skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why this was downvoted. Everyone is in a perpetual state of "we should start worrying about this". People knew about this problem in the 70s. Many of us would not have been born when actions should have been first taken.

From here onwards it is damage control. It is not the end of the world, we just require intellectual honesty about the situation.

It's possible the origins of this reside in the first Industrial Revolution.
But this is not spam. It's based on morons trying to make it in the software world without any basis that they should be there.

They're doing this so that they can put "I have x amount of accepted pullrequests on github" and fool an employer to hire them. To become shit team members or outsourced to become shit offshore team members*.

I have seen these kinds in many a project. Real world experience. Real talk.
To be fair, it's usually easier to heat something to above ambient temperature than to cool it to below ambient temp.
I suspect if there was thought to be a real threat then those flights wouldn't be visible on commercial flight tracking sites!
I'm self-hosting selfoss [1]. Runs on PHP and sqlite (or MySQL), and also has integrations with some websites that don't support RSS feeds, e.g. Twitter and Reddit. Also comes with an app on Android.

[1] https://github.com/fossar/selfoss
FeedBro, chrome addon, quite good.
I wonder what % of current SV employees were planning to stay there even after retirement, regardless of whether they ve made a family/house there.
There was no synthetic USD, that is clear. What they do is display the average price of BTC from external crypto exchanges. No USD or Synthetic USD was ever exchanged on Bitmex.
It's impossible to know as getting VC investment increases the odds of success or at least surviving to the point where you can even attempt to have a go. Clearly some are better than others at choosing winners. Part of me thinks that this could be driven by network more than competence though.
NSA has already a copy you cannot delete.
Weren't there randomized antibody tests in multiple countries, dealing with just that (basically, calculating the approximate number of people who got it, and then comparing to number of people getting tested positive)?
Feedbro on Firefox. Takes nicely care of my ~200 feeds, and without the friction of some external program having to launch the browser.

Tiny Tiny might be an option if the feature set has evolved to justify running a server somewhere. Last time I looked, it didn't, but that's years ago. And anyway, it's probably a good thing to have no feeds on my phone.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader
no, because that would have meant that IE6 would have been able to "standardize" anything due to the number of "browsers" that were ie wrappers. Alternatively you could look at the numerous browsers on osx and iOS that are essentially wrappers for a basic [NS|WK]WebView - that would allow any of those to count as an alternate implementation.
Greenland or Antarctica, then.
You have no idea what suffering is
If you install a minimal Debian server avoiding recommends, and remove a few non critical packages, you can remove python, and start building from there. No problem.

Nothing is wrong.

If you go with a default installation, and start building over there, for example a desktop system. This will remove everything else that depends on python (not only python).

And that, is probably wrong, as you do not expect to remove half of the system (and don't reinstall it back), when you try to reinstall python, like megiddo said.

Some packages that do not need python at all, depend on python because of the packaging choices, like post/pre install scripts written in python instead of shell.

Other packages that do not use python in their core functionality (for example a program written in C) depend on python because of add-on scripts or contributed extensions, shipped in the same package.

Unlike Debian, in the Ubuntu case this command is worse, because Canonical push hard for python.

Historically, many Debian packages depending on python, have been introduced or modified by maintainers/developers working for Canonical.

To install a minimal Ubuntu server without python, first you need to remove many packages (a lot), related to launchpad, or landscape, or a few other Ubuntu specific services, or stuff really intended for desktop users (not for a minimal server).

Nothing against Python or Canonical... but as I have needed to deploy servers at work with the requirement of really really minimal base, I know well about removing Python in both Linux distributions.
Academia can be very toxic and PhD students are the most vulnerable as their Prof holds all the cards. This needs real checks and balances.
How does this feature work? is ordering key like kinesis partition Key. Does it somehow assign an Id to each subscriber and make sure that all messages for a key are sent to a single subscriber?
When people spend too much time on Blind they don't realize this term isn't something everyone knows :)
> How big is diversified enough? Classical portfolio theory says that in public equities, reasonable diversification effects can be expected when one combines 20 to 30 stocks, while more detailed recent studies set this number at 40 to 70.

Lol, what. No. Diversification is about correlation, not stock count. If you buy 40 different tech companies, you are not diversified. If you buy 3 etfs, you may be extremely well diversified.

> Analysis shows that this handful of successful deals is responsible for around one-fifth of the total cash returned by the industry. To reliably access the excess returns generated by one in 250 deals, a fund size of more than 500 investments is needed. Anything less risks having a portfolio without any mega-winners.

This only matters from the perspective of the fund manager, not an investor. From the perspective of the investor, investing in 1 big fund with 500 companies is equivalent to investing in 2 small funds with 250 companies.

