skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hegel, an advanced static type checker for JavaScript
Dobson founded the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers public outreach group:

http://sfsidewalkastronomers.org

I used to use a favorite quote of his in my Usenet .signature file:

"What's the use of somebody who doesn't wonder?"
What does morality have to do with the nature of what is? How you feel about snuffing out some form of consciousness is irrelevant to whether it exists or not.
So they set your location from your language and your language from your location...
Solving Problems vs. Finding Problems
How could it be dead? Contrary to airbnb couchsurfing is not a company, it's a concept. And it has no running costs. People will just pause and get back to it later on.
The picture is certainly a lot more complicated than I have covered here. I get tired of repeating the same points, but it boils down this:

1. The current status quo is that there are no acceptable ways for me to monetize my writing: People hate ads and use ad blockers, people hate Patreon, people hate tips, people hate it if you are using your writing to sell other products (aka "content marketing") etc ad nauseum. There is no means to monetize writing that doesn't get hated on, so people de facto expect writers to work for free.

2. I'm tired of trying to analyze it to death and prove my point. I'm more focused on "Where do we go from here?" and less focused on "How did we get here and why is this so messed up?" If you hate it, help me find a path forward and forge a new model we can spread.

I increasingly try to focus on "If you hate the status quo, do something about it and vote with your wallet instead of bitching on the internet and then acting like this is inevitable and we can't change it."
>> NASA wanted to find an "ordinary person," a gifted teacher who could communicate with students while in orbit.

So i guess maybe some programs like this will appear in the future...
Then we should have browser settings for regional dialect, because the same thing holds true. I don't stop being a British English speaker just because my IP address is in Toronto.

Language is a property of people, not place.

edit: Also, I'm an English speaker living in Berlin. This shit happens to me all the time, and it's a trigger. Apologies for blowing my cool.

And I'm used to reading any flavour of English. The regional dialects really don't matter. Colour can be color and I'll still understand. I won't understand "Farbe".
U.S. Space Force launches unmanned spacecraft into orbit for classified mission
I'm already on the hook for fixing the in-laws WiFi, printer, and IoT cat water bowl -- how could this possibly scale to the masses?
In many schools, football programs (and usually also basketball and baseball) are "revenue" programs that contribute more to the school than they cost.

Additionally, many states require that coaching salaries above a certain threshold not be paid out of tuition dollars, so boosters are actually funding the salaries of many coaches at the FBS (fka Div I-A) level.
Putting Masks in the Context of Evolution of Personal Healthcare
Iosevka Font Version 3.0.0 released
Markdown is at a sweet spot that combines ease of read and write for technical and non-technical users. It's primarily made to be written and shared as-is.
US 1040 Tax Form (1913) [pdf]
> Not using knowledge and tools to amplify what I do, but spending 60% of my time confused as hell about something which should be obvious and is only obvious afterwards, 20% trying to convince people of things they're often reluctant to believe, and 20% actually using built up knowledge and tools to do many many things very quickly. It's frustrating.

It also creates some nasty perverse incentives. Because if you spend the hours to find the best way to do something that should be simple, it often turns out to actually be simple. API function #487 does just exactly what you need, if only it hadn't taken seven hours to find it. So then you spend a day writing five lines of code that should have taken half an hour, but in the end you have a good solution.

But there is an alternative to that. You can reinvent the wheel. Instead of spending your time understanding the unnecessarily complicated thing with poor documentation, write some new code to do just your thing.

And who looks more productive to the boss? The one who spent all day to write five lines of code, or the one who added a complex new feature that clearly took a lot of time and effort (but will now take ten times more effort to maintain)?

This is especially nasty because it's not always an obvious answer. Sometimes the existing wheel is made of glass and is shaped like a triangle and reinventing it is totally worth it, and then you spend all day discovering that and still have to spend tomorrow doing what a lazier person did yesterday.

Whereas without the unnecessary complexity the right answer would have been obvious much sooner.
I've finished my side project: https://www.brandingpavilion.com

I wanted to build, as I call it 'Global Creative Community' called Branding Pavilion which is an online directory of companies, events, job offers and interviews from the digital industry.

The idea behind this project is to help clients reach digital/marketing/software companies and create an online community.

Software stack of this project includes: Bootstrap 4 as a CSS framework, Vue.js for logic and functionality, Firebase for database and backend, Stripe as a payment method, Cloudflare for protection and security.
While RSS doesn't replace a site like Reddit, it's great that Reddit has RSS support built-in.

Much of my browsing of the site at least starts off in a feed reader, to make it quick to find what I'm interested in. From there, I'll open links to the site proper, with all the comments and such that make the experience what it is.
We Are Living in a Black Hole, Theories and Scientists Claims
Time for some cross-platform integration: start GoFundMes to crowdfund arbitrage of SoftBank derivatives in support of local small businesses.
Enve open-source 2D animation software
with food and water, how else?
Clearly the hotel business is a thin cover. One reviewer mentions dust as though the room hadn't been used recently.

