skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, thank you!

Secondly, if I can leave everybody with just one more takeaway (besides supporting your local craft organizations, wherever you may be), it's that the phrase "it takes a village" applies to businesses too.

Besides first and foremost my partner, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to everybody who has taught me; everybody who was a student with me at the Furniture Institute of MA, I've learned something from every one of them; everybody I've worked for, I've learned something from every one of them; anybody who's ever written a blog article I've read; anybody who's ever made a youtube video I've watched; my suppliers, especially the knowledgeable ones who've taken the time to not just sell me something but help me learn what fits my needs; my customers, especially the early ones who have worked with me as hiccups have arisen; countless friends both in the trade and otherwise who have provided moral support, gotten me out of jams, and been all around awesome; and finally my partner, who bears thanking way more than just twice.

I don't consider myself especially brave for having taken this step or having any particular wherewithal. For most of us in woodworking, there's an enormous number of people we have leaned on and learned from to get us where we are. I suspect this is true for most of us in software as well. There's a lot of companies built at least in part on open source projects, existing infrastructure, etc.

To be clear, I've never made a contribution of any significance to an OSS project outside of working a 9-5 salaried job. Your point is spot-on, but I can't rightly claim to have been on the sharp end of maintaining anything open source. Thank you to those who do.

Lastly, this all came about because I've been following the Fusion360 news on HN and looking into alternatives. I downloaded FreeCAD, started reading docs, and found a dead link in their README.md. I filed a bug, submitted a PR, and figured if I ever wanted it to be useful, I'd better sort the email account that github sends to. I cleared out a couple thousand github notifications for projects I no longer work on, and that many more bounce messages from my former employer.

Among the several hundred remaining emails was a slew of notifications about the bug that I filed 3 years ago. I figured I should check in, and the rest is (recent) history.
NSA is signals and electronics. DARPA is defense. CIA is intel, though not the only one. (e.g. DIA within DoD may work with DARPA, as might NSA, despite both being intel agencies)

Different niche needs for which the funding is specifically tailored, that's all.
I’ve wondered if an app-store app could work as a sort of local server for different PWAs, handling notifications, hardware apis, etc.
Exploring Opportunities in the Business of Release Notes
Could only find a pull request on struct, and nothing at all on 'list' because I just got a billion 'select list' articles. Also nothing in the docs.

Struct looks 10x uglier but perfectly easy to generate, mind, but the whole thing is non-trivial to find :/
If you ask me to prove I have $10,000 of money, available to spend, which of the following would you accept as proof:

A) $10,000 of cash.

B) Seeing my balance at a bank (e.g. entering the bank URL on a device you control, and then watching as I log in and navigate to the statement).

C) Proof that a non-bank company owes me $10,000.

Most people would only count A and B, because they're perfectly liquid.
I am guessing Carmack "retiring" from Oculus is something akin to "went from 80 hours a week to 40".
Along similar lines, Port knocking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking) is something out-of-band used to allow access to a host (bypassing a firewall).

I think I'd sooner implement port knocking rather than port-hopping
Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments
AirPods Pro head tracking API
It's sad how many cumulative hours have been lost to policing language just because some <1% of the population decided to treat their pronouns like a fashion accessory that must be as unique as possible.
This part is mildly technically amusing (to me, at least):

> Exporting user licenses

> - Migrate to another payments processor

> - Migrate your licensing tracking

> ...

> ... You’ll need to use OAuth 2.0 with your users' consent ... . The general sequence is:

> 1. Implement your replacement payment/licensing scheme.

> 2. ...

When I got to (1) I couldn't help but feel like whoever's tasked with dealing with this is going to feel like they've just been asked to go from zero to "now draw the rest of the owl" without even a line sketch to springboard off of.

The bullet points before that are kind of similar as well.
To be fair, GS-12 isn't that common in some agencies. Because of hiring wickets, you'll see a lot more GS-11 or 13.

