skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5. Change the built-in incentive structures of modern capitalism.

I try to 1-4 as much as possible and more. It takes a lot of time, effort, and money. But it's really hard not to get discouraged about how futile it all seems in the face of the unflinching exploitative momentum of modern civilization.
Excerise

Meditation
>Given that Venus' atmosphere is a complex mixture held at very high temperature and pressure, the "sign" seems pretty weak here.

The phosphine signal is coming from a portion of Venus' atmosphere that has pressure and temperatures similar to that of the the Earth's surface, according the the Earth and Sky article.
Hm, I change my mind, you are correct.
Microsoft Statement on TikTok
There's even a group: https://www.indiehackers.com/group/looking-to-partner-up

In my experience Indie Hackers has an unusually high concentration of people who get things done, the kind of people with grit who you might want to partner with.
My first result was a Chinese porn website. Thank goodness I'm at home and not at work right now. You may wish to add a disclaimer about that.
> And if the author is reading

Author here, reading, and thanks for this, I really enjoyed your comment. And the 'dual user story' problem (aka split-brain) is so true, I wish someone had told me about it earlier in my career.

> That said, I'd love a product like 'Monarch Money' that was a) not subscription based and b) not cloud hosted
We chose a subscription-based business model to try and align ourselves with users. If I had to write a second part of my article, I'd write something like "Your product becomes your business model". I've worked on enough "free" products to know that they lead to the very dynamics I criticize in my article (there's another comment in this thread that summarizes that quite nicely[1]). As for not cloud-based, I hope that's something we can deliver some day down the road, but for now, cloud-based products are the easiest way to deliver the type of cross-platform product we're trying to build.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24462452
There's quite a bit of variety in OSes I checked. Anything from systemd, to upstart, to random bash init scripts (some oses are based on devuan).
Yeah might not have been yc..
I will use it for my "Quotes for entrepreneurs collected in Sep-2020" blog post (full set going back to 2006 at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/quotes/). I will show the basic version and this twitter-length one that incorporates context from his Quora answer:

"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. Despite good examples to the contrary, it's unfortunate that those artifacts that do simple things usually wall off next levels of complexity, and those that do complex things don’t do anything simply."
Alan Kay

I like to find the original source of a good quote, one of two things often happens: the person credited did not actually say it, someone else do who has other insights to offer; the quote is part of a longer passage that adds value to the original quote.
Two children is also below the replacement rate, as are most developed nations. Thus it’s unlikely for this be critical compared to basic conservation techniques.

Personally, I am not planning on having kids either way.
This is exactly how Europe (and other parts of the world) can avoid having their IT services monopolised by US American companies. And build up ecosystems of expertise around the free software projects.
Robot dogs join US Air Force exercise giving glimpse at future battlefield
https://archive.is/wqLyK
You can could develop with React Native and use a Mac VPS to do the final build.

Not sure what you want from Apple here. Is it to port their entire iOS/OSX SDK to Linux just to support the 0.000001% of users who would want to develop that way.
Well... a biological process would be “rare” outside of earth, so if I was a betting man...
Another option is to use a mobile phone and whatever can work as a "tripod". I used a large clothes peg and the lamp over my dining table.

There are apps that will stream the image from the phone to the computer, and in Zoom it can be added as a second video feed. That means the class can see the teacher's face as well as the paper.

I tried a few apps, but I don't remember which worked, or their names, except for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dev47apps....
Oh come on, half of the world (US included) was colonized and optimized for resource extraction, mostly because of how far ahead British manufacturing was at the time.

India as been independent for a while now, just own the half-bakedness already.
No, it obviously shouldn't. Just because I replied, doesn't mean I disagreed with the comment I was replying to.
It has a super well vetted standard library written in TS. I think this is a pretty great feature.
Or just some kind of generic way to advertise where they're reading configuration. The worst are programs that search 20 places for configuration, so you have no idea whether you've turned some feature on or off.

What I really want is a generic system of algebraic effects for processes so "read configuration" becomes something I can inspect or wrap with my own handler.
Oracle purchasing a stake in ByteDance, and maybe handling US operations? It sounds like one of those deals which will end up as a loss in a few years and a write-down. The first comparison that comes to mind is the Tumblr sale, when Yahoo wrote-down $712 million, although the companies are quite different. However, the similarity is the culture difference between the parent and subsidiary companies - Yahoo couldn't figure out how to turn Tumblr profitable as they had no successful examples prior, as far as I remember. Oracle and TikTok could not be more different: Oracle is a cold cloud technology supplier with no business advertising to teens.

