skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brought up in my mind the thought that while Deno is still WIP (for example, packaging of Rust plugins is not yet resolved) and the ecosystem around it barely exists it was designed to have no dependency on 3rd party tools like npm and yarn.
The easiest start-kit I found to be spacemacs. discover plugins through tapping around which-key.

I've been using emacs for about a year now. My config is stable at 1506 emacs packages. It runs on 6 different emacs distributions. Some would say my setup is bloated. With a 2 minute startup time, I need emacsclient. It's important to remove any impediments to learning as possible. Any weird keyboard problems, or waiting times you should try to eliminate. It takes an obsessive kind of discipline, like using batons on homeless people to combat the spread of coronavirus.

Every day I check the emacs reddit and search melpa for packages with particular keywords in their names. Every time I hit a bug I try to solve it.

Run multiple emacs instances so if you break something, at least one emacs still works. I recommend using 'lispy' for emacs lisp, but until you have learned that I recommend using vim for writing elisp. You kinda have to make key bindings to learn new emacs packages.
In my experience, I've seen plenty of promotions from within (and experienced my fair share as well). They just take a while to happen. But then, I've been at multiple companies for over 5 years. That's probably about how long it takes to watch someone grow from an individual contributor into a leader, including leadership skills as well as building reputational and political capital across the organization.

Patience is a virtue.
Or the KDE browser

https://www.falkon.org/about/
Can I ask you, when Lee’s personality began to change drastically, did he maintain the same level of technical proficiency (in coding or gaming)? It is a wonderful piece on a very sad story, and after reading it that’s one of the things that I’m interested to know more about, to understand the general condition.
One can very easily change MAC address though, it's not like that is an insurmountable issue, right?
Legal structures don't enforce good behavior, but it always helps to nudge folks in the right direction. As you mention, culture comes from people, and culture is the foundation of every org.
"Treat your software like livestock, not like pets" - random HN comment that stuck with me as a beautifully visceral metaphor.
You can ask for transparency all you like, but nobody owes it to you.

YC has at least two vested interests in keeping it under wraps. 1) If everybody knew the algorithm, it'd get SEO-style abused even worse than it does already. 2) YC aren't in the business of running a tech discussion web forum, they're VCs aiming for 100x exits for their investments, and this site is one of the tools in their arsenal to improve that chances of that happening, so to expect "transparency" on an asset like this website is kinda insane.

Ultimately though, unless you're trying to game the rankings (in which case I couldn't care less how difficult you're finding it), you should just treat that FAQ answer as "close enough, barring details of fraud prevention", and get on with reading/voting/participating.

(If you're just being intellectually curious, there have been old copies of the arc source code around, you'll need to learn a specific dialect of Lisp to understand it, and the publicly available code explicitly leaves out most off the fraud prevention or any other YC-specific modifications this site runs...)
I used to have a D70 and was disappointed by the sharpness of the D7000 I upgraded to after it took a bath in a river. From what I could find googling, sometime after the D70 they moved from CCD to CMOS sensors that were noticably softer on hard lines and edges.

Would love to know if anyone here knows more specifics firsthand, but that camera's sharpness has always impressed me compared to the replacements I've tried out.
And also: have pity on the person who outwardly seems to be an asshole or checked out. You don't know what they're going through.
I would have bought it.
Yeah, stored procedures making API calls to external services, sounds like a nightmare of tech debt to unwind.

I'm sure when you have a brilliant engineer like this you can make it work though.
I was stationed out of south entrance (Snake River district). Closest town was Jackson, Wyoming. There was a small convenience store at Flagg Ranch about 4 miles away, but anything you couldn’t get there required driving to Jackson.

About once a month I’d go to Sams in Idaho Falls, which was usually an all-day trip.

