skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with personal projects on a Free private Github repo? (they offer those now).

Previously I would just put my pet projects on Bitbucket because they offered free private repos.
I used to follow the latest trends via various blogs and websites. As I've gotten older, though, I've found that I get the most valuable insights into what's new and genuinely interesting from talking to people.
Great comment. It's also kind of weird that people get hung up about the photoshopping, when literally nothing about how those photos are taken is "real".

You're taking someone who is already the top 1% of physical beauty (who may have fasted / dehydrated themselves), giving them professionally styled hair and makeup, flattering lighting, making the clothes fit more perfectly than they ever could normally (e.g. pinned at the back out of sight)...

...then having an expert photographer take 1000s of photos and only choosing the top 1% of those photos. Before you even think about post processing!

It's definitely kinda weird but it's bizarre that anyone sees it as an expectation. It's a fantasy.
There's also sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/
Pitch your startup and stand chance to raise $10M in Series A funding
I have been a very happy user every time I used Atlassian products on their own, so bad are many of the in-house enterprise alternatives, or products like DOORS and Notes.
It’s honestly shocking that in a country of 300M people u can’t find someone economically and politically sane to lead the country.
The Cost of Paying for SaaS in FX – FX Charges by UK Banks and Fintech
BSP-Net: Generating Compact Meshes via Binary Space Partitioning
MyConverter – Convert & compress files online for free
Weather widget reverse engineering and automation
You seem under educated about the perverseness of Cambridge Analytica, the Mueller report, and WikiLeaks role in the 2016 election. Calling those aspects "fake news" and saying "hrc was weak" is a bad faith argument
https://archive.md/ZvSGe
now I'm waiting for dropping the word "master" from things like:

- Master Chef

- Chessmaster

- Master's Degree

- ATP Masters

- MasterClass

and so on...this is so ridiculous.
Deploying MetalLB in Production
Why century-old ship logs are key to today’s climate research (2019)
This is such a simple yet great idea, I love it. It was featured on Product Hunt as well:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/drive-listen
Sadly a valid point. However, I would submit that as a business you are less susceptible to the "silence is violence" attack than an individual would be. But who knows, the times they are a-changin.
In Romania there is the issue where people still have to use wood for heating because of no access to natual gas or not enough money to buy a modern heating system, isolate the home and pay for the has, in some regions the wood is cheap in others wood is expensive.
Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS
Using a kafkatrap against an opponent you can't beat in debate when they have just pointed out the tactic is probably ill advised; perhaps try something else; Ad hominem or motte and bailey for example.
Iirc advogato was more a blog platform (with trust metric though) ? So.. freshmeat perhaps ?
It doesn't belong there in my view.

We started out not knowing what anything should look like, we didn't even know what computers were suppose to do. Everything had to be envisioned and implemented. Different approaches were taken for a lot of things. Eventually we just know how something should work. At that point it can be abstracted away.

Similarly lots of things should stay in JS. If we've experimented and evolved to the point where we know how something should work we should grow beyond modules and have build in methods for it.

It is happening but much to slow in my opinion.

Say, we have a Date API, are week numbers a thing or not? Are they an unpredictable poorly understood thing? Does it bother anyone if the API supports it?

Everything should be able to migrate up and down from the metal to the highest level of abstraction depending on how much we use it.

edit: There is no point shipping [table] sort magic to the client on every page view that needs it.
> really wish FB and moreso Twitter would include a big switch in their settings that was just "Politics On/Off" hide all political ads, and tweets and retweets for people who just don't want to see that

Twitter has mute filters that do this. Add the surnames of some political candidates to your mute filters, and that alone will improve your Twitter experience - moreso if you use a third party client (like Fenix on Android or Tweetbot on iOS) that doesn't also show likes or random tweet suggestions from people you don't follow.

The downside is you have to put in the filter creation work yourself, but on the plus-side you know exactly what you're filtering out and why. Don't leave it to Twitter to be the judge of what you should and shouldn't see. If you look in your settings, you'll find Twitter is absolutely horrible at determining what you're interested in: on the Twitter website, look at More -> Settings & Privacy -> Account -> Your Twitter Data -> Interests and Ads Data -> Interests From Twitter, and be amazed at all the topics you've never heard of and political candidates that Twitter thinks you are interested in, and is using to push ads and tweet suggestions in your face.

