skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh it's a shame to see this domain (openhardware.org) isn't up anymore. Does anyone know what happened? but it seems there's virtually nothing in the free/open hardware space

Don't worry, the FOSS hardware scene is alive and well, although not as advanced as software yet.

> Does anyone know what happened?

It appears that the openhardware.org project has been discontinued in favor of other projects of the same nature, such as oshwa.org.
For video editing, Blender is the best FOSS tool I've tried.

But you now get Davinci Resolve for free on Linux. It blows the FOSS competition out of the water, being a software with probably millions of dev hours funded by Hollywood studios behind it. Blackmagic decided to go the way of providing the basic tool for free in order to build user base amongst hobby video editors, and it's not a bad move IMO.
A platform isn't public or private. It's a platform. You can use it any way you want. But if it's not your platform, you don't get to make the rules of how it can be used or how it works.

I don't think people realize how ridiculous they sound when they reach this far just to get Google to do whatever the user wants with Google's service. It's a very millennial/zoomer/i-only-know-life-since-Google-has-existed point of view. It implies that people don't think they can fairly live a human existence without using Google (which is the truly disturbing thing about all this).

I mean, jesus. Nobody has forced you to use any of Google's services, you literally do not need to use any of their services at all. And there are alternate service providers. We didn't even go this far with Ma Bell, an actual monopoly.

If this is about "boo hoo I can't make money off of their platform", why not the same complaint about literally any other business? It's a much more reasonable thing to fight for, say, right to repair, than right-to-make-an-app-that-will-be-published-no-matter-what-by-Google.

At the moment, the best comparison I can come up with is food trucks. Say you own a giant empty lot. You offer it to food trucks to come and sell their food in your lot. It's a big success. You make money, the food trucks make money. Then one day, you want to kick out a food truck, for whatever reason. And they say, this is so unfair. We should form a government committee to manage this parking lot because the owner of the lot won't let me sell hotdogs here anymore. Even though they could just, you know, do what they do somewhere else, and still make basically the same living.
Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in Fremont is 70% more expensive than one in Austin right now:

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/tx/au...
https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/fr...

If you drive even a little further out, living costs are far cheaper, too. Austin proper is not that large. In a nearby town less than 15 miles from downtown Austin, I see 2800 sqft. houses renting on Zillow for $200-300/month cheaper than what I paid in Bay Area rents for a 1 bedroom ~600 sqft. apartment almost 10 years ago.

Not that it won't ever get there, but Texas cities have a ways to go to catch up with some of the CA housing prices.
> I've learned that most of them have a lifetime of about 3 weeks for me (which is about how long it takes for the novelty to wear off), after which I regress to the mean.

Can relate to this extremely well.
> $40k/year salary vs. their current $7/hr

I really hate when people do this. Those are totally different scales, and it's not obvious how they compare.

According to this converter [0] (and ignoring specific differences between wage and salary like overtime), using the defaults of 40-hour work week and 50-week year (to account for holidays):

* $40k/year is about $20/hour

* $7/hour is about $14k/year

[0] https://www.calculators.org/savings/wage-conversion.php
> HE IS A DOCTOR RUNNING A STUDY AT A MAJOR UNI, and twitter is telling him he is misinformation.

The best part is that they let actual fake news and misinformation run amok on their platforms.
This us a great addon I discovered recently, but nevertheless they have an introductory video about the Blender editor: https://github.com/GDQuest/blender-power-sequencer/blob/1.5....
The fact that an app built with electron may be fractions of a second slower than one built using native tech, does not change the fact that most of the people who keep on harping about this whenever electron is discussed are native app developers spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about a competing tech stack. And it is a big threat because it makes creating desktop apps accessible to millions more developers, and therefore cheaper and faster from a business point of view. So what is essentially an economic problem pretending to be a technical one. I moved from Notepad++ (screaming fast) to VS Code, and those micro-second differences in speed do not matter at all.
If you made a video of the slides with a recording of your voice over it and posted it on Youtube, I’m sure you’d get a great response
Perhaps it would be possible to send the blueprints to a factory to be manufactured? I don't really know.