If Oracle wishes to only be the cloud partner holding US data (a possibility mentioned in the article) it's possible that it could work out, but whether it is possible is dependent on politics and potentially who is elected as the next President.
Sounds pretty hypocritical if you're not running it on libre hardware as well.

I assume Purism makes their own CPUs, memory etc ?
Also, there are alternative, publicly accessible ways to get most of this public zone file data now, so I am not sure that restriction in the access agreement is anything more than an historical artifact at this point.

You could use publicly available scan data for ports 80 and 443 to pare down the list of "websites".

The goal of exposing the non-popular web is worthwhile.
Let's Build a C Compiler (Part 0)
Wouldn’t the text be a mirror image (backwards)
I would posit that the level of exploitation of the Indian population paled in comparison to the colonies. [citation needed] But, you are right in a sense.
I don't agree with this. The government should purchase software or services based on quality of the service provided and cost. It's nice if the software is open source, but it doesn't need to be just because tax payers pay for it. That's a total non-sequitur.

If the government buys Mercedes cars it doesn't demand Mercedes to hand over the engineering designs for the cars.

In fact in the entire military and intelligence space I don't even think this is practically possible due to secrecy and avoiding to give away software that is vital to national security.

Another obviously giant issue is that this would effectively prohibit companies which do proprietary work in the private sector to work with the government at the same time, because they'd be forced to open source their code. The likely result of this would simply be that the government has significantly less software to chose from, higher cost, or needs to start maintaining large engineering teams to replicate entire software stacks just for public use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_delet...

Is what you want for the why it was deleted.

It's been merged into the michael crichton page apparently because it's a non academic term that crichton coined, presumably because there isn't enough history of the term itself to be notable, so it should have a wiktionary but not Wikipedia.
No, the most important one is to overweight working on these problems directly through technology to create leveragable, economically incentivized solutions. Instead of removing 2 lives from the picture, reduce the impact of all current and future lives by some meaningful margin.

As an example to illustrate this - if you create software solution that reduces the need for air travel by a very small percentage, you'll have more impact on carbon emissions over its amortized lifetime than most humans who have ever lived, particularly if you make personal sacrifices to ensure its widespread use and availability.
GDS, a department of the UK government already advocates the use and creation of open source software: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/be-open-and-use-open-source

Including publishing a lot here: https://github.com/alphagov

A lot of the philosophy of their approach on this is around making the code public and inspectable given it was funded by tax payers. Not to say reuse isn't part of it but it is an interesting angle on why some code should be open sourced.
Well, if there is no environmental regime that overlaps, then it doesn't evolve. But if there is, why wouldn't it?
There already is.
Fascinating how the article has “how it works” explanation, despite showing the picture right above that.
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
Oh, right, I see it now. It wasn't visible straight away on my phone.
I prefer ability to force boot a known good FOSS OS from SD card, rather then depending on the SoC vendor or OS vendor to have implemented all the crypto at all levels correctly to verify the bootloader, trusted firmware, kernel, kernel modules, userspace programs, and so on.

"Known good externally sourced" is better then "maybe verified by in-device mechanisms, but we don't really know", when you have reasons for doubt, about someone potentially modifying the software on your phone.

It's not either/or. Making it harder to modify the software via secure boot is good. But having ability to actually run and verify the software from a real point of trust, not just based on some random crappy crypto someone somewhere thrown together for "secure boot", is essential.
> Python is still a great tool, but Python 3 really took the shine off for me.

People forget that part of the reason why the Python maintainers were so snotty about Python 2 to Python 3 was because they went through this before.

Anyone remember the gnashing of teeth that occurred when trying to drag people off of Python 1.5.2? I sure do.

I want to throw anybody complaining about backward compatibility in 2020 into Python 1.5.2 because THAT'S what you're advocating for.
>we may have instead found evidence of a new abiotic form of phosphine synthesis

I think this will be the critical thing to effectively communicate publicly. Given what we know about phosphine synthesis, a subject I presume most people aren't super familiar with, how confident are we that a new abiotic process is possible? Or is it so unlikely that life is a more plausible explanation?

Those aren't rhetorical questions. I wonder about the relative plausibility of one vs the other.
Nothing appears to be loading. It's not like my browser is trying to connect to something that doesn't exist. Just tried again a bunch of times.
I don't think it's implied anywhere that the force will remain constant. It's more a proxy to the ratio of the change in kinetic energy to the energy put in.

I suppose they used a very precise equivalent of a dynamometer that necessarily required some work to be done to give out a reading and this is what it showed.
If members of the team had trusted each other enough to trust the votes that related to pay grade, you’d probably don’t need the votes already
It’s not that simple. If you are a high quality specimen with good genetics and high intelligence, you should have more children than normal replacement rate, and with a similar mate.

