skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it varies.

Rust seems to have a strong community of voluntary contributors, and could probably be run without company backing. Similar stories if you look at major FOSS projects such as KDE and Gnome - primarily dependent on a wide base of volunteers.

Then there are projects with a mix: plenty of volunteers, along with many commercial contributors - the commercial contributors tend to be more significant (certainly they add more code - but then they're the ones pushing new features for their customers) - but then there are enough volunteer contributions that the projects aren't dependent on the commercial entities. Linux Kernel, LibreOffice, Kubernetes, VSCode, come to mind. And with multiple commercial entities, it's not a tragedy if one drops out.

Then there are those projects with a single commercial backer, and fewer volunteers. Those are the ones that die off when the company drops out. The question is - is Servo in this category?
Do you have personal experience with the Luddite situation? Could you elaborate how you got that view?
Yahoo’s Insanely Bad Deal to Pay Mozilla $375M a Year for Nothing (2017)
Artist Reveals What Fonts Were Used to Design Famous Logos
They probably know the odds of an "investigation" actually occurring is very low. The odds of one occurring with that level, or probably any level, of technical sophistication is near zero.
I feel like I can offer a unique perspective on this because I go to Notre Dame and we are just finishing the first week of classes with everyone back on campus. It's gone alright so far. All the cases so far have been traced back to off campus bars or parties. However, I expect it to get worse soon as cases start spreading on campus. If you want to see how Notre Dame is doing with cases and testing we have a dashboard here: https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/

I really hope we can make this work because, as an electrical engineer, most of my classes can't be moved online.
The article was about soft skills (a.k.a. interpersonal skills), but I most clearly see the distinction between expiring vs. permanent skills in my field of study, computer science + software development.

When I look at what's hot - in people's blogs, in bootcamp classes, and in what people like to boast about - I see stuff like the React framework and Node.js and MongoDB. Having been in the industry long enough, I've watched these top trends change every few years.

Meanwhile, what I learned in university is all the unpopular stuff but that which underpins the technologies we use today. For example: Mathematical proofs, regular languages and automata, time complexity, computability, balanced trees, assembly language, recursion, pointers, declarative rules, SQL, various subsystems of operating systems, etc. This stuff gets mentioned a lot less in popular discourse, but I find that my knowledge in these areas accumulate over time instead of going out of date with each new fad. Moreover, I find that this set of knowledge continues to help me understand and work with new things that come out in this field.
for other readers, POS = point of sale, not piece of s* * *. I had to stare at it for about 10 seconds before realizing.
Exactly. I keep a close watch on the fines via the enforcement tracker. I think some of them are too strict, some too lenient but overall the picture is actually quite ok.
KSP's kOS mod package is what made the game 10x more fun for me. Everything is automated now.
I have done that in the past and I agree, it's a decent solution. The risk is that the old stuff never gets cleaned up and before long your DB is full of all kinds of cruft and nobody knows which part is needed and which isn't.

I saw a heinous bug once because a newer person was using a column that had stopped getting updated years earlier (because it was replaced). This person saw the column and it was exactly what they needed. Then customers started getting billed on old accounts that they had either closed or changed with us. They were really mad.
Just because there is an agreement does not mean that agreement is fair or even legal. Epic is big enough to handle an "epic" lawsuit here and force the issue. And the game is popular enough that it not being available on iOS devices is a hit to the platform. This one will be interesting.
"Forcing". There's no one forcing anybody to go to college. This would be a fine time to take a gap year.
Google and the Nothing – Normcore Tech
Now you know about web. Many (all?) people here (reading this shit) know. If you hear about what they are into, they are trying to get ''the next billion'' people into Their hands. Most of this ''next billion'' people don't have the time and/or courage to learn anything. They want to get their job done. (They will learn if they're forced to.)

What these big companies are trying to do is very clear. They don't want these fools to know much about web. If these people suddenly starts learning about how web works, that'd be a disaster (for Them).

Now, the address bar is just a distraction to them, nothing else. Now, if Google is removing them, let them. If the address bar is hidden, then there's less clutter. So, they'll think that it's better. (You and me know that isn't any better for us. I'd be really angry if they completely remove it.)

> Why are you referring to those big companies as 'Them'?

< You don't know yet?
What makes you think even deleting one's account will truly wipe data?

These companies profit from personal info whether one is a customer or not. I would imagine everything exists with a "user de-activated since $DATE" entry or similar in their database.

Perhaps I'm too cynical?
Sometimes referred to as Spoon Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
> We need less people. Trying to convince 8 billion people to do something like never eat meat or fish seems like an impossible goal.

