skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you haven’t seen the new digital knobs, worst of both worlds.
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Let's start another NASA then and double the benefits? Maybe ten of them for ten times the benefits?

Because it doesn't work like that. This is nonsense and ignores the opportunity costs and all the negatives of taxation and borrowing to pay for it in the first place.

Like most people I of course believe in the ideals of NASA, but they'd be lost for another 30 years without Elon.
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I've found the DefogTech channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiz26UeGvcTy4_M3Zhgk7FQ quite good at explaining some more advanced concepts. It's very java centric though.
The Category Theory series by Bartosz Milewski is great, it really opens for a new way of thinking about programming in general.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
What does 'limitless' mean, physically?
I use U2F and TOTP, the latter through NFC via my iPhone or computer. U2F through NFC or USB. It’s great!
thank you for pointing that out. that needs to be updated along with many other things as we go along ;)
"...his unlawful financial gains must be relinquished to the government," This cracks me up for some reason, lol.
None of these are for sales in Europe, or more specifically in Nordics.
Ok, this turned out to be far more interesting than the title here reads like. The little abstract at the top is far more informative:

> A Blender user-interface to generate synthetic ground truth data (benchmarks) for Computer Vision applications.

And it lets you make stereo images, depth maps, segmentation masks, surface normals and optical flow data from the rendered animation, and export it all in .npz numpy format. Quite interesting project.
Has Google ever done anything well
besides search? I know they have had a ton of other products thrown at the wall funded by their firehose of cash from search. Have they ever made money doing anything else?
> 2 religions

red tribe, blue tribe

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
This is neat, but doesn’t support the first shell commands I tried- ls, pwd, man.

Maybe try to map these commands to doing something related to your resume.

This plays more like an Infocom text game than a shell because the commands are arbitrary and need to be learned.

If you could treat some of the sections like a file system then I wouldn’t have to type “help” to see I need to run the “skills” command. Maybe just have skills as a file so when I type “ls” I see them. Or when I try to change directories it navigates the resume or something.
Probably JS developers didn't feel like learning anything else because "JS THE BEST"... That's the sad reality.
'bullshit'
Thanks so much! I’m glad you like it.
What Happened When Woodrow Wilson Came Down With the 1918 Flu?
If you’re interested, I provided some empirical data around upward mobility during one’s life elsewhere. I’ll just copy-paste here for convenience:

“Based on the empirical tax analysis, 12% of the population found themselves in the top 1% of the income distribution for at least one year. 39% of Americans spent a year in the top 5% of the income distribution, 56% found themselves in the top 10%, and a whopping 73% spent a year in the top 20% of the income distribution.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
People are constantly (and rightfully) on companies' asses talking about how they need to "give back to open source". Now you're telling me things are fine as-is. They're not.
Ok maybe the Indian govt can force Android phone manufacturers to pre install it's app store, how is this going to play out on iPhones? Are we going to see a ban on iPhones in India?
This is the obvious next step, together with not showing the output if there is no net connection
Discovering Governing Equations from Data (2015)
Thanks for the blog post. I thought about trying Gatsby out, but now I know to stay away from it.
Being able to have kids at 40 does not change the fact that you will still have only 20-30 years left to spend on them.
I'd expect even a junior to at a minimum test and view the response payload, see the token and think "bad idea".
If the project is unfulfilling, you drop it and move on to something you care about.

It seems a lot of this recent commotion around OSS is coming from people who feel they are entitled to get paid for doing unfulfilling work, but they want to keep prestige that comes from having their name attached to it. Open source as a job is a privilege, not a career move. Commercial software hasn't gone away.

It felt really nice to have a sphere of software development not tied directly to capitalism for once, but welp, too late now. I guess that's the idealistic part.
> But if you recognize that somebody is talking you about something that is, really, a defect in your software, don’t do the error of reducing the interaction to a vile matter of money.

If an open-source project grows to the point where time is insufficient to maintain it alongside your day-to-day job, then the matter of money becomes inevitable. And I'm not talking about allocating one's entire free time to the project, but just the time one assesses to be reasonable for this hobby, which can be rather short because of other occupations (rest, family, other hobbies, etc).
> Because its your project and you can do whatever you want. Its all in your head

Well yes, you can. But I think most people feel obliged to respond to feedback, and in fact probably want to respond.

Perhaps it's different for mature projects, but my personal projects are a source of perpetual disappointment.

Too much to do, not enough time.
Firefox was never “the king”, you clearly live in a bubble. I don’t think it ever even reached 40% of the market, businesses were still eating whatever Microsoft told them they should eat.