If you are not a fit specimen you should consider having none, or at most one with a high quality mate with dominant genes.
This is such a simple hack. It's basically equivalent to the classroom transparency overhead projectors of the past. You could 3d print a similar device with a USB webcam and a proper mirror for pennies. Is there a market for this?
I use this app over a USB connection. The phone (Pixel 3a) used to overheat but I picked up a USB fan which keeps it cool. Only downside is no virtual webcam driver on FreeBSD, so I boot to Windows for video chats.
Maybe the teacher used this because it’s actually simple and using specialized hardware would be just waste and hassle?
From the article: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dUWrpm...

"This was an experiment made out of pure curiosity, really, taking advantage of JCMT’s powerful technology, and thinking about future instruments. I thought we’d just be able to rule out extreme scenarios, like the clouds being stuffed full of organisms. When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus’ spectrum, it was a shock!"
We’ve been seeing these clouds of unknown reflectors for over 100 years, way before any missions.
Cool research (^∇^*)
You're assuming the government controls the development process. That's not the objective (and frankly, FOSS licences works against control, as any party can fork the code). Rather, the suggestion is for governments to support FOSS developers, just as they do the arts community, without directly dictating what work they do. If they want a project extended in a certain way they can pay directly for that development, but they should do it on the back of an existing product that serves the general community and feed useful development of the software from their extension back into the general development tree.
I know of teachers buying all sorts of stuff for school, or for specific children.

Cheap sports shoes so the poor kid isn't left out after he lost his shoes but can't afford new ones, pens etc for children who lose them and don't have friends who will lend them one, tampons or sanitary towels for girls whose parents refuse to accept she's growing up.

Example article on this: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nearly-1-in-10-school...
There's a Chinese company near us in Germany. We don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced, but it sounds like "weich ei", meaning "soft egg".

Handy nasty is even better, though.
Hi. I fulltime RV'd around the US for about 3 years, mostly dispersed camping. I never even once saw anyone using an ATV (quad, side-by-side, anything) for the purpose of overcoming a disability. What I saw was exclusively motor"sport" enthusiasm. Revving the engine, driving at unsafe speeds, etc.
A thread from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24430500
The problem with all this is that the interesting study is the one that replicates that people didn't expect to.
Danger for earth. When we introduce a species to a new environment, sometimes it dies, and sometimes it becomes an invasive species and kills a lot of other stuff. And some of those invasive species are big (like snakehead fish) and some are small (like the smallpox virus or, frankly, SARS-Cov-2). Many experts think there's a risk that an extraterrestrial microorganism could devastate some or all Earth life, given that no Earth life has had a chance to evolve defenses against it.
Zoom has a setting to mirror video.
s3 just makes you work for it:

- delete 1000 objects per post to /?delete

- do this 100 times per connection

- do this on a few threads per server to avoid being throttled

- which entails keeping track of which servers you're using (there are hundreds of servers available but dns only exposes a couple per second)

..and that assumes you've already got a list of keys - if you need to also enumerate the bucket you'll have to employ the same strategy and also partition your queries somehow to get multiple non-overlapping continuation-tokens for your concurrent calls to /?list. you can also request a bucket inventory but if you're in a hurry it's faster to do it yourself (for a 25TB bucket the turnaround on the inventory request is probably 2+ days)
How likely would it be that extraterrestrial microbes evolved for living in clouds would have just happened to evolve to also be pathogenic in humans?
Vaccine Makers Keep Safety Details Quiet, Alarming Scientists
At equal execution, I suspect there is often (but not always) a direct relationship between investment and speed of execution / time to profitability (since with more investment it will be easier to attract great talent and iterate faster).

Assuming what I'm saying above is correct, that means that YC is advising founders to take the slow road to profitability? (Nothing wrong with that!)
I didn't mean you are angry or upset etc, sorry I wasn't clearer.

I didn't say that you "need to be right".

You've repeated that you are happy to be corrected, "set straight". It just seems that you thought nothing I said was in the least bit helpful, so I never got to see that! I don't believe it. I was just "a bit rude", "mis-ascribed" many things to you, "put words in your mouth", etc. I get what seems a similar unpleasant experience interacting with you that you get from HN – please consider that it's projection, i.e. that you are the problem.
Incidentally, I just submitted the following a few hours ago:

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/phosphine-biosignature-gas...
malloc also has internal bookkeeping overhead, typically 16-32 bytes per allocation.

Which is why one should never allocate a single (short) string from a generic allocator. Instead, one allocates a big chunk upfront (e.g. 4K bytes or more), and breaks from that, using a simple index that points to the first unused bytes.