> This counterintuitive result is further validated by a recent Kauffman Fellows study, which says that at the seed stage, “indexing beats 90 to 95 percent of investors picking deals.” In VC as a whole, it seems from Figure 2 that indexing beats 50 to 75 percent of investors picking deals, since indexing gives second-quartile result

When will people stop saying this trash? Indexing beats lots of things. Indexing beats cash, it beats bonds, it beats CDS. But all those things still exist. And they exist because they are uncorrelated asset classes, just like venture capital.

Diversifying your portfolio across uncorrelated asset classes elevates your long term CAGR assuming each returns stream has positive expectancy. This is why people invest in things that have lower expected returns than stocks - those things have less risk, and more importantly, uncorrelated risk. All of this is finance 101, and yet, publications calling themselves 'institutional investor' still don't seem to understand portfolio theory. I guess then they can't write clickbait articles about the great mystery of venture capital.

There is no mystery in VC. Investors diversify across VC funds. If you are thinking about investing in a VC firm, what you care about is uniqueness of the return stream. You want to be able to pick and choose manages who will themselves make diversified bets, so that your overall portfolio is diversified both across companies, and across perspectives. The system as constructed makes complete sense.
You irritated some boomers.
+1 for thunderbird. I personally dont feel the need for an extra app to read feeds when thunderbird already does it quite well.
Car manufacturers vs. traditional auto insurers: Who will win the tech race?
IMHO hydrogen cars is the future. It gives the storage medium that is needed for wind turbines (and solar) to become ecologically positive. It gives a smoother transition path for fossil energy.
As far as I can tell his video only did damage: it taught people to spam open source projects, created a lot of bad blood, probably made open source maintainers more suspicious of new contributors, and gave a large number of potential contributors a bad experience.

It could have been so much better if he'd actually put in the effort to create a real, meaningful pull request. Show how to clone the project, run it, fix a bug, write a test for the fix, and then submit the pull request. That would have put a lot of people on the right path.

But it's much easier and quicker to just do a quick, meaningless change, and as a result give a really bad example.
Boomers got irritated. Yes, HN users are fragile. Enjoy your stay!
If ever. The Central Limit Theorem requires the distribution to have finite standard deviation.
What precariously balanced rocks can tell us about nuclear safety
This study looks highly flawed. They gave ets tests to random (categorized) people in the three countries. So far so ok (although the question is always what does the test measure, I mean what e.g. recursion is not big in china, because it is not used in production etc). But for the US the take ets data instead of testing people for this study. So it seems they compare it with people who took this exam for other reasons (and probably studied/prepaeed for this exam!); or maybe I understand this wrongly
You probably 'pressed the buttons' of some boomers who couldn't take a joke. As far as they are concerned, 'humour is disqualified on HN'.

Maybe there is a delicate bunch of HNers that take lots of these things too seriously. It's too much for them.
"4 out of 20" was directly mentioned by him, stating that a it's unlikely that you open 20 PR to random repos and every one of them is marked spam in next 7 days.

> I request every one of my followers to make 20 spam PRs

This is the translation of his long winded explanation rationalizing on how "Improved docs" PR which adds "Awesome project" to docs is actually an improvement, and the PR is just asking the owner to incorporate these "improvements" to his codebase. Spam wasn't directly worded (I don't remember there being a hindi word for that), but he explicitly mentioned to write random crap in the docs and post it to repos they find on page 100 of repo search, so I guess that's a plausible enough to be translated as "spam".
A moderator told you why in the top comment.
Why do I need an executive coach anyway?
The point is that this is not just a problem of Hacktoberfest - there are some automatic quality assurance tools that check if libraries used in project does not have bugs and they do this also by searching GitHub for reported bugs. If there is a reported and unfixed bug, library is marked as not safe.

It happened several times that there was a reported bug, which was totally bogus or added by mistake (added to wrong project for instance), however repo owner hasn't closed it, so the tool gave false positive.

Obviously said tool allowed adding exception rules, etc. but I can't imagine how annoying it would be if there were hundreds of such crappy reports and it seems we are going in that direction.

This looks like another consequence of globalization and leaving in the "global village", everyone can jump in into someones village and do harm over there and it is hard to get rid or somehow punish such unwanted visitors.

People would do a lot to gain 15 minutes of fame, even if this is just wearing some t-shirt.