I’ve been up through Bozeman before. Beautiful area!
Xara Xtreme LX fork
We use Oracle at work but I don't use any Oracle clients because you can connect to it use JDBC.
To get an index of all C2 wiki pages

curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/ > 1.html

To get a wiki page in JSON and convert it to textfile without using gratuitous Javascript

Optional: feed through fmt(1)

curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/EgolessProgramming|tr -d '\n'|sed 's/ *//;s/{ \"date\": \"//;s/ \"text\": \"//;s/\",/\
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s/\. :)//;s|\\r\\n\*|\
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s/'''//g; s/''//g;s/\\\\"/"/g;s/\\"/"/g;s/\\t//g;s/ ://g;s/ */ /g;s/\" }$//' > 1.txt

To search the wiki

curl https://proxy.c2.com/cgi/fullSearch/?search=$1|sed 's|href=wiki.|href=https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/|g' > 1.html
I can handle the shop-talk, but what bothers me about tech-guys (I've never had problems with female co-workers) is that they have their self-worth tangled up with their being the most-correct. They just can't handle being disagreed with.
The main problem I've had with it is it gets lost--constantly. Now I'm generally disorganized, which probably explains why I cold never find it when I wanted it. I know some people leave it on the cable but my headphones get used much more on other devices than on the iPhone, so I was constantly pulling it off to plug into a mixer or keyboard, and it would get lost. In the end I solved it by junking my XS and getting a used SE.
Indeed, I believe IQ is found to be protective for development of schizophrenia (hence lower IQ correlation) -- if you have the genetic disposition but high IQ chances of developing the disease are lower I believe.

Schizophrenia is different that it is at least partially behavioral. The brain is more like an adaptive neural network, so it's sometimes hard (or impossible) to disentangle hardware from "behavioral configuration". In the case of schizophrenia I think (not a doctor!) there is a (perhaps structural) disposition toward modes of thinking, psychosis, delusion etc. -- thought and behavioral patterns that develop if there is inadequate self-assessment in place (which is how I would explain identical twins differentially developing the condition), and experiences of stress and trauma that can disrupt benign thought.

It is a terrible condition... I have close family members with psychosis too (that's somewhere in the spectrum of bipolar to schizophrenia). For me it appears quite clear why intelligence has a protective effect (and one of the many reasons I value, and cherish, intellectual activities of all kinds so much).

Counter to opinions elsewhere (where you shouldn't live in the "shadow of the disease" through genetic screening, family history, etc.), I personally do think it's important to be mindful of it. That way at least symptoms may be recognized early and treatment can be more effective (since it is at least partially treatable and has a large behavioral aspect). Here's hoping we never develop it.
I never understood hype behind this phone. On paper it seems like april fools joke. Single camera, absurd screen-to-body ratio and all of the things from 2010 in 2020.

None of you bought s10e which is a brilliant phone yet you whine that no small phones are available - maybe you should vote with your wallet or just admit that you're in it for the nostalgia and drop the facade.
It would level the playing field and enable a lot of competition. For example, is it fair the Amazon the platform as access to all the data about good selling products, pricing information, and can dictate to a selling what they are allowed to sell something for (i.e. you cannot sell a product cheaper on your own website if you sell it on Amazon), but then at the same time takes that data and then comes out with am Amazon Basic clone to then undercut you as a the seller? The seller that already had to take a price cut/profit margin cut to be on Amazon? Having them be both the platform and the seller is bad for industry. You the seller and giving them free market research only to sell at a disadvantage to them because they are the gateway to the platform, product, shipping. The have slowly strangled industry and in the case of France now want to take their ball and go home when we are dealing with a global emergency.
Getting BitTorrent installed seems like it would be a challenge. FTP seems possible as most OSes preinstall it, but what FTP server has a browser installer and how would you find it?
wget, curl.
This is a good thing. When they were independent, NPM was a disaster area. The company spent 100% of its time chasing down social issues and insanity in the community and never figured out how to make money, or at least, it took them FOREVER to figure that out.