The reviews are incredible.

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g60763-d267183-Revie...
We can imagine consciousness as a purely informational process, which can occur in any adequately complex substrate—real or virtual. In this regard (integrated information theory), the inherent “properties” of consciousness would be more readily described using graph theory or topology.

However, we can also view physics itself as something inherently informational, given that all the base particles in the standard model can ultimately be boiled down to scalar values. Would it be possible to say that those values are ultimately derived from the inherently mathematical properties which result in this reality “existing”? What does it mean for something to exist on the basis of its inherent mathematical identity?

If both consciousness and reality are purely mathematical phenomenon (maybe consciousness is more derived through the computation-generating properties of life), why would one such phenomenon be any less expected than the other? Isn’t it impossible for a non-mathematically-derived (informational) consciousness to exist at all in such a universe?
Not being able to override it part sounds intentional since those stores has regional prices and they don't want people to change currency/region easily.
Most of those have nothing to do with OP's point, which is that some software uses way too much processing power than it should.

While on the topic, let's remember the speech recognition software available for Windows (and some for Android 2.x) that was completely offline and could be voice activated with, gasp, any command!

Google with its massive data centers can only do "OK/Hey Google". Riiight. I can't believe there are actually apologists for this bs.
Hey folks, Atlassian employee here! This isn't official comms but I wanted to identify myself in case there's any confusion :)

As is pointed out elsewhere on this thread, we're tracking the request to disable the feature here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-67922

There are a couple of workarounds documented on it until we reach a proper resolution.

As to the concern around permissions, I believe the reason we're requesting both read and write access to GitHub repositories is that their OAuth implementation bundles the read & write scopes together (https://developer.github.com/apps/building-oauth-apps/unders...). There's just no way to request _just_ read access to repository metadata, which is all the Smart Link feature actually requires.

For Google Drive, which supports more granular scopes, we request _only_ read access, not write access as the title of this post implies.
I teach part-time in a private for-profit college in Germany (in which German-citizen students get up to half their tuition paid by the government) & tuition is comparable to the least expensive public state universities in the US.

I don't know how the numbers work out but I suspect you could run a private college in the US for less than the mid to high 5-figure $ per student per year they seem to charge.
There's donation, but I wonder what percent of users actually donate.

Also, what if people donate and there are various contributors to the project beside the main author(s)? Should they get a piece too?
I have been able to write some free software as part of my paying job. For some companies this is a real strategy, that is explained by companies commoditizing their complements [1].

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
You live in a bubble, Windows still dominates desktop (obviously, most people can't afford a Mac and the year of Linux on desktop has not come yet)

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
>If it's trivial to get listed, and potentially with the wrong prices, then it's trivial to launder money this way.

If it's trivial to launder money this way then it is a really good idea to build your own food delivery service and start doing all sorts of money laundering through it.
I still use Winamp for offline music. Nothing else is faster.
I did that many, many times. That's why I don't drink anymore.
Sweet spot as long as you don’t want anything basic like using colors. In my experience Markdown has been about as much painful and frustrating than helpful.
I almost never have problems making custom food orders in the USA, even when the order taker is not a native English speaker.

"I'd like a cheeseburger, only lettuce and ketchup."

But when I visited Australia, I had a much harder time placing the same order. Most of the order takers there were not native English speakers, and I learned pretty quickly that the difference between American English and Australian English was bigger than I realized.

Language is interesting.
Isn’t this fraud? What’s unclear to me is if it’s illegal, or just unethical.
Close proximity does not have to the the only factor, although all the world ist currently fixed on social distancing. How about children being less contagious? After all they are developing no symptoms at all in most cases.
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The Miracle Sudoku [video]
Based on the parties involved here, it’ll be used to control the outcome of elections to ensure the Tories keep in power forever. The guy running it, Mosley, is the grandson of Oswald Mosley - founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists - “Hooray for the blackshirts” and all that. He’s a “Tory activist”, which basically means he would like to see a fascist white ethnostate. I’m not exaggerating. This is who the Tories have become - the party of brexit, of isolationism, of eugenics, of corrupt in-dealing, arbitrary justice, and “hostile environments”.

Literally every name in there is someone associated with the far right.

There’s also prior form to this end - see the as yet unresolved and probably never to be resolved hoo-hah over Cambridge analytica.

This smells like Cummings and his gang.
damn, I've evidently offended some flat-earthers out there.
Saying there are problems in marriage and disliking kids is not the same as nihilism. If it didnt matter there would be little cause to build resentment, one would just float through nothingness.