I think in some ways the same concern exists for software but it's much, much cheaper so you never see it. If you don't want to build the software yourself, you can get a binary that someone has spent compute time to produce, and may be paying money to host and make available to you.

Probably the closest equivalent I can think of is you can pay a small fee to get various Linux distributions on CD or DVD. You are paying for a physical product to be made then.

Ah, if only we had replicators or very good 3D printers...
This might help. I created https://tryjobalerts.com to help find dev jobs, and it is free. Throwaway emails are welcome, use it however you want.
I think that quote refers to the 3 gigabytes of RAM of the Librem 5 that was mentioned higher up in the chain, not the 3G wireless technology:

> But you pay 750$ for a 3GB quad core phone

Both Librem 5 and the Pinephone support LTE, although no 5G.

You are entirely right that phones which don't support LTE will have major usability regressions very soon so when you buy an older model phone you should really watch out to buy LTE capable ones.
I guess it was off-topic and hopefully that was why you got downvoted, and not because people didn't want to be reminded about Henry Ford's racism but who knows. Anyway I didn't downvote, have upvoted now to make up for it even though I'm kind of a judge people by the standards of their time type re Ford's morality. I'm sort of tired of people downvoting for what seem frivolous or personal reasons.
Although it's difficult to use, I've found Natron for video editing to be not terrible, https://natrongithub.github.io/
1: Force of habit, since I use grep and silversearcher elsewhere a lot, but 2: I hate the mdfind indexer service putting garbage all over my disks, so I've turned it off and forgotten about it.
To be a little pedantic, while this is a fantastic idea, is it really bookmarking?

What you’ve done instead is compiled a personal digital library; akin to a Kindle
U.N. warns of 'hunger pandemic' amid threats of coronavirus, economic downturn
API fake news classifier using AI
The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming
at the moment ... in person with a sweaty handshake
Didn't one of the dropped-out democratic candidates propose something like that?

I swear I've heard this before.
This is great! I might add a slide or two about Makefiles. Probably the topic is too big and out of scope, but inexperienced Unix users may not realize that they are useful for so much more than compiling multi-file C programs.
>I feel like that movie Limitless was inspired by someone who really needed ADHD medication and finally got it.

Watching it tonight.
Ps. The $405 is an Amazon price which is not in stock but bhphotovideo has it in stock for $410.
PDF gives me an off-line readable version of the website, and is pretty compatible with pdftotext as a pipeline tool... I'm not sure that formatting is such a huge issue - I'm yet to find a web page I can't extract some meaningful info from, later on ..
As a student at Harvard, cancelling classes means you lose progress that you would have to repeat. Maybe Zoom is not ideal for certain classes, but it’s better than no class. Not sure what the endowment has to do with anything other than to give you something to whine about?
The chromeos boot actually isn't quite instant, even if they call it that. But it is not at all suspend to ram; it's a full boot in the space of a few seconds. Of course, most of the time I just do a suspend, like an ordinary notebook. But the lighter-weight less resource-intensive chromeos is a benefit, snappier than Windows or OS X would be on the same hardware, that's for sure.

Ha, not surprised you don't believe security is better.
Security is on the level of iOS or Android, everything is sandboxed. ( https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3438631?hl=en )
And updates are as smooth and unobtrusive as they are on iOS or Android; don't get me started about problems with Windows updates.

Really, it's not bad. It's surprisingly really good. Of course, if it weren't for Crostini/Linux it would be too limited for many people to use as their main computer. But with Crostini, it's pretty great for the right users. Pixelbook hardware in particular has a quality feel, makes you feel good just to use it. And the software has a polished feel, too. It just works. Windows, in comparison, feels like a clunky mess; a complex, clunky, mess.
Samsung’s C-Lab Program Successfully Produces Five New Tech Startups
Hi all! I'm the editor of this post. I love traveling, and have always wondered how reservations systems worked. This post explores that.