Years ago, they introduced "orgs" which they sat there and explained to me with slides and pictures and concepts and business bullshit for an hour. I did not understand a thing they'd said. Finally, they were like "We're selling private namespace in the npm registry for blessed packages for groups or businesses." I understood that. If they'd just said that up front....

They had some great people, some very smart folks like CJ, but they completely biffed every business decision they ever made, and when you'd go in and talk to the leadership, they were always acting as if they had some sort of PTSD from the community. I mean, people were putting spam packages in NPM just to get SEO on some outside webpage through the default NPM package webpages. People were squatting and stealing package names. Leftpad... the community management here is nightmarishly hard, and I was never convinced they'd ever make money on it. MS doesn't NEED to make money on it. They can just pump in cash and have a brilliant tool for reaching UX developers around the world, regardless of whether they use Windows or not.

I feel like the GitHub group at Microsoft is now some sort of orphanage for mistreated developer tool startups. GitHub had similar management issues: they refused to build enterprise features at all for years unless they were useful to regular GitHub.com. And there were other people issues at the top for years. Chris seemed more interested in working with the Obama administration on digital learning initiatives than with running GitHub, for example.
It's not that Premiere Pro cares about image quality above all else, because it does use GPU-accelerated decoding. It's that Premiere only uses Intel's integrated GPU for decoding and not with Nvidia's or AMD's GPU decoder.

Quick Sync's quality is worse than NVENC's these days so it's likely more along the lines of Intel contributed the patches than Adobe not wanting it out of purity reasons.
The acquisition doesn't mean all existing NPM packages are suddenly going to get dumped into GitHub repos, though. The services still do two different things.
Too bad that you threw out. Those Trinitrons are still sort after for retro gaming. You could of sold it or given it away.
Are you interested in mitigating risk by reducing central dependencies? I am. But it's too costly right now.

All being equal, though, we should try to avoid technical systems with unnecessary trust relationships and critical concentrated dependencies, though.

And if we must have a concentrated dependency, we should do our best to pick very trustworthy ones-- both based on their track record and their likely future interests relating to organizational structures.
> Sloppy compliance is the correct choice both here and generally

I’d say a more correct approach would be to assess the risks associated with any decision, according to whatever framework your fiduciaries deem necessary, and then to simply disregard the casual criticism of armchair commentators as irrelevant.
Someone asked "Would this have made sense for a company like GitLab if they didn't have the corporate backing of something like MS?" and deleted their comment while I was writing the answer below:

Being the canonical registry for a language (Rubygems) or technology (DockerHub) tends to be a huge expense.

The main expenses are cloud costs (bandwidth and storage) and security (defense and curation).

I've not seen examples of organizations turning this into a great business by itself. For example Rubygems is sponsored by RubyCentral http://rubycentral.org/ who organize the annual RubyConf and RailsConf software conferences.

Please note that running a non-canonical registry is a good business. JFrog does well with Artifactory https://jfrog.com/artifactory/ and we have the GitLab Package Registry https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/ that includes a dependency proxy and we're working on a dependency firewall.
Well, I lost all my data. I have an empty relocated items dir on my desktop.

Edit: there's a Configuration dir in Recovered Items which has two other dirs, a private dir which contains another etc dir which contains a shells default file. Nothing else.

Unsure why this didn't help me at all.
Well possibly many more than that, since we would have run out of hospital beds and oxygen tanks etc. But in the fall we'd be able to football games again.*

And yes assuming immunity, which seems likely to be the case for most people, even if not permanent.

*assuming survival
I bought an S10e on launch. It was too large for me and when it got stolen a couple months after I had it, I just didn't replace it. Have now been phone-less for almost a year, waiting for a good sub-5 inch android phone.
"Here, [Sinclair] granted Instagram the right to sublicense the Photograph, and Instagram validly exercised that right by granting Mashable a sublicense to display the Photograph," rules Wood.

Wood comes to this conclusion by discussing how Sinclair agreed to Instagram's Terms of Use when creating her account. Those terms granted to Instagram "a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to the Content."

