skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often hear that you get a cold from using a fan.

I wonder if that also applies for fans placed on the floor?
(1) Most programs don't have that many direct dependencies, especially smaller dependencies. It's often dependencies of dependencies. In npm, adding just `jest` will make your `node_modules` directory explode.

(2) if Linus's Law is "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", then having fewer eyes on a library means more bugs.

(3) Oftentimes you think you can replace a dependency with an afternoon of programming, but it turns out, it's not quite as simple as you think.

(4) Sometimes you only use a small piece of a library to start with, but over time use more and more. If it's your own code, then you're going to be continuously refactoring, updating, rewriting it. If it's a library, then you can just start using the additional pieces as you need.
Because it does do you harm, obviously.

If they were just printing money for themselves, and using inflation to lower the value of your money, you would see it and be upset.

They're doing the same thing with power.
"when I look I just find shops with [...], egotistical pseudo-feudal lord bosses with an illusion of hierarchical dominance, [...]"

The rest of the traits you list I can usually figure out, but how can you get at that one from just a couple interviews at a company?
When people defend capitalism online, they're usually defending crony capitalism – mostly because they're trying to defend capitalism against people criticising it, but don't know what capitalism is (other than that it's good).
There's an old Jewish adage, help your city's poor first.
I believe your point is similar.
This is the wisest comment in the whole thread.
Context menu positioning using pure CSS
"We've got about 400 people in this room.... Imagine if dinner was carted into this room, and four people got half the food. The night would end in violence," Anand Giridharadas told IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed at a public event hosted by the Samara Centre for Democracy."

Violence is unethical. Half of the food is theirs who is the rest to take it away from them?
also https://github.com/schollz/croc
You don't believe in software licensing, do you?
I used to run ultramarathons and I’ve since switched to cycling. I find that I injure myself less on the bike, probably because of my very flat feet and unwillingness to mix in the strength training that would make me less injury prone when running. Running isn’t bad for your knees (or any other body part) but doing it a lot and not paying attention to issues is a recipe for disaster. I ended up injuring myself repeatedly because I was chasing the feeling that I got from running.

I’m still chasing that feeling on the bike. I don’t get quite as zen on the bike. I think it’s because there is more speed involved (going into my mind at 20+ mph isn’t a good idea) and because I’m not getting the proprioception feedback (there’s just something about ambulating through space that’s hypnotic). I still get the post-exercise benefits and I’m hoping to chase down more of the zen as I go farther and farther on the bike.

I think the article has some dubious reasoning when coming up for justifications for why ultramarathons tend to attract rich white guys. I think the biggest elements in any endurance sport are time and overall nutrition. If you don’t have the time to train and the resources to fuel yourself consistently with high quality food you’re probably not going to enjoy training and participating in ultra endurance events, no matter how much you “yearn for a rawer form of human experience” or want to exercise your “control-and-conquer mentality.” Societal inequality means that the people who have an excess of time and money can participate, hence the rich white guys.

I’m grateful to be one of the lucky ones who can participate, even though I probably only qualify for one half of the “rich white guy” descriptor. I’m fortunate to be self employed, which gives me a lot of control over my schedule.

Final thought: The anecdote about the Kenyan professional is ridiculous. The “motivated” amateur calls out the professional for quitting the race when he injured his toe and says it’s because “he wasn’t there to suffer,” then goes on to insinuate that the professional only wanted to feel good. In reality the Kenyan professional relies on running as his profession (one which likely gives him a better standard of living than almost any other opportunity in his country) and rightly wants to protect his body as it needs to be in good working order to do his job. What kind of person puts down a professional for looking after himself so he can feel better about running a long distance?
Big 10 is first power 5 conference to postpone football
I think applying syntopical reading to the subject would help you to fill in the gaps. See the book How to Read a Book by Adler.
If you'd like to know why PGP doesn't check those boxes, and why virtually everyone who works professionally in this space disagrees with you about its soundness, feel free to shoot me an email.
That's why you have to throw the ring in Mordor. It corrupts absolutely.
What are they even talking about? People can just casually decrypt https now? Isn’t the whole point of https that something like this can’t happen?
Every major lauded technical achievement has been followed by a series of community and PR missteps. I'd wager those have mostly affected the power users more than the average user, but I suspect continually driving the power users away in this manner will hurt them more than it helps them.
There are cases in which explicit and obvious moderation results in retaliation, including DDoS and hacking attacks.

Various soft fail mechanisms, including shadowbanning, degraded performance, errors, authentication failures, etc., may help avoid this.

The question is what adversarial model you're facing: is it some random pr0n / SEO / affiliate / fraudster, or is it a "nice website you gots heyah, be a shame if anyting happen' to it" squad?