In the future, we're hoping to write a piece about how air fare pricing works too. There's a lot of interesting stuff re. fare buckets, forecasting supply + demand, etc. It's also very topical with COVID: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/...

(If HN has any ideas about what else we should write about, let me know! I'm david AT retool.com)
Sure ask the roomba to iron clothes too and watch it while it goes up the walls your kids dirtied up. Check with people with kids on the verge of collapse - if you can afford it, its a godsend (in Asia, you probably can afford it atleast part-time).

Nobody said allowing access to the helper while nobody is around. Weekend help for a few hours is a thing. You can rest and relax while they are around. Just don't be dumb enough to tempt them by leaving a purse full of cash on the table. Even the best of the people can fall prey to a moment of weakness.
For 5, good alternatives: Shotcut and Kdenlive.

and 13. Krita for digital painting
I bet they could not. It will ruin whole internet with little gain since you still need application level pings anyway because issue could be in a broken server, not on TCP level.
This ted talk still has my mind blown. Not sure what the current state of the art is on this, but I find this amazing even today.

https://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_nirenberg_a_prosthetic_eye_...
Big shoutout to karlicoss for doing amazing things in the Personal Knowledge Management space.

Also, it would be great to see a Memex-to-Org tool from you.
Thought of this today. I pay a huge bill. Time to downgrade.
when you post release announcements that possibly get posted snd forwarded to other places, please include a short description about what grafana is.

and maybe also add one to your home page. (make it link to the features)

when i see any release anouncement about a product i am unfamiliar with, the first question i have is what kind of product it is, so i can decide if i want to check it out
Off-line mode, my data is my data, and I can process the data freely and easily using my own local tools without getting anyone else' CPU involved.

And the formatting issue isn't really that big of a deal, if I'm honest. The formatting did its work in the initial contact of the web page - beyond that, to me anyway, its superfluous to the later task of finding the reference again. pdftotext don't care about the formatting, either.
You can't copyright a functional part in the US. That's why there's a third party auto parts industry. Auto manufacturers have tried to get legislation through the US Congress so that they could copyright sheet metal parts, but that failed. As special cases, boat hulls and IC masks are copyrightable.

Here's an overview of how it affects the auto industry.[1]

[1] https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?&article=...
> According to the worldometer page, COVID19 has killed 91,000. Since January.

Not quite. The first death in the US was Feb 29. On March 31, it was only 5151.

So ~91k deaths over 2.5 months, or ~86k deaths over 1.5 months. (...I'd probably go with the first just to encompass infection time)
Termux is the only reason I use Android. If it doesn't work in the future I will most likely switch to IOS. Long term software support is much better anyway.
Literate Programming Will Change Your Life
Literate Programming enacts conceptual priming to bridge the gap between software development and non-technical problem solvers
Yes, manually, but as I stated elsewhere: its muscle memory and smooth as an operation for me locally anyway now.

I often go through the archive, find the HN comment PDF's I've created, and then automatically update them to get whatever new comments have occurred in the meantime. Haven't figured out how to navigate to the 'next' comment page automatically though - some pages detect they're being printed and use a print-friendly layout, though, which is nice .. would be cool to see more of that.
Zero experience with Grafana here.

I have a mongodb database with several collections. All collections share a set of fields: "createdAt", "channelId", "status", etc.

How easy would it be to dump all this data into Grafana, and then be able to slice and dice these collections by any combination of the shared fields.

Basically, I'm tired of writing mongo queries whenever I want to inspect my data. I want to point and click around a beautiful UI, with data visualizations and easy filtering/aggregation. Is this easy to do with Grafana?
> Is there any other tool someone can recommend?

Audacity. I can think of two ways.

0. Import into audacity

1. Playback the recording at 4x (1 hour of playback for 4 hours real-time broadcast). Mark the edges where music stops and starts. You have to do that 12 times for 6 songs. Youll have to slow down near the changes in order catch the precise time of an edge. Delete the music between the two edges. Repeat 5 more times.