> The appearance of Chrome was a breath of fresh air

Not really. The appearance of Safari was a game changer, and only because Apple was basically forced to give WebKit/KHTML back to the community thanks to the LGPL. Webkit triggered the wave of embedding that made its engine a de-facto standard in development circlets, so that it was the obvious choice by the time Google had to pick one for strategic reasons.

There is an alternative timeline where KDE just used BSD, Apple just took their code and kept it closed, and Chrome never happened.
Generally agree except in some special cases like Django or Linux. They're both open source and continuous and seem (at least from the outside) to be successful at it. They also have foundations around them, though.

I think the better model for solo passion projects is generally to write your program and declare it "as-is". If people want changes to it, that's what forking is for. If you agree with their changes, you might arrange a pull request but that should be seen more as an exception rather than the rule (for this kind of project). This way the original code evolves in separate branches. Maybe one eventually becomes the de facto source, but being the original creator of the project should confer no automatic responsibility.

One very successful example of this in the wild is the open-source roguelike Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Whales wrote the original Cataclysm but ended development of it in 2012, at which point the community forked it and kept development going for the past 8 years so far.
A sincere "thank you" from a good person such as an open source project maintainer means so much more to me than a consumerist t-shirt.

Your comment reminded me of a 1-word PR I sent that fixed a bug in a project, and it gives me a glow in my stomach thinking about now, months later.

You can go on cafe press and by yourself any t-shirt you want.
Wondering if this is why marijuana makes me insanely productive. Both impact dopamine.

It just sucks that I get addicted to weed because I'm super productive.

I just need a way to prevent myself from having marijuana before anything social or public.
This is cool, but as a hiring manager I prefer to be able to read the resume quickly and easily. I’ll probably have over 100 resumes to look at for any position and a finite amount of time I can allocate to each resume.
Bad Boss vs Good Karma: Page 1
I guess they saw an effect of people leaving it.
Good question, found a reference to it in a related blog post: https://sector035.nl/articles/keeping-a-grip-on-google-ids and took it at face value. Can't find anything more looking further.
Best way to learn content marketing?
Hi everyone, I've just started an online business and trying to do ethical marketing to bring some traction to my product. I know how to build valuable products but I'm facing troubles in putting it in front of the right people.

I want to learn content marketing since it looks more solid and good for the long term. I don't know how to make a solid strategy for this, but this is what I'm planning to do:

- Build content about my products (tutorials).

- Build content that is not related to my product but related to my prospective customers.
If the difference between this being legal and illegal is active conversation vs knowing looks, we still have a problem ultimately
The TV tax is a great idea, but it's twice as expensive as netflix. On the bright side, you get decent news channels, and Arte.
> Microsoft is not an okay company,

If you're going to go to war, maybe change out of your Spider Man pajamas first.
When did Apple open up to alternative App stores and side loading?

I must've missed this, because this was my number 1 reason to avoid Apple products. Not that I'd buy any, reasons 2 through 10 are still deal breakers.
Nerb here. I can't say what this does but build a frame for ai comparison? Blender doesn't need so much eyes anyways? Buuuuut it doesnt have them either in this way?
Naive question, wouldn't this (converting Brownian motion into electricity) violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?

(edit, this is explicitly addressed further in the article: That's an important distinction, said Thibado, because a temperature difference between the graphene and circuit, in a circuit producing power, would contradict the second law of thermodynamics. "This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, nor is there any need to argue that 'Maxwell's Demon' is separating hot and cold electrons," Thibado said.)
I've been yelled at for reporting what I saw as a bug (coz I thought the behavior was bizarre and unexpected) and the author saw as a support request (coz he saw it as expected).

Another common pattern is this "no man's land" of bug responsibility between projects. Project A interacts with project B and that interaction causes a bug or awful problem. Project A and B both wash their hands of it.

I don't particularly mind support requests via the bug tracker - particularly since a pattern of support requests often highlights a UX issue or a lack of clarity in the docs.

Some people view them as irritating annoyances that should be pushed to some forum like stack overflow though.
Hey thanks for the input!
Good idea, I'll try and implement cd, ls and cat for example.
The tab autocompletion is on my TODO list as well as a simple command history.
Also, thanks for trying to actually read the cv, I'll increase the "typing speed".

This project of yours looks cool! [1]

[1] https://profiled.app/
This seems to be fairly deliberate, the QR code might probably give you some clues. They needed to generate a QR code so the user could just scan it and reset their password.
The again there is no reason any project has to go on forever. Some open source devs assume, often correctly, that money would ease the pain. In other cases just stoping open source work seems the logical choice. After all, there is no need for the world to witness your work.