In this way, the overhead of allocating a string is truly only the terminating zero byte - no alignment constraints. This scheme is easy to implement as long as strings don't need to be freed individually.
Definitely doesn't have the delta-v or aerobraking shield necessary :)
Yep, smart people concerned about nature should not reproduce, this way people interested in destroying nature could have four kids instead two (and people trying to save nature could have even less influence in the vote).
Not absolutely impossible, but doubtful.
Yes, Google manages it just fine and people programming on linux is not exactly a non existent group. I'd even be happy with a windows toolkit since I can at least use my existing desktop for it.
It solves two problems at once: Letting the document lay flat, and mirror-imaging the camera.
nftables has a lot of problems once you get past the extreme basics. It only got stateful support in like 2017/2018 and still can't do some important features for tunnels and ipsec. Nobody with real-world experience is going to using nftables yet, except as a proof of concept or for other esoteric reasons.

The amount of paid blogverts pushing of nftables by Red Hat is pretty obvious.

nftables might be good some day, but it's not there yet.
> What you suggesting would completely break those operations. Compared just not getting what you want.

I reversed a string several times in Python 2 and not once did my computer catch fire! I just got a string back that, in certain situations, didn't contain the characters I was expecting. And then my father had to have a talk with me about Unicode, and how computers sometimes use multiple bytes to represent a single character, and so if you rearrange the individual bytes you get different, usually more broken-looking characters.

And when my child runs "🇨🇦"[::-1] in Python 3, I'll still have to give them The Unicode Talk. I just need to use the word "codepoint" instead of the word "byte". The situation is basically the same--if you know enough about Unicode to understand Python 3's behavior on certain non-English text, you know enough to understand Python 2's behavior.
Which Diversity and Inclusion talent metrics should companies consider?
It can't just be your phone -- we should each have an inviolable online cache.
Global oil demand may have passed peak, says BP energy report
What I find the most striking about this hack is that by doing it, the teacher is indirectly modeling clever problem solving techniques to the class.
Here's a 3 minute demo showing how to deploy a slack clone using Supabase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oqIZW5S-lQ

Disclaimer: Supabase cofounder. Thanks for the shout-out @johnhenry
A close relative of my partner's just passed away and one of the first things the family did was dump out a couple of boxes of photos and spread them out so they could go through a bunch of memories together. Then they picked out a bunch of the photos and attached them to some posterboard today for tomorrow's small service.

These people aren't luddites. It's just easier to do this stuff with physical photos. The tech-obsessed might forget about that sometimes.
Obvious reasons but not restricted to:

1. performance: v8 is incredibly fast.

2. convenience: many ppl are already pretty familiar with javascript and node/deno gave them the ability to use it generically outside the browser
Strange, it seems like they are in a way accusing ByteDance of not selling to them because MS was going to make changes to meet their "highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combatting disinformation".

Is it usual for a company to give out any statement when a potential acquisition does not happen?
Wikipedia link for those that don’t like to watch videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_state
FWIW, I got to see the 'split brain' product team when Sun Micro decided to do a 386 based workstation and had the east coast team design the system software. Between their Systems Group and the west coast Systems Group much confusion was created.

On the product, I'm not interested in a 'free' product, I'd pay you $300 for such a product and buy periodic updates for $100/year. I tend to do this will all 'tools' type applications (Illustration, CAD, Simulation, Etc.) I love having the company invested in making it something wonderful and open source products with their, by necessity, indiscriminate addition of developers, suffer for that reason[1].

My concern, especially with financial software, is that your cloud gets compromised and I and all of your customers are scrambling to avoid losses. Frankly I am amazed that people can get liability insurance for that sort of thing given the stakes!

That said, Quicken and Intuit in general, really needs competition to help them focus.

Edit: And per the summary comment. I am not suggesting a 'freemium' or ad supported model, just one that keeps the data where I can be assured that if someone else let's their guard down it won't compromise my data. That is the big weakness with 'cloud' in my mind.

[1] FreeBSD tries really really hard and comes close, I expect it would really shine if it had a revenue stream to support a full time product management team and lead developers.
> wildlife bridges

These are a great idea, but they're going to be very rare because the designs of them are at incredible cost.

A far more pragmatic design is to lay culverts crossways under highways at regular intervals. The culverts can be varying size, even up to 10 feet in diameter. Culverts are mass produced, cheap, and trivial since the highway roadbed is already built up from the land level. Just dig a trench, drop in the culvert, fill in, and pave over.

Make them a part of normal highway construction, and add them whenever repaving maintenance is being done.

No, they aren't as good as bridges. But they're far better than non-existent bridges.