skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if you can have actual employees and offer flexible times?

Sort of. If you have actual employees you need to pay for benefits. Someone who only works a few hours a day may not bring in enough revenue to cover the cost of their benefits, so the employer may need to require longer, less flexible hours in order to make it worth hiring someone in the first place.
Ah... I spent so many hours of my childhood reading his comics. He will be sorely missed.
Looking at the homepage[1] for Hacktoberfest this year, the organizers do appear to try to lead people towards projects that are looking for help.

It's possible that differences in the way the event is announced and explained may lead to different expectations and results.

And sure, some people are just going to spam, especially if there are incentives involved. Looking at a few of the pull requests linked in the post, some of them definitely are of questionable contribution value.

An ideal outcome should likely still incentivize participation: for some folks, this may be their first time contributing to open source at all, and there's a non-zero chance that could lead to massive learning opportunities for them, and future contributions to open source projects -- but yes, maintainer burden is a real problem to balance against too.

Providing opt-in/out for repositories is certainly one possible approach. What other techniques are available to manage large quantities of inbound communication and filter signal/noise?

[1] - https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
It's the inflation that's expensive, not the transaction processing. The threshold for economical power use in bitcoin mining scales in proportion to the block reward, not block size or number of transactions. Since the rate of inflation decreases exponentially (the block reward in BTC halves every four years) this issue will eventually resolve itself.
My point is that, in this context, "models released before 2015" really means "models released before 2012", because there were no MacBook computers on the market between 2012 and 2015. Using the phrasing "released before 2015" implies that there were some MacBooks from 2014 which Apple dropped support for, which is not the case.
I've been a developer for 5 years. One of my 2020 goals, aided by being stuck at home because of a certain pandemic, is to make the leap to being a contributor in an open source project I care about.

One of my coworkers shared Hacktoberfest details and I got really fired up! I looked through repositories I could reasonably contribute bug fixes or light features to. Got myself familiar with the codebases, PR process, Hacktoberfest guidelines (that are very clear about spammy contributions).

Then reading this and seeing some of the bogus contributions myself (some by contributors who coincidentally share my name!), I don't know how to feel about this. Maybe keep up my laziness streak and punt my contributions to November (and reward myself with nerdy apparel!)? Or take this as a fun opportunity to redeem my name?
The Matrix to IRC bridge (for at least freenode and OFTC) has a number of suboptimal behaviours on the IRC side, it would be great if you could improve the experience for folks not using Matrix.
I would think it wouldn't be the same product in 5-10 years.
https://github.com/redapesolutions/django-typeform/pulls?q=i...

This is quite annoying
I had not considered that. In my use case it's not an issue, but I can see that if the ID value is publicly viewable (ie, in a URL) and can reveal sensitive info via the timestamp... thanks.
Have you seen the unemployment rate lately? We are in one of the worst recessions in living memory. It's not like those Uber drivers can just quit and go work somewhere else.
IVRs, and hold music are proof that "Your call is important to us" is a load of horse hockey.
This is where government policy meets business reality. The reality is, ridesharing is a low margin business. Have you seen Uber's earnings reports? It's questionable whether the business model can ever be sustainable.

So with higher wages, you're just accelerating Uber's drive into insolvency. Their only option is to cut workers and increase ride prices.

But you can only do the latter so much before you lose users to the point where Uber just becomes a private taxi service for the wealthy in which case you might as well not use a rideshare model and just hire professional chauffeurs.
Think of how much electricity is spent on cryptocurrency grifting, training state of the art AI so that it can help trick the elderly into clicking on ads, distributing porn, and streaming videos of kids eating tide pods. I think that eclipses the cost of developers using Rails or Django for their server backend.

I don’t think we have a problem with the “how” as much as the “what” or “why”.
> i setup some droplets many years ago but they wont let me cancel.

Have you tried to log into your control panel and delete your droplets? This doesn't sound like a DigitalOcean problem on its face.
I think perhaps this is the wrong way to look at it -- having it as a standard way to do things built into the language simplifies this (not everybody needs to know tricks) and also most likely will be more portable across platforms.
67% normal

abnormally young, which is a normal observation by others of me.

The life expectancy is probably fair even though

BMI is just about right, 19.6

Am not a good boy :-D

This is fascinating and I also approve of the cause and message. Yet more reasons to have a simple camera cover.
> It leaves a bad taste - statements like this. I don't know why.

Probably because those statements are logical fallacies, this one specifically is known as argumentum ad verecundiam in Latin, or "an appeal to authority."

The fact that the arguer holds a prestigious title (or wears a fancy crown) cannot prove or disprove any given statement.