There may be audacity plugins that do what you want or do something closer to it.

2.use some combination of low pass and high pass filters to remove the music. It's not going to be perfect and you'll still need to edit out the filtered music anyway.
I am on T-Mobile and Magenta plan at $70/mo. Honestly I don't even think there is a cheaper plan.
Yes. I dropped from unlimited family plan to 4Gb/mo across three devices. It saved a good bit. It’s nice that it’s easy to switch plans these days.
Reading this article reminded me that I had signed up for Remember the Milk Service years ago to try to beat my procrastination habit.

I signed in and found only ONE task (buy milk, due 01/05/07)

I have yet to buy the milk...maybe later...at what point do I seek professional help?
feedgnuplot [1] is wonderful for quick visualizations of data from the shell. Also great for decoupling visualization from CLI programs.

[1]: https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot
I print to the Desktop, then clean it up at the end of the day by moving the files into what is admittedly a massive collection of files in a single directory .. On one hand, it seems messy - but on the other hand, its incredibly useful to use shell tools to manipulate/harvest the data in that directory.

And as for the mobile/desktop issue: I just sync my PDF dir to my mobile phone, and carry it all with me, anyway. The mobile version is not as grep'able, but its pretty neat to have every interesting website I've ever cared enough about to print-to-PDF with me in my pocket, even if it is a nearly un-navigable list of 20,000+ files to scroll through, hehe ..
It really frustrates me that its 2020 and they still don't have a real extension for Firefox, the only thing preventing me from regularly using it.
Yes, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228264

I use lucid dreaming to simulate various scenarios, sometimes have fun with superpowers, usually telekinesis.
I cut down on my cell phone plan a long time ago. I used to pay about $70 a month, then I went to the AT&T prepaid service. It's $35/month ($30 if you do recurring billing) and you get unlimited calls and texts, and 2 GB of data per month, which is more than enough for me. Tethering also works great. I've also heard a lot of people like ting, but then you're paying by the minute, although the base price is much cheaper.

(I also got a really great deal on an iPhone SE for signing up for $149. 6 months you have to keep the plan and then you can unlock the phone. If you're looking to upgrade your phone, try to swing that too!)
Are there any good, constitutionally sound arguments FOR no knocks?
that is a really good deal from T-Mobile.. I wouldn't switch if I were in your shoes...
Sail (Village Global '20) is looking for a mission-driven technical cofounder
In native Mac text editors, you can use e.g. SHIFT + ALT + LEFT to select the whole word on the left of the cursor. Is there a way to get a Mac terminal that uses similar shortcuts? For copy/paste also?

Related, but I found https://micro-editor.github.io/ which tries to use shortcuts you'd expect in native Mac apps.
I love this about Go. All functions are simple and synchronous, but if you want to call them concurrently, just "go SlowThing()" and coordinate with a channel. Compare that to the async stuff in C#, Python, etc -- it's bolted on later, and you see double of everything.
توكيل كاريير المعتمد وفروعه فى المحافظات
خدمات على اعلى مستوى من الدقة والجودة فى توكيل كاريير الى جميع انواع التكييفات التى لا يمكن الاستغناء عنها خصوصا فى فصل الصيف لما تقدمه من خدمات تجعل الهواء معتدل
What I think is interesting is that this simple technique, which was so obvious to me having grown up with computers before there were filesystems, really - is now an interesting technique worth productising. To me, that indicates a bit of amnesia in the industry, specifically around how to be a productive user of file systems. If only there had been less intention to eradicate filesystem proficiency in generations of users by certain computer manufacturers, who wanted to productize things like that, away from the user ...
Not sure how easy it is to switch from postpaid to prepaid plans, but there's T-Mobile Connect[1]. Unlimited talk and text, plus 2GB of data for $15/month.

[1] https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans/connect
No, but I have given my microwave a tin foil hat.

If the wife makes tea, it fries my wifi connection.
Thanks for this list! Wish I knew about Xournal earlier this year.

