skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a bet and losing doesn't imply idiocy. What were the odds? What was the potential payoff?
Ubuntu should have a PPA for that
It's a group of people, not an amoeba, not everyone has the same motivation, so of course if you consider them as Them, then Them will have logically inconsistent behavior.
Just keep up the good work, glasses or no glasses
No great loss to me. I dislike both the technology and its licensing.
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I don’t know if that’s fair. Hertz floundered for over a decade with leveraged buyouts, failed mergers, market missteps and accounting falsehoods. She got 9 quarters to turn that around, she was headed in the right direction, but it was too little too late.
Why does every comment like this, criticising an article, always claim the author doesn't understand the concept they're talking about? You can just disagree with something without using cheap tactics like this to imply the author is ignorant.

I see no evidence of this claimed misunderstanding in the linked article. And there's nothing "subtle" about it saying thought experiments lack value because they're contrived, that is the central point its making.
They are described in the linked article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevit...
That's really cool, especially as I think one of the first map mashups was Chicago Crime [1], which was followed soon enough by countless others (I know I did one for my city back in 2007-ish). It would have been interesting for us to have had this type of map alongside the original "crime" maps from the very beginning, but I think relevant data was hard to come by.

[1] http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-tribute/
Someone posted this https://macieira.org/~thiago/qt-stats/current/ in one of previous discussions. Commits from extrnal contributors are between 15-40% .
We should start by repealing the 2nd amendment. It is a bad law.
Edit: This along with arm confiscation would limit force in police interactions and thus lower aggression.
Don't worry, you can't offend me. Lacking "warmth" is my personality. It's just who I am. This isn't about being fake, it's just about explicitly learning things which other people seem to "just know".
So it's even worse. What's up with the trend going in the wrong direction?
How clickbaity, Qt could never go proprietary thanks to KDE Free Qt Foundation
'Clinically no longer exists': Italian doctor claims coronavirus losing potency
Whyte Notation
Overhyped company
Do those small/niche hosts allow you to modify the code running on their site? Do they allow you to inspect the source code and acquire any patches they have developed? It's not free software.
The KDE project already lacks manpower, I'm not sure they will be able to maintain a free Qt fork for long.
There are some child-freindly 3D apps out there, but 11 is probably old enough to start. The community is very helpfull and there is a ton of good learning material. The key thing, as with all apps, will be to demonsnste that 90 % of what they need to learn can be covered with 10% of the UI.
Not sure it works, but I would pay to see one...
Surely the post-to-hackernews button should self destruct after one use also..
> The RBF kernel nakes any dataset linearly separable, as long as the bandwidth is small enough

That's very interesting, would you happen to have the paper proving that somewhere?
While I despise purity spirals, moral panics, and moral grandstanding with a great passion, I don't think that's what's going on here. It is at least mildly quaint. In this case it looks like the folks behind the website are into K-pop, and one of the very strange behaviors of K-pop fans is to post images and videos of their favorite kpop bands ... well, everywhere, often in violation of site ToSes. I'd honestly love to know more about why, because it gets mildly aggravating even if the images/videos themselves are very inoffensive.

Since this is their own website, I can't really be frustrated at all honestly. Still seems a little quaint, but I guess that's how a lot of 'ordinary' folks view those of us into Japanese otaku culture as well. Shrug.
MIPS is still alive in the IP camera world. There exist very cheap SoC's (e.g. the Ingenic T20 - http://www.ingenic.com.cn/en/?product/id/14.html ), tailored towards making cheap network camera's (~ €20 retail price for the full camera). I guess at that price point, the ARM license fee does become visible in the bill of materials.
It's interesting to wrap the persistence in there as well and it's lightweight so that's a plus. But someone also could use say Redux(or Storeon) and achieve a similar thing. The challenge of interopt is more with conflicting update/render cycle and props (especially children). For global storage any event emitter will do. Although one so browser native definitely has it's perks.
EXACTLY. I called them out on this bullshit the other day, and they tried to sell me a “small business” commercial license or something.

FORK YOU, Qt Company!
Not clickbait at all. The article explicitly discusses how Qt might go defacto proprietary _despite_ Qt Company's arrangement with KDE.

"The 12 month restriction would, in principle, not make Qt proprietary software, but it might as well be proprietary from a practical point of view."
Both 'Science' and 'Nature' have prestige, but people get confused because same domains are used for multiple journals.