The inability of humans to think logically has bothered people for thousands of years, read up on Aristotle for more info.
This is, I believe the best solution.
Nobody's proposing your code for the C standard. The original article is proposing an addition to the standard. Your comment argues that programmers don't need the addition to the standard because there is a non-standard, non-portable hack. That is not a good argument against an addition to the standard.
I guess maybe you had a different experience than I did, because I never had web components "pushed" at me in any way. It was always a technology I was keeping my eye on but was hesitant to invest in until the browser support was there, and now that the browser support arrived I've seen a grand total of ONE web-component-focused talk at the web dev conferences I've attended, and that one was given by our project lead.
I don’t know about most of you here, but the people who say “SWYD” to me are women. I always thought it was a feminine thing.
This sucks, but I’m not surprised. I’ve been contributing to Hacktoberfests for 4? 5? years now, and the explosion in size from the first year could realistically only result in this. I was planning on taking part again this year, but now I’m not so sure—I can make sure my PRs are of a minimum quality But seeing the ones they’re up against really puts a bad taste into the whole affair.
Which won't stop the spam unless the people spamming know ahead of time they won't get credit. Not sure if that's the case or if there's a mechanism for that.
Big companies are establishing offices in both Seattle and Bellevue. It isn't an either or situation. I think sourcing talent is a bigger priority.

Example: Google has a new-new building in South Lake Union, but they are also in Kirkland.
> Also- Greece went from being one of the poorer European countries to being a relatively well-off country in those 50 years.

The problem is, this is a global trend: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47057341

Who are we to tell e.g. India and China (about 3 billion people in total) to eat less meat as they grow richer?
Solving real life problems with AI :)

Couldn't we solve it with a form on the website + callback?
I will only buy waterproof phones. I use mine as a bicycle and motorcycle GPS.
Nah, kick the laziness and get in there and do something! Good contributions stay good contributions.
Comcast was like that last I had them.

Want to add a premium TV channel or upgrade your internet to a faster speed? Just click a button on their web site. Want to downgrade it back to like it was before? You can't do it through the web site. You must call and listen go to a sales pitch before they'll make the change.
There is an opt out. The only retention policy is that records must be destroyed within one year after the account is terminated.

https://epic.org/privacy/vppa/
You can use a VPN that isn't based in your home country. It's much harder to switch to a non-local ISP.
I used LucyPhone back in the day and it was great, but sadly it looks like it's no longer around, would love to have something like this as well. FastCustomer still exists but hasn't been updated in over 5 years...
If nothing else, I now understand that I'm going to have to read up more on how WSL2 actually works, because I found WSL1 to be a really elegant way of running Linux on Windows without having a whole bunch of virtualisation in place, but it sounds like there's more virtualisation now, and also Hyper V networking has previously broken my network stack.
I wonder if this service can handle these messages. I have had holds where an automated voice would tell me the estimated wait time every few minutes. Can google's system differentiate between a customer service rep and a series of unique procedurally generated messages?
Yet another service which will most likely be abandoned... Wait, there is a .google top level domain now?
"... value of the assets already deployed in space..."

But, what is that value? Of the ~ 800 SL satellites launched so far, about 5% have already deorbited. Of the remainder, all but 2 don't have inter-satellite links. The others will deorbit in 5 years. LEOs, in general, require tremendous amounts of money just to maintain an existing constellation size. At steady state, SpaceX would have to launch something like 60 satellites per week just to maintain their constellation. I can't remember the numbers now, but I think that meant costs in the $10's of millions / week just in maintenance once you account for construction and launch costs.
Back when I worked on IBM's J9, the nightmare scenario was either a dropped memory fence, or the map keeping track of links between register / stack references and GC heap objects getting screwed up. Things could go on a very long time before those errors manifest visibly.
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I think them not putting any meaningful measures in place since the last years is already a response.

One such measure could've been to make it opt-in, but as mentioned on Twitter that was proposed internally and rejected. That to me already clearly signals that they were aware of the problems they were causing for maintainers (maybe not the extent), but chose to prioritize their bottom line, which to me is very much "blatant discrespect".
No, no, no.

This is just an argument for putting more effort into a failed strategy. The reason why we haven't made much progress towards extending healthy human life isn't because the disease state is complex, it is because the primary strategy adopted by the research community is to reverse engineer the disease state, and then work backwards towards its cause.

Typical project: pick away at a small chunk of the altered metabolism of [age-related disease of choice]. Find a proximate cause of pathology that has some small contribution to the whole - an altered gene expression level, say, something really, really far removed from root causes. Find a small molecule that adjusts expression. Publish. Patent. Tech transfer finds someone willing to tinker with that family of small molecules to have a short at achieving a small alteration in the disease state. Goes into trials, fails at phase II or phase III.

