skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't thought about this before, so it might be my thoughts would evolve further if I thought about it more. But after I considered it for a moment, I would pay for it if I got the source with it, and a license to publish that source under a BSD-Like License if support for it was going to end.

As others have mentioned, the idea of it getting dumped when it turns out it isn't worth the effort, would put me off.

If the price was low enough, and the software simple enough, I might be willing to relax some of those conditions. For example, I have payed a couple of bucks for a simple pixel graphics editor, for which I was ok with the prospect that this is a toy I play with a little and then would likely drop.
Depends on the application, but I can imagine paying for some GUI heavy applications (e.g. audio/video editing). It would have to be open source though. Otherwise definitely no deal.
There are a lot of businesses that barely make enough for the owner to make a living. For those, "lower bottom line" isn't an option.
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The reason why is scaling of infastructure. It is cheaper to provide services for 1000 in one skyscrapper than 1000 in a small town. Even if we had FTL communication for full cyberpunk "jack in robot bodies remotely" those benefits would remain. It is true that there are also costs to the arrangement but cities are here to stay and growing even.

Add in doctors and other specialized labor which is important but thankfully rarer in need and have a larger "patient footprint".

That small towns are mostly dying is no accident or sinister conspiracy - they are victims of not being able to compete with scale barring some niches like say tourist towns.

The only implausible escape from cities as a situation involve not only teleportation but cheap teleportation which effectively scribbles over many spatial constraints.
I've paid for IntelliJ, GoLand, and KSP, and I know many others that have, too. I don't use Linux because I'm just too cheap to pay for an OS, I use it because I tried paying for Windows and thought it sucked. I'll pay for good stuff, unless it's doing obvious things to lock me in, if there's high risk because of DRM features, etc.
> Don't close bug reports just because they're old. A bug report is either good or bad - that is, the bug is either reproducible or it isn't. A bad bug report is bad from the start; close it quickly - or else, don't close it just because enough time has passed.

And don't lock them as stale once closed. Holy shit, it's infuriating seeing projects abuse what is essentially an anti-harrasment tool to prevent people from pinging old issues with relevant information. Especially if said old issue is a top hit on Google for some set of keywords.

Losing the context of the old issue often kills contributions outright.
There's also the issue of gender identity.
What the fuck are you talking about????

Did you not know that in most of the world, cooking at home is the norm? How come you're so out of touch with reality?
They might not claim that but the article’s title and gist still is “JavaScript is C because of this one reason”. This kind of comparison is just not useful.
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> On Linux, it’s terrifying; I’ve never seen any app that allows input systems to work naturally

Kind of interested to hear what sort of input method you're using. Even my terminal emulator supports Japanese input methods well, through IBus. Maybe it's just that as a non-native I'm more often going to convert chunk by chunk anyway, I have noticed that some input methods do not do bulk conversion well; I must say I never thought hangeul would even warrant conversion other than composing the syllables, is it because you mix in hanja conversion? I think that your problems will mostly a matter of the quality of the input method, IBus and the input method system in GTK+ at least seem to be not preventing anyone from writing better input methods.

I feel it with Firefox though, then again Firefox is very poor quality software in my experience, almost everything is at least subtly wrong, and there seems to be more interest in niche feature work than basic work on product quality. I could in some ways say the same for Eclipse, every time an SDK I want to use is only documented in terms of their special Eclipse frontend, I get a bit depressed.
I saw this behavior if accessed with a mobile user-agent. Switching to a desktop user-agent unlocked the thing.
My understanding is that implementing a PRNG in software results in a very small entropy pool. At the OS level, it can collect entropy from a vast number of sources, including things that an application won't have access to, which is why the OS exposes the RNG to applications. It also means maintaining such a PRNG in your software. Basically, it's the same old dependency argument again - there is nothing inherently wrong with using the tools the environment provides for you rather than building your own, but it does mean that the tools have to work properly. This is especially critical for cryptographically-secure PRNGs - those are things you really do not want to be maintaining yourself if you can access a high-quality source of random data, but again, if the PRNG doesn't work, you're in deep trouble (see for example Yubico's broken PRNG chips on the Yubikey 4). Hardware PRNGs on the CPU itself were supposed to dramatically improve the state of random data provisioning, but when bugs like this hit, it shows the weakness of depending on the stack beneath.
Not everything needs to be digitized. My life was happier when bookstores were still around. And when I had paper forms to fill for bureaucracy, because it meant that there was human compassion and wit involved, something that is required for fairness. A digital application of laws does the law no justice.

As for writing direction:
Simple tools allow for complex creation.
Complex tools allow you to only create simple things.

