skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which Open Source Software/Foundation Do You Fund?
This year I want to donate money to open source software I use daily like VLC, keepass , signal etc. How do you go about determining which projects are big enough vs smaller under funded ones ?

Which ones do you support ? For ex. I read the linux foundation is very well funded

*Dont forget to use your corporate matching program to easily double your donation
This is just a Canadian layman’s view, but I suspect it was something like “What’s with those ridiculous stock images that keep getting made? Always such unrealistic scenarios...” “Hey, you know... We could probly do something about that...” “You read my mind, but also let’s put Canadian stuff in ridiculous ways.” “Ooo yeah, a real pastiche!” “It’s really more of a parody, but call it whatever you like.”
No, what's obviously true is that it is incorrect to say you do not have a right to have kids. There are, perhaps, other moral issues, but 'having rights' is clearly not one of them.
It's originally called Jotto, and Mastermind is a generalization/de-specification of it that came later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto
> which makes them memory hungry and slow on older machines

I doubt this is even remotely true. The JVM (and the CLR, and every modern runtime) is a very well-tuned machine that performs well.

Language services make heavy use of system resources. It's effectively compiling your code as a service whenever you need it, which is a lot.
> In particular, C++ has been engineered from the beginning to create expressive, powerful libraries, much moreso than Rust.

I really can't fault Rust developers for choosing to put aside the whole C++ ABI mess by refraining from developing their own "Stable ABI" and sticking to the lowest common denominator of C FFI for the time being. And perceived ABI issues are the only thing that might stop you from building "expressive, powerful libraries" in the language. (Const generics and specialization are often-requested features that do impact this area, but they're in the pipeline already, and coming soon.)
>However, multiple people actually have provided that evidence and explained in great detail why your idea and formula is wrong.

This is false. The only comment that actually purported to respond said there's an issue with an error rate in applying the fine. This is a minor problem, nowhere close to justifying a massive differential across all income levels.

>So if you want to figure out why you are wrong, which you are, feel free to examine the legal systems of those countries.

Of course, the fact that a country does something does not imply it's economically sound, and your implication of such is absurd. You've yet to give any economic rationale for "punishment" as opposed to deterrence, yet continue to cite "punishment" as a justification.

I'm happy to concede that this does, in fact, "punish people with different incomes equally hard", but since punishment is a stupid goal, this is useless.

>You haven't provided any evidence for you "model"

I provided all assumptions required to derive it; you need to disprove some explicit or implicit assumption, or agree.
I hide all amazon or Facebook as well. Doesn’t matter what the topic is, it will automatically turn to juvenile bashing.
The edit window expired, but if you want us to edit your comment for you, you'd be welcome to email the text you want to hn@ycombinator.com.

If you say that you mean it sincerely as a question and not as a swipe, I believe you. The problem is that lines like that are routinely used to take cheap shots at others, imply that they don't have a point, and so on. If that wasn't your intention, the burden is on you to disambiguate that by making clear that you're asking sincerely and making your question more specific.
I'm no expert, but I always figured that environmental sustainability would help humanity a bit more than a 10% boost in lifespan.
> Why does this matter? Yes, their original plan was pure SaaS. But they listened to criticism and changed it once they realized that there was backlash from the community. If anything, that should be admired not criticized.

It's useful context. Yes, it's good that they listened to their customer base - and I've not criticised the current subscription model.

But I still think it's relevant and on-topic to point out that the previous model was more generous and they tried to do full-SaaS when reading the parent comment in isolation sort of suggests they did this out of the goodness of their hearts (and entirely unprompted).
> This has been my experience with pretty much any bureaucracy, regardless of locale

In my country (NZ) you can incorporate a country online in an hour. You will need to scan or fax your consent to be a director/shareholder forms though.

https://companies-register.companiesoffice.govt.nz/help-cent...

Likewise, I can update my income details for family tax credits etc. online with the IRD, our income tax system is very simple (sometimes referred to as pure) so I've never needed to file a tax return.

I apply for hunting permits on government land online, and when I change address, I'm required to notify the Police as a registered firearms holder, which I do online, they then email me asking me to document my secure firearms storage, I email them a brief description and some photos, and then based on that, they decide whether or not to send out a Police Officer to confirm.

I renew my car's registration online when emailed that it's due. On the odd occasion when I've gotten a speeding fine, I pay that online also.

It's really all about complexity of legislation, and administrative desire to minimise red tape. Our government, fortunately, in the more important areas, has made active endeavours to reduce legislative complexity, and red tape.

Funnily enough, I hit a lot more bureaucracy dealing with large companies, than our government.
What are some interesting applications of optical illusions?