Wood writes that because Sinclair "uploaded the Photograph to Instagram and designated it as 'public,' she agreed to allow Mashable, as Instagram’s sublicensee, to embed the Photograph in its website."
This idea seams like a crowd-sourced evolution of https://readastorytome.com/

recently launched on HN. We've had a great experience with it so far.

As a parent ( and I think on this note I can speak for all of them ) the #1 concern with an idea like this is SAFETY.

What can you ensure to us all that this won't be the #1 platform for pedophiles?
Readme seems out of date, seems to be detected by ESEA and FaceIt, unless the hardware ID mitigation fixes that.

Shouldn't the hardware ID be randomised to start off with? Not that I plan on using this either way, though.
Much better: mandatory vendoring of packages. Can't break and being forced to push the packages to the repo makes you appreciate the lack of transient dependencies.
Some of the Terraform codebases I have worked on have been wildly over-complicated and take a good hour to grok. And I literally spend 10 times more of my day writing a new "standardized" Terraform module than I do writing a shell script that does the same thing.

And Terraform doesn't even support declarative configuration management!!! The syntax is declarative, but it literally can not change the infrastructure to be the way you describe, if it has changed outside your state file (which can happen at literally any time).
I feel like the inevitable outcome of this is that in a few years we will start seeing some seriously next-level Finnish demos dominating the competitions, all of which give thanks to one government art grant program or another in the middle of their ending shout-outs to other scene groups.

Which sounds totally awesome IMHO.
Even crazier, the Zeiss R-Biotar 100mm f0.73, which can be found on ebay for under a thousand dollars.
It also provides none of the benefits of npm/yarn. In my understanding it’s as if every package you used pinned all of their deps.
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/emergency-elisp.htm...
Accruing positive sentiment in the dev community through acquisitions of someone else's nice things. Who came up with that crazy idea? GitHub isn't Microsoft. You can't buy brand loyalty.
this is years old
First, the human immune system is astounding. That’s become more clear to me than ever. That cells can signal distress, that memory cells exist — it’s all pretty unbelievable.

Second, it’s still so crazy to me that we let this get out of control. Predictable, yes. But crazy nonetheless.

My take is that it’s short-termism. We seem incapable as a society of making hard choices that will hurt in the short term but help us in the long term. I’ve said before that there are obvious Climate Change parallels. “Too expensive to fix”, etc.

Again, none of it’s necessarily surprising - it’s human behavior after all. But I really do think we’d be better off if we could confront our short-termism as a society and invest ahead of time. “An ounce of prevention...”.
Carta’s covid-19 layoff
This story is sad and tragic. It reminds me that whenever someone comes hard at you, they probably need more help than you do. Best of luck to Lee and his family.
Was that ever really a thing though? When I dig through my memory (and READMEs on old hard drives) I see a lot of .edu addresses. Seems the good-old-days of the internet wasn't about hosting things on an old computer in your basement but rather hosting things on an old computer in your school's basement.

And around the time when home connectivity became good enough that people considered home hosting was also around the time Slashdot was created.
I just recently stopped using my XZ2 Compact for an iPhone 8 because the Androids software is really crappy and messed up. Thats a 2017 Apple flagship compared to a compact 2018 android flagship and the apple device feels infinitely faster.

I don't remember the details of it, but android uses more ram for applications, because of the dalvik VM. The iPhones also have way more cache on dye in the A CPUs. And apple completely decimates the competition in browser benchmarks.

I had a z3 compact before and was happily using it for 4 years before that(when I bought it was already old). Someone patched the system so that the camera apps still work on an unlocked device and I used a custom ROM which was working well.

Here's the thing about android devices. When you can keep them up to date with custom roms you gain things like fine grained privacy settings and faster lean custom ROMS.

But ... Sony is notoriously bad at that. Not only did their software quality degrade. They added more DRM and security features to make sure your Camera and other DRM functionality will not work on your custom ROM.