Again this is the problem I'm mentioning. You're picking an impossibly high goal and concluding that there is no solution. Let's try to consume 2 or 3 times less meat/fish, it's gonna be much easier and faster than the problems associated with extreme population reduction (radical population aging, no career opportunities for young people, overloaded medical staff, etc).

For the average American, eating 3 times less meat still means you can get 3 steaks a week. It's not completely crazy.
> right mix of extracurricular and volunteer activity today

This is close, but I imagine it would be more akin to temporarily relocating to a different school district, then selling / moving out after the children hit college age.

Note that this type of thing does aalready happen, albeit not to the extremes you're imagining. Imagine one parent retiring early or temporarily so that total family income qualifies for certain loans or grants.
> because judge's remove the protection an LLC gives your personal assets for arbitrary reasons.

first you have to get sued: RARE

then everything has to go wrong: RARE

then it has to make it actually to trial court: RARE

then that one judge has to leverage an "alter ego" statute: RARE

> Additionally, you need a multi member non spousal LLC to even get the protection in the first place.

This is false.

> I have a lot of assets to protect.

Then protect them? Put them in different LLCs, trusts, foundations. To save money you can use a Series LLC which lets you separate liabilities or business lines into different series, about 20 states offer those, and outside the US the concept is called a "Segregated Portfolio Company". Use states where there isn't information about you in the LLC filing. You should basically have nothing in your name. Even better, you should have a negative AGI and be in debt on paper. If someone actually wins a civil lawsuit against you, you can tell them to get in line.
Looks like fun and it's a game that's been on my watchlist for years. But I've reached an age where I'm pretty sure that once I finish the rocket and escape the planet (that's what seems to be the main goal) I'll never play it again. Just can't be bothered anymore by endless grinding and optimizing. Addictive games like MMOs and building games stopped being addictive for me once I figure out how it works.
Dang! That is something I had not considered before!

I think that would be a great strategy! Spending the money on hobby groups, conferences etc could be put on a resume!

Now thinking of all kinds of options that would give better experience...it seems driving to these might be the bottleneck. But surely there are ones that can subject a student to different opinion/people etc without needing to commute. Heck even a good internship could replace dorm life, and would actually PAY the student.
> 50 developers/graphic designers

That is way too low to be anything more than maintenance mode. By my estimation [1], you'd want somewhere around 250 full-time equivalents to be able to declare the project in a healthy state.

[1] Take the number I'd estimate for Thunderbird, multiply by 10 for Firefox-scale, then add another 20% to account for the operations that Thunderbird gets "for free" (e.g., maintaining server infrastructure) and accounting for the fact that email standards are far slower in innovation than browser standards.
I actually consider my Emacs skills permanent. I have made small adjustments over the year, mostly removing stuff from my configuration as the defaults improved. The basic stuff I decided to go through in my youth is the same.

I try to improve my understanding of my surroundings, and I consider that a sort of permanent albeit developing skill too. Biological systems, political systems, social systems, individual human beings (I'm curious, I want to understand people I know).
If it's not clear from the other comments, Factorio is basically the closest you get to injecting pure engineering joy into your veins.

Given HN's audience, there are a lot of fans here.
Then what is the benefit of this arrangement?

That is, based on what you said, it sounds like there is no meaningful difference between having a non-profit do all the work, and a for-profit doing work on behalf of the non-profit that owns it. But if that was the case, why would anyone bother with the extra layers? I'm inclined to assume there is some reason for the extra layers, and I have difficulty believing those differences are in society's best interest.
As with everything related to the pandemic, it kills the smaller competitors making those who will survive, schools like Stanford, Harvard, businesses like apple and google, have an even greater market dominance than before.
Firefox need to battle chrome and edge. Both come pre-installed in Android and Chromebook and Windows.
Counting on Firefox to just be better to win against these two is naive at best.
I turned off traffic violations in the options, bought the most powerful truck I could, and now make every delivery at 90-100 mph.

Of course I'm also doing it in VR and with a steering wheel setup
Moving from Common-Sense Knowledge About UEFI to Dumping UEFI Firmware
People.
I'm a developer. I don't want to communicate with clients.
From regulators: yes, they typically work reactive, until there is some kind of breach you'll never hear from them. From investors, customers and potential acquirers audits are pretty common and becoming more so every day.
Yea it certainly takes courage.

Their Xiaomi Mi Alpha bezel free phone was just as crazy! https://i.imgur.com/CYHISoC.jpg
Red dwarfs have to counter less gravity pressure and can be fully convective - they can burn for trillions of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf
"We have met the enemy and he is us."

Source: http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/04/we-have-met-enemy-and...
The Scariest Things We Saw at Black Hat 2020 – PCMag
Which is a forked descendant of WebKit, so GP is right or wrong depending on how you classify a fork.
> I am very lucky, my LBS has all of sheldon's old bikes on the wall next to the mechanic's station.