For example, perspective illusions can be used to trick drivers into slowing down: https://www.insider.com/optical-illusions-3d-crosswalk-drivi... or crashing: https://imgur.com/a/kYr94

But I rarely see any of the crazier optical illusion effects used. Maybe these don't affect the population in a consistent enough way to use as a feature? (based on how white/gold and black/blue split the internet)
Tangential question: is rust usable for core parts of distributions like Debian that can run on a million architectures and even on different kernels? I hope to see more C code replaced by rust, but that seems difficult if portability to extremely niche systems is a requirement.
Holy shit this is a masterpiece. This this should printed on a piece of physical artwork and titled: “Capitalism, Today dot OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (FUCK)”
Oh, absolutely. I think they handled this particular change quite gracefully. It's a compromise.
This warning was probably obsolete even when the FAQ was written (in 1995), though. Multisync monitors were already pretty standard at that point, and they could usually recognize an out-of-range input and display a warning on screen.

It's possible that someone damaged a really old single-scan monitor with a bad XFree86 configuration, but I wouldn't be surprised if this were just a rumor which got propagated through warnings in FAQs.
This is similar and in stock, if you’re okay assembling it. They have great build documentation.

https://keeb.io/collections/keyboard-pcbs/products/quefrency...
As a different member of their target audience, and an owner of .ca domains I think this is a nice humorous nod to the Canada I enjoy: subversive, self-aware, inclusive, and experimental.
Usually I ignore CIRA for being uninspired, but today they got my attention.
Switched to GnuCash and didn't look back. The UI is uglier, but at least it works correctly with double entry bookkeeping.
That description of the experiment isn’t correct. They’re not using predator calls or anything to induce depression.

Instead, the readout is how long the mouse spends scrambling to escape vs. floating immobile in the water, usually after a “training run” that demonstrates to it that it can’t escape. You can draw some vague parallel to “coping with adversity”, but the test’s value is mostly that historically, it has predicted drugs that seem to help human patients with depression: mice receiving anti-depressants tend to spend less time immobile.
Completion popups were already available, but were specific to completion. They couldn't be used outside that context.
As someone with blank keys on an Ergodox EZ… it's hooked up to a MBP, so I usually offer guests that keyboard, if they need to type.

(Mine is also mostly QWERTY, but admittedly that's hard to tell looking at blank caps.)
Americans Have Become Weak
Being a martial arts / sports teacher with about 20 odd years of experience dealing with both soft and hard styles. I can’t really speak from a formal medical background but only really from an experience and results based perspective.

I see more and more people attending these types of activities because of “doctors orders”. And in many cases I see sports of any from just compliment whatever regiment the doctor has set out for the patient to begin with. I guess this is where physio has its place in the medical world as well, where patients need specific exercises to help with specific injuries.

Anyway, I want to point out the differences between the soft and hard approaches in the martial arts because I think it’s relevant. Not only are both approaches pretty much contradictory to each other but I find that what people find case-by-case within each practice can differ completely, which makes the whole thing quite subjective and difficult to measure.

The hard approaches are more fueled around explosive movements and repetitive training. From the students’ perspective the left to right body movement from this type of training is something that I’ve seen people with strokes or brain related illnesses use as a tool to help rebalance their motor coordination. In some cases I’ve heard people recommend dance because of the left right approach that comes with dancing, so not much to do with the style itself but rather the constant reshifting from the left to the right during training helps in this area, which has more to do with training methodology.

Where as for the softer arts, although you usually have to explain the advantages to the student, soft arts are more geared around slow movement and are aimed around longevity.

Personally I’m a bigger fan of the softer arts, simply because I prefer low resistance training myself, plus anyone with an injury who is looking for a sport, low resistance will be the better approach.

The issue I have with soft styles is that I have read a bit about Tai Chi and the medical studies surrounding Tai Chi. Sufficed to say the medical studies in this particular area have not gone well, in many cases citing little to no evidence that soft styles help with age reduction.

Although the evidence us martial arts teachers rely on are the case studies of our masters, for instance master x from martial art y lived until he was 100 and that’s because he practiced martial art y since he was 10, and so fourth. What I’d find interesting is if there are more substantial studies made in this area, I mean after all finding the fountain of youth is pretty much everyone’s dream.
In your theory, why did literate and engaged people abandon print journalism for Internet but not TV?
It seems that that work didn't make much impact because it sat as a tech report and wasn't published until 1987, by which time Perlman had published her algorithm that received more exposure in SIGCOMM in 1985.
This sort of reminds me of an old agent based Java middleware called Voyager I've encountered sometime in the 90s. The rough idea of this middleware was that you could write Java class derived from a special prototype and the instance of said class can travel around various Voyager servers all over the world to perform tasks on local context and then come back with the answer. Could be used for the whole bunch of scenarios from map reduce to accessing some content that only available at particular place and not accessible by public API. It was neat. Not sure what did happen to this middleware later on.
If the project share code that you want to refactor, then in Intellij's terminology they are modules, not projects

Import each one individually as a new module in a root project, and everything will be hunky dory.