Former can be modded away. Latter takes nuance.
What would be the difference between this (which looks really cool!) and https://amethyst.rs ?
I can get by pretty well by only using org-capture and org-agenda and ignoring everything else about Org mode.
I have washed a regular keyboards in a dishwasher, electronics and all. Works fine; the downside is that it takes too long to dry. It can take several days before the last bits of moisture stop interfering with the membrane contacts.

Therefore, of course disassembly is the preferred approach. It is fairly simple for most cheap membrane keyboards, like from Dell or Logitech and whatever. You unscrew some dozen or so screws, and and then the top cover which houses the keycaps separates from the bottom. Removing the top reveals the silicone sheet that provides the rubber domes for the key action and protects the internals from spills and debris. That rubber sheet removes easily; it is just loosely placed over the membrane switch board.

You can wash the keycap housing in a dishwasher without popping the caps off at all. The rubber sheet can hand-washed in seconds in the sink with some soap and water.

That's pretty much it.
the amount of resources is very much constant, I don't see the earth adding mass anytime soon...
‘Boomerang’ earthquake detected under The Atlantic Ocean
Please post it to HN when it's ready, and let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
Creator of Bevy here. I just announced Bevy yesterday and the response so far has exceeded my wildest expectations.

I'm happy to answer whatever questions people have!
Your counterpoint is a little confusing to me.
Apple reversed their sinking fortunes when they released the iPhone. That seems to make the exact opposite of your point.
Rust is also a safer alternative to Javascript (and even Typescript for that matter).
But you’re missing an important step.

The government comes in and gives people who have little food, enough food. And of the food distributed, 70% of it comes from the top 50%.
Would be nice to know some stats, of course. I suspect that for most people it’s pretty bad and disk isn’t the limiting factor.
I think he means that even if you believe that power is zero sum (debatable) the system in which that power extends is not. E.g. technological advancement can shift power away from violent storms, earthquakes, viruses, etc and into humanities hands. Thus I think it's pretty clear that 'power among humanity' would not be zero sum
The point of the quote is not so much about countering harm caused by others, but first: How confident can you be that your actions to help are not misguidedly exacerbating problems? Is there a line beyond which one could be overconfident, our arrogant? What external feedback should you attend to?
> Meaning, soon to you, a chromium firefox based browser no different as to Edge, Brave or whatever else is out there.

Doubtful. I think of lot of the reason Google helps fund Mozilla is so there's a better answer to the question "Does Google have a monopoly in web browsers?" It's better for both Google (because they can point at competition) and Mozilla (because Google will still want to hand them money) if Mozilla has their own engine.
WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”
That was my first thought: I've seen these projects before — they're where you find 5 slightly different implementations of similar logic, no logging or tests, failures as soon as someone uses Unicode, etc. and I get an order of magnitude performance improvement by replacing that code with an external module which has had the other 19 afternoons' worth of work it actually takes.
Mozilla needs to stop prattling on about being a "world-class, modern, multi-product internet organisation" and being "diverse" and "inclusive" and "battling systemic racism" and get back to developing its core products which people actually want to use.

Stop with the fluff and the airy blog posts and societal ambitions and get back to doing actual engineering which gets people back using your products. You may have a "new focus on community" but it means nothing if there's no product to have that community built around.

You might claim to be a "technical powerhouse of the internet activist movement" (whatever that is !? ) but soon you're going to be nothing at all because Firefox is, as much as it pains me to say it, still merely following and not leading while Mozilla leadership goes back and forth and seems more interested in writing blog posts about global issues than the technology that actually makes it a viable business.

Focus on Firefox. Build a product that's truly competitive once more. Build a product. Not endless blog posts about trust and "authenticity" and "leadership" and whatever else appears on the RSS feed today; get some actual leadership together and start looking at what you're actually doing, which of late has been not a lot at all.
This is awesome! The focus on productivity really sets this apart.
Ask HN: What CMS to use for a website that is both user friendly and fast?
Trying to escape WordPress with it's myriads of plugins that often too soon turns into a clunky monster. Not mentioning painful user experience when editing website. Is there something you could point me to that has a designing experience of e.g. wix, but still manages to generate a website that is reasonable fast to use even on mobile devices? (bad experience with wix)
One would love to avoid coding as much as possible, but still needs to have freedom of doing so when needed.
and we are also much better at exploiting resources. Which ultimately run out. Oh, wait...
luckily WebAssembly is stream compiled while data is being fetched in parallel; unlike JS it does not need to load the whole file to start working on it :)
In order to get from "one orange as a present once a year" to "bags of oranges every day" each day has to (on average) see a small amount of growth.
> this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children

This was an extremely meaningful datapoint for me in feeling "seen". One of the steps was to ask my mother to fill in a survey recalling how she experienced me as a child.