Care to share any details about pdfsandwich and tesseract? As in, do you have some scripts to glue it all together?
Considering that there are two other large tech cooperations named Microsoft and Amazon out there, would you sell RightGIF to them? Microsoft will probably be interested because of MS Teams that is currently using Giphy.

Even if you don't want to ultimately sell, you should try to get Microsoft to use your service.
I think I found a $10 bill on the ground once, but it was long enough ago that it would be worth $20 now.
Looks great! Why not a link to the actual website?
In India, after Jio's success, all operators have now killed the old pricing structure or made it unviable. That structure provided us the ability to lower our plans to bare minimum (low talktime, long validity). Now everyone is on the subscription bandwagon which is atleast 6 times costly when comparing the cheapest plans. But that's still ok I guess, for 200rs (~3USD) per month we get 1.5GB 4G data per day, Unlimited calls and SMS. Sucks that they are selling our data though.
Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 (2007)
Some first world people don't like third world people.
You find a lot of pennies on the ground, because people don't believe it's worth their time to pick them up.
We've been using Crystal on an open source project I work on.

https://github.com/cncf/cnf-conformance/

Its been a dream.

You can pretty much write the ruby you are used to but it performs like a compiled language and you can make binaries.

Was SUPER skeptical at first when the team decided on it but its been a pleasant surprise.
I use Tello and love it! I’ve been working from home for a while and switched a few years ago. I also use Google Voice for my home phone number and connect it to an ObiTalk box, which connects to my modem, so almost all my calls are over WiFi too. I could probably get away with their cheapest plan, which I believe is $6 (for the same network as T-Mobile or Sprint), but even without going the cheapest, my bill is always under $10.
I have been using Memex for more than a year now. Here are the things that really annoy me

- occasional freezing and sudden disappearance of your bookmarks

- no real way to programmatically access your Memex database. I know they have released the storage backend, but the lack of helpful documentation is a deal-breaker.

- lack of collaborative annotation (the way Hypothesis does)

- only few results in search results!
curious, is there a rust based implementation of posix utils or at least stuff from gnu-coreutils etc. ? thanks !
As part of the agreement with SEC(?) to be allowed to merge with Sprint, T-mobile agreed to offer low-priced plans, I suppose to help low-income or access-disadvantaged Americans get cheaper cellphone access.

$15/month (incl 2GB): https://prepaid.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans/connect Not as cheap as some barebones MNVOs but seems attractive and by a reliable-enough carrier.

Personally, I have my parents on the Google Fi $20/month plan ($15 for 2nd line) which charges $10 per GB of data, so at this time they're not using almost any data. It's cheap enough to be not worth it to switch right now.
The modern polarization of the media began in the 1990s with Newt Gingrich...with help from his patron Rupert Murdoch, an ultra-conservative Australian who owned television stations, tabloids, and newspapers in the US, Australia, and the UK.

Before them, politics was still very cutthroat but not polarized along party lines.
But outside of the jurisdiction of mainland China. People from Taiwan and Hong Kong really hate it when mainland censorship are imposed on them.
an off-line readable version of the website

As does 'Save as: Web Archive' in Safari or, if you tell it to store offline, 'Add to Reading List'. In Chrome you can save pages to .mht. All of these are single-keystroke, better ways to locally archive a web page.
You could always construct a hypothetical that goes beyond destruction of evidence. A kidnapping/hostage situation, for instance.
Use Ting. Pay for what you use. https://ting.com/
Yes, this deserves an upvote so more people are aware and not spending unnecessary $/mo. I posted about it separately in this story.
Rebekah Jones said in an email to CBS12 News that her removal was "not voluntary" and that she was removed from her position because she was ordered to censor some data, but refused to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."

Wow. I don't even know what to say. This is horrible, and misinformation at its worst. I feel like this is the magic marker on the hurricane map that nobody can easily laugh at, because they can't see it.
I've been messing around with a personal site hosted on S3. Does anybody here like any small UI frameworks that they would recommend?