skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your points, and there are a lot of constraints for running a wiki. Especially on a volunteer basis.

Indeed it is not free content, the volunteers that edited the UE4 wiki must be pretty disappointed. But Epic isn't broke and the vague reasoning they offer is insufficient to me and many others.

p.s. Coincidentally I am a daily user of AwesomeWM. Thanks for your efforts!
100% correct. I am right now doing an experiment and observing that posting everyday some low quality text spinned articles amplified the high quality articles at the point where some obscure high quality articles with ZERO organic traffic for months suddenly received organic traffic.
Apple is trying its best to brand itself as a services company, but its actions show that it is not ready to actually embrace the platform openness that comes with it. Look at Microsoft for a much better example of a services-focused company which also sells hardware.
I was mixed up about who owned the wiki, sorry folks. Unity networking is still broken. My son did try to move on to Unreal, but he never made anything of substance with it. He got interested in developing with 6502's and got out of 3D games for now.
> Anyway, it is a sad read for people like me who don't get preferential treatment.

Yup, we marginalized groups get all the breaks. /s
> The tech sector is 80/20 because of hiring bias in the population that defines the workplace demographic.

And evidence of that is...? Graduates in the fields of study that feed into the tech workforce are 80/20 - why do we conclude that the industry is biased when it is representative of the population that chooses to go into tech? A valid response is to say that men and women's choices of study are the product of a biased society that pushes men into tech and women into other fields. But at this point, what we're saying is that tech is representative of the workforce, and the workforce is representative of the people that choose to try and go into tech. This is not one, but two layers of indirection and many are not of the opinion that broader societal trends that produce unequal rates of men and women choosing to work in technology should be counteracted with discrimination in the workplace to push this representation towards parity.

You can say that "saying racist things is racist" all you want - my point is that putting opposition to affirmative action in the workplace under the category of racist informs me that your usage of the term "racist" largely equates to "people who have an opinion contrary to my own:, that discrimination in hiring is more disadvantageous than bullying or harassment in the workplace". This is a reductive strategy, and it's not unique to people who support diversity hiring. There are plenty of people who say, "discrimination on the basis of protected class like race and gender is illegal and racist - discrimination, regardless of the guise of 'diversity hiring' is reprehensible, full stop" and it's just as reductive. How would you respond to someone who said that quote to you? I'd probably write them off as being too entrenched in their view to have a meaningful exchange, and that is unfortunately the conclusion I'm left with here.
U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules
You seem like a fungi
> founded on ... the endorsements of "an angry, misinformed mob"

I started grad school at Brown in 1997 and I remember a talk there, by someone from Google or connected to it, about PageRank. PageRank was still new, Google was still in beta. Free swag from dotcoms was literally growing on trees. But I digress.

I remember that the narrative about PageRank at the time was not about popularity, but about expertise. I really remember that the presenter brought up a possible threat to validity—what about gaming the system?—and pointed out that if you wanted to persuade the system that you were an expert on a thing, you could get lots of people who talk about the thing a lot to point a link at your site. BUT, he says: that shows the system works! If you can get that many people who are at least mini-experts on the thing to point to you, the only way to do that would be if you, too, were persuasively an expert on the thing.

(These were... naïve times in many ways.)

Twenty years ago this was highly persuasive. It was an un-game-able system, because "gaming the system" meant the system changed you. I can be pretty cynical about a lot of things, including and especially Google, but I really do think that even Google itself believed this. The company was founded on an algorithm that rewarded expertise.

It turned out that the algorithm also rewarded angry, misinformed mobs, so cmckn isn't exactly wrong here. But I think it's important to be clear that to the extent that Google's algorithms have always done this, they a) weren't meant to, and b) actually didn't in the very earliest days, because the WWW link structure really did, in the 90s, work like they thought it did. (Then the measure became the target, etc etc)
What makes you sure of this? I'm reasonably familiar with modern C, but I don't feel confident of the answer here. A search of Stackoverflow doesn't bring up anything that seems authoritative for C. The most relevant quotation I can find is in the Rational for C99, where Section 6.3.2.3 has:

Implicit in the Standard is the notion of invalid pointers. In discussing pointers, the Standard typically refers to “a pointer to an object” or “a pointer to a function” or “a null pointer.” A special case in address arithmetic allows for a pointer to just past the end of an array. Any other pointer is invalid.

An invalid pointer might be created in several ways. An arbitrary value can be assigned (via a cast) to a pointer variable. (This could even create a valid pointer, depending on the value.) A pointer to an object becomes invalid if the memory containing the object is deallocated or moved by realloc. Pointer arithmetic can produce pointers outside the range of an array.