When I told my mother it was for ADHD diagnosis she laughed, and said, "You didn't have ADHD. You just liked to run around. In my experience 10% of kids are just wired that way."

Cue the psychiatrist telling me that ADHD prevalence is now thought to be around around 10%.

A good psychiatrist will not diagnose you with ADHD unless you have it, and they will not sit on the fence and say "maybe" if they believe you have it. Mine was emphatic with me.

> Apparently people with ADHD usually drastically underestimate their own symptoms, which is why a third-party perspective is important

Absolutely! The way people experienced me was totally different to the way I thought that they did.
It is literally as easy as login in. Just type an email address and a password twice and you are in. You can change your email address later if you need.

When you register, there is a suggested feed (xkcd) that you can add.
How can I donate some money that is specifically for Firefox development?

I do not really care for or like the other products that Mozilla is developing, like VPNs etc but rather, I would like for my money to be used towards browser development.
Firefox has less memory usage and at least for me, is the faster browser.

You even have non-techies at wall street journal recommending people to switch from Google Chrome on YouTube.
Racial inequality isn’t a one percenter problem if your child was Killed by the police. Pollution isn’t a one percenter problem if your kids all have asthma from inhaling coal fumes or have been drinking water with lead. I could go on.

These problems sound like they have nothing to do with wealthy people standing up for one cause or another. The issue is that the wealth is so often created or amplified by greedily outsourcing these problems to the powerless. The wealth begets more power, and institutions that launder the story of that wealth into a whitewashed canvas of do goodery.
I worked with PDF libraries professionally and we had plenty of customers that requested (and paid) such fuctionality for their business processes.

Also note that those "hand signed" PDFs tend to not hold up to legal scrutiny unless they're also digitally signed.
Somehow I don't think they are going to invade other planets anytime soon.
If I were to translate my current cpu, ram and disk usage to the cloud it would well be over $5 or $10 a month. Probably more like $500
> is the collective psyche in the US is viscerally against any entity rising to the top that does not have profit as its sole goal.

It might be the other way around in this case.

Mozilla rose to the top because of the promise of an open web and always making sure their users would come first, generating near endless goodwill and advocacy, and it was free software to boot.

Throughout the years when choices had to be made Mozilla didn't always side with the open web or the users, and whenever they were asked about it, the answer was always the same:

"Not our hill to die on. We need the clout we would lose, otherwise we won't be big enough to have any say when the next thing comes around."

and then the next thing came around, and the next...

The problem is that Mozilla seems to have revenue as an important goal. I imagine that's why people clamour for them to focus on the browser instead of pointlessly playing corporation with borrowed feathers.

They sold out.
Did Jeff Bezos accelerate or slow progress for online shopping?
Another thing that people persistently misunderstand is the scale relationship between GCP and the rest of Google.
>The fact that we can bake another pie doesn't make pie-eating positive-sum.

The fact that we can "bake another pie" for 1/100 the resources is the definition of positive-sum. There is now more to go around. Even if previously the pie was perfectly divided but now of 100 pies 20% goes to whomever came up with the better way and another 50% goes to whomever financed the better way, the remaining 30% to the masses is still 30x the pie. I'm really not sure what you're confused by here, unless you're getting really lost in analogies.

Again: a basic definition of increasing wealth is increasing core abundance and efficiency. There can be more useful energy/resources to accomplish goals with, and there can be more efficient ways to achieve goals. Either or both combined mean there is genuinely more to go around. How best to distribute energy/resources remains very important, but does not change that having more and/or having it go farther means more wealth overall.
Right. It's much more of a problem that his employees are getting less value than they create for the company, and he is taking a lot of the difference. Since all billionaires have made their fortunes this way (or inheriting from someone who did), billionaires should not exist.

P.S. He owns 11.1% and had more before his divorce.
Even if this is true, the problem is you don't know what's going to take an afternoon of programming. How many times have we all said "should only take an hour" just for it to take four days?

If someone spent the time and effort building something you need, I don't see a problem with using it. It all depends on what kind of system you're building, what the security and stability guarantees are, and in general what trade-offs you want to make.

In other words, "never" is usually bad advice.
You left one of the more obvious reasons, in my opinion: you are avoiding responsibilities and hard work because it's easier and safer--in the short term--to fuck around and slack off all day.
Architecting a working system requires objectivity. What happens when you have different doctrines in power? What do the prototypes of each model look like? What does the Big(O) of resource distribution look like (and where are the leaks).

