skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How in the world is Apple preventing Epic from doing anything besides not following the rules of the App Store? If Epic wants to sell at a lower price they are free to do so in their own app store. Apple does not have to allow anyone on their platform. They built it, they own it, and they have the right to set it's rules. If Apple was the only mobile phone OS available then sure there is a case but iOS isn't even the most popular OS.
As a business model it is quite interesting. I don't think the spin of being an alternative to university is fitting though.
It's either a service where you take classes for fun. I can see that working if marketed to the right people. Or it is a service where you take classes to improve your skills. I can see that working too. Lots of people in tech especially want to make the switch from DevOps to SWE to Data Science to Quant ...etc

As for the whole "professor" thing. A professor does research and a big part of the appeal of taking their (graduate) classes is to be able to have a glimpse of the research they do and maybe get an opportunity to work with them. This seems to be missing here.
I am not saying this to downplay the idea. I actually like the concept.
I used to think Jira was horrible. Then I moved to a company that uses Pivotal. Now I know what horrible means.
The government and the police permit themselves to commit fraud, as it is often a convenient means by which to achieve their objectives (i.e. the police can lie to you, but you cannot lie to the police).
As much as I'd like to see it be a holiday (because I think it places the right degree of emphasis on its importance), the reality is that voting by mail works great. In fact, living in Washington state and having voted absentee before VBM became universal... I'm not sure I've ever voted in a polling place (and I've got a lot of grey hair). I can't say enough good things about being able to take my time to research candidates and vote when it is convenient for my schedule, rather than some 9-8 window on a particular day.
Downvoting complaints about downvotes is an attempt not to have to read complaints about downvotes. But here's another: please don't complain about downvotes!
Journey from civil engineer to Software Developer
There's also a premium Apple can charge due to being the gatekeeper on their platforms in addition to market share. Firefox will always be in a weaker negotiating position since they only offer market share.
Florida's state govt has been in complete control of Republicans (all houses + gov) for over 30 years, despite Republican voter registrations being in the minority.
If a society is to be tolerant, there has to be a separation between when
someone is politically active; and when someone decides to take matters into their own hands (e.g., firing someone because they’re trans).

Maybe you’re right that a CEO is different, but the ordeal left me with an uneasy feeling.

If I’m on the wrong side of the popular-opinion in the future, what’s to stop me from being ostracized and pushed out?

Because if it can happen up high, you better believe that it can happen to the rank and file.

Yea, there’s a tension and it’s almost contradictory to allow this but I think it’s important.

The other consequence of this is that anonymity (voting, for example) seems to be just as relevant today.
If applications were portable, then just put them on a different disk. This isn't rocket science, we've been doing it since the 80s.

Problem is that portable applications are an alien concept to Linux.
Is this another whining post?

Here is what I think.

Ubuntu actually works. Wont crap out every other month. Most stable OS for linux are all ubuntu based.

Even Snap works.

So why is there only one snap store? Coz if there were more, they would be crap/dogshit like 99% of linux OS are.

Go back to what ever OS you like. You are not needed. Useless free loaders.
Maybe the layoffs were essential to the negotiation.

"Take our terms or you'll have to lay off people!" "Ha Ha. Hold my beer"

:)
> (N.B. Various snaps for ripgrep on Ubuntu are also available, but none of them seem to work right and generate a number of very strange bug reports that I don't know how to fix and don't have the time to fix. Therefore, it is no longer a recommended installation option.)

I distinctly recall getting suggested by 'command-not-found' to install rg from a snap in some version of ubuntu, but I don't remember what version it was.
Yes, just as the other comment says.

To me, Nix is "Noah's trampoline", no-holds-barred mud-wresting all the nasty details of Unix and software as it actually exits, all the way down, into something just every so slightly saner so we can sale over the floodwaters and land on the shore of an actually sane practice of computing.

And yes, I would basically want describe in in those terms even if it weren't for your nick and vocabulary :).
Why Write ADRs
You really shouldn't be pulling someones random images off of dockerhub. If I made a POC 4 years ago on some random kubernetes configuration/tutorial that I was testing and I decided to use dockerhub to host its images (as one typically does, and it used to not have private repos) I'm not posting that for you to come consume 4 years later out of the blue in production because you found it randomly via the search.

