skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government should make open-source software, paying developers handsomely to do so.

I know I live in cloud-cuckoo fantasy land here, but I know plenty of developers that would love to work on projects for the civic good, but they don't because they also want to earn good money so that they can live comfortably, raise a family easily, etc. etc. So they go and work for Facebook and Google, etc.

There's an inbuilt assumption that government can't or shouldn't ever compete with tech giants for salary. But look at the incredible sums of money wasted on contracts with borderline useless consulting shops. You can't tell me that money wouldn't be better spent on hiring smart developers and project managers and just getting stuff done.

I know it'll never happen, but a developer can dream. There's no actual reason why it couldn't.
European here, but I can definitively see how someone would come to that conclusion.

Both platforms bans anyone mentioning the supposed "whistleblower" (whom actually only had newspaper articles as 'evidence'), bans anyone mentioning Bidens kid, bans anyone mentioning the death of Clintons ex-staffers, Wikileaks content related to Dems is blacklisted, and they remove videos of Bidens gaffes for being "manipulative" when it's just clips from livestreams.

While no action is taken if you post conspiracies about Reps, fabricated videos of Trump (for humour or propaganda), discredited 'leaks' such as the infamous dossier, that ICE is running concentration-camps and engaging in genocide, or pictures of you vandalising Trump-supporters property.

EDIT: Even on HN, a site that usually is for free speech and discussing alternative theories, the posts about bias in tech are near instantly flagged and users praising media companies for removing "bad information" while people not following political narratives get downvoted; seems to indicate larger issues.
I'm overall sympathetic to the schools and how much work they've had to do to get everyone set up for virtual learning. That said, if I'd been in charge these laptops would be locked down. I'd whitelist only trusted educational site, and I'd tell the teachers that they'd have to find a way to work with those.
Ask HN: What are your sidehustle pitfalls?
to all of you on HN that have attempted or considered a sidehustle, be it saas or selling sandwiches, what has been the most challenging or counter intuitive pitfall along the way across:

1) actually getting started, what held you back from doing a sidehustle?

2) how did you keep at it when things got hard?

3) scaling it or not?

from all the sidehustle marketing posts on hn it seems there's a formula i'm missing, as i've never been able to get something set up. insights from the battle hardened side hustlers would share the stoke!
That’s literally not the definition of censorship: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship

Otherwise the phrase “government censorship” would be redundant. And that’s why the Hollywood Production Codes were a kind of censorship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code

And the idea that criticizing censorship when private organizations do it is “whining” is quite odd. Not everything bad is illegal. Lots of people criticized the Hollywood Production Codes as bad censorship, even though it was voluntary. Except back then it was liberals complaining that the Hollywood companies that controlled distribution were using their power to entrench conservative ideas and suppress liberal ones: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/17/cens-m17.html
The Second Forbidden Joe Biden Story (Communist China Influence)
How Impurities Enhance a Thermoelectric Material at the Atomic Level
70 years ago people saw weird things in the sky and thought they were aliens.

Now we have drones and jet packs, are people more likely to attribute weird atmospheric/light patterns/weather balloons as those?
Blindsight fans release CG movie that they've been making for 5 years
Remote working hubs to be funded by Irish Government as part of State strategy
Vue 3 SCSS (Sass) config – how to set up Vue 3 with Sass
I was just looking for an s3 browser. Will give this a whirl
With yesterday's and today's revelations of big tech censorship, as seen on Twitter, this project has me extremely exctied.
Great scientists clearly disagree with you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%E2%80%93Einstein_Manif...

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
The ads on that site made me give up on the article.
The list as it stands for permanent remote work:

- Microsoft
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Shopify
- Slack
- Upwork
There’s a whole industry pushing for polarization - I don’t think you can blame wfh for that
>This is no different than Ancient Aliens where all of history is changed to be full of Aliens.

Further thought: the trope that ancient constructions were built by aliens is also in general rarely applied to ancient white civilisations.
I don't know much about real live person sized jetpacks, aren't they really loud and large and expensive? Wouldn't this likely be seen/filmed by others around LA and end up on social media if it was a real live person in a real jetpack?

I guess I'm thinking it's more likely a drone or something?
Random thought: could it perhaps be a "balloon" or some sort of modded drone made to look like a dude with jetpack?