I don't know any GS-12s that don't have a Masters. Most would have come in as an 11 with a Masters, then promoted to 12. Extra skills would have earned additional extra steps (steps are 12 different levels of compensation between grades). Of course it's possible, but in my agency unlikely.

Also a GS-13 would be equivalent to a half bird Colonel. 14/15 would be full bird. SES levels would be equivalent to the different general levels.
Tesla literally own more then 50% of the US EV market. The own like 18% of the global EV, and 28% of full electric market. And they have been increasing global market share year over year. They have grown the amount of products they sell every year. They have the largest global charging network. The build the biggest battery in the world. The list goes on.

In 2015 Musk said they want to produce 2020 they want to produce 500k vehicles, and even with covid they will come close to this or even hit it.

To compare the two is beyond ridiculous. Nikola literally never deliver a single vehicle or achieved a single significant engineering goal.

If you actually think they are remotely comparable there is something seriously wrong with your perspective on the world.
Welp, this article concisely explained why I’ve felt anxious and depressed lately. The notion of frenetic standstill.

Love when a piece like this helps put things into perspective, but also a good reminder to put this phone down and replace it with a good old book :)
Love to get downvoted for saying that people shouldn’t have to do “bullshit jobs” to buy things they need to survive from people who hoard things they personally don’t need to survive
I'd doubt this will end the exploitation of the slave monkeys that are forced to pick coconuts. They're likely cheaper than a robot. For this reason, I don't buy coconut products from Thailand.

https://investigations.peta.org/monkeys-abused-coconut-milk/
Sure, if you want to make a simple personal web page, it will probably work in other browsers.

Meanwhile we have government and banking websites that say "This browser is unsupported" when viewed with any browser other than Chrome. These are essential services forcing us to consolidate under Google.

Many websites break as Firefox and Safari add new privacy protections. The websites don't care: if they can't track you then they often don't want you viewing their content anyway. In some cases they'd rather things break so that Mozilla and Apple reconsider their efforts toward privacy.

The other comment mentions that we survived MSFT, so everything will be fine. This is naive. When IE6 had a monopoly Microsoft let it stagnate. The web basically didn't change for ten years; sure there were new standards but nobody could use them because they wouldn't work in IE6. It also wasn't nearly as complicated as it is today, so it was possible for other browsers to catch up.

Google today is doing the opposite. They are steering the web in all sorts of new directions massively increasing its complexity, and they are forcing automatic updates everywhere to make sure IE6 doesn't happen. All of this means it's next to impossible for other browser vendors to keep up. Microsoft has already given up and adopted Blink. How long do you think Apple will hold out? How long do you think Google will keep bankrolling Mozilla?
OICW was just way too early and optimistic for its time, large military arms manufacturers are now producing and integrating “smart scopes”, DARPA has shown real world tests of trajectory adjusting munition.

And the technology for the air burst munitions form OICW is fielded today.

For the primary gun itself there was basically no real way to put in a range finder and a good ballistics computer using late 80’s to early 90’s tech. Then the mid 2000’s came out and smart scopes started to become a thing which now even the likes of HK and SIG offer.

OICW also kinda made the same mistake as the G36 and that was integrating the scope and targeting system with the rifle rather than offering a truly modular platform that can be upgraded.

The G36 had a good optic for the mid to late 90’s but by the mid 2000’s it became very much obsolete, replacing it in the field in case of damage was also found to be near impossible so HK quickly switched to making pic rail G36’s especially for export as their clients weren’t going to pay a huge premium on a 90’s optic that is inferior to a bargain bin red dot and a magnifier setup or an LPVO.

Reading the pdf it actually came quite close to reality, many of its predictions came true in one shape or another.
Even direct energy weapons are out of the lab these days and are fielded in limited capacities, in the next 5-10 years even airborne direct energy pods like the one being developed by Lockheed Martin will be fielded.
Fourthing.