And boy are computers complex.
I think that this is relevant...

'When I was on TV (Computer Chronicles) in early 1987 showing our product Trapeze the other presenter was Mike Slade who was product manager of Excel. At the time young me thought him some random marketing weenie (young people can be pretty stupid). Yet he started all these companies later including ESPN, worked for Apple in various leadership roles, was a good friend of Steve Jobs and started his own VC firm'

http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programm...
That's not quite true. Customers get to decide if they accept the profit margin that the business wants. If the business thinks the risks far outweigh the payoff, they decide by closing the business.
I always thought the Gov't should just publish everyones SSN. That would prevent institutions from trying to use them as psuedo-passwords, while making them more useful for their actual purpose of providing a unique identifier for individuals.
These are all sensible rules, and I think plenty of open source projects are doing fine on this front, though its important to note that properly keeping up with these practices is a full-time job.
Legally google will refuse to index these public pages then as it violates their TOS.
> Why would anyone use rdrand directly?

Indeed, because RDSEED is actually what most people want anyway.

Its an assembly instruction that gets the job done. People should be expecting that the assembly instructions of their CPUs work as intended. No different than using AVX-intrinsics or hand-crafted assembly in x264 / x265 code.

In any case, RDSEED is the assembly instruction for gathering entropy (aka: setting a random number generator should use RDSEED), while RDRAND is an older assembly instruction for purely getting a cryptographic random number. Its slightly different amounts of entropy involved in RDSEED vs RDRAND. So this is a very subtle issue that requires a lot of understanding of the x86 assembly instruction set.

But if you understand these details, then by golly you should use the instructions!
You are not alone with this opinion. It has to be free software (free speech, not free beer).
"Most countries have restaurant tips"

That is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity
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It works pretty well on unixish systems. It is complex of course, but that is on the compiler writers not the developers.
But NYT only understands a single variable when it comes to make clickbaity headlines.
> American wait staff (at least at mid-priced restaurants) are always in my face asking if everything is ok.

Ah yes, now that you bring it up, I’m definitely not a fan of that either.

Another way tipping can add toxicity is when a guest isn’t aware of the tipping culture / not sure how much to tip, ends up not tipping or undertipping, and in those cases sometimes you’d notice nasty looks or other forms of visible grumpiness. (Checks don’t always include recommended tip amounts.)
So long with the right to a lawyer and a fair trial.

>> According to Stapert, the U.S. government requested that he forfeit his fees for the case—insisting that the money Budovsky had paid him was tainted—a move that forced him to drop Budovsky as a client. (The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office denies that the government petitioned Stapert to forfeit the fees.) Once on U.S. soil, Budovsky was assigned a court-appointed lawyer;
Making raw syscalls directly is precisely what Go does, in fact.
See my answer bit up. I owned a business in Hungary.

"Zero-hours contracts are NOT permitted in: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain. There is an uncertainty as to their validity in Sweden. Generally they are not permitted under Swedish law but may be agreed by collective bargaining."
https://www.igloballaw.com/zero-hours-contracts/
They also shipped a really obvious backdoor https://habr.com/en/post/206900/
New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving
I haven't looked at the project. In my experience, 100K lines of C source code roughly corresponds to 1MB of native code. That might not be representative, though. But maybe it's just that that the rest of this project has some more of these "20-100% expansion will be ok" decisions.
There are places where it's cold, where it rains and snows. So we can't bike everywhere.

The good thing about the driverless cars is that they solve the parking problems in the cities. We can even add lanes or pavements by removing all parking spaces in the city centers.
Worth paying if the software respects users (FOSS goes without saying) and accepts suggestions. Most paying applications choose to be proprietary, though.
Removing smoking from restaurants and bars had a huge effect no one mentions. The industry hasn't recovered.
No, of course they're not necessary. They could turn off all their computers and then they wouldn't need any address space at all. But there are benefits to having networked computers, and there are benefits to doing that networking correctly and not paying the costs of NAT and overlapped address space.