Compare that to Xiaomis Poco spinoff where they recently send all the XDA custom rom developers a free device to get the community involved.

I like Sonys devices but the software is utter crap. They completely botched the Android 10 update for most of their devices. It took them 2 months to release a version that wouldn't randomly fail and even then gesture navigation is not working in the older flagships. With Sony devices you can estimate only getting 2 major update the second one likely being buggy. Compare that to the iPhone update strategy which is a million times better.

To some extent the Android 10 disaster is to be blamed on Google since apparently the fingerprint problems existed in almost every vendors Android 10 release. I guess that when google moved their pixel 4 to no fingerprint/only faceID(or google face unlock) they just didn't care enough about other Android OEMs.
> This is manifest in the way tech companies are funded through venture capital firms, going public or taking money from stock and the public. The problem is the fact that tech is ultimately interrelated to capital and right now capital is in a very concentrated and not representative group of people

Software and web service startups don't require a lot of capital to get off the ground.

In many cases I would agree that venture capital is unnecessary and can do more harm than good as the company shifts focus toward investor happiness rather than customer and employee happiness. The same bad focus can happen in a public company when the stakeholder balance sometimes shifts overwhelmingly toward investors at the expense of everyone else.

In a non winner-take-all market, funding a company the old-fashioned way - paying out of pocket until you have enough paying customers to sustain the business - may be a good way to go.
It's very different from academic research, yes. But the demo scene produced things that were at the very limit of what computers were capable of at the time, and they were/are every bit as 'innovative' as some of the top academic research. Some of the techniques used would be top contenders at CS graphics conferences around the time they were produced. That were 'published' as executables rather than papers, but that doesn't make them less 'innovative'. That they were produced by people working on them part time doesn't make it any less innovative in my view, nor were the results worse than those produced by full timers (in academia or elsewhere).
Those are old. Barr's recent declaration was filed 04/13/20

You can find docket information that shows when documents were filed but all the ones I see make you pay to see the documents.

Doc No.: 6142 "DECLARATION of Attorney General William P. Barr in Support re: [6136] MOTION for Protective Order. Document filed by FBI."
An absence sorely felt in most apps and websites one has to deal with today.
The Lost Math Lessons: Bouncing DVD Logo
I learnt from the same professor! His youtube series is well done.
Yes, but ultimately no matter how much computational photography and odd filter arrays you throw it, the diffraction limit will kill you with a 2mm wide smartphone camera.
Harvard Nets Nearly $9M in Coronavirus Aid
Biting my tongue here as hard as I can...
But, karma points ? the first time I say it was like 1991 maybe. Let's think here for a bit, what would be a way to take the opinion of the masses, but weigh that against.. let's say some other possible considerations. Like maybe let people voice diverse opinions ? Or unique ideas? I am suggesting that maybe as a group, let's stretch our thinking here a bit. How can we balance filtering nutty stuff from interesting diverse thinking? Any ideas out there ?
Discussion anyone?
I believe "Then Amazon may need a carve-out in best practices to supply essential services, which is what every nation has had to do in this highly-dynamic crisis." is better rendered as "Then Amazon may need emergency temporary relief from best practices/regulations in order to supply essential services; every nation has had to be flexible with regulation and oversight in this highly-dynamic crisis."
Why is non canonical better? Because they get to charge a fee?
U.S. Weighs Paying Drillers to Leave Oil in Ground
> Single camera

Most people only use one camera. The SE is also $399.

> absurd screen-to-body ratio

Some people really dislike the edge-to-edge screen of the newer iPhone models

> all of the things from 2010 in 2020

This is literally one of the fastest phones on the market and it's only $399. Did you live in an alternate reality 2010?
What kind of risk though?

If you don't trust the code itself – it doesn't matter where it is hosted. Validation/audits etc. are essential in any case.

If you don't trust the reliability/uptime of the central service — it's trivial to create a private mirror containing the packages you want. Every internal build system I have seen does this already.