skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scale AI's secret sauce is in labeling lidar point clouds, which is really a necessity for the self-driving car industry. Sure, they can label other stuff as well, but it's not hard and there are other companies that can do it (not quite as well, but they could easily catch up).

What I'm trying to say is Scale AI is pretty much the only company offering a solution for an absolutely hair-on-fire problem for self-driving car companies - the introduction was unnecessary (and many of their customers are Argo, Waymo, Zoox, and other companies not affiliated with Y Combinator). Assuming the self-driving bubble deflates (it will) then Scale AI will suddenly find itself a commodity business as labeling images is not so hard that it can't be easily copied. It will be a race to the bottom. Unless there is another sudden surge of demand for labeling lidar point clouds.
JSONAPI, we use Drupal a lot, and Drupal 8 comes with JSONAPI out of the box.
Very few people posting things publicly request people to start a debate about it.

Is your issue more that pg is a public enough figure that he can't not get attention for things he posts? Or is it that the attention he gets is likely to occur in a forum he views regularly and has an attachment to?

Lots of similar thinkpieces get posted on HN every day that people have all sorts of debates about without being invited to do so. And most figures with the wealth and visibility of pg can't really publicly post things without a group somewhere arguing over its content. A downside of having that level of fame I suppose.
If Facebook, Instagram, etc. app is installed on the phone, the settings won't help much.
Mobile Safari may support WASM, but I think the GP is suggesting that a native iOS app would not be permitted to load, compile, and execute a WebAssembly module.
Except it isn't. For my work I have about 5 different editors to work with, each with their own markup syntax.

The best markup is no markup, or at least as minimal as possible
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Yes, I know it still exists. But they keep making you jump through hoops. There were major versions of W10 where the start menu search didn't list the Control Panel if you searched for it. Right-clicking the sound icon in the tray now directs you to the new Metro Settings, and they also keep changing how to reach the traditional Sound Control Panel.

Apparently, searching for sound now lists the old panel too, so at least there's that.
Unfortunately GUI programming across multiple languages is not as amenable to unit testing.

I guess if you specify the geometry as part of the 7 Tasks[0] one could automate testing of these.

[0] https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks
The user agent string contains specifics including cpu uptime I believe.
I'm assuming Canonical wont remove it due to it "increasing customer synergies" or similar.

Perhaps we make a package that patches this out? I'm thinking of something that detects this file and replaces it rather than a manual process. That way it gets fixed whenever "base-files" or whatever gets its updates. Make it a depend on base or similar.

Somebody with a sharper set of teeth and specialised dorsal fin might want to do an audit for similar shenanigans. Canonical have "prior art" for this kind of thing. I doubt this is the only addition.
You usually make more per hour working overtime than you would working at a second job. 1.5x is a typical multiplier, which is not a small raise! It's also worth pointing out that not every hourly job is equally mind-numbing.
No. That's what you're doing here.

I even clearly explained why your anecdote was pointless to any argument you might want to make. It's unverifiable and simply an appeal to emotion.

I think it's fair to question the motives of someone who would not only do that, but fail to acknowledge it when it was pointed out.

You're the one labeling people as "ideologue"s and refusing to bring anything resembling a fact. It's just straight to defense of the police. With the occasional "Oh, I hate abuse too, sure" when called on it.
I get what you're saying, and I respect 20 year olds who want to live that way, but I personally disagree.

I had to work to support myself during college, so I was already used to the "grind". So I decided to keep up the high effort and accelerate my career while I was young.

You can have fun at any age. But investments pay off over time, so it made sense to invest in myself early. Now that I have a good career and don't have to prove myself, I can take things a little slower and have fun "surfing or something". Plus, now I have the money to actually fund my hobbies.
Also this was recently on HN and looks interesting: https://pagedout.institute
Have you tried TortoiseSVN? A lot of IDE's have an SVN interface - Appcode, IntelliJ, Xcode, Delphi etc
My side-projects are mostly mathematical, so I used to post announcements on usenet sci.math.research pointing to the page on my website. Now I don't announce at all, I figure that interested people will probably find them via search and spread the word if the code's any good, ignore it if it's rubbish. I get some of each :-)
Each one picks the survey it suits them best.

> For October 2019 the Linux gaming population on Steam according to Valve was about 0.83%, basically flat compared to September, at least on a percentage term. Meanwhile for the newly-published November figures it comes at 0.81%, or a decline of 0.02%.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Su...
Spotify will ‘pause’ political ads in early 2020
For me it was taking more time off to take care of my health, everything be damned.
> Erdogan first revealed plans in November 2017 here to launch a car made entirely in Turkey by 2021.

Electric cars are much simpler then conventional combustion engine cars... no transmission needed.

I'm glad that Elon was not successful in putting a transmission in the Tesla car.
Only 10,000 residents

You're off by a factor of twelve.