I hate fighting games. I especially despise melee action games. I don't love 3rd person perspective. I haven't really played JRPGs.

Nier:Automata jumped at the top of my list and kept getting better. Even my (non-gaming) wife watched me playing because she was curious and the art and story were fantastic.

A unique experience that is difficult to put into a review. FWIW, my other favourites are Mass Effect, Deus Ex, lots of Sierra & Lucasarts point & click games, etc.

Story telling and surprises (and style) in NieR:Automata were just top notch.
Are they still going to call it a "Store" when you can't buy anything on it?

I always thought it was weird that my free extensions were distributed by a store. Expect Google to launch a new service with the same functionality and then deprecate the Chrome Web Store.
And then there's franchises like Mega Man which have been going for over 30 years.
You are repeating yourself if you write

class Thing;

in every file that uses a Thing. And as I said, that's generally fine.

The issue becomes when the declaration of Thing includes namespaces, template params, etc. Rewriting that is tedious and error prone.

Look at something like std::string. That's actually

namespace std {
template< class T > struct allocator;
template<class charT> struct char_traits;
template<> struct char_traits<char>;
template<class CharT, class Traits = char_traits<CharT>,
class Allocator = allocator<CharT>>
class basic_string;
using string = basic_string<char>;
}

No-one is forward declaring that.
I do find some of the methods to categorize COVID deaths and some of the early fear-mongering quite hard to believe. This could easily fall into the "it's hard to know what to believe" summarization.

Side note: I'm not being paid to spread misinformation and I probably didn't create a news.yc account 12 years ago and post fairly consistently while patiently lying in wait to sprinkle a little bit of COVID misinformation in this thread.
How does one get the attorney general to write a letter like this?
I agree with half of it. Criticizing Assange for his hygiene or bringing into focus Manning's gender identity are obviously attempts at character assassination as the article points out but:

>for calling Hillary Clinton a war hawk

his political affiliations and motivates as well as intent matter. The public has a legitimate interest to figure out if whistleblowers act on behalf of foreign powers, cooperate with domestic political parties or are in some other way potentially influenced. It can determine what they decide to leak, who they aim to attack, and so on. If it turns out that someone who leaks documents that concern national security has ties to a foreign power the situation becomes immediately much more suspect and it becomes much more likely that leaks are chosen in such a way as to deflect or confuse.
yeah, GP kinda made it clear that they weren’t looking for indie games
Life Stream of Building an Overkill workbench for home office Day 2
Technically, you can sideload Chrome extensions with Developer mode, so I don't think that's much different from Android.
The only practical issue standing in the way of decentralized services is a lack of business vision. No one has managed or bothered to propose viable business models for decentralized services.

Novel approaches to the business side of decentralized services will naturally allow for a re-think of the UX issue. (Business model -> default config for "grandpa")

~

An alternative solution approach requires faith in one's government. Can you trust it? If you can, then a national identity services (yes, the dreaded digital id) can provide the infrastructural back-bone to build federated systems.

At the end of the day, location and identity is -all- you need to "reach out and touch someone".
Can you describe more about your serverless website / code playground? Just curious.

(I'm currently re-discovering the fun of coding by writing video games and hosting them internally to my house on docker containers on a Raspberry Pi.)
Federal civil service does not let you retire with full salary. With 20 years of service (plus minimum age requirement) you'll get about 25% of the average salary of your top three years.
Earlier in the month, the website OnlyFans set a price cap on what creators could charge for content in response to a celebrity selling photos that weren't as advertised. This affected the incomes of a lot of sex workers whose content contributed to their livelihoods. [1]

I'm not knowledgeable about sex work at all, but a lot of the discussion I read noted that it seemed troubling how OnlyFans had so much authority over how the content creators did business. It's not uncommon to hear how sex workers or people in the adult industry are at the whims of opaque moderation on social media too. [2]

Sex work can be an exploitative industry, but I think federation could bring a lot of power and control back to the content creators involved online.