Open access journals like Advances or Nature Communications are not that bad, but Nature Scientific Reports is horrible.

It's very low impact journal with minimum review. It's intended to be place for grey literature where technical reports and scientific reports with no importance go. Unfortunately it has started to publish junk science too. Those pieces get posted into HN frequently. All that happens under nature.com that makes them seem legit.
They have Trolley problem problem problems, and you have Trolley problem problem problem problems.
PLZ don't. Let's keep it C-like
> The keyboard is an absolute joy to use.

The keyboard is a cheap no-name, far worse than a Thinkpad keyboard or an Apple keyboard. I had trouble with the button S since the beginning.

But this is fine for such a cheap laptop.
If you liked it try to visit Fushimi Inari in Japan.
This turned out to be a good advice. I am evaluating if it is possible to somehow intelligently sample the data when it comes to ELK. Something like an average of 1min data via a logstash filter. We could do this from our backend programs too, but for now, I am trying to do this in ELK during the writes.

Also we do not use Clickhouse, but I will see if I can somehow do a sampling rate in the reads, during my read queries. Thanks.
Simple CSS

border-bottom-left-radius: 15px 255px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 225px 15px;
border-top-left-radius: 255px 15px;
border-top-right-radius: 15px 225px;
> It would be very unfortunate if free software users would have to remain vulnerable for a full year before they could have access to a newer version with a fix.

The last published version, even if its 12 months old, is and will be open source and free software, so it's up to the users and developers to keep it security updated. As with all free software. Is not as if Qt does not fix it nobody will. This is not closed software.
I'm not saying they're right, but I think the point was that:

- GPL code can be used in a program you do not distribute

- Not distributing can be done by running it on a server instead of local machines

- Run on server almost always means users don't own data

It's missing a step, which is that the GPL code in the world was so important that people NEEDED to use it so much that they were willing to change the way they distribute (or don't) their software... that's a pretty tough claim to make out. What's the evidence for that?
Or read them, to remind oneself what a narrow perspective on the world one gets here.

It's a bit like reading comments about technology from politicians. Although come to think of it, "The internet is a series of tubes" is actually probably more accurate.
Why this man became a hermit at 20
I'd say it's high time scientist in climate science changed their tone. Might as well start with abstracts.
> See? The problem with that kind of thinking is that anyone can declare anything distressing.

True, but it tends to be quite easy to separate the real from the disingenuous like yours. So that's there I draw the line at least.
I always do M for mnemonic when spelling my name. A for aisle etc..
It's not true that you get an extra USB port, unless you mean "you get a charging port".

Try one of the hundreds USB-C hubs to see for yourself that they regularly ship USB-C ports that can only be used for charging, and not data.

The actual number of USB data ports is not related to what is used for charging, except maybe on some space-constrained devices.
There doesn't appear to be anything going on with them, it's just a site that is about both Linux and K-pop, for some reason.
Considering the number of occupations that is not really a good number.
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Of course, players who are new to the game also have a free trial period where they can play up to level 35, but ultimately you need to get a subscription to continue playing FFXIV. Standard membership costs $ 12 for your first month. After that, it costs $ 15 a month for 30 days, $ 14 a month for 90 days, and $ 13 a month if you choose a one-year subscription. However, if you're not ready to commit, you can also buy 60-day season tickets from Amazon for $ 30 each.

With so many people in their hands having more time than usual, it really is an ideal time to visit FFXIV again. In GameSpot's Shadowbringers review, the latest FFXIV expansion received an "Outstanding" 9/10 for its fast-paced narrative full of heart and efficient storytelling, expertly designed dungeons, and more.
Not sure if this is relevant or not, but I'm pretty sure the equivalents designs for cannons (e.g. on the walls of Fort George in Scotland) are as described and are widest on the outward part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George,_Highland
I'll be honest, I thought the website was called simp df.. lol
This article details beutifully the fall of Quark and the Rise of InDesign: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/quark...

Adobe is making many of the same mistakes now. Hubris. Affinity Photo is 90% there, but annoying short in some very basic areas. I own both, but still use Adobe partly at least because of Adobe ecosystem lock-in at my place of work.
Sectigo root CA expired, older Linux version TLS HTTPS curl OpenSSL broken
This year's was decent fun, although it was solved in a day or two.
The article says they have people in "Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and the U.S."
Yes, exactly.