Maybe that is not a big surprise, some people beat their parents or girlfriends or boyfriends and put that on Youtube for fame and money - whole "pato" streamers market is built around this (with said victims participating in the show to earn even more money).
Points will work fine. The reason money works is partly the SKITG effect, but not entirely. In an iterated prediction market game, eventually reputation will accrue to those that make accurate forecasts. Much in the same way that money accrues to those skilled in business, or at forecasting in traditional financial markets. This iterated equilibrium should result in high quality predictions after a relatively short period of calibration.
OpenBSD Development Podcast
How does it work in America? If one works remotely for a company based in SF from NV for example, do the employment laws of NV apply? If time is spilt between states how would it be determined? Would this only matter in the event of a dispute between the two parties?
I think it's very rare, I've worked at Google for 8 years and I've met maybe 1 person who works from home on a somewhat regular basis.
I don't believe there was something unusual going on, but I would not put any weight on visible on commercial tracking on or not.

If it's something clandestine, it may be smarter to hide in "normality" rather than looking obviously "stealthy".
Do you realize that if the price of food rises, some people on the low side of the income distribution will starve immediately? Some of them will happen to be the ones dreaming of becoming independent farmers.
Atomic are low-level concurrency primitives; often a mutex is all you’ll ever need and they’re much easier to reason about.
Or it tells you how much time they've put into trying to suppress their individual characteristics they developed as they grew to adulthood in favor of ones perceived as more palatable to those hiring.

You could say they're smarter because they're doing what's needed to game the system... but that's only needed because people are judging them on those aspects. Chicken or egg?

Does a thick German or Scandinavian accent count against them? What about Mexican/Spanish? What about Ebonics/Black English? That has well understood rules for how it's used, even though many people don't realize it.

Presumably what you actually care about when hiring is their ability to work well with their peers and managers, and how well they accomplish the work they are given. If so, you are using mannerisms to help inform about these attributes you actually care about because you think those mannerisms correlate in some way. But what do you have to go by to actually support this evidence? If it's from personal experience, how rigorous have you been in making sure you note the data, and didn't subconsciously discount or ignore instances counter to your expectations?
I really like the soundtrack of this game, composed by John Broomhall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTi6LG8aeK8
The US is the best of these four. There are other countries, too.
Not really. If you don’t mind having the absolute best performance, normal queues and locks work just fine.
Yeah instead of a t-shirt they should give you github sponsor "credits".
That's terrible but it's just a two line fix; one of the first things I do on any new system.
Wait, you only pay 40k tax on 400k? Or how much other taxes on salary are there in the US?
Why would you hope he doesn't? Wishing harm on any human isn't a reasonable stand to take just because of political beliefs.
I think you may be misunderstanding my point. My comment is meant to highlight the fact that the quality / prestige of universities in the US consequently attract the smartest / most talented students by virtue of being the most highly ranked in the world.
The major incentive here is a free tshirt
countries? the gap between living in village in Poland and having major city 160km away where salaries are x4 and more for people with same xp[0] is already sad (and motivating) enough :P

[0] measured in years of xp.
I'm curious about how companies that rely a lot on immigration to fill positions how they are going to convince people to move to the US and work from home.
I found this as well. As an example (probably just bad coding on my part) I tried to use mobx to track preferences for a photo viewer, every photo then looked at the preference state from mobx. App slowed to a crawl because 300 photos are going through a few hundred lines of code each just to see if `showDate` is true/false and because `showDate` is "reactive" there's a whole ton of overhead it tracking that each photo is watching it.

Now of course I moved the code that looks at that state up the tree and then pass it down to solve but that kind of defeats the purpose of using it in the first place. The upper components should not have to care directly about data for lower components.
The news first broke, AFAIK, from Trump's own Twitter account.
Governments can introduce import tax on products made in countries that don't have strict enough rules.

> Climate change cannot be stopped while capitalist profit and growth chasing are what drives people to do things.

I hope not, because if we're going to have to change our system before we can tackle climate change we're doomed.
From a stability perspective I would. Linux had much more time to harden than comparable OS. From a technical perspective it isn't a real time OS and does come with unnecessary functions that are probably not relevant to the application, but I think people underestimate the amount of bugs in embedded systems. Minimal OS or bare metal doesn't really matter much.

To my knowledge there was never an incident where common OS was responsible for failure, but it has been a myth for ages.

If it does fail it is probably due to a hardware defect, but a risk analysis would show a plethora of possibilities for fail safe systems.
It's also bad from Hacktoberfest that they reward unmerged PRs. It would be better if they only rewarded PRs that are actually accepted or at least do something meaningful.
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I self-host an instance of https://feedafever.com/ which works nicely with https://www.reeder.ch/ on my iPhone and Mac at home and also quite nicely online (at work, but psst, don't tell anyone).