You also tend to have no idea what's in those images and what context people are creating them under. Sure, a lot of us know to check the dockerfile, github repo, etc but I have images with 10k+ downloads from OSS contributions but as you've said a whole lot of developers just grab whatever looks fitting on there. My biggest dockerhub pull has no dockerfile, no github repo, and is a core network configuration component I put up randomly just for my own testing because no docker image for it existed years ago.
Launch HN: After 90 days of hard work this results
It doesn’t get any better
Indeed, to me the whole point of SQLAlchemy is the composable SQL DSL; I never use the ORM part.
It's their little messaging thingy in the bottom right. You have to click the x to close the notification.

It's seriously obnoxious!

Also, as a side note, the whole article is written by a JIRA competitor. Totally not biased at all!
I'm using Jira, not a huge fan (mostly because it's slow, the cloud version at least) and there's some clunkyness BUT every time I looked for alternatives it was either too opiniated (like SCRUM or nothing) or had really poor integration with dev tools.
The big advantage of Jira is that you can customise it quite a bit and it has a good set of integrations and APIs.

I'm still thinking of moving away at some point but haven't found any alternative...
Not really. Minorities are routinely disenfranchised through polling station closures. See all the polling station closures during the primaries using COVID as the reason.

“Black voters, on average, wait 45 percent longer to vote than white voters; Latino voters wait 46 percent longer”

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/613408/

See also the particularly egregious Kentucky example where they even tried to close the station while people were still in line.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-primaries-kentucky-1.562334...

The examples of this kind of suppression are sadly countless here in the US.
Marble cake, also the game

https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/4chan-takes-over-the-time-...
It's cents... but consider this. Linux is run on devices embedded in just about everything. Places where even doubling from 128 to 256MB of flash ROM could seriously hurt margins. So as the old saying goes.. a penny here and penny there sooner or later you're talking real money. And it is real money sometimes millions of dollars in margin.
They aren't going for a model like Steam where they sell software to end-users. The idea is to get enterprises hooked on using snaps to distribute their software internally, and then charge them for private repository hosting.
You dont appreciate Jira till you no longer have Jira.
> Mozilla's open source efforts are/were a loss leader for ... nothing. Their work was motivated by altruism, not profit, and that turned out to be, well, not profitable. That's why they're pivoting; altruism alone wasn't enough to pay the bills.

Except it didn't turn out to be "not profitable". Leaving aside the issue of dependence on companies like Google and the frankly ridiculous exec compensation, all publicly available data shows that Mozilla is very financially healthy and has been for a long time.

The claim of financial issues is implied by the corporatespeak press release, but simply not supported by any evidence that I've seen.
No mention of sideloading in that link, instead it mentions a Play Store and an App Store listing. It's almost as if there is a lot of dangerous crap in those stores as well...
Lets just take Amazon for example. They donated to organizations(ACLU/NAACP etc). Likely non profits that support the POC communities. No one is paying protesters to be in the streets.
The detail there is incredible. Anyone know if it's possible to import this imagery into QGIS?
My father in law works for the USPS and mentioned the elimination of these machines as well as elimination of overtime about a month ago.

It's being described as a result of a massive decrease in flat mail. From the local union newsletter:

"On 5-15-2020 USPS announced a National Equipment Reduction Plan to remove and scrap 671 pieces of equipment nationwide. ... USPS is scrapping and not relocating these machines because they don't see the mail coming back."

The 5/15 date is interesting because it's about a week after the new Postmaster/CEO was appointed. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_DeJoy#U.S._Postmaster_Ge...
>I want an ecosystem that works and I can rely on

I've been on the Internet a long time and can't say that closed stores have led to any kind of quality of experience improvement for me. the apple store is full of misleading, garbage apps trying to exploit people.
Duo looks much nicer though
Major bonus points if you include numbers from before the slowdowns.
How many of those apps are running simultaneously? Often quite a few. The memory footprint of the engine is larger than the code size on disk. Users may be wasting gigabytes of RAM on trivial desktop tools.

The point of the web is to support multiple user agents rather than forcing the user to a specific browser. I don’t understand why that shouldn’t apply to web apps running on the desktop.
Would AWS ever consider hiring someone full-time to work on the compiler itself?
I wonder if JIRA uses JIRA to track itself
$1-2k per campaign isn't enough to get someone good. You'll end up with someone who is learning the ropes a bit, which may be fine!