Regardless how an invalid pointer is created, any use of it yields undefined behavior. Even assignment, comparison with a null pointer constant, or comparison with itself, might on some systems result in an exception.

I'm not a language lawyer, but I suspect this means that even initialization to the wrong literal might well be undefined behavior. What makes you confident that it's not, and instead is merely implementation defined?
That sounds like a fun project! I do hope Apple shows more love to the command line tooling in general (even if Mac-only) as the workflow still seems somewhat optimized for clicking one-by-one in Xcode.
Pretty sure this has everything to do with planes being old. Boeing pretty clearly demonstrated that planes being planes doesn't mean they're immune from bad design, corruption, or any other problem.
If it's generated on one's machine, maybe that person should hold copyright?

Maybe that doesn't make a lot of sense, but neither would it make sense for the programmer of the music generation software to hold copyright over a song they never heard of and which might have been generated using data from the PC owner's machine.

I'm also curious how copyright works here.
It was made the default a few weeks ago
I don't think there is any reason to believe that github itself uses github actions for its ci/cd process. They must have had something in place before actions came on the scene, and even if they are migrating to actions it would likely be a long process.
Zoom’s privacy problems are growing as platform explodes in popularity
This is amazing and perfectly explains something that I didn't understand until now: in Japan there are A LOT of sock shops. The tall socks that show above the shoes sure I get it, but I didn't understand about the normal/small ones and just attributed it to the normal over-consumerism of Japan. But in fact there are a lot of situations (restaurants, some offices, etc) where you take your shoes off and socks become visible clothing.

> So how are you going to distribute the signal message of your sneakers? You simply wear them where other people can see them. The obvious constraint here is that your signal distribution is limited to things you can display in public. This is why people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on shoes but not on socks.
Man Completes Half-Marathon on His Balcony for Charity After Covid-19 Shutdown
> The only worse thing he could have done would be to try to lead a strike during a world war.

That’s how we came to have employer-provided healthcare:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
LTS release of system container and VM manager LXD
Technically I can still get growth down to 11-12 watts, closer to your levels, but it is definitely much slower growth and it won't be enough later on. Technically I run about 20 watts during the initial vegetative state, but once plants start flowering or fruiting there is a markedly different end result if I don't turn the lights up to around 35 watts a square foot, which is what most other people ive seen report. I mostly just run it at 35 all the time because I want them fruiting and producing as much as they can as fast as possible. But if you are growing leafy greens your plants are never even entering the flowering stage because you will be picking it by then.

Perhaps with a bigger more automated setup I could do slower growth, but there are other costs like ventilation or dehumidification or possibly heating or cooling too that don't really change a lot whether the plants are growing fast or slow, which makes faster growth possible optimal financially, even if I might be losing out a few percentage worth of light absorption.
Very cool work! I just manually implemented this in a python script.

Does it support other platforms? Will it run on Linux?
Eclipse Theia Offers Alternative to Visual Studio
> you’re not supposed

While I understand the reason behind your comment and it even seems right, I can't stop thinking that we are born rebels.. If we are not supposed to do something, that might just represent an opportunity, doesn't it?
Would you be open to sharing more about your startup?
Zoom tells me browser isn't modern enough and that I should use Chrome. Even in Chrome that still push to install their app. Thanks, next
To be fair to 'ddevault (and the reason I'm not arguing the point super strongly), he himself has a Patreon which he uses to support his free-software work.

I would instinctively agree that the model doesn't work super well for authors / musicians / etc., and being a well-known free-software hacker whom people are willing to support is actually pretty unusual, but I don't have data to back this up.
When you're driving: it can't possibly be more dangerous than the Audi system.

When you're not driving: irrelevant

Conclusion: CarPlay is better than the Audi system.
The journalists cover all sorts of material. We're the locusts consuming and posting the juicy bits to HN?
So children should pay for playgrounds and schools?
You can get that for free with a google voice number. If you can’t port directly, the indirect method is to sign up for a PAYGO mobile phone and port your number there as an interim hop.
+1 for the Robin Sloan novel. I really enjoyed it as well and it was actually the first thing I thought of when I saw this story posted.
Looks like a corner case, but really, if implicit grant is not enough then ANY explicit grant will miss some of the real life moments - you mentioned patents, but probably many more exist or will exist in the future.

If somebody pulled this trick on me, and I were a judge, I would punish both laywer and a company he is representing. Its simply emberrasing and belitteling toward human intelect.

Also:

> the Open Source Initiative has stated its view that all open source licenses implicitly include a patent grant

Thx for the info.
This is a really funny comment to me for many reasons.