In a government managed system, you have a MASSIVE amount pooled resources controlled by whoever activated (or coerced) the most voters. What is the worst case scenario? Whoever is in power has a narrow list of buddies with businesses. Lucrative government contracts with little oversight on spending are taken to people who have some favor with the elected officials or their family members (and pay officials back in insider stock trading, or planned small stock dumps, or some other form of laundering). Money accrues to the family tree of those in power and those in power make all important decisions, eventually draining the country. Read the news in Eastern Europe for a while to see a live simulation.

Foundations. Anyone can start one, fulfill a mission, work to make the world a better place. A lot of foundations are doing a lot of good out there, so where does that model leak? With stringent requirement to hold no profit at the end of the day, worst case scenarios with foundations look like this: Similarly to government, the distribution of large quantity of pooled resources can go to the team running the foundation. In some, the executives collect whatever money is left at the end of the day (can't leave a profit after all). In others, a foundation on the side of a lucrative business gets the profits to reduce the tax burden on the business, but then distributes those to friends as contracts or generates sales from that business at increased margins, etc. How do you know this is happening? If you look at the ever increasing number of foundations, there are no incentives to create economies of scale in giving, despite the high fixed costs of running of foundation. Where are the foundation mergers that would make giving more efficient? Thus the tax incentives given by government can sometimes turn foundations south.

Where do Billionaires come in? A actually self-made billionaire has presumably lost the need to be corrupt. They have also proven themselves able to lead people to execute projects efficiently. The combination of resources, networks, and lack of misaligned incentives makes them more likely to focus on the impact of the work, than on self-enrichment with it. The down sides can happen if the original billions were a con-scheme and not actually acquired (Madoff), or if the billionaire is completely incompetent in the field they are giving in, or if they do it for the attention and ego boost, and social favors that may come from being asked for money. With all the attention paid to one person, however they can be more easily scrutinized than the other two models.

Please do feel free to contribute to this analysis tree.
Miniflux works fine without JS, it's used just for few things like keyboard shortcuts or the "fetch original content" button.
Sure, but in reality the people who tended the fields never get that much of the food - whether it's feudal lords or modern capitalists, labour never gets paid the full amount of what they've produced.
Never use store-bought bricks if you can replace them with an afternoon of brick making.

https://youtu.be/D59v74k5flU
I’d bet my money that most people (esp those using spacemacs) have multi-second time-till-edit still.
Facebook removed 7M posts for coronavirus misinformation
Yeah, but Google and other gatekeepers make sure that they get their "fair" share of the revenue. We had about five times the revenue some years ago, but we were making a loss because we spent all on online advertisement. Now our ad budget is exactly zero and we are making a small profit. And that's all that counts for a small business.
I work for a company in this space - and I would say this sector made a pretty strong recovery, so I would not say they are getting "hammered".
A friend of ours made a good living making wedding and prom dresses employing about 6 people ... she shut shop this month as weddings are limited to only 50 people and most churches, hosting venues and schools are all shut.

Folks have more pressing worries on their plate than weddings or proms.
> Imagine MS would open source Windows XP SP2. [...] I don't think anyone would build an OS better than modern Win10 from that code.

Uh, yes they would? It's literally trivial - you just hit compile. As you note, a 64-bit build did exist, so it's not even limited to now-obsolete hardware, although unless you want to call some of the things at [0] automatically better than XP just because they run on amd64, even that wouldn't disqualify it from being better than windows 10.

0: https://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
> lots of dedicated users that would rather quit the web than switch to Chrome or Edge.

By lots, do you mean that we'd need to pull off our boots to count them?

Everything is done on the web now. Job applications, apartment leasing, government services, government obligations, commerce. Giving up the web alltogether is the modern-day equivalent of living as a mountain hermit. It either requires a truly colossal amount of privilege, or it will inflict a lot of pain on you.
Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides
> Mozilla's mission is to make the internet a better place for everybody.

"Don't be evil".
> the leninist soviet system was an utter failure but germany and scandinavia seem to be doing pretty alright

Yes, and Germany and Scandinavian countries are liberal capitalist economies where the means of production are predominately owned by the private sector. In fact, Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US.
I find concepts like "procastination" problematic, including associated ones in the comments like "resolve", "discipline", and separately, "weak will".

Take the case of "resolving" to watch just one episode of your favorite TV show after dinner. You then end up binge-watching three episodes. Why is this a case of "weak will" when it is simpler to explain it as a change of mind? After all, there is "new data" post the first episode; maybe an increased curiosity into what happens next, or still feeling wide awake.

The idea of "free will" is well motivated. I am not so sure about "weak will" etc.

Is there some other way to characterize the applicable cases?