Try to find someone on Upwork, but fully vet their portfolio. You should also withhold some of the money as a performance bonus.
The bootloader's driver for your storage device is often very simplistic. Eg: it might only read one sector at a time, might not have the FAT cached in RAM, etc. It is not designed for speed - only for simplicity and size. So, reading a few MB fewer from storage is often actual time savings.

Plus there are things like [e]MMC's "boot" area, where a special storage area is simpler to read using a simpler special protocol. That area has a limited size.
I started Startup School about 7 months ago and went from side-project to a full-time cofounder [1]. I (23M) am a first-time technical entrepreneur, and I cannot emphasize enough how beneficial YC's resources are for those who just start.

The most important thing which is told to you over and over again while you are doing Startup School is "talk to your users (potential users)". Talk to them before writing the first damn line of code. Only after you have 20-100 people who told you "yes, that is my problem which must be resolved" start working on your solution to this particular problem.

Still, about 80% of people who I met over SS weekly sessions completely neglected those rules. They were building to build not to solve the problem.

Also, AWS credits saved us thousands of $. I did not know about these credits until I randomly clicked on a "deals" tab of SS interface.

This "Build Sprint" is truly a great idea that will finally highlight the success of those teams who listened to YC's advises.

Finally, I think because of SS is free many people do not value their advises. However, SS literally has 99% of what you need to know to build a 100k-1M ARR business. That's why I think SS should be somewhat paid/exclusive to make people value it.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
> then sideloading becomes normalized

that is what I dearly hope for!
You can live in this world right now.

1. Snap and/or Flatpak allow you to install GUI applications from most places nowadays. The internal tooling (system packages) are kept separate from the User installed applications and are effectively sandboxed in this way

2. Linuxbrew allows a Mac OS-like separation from your personal development tools and your OS's internal packages. Notably, this also allows you to install far newer tooling than your distribution would typically provide

3. Drop application binaries in ~/.local/bin if all else fails

If I weren't on a rolling release distribution I'd probably go that route. I hate being restricted by whatever my distro provides, I hate upgrading the entire world when new releases are made, and I hate third party repos and the hell the provide reconciling everything together.

It's really the in-between state that's terrible. Either go full *BSD or Mac OS and separate the concepts or full Arch Linux (w/ AUR) and don't. All other ways of distribution software tend to be more server centric anyway
I'm definitely feeling this today. I'm effectively locked out of jira today because the new versions of Chrome and FF block cookies that are "SameSite=None" without "Secure", and all of Jira's cookies appear to have this problem.
It's miniscule for one, but grows quite large when you're intending to make millions of something.
If you’re going to make judgements so easily you’re going to miss out on a lot of good ideas that people put out there.
How would you interpret the work of Brian Eno, or other algorithmic/generative artists? Steve Reich’s compositions are algorithmic (but not stochastic), and are widely considered to be masterpieces. Another example: Eno’s Reflection, which exists as both a 54 minute version and an endless generative ambient composition.

> The creation of a piece of music like this falls into three stages: the first is the selection of sonic materials and a musical mode – a constellation of musical relationships. These are then patterned and explored by a system of algorithms which vary and permutate the initial elements I feed into them, resulting in a constantly morphing stream (or river) of music. The third stage is listening. Once I have the system up and running I spend a long time – many days and weeks in fact – seeing what it does and fine-tuning the materials and sets of rules that run the algorithms. It’s a lot like gardening: you plant the seeds and then you keep tending to them until you get a garden you like.

> Moving the composition into software allowed an extra opportunity; the rules themselves could change with the time of day. The harmony is brighter in the morning, transitioning gradually over the afternoon to reach the original key by evening. As the early hours draw in, newly introduced conditions thin the notes out and slow everything down. [https://pitchfork.com/news/70448-brian-eno-details-generativ...]

To me, crafting a system that itself crafts endlessly novel music or art requires significant level of intention, understanding, and meaning.
Cloud or Server? It seems a lot of companies’ reputation were broken by clients installing their software on 2GB/1.5GHz servers with HDD, and Cloud will help at least getting a consistent measurable experience of the same product for everyone.
> invented the concept of open source software or that software doesn't exist outside the context of a "profit model."

To be fair, the existence of open source software that is very expensive to develop has always dependend on big companies paying for it.