And Levi's stadium was privately financed.
The burden on you is to explain why it would be “censorship,” a word with a specific meaning that does not have any relevance in this context.
> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

Hate to be so negative, but it looks like it's all the game of prestige in the hierarchy as it always was: https://www.academia.edu/41235398/Personal_Income_and_Hierar...
I like Uniqlo, but one thing that has annoyed me about them is the environmentally unsound practice of packaging each individual item (T-Shirts, etc) in a thick plastic wrapper.

They don’t do this for all their lines, but it would be good if they could abandon such superfluous packaging altogether or at least switch to using sustainable, biodegradable materials.
Don’t you think it’s weird that we let all processes on a computer have unrestricted access to the network/internet by default? Isn’t that the problem? Access beyond the computer should be by consent only.
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> We pay roughly $7000 per year.

Erm, nobody is going to jump up and down to replace that software if that's all you have to pay.

You can't get people to work on replacing Cadence, and that's a license that is on the order of $1 million per person per year.
Though I feel most of the advice is centered around a subset of concerns wrt working from home, I want to hear more about your thoughts. Can you please elaborate?
Its funny following this story since I saw the original tweet from Ryan Selkis a crypto twitter entrepreneur. https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1209443243924045825

It has spread to take over twitter and spawned articles and CEOs of large companies weighing in, and now on hacker news. Fascinating to watch where our news starts from and how it spreads
Possibly! I didn't try it: I don't use proprietary software.
Are there any? Why not square space and so on?
Yeah I know what they do and know a few other people working on data annotation tools for autonomous vehicles. All of the data annotation startups pivoted to that space because of the money involved.

I just used them as an example because they were the first recent YC company that came to mind that's working on enterprise tools and has a landing page full of logos.
Glow – Render Markdown on the CLI, Written in Go
It wasn’t that long ago that OPS was not rewarded, and batting average was king. It took a lot of energy to change that tide and reward players for focusing on other metrics.

My point here is that Goodhart’s law still held, but the fallacy is when people assume that metrics are static.
I think there is something definitely to this. As a basic example, I can still fall asleep without too much trouble even after taking my Ritalin/Concerta (And I'm above the typical starting dose as well).
Apple News was dead before it started. A lot of actually worthwhile news sites and aggregators that we want/need don't even support RSS themselves anymore for various legal reasons.
you're not wrong, but read the context of the thread. I am replying to a proposal for free college as a taxpayer.
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cad.chp.ca.gov - go to the source for this kind of stuff.
Peter Schiff has a great video on YouTube about how these “well intentioned” subsidies have done the opposite and have inflated the price of college in the last few decades. It should be cheaper now due to economies of scale, computers, etc. Not when the government is involved.
Zig: Takes compile-time metaprogramming to the next level.
Ok, this seems really disgusting.

The post was lacking some context at first but from how I understand this, you can render your sonos device unusable voluntarily and in turn get a new sonos device for a little cheaper. This happens by marking the serial number of your device on the sonos servers as "recycled" making reactivation impossible.

And they're somehow marketing this "feature" as environmentally friendly because it somehow in some twisted sense means you recycle your old device for a new one.

I'm speechless.
The historical background of the *BSD 'base system' versus Linux
Ah, I did not know that.

I used to have a privacy.sh script for fresh Ubuntu installs back on the Amazon shenanigans days. That file has been empty for a while but I guess I need to update it again.
It’s over for combustion engine cars. Bring on electric competition.
International waters have very little regulation.

Many places have rules and the ships switch to a cleaner fuel in these waters, but when they're on the open sea they have no incentive to not use bunker fuel.
I don't understand why there isn't an industrial consortium supporting an open source CAD standard. Enough companies depend on proprietary software that they already pay a fortune for that they could front the cost of software development to save money in the long run.
Twitter is huge.

Indiehackers is great but they will know if you arent contributing as well.

Product Hunt is good for initial launch but don't let the vanity metrics go to your head.
Depends how accurate you want to get.

Getting an implementation of the CPU instructions in a high level language with instruction level accuracy and approximately correct timings is a weekend or two project.

Going for extra components like the graphics or audio support, or higher accuracy in terms of cycle counts and timing can make it a lot longer.
This is exact;y what was stated to me by a friend who actually works at netflix.
this is great, thank you
It's interesting how much of our personalities relate to our fear responses. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793824/ notes that the size of the amygdala correlates with economic conservatism.

I now wonder if changes in gut flora can predict political changes.
Azpainter – painting software for Unix-like systems for illustration drawing
> Try getting Debian working on a laptop. Those "non-free" packages in Ubuntu make a huge difference.

I'm typing this on my "workstation" but, sitting here on my desk, there's a laptop running Debian on either side of it (and there's another one across the room).