Bonus points for adding other clickbait words to your mute filters, like "outrage". Maybe consider various -isms, like "capitalism" and/or "socialism" if you want to avoid being drawn into decades long debates that won't be solved in 280 characters.
Make a web app?

That's what I do to avoid giving Apple money.
Compile time is not the only reason why Boost is absurd. Have you looked at the code? :)
The article's complaints seem to be:

(A) This bank has a tiny number of employees. They suggest that the number of PPP loans is in line with the number of loans the bank makes normally, but they do it with a lot fewer employees than Wells Fargo.

(B) This bank doesn't use humans to underwrite its loans.

Honestly, while I know nothing about Cross River, this article makes it sound to me like they are doing it RIGHT. It is a GOOD thing to remove the need for large number of human underwriters examining each loan (and introducing various human errors and biases).

Nor does the PPP loan process (the one targeted by this article) require extensive underwriting processes. The program, as envisioned by Congress, requires banks to verify that companies are, in fact, genuine small businesses who are submitting accurate information about things like their number of employees and the cost of salaries. But Congress specifically decided NOT to evaluate the creditworthiness of the borrowers (which is the hard part of underwriting).

Automated processes frequently have flaws and can be outperformed by a human. I would be completely willing to believe that Cross River's systems are failing to meet the appropriate standards. But the article doesn't present any evidence or even a claim that this is the case -- they only gripe that Cross River is "tiny" (in number of employees) and yet is doing a large amount of lending.
Apple has been facing rage from developers over the commission structure of the App Store for years.
Have you tried r/coolgithubprojects? There are a ton of great projects in that sub and you can filter by language, and they’re not all trendy.
My big organization has good management. What the author writes about is ineffective management, which should have economic consequences, so when director asks upper management for funding, I suspect, his ineffective management will raise questions if not replacement. We have surveys what employees think about quality of management and other things. The organization participates in manager ratings. I think the quality of management is simply monitored here and can't go unnoticed. Or maybe it's not big enough? It's certainly much bigger than startup size.
Because I curated it, I'm the curator of the exhibition of tweets by artists which is being held within Twitters gallery.
> people who eventually weaned off from the government support

I actually don't think we go back. Two of our parties love giving stuff away in regular times and will gladly use this crisis to bankrupt the country. The next election will basically be a race between who can give the most free stuff away - to a much higher degree than we normally see. This time it will be literal "vote for me and I'll give you $5,000 per month - that's $1,000 more than my opposition!".

The election after that one will be interesting though.
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Charities. Church. Musical groups. Schools (PTA, etc). Local government.
Morally suspect acts to achieve morally good ends are part of politics [video]
Zero Hedge comments on its demonetization
Everyone's life is affected by politics, but I'd contest that it's entirely possible to opt out of participating in the political process. Many people simply don't have the time in their life to take part.

I have a friend who works two jobs and has two kids, when they get home they make dinner, do homeworks and go to bed. For them politics is something abstract on the TV news.

It's much like art, where ever you go there's some form of art. But you don't need to lift a pencil and do art or even talk about it.
German tracking App unavailable on non-German Play Store
Hacker takes 44h to bruteforce last 4 seed words from Bitcoin private key
Mostly habit - free private repos on Github are a relatively recent development.
Yes, they've made it highly abusable and pretended this was a "feature", then backloaded all the bureaucracy into the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) who will have to determine how many millions of people received aid when they didn't qualify.

It would honestly be better if they just said "free money for everyone, just click here" because the CRA will now have to spend the next decade trying to collect fraudulent benefits. The cost of the entire program would probably be 25% higher if you factor in what this will cost to audit and attempt to collect from fraudulent claimants in the future, plus the lawsuits from tax payers because Canadian leaders literally instructed people to just claim it even if they didn't qualify.
The Trending page is news to me too. I discover GitHub repositories by googling for solutions to my problems or by following links in the sites of package managers (Ruby, Python, Node, Elixir.) I seldom check the other repositories of an account unless I have reasons to believe they do something else I need. What they follow, maybe never.
Check out type-driven development (there’s some good F# example blogs) - honestly it’s like TDD on steroids. Having no type system scares me now, having worked in a Python startup before moving to a Haskell shop and seeing the difference in development quality (speed is surprisingly similar too).
Not touching that "Zero star hotness" problem, but

> ... lot project discovery has moved to other platforms, and more specifically, to Twitter. This isn’t good for the community.

Let me bring out my 2 points here:

#1: Hey, please ask your inner self why would you ever want to put out your own free labor out on the Internet in the first place? For common good? World peace?