A "module" in this case is just an atomic closure of some sort.

I've got plenty of Intellij projects with >50 modules, each of which are their own git repository, just fine.
In general, app developers are of surprisingly low quality

To any app developers reading this, caring enough to read HN or similar puts you leagues above the kind of people I'm talking about.
Well, what would you use them for? Any suggestions?
Arguments ad homenim don't have a place here, but I understand remarks like that have a history in Apple discussions. I will say that I am a lead plaintiff in a suit against Apple regarding hardware quality, so I am at least as qualified to criticize or defend them as you are.

The seal does matter for notebooks. I've repaired Lenovo and Dell books because they had inexplicable junk inside. Although a laptop can't usually survive total submersion or liquid poured on top, there are situations where keeping the bottom and sides sealed is helpful. This can also be achieved with rubber and some other techniques, but either it's thicker (another tradeoff that buyers don't want to make, for whatever reason) requires more complex manufacturing (which affects quality in other ways, or price--more tradeoffs.)

There are definitely thermal issues with MBPs in regards to performance and comfort, but no common ones that affect the glue. I welcome correction here, but if heat improved repairability so readily, we'd see that technique recommended and applied more often.

Edit: I saw your comment was flagged dead. I didn't do that. I vouched for it to restore it.
Enhances what? Feeling like a dumbed out zombie?
Interesting application is the whole branch of neuroscience and psychology researching about our sense of perception.
Also, have to remember to #undef them in any
file that includes something that includes
iso646.h.
This is the part people are missing; if you're mooching off of someone else's Prime, you miss out on a number of features like Prime Video.
This is ignores that when a niche is saturated, you have to do something different to avoid losing to the strongest competitor.
> By "aggressive", you mean explaining the point in detail?

No, I mean the stuff dang has already commented on.

You also did not explain the point in detail, you responded to what I said with a whole bunch of off-topic things, and then insinuated that I did not have the point.

The parent said that C++ would have "memory safety mechanisms similar to Rust," and my point was that while they are similar in some ways, they are not as comprehensive. That's an important distinction!

All of this other stuff you're talking about has nothing to do with that.
Capslock is the only 1.75u key on a standard layout, so none of the other caps from the cheap set used here will fit there without leaving a gap.
Anxiety disorder, bipolar, and more will definitely help paint targets on you. I'm really not liking this brave new world we're heading into. This tech will only be as smart as the lowest bidder makes it and frankly that should terrify anyone with family who don't fit a stereotype defined as "normal". I have family that would need protection from something like this.
You make an interesting point but I think it actually works the opposite way from what you think. If the only alternative to oil and gas is battery-electric power, oil and gas companies will use their political power to obstruct climate change mitigation altogether. If there’s an alternative that not only includes them as partners but opens up new lines of business for them (eg carbon capture and sequestering), then they will apply their political power in favor of that alternative out of self-preservation.

Of course, the kind of argument you’re making doesn’t really seem to stem from trying to solve the problem in the first place—it stems from viewing the world in terms of conspiracy theories and making black-and-white judgments of who are the good guys who deserve to be supported and who are the bad guys who deserve to be destroyed. But even then, if you have enough power to achieve your fantasies of destroying the oil and gas companies, you also have the power to force them to move into the hydrogen and carbon-capture-and-sequestration industry.
It looks like this should help:

https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries/blob/master/pro...
Exactly this. I pick type, and I've never found that it feels too slow. I spend more time thinking about the change I want to make, and reading the code to plan that, than actually making the change most of the time. My typing speed wouldn't address the bottleneck. I think vim is the same. Sure you can edit the text faster, but that's not the bottleneck anyway.
Thank you for the explanation -which you did not have to provide. I have learned something new today!

Thank you to you, Scott, and everyone else for keeping this site so wonderfully curated.
Yes, the advertising section.
> ...which is exactly what I'd expect from AI Now.

I don't know anything about them before today.

Did you see https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snake... which they link to in their report? It seems pretty solid to me.

> Everyday experience shows that we can read people's feelings via their faces.

Yeah, humans can, sometimes, but that doesn't mean these systems can.

> Astrology doesn't work either and we don't have to go around banning that.

First off, astrology does work, depending on the astrologer.