If you hold such foul thoughts and emotions for those providing a service to you at a great cost, maybe they should stop working for you. Power lines are frequently maintained by the least likely to get romantic attention, and they muddle through with their personal flaws to keep the lights on for you.

I know smart well educated people working on research for diseases that cant keep their private life together.

You see this topic as very black and white, idealistically and naively. Your countries' freedom was bought on the backs of many soldiers who didnt reproduce, and went into battle knowing that death was a possible outcome. Would you do the same?

Or would defending your country be a koolaid in your flavour, that is a foolish sacrifice borne out of ignorance?

Your respect isn't worth having if you can't see the value in sacrifice.
I am living in Belgium exactly on the linguistic border. My side of the road is French, the other size is Dutch.
Almost all Belgium web sites are in Dutch and google ads keep showing me ads in Dutch that are irrelevant.
I try to train google ads but there is no option to say don't show me ads with this language...
Be hilarious if the tax people in various countries started checking repos to see if people were reporting their donations as they assumed you guys make bank.
I guess you could take those students and review their cases personally by taking to them.
Really nice article, it shows a lot of the small details you have to take into account to go from "deploying Kubernetes" to "deploy a production-grade Kubernetes" where production means some real, trafficked site.
How to pass an interview as a software developer
I'm six weeks or so ahead of you.

That other comment gave a link to that "how to take smart notes" blog post, the HN comments were here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341518

A thing to keep in mind: there are two schools of thought. Niklas Luhmann was an extremely productive German sociologist who used his index cards system in a particular way. One school of thought tries to use his system exactly, like explained in the book that blog post is about. Others think that Luhmann had to work like that because he was restricted to physical cards, now with digital tools we can make other choices and get similar effects. Both ways are referred to as "Zettelkasten method".

I also realized that the system really works for producing content, things like producing science papers. You need to put work in how you formulate notes, and in finding connections between them. Without a good reason to keep working with your Zettelkasten, there is a risk it'll just be a pile of notes.
Mixed plus whichever feed you request to enlarge sounds more reasonable.
nvidia.com always lands me on their french homepage even though I speak Dutch, live in the Dutch speaking part of my country and have my browser preferred language set to English.
Trade is always beneficial to both sides. I find it quite silly for people who say they support free trade but then claim this kind of bs. If the trade isn't beneficial, then they simply won't trade. And if is then they will receive a benefit from the trade. But trade is decisions by individuals, and shouldn't be up to donald tramp and his tramp crew. What your describing is asymmetry between countries in trade. The Hecksher Ohlin model describes the relationship quite well and the relationship is natural. For the same reason the whole complaing about how X country is subsidising their Y products and ruining our country, is just rich corporate bs. It's focused on business owners and not consumers. Why should I pay for a product when I know my marginal utility/marginal cost is higher with the other product? So I can put more money into some rich asshole's ass pocket? While you might be rich enough to sit complain about things being too cheap, some of us have bills to pay. And I see no reason to pay more so you can make money off the rest of us.
And also sometimes there is absolutely no need to buy new hardware! I find appalling that we need to upgrade our machines just because software gets more and more resource hungry. My parents as well use old hardware to browse, edit documents and write emails. Back at I home I still run a 10 year old PC with Linux and it just keeps running very well... No need to upgrade! I just think about the golden age of videogames and the software tricks developers came up with to make them run and the hardware those used to run on. Today basically you need to constantly upgrade your GPU if you want to play the latest cool game. Ridiculous.
So that's where the Bowery King is in hiding.
I just wish it weren't stuck, anisotropically, ~10 years in the past. Maybe Qt6 will be better, but more likely it will be more and more QML.
This is the most IRL Lord of the Rings dialogue I've ever heard
I guess the question becomes: what is the native ecosystem missing that means devs are choosing to deliver memory/CPU hungry apps, rather than small efficient ones?
> "The industrial revolution paved the way for exploitation without obligations. Can't do the work anymore? Well, say goodbye to a house since you can't pay rent, food because you don't have money, etc."

This was Marx's worry and reason for its theory of value.

It's not true. Capitalism goes hand in hand with the constant evolution of technology and the competition pressure that companies have, which leads to prices dropping all the time. Food prices have been dropping and I'm pretty sure agriculture will get so efficient that the price of basic food items will be free.

The only worrying thing nowadays, the only phenomenon that can disrupt this trend, are the IP laws (copyright, patents, trademark) that are essentially government-granted monopolies, allowing software companies to keep competition at bay and their prices high. But due to the evolution of technology, even software companies need to evolve and to drop the prices on their services, or they die. Maybe in the future this will stop being true, maybe there is a ceiling to what technology can do. But for now Marx's dystopian future isn't here yet.