It would take them years to renumber off of their /8, at great cost and with the result of an increased ongoing operational cost, and for what benefit? That /8 would last the public internet for less than a month. It's not like the people who are yet to deploy v6 are suffering a lack of time, so buying them an extra month which they would then squander isn't going to be very helpful.
If Facebook offers a public API, people will complain that Facebook hasn't learned their lesson from Cambridge analytica. If they don't, then they're accused of having a walled garden. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Linux provides /dev/random and /dev/urandom to all applications as well as relevant API calls, but the quality of those is always in doubt (especially with urandom, which recycles the entropy pool when it gets too low). CPU hardware PRNGs are supposed to be much higher quality, when they work. So it's all about depending on the CPU to actually do what it's advertising - the CPUID flag advertises a high-quality hardware RNG, but then the firmware bug completely nurfs it.
Looks like I got the slider restricted, I'd change it. Thanks
You really don't see how saying one's job is "for students, retirees, and other temporary workers" and that their work doesn't deserve a living wage could be insulting to someone who does not fall into one of those categories but has chosen to work that job?
Stay-at-home moms?
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* http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html

There's been a bit of drama around it:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21114524 (Oct 2)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21290306 (Oct 19)
LayerKeep 3D printer/print management
last year I had to (ie, on MSFT's suggestion) reinstall Windows to fix a conflict with Outlook and Office, all with modern revs, so ... ?
Path could use a good comeback.
Orbiting shipyards seems like a likely bet (assuming we want to explore and interact with space).

If we want giant, heavy spacecraft that are capable of interacting with their environment — the space equivalent of a construction vehicle or a tank — earth's high escape velocity makes it impossible to launch from.

We'd instead need to construct it in space, even if all the materials were from earth.

As the cost of launching from earth continues to fall, it'll also become increasingly economically feasible to launch multiple payloads to build a larger, more complex spacecraft.

(Think of the assembly of the ISS as a proof-of-concept here [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_...
What costs are exponentially dropping?
What costs are exponentially dropping? I.E. dropping Solar panels, Body scan medicine, Chip costs. Cell phone tech?

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The OP was saying if min wage is $15 workers get that automatically without having to ask. You seem like you’re replying to something else?

Or does the law only give $15 if there aren’t tips?
It's infuriating to see those complaining about very real barriers to contribution or actual abuses smeared as "rail thieves". For example, the percieved gender of the submitter making a difference to pull request acceptance rates: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/
If a computer's host name is "giggidy", then when it requests a DHCP lease, it sends that name to the DHCP server. If your DHCP server is hooked up to a mini DNS server, then the DNS server will resolve "giggidy" or "giggidy.whatever" to the IP it was assigned. This is how dnsmasq works, and a lot of consumer internet routers, too.

The router's IP and a nameserver IP are the only ones you should have to remember in the event of problems, and both of those can be short and simple.
It grows very big even if you start with Win 10.

Honestly, it's indefensible to have a 30GB Windows folder.
Or they might hire an employee after all if they're not allowed to run for the bottom of the wage barrel. An employer understating the value of labour for their own profit is the default.
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People usually add their own or use existing libraries for strings with bounds. All I'd argue is that it's somewhat annoying that C standard library donesn't have these, so there are too many variants of basically the same thing out there, because most programs benefit from having strings with (unchecked) bounds.
If it works well and kills my pain, I would do it.

It does not have to be good looking.

Just have to be a sane UX so that I can get it done.
I was just thinking yesterday that it would be cool if there was something like this for VSCode, just like for the well known text editors, so I can launch it in an ssh session.
The one thing -- in my experience -- that you absolutely should not forget to add is salt. Bread with no salt just tastes off.

The good news is that the amount of salt isn't all that critical, anywhere from a pinch to a spoonful will result in something at least vaguely edible.
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Yes I know the ip address of my plex server, and my printer. I guess I'm a bad person.
I would definitely pay. I paid for sublime and intellij.
I mostly use Linux, and wish they had some of the beautiful apps that the Mac did. To me beauty is worth paying for.
Do modern phones even support 2g anymore?
war is peace. freedom is slavery. javascript is c

luckily the rust evangelism strike force saved us from errors.
once we rewrite everything in rust and webasm, the world will shine with perfection.

posts like this kinda obviate n-gates raison-de-etre...

but at least we all agree that js stinks/long live js
For airliners and other IFR traffic, that is almost (but not quite) true. In the US, the overwhelming majority of airspace below 18K feet and the vast majority of airports do not require any air-traffic-control interaction at all. It's "see and avoid" under VFR in those areas.
Your 4th paragraph contradicts your 6th.
Additionally size of average account would matter, I don’t see people wading into those waters over $50 or probably even $200
> Furthermore, spell-checks usually seem to be designed for languages like English with only a limited number of flections. English only has singular and plural, but in German, the ending of a word can be bent in much more ways

Oh, and I always say German works still great. In Finnish words have many 100s of different endings (several concatenated + combinatorics explain how this is possible) and predictive inputs just don't work. Probably it could be improved with massive semantic support, I am not an expert in that field.
The metric for extreme poverty usually refers to earning below $1.90 a day, accounting for inflation. It's great that more people are making more than that, but I think a planned economy (at least initially) could serve them better.