I've been saying this since Jurassic Park came out and the Unix UI was basically 3D. Around that time I had some labmates in the mid 90's that thought GUI logins should be skeumorphs that involved doors, keys, and tunnels. And it got worse from there.

Fast forward from 1993 to 2013 and I met a guy working on a 3D version of ... Atom editor I think? I was a fucking trainwreck to look at, but damn he was putting his all into it.
> then retaliation is the reason 90% of the time.

Supposition does not mean "burden of proof".

> the burden of proof in my mind is on the company

Your presumption that the company is at fault is unjust.
I am building peapods.com, which aims to be the spiritual successor to meetup.
Mass market automakers usually target ~7% margin, so a 9% change in exchange rate without adjustment in price would make an automaker flip from profitable to unprofitable (observable with Nissan as a real world example). It doesn't decrease their profit by 9%.

Mazda raised their margin target to ~10% per vehicle, which is pretty standard for the premium segment. Which if they performed to expectations, would mean 40% more profit; they're slightly overperforming at ~60%.
We've rewritten the linkbait title, as the site guidelines ask. I used what seems to be the first netural and representative phrase from the article itself. If someone can suggest language that's more neutral and representative, we can change it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The notarization service is opaque (uses Xcode's "xcrun altool" to submit/read status, instead of something like a REST API...) so unfortunately Mac-only at the moment.
The internet is definitely, and I still stand by this comment, unarguably terrible today, compared to what it used to be. Is that anyone's fault? Probably not.

People used to download MP3s from AOL chat rooms. There were these people that just served up their music libraries using a chat bot for other people to request downloads.

Once you had enough tracks, you could serve up your own bot to let others share in on the fun.

I can't blame progress for killing culture, but I'm glad that back then, something like serving up an MP3 library in an AOL chatroom was a deeply awesome experience.
My kind of silly project. I'd add this to the faq:

But?
No.
Great post! Sounds like a meaningful way to contribute to science from the comfort of your couch. #CountMeIn #DETECTStudy
Yes, underrepresentation of the population is literally the definition of bias. Unless you want to go with the tautological nonsense you're doubling down on.

And you're once again insisting that racial slurs are just as bad as diverse hiring. Really vying for Grand Dragon, eh? I'm sure that if you just explain, once more, in even lengthier detail, how that totally isn't racist, it'll stop making you look like a reprehensible person!
I am launching peapods.com soon.
If you consider arrow keys as 2D, and the Vim's edit/control mode as a 3rd dimension, EMACS is already up to... 12 dimensions? Good enough! Ship it! :)
Looks like the OP domain itself is a version of that.

https://www.superhighway98.com/
The pandemic as political trial: the case for a global commons
google has never been good. Sheeple just jumped on the band wagon and started using it despite it never being any better than the compition. People are dumb and instead of trying to learn they would rather just follow.
>The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.
Unless you're doing kernel development why would you be downloading and compiling the bleeding edge kernel on your desktop?
Coronavirus: 3D-printer owners rally to create NHS face masks
When you buy an Apple product or invest in them you support evil.
Same here, compiz was directly responsible for me trying out Linux on CD
It’s a meta signal. You can observe the “shallow” signaling of others (for lack of a better word) and it becomes a signal in and of itself.
Some garden plants are sure to attract lots of pests. But corn, beans, and squash are not among the most heavily attacked in my experience. You probably won't have too much of a pest problem.

The crops with the most pests (in my experience) are brassicas (white butterfly), tomatoes (everything seems to attack tomatoes!), and beets (slugs).

Nasturtiums as a trap crop supposedly can draw away aphids. But remember that nasturtiums attract aphids. So it's a gamble. I guess just don't plant them too close. I've never tried.
Can't be due to financial problems with Tencent banking them, can it?
The feed competes against all the learning resources on the internet. Perhaps people in general are just tired and looking for banter, because the non-banter, however a minority, is completely discoverable.
I understand the problem that touch-screens solve on cell phones. How do you squeeze the most functionality onto the smallest surface? By doubling up on functions, and reusing existing functionality to be context-sensitive. The trend of moving designs from where they make sense to where they do not because the inferior design is seen as more modern since the devices with these constraints are modern has been a very annoying one. Designers have been making software and technology progressively worse. It isn't in any way surprising, it's just annoying that when a piece of equipment or technology can fully utilize the features and interfaces that cheap and mobile technology is forced to do without, they choose not to use it. It'd be like if bicycles became really popular all of a sudden, so auto industry stopped putting in seatbelts and airbags in cars, because bicycles are modern and they don't have those things in bicycles. You're building a car with a fixed set of controls for the machine you're driving in: you can afford to use a physical UI, what are you doing putting in touch-screen?!
friendly reminder that while visual studio code is open source, the binary that you download from their website is not, and it's full of telemetry (and remember: telemetry ~= spyware).