PS: you do have a point that it's all in your head: in many ways open source work is addictive! Time for an Anonymous Open Source Developers group.
Not the parent, but I personally don't like prefix syntax for such common operators. As for the colons combined with the absence of commas, this suggests keyword syntax to me. I.e., as if the gte function took one argument named a. Like this Python call:

gte(a=100)
A lot of the high tax states have high taxes in multiple categories. Moving to a high sales tax, low income tax state might actually "reduce* your sales tax.

NYC, where I live, has an 8.875% combined sales tax. And a high income tax.

Texas, meanwhile, has a maximum combined rate of 8.25% and no income taxes. High property taxes.

Moving to Texas would cut the sales tax I pay.
$41.3 million? record-breaking maybe, but won't make a dent
"reportedly planning"
It's a cool idea and looks pretty good!

I would however do a few things to make the experience worthwhile to the reader: either list the resume directly, or add many "easter eggs" that are the typical commands anyone will use when playing with the shell (as already mentioned: ls/pwd/man/cd etc). And the scrolling should be super fast - that sort of slow display is cooler in a movie than when actually having to wait for it.

If it's to share with someone actually into recruitment I'd do something like pre-write on the line `./resume.sh` and fake "echo" a message saying to just press ENTER, which then prints it all neatly at once for reading (and then you can always have a fake `ls`, a fake `resume.sh` file with read-only attributes, and you can troll your visitor differently depending on if they try to use vim/emacs/nano, and more things along those lines). An option to get a PDF would be awesome too.

I'm having a lot of fun thinking about doing things with what you've done (particularly at the expense of the visitor, I wonder what that says about me..), but ultimately you're the one who coded the site already - so all props to you!!
Setting Default User for Imported WSL Distro
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24650634
Just look for the cheap brands. Many of them have really simple interfaces. Mine is also just two knobs.
Really great to have something that feels a lot like Airtable open source. If I had a wish I'd say decouple the database layer instead of providing support for more databases. Let the community help build abstractions and that way also open Firetable for non-public or embedded data stores/ data bases.
Those people are paid for in-demand fixes, not for pushing their PRs on people.
And the creator of dump1090! When I was a student receiving Mode-S transponder was so expensive, we had a shared receiver/decoder for the whole eng. school. Now that I lecture there I show the students a $6 RTL-SDR with dump1090 to show how far open tech goes, plus some MATLAB code to store/plot the aircraft data: https://github.com/JorgeGT/PlotRTL1090
Might be nicer to link to the source of that article, https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/02/buy-rock-pi-x-window....

The mini pc itself looks great. I assume that a 2GHz x86 quad core could do more than the Pi, even if it's just an Atom. 4GB max memory is more limiting than what you can get there though.
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> parts of the workforce had been subject to "extensive recording of details about their private lives".

> "After absences such as vacations and sick leave the supervising team leaders conducted so-called Welcome Back Talks with their employees. After these talks, in many cases not only the employees' concrete vacation experiences were recorded, but also symptoms of illness and diagnoses,”

I'm trying to come up with any legal, ethical reason to want to have and keep records on this. Every manager collecting these records has to somehow justify to themselves that this is okay, and I can't fathom how.
I like this. Thank you for sharing. I hope to see more people writing their own databases

Here's my file based JSON database that can be versioned by git: https://github.com/cris691/stubdb I hope you can offer some tips.
lmao didn't came to mind at all.
Thanks for the tip!
Sadly I don't think I can edit this submission anymore. :/
Starting to look like a pattern, this is several major companies getting ransomed in the last month. Probably organized crime. Ransoming a hospital is especially egregious, so I hope the perpetrators are caught.
This is a great example of why you should spell it "résumé". I thought this was some product related to resuming a previous shell session.
Recycling is dead anyway.

https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2019/april/re...
One of the nice touches in "Gravy Planet" (1952) are the throwaway sentences that show, via revealed preferences, how the ad-exec protagonist is also a product of the system he helped create.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576623

====

Manipulation of the audience in pre-TV days, ca. fourth century BC:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:19...

> "The emotions are all those affections which cause men to change their opinion in regard to their judgements"

Remember the Maine!
Makes more sense now than ever with the advent of starlink.
> Add PGP/GPG to the core browser.

Please, no. 1990s ball-of-mud insecure crypto with unusable UX?

Pass. We don’t need the browser to be the client for everything. We just got FTP and Gopher removed!
Bitcoin: Crash Due to Regulation?
The beauty of it is that once you craate something and you share it you have already contributed something. I think that what you feel has more to do with your educaction. Like I said it is all in your head and you do that to yourself.
Tools should not only be for experts – they should turn us into them
SF rents down over 20% year on year.

https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data/
This isn't entirely true. Rural properties have septic tanks that are maintenance free for years at a time. The waste is digested by bacteria in the tank and effluents runs off into a septic field. The tank is pumped out only when there is a substantial amount of undigested sludge filling the tank.
Either they change it, or they just get a bigger fine in a year or so.