Fever is unsupported, though [1], but it's still working nicely.
Once it stops working, I'll switch to something that's supported by Reeder, which is an indispensable piece of software for me.

[1]: https://shauninman.com/archive/2016/12/24/goodbye_mint_goodb...
> Pretty quickly, many companies will discover the pitfalls to outsourcing.

Probably true, however by then they will already have made the decision and it will be priced in to the company’s stock. The System is replete with the consequences of bad short-term decisions that have become more or less locked in.

$200k vs $<20k. It’s an extremely large gap to be filled. Surely the people who spend their days looking at numbers on spreadsheets will see this gap and try to take as much advantage of it as they possibly can, and surely the market will reward the massive cuts in operating costs.
I went to London last year and the selection has definately improved compared to when I first went there 15 years ago.

Just to clarify. Our supermarket bread tends to be pretty shit (some exceptions). It'll be dry, flavourless, and void of all nutrition. So it's not like all the bread here is amazing.

But if I look up the supermarkets in the area here there's always at least one practically right next to it. And sometimes the supermarket and the bakery do a partnership and they'll have the artisinal bread in the supermarkt itself. Which is great.
Is there any translated transcription of the video? It seems established that "I request every one of my followers to make 20 spam PRs" is not an translated quote but rather an interpretation of the underlying meaning. That is good and all but I would prefer seeing the original source myself, and since it is in a different language, an translation that is as close to the original as possible.

The translation I am most interested in is the 1 minute before and after the "4 out of 20".
They also have browser.
Hey, I think you messed something up after the "Send an email to our Head of Engineering at jobs@portchain.com" part. I think you copied something.
Reasons hypothesised. Not "revealed".
...because people do not get vaccinated.
BazQux Reader [1]. I'm developer (a bit biased for sure) but I like to eat my own dog food everyday.

[1] https://bazqux.com
Reddit suppports RSS quite nicely, I rely on it to follow my preferred subreddits without going to their site to check: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss
I worry the spammy set would then turn into a competition on how to harass maintainers to "merge my PR really quickly please please please!", but maybe.
Well, I’m not saying that Indians are the only people without guidance in this area; it’s just that India in general has it relatively bad. This video was in Hindi-the amount of material actually telling you how to file a good pull request in that language (as opposed to English) is comparatively much lower. In the United States I mostly figured this out by looking at other pull requests, and schools are beginning to teach it as well, but for many in India this video is the best they know of.
Exactly the point. The first iPod was exactly what the slashdotters called it - mostly useless. It took them 2 years to get useful functionality (USB and Windows support) and another 2 years to leave everything else behind in the dust on aesthetics and UX.
Maybe you'll like this update then -- check out `makeAutoObservable`, it automatically picks sensible defaults to make observable
Then he should make it free.
self-hosted TT-RSS
As an Indian, I think here some points I think western world needs to know about India.

* "Gaming the system" to get your desired outcome is widely accepted in Indian society. Especially if it doesn't involve breaking any laws (not ethics). Even in many cases Gaming the system by breaking the law is considered OK as long as one doesn't get caught doing it. (In fact this might be the only way to come up in politics in India, but that's another debate.) Once they are caught the general attitude is "they had it coming".

Consider this highflying Indian start up, Unacademy[1][2]. Here is their anthem [3], "Let's crack it". This "crack it" is basically about "Gaming it" and succeed at it any how.

* Majority of Indians have a lot of attraction towards free. I have seen even people from millionaire families, spend 10-15 minutes of their time to get something free that is of $1 or $2 in value. The attitude is like, am I doing anything else productive here? If not I might as well do this and earn Rs. 100. In fact this attitude is cultivated from childhood in certain business class families. Don't let go of any opportunity of earning a profit, however small it might be.

Here we are talking about student population which is generally low on cash anyway.

So if you are any company offering something free to Indians, expect them to come in droves, and milk you as much as possible. Here I think Digital Ocean doesn't mind being well known in Indian students. Many of these Indian Students are going to make purchasing decisions on servers in a few years to come. Unfortunately, it's the OSS community suffering because of it now.

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

[2] https://unacademy.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIfiblHz1I
What about beginners who stay beginners?
This sounds similar to Montessori. The Montessori schools have fostered many entrepreneurs.
Feedbro plugin in Firefox.
#notallindians
I entirely understand why this change was picked and will maintain it was a bad choice. However, I don’t think I can fault them for doing that when the alternative would take significantly more time and effort and detract from the point they were trying to make, which is the steps necessary to make a pull request and not the expected content of one. Given the results, however, I would very much appreciate it if the author of the first video made another one which filled in the gaps of their first one.
Flym on Android.