Though it's not just odds and payoff, but also risk appetite. There's something like risk-aversion, and a corresponding risk-return-tradeoff.

But unless we have evidence to the contrary, we can assume that the shareholders are broadly risk-neutral. Especially since lots of shareholding these days is via widely diversified index funds, who don't need to care whether a any single company they hold goes bankrupt as long as the expected value of gambles they take are positive.
I myself would've contributed to GTK+, but... GTK is a tough project to contribute to. As many said, GTK has over the years turned from the Gimp Toolkit to a Gnome Toolkit, and with that comes all the pleasures of working with types like L.P, and other headstrong people.
Thought it made perfect sense. American Express = Amex. Brazilian Express = Brex. Short, sweet.
My users who pay me for my proprietary software also get support from me. Frequently I see pirated software on their machines. I have no doubt that they'd pay me nothing given the opportunity. That's owner operated small businesses for you. You seem to have some utopian ideal where everyone is a giver but that's not the real world.
Then you might want to double-check your vision: overall taxi drivers probably kill way more people then police.
Ask HN: How to Progress for Seasoned Professionals?
I'm 35 years old and work at one of the big tech companies as a security professional, focusing on penetration testing, security research and some consulting. I've done this now for over 10 years and noticed myself contemplating more and more how to progress from here.

I do have a bachelor's and master's degree, numerous certifications (CISSP, GPEN, GXPN, OSCP, OSCE, etc.) and 50+ CVE's in common software products. My yearly income after taxes is around 150k USD.

Since last year or so I feel at quite a loss regarding where I am at in my career. I very much enjoy technical work and don't want to switch into a pure management position. One of the options I was thinking about was creating my own small company, but I am not sure if I like dealing directly with customers that much. We are also expecting a child, so I think it might be a high risk, since I don't have many direct leads for potential customers to get enough work and cover our expenses. Similarly, I am not even sure if it would make a big difference, since I'd be most probably doing the same kind of work that I am currently doing. Previously, I have worked and lived also in Europe and Asia, which was interesting to get exposed to different cultures, people and so on, but in terms of work it's quite similar everywhere.

I recognize that the majority of HN users are probably software engineers, but I think similar constraints apply. Curious what others are doing do "progress" in their career that already have a lot of experience and if anyone has any specific advice or recommendations for me?
Your experience can be measured in the amount of problems you've observed. So gain experience, observe problems. Then in the future, you will have the answers.
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Agree. The usability is a dream. Light on the fingers, thoughtfully designed, and easy on the eye. In max, you can smell the age of the code base.
This is not entirely true. It has a low impact, but is still reasonable. Nature Scientific Reports is still published by nature and does peer review. Granted the content is not on the level of nature itself.

And junk science? Please provide links.
> For some reason I'm reminded of Bette Davis's famous remark on hearing about Joan Crawford's death: "You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”

Fascinating that his art had such a profound impact on your life that you feel this way.
I don't disagree with the point you're making, but I should point out that one reason some funds don't beat the S&P500 is because of the fees they charge, which are deducted from their performance. In reality, their actual gross performance is better than the S&P. However, the fact that the results are so close to the S&P's performance that the fees alone can push them below it supports your overarching point.
My grandfather was born in 1945 and worked as a programmer in East Germany and then unified Germany. He retired a few years ago.

He started as a mathematicatian, and probably worked with computers professionally only after 1963.

Programming in East Germany was .. interesting. For example, they used punch cards long after they were out of date in the west. My grandfather still has lots of punch card origami he did while waiting for his batch jobs to finish.
He wrote many things, but in the end it's unclear what he didn't like.
Really good point!

I think as an internet generation we are the first ones to experience decreasing importance of the age.
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Yeah...yeah.
Digg – What the Internet is talking about
How to Become a Hacker – ESR
Huh, didn't know there was a real world Zima Blue.
Higher resolutions are standardised as well.

And I’m not sure what you mean about settings. I’ve never seen a modern app not scale correctly, and in the worst case very old ones draw their interfaces at a lower resolution but the same size as other apps... which is no worse than what you’d get with a lower resolution screen.

I work with text primarily and I find old low resolution screens painfully blurry for this.
Very beautiful and inspiring.
How did you get the word out once it was ready?
If you check SpaceX's stream on YouTube, they check the hardline communications with the Dragon capsule multiple times in the hour or so after hard capture.
Peter Naur is one of the unsung(?) giants of software. His name should be instantly recognizable.