Second, yes, if people were selling astrology to HR departments to screen candidates I think we should ban that.
rustc isn't available for all of Debian's unofficial architectures yet:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rustc

Looks like there is a bootstrap issue, rustc build-depends on cargo, which build-depends on itself.
Prior to giving real analysis and measure theory a serious go, I feel as though I was carrying around quite a lot of notation baggage that was essentially opaque to me. A lot of it was simply "received knowledge" and not at all cleanly organized in my mind.

For example, I remember fumbling over a modelling problem involving mixed random variables (that is, random variables with both continuous and discrete parts), and in retrospect the problem was that I just didn't have a clear understanding of what a random variable is, and how it relates to mathematical objects and concepts that I was more familiar with, like functions and vector spaces.

The point, for me, was not about needing to use the language of sigma-algebras to solve the types of problems that I come across in my job (electrical engineering and data analysis). It was more about going through the exercise of constructing the tools that I was using day-to-day, so that I could manipulate them with more confidence and creativity.
I used to work next to a group working on feedback for prosthetic limbs. It’s a pretty hard problem and they went through multiple methods (twisting skin, pulling skin, electrical stimulation, etc).

They actually just released their product and honestly I’m impressed. It can handle weight lifting to egg pinching and you can feel it:

http://www.psyonic.co/ability-hand

It uses vibration. Your brain adjusts very quickly, understanding what the sensory feedback implies after a few minutes really.
Maybe buy a separate number pad? Looks like they are $30 to $40 or so.
Talk to me after your oldest have been out of the house for a decade.

What works for you will not work for others.

There are plenty of stories out there on /r/raisedbynarcissists from people whose parents expected them to contribute to helping raise their siblings, and they were deeply resentful that they couldn't live the life they wanted.

You made the choice to have 7 kids. Your older kids didn't get a choice when it comes to having to help you with your parental responsibilities.
There’s evidence that all of the effectiveness of antidepressants is due to the placebo effect. Contrast this with bipolar or schizophrenia where medications actually seem to benefit vs placebo.
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There are also bridges from serial/modem/RS232 port to wifi that can be used on all sorts of hardware. The Wifi232 is one of those.
... and the other eight were delicious.
I wonder if it's even possible in this day and age to run a subscription news service and still be viable. Are people even willing to pay for good journalism anymore?
So that was the original plan but I believe they changed to the “more reasonable” one after the backlash (so you get the current version + 1 year of updates)
How do you build one? I'm handy with a soldering iron (and even designing my own PCBs), but I'd still want to not spend more time on it than I have to (e.g. if there is firmware I can just use).
That's not the problem (at least for me).

On an Apple keyboard the right edge of the X key aligns with the right edge of the command key, which makes it easily accessible by your left thumb from a resting position.

Most non-Apple keyboards use a layout where the command/alt key is half a key width to the left. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it makes those keyboards really uncomfortable for me to use.
I am the primary account holder; though I'm living in Ireland if that makes any difference due to regional restrictions...?
I don’t have too much trouble with this just yet. But the next keyboard will be without a num block, but I will add a https://www.ipv6buddy.com/ to the right of my mouse for all my hex and up address needs. (Not affiliated, just a fan)
UI looks clean and sleek. The info on global reach page is a bit confusing for me. Wasn't able to determine , if those are the countries where SuperPay is supported ( as in a business can use SuperPay as a customer ) ?
Cool project, congrats to the author for getting a system tool so far in Rust. Just a couple of years ago that seemed questionably difficult but here we are.

I do have to ask though, does this serve any improvement over or fix any of the shortcomings of systemd aside from being written in Rust?
C does type erasure, doesn't do runtime checking and maps most everything to assembly. I haven't checked recently but last time I did Rust's bare metal binaries were larger than C ones. Might be better now.

That said you can beat C's code size with hand assembly and p-code interpreters.
I'd really like my next job to be a Rust job as well, even though I'm a backend web developer. It really seems like a joy to develop in.
Broadband has nothing to do with speed.
Live the life you want, but be as direct and open as you possibly can with your partner if that is your position.

> I'll leave her to figure it out for herself.

The most ethical thing to do would be to force the issue and break up with her. Otherwise, by the time she figures out that you're not going to change your mind and breaks up with you, she'll resent that she wasted time off her biological clock.

I understand that your perspective is "She might change her mind in time, so if I'm happy with her right now, why should I force the issue? That's on her if the status quo doesn't work", but you've already seen the way her mind changed and it's not going in the direction you want. So at this point you're more aware than she is of the reality of the situation.

Do the right thing.
I am using a Das Keyboard Mac version.
Won't this mean that those projects' maintainers will suddenly get a random influx of half-baked pull requests, which are somehow tied to a grade? This sounds a little too close to the "term papers must be good enough to be submitted to conferences" anti-pattern.