Germany is really the world leader in personal liberty / privacy.
I love that this whole situation is analogous do the dimishing status-signaling-value of a college degree due to grade inflation and admissions scams, but it's about diminishing the status value of a t-shirt.
yeah i started doing that. it's not especially hard. i just wished i would have more options.
We use HelloSign a lot, and it is unreliable. Long waits for pages to load, and sometimes it cannot process a PDF that displays just fine in a variety of viewers. It just hangs with a message to the console every so often saying "Processing document". In our end to end tests Hellosign is often the part that fails, but that will work with enough retries.
> Note: there might be some truly awful OSS maintainers, and some are infamous for it (e.g. Linus); but in my experience it's very very rare to find a negative reaction to a helpful PR.

It's important to understand that this is a misrepresentation of Linus Torvalds' attitude, even "before adjustment". I have seen plenty examples of negative reactions by him, but they were never in reaction to helpful PRs.

They were always in reaction to bad code, unhelpful behavior, etc.

In some cases, they were in reaction to people who were genuinely trying but failing to be helpful. In that case, the kind of blow-up that he became famous for is usually not helpful[0]. That doesn't make him an awful maintainer, though, it just makes him a human being with large but finite amounts of patience.

[0] Though who knows -- perhaps there are cases where the blow-up was what finally got the point across to the person who thought they were being helpful but weren't really. In that case, the blow-up was perhaps a crude tool, but got the job done. Difficulties arise largely due to cultural differences, keeping in mind that "old-school kernel development" is a culture in itself that deserves to be treated with some respect.
I thought the same thing. I would like to know more about why they wanted to switch.

I use Jekyll for a few sites that benefit from gitflow around markdown collaboration and it’s pretty solid. I read about other generators and if something is easier or better I’m interested.

But for me, it seems Jekyll solved this problem years ago. And it has good docs, active development, etc.

The few people I know who switched off of it did so for what seems like arbitrary reasons to me. A group I collaborate with switched to gatsby because they said some of their developers couldn’t run Ruby on their workstations. And I guess switching their generator to gatsby was easier than figuring out that problem :)
Yes, but when one is sick should sugary foods be on the top of the menu?

Granted everyone's different, but I'd rather soup than gummy bears if I'm unwell.
I think a good part of the reason is so Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Metiralistic can continue to track the user.

I want everything to open in Firefox on Android, so uBlock etc can operate as normal. I don't know how it works, but often pressing "back" takes me back to my email etc, leaving other open Firefox tabs as they were.
Rails leans on meta programming for a lot of its magic (though less so than it used to in early versions). You don’t generally use it as a user of Rails, though.
Yuuup. Here I was thinking my running flask applications would come back on after a reboot. Does that exist by the way?
That's the reason I never liked the streak system to motivate me. I used to use it on Duolingo, and found it a rising source of stress when I got it going, and a strong demotivator when I lost one. In the end I wasn't using the app to learn but to not lose the streak.

It might work for others but I prefer to ignore streaks, and avoid apps that put them in your face.
I believe that you could easily turn around the argument:

To stay relevant with paid software you have to make something people will be willing to buy. If you produce bad software, people will not or at least stop buying it.
You can dump everything into the open source domain without any restrictions.
Therefore, commercial code is of better quality.

It's not that I believe this, I find neither of those convincing. There is great open source software and there is great commercial software. There is a huge amount of bad software on both seids either.

Is good open source software better than good proprietary software? Depends on what are the criteria for good, but I don't think that's something we could state as general as "open source is better."

Going back to the original article:

The distinction the article talks about seems to be personal motivation to make the code better. While there might be a shift to be more engaged in a personal project (which is likely) the licensing model of that personal project is fairly irrelevant for this.
Futher, quite a lot of people are also engaged in their job and care about the product they are working on.

Are people that don't care about it on their job more or less likely to even start personal projects? To contribute to open source? I don't know, maybe there is some data on that.
You do that to yourself and of course the system around us is not made to acomodate such freedoms.
It's amazing to me that there's still not a super simple create react app option out there that builds a react app based on markdown sources for pages. You can get close to it with gatsby et al., but they're all twiddly or fragile in their own ways.
Worthless repos are fine. Microsoft can afford the storage costs and the long tail is already long and doesn't bother anyone.
> Also, talks within the government indicate that it may ask Google and Apple to pre-install Indian App Store in all phones sold in India in near future. This particular request is likely to face counter from the American companies.

Sigh!
"Whataboutism" is a silly meme from Reddit not a real problem. Comparison of the current situation with other similar, but not exact, situations is literally one of the corner stone foundations of critical thought.