The real advantage of a planned economy can be seen in the case of the USSR or China where they rapidly grew from a backwards agrarian feudal base into industrial powerhouses in the highest growth rates of the 20th century. As economist Richard Wolff says, they are the envy of the third world.
…or use bash's `edit-and-execute-command` feature (`C-x C-e` or `ESC v` in vi mode).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges
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German pizza chain Joey's used to do that, and I always found it to be a mediocre user experience.

If you pay online, you know if your payment cleared right away. With these GPRS card readers, you wouldn't know until the driver has arrived, and frequently the readers wouldn't work for one reason or another. Of course, if you wanted to pay by card, you usually didn't have cash either, so then the driver would have to phone their shop and ask what to do, and it was just a general hassle.

They've since been acquired by Dominos and offer online PayPal/credit card payment and it's much more convenient.
I would at three conditions
1) it's not too pricy (≈20€)
2) There is a trial (either limites features or trial)
3) No drm or not invasive ones at least

That's just a consumer saying, not a dev one
I did not edit my comment to add the "or close" after this comment was made, it was there from the start.
systemd may be running in an environment where /dev/urandom isn't available, and getrandom() will either block or return nothing depending on whether the entropy pool has been initialised so you still need a fallback if you're working in the early boot process.
Nice! It's a shame they don't have replica tusk swords mounted, but it's a fantastic piece either way.
I’ll check these out, thanks for the recommendations. I’m not majoring in Data science, but I do find it really interesting and want to learn more.
They may not have to share a ride.

We (as a society) are fully capable of building single-person cars. It's just the economics of car ownership incentivize having four to five seats and a lot of trunk space just in case you need it, even if you aren't using them 99% of the time.

That's likely to change if the cars are being run by a driverless car service. They'll already have the numbers to know how many single-person cars to maintain in the fleets as compared to five seaters. Fuel / electricity will be cheaper for smaller vehicles. If traffic does notably increase, tolls and congestion taxes will come more into play and be lower for smaller cars. Single person cars could split lanes (like motorcycles).

At that point, the economic incentives change, and we could see different outcomes.
> I have more respect towards Apple than to think that the current state is the best they could do.

$265B in Revenue and and $59B in profit seems to indicate they're already doing pretty well. Maybe your definition of 'best' isn't in perfect alignment with the rest of the marketplace?

I get that there are things about their products you can point at and wish were done better, or at least differently. I use Apple products myself, so I have a list of these things myself. But, the thing is, this isn't unique to Apple. Have you ever been completely satisfied with a product or service? I can't really say that I have. About the best that I've ever been able to achieve is something that's a close enough approximation to my 'requirements' that I can adapt what I'm doing to make it a solution.

Point is - you're never going to find something perfect. There will always be a gap and hopefully effort on both sides to close that gap. Those financial numbers aren't a perfect indication by any means, but they do signal that Apple's doing a reasonably good job of closing that gap for a reasonably large number of people willing to part with their earnings to buy Apple's products.
It works in the best sense (no dev prompt, does not require cygwin)
Convenince has historically proven the industrial era and beyond killer app. Availability is part of the issue - it would increase car utilization but probably not people in a car at once. They would care less about "my car isn't available because it is out working" if they could get a replacement. They also don't need to give their time driving passengers.

Self driving also could allow better "microroutes" which don't take you out of the way like public transit. It wouldn't address the stranger adversion however.

Ironically in the worst case it may technically reduce the average occupancy even if the total utilization rises and thus number of cars on the road drops for the same demand.
They also use Yandex, I don't see the problem exactly.

> Is there any search engine which is NOT backed by an extremely heavyweight player?

Global search of most web pages worth finding is a heavyweight task.
There's just one rule which does it for me:

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There is no bridge. I highly doubt the Twitter API TOS would even allow it. What you can do is get a client that supports both Mastodon as well as Twitter. I recommend Twidere on Android.

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.mariotaku.twidere/
I had a similar experience. I sent in a bug fix and some new features. The maintainer partially accepted my fix and ignored the other patches. After many messages and additional work, he just said the features would not be added to the project and that I was free to maintain my own version.

Sometimes it's better to just let go.
I disagree. If my house is in danger, I’m going to protect it, no the whole town. I already pay taxes for the town’s coverage but I cannot support everyone.

I’m pretty sure wealthy owners have done the math and know exactly where altruism begins.

Now if all my neighbors want to put a lot more money into the pot, then we can talk.