I can't read your mind so I'm not sure what issues you've encountered attempting to run Debian on a laptop. Apparently I have already figured out how to workaround them (but I've also been using Debian for ~23 years so perhaps that has something to do with it).
Good although my initial thought was "what ads?" since I have premium.
> design the database from the standpont of a node being down for a month.

It uses Raft, so this should be handled by nature. If you are referring to writes to said node (not that Raft would allow it), you are delving into CAP theorem and what you are suggesting is impossible (unless you don't care about consistency).
Are you saying this post is being artificially maintained on the front page by moderator intervention?

edit: sincere q, I have no idea how these things are handled
You co-authored a reasonably successful book teaching people how to use a complicated piece of software. You may not have any formal schooling past high school but you’re wildly unrepresentative of the “uneducated”.
Time spent on anti-descrimination policies is inherently time not spent on economic issues. There will always be policy focus opportunity cost. I can totally understand why working class people in the heartland who have never met any LGBT person, let alone someone trans or someone non-binary, would think that focusing on equality efforts for them is not a high priority issue and that legislators should focus on economic issues affecting many more people. People mostly care about what is affecting them and people they know.
If you don't vote mostly with the rest of the republicans you can't really be one. For one you will lose the financial support of the republican machine and for two you will lose primaries to your more "right" thinking brethren.

The Republican party as a block

- Wants to turn immigration from a constant source of innovation and vitality that has benefited our nation to a dead highway with a gulag for brown people and their children that want to live here so bad they are willing to sneak in even after the white people told them they weren't wanted.

- Wants to do nothing about the environmental impact of human beings because its more profitable to do nothing right up until its disastrous. Basically fuck the grand kids I want to be rich now.

- Wants to do nothing about health care until it becomes a rolling disaster for the bottom 50% while insuring that the reliably right voting blue hairs are taken care of.

None of these are inherently liberal or conservative positions. The fact that its framed as such is a testament to the truly bizarre world we inhabit. In the context of the extremist positions taken by the current Republican party the only safe bet is to decrease their power.
Your position is that the UK Labour party, led by life long socialist and eurosceptic Jeremy Corbyn, who's manifesto proposed nationalising several industries, is "explicity the party of globalizing crony capitalism"?

In a strong field this might be the weakest political take I've read in the last month.
Unautenticated Remote Code Execution in D-Link DIR-859 Routers (CVE-2019–17621)
... 2 and a half years ago.

Can you provide links to all software you have ever written so I can complain about bugs that existed in 2017?
Yeah, you are right. Where I've seen it work is when an embedded IC is given free reign to spend time helping other teams organically. The real root cause for architecture in abstraction is a management issue where some VP is kingdom building by collecting engineers to be disconnected oversight architects to other engineering groups.

I feel like one of the worst things that can be done to engineers is disconnecting them from the problems being solved.
Most individual people don't try to structure society, they try to improve their and their families' lives.

I don't fault anyone for not sacrificing themselves for the greater good of society at large.

And yes, for sure, there can be shitty, stressful and low-paid office jobs and fulfilling, well-paid physical work. If someone finds an example of the latter, I see no reason why they wouldn't recommend it to their kids.
> Rather it takes an insidious right leaning view

I mean, if you want to talk about partisan accusations...

Just because someone doesn't buy into your views doesn't mean they're secretly scheming to reinforce the other side. Someone can be the same side of the aisle as you _and also_ still disagree with you.
That app has great potential, but it's not really ready for prime time. Its rating in Google Play is 3.1 based on over 3,500 votes.

Today, they are apologizing for a problem wherein the app reported a 6.1 quake as being located somewhere in the United States, which is not very helpful.

Other reviewers have complained that the app is a power hog that drains a phone's battery pretty quickly.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.b...
> various legal reasons

Care to elaborate on this or share a link?
Fair point. Sorry if I came across as argumentative - I just thought it wasn't the best example.

Regarding your overall point of YC having a network effect - not only is it true, it's part of their thesis for scaling up YC as much as possible. YC made a big push when Sam Altman became president (he's now heading up OpenAI) to try to grow YC as much as possible. This was about 5 years ago. The real question is how will the network effects weather the storm of a recession, which is untested (YC really started right around the last recession). Are they inside their own echo chamber? Are they actually supporting self-sustaining businesses? Will the network become big enough that it can sustain many of its businesses?

I'm curious to see how the tech startup scene shakes out with the next recession. Let's just say I'm not considered an optimist.
Here are two projects which are doable, I think:

- Paint.net: freeware windows mspaint replacement. Lightweight and simple UI, but powerful features and extensions system. I hate having to boot up GIMP just for editing a screenshot or something, but no other decent libre paint alternative exists

- SketchUp: this is to blender what paint.net is to GIMP. Super easy and intuitive to create simple models. A joy to use.
The reason you feel sluggish and sleepy is because of coffee (your addiction to it), along with perhaps a variety of other imbalances in your diet, sleep or exercise.