consider using an alternative like eclipse theia or vs codium (https://vscodium.com/ - binaries built from the open source repositories)
Good for them! I was using it when it was Forecast.io and had a simple API. They've been at it for what, 10 years? That's a long time for an equity event but its good to hear. I don't think this is doom-and-gloom apple will ruin it. Hopefully I'm not proven wrong.
> At this point in history I don't have much hope in the government reigning in corporations or the wealthy

I would agree with that. But I still think it's probably easier to fight that fight than to try to shame corporations into achieving unquantifiable, often mutually exclusive goals to everyone's satisfaction. I'm not hopeful government will change any time soon, I just want to make sure we're directing the resentment to the right place.
Dries asks for financial support for the Drupal Association
The thing about Arsenal is, they always try and walk it in.
This is a phenomenally good resource for the topic, as both someone who has had to perform layoffs and who has been let go myself.

Highly recommend reading in its entirety, and saving for the unpleasant day you need it (which, unfortunately, might be soon).
A sure way to guarantee that Apple won't buy your startup.
Those are very astute observations. I myself transitioned from low class work to software. It was mostly an avalanche of perseverance doused with barrels of luck. One of my main weapons was writing (still is, to an extent). A quite difficult challenge given that English is my second language.

I understand what you mean and maybe can somehow relate a little more than thr average HN user. Best of luck if nothing else.
I started rebuilding my website with Gatsby: A use-case tutorial
Yeah, I've had my problems in the past and whatever that app is, I wouldn't be keen on having that on my computer, it would only serve to remind me.
How do services like Twilio stay compliant with this regulation?
Not necessarily sales/ marketing, but an Old Thing is not a new thing you'll be praised for, it's just another annoying cost that comes out of your budget. Maintenance is boring.

Building a New Thing comes with excitement and praise.

Microsoft has done this so long their own people strongly recommend using URLs in https://aka.ms/ their long term link maintenance software, so that when yet another "exciting" change happens to their entire Microsoft web site you can still find all the vital documentation. Maybe their "Knowledge base" articles for example, will become a Wiki again, and then a social networking site, and then a blog the week after, and then a different Wiki with newly inscrutable URLs. But the aka.ms link can be updated so that you don't need to spend an hour navigating.

The more important maintenance becomes to a company's actual financial health the more senior management rebel and become sure their destiny is to radically reinvent the company. If directors did their actual job (working for the shareholders, for whom "exciting" aka "massively loss making" isn't the goal) the very next thing you'd hear after the CEO announcing the company has a new name, new branding, new logo, would be the Chairman arriving to tell everybody actually it's not a new name, new branding or new logo, just a new CEO, sorry, no big leaving do he was escorted off site by security.
Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, nor are bots (if that's what this is). Also, it's not good to post summaries routinely. We want HN users to actually read articles. The less work readers do, the shallower and more predictable discussion tends to be.

I've banned this account, but if you want to use it to participate in the community as a regular member, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and let us know.
Sounds if self-driving vehicles ever take off, we'll be back to video.
As someone who's written engines, worked in bare bones do-everything-yourself frameworks, and used Unity, not everyone has the time or ability to sit down and code almost everything from scratch. Some people have simple ideas that involve mostly gluing parts together and big engines are fine for that. Some can program everything if they want to, but they want a decent physics, rendering, and user input engine from the get-go so they can get to work on their ideas and not endless boilerplate code.

Most indie gamedev projects I've seen die involve people who are primarily programmers who get stuck in framework hell. They're endlessly trying to build and tweak basic features for a basic framework, when any major engine has all of those features out of the box or with a 5 second package download.

I've had to get myself out of the habit of doing everything myself, admitting defeat, and downloading existing packages. Oftentimes someone out there has something better than what I wanted to make and easily tweakable, saving weeks of time and still allowing me to give it my own touch.

Even for a total amateur who won't use 1% of the features, Unity and Unreal have two huge things: support and a community. You can ask a question anywhere about anything and generally there's someone who can help and even give a precise solution. That's huge.
Interesting, looking back further it seems searches for these symptoms are associated with flu seasonality.
> The author isn't looking hard enough: professional software frequently goes for many thousands of dollars.

One cannot usually show off software like hardware. In this WFH world that could change. But for now I don't see people paying top dollar for B2C software until there is some visibility.