Do you mean Sheldon Brown? His website and all the information about bike maintenance is still one of my favorite things.

Their shop built my first fixie hub and wheel for me years ago, with lots of advice. Sadly someone stole that wheel from me, but it was great for 16 years.

I only ever got to experience Sheldon virtually, but he seemed like a really amazing person.
To get what you're seeing, I had to turn on the option to see the full URL. Otherwise it just shows the domain. That was several years ago though, so maybe it's no the default anymore.

I get it though, most people really only care about the domain and in fact, trimming everything else makes the actual domain easier to spot when it's not the domain you wanted, such as in a phishing attempt.
>My experience has been that schools cave pretty fast in the face of media pressure.

Before now I would agree with you. From what has been reported schools in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Indiana are staying open after large outbreaks. These are elementary and high schools, so maybe it'll be different with universities.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/schools-quarantined-corona...
It seems like we've reached that already. I've seen TV ads where they just say "Search for $KEYWORD" instead of a URL (admittedly that's more average-user friendly than making them input dots and slashes). Or posters that have [f]/someFacebookPageName or [i]/instagramUsername with the icons to indicate Facebook/Instagram.
There's more ''consumers'' out there than ''real people''.
Theory and practice.

In theory, you could take your college costs and spend them more wisely elsewhere. Internet age gurus like Peter Thiel, Seth Godin & others have been advocating this for 20 years.

Want to learn business? Take $50k out of the $200k price tag of a fancy college and start a business with a few similarly minded people. Pay a seasoned business person to advise you. After 4 years, you will know much more about business. Same for software engineering, etc. Same for side-effects like networking horizon expansion and everything.

In practice, all that money (whether parental savings to student loans) is tied up with college. The social capital which allows anyone to spend 4 years on abstract "betterment" is tied to college. The safety nets keeping you on course to graduate aren't there.

It's theoretically possible, easy even. In practice, this level of determined heterodoxy is a 1-in-a-thousand thing. Very unlikely to be chosen and very unlikely to bee seen through by a 20-year old.

People operate within structure. We are orders of magnitude less independent than we imagine.
Slightly OT, but when migrating data between iPhones, the old iPhone displays an animated point cloud that appears to function like a QR code. You scan it with the new phone, and your data starts to migrate locally through Bluetooth.

Other than aesthetics, what are the advantages of the point cloud? Higher bandwidth?

Also, if you were to transfer 100s of megabytes of data from device A to B, using A's display and B's camera, what tech would you look into?
> As mentioned the first one is not having a cofounder who isnt in your immediate family, which for some people is fine and for me is honestly a waste of time and equity. Just another vector for failure.

so wrong lol. you seriously have no asset protection because you believe that? better yet, your actual asset protection strategy is having none and a completely misunderstanding the basics?
My first post on HN using Servo. GitHub seems to work too. Pretty fast. Build was fast and easy too but huge (6GB including the .git) I sure hope this project surives.
It's hard to survive commercially if you're paying more for everything than the competition. Amazon has pushed prices down for a lot of items, has free delivery, and is JIT for a lot of things too.

I'll buy elsewhere if it's < 5% more. I've no problem paying £5 delivery on a £100 item just to support 'the little guy' all other things being equal. But on a £10 thing, Amazon wins.

(not a farmer, but the point still counts)
I seriously doubt the "average American" is eating 9 steaks a week. Where are you getting that information?
> If you want to use that service, it's fair that Apple gets some cut, and I'm OK with them setting how large that cut is

So you draw a distinction between the fairness of Apple making money from your use of their marketplace and the fairness of Apple making money from your use of their device? I don't see it. Apple made the app store and you think it's fair that if you want to use it you should pay. Apple makes the iPhone but it should not be the case that if you want to use it you should pay?

What if alternative app stores on iPhone had to pay a 30% cut of all revenue to Apple?

> What is not fair is that they are the only service allowed

Are you at risk of conflating 'equal' and 'fair'? It's definitely not equal, but it doesn't seem unfair to me. It seems fair that Apple should be able to build a platform they would want to use and ensure that it is safe, secure, and held to the standards they like.

There is a good analogy here around sovereignty of nations. One common legal argument for war is that a nation has violated its own sovereignty somehow -- usually by attacking another or hurting its own population.

Apple the Nation has a high tax rate for corporations and individuals who live there. It is non-negotiable and there is no way around it. But citizens can come and go freely, and if they are unhappy living in Apple land they can move to a different country.

What is it that makes Apple's behaviour unfair?
Each point they (there is two authors, not just Jocko) make has two points: how they learned it from leading SEALs in Ramadi and then how they helped a company apply it to their leadership.

The audiobook definitely has that military style to it: they speak is short, very terse sentences not using more words than necessary. It took me a minute to get used to it however I quite enjoyed it overall.