Again, let us look at the results. In 2015 less than 10% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty, compared with over 90% in the 19th century.
You already can use UWP that has sandbox. Win32 apps can be converted to it.
So no one cares about more security. Most vendor stuck at "just work" Win32.
> Ever seen children outside playing? It's anything but lame.

Where did children play before the invention of the lawn mower?

> Can city parks at least be "for humans"?

You mean, at least, besides the cities themselves, the parking lots, the industrial areas, the roads and highways, the suburbs. Yeah, at least. Poor humans. Give them at least the parks.
While I would agree that the environment is torture to use as a general-purpose screening tool, I’m sure there are jobs where the ability to get work done in a base Linux install is an asset :)
Women in Tech: Julia
According to the Wiki article, there's 88 people in the Space Force and 86 of them are 2nd lieutenants
The diver told Musk to stick a submarine up his ass. Once. And then he moved on.

Musk then publicly called the diver a pedophile, hired a guy to try and find dirt to prove his statement, and then attempted to have the media publish articles calling the diver a pedophile multiple times. And then tried to insinuate that because the diver hadn't told him to stop or sued him, he must be telling the truth. (So of course the diver sued him the next day.)
WeUsedTo: An invitation to share reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic experience
That’s fine, I wasn’t trying to expose you, I just wanted to understand. It looks like everyone is happy, the restaurant gets cash, the shelter gets food, and you get... a lot of pizza for the rest of your life! I don’t think I’ve eaten 5,000$ worth of pizza in my life so far haha
> A property-less underclass will survive by servicing the needs of high earners as personal assistants, trainers, child-minders, cooks, cleaners, et cetera.

People have been predicting this since Marx, and they've been wrong every single time. It's a better time to be a peasant today than at any time history, and it keeps getting better. The chattering class sure does love to chatter about this though.
Or serve a different version of the pizza place's website to the Doordash scraper with lower prices?
I have a day job. Right now, I do open source purely on the side, but if I was to get enough donations/sponsors or I got paid for doing open source work, I’d happily start doing it full-time. I do sometimes contribute to open source during my paid work, but that’s more an exception than a rule.
lawn: a stretch of open, grass-covered land, especially one closely mowed, as near a house, on an estate, or in a park.

Might it be a meadow instead of a lawn?
Well, yes. I can't tell too much because of NDAs but if you go buy a recent car there is a good chance that all the screens are rendered with Qt on Linux or a RTOS - there is likely more of those than desktop linux users as much as this saddens me
Same question, what does A have to do with B? I've had enough herring today.
I also had the same experience in some client projects where we were explicitly told not to use it for anything work related.
If this affected the language only. I had a creditcarma US account. But when in Canada, they automatically redirect you to creditcarma canada, which has a completely different user database. So there was no way to log into my account, apart from using a VPN and selecting a US IP address.
Color isn't really that basic a thing - you need to take into account the medium that the color will be displayed in to do it correctly.

However, as Markdown is supposed to be nothing more than a superset of HTML, you can simply reach for CSS. It won't always render the best if you're moving from Markdown to physical medium, but that's largely dependent on the engine.
Can you imagine getting that call "Hi, little Pizza place, we've been fraudulently impersonating your business, dragging your brand through the mud and pissing off all your customers selling your pizza at a loss, clearly we're the sort of people you need to do business with"
Testing Torpedos with Civilians in the Water?
I love these types of pages. I know nothing about programming. Can you (or anyone reading this) suggest how I can go about making one? What's the bare minimum I'd need to learn to have essentially a single or a few pages with plain text, links, and photos on it, like the ones you posted? What terms should I search for to learn how to do this?
To some degree, that's probably the case.
New TSMC Fab in USA: I Don't Believe It
Check out interactive brokers. You have to pay for the market feeds but it’s all available via API. It’s a completely horrible, painful API, but it’s the only way I found to get the data as a hobbyist.

There’s a process where you certify that you are a non-professional trader and they give you access to the data feeds for a reasonable price.

I’m working on a similar project, in case you’re interested in swapping notes (contact info in profile)
That's capitalism as its finest.

Saudi money (via SoftBank) is paying for poor people's food (and also subsidizing their transportation, via Uber).
>> It's a better time to be a peasant today than at any time history, and it keeps getting better.

This is quite literally the “99% of ‘poor’ people have refrigerators” argument popularized by Fox News.

You should find better sources of information.
I hear oxygen is also popular
Kind of, try to run MS-DOS, Windows 3.x or some Windows 32 bit software on Windows 10 64bit Pro to see how far you will go.

Or OpenGL/Vulkan in Win32 or UWP sandboxes for that matter.
Show HN: Hot-swap API endpoints and Kafka streams with Clojure and Dataworks