anymore”[1][2] by Dave Bennett. I seriously recommend reading it.

[1] https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/making-money-out-of-every-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727156
Hmm, poking around on that website, there's some more:

https://club.myce.com/t/announcing-laser2wav-a-software-only...

That tarball seems to have fallen off the internet, but there's also this. Check out laserbits.txt. I wonder if that's the data.

https://github.com/sidneycadot/Laser2Wav/tree/master/python
> It's better than lounging around like a lemon doing nothing with your time.

Why assume that that's the only non-work option out there?
There are plenty of productive non-work things that you can focus on. Exercise will benefit you in numerous ways. So will learning about nutrition and how to cook. I would say those are both benefiting the person more than repeating what they do at work for 40+ hours a week.
Even with that, the SQL would be parsed once per connection? So, the costs should be de minimis, unless the benchmark were short indeed?
> Making it sound like deciding to enforce crimes would be easy and cheap and fix ...

San Francisco used to enforce these quality of life laws, and things were different. The thing is that San Franciscans didn’t like that world. Sure, people got in trouble for crapping on the sidewalk, but they didn’t have better places to crap.

Instead of creating better places to crap, San Francisco decided not to hassle people for crapping on the sidewalk. I agree that’s a little more compassionate, but it’s not paradise.
It definitely sets a bad precedent where a new mind comes onto HN, sees all the articles about side projects, and then realizes that in order to keep up with the rest of the hive mind/career field they too have to grind out extra hours coding something on Github.
> "They are a private company" is quite literally always the argument for why Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cloudflare etc should be able to ban anyone, any time for any arbitrary reason.

Exactly, and usually, that's also the consensus on HN on any such issues: It's the companies infrastructure and ecosystem.

There is no "human right to service", if they don't want you there then they can just kick you out and usually wouldn't even need much of a justification, that's what hundreds of pages of ToS, EULA, and whatnot are there for.
But what's the ARR of playing with a band?
TBH personally I find this comment exceptionally strange given the rigors of acceptable limits among software uptimes and reliability outside of accessibility concerns. Netflix would probably not tolerate an entire country's access being revoked from their service for a technical reason they could fix. If AWS had a 0.77% downtime rate for all of their services, it would be a lot of services and a ton of bad press from businesspeople that are losing money due to AWS being down. If the Bloomberg terminal went down 0.77% of the time, it'd probably be considered completely unacceptable as a service to its userbase.

0.77% is something that would be protested ordinarily, except when it comes to accessibility concerns. Why?
Here's a list of some of the personalities I follow:

@TrumpSC
@Kripparrian
@G2Thijs

None of them have spoken out. Perhaps they would if asked.
I love this in every way.

I'm curious to see if their relationship with Ubisoft gets strained, though, given some recent news with gaming companies trying hard to maintain good relations with China, and because I believe Ubisoft is partly owned by a Chinese company.

(FYI - Ubisoft / Obsidian made the Stick of Truth games, and I believe a mobile game or two with the South Park license.)
I did a masters in Electrical Engineering while working full time, it took me 4 years. Luckily I wasn't married or had kids at the time, but my school was next door to my office so it was easy enough to get back and forth for night classes. It did take up all my free time for those years though.

I wouldn't stress about doing more than you are right now! Getting a degree is just as good if not better than any side project! Take a long term look at the skills you want to develop and maybe map out how to get there after the degree is finished. Good luck!
MOTU just released a statement indicating that they’re only working on new drivers for the hybrid and newer devices. Firewire gear like the popular 828mk3 classic aren’t getting drivers.
Absolutely fantastic essay. Mishima’s death is one of legend, albeit sad and a great loss. His story Patriotism encapsulated true honor and tradition perfectly.
Until they add X11 support that makes it pretty much useless for a desktop GUI (if you care about Linux anyway).
That just means MUD, Object Oriented.

I think MUSH is closer to what you're suggesting.
That's the point of the entire site, though.

"Illuminating the bold ideas and voices that make up the MIT Press's expansive catalog. We publish thought-provoking excerpts, interviews, and original essays written for a general reader but backed by academic rigor."
Do you want to help the people in Hong Kong or just start a war though?

Having China and the US grandstanding will make it a wedge issue and decrease the chances of compromise and a peaceful solution. At some point the parts need to sit down at the table and find a solution they can all present as a win.