Firefox could be funded by several companies in collaboration, but as of right now, do you know any collection of companies with deep pockets that aren't happy enough sending users to Chrome instead?
I benefit from competition between app providers in a variety of ways on the App Store, just not competition on payment methods. That competition is provided by Android—if that weren't around, and thriving, I'd worry a lot more about Apple's mandating a payment method on iOS. As it is, as a user, it's pretty much purely a benefit to me.
I live about two blocks from a four lane road (functionally - a highway). We don’t have forced air. I have considered in-room air filtration, but have heard mixed reviews on efficacy. Anyone have relevant experience with in/room filtration machines?
I don't want you to be without coffee either, but can't help but wonder if switching to UPS is exactly what Louis DeJoy wants you to do?
Since Dino has been packaged for OpenBSD now I just tried it out. It seems to be a simple XMPP client with a nice clean interface. Supports OMEMO and OpenPGP for encyption. Could use a scarier icon for the unencrypted case...

Probably worth checking out if you are looking for something simple and straightforward. Adding video support in the same way would make for a nice experience.
This right here. I save metal scraps and other valuable recyclables and take them to a junk dealer for a few bucks when I can make more than the price of transport gas. Most things that go in my trash bin are things I can't profit from.
Cool. That doesn't in any way counter the arguments you replied to regarding asking kids for credit card info.
I hate plenty of things about JIRA, but I'm flagging this post because it's incredibly biased (written by a direct competitor to JIRA), and their site is also extremely hostile to users with their messaging notifications.
I would say that this is Montessori by only for ages 3-5.

At age 6 and above, the style of learning changes and starts to touch on more abstract concepts.
> 30-40kWh cars might disappear. That'd kind of be a shame, because it's a useful size for many people. And having a larger battery than you need is a huge waste unless you have vehicle-to-grid to get more value out of the battery capacity you're not using. But then again, maybe the 30-40kWh market will be taken over by second hand 50-60kWh cars with reduced capacity.

I am sad that there are so few good subcompact/ truly low energy options in this market. There is a tiny Chinese car coming to the US, but right now it seems like it's only going to hit a few markets.
It could be a major win if layoffs result in a multiplier effect where concentrated Rust talent now spreads across industries. However, this can amount to a net loss if those with bleeding edge Rust skills and experience cannot continue putting them to use. Further, unused expertise atrophies.

After the Great Depression, the New York City public schools became some of the best in the country as those with amazing credentials and work experience were displaced and needed jobs. The same can happen with Mozilla's layoffs, where Rust can spread faster and have a great impact on software development, but only if people can put their bleeding edge skills to best use.
"pravdosek"
flesh wound
I don't see how these apps demonstrate any innovation in tech... they are just apps.

K8S, TF, MRTK among others seem far more innovative when it comes to software.

Hardware is where it's at. SpaceX puts America way ahead for the space industry
Posted this article separately but it was flagged. The quiet part has been said out loud by the president. The motivations have been made clear here and the speculation about why this is happening ends there IMO:

> “They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo. “If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump...
Such a beginning does set some expectations of competence, unfortunately :(
You forgot the civil rights movement.
I like jira. Our installation is pretty fast and I need something to track what is outstanding. The query interface is quite powerful, and I can use it to gather evidence that something needs more attention. It's got too many fields but you can turn these off, unfortunately for my org that requires IT so I live with its current configuration.
Jira is a hot mess - I'm genuinely offended in behalf of spreadsheets that the OP would make that comparison.
I don't believe you are willing to discuss anything in good faith if you are unwilling to read or begin to understand what I wrote.

1. As I have said, 99% of games do not provide linux first class support. A compatibility layer using existing libraries is not the same thing,

2. What you call bribing is actually competition. If you believe that there is criminal bribery going on, I'm sure the Feds would be more than happy to look at the evidence. Publishers and developers do not owe you anything, and I would rather they take the extra cut and either pay their employees/shareholders, or develop better games.

30% is unconscionable, and I cannot wait until the App Store is forced to be spun off or forced to lower their margin, and Steam is being out competed by Epic.
There is a funny scene in 'The Wire' where one of the local addicts realizes they can just steal the uninstalled copper tubing from houses that are in the process of being renovated/gentrified rather than stripping old plumbing out.
And in places like California which take a long time to count ballots they usually announce results and the election is effectvely over before everything is counted.
You seem to be suggesting that servers don't run dbus. It is currently running on all my servers and I'm pretty sure it is standard on all major server oriented distros.. Am I mistaken or did I misunderstand your point?
Wow, that sounds like the most communist thing I've ever read in a ToS