This is perhaps the best paper ever to explain the nature of collaborative program development and maintenance.

If I had a company I would make this mandatory reading for everybody - everybody, not just programmers.
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Discover GC – new IDE+JS framework demo walk through
This is ultimate vaporwave thing.

It needs just two things:

1) some sanity checking on presets (to drop not working sounds)
2) javascript player on the page (there is web port of DEXED[1])

[1] - https://www.webaudiomodules.org/wamsynths/dexed
This is interesting (I’m doing something similar in a specific domain) but there is a bunch of issues: very scarce documentation, funded by Quatari money, and more importantly built on bloated, low adoption set of Semantic Web specs. Heck, the tutorial even acknowledges[1] "If all the above looks terribly complicated: that’s because it is."

[1] https://solidproject.org/for-developers/apps/first-app/4-dat...
He could simply argue it was all dereferenceddev's idea.
Have you worked in AV? “Save Driver” vs “Save Pedestrian” isn’t actually a problem that comes up in the real world. There’s never a situation where you’d use a pedestrian as a meat bag to absorb a collision or fling a driver over a median to save a pedestrian. The dilemma is completely a philosophical construct, no self driving car will ever need to solve it. In reality, saving drivers and saving pedestrians are completely orthogonal problems.
Camera/camcorder makers are huge market, and they use Linux internally. E.g. Sony's stuff: https://oss.sony.net/Products/Linux/
A continually decaying value would be complex to manage, but perhaps you could achieve a similar impact following a version of the approach used in Brazil to target runaway inflation. (please jump in if you know the details better than I recall) Prices and salaries were struck in a notional currency the Plano Real, but in daily life people used the Cruzeiro Real, and a daily price was struck for the conversion from Cruzeiro real to a Plano Real.
Fed bank accounts balances could be in Cruzeiro Dollars, with a weekly conversion rate published to Plano Dollars
Your claim that free software enabled "...the locked in, sever based, surveillance monetizing world we live in" just doesn't seem valid.

Back when free software was still a new thing on college campuses, there were proprietary software vendors who owned and monetized a heck of a lot.

Whether Microsoft's Server CALs for IIS (yes, that was a thing) or Oracle or Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Bell or ATT, there were a lot of vendors monetizing on both the server and the desktop.

Yes, software running on my machine might have been my data but there were numerous cases of that very same proprietary software where the data files were inaccessible.

In short, you owned the machine and that was fine but you didn't have a license to the data format and that meant you were...well, locked in and monetized by that particular vendor.

I'm not really going to speak to the moral judgement you made about free software since free software or proprietary software can both be used for whatever immoral ends.
- French was the language of the ITU and its predecessors.
- On HF radio you need words that can be distinguished very clearly and not mistaken for somethkng else.
"Is this really the best we can do in 2020? How are other fields conveying complex abstract notions and ideas?"

Shameless plug: it's been on my mind for a while as well. I'm writing a book on this that has (I believe) several novel insights.

There's far too much to cover in an HN essay, but perhaps my best response is that your idea of working backwards from machine code to thought is a mistaken paradigm. There's no translation or mapping, at least not in the sense that coders like to think. That's one of many fallacies we've ran into on our journey over the last several decades to write better and more useful code.
Maybe we can have a separate foundation to maintain Qt fork. It's akin to MariaDB.
That doesn't seem required for the 4 freedoms listed. Could you elaborate which of those requires the providers to run your modifications on their system?
Thanks for clarification. I followed the discussion in https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187317 loosely, thought that this is the only way to go and wasn't aware of a second investigation stream.
It's just debugging or maybe reverse engineering of some subject or belief.
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I wonder how such tactics will evolve over the long run
Nothing can really provide a "replacement" for any particular widget toolkit that will look+feel identical and support all the same widgets, but I'm a big fan of wXWidgets (nee wxWindows) for my personal projects: https://www.wxwidgets.org/
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/187317
Technological accidents triggered by a natural hazard or disaster
> They are under arrest right now.

Who is "they"?
Some Singlish vocabularly actually derives from nautical English. The port has been important for a long time.

See eg https://www.angmohdan.com/origins-of-gostan/ (and also http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/jacklee/singlish_G.htm)

I lament that most people speaking to an ang moh like me code-switch to the Queen's English instead of sticking to proper Singlish.