Disclaimer: Again, I'm not an expert on the topic of sex work or knowledgeable about it at all. It'd be a lot better to get feedback of the people involved or know the industry better.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53979625

[2] https://jezebel.com/instagram-s-solicitation-policies-are-ex...
Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter
A cycle of democracies / republics / authoritarian regimes? A cycle of smaller independent states / large empires?

This has repeated a lot in the history of the western civilization.
Different servers.
Talking about the App Store in 1982: https://soundcloud.com/user-626311220/steve-jobs-and-steve-w...
.. "will this get me promoted or should I work on something new?"
> If you are not trying to do that then why even bring it up as a concern you have?

Because webmaven's comment was slightly ambiguous. While I don't think he meant to imply the specific connotations that I have concerns with, this is a public forum where it's possible that the audience could certainly infer those connotations, which makes it relevant to address them. Especially because it's a central part to the issues that we're discussing.

I tried to be conscientious about this and went out of my way to strongly imply that I didn't think webmaven meant to imply these connotations. Note, for instance, how I transition from using the second-person pronoun in the first paragraph ("If you are just making that point...to introduce nuance...", "I think I can agree with everything you said") to the passive voice and third person in the second paragraph ("most of the time this kind of argument is made", "someone wants to take the most extreme edge cases"). Maybe I should have been more clear about it, but that's what I was going for.

> Why ask if I read the first paragraph and not assume in good faith I read the whole post and respond to relevant portions I have a response to, just like any other reasonable human being?

You have contributed nothing to the discussion other than to make personal accusations that I am "not really listening at all here" or "doing the exact shit you’re accusing others of". In that light, I am assuming good faith by assuming that you're sinking to that level not because you're a troll or a jerk, but because you're genuinely misunderstanding me. That's why I asked if you read the first paragraph--because I thought that if you understood what I was trying to convey with it and read the rest of my comment with it in context, that would clear up your misunderstanding. Apparently that wasn't enough. I hope this comment is.
The idea is pretty neat imo. Its a simple mechanism. Over the long term I suspect it may even be cheaper to use the robot cause the robot does not need to be fed or managed. I'm tempted to build one myself as the parts cost doesn't look like it'll exceed $1.5K. The music in the video though...

According to https://www.wfft.org/wildlife-general/a-growing-trade-monkey... monkeys cost between $1000-$4000/head

Also do note that monkey based coconut picking is on the decline:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-08-26/does-thailand-have-mo...
Only a small proportion of coconuts are actually picked by monkeys.
OK, trying my hardest to view this deprecation in a positive light: The 5% commission was already minimal but by removing payments altogether, Google proves it has no interest in monetizing Chrome extensions as a platform.
Linux distros/brew/npm/maven/etc are federated software distribution.
China military PR film mocked over 'Hollywood clips'
Fascinating! It’s like a programmable IFTT with similar inflection towards reusability of event workflows within the community.

Have I understood this properly?
I think you missed a step. We dont have one service or even a slew of services directly weakening piracy. Steam and Netflix arent made to stop piracy but to serve pirates... Among others.

To reduce money laundering you "servicize" the industries needing to launder money. Legalize drugs. Provide legal gambling options. There's more you could do but im not libertarian enough.
IBM will steer PowerPC into “head-to-head competition with Intel” (2002)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site
Found some decently approachable text here: http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~nrampers/rampersad_thesis.pdf

And one more: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.11763.pdf
Amazon details its low-bandwidth Sidewalk neighborhood network
fun fact: this won't work on facebook anymore. I made this so I can write bad jokes on my Facebook, after the third one, facebook wrote a script that undo what my script does. So I wrote a patch to disable facebook script first. The Facebook wrote another script that undo what my script does, again. Then I just gave up. I was a super poor student back then, no point in engaging in such nonsense.