Yes it's a lot of common sense, but when you are running a company or a team, it's easy to have blinders on and miss these obvious things.
Joy or horror? Corey Quinn calls it like he sees it in the cloud native world
It is 4 years of living away from home experiencing whatever floats your boat ( frats, independence, parties, sports, friends, etc... )

I’m in university right now. I just finished a term of online classes. I’ve definitely witnessed those benefits being enjoyed by other students but I haven’t had the time to enjoy them myself; my program is simply too difficult for that. The most I’ve enjoyed is going out for drinks with friends once a week, and maybe the occasional meal out on another night.

The ones joining frats, partying constantly, playing sports and all that must have trivial classes. Either that or they’re already so rich and privileged that they can afford to fail courses and keep going.
Everyday consumer behavior is completely dependent on Big Apparel. It's nearly impossible to buy groceries or other necessities without interacting with someone who wearing clothing made by one of the big five.
The 24156986 is semantic though; the ids are assigned sequentially to submissions. Early submissions have tiny ids like 495. So they are at least as meaningful as bug tracker ID's or version numbers.

Now, it is true that version numbers etc. could be more meaningful. Jeff Atwood wrote an old article about the "infinite version" in Chrome, where the version number basically doesn't matter until you're checking to see if you're up-to-date. Personally I've switched to using dates / times in my ID's. HN could do that too; an ID like 2020-08-14-10-12-13-99 is longer than the current ID's but not by much. But overall it seems hard to draw a line in the sand where dates are semantic and version numbers aren't.
Yep, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. A few people in this thread are equating ML scientist's responsibilities to those of an ML engineer, however, they are very different.

Production development of a model is a very hard problem and it's interesting because I see few companies trying to tackle it. One of them is tecton.ai (heard about them on SED) and I'll be interested to see how they evolve their feature set because it still seems incomplete.
I'm a professor at a regional university. Not a big name school, but we have about 5,000 students. We would be bankrupt if we told students we'd only be offering classes online this fall because students, by an overwhelming majority, want the in-person experience. We know we would lose enrollment if we went fully online this fall, and the drop would be significant enough for the university to declare bankruptcy. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and other big names have enough reputation and big enough endowments to weather a storm of a temporary drop in enrollment due to shifting instruction online. Many universities cannot.
Typing away from the computer; we'll assume that if I checked what is currently setup I'm doing it the correct way!
Right of course, yours and the sibling comment explained it perfectly. Cheers.
> I wonder if this also ties in with tying grades to scholarships

Absolutely. You add a financial incentive to bad behavior and you're going to see more bad behavior. Given the cost of college education in the US, a little bit of grade inflation, class-rank maneuvering, and occasional blatant cheating could save you $10k a year, or more.
Spectrahedron
See, the lesson I took away from drawing-for-cartography-for-military-commanders wasn't what the article hoped for.

What that made me think is: Skills that, in the present seem like millennia-old permanent skills might in the future turn out to be expiring.

Sure, everyone knows javascript-framework-du-jour is an expiring skill.

But is handwriting? Mental arithmetic? Cooking? Differentiation?
I will definitely give this update a try today!

After switching to Linux I had trouble replacing CaptureOne, mostly because of its simplicity. Pretty much every setting has a sensible default, and making the most important changes to a photo (exposure, sharpening, noise reduction, levels, etc) can be done without being exposed to any overly-complicated UI.

For awhile, I switched rapidly between Darktable and RawTherapee, not really satisfied with either. Even after doing my best to learn the ins and outs of each, I could still make my photos look much nicer in 10mins in CaptureOne than in 30mins in Darktable/RawTherapee.

I settled on RawTherapee over DarkTable last month. It's still the case that I can't get as good results in RawTherapee as I can in CaptureOne (not because RT is not powerful, but rather because there are SO many knobs/switches/etc and it's hard to find the ones that actually do what I want).

The moral of this rant is, I'm exited to try this new version of DT, and hopefully I can finally settle on a RAW editor that only shows me the knobs that matter to me by default without making me feel like I'm playing with a 747's control panel.
I have been a linux user since early teenage. So I don't need any nudge for that.

But on phones, I prefer a great screen, good camera and everything else the mainstream offers. I have a proper camera and good laptops with display and everything but nothing beats the convenience of a good phone for someone who is a nomad(well before covid-19).
If linux handhelds work for you, power to you. But I have never found any in the last five years at least that I wanted to use as a daily driver. Would be interested in recommendations though.
The newspaper of the air: early experiments with radio facsimile
Even today's protocol hiding is so inconvenient, who is making these decisions, do the use computers regularly?
Why would you fork Firefox instead of Chromium which has better website compatibility?