I bet most people will answer: Be cool, be known, receive attention etc. Those GitHub stars&fork you've received will help you in your next job hunt, it will help you when you trying to introduce yourself to the other devs, it will help you to expand your people network. In short, those free labor generates something good for you.

But GitHub has it's own limits. On GitHub, your projects are discovered/used by other devs, a bubbles of it's own kind. Further, those devs might not even want to give you stars because they're above your level and/or found your project uninteresting to them.

Social medias generate those "good"s better than GitHub simply because it got wider range of people, and greater chance to found somebody who is interested to try out your project.

#2 and more important: The GitHub Trending page itself is really poor when it comes to discover new things.

Just think: What's on that page? "Most stared today" list. Well yeah, then where are those stars came from? Right?

It's a "Trending" page, that's it. Not a "Hey, checkout these exciting repositories recommended just for you" page and certainly not "Hey, come here and checkout my new repo which currently got zero star but it's really cool" page.

I personally found ProductHunt, Hacker News and Reddit is a better source if I do want to "Discover" something new. Which I guess is why people are posting their projects there (as well as on Twitter and Facebook and other platforms).
As someone who bought and paid for their products (including two hardware dongles), I’m glad Apple developed Sidecar. It’s faster, more stable, and generally works better for my use case. If their product was better, I’d definitely still use it, as I sank a lot of money into it, but it’s not to me. If a customer pays around a hundred dollars (I think that’s right, need to check) for your product and then decides to use a free alternative, what’s that say about your product?

Not to be callus, but “when your entire business is adding a feature to a platform that can be added easily by the platform provider, you have no real business” is a saying that’s been around for a long time for a reason.
Using the classical desktop version?

> Microsoft Skype is one of the largest React Native applications in the world.

https://blog.dashlane.com/exploring-react-native-on-windows/
What is wrong with these people? Why the "libvidstab" is always disabled? Are they trying to save valuable disk space? -- Libvidstab works quite good and better than anything else readily available in Linux.
Most of the stuff your linker has to churn through is actually debug info. If you turn it off, you'll speed up linking whether it's with LLD, gold, or ld.bfd. Do this in Cargo.toml:

[profile.dev]
debug = false
Mildly interesting, this guy [0] setup a giveaway with 1 btc where he would drip release the seed words for the private key on his social media accounts. Somebody has managed to bruteforce the last 4 words in around 44h according to the authors twitter post.

[0] https://alistairmilne.com/2020/05/29/1-bitcoin-giveaway/
It is an organizational problem and not a technical one. These is zero technical difficulty or challenge for Apple to allow sideloading. The have done it on the mac. And google has it on android.
Apple deliberately hinders Progressive Web Applications on iOS Safari, effectively stifling innovation. Look at how many requests are there on WebKit to implement many of the features/API's required.

They don't even allow competing browser engines. Chrome, Firefox etc on iOS are just wrappers around Safari.
Your reply is conflating a few things.

1. We make judgements on “group membership” all the time, and to the extent they’re correlated to the outcome (i.e. true) that’s not wrong or -ist. Example would be, do you avoid stepping in front of a car because you infer that the car might run you over, or do you just take your chances and hope that this individual car will stop. Ok, contrived example. How about this: people generally accept that men are more dangerous than women (e.g. when it comes to rape, stranger danger, domestic violence, courts, jails, ...) even though the vast majority of men aren’t violent at all! Is this sexist? Yes, to some extent, in particular when the state does that (e.g. always arresting men in case of domestic violence call). But at the same time, that kind of “prejudice” might just save your life; how wrong can that be?

2. Even if there’s no correlation to the outcome, not every inference is -ist. Example I mentioned downthread is, assuming that “Alex” is a man. Is that really wrong?

3. Which brings me to, you write that “treating people distinctly” is -ist. But what is treating? Again, people make inferences (that’s literally what intelligence is, short-term prediction engine). Sometimes that’s even embedded in the language (e.g. in Slovenian, you have to assume gender, unlike in English). But as long as we remain open to change, that’s fine! If the woman tells me that actually she’s “Alex”, the only actually sexists way would be if I refused to call her by her (masculine-ish) name.