For most of my adult life I drank coffee, with occasional breaks. When I quit a couple years ago I had what felt like burnout for nearly two months. It took up to 6 months after until I really felt fine within a few minutes of waking up. And now my sleep is far easier and better.

Caffeine has a 12 hour half life. That’s incredibly long. Your body is absolutely addicted to it after just a few weeks.

Everyone is different. I am more sensitive to caffeine than most. But it’s absolutely not the case that you need coffee to have energy in the morning. Coffee is a bandaid that temporarily fixes a problem by causing imbalance elsewhere.

Decaf is wonderful though! All the pleasant taste and routine.

Also I find it funny I’m being downvoted given I’m not making scientific claims but rather hypothesis and anecdote. Too many caffeine addicts that don’t want it to be true!

Final note. Focus is easy to come by if you have two things: a good environment (quiet, natural) and an interesting problem. I think the reason why everyone is addicted to coffee in tech is similar to why hard laborers get addicted to painkillers: it gets you through the shitty parts of your job. It’s why college kids get addicted to coffee and adderall as well. You’re being forced to do something that’s far outside your interest, and often in a bad environment. Well that, and it’s fun to do a drug that has a “come up” like caffeine.

Final final note: caffeine has a very specific effect on your thinking. It’s not a debatable point it’s just true. Look at the spider web experiment. It’s makes you excited certainly, it gives you a rush, but it’s almost like a mania much like other stimulants. The weird thing is it almost doesn’t hurt so much in business because so many people do it, so your clients are often also on the same drug as you.
But that makes it difficult to find fair reviews, different kitchens might produce different quality food.
Grex – A Rust library for generating regex from user-provided test cases
Be very careful if you are going to invent your own programming language. The Eve creators had similar noble goals and ended up burning VC money and achieving nothing.
Good to know, thanks. Note that you'll be locked out of rescue/emergency with that, unless you also modify the unit file for (one or both of) them.
I love how, once you install Xcode, it becomes the default editor for a load of plain text formats.

Yes Apple, I really do need to boot up a full blown, 7GB+ sized IDE to edit some markdown. Apparently TextEdit wasn't good enough.
Win+R, type "control", press Enter.

Since Win8, I've found that right-clicking the Start button gives you an actual menu of useful things instead of the ad-riddled abomination that they've decided to put in its place.
How to format code blocks for narrow screens
Ask HN: Who is “ahead of his/her time” nowadays?
Sometimes you hear someone saying "He is/was really ahead of his time".

Among living people, who is in your opinion are ahead of their time?
Currently Zig and Pony are my favorites.

First, some background. I want to be able write any sort of program, typically these days as a hobby I like to play with database, hypervisor, load balancer concepts, or experiment with new kernel APIs. I also enjoy small-ish languages so I’ve been turned away other ones that might satisfy my interests.

Zig is very simple but with much better decisions compared to C. One example is how arguments are immutable in Zig which makes a whole class of potential bugs you could make in C impossible. Zig also has great compile time capabilities and can compile to new byte code VMs such as WebAssembly and BPF. It’s been a fun language to play with and build my intuition for how computers really work. You have the “low level” access to implement interesting data structures in highly performance ways. Zig can call any C code but that gets ugly eventually and Zig needs more networking libraries.

Pony makes writing safe, concurrent, networked applications a breeze and has nailed what I want an OO language to look like. Great type system, actors, and traits. I use it when I want to play with distributed systems algorithms so I can focus on the algorithm rather than all the networking and concurrency correctness.

For both languages, I’ve been using their official documentation and source code to learn them. The great thing about Zig and Pony is that their standard libraries are written in Zig and Pony respectively. This is a great way to learn thebstyle of how the language maintainers write.

Zig: https://ziglang.org

Pony: https://ponylang.io
It's very Japanese. You wouldn't believe the amount of plastic packaging even simple things are treated to in Japan. Box of 24 widgets? Expect each to be individually wrapped, the box to be wrapped, and then a plastic bag.
Please open a bug with canonical asking for motd to be moved to oss own package.
As someone 90 days into a full remote from home job, I would highly recommend you meditate on whether you are the sort of person that actually wants to exist in what could effectively be a prison in the shape of your home. (Or wherever you decide to work from.)

I have seriously underestimated how important human contact is, even if just with effective strangers.

If it's not compatible with you, you will start a countdown clock to ??? once you start on this journey.

Working inside an office is apparently like having guard rails for an invisible road that many people do not require, but people like me might not thrive without.

I'm now faced with the awkward fork in the road of going back to my old job, which would (probably? hopefully? gladly?) take me back, or forcing some evolution to make myself compatible with this prison I fought so hard to procure.