This happens constantly. It is the bulk of all medical research for age-related disease. It is pointless. May as well not happen. Applying computational prowess to this process won't make it any better. You'll just have a lot more low yield approaches that still do nothing more than tinker with proximate causes in late stage disease, and will do next to nothing for patients. (With the occasional success like statins, which produce the amazing-for-this-strategy result of a 22% reduction in mortality. You still die, just slightly less often).

The only practical way forward for age-related disease is to entirely reject this approach to medicine in favor of a much, much better one.

1) Infer the root causes of aging and best points of intervention (already done, several times over).

2) Fix one of those causes, in isolation.

3) Observe the results.

Steps 1-3 have been achieved for removal of senescent cells. The results in animal studies are absolutely amazing, robust, night and day better than anything else anyone has done for the treatment of aging and age-related disease. Reversal of scores of diseases and measures of aging, every lab can do it, replicated many, many times via numerous different approaches.

Everyone is now backfilling their models of age-related disease, their understanding of disease etiology, to add senescent cells. Because they are clearly an important cause.

Once Unity Biotechnology has stopped being silly about their subpar approach to senescent cell clearance, and the rest of the dozen or so companies have started their trials, we should expect those human trials to follow the same sort of pattern.

This is the way to make progress. Infer root causes, target root causes, figure out which work by trying them. Backfill your understanding of age-related disease based on new data.
tl;dr is WSL2 is just a VM running under Hyper-V. The host is hence Hyper-V, not Windows.
That seems like an unusually small amount of times for 10 years. I could understand in a year but 10 is - wow - you must've gone out of your way to avoid being on hold.

I've been on hold a lot more often than a handful in the last decade and I don't make many phone calls. IRS, companies that messed up an order, cancelling services, government agencies, various small businesses that I call locally, and so much more that I am sure I am forgetting. Sometimes it's only 30 seconds of being on hold. Sometimes it's literally hours and - sadly - the connection gets cut off and I lose my place in line and I wasted a bunch of time having to listen to that noise in the background and unable to do much of anything else because of it.

The worst offenders are those that crank the music volume so high that it clips practically all the time - but then there are long times of silence or low audio - and then the music comes back clipping again... AND then when you finally connect, the person is so quiet that you can't hear them at all and they say, "hello? hello? bye" and they hang up.

I hope Apple gets this feature soon as I've been dying for this when I have to call some of those pesky places!
So exactly how would they do that without my viewing data and why would advertisers pay for that when they can get better information from Roku and the smart TV manufacturers?
From my perspective last year as a first time participant in other people's open source projects, I don't think I would've made any of the contributions I did without Hacktoberfest.

Projects tagged with the Hacktoberfest tag tended to signal either projects that were both active and had low barriers of entry for newbies, or weird mechanical turk-esque spam. While the latter is unfortunate, the former isn't nearly as easy to find as it should be the other 11 months of the year.
True, assuming the spammers read a notice is way to optimistic.
That's my point :) Arguing that because this would exclude some small number of projects does not make sense if from the get go you exclude a large number of open source projects.
Most of my friends and family.
I prefer this name, glad they brought it back
Thanks for the feedback! The README has now been updated: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/commit/fd22e55b42503093... It could use more work though. See also https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/ape.html and the HN thread about it last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883
More often than not, when someone takes you off from hold they expect an answer right away, and will hang up on you if there's no response. I've had this happen in cases where I put myself on mute and couldn't hit the un-mute button fast enough.

So I'm not sure how well this would work in practice. At minimum, I would be anxious the whole time I was waiting, ready to hit the return to call button at a moment's notice...
It would seem like a much better idea to say that only PRs that are explicitly confirmed by the project maintainers as being valid will be counted.
I don’t know if the 4kW statistic is right but 16kWh per day is 0.667kW continuous (16kW / 24 hours).They specifically say not including electricity use but could see that continuous number climbing closer to the 4kW number if it did.

People who regularly fly would also likely quickly make this number rise.
People resell them on ebay.
Sadly, you are correct. Increasingly, even if I pay good money, the expectation is that I forego any kind of privacy. An annoying recent example, I was debating buying AR-15, but website recommended by a friend wanted me to drop adblocker for 'fraud prevention' purposes. Guns are not a cheap hobby; I already pay a premium and deal with a lot of bureaucratic idiocy on every level and now this. Next step is probably required FB login with integration allowing you to blast everyone with the fact that you purchased $something.