TL;DR: if everything is racist, then racism cannot be immoral.
>a group of people who are outright racist //

That group is perhaps ironically the most racial diverse group one could conceive.
Just for the record: a quick google search reveals that a couple of fellows did exactly the same as I did (e.g. 21094157, 23526791, 19959548). And nothing happened, no flagging, no admin intervention. I wonder how I came to the dubious honour of this special treatment. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Canadian developed Ebola vaccine was sold for $150K to middleman, who turned around and resold it to Merck for $50 million.
I can see how this will stop people being irritated by political adverts they don't like, but I don't see how this addresses the claim that dishonest political adverts are skewing the democratic process.
This culture spends all day cooking so the alternative is an open hearth burning inside the house all day. I was told by the representative of the charity that a stove is so popular that other families come to the one who has the stove and cook with them.
Changing default branch name in Git
In a nutshell, this would require congressional approval to pass. Both parties have expressed desire to alter the current legal protections that internet firms have, but it’s not clear if there will be a bipartisan consensus on what this change will look like if/when formal bills are introduced.
In March of 1971 the house eliminated "teller votes", where representatives' votes on amendments to bills were private; the system then moved to recorded votes, initially with red/green cards, and then in 1973 with electronic votes. After March of 1971, the public could learn exactly which representatives voted for exactly which amendments. In practice, this accountability change meant that lobbyists and their clients gained knowledge of which representatives defected and which ones towed line.
Well yes, but it still seems relevant to just ask does this work? If you implement it, does it produce some kind of intelligent behavior? If not then you've disproven the hypothesis, and if so then it might have practical benefit.
> Are they unconsciously racist or are they just following experience-based heuristics?

Both! Today's discussion about racism isn't (mainly) about critiquing the motivations in peoples' deepest heart. It's about acknowledging that the outcomes of this kind of assumption can be racist, regardless of whether any harm was intended.

The person who is assumed to be subordinate, or less educated, or more prone to criminality will be given fewer opportunities. Society will systematically fail to recognize and utilize their talents, and can ultimately do them great harm through neglect - even if the individuals involved were "just following experience-based heuristics".

Acknowledging your potential to participate in racism doesn't mean admitting you have a cartoonish hatred. It means recognizing that it requires a proactive effort to keep assumptions from becoming self perpetuating in harmful ways.
> #4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.

I used to work for a company that produced an app server. They sold the app server as well as applications that ran on the app server. Other companies also sold competing applications that ran on the app server.

One of the things I had to do was write a tool that scanned our applications for API usage to ensure none of them were using APIs internal to the app server. It would have been anti-competitive to create APIs that only our own apps were allowed to use.

It has always surprised me that Apple has gotten away with this for so long. I'm not sure if the company I worked for was concerned about being sued by the government or by other companies, but I don't think they would have worked so hard to stamp out private API usage if there weren't some risk of litigation.
Yesterday I watched a fascinating talk The Ghost in the Machine by AI researcher Josha Bach. He claims that computational math is enough to support the conscious thought, both in living things and simulated environments. The whole talk is densely packed with ideas and concepts (for example nice illustration of concepts behind back-propagation NNs at 19:20). Here [0] he lays out his current model for mind. I have no idea what to make of it, but the whole talk is incredibly lucid and contains zero fluff or BS (unlike linked article).

[0] https://youtu.be/e3K5UxWRRuY?t=1702
Share everything on Android project by implement Huawei Share Kit – Part2
> How, exactly?

[0] Uber, an 11 year old company, IPO-ed in 2019, losses were >1/3 of their $14 billion revenue that year.

There is a level of crazy afoot there. The shares being worth money to anyone is alarming, and indicative that something is very broken. Large amounts of debt is an obvious answer to 'where did the money to fuel this bonfire ultimately come from'

> Also remember that every "saving" is also a "debt" on the other side of somebody's ledger.

And if the money on the debt side isn't used prudently, both the debtor and saver end up with nothing at the end of a sad story. The saver loses out more, because they could have been living it up with more resources, rather than directing them to the debtor. What the loan is used for in real terms (useful infrastructure, vanity projects, wasted, etc) matters.

I don't mind what the accounting identities do if I get a nice place to live, cheap electricity and lots of food. But the loans at the moment aren't going towards big construction in desirable areas, nuclear power plants and securing food supplies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
Should Any Parents Be Instagramming Their Kids?
> Stars tell how cool a open source project is

Strange measure of coolness.
Free Ways to Make Money for the Unemployed; Not All Fancy Though
That would transform every single brick-and-mortar shop using that POS software into a fulfillment center.

That's how thousands of businesses have operated for decades or more.
Taiwan is happy to welcome you :)