I probably have the video showing this back and forth between me and facebook, if probably posted on my now deactivated facebook
That's a nonstarter for a service that's for anyone but the geekiest of geeks, though. If you have to be close to someone with both the tech know-how and interest to host an instance of a federated service, the service is effectively off-limits to approximately everyone. Non-technical users have to be able to use the service and have a good experience doing so.
Those Mars papers weren't necessarily any less rigorous. In context, I take "preliminary work of understanding the inorganic chemistry" to imply something like in situ sampling and analysis, which in some of the Mars cases revealed new geology, or at least hypotheses which were considered extremely unlikely given contemporary understanding--understanding that also included satellite imagery and other cutting edge remote sensing--were catapulted into hard fact shortly after the Exploration rovers landing. The paper covers its butt with qualifications like, "Even if confirmed, we emphasize that the detection of PH3 is not robust evidence for life, only for anomalous and unexplained chemistry." But the overall emphasis of the paper is rather optimistic, to say the least, very much like prior claims regarding Mars' chemistry and geology.

IMO, arguably we know far more about biological chemistry than we do about geology even on Earth. Even when we have a solid idea of the boundaries of what's geologically possible and impossible, we aren't nearly as knowledgable in terms of being able to order the possibilities in terms of relative likelihood. The Chicxulub impact and its effects were only confirmed within the lifetimes of most people on HN, for almost any reasonable value of confirmed--1990s, 2016 drilling, w'ever. We were already well along on our way to understanding the detailed chemistry of DNA before even the general concept of plate tectonics (let alone the finer details) became established scientific fact. Studies from the 2015 Mercury MESSENGER impact have overturned and are continuing to overturn established consensus on planetary geology. We should be skeptical of claims (implicit or explicit) regarding the relative likelihood of biologic vs non-biologic processes.

OTOH, perhaps governments aren't apt to fund those experiments without the enticement. Extravagant claims are useful to help make that happen, and either this group had that in mind or it's simply the case that we only ever hear about such studies when they do make extravagant claims. Either way, I would certainly support more Venusian missions even if my money is in history repeating itself--new geology, not new life.
In the end, the problem sex workers have on the internet is that they are a huge fraud risk, with that risk coming from both the provider and the client. The mainstream payment providers won't touch it as a result. The less mainstream ones are expensive and still not easy to do business with.

Without easy setup of payment providers, federation is difficult. Any new instance in the federation needs to go through the same pain.

Meanwhile, what does federation actually solve? The only fans model (and most sex work) seems to be a social graph that is a single producer talking to a bunch of clients. The producer needs a server, clients need to connect to that server, where does federation come in?

Disclaimer: I'm not at all knowledgeable either - literally just know what I've read on hn on this subject.
There is zero class analysis in the article, which makes it unworthy of examination.
You're interpreting dang in the least charitable way. He's done more than anyone to keep HN a good place, so maybe listen to his advice?

"X is racist" is not very substantial discussion imo. You're contributing the very vitriol that does appear on Facebook, and bringing it here.
Mine did, but in my sophomore year, they were cut due to budget constraints that failed to meet a referendum. Industrial tech, foods, automotive, and welding all got the axe. Music and sports only stuck around because of the boosters. The Cisco and CAD classes stuck around because the local community college sponsored them, which is how I ended up where I am today I guess.
Any good site where you can easily search and/or explore these hundreds of postgres extensions?
Out of curiosity, what was the use case/upstream requirement for building Kivaloo in the first place?

The Kivaloo page notes that it was designed for Tarsnap, but I'm curious as to the "why" - eg, an eventual-consistency/consensus building block, a simple local metadata service, server-side housekeeping...?

(I'm also curious what "{indexed ,}sorted files" means, and how UFS is significant.)
And I think that's the issue. It was a foreign lock they weren't familiar with so didn't have one to practice on. It was apparently easier to copy the key.