It gets more annoying when a random store clerk is unable to ring me up when I won't give her my phone number.

Like you said, it take a lot of effort just to avoid it. I don't know what it would take to actually nullify its impact on me.
Everyone is talking about the tech, but I'm really curious about the marketing site.

It's very clean and looks great. How long, or how many iterations did it take to get it to this level? Did you do it in-house or contract it out?
I think the key idea is that Mullvad client changes firewall config on the fly to insert a 2nd highest prio rule "deny outgoing" allowing outgoing internet access only to itself until the VPN tunnel is established and then withdraws it automatically afterwards. So, a generic firewall advice is not applicable here as it's used in quite a specific way. If Microsoft does not fix the problem described in the blog post, I assume the easiest way would be to introduce some kind of daemon in a Windows client that a slave client tool installed in WSL env would have to connect to or the other way around to mirror a firewall config inside the Linux machine. And that will only work on recent versions, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4212#issue-459183662

UPD: I think it will be resolved in a much neater way soon https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4277#issuecomment-69...
I never had good experiences with callbacks. Sometimes they never call back, and I end up calling again days later and talking to a human, or sometimes I get random callbacks where no one is on the other end of the line.
I use it. It's nice but it causes a ~30 watt spike in power usage whenever I put it in the foreground. Laptop users, be advised that this terminal could drain your batteries.
Hm. Ok. Seems like almost everywhere, when road freight grows in relation to rail freight, even when rail freight grows by absolute tonnage transported.

I think it slowed a little bit because "change of management" due to imprisonment of

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Zhijun

and consecutive dissolvement of

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Railways_(China)

transforming that into

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railway

under supervision of the

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Railway_Administratio...

Imagine what would happen if Warren Buffet suddenly got jailed (for instance caused by Cancel Culture), along with about 40 to 50 others from higher management in connected companies, leading to break up of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc? Not exactly bye bye BNSF, but not good either (for a while).

Just handwaving here, but the timeframe fits IMO.
I'm pretty sure most people reading this have spreadsheets that carefully plot expected lifetime earnings, carefully modeling different assumptions about general and healthcare inflation rates, anticipating likely tax code changes, etc., and don't know anyone who doesn't.

But it would floor most HN readers to realize that probably around half of Americans have zero particular plans for the medium and long term, with a meaningful minority not having a clue about how to pay their bills next month.
that's exactly the problem is i cant login, and account recovery efforts have gone in circles
They don't, they can pay rent like normal, and if they blow it, they get evicted and become homeless, but next once they get sick of being homeless, they can then learn to save their ubi for 2 weeks to pay rent.
I don't understand why everyone is reading secondary sources to interpret the law when Seattle City Council provides primary sources near instantaneously¹. You're just playing a game of telephone.

¹ https://seattle.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=46334...
Linux-based Windows makes perfect sense
Presumably GCC (and I believe Clang)'s __cleanup__ attribute provides this functionality already in most cases?

Any platform where Clang and GCC aren't supported is a platform where this style of code shouldn't be used, no?
We’re aware of folks objecting that messages longer than 3 lines get autopastebinned, and that replies are a bit jarring on IRC. Or do you have something else in mind?

Impedance mismatches are inevitable, but we obviously don’t want Matrix to crap over native experiences on IRC or elsewhere. So: give us specifics and we’ll fix as best we can.
Halfway through the season they all change costume and put on deeper voices, but you can tell it's the same character underneath.

3/4 through the season, the producers kill off the most popular character. No reason is given.
I once read some advice that was something along the lines of "don't provide them with instruction, just provide them with the materials". I can remember being an extremely curious kid, but there were no materials in my house other than pencils and blank paper, and no books other than the dictionary. I'm still a curious adult, but I think the lack of access to any materials at home stunted my development.
You forgot to preface with the new excuse: “Due to COVID-19...”
Then you'll get people spamming maintainers to please hurry up and review/confirm their important PRs, and abuse if they don't.
Not really true, there was a Windows XP repo on the darkweb already
>Event with a hands-free phone, this is probably the worst possible hold experience.

And yet they also want you to believe "Your call is very important to us!"
Novell, Word Perfect
That's a good point. DRAM only sucks power when you flip the bits right?
> What I meant was why Snowflake specifically

Marketing. Vast amounts of marketing.
My First Year as a Developer
Indeed. Saying that good and evil is binary might be... evil ;)
Looks extremely cool. Presumably __cleanup__ is more robust in a GCC environment though?
> Everything is running on Windows. The VM runs on Windows

As far as I understand, that is not quite right. With WSL2, everything is running on Hyper-V, the VM and Windows both run in parallel on Hyper-V.