People have done stranger things for the lulz.
I doubt that, the cats and dogs would have been eaten.
I think a novel resin that was safe for humans and safely disposable/biodegradable would be huge transformationally for home 3D printing. That might get the speed to a point where the average person would tolerate one.
Anyone checked to see what Tony Stark is doing these days?
My sentiment exactly. It’s crazy to think Facebook can simultaneously ban me from their platform and essentially steal whatever $X amount of dollars I spent on the oculus store. What makes it worse is they’re not even letting people who’ve made an oculus account in the past escape from this as they are now forcing ALL accounts to be linked to Facebook in the next couple years.
seems a whole lot better of an idea than that dumpster fire Parler
> No single person can set the amount of risks he wants to take, it has to be decided globally.

globally is a bit of a stretch, but people already do this on a local level. this is what is happening when the government imposes/relaxes restrictions on the number of people that can be at an indoor gathering, the types of businesses that are allowed to be open, whether restaurants can offer indoor seating, etc. as long as the person isn't exceeding the limits set by their democratically elected government, shouldn't they be free to set their own risk tolerance?
Depends by what you mean.

is it possible to map a room in real time just using cameras? yes. There are loads of SLAM and other reconstruction systems out there.

Is it possible to do all that an link it accurately to a position on a "world" map? not yet (not without the use of the cloud.)

Is it possible to share a map built on a phone so two phones have the same frame of reference? kinda, but its not practical using just phone hardware

(Using a visual positioning service its possible to get an accurate starting position and let the onboard SLAM figure out the rest. That way you can have each phone tracking the key points it sees and when a VPS update comes in, adjusting the local SLAM map to match.)
One problem with this approach is that you need to know about the existence of the software in order to craft a FOIA request such that you can see the code, this can mean sending multiple FOIA requests. Combine that with the delay in fulfilling a request, on the order of months, or sometimes longer, and you could be looking at a year or more before you get the source code you were looking for.
I can't tell you why it was originally chosen, but there is a PR underway to have tasklocal RNG in Julia. That necessitates a smaller RNG, and we'll probably land on xoshiro256

Ref: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/34852
Yeah, 6000 ft. was raised my suspicion. Really? A jetpack at 6000 ft.?
Social media is trying to limit the dissemination of this story. No one knows if it is true or not, but a legitimate news source is confident in it & its sourcing is more transparent than many other stories we are bombarded with. I thought I would make it easier for people to find so that the wise people here can try to judge for themselves.
This is a discussion based on provable facts. Science needs no proof of authority.
Most people are pragmatic. Simple, axiomatic principles can be very intellectually appealing (probably more so amongst the STEM-crowd than the general population), if they don't produce good outcomes, they will and should be discarded.

In our field we constantly see languages with stronger intellectual foundations (Haskell, Lisp, Scala, Perl6) constantly lose out market share to pragmatic, practical, messy and oftentimes ugly languages/libraries/tookits etc. We often knowingly choose the latter set knowing full well what their downsides are, because we still come out ahead.

If you're wondering why someone would support Facebook/Twitter/YouTube's recent moves, it really is that simple. Their foundations don't have to be perfect, or even particularly good or fair. They just have to be better the deluge of toxic sludge that's currently overwhelming these systems. That is to say, there is no answer to the Paradox of Tolerance and you don't need an answer. If you feel people are taking advantage of you, you will (and should) crack down, and if you crack down too much eventually people will (and should) rebel.
> I think them funding projects directly with cash could cause a lot of problems though. The increase regulations that would need to be added would probably not be worth it for open source projects. People who get funding would likely need to submit a lot of documentation, there'd also probably be weird rules about non U.S. citizens etc... and laws would need to be passed.

I think 18F's modular contracting methodology is highly effective for this sort endeavor, if you can take the opinion that they're the sponsor and benevolent dictator driving that part of the codebase (and the code developed is open sourced upon confirmation acceptance criteria has been met).

Thank you for switching to an open development model. A rising tide lifts all boats.

https://18f.gsa.gov/2019/04/09/why-we-love-modular-contracti...
Small speculative unprofitable growth companies outside the major indexes are usually always the best performing stocks, because stocks in the same category are in the list of worst performing too. They have huge volatility.
is it fair to say that investors see more return through reinvestment rather than distributions? Reinvestment sees 100% of the capital, but distributions are at best 75%? Assumptions are that the reinvestment creates value fairly quickly and drives the stock price up.
> [...] the only thing ever sent to the device is a package of draw commands to render the webpage

That sounds like a great solution to this problem, though I’m very curious about the details as to how that works, does anyone have resources to share?
Behind our usernames, there's user number. I'm sure dang & co, would let you rename yourself if you asked them nicely.

However adding it as a option, raises the problem of people trolling the site, and then quickly changing their username to dodge the fallout - some sites have icons to show that a user has recently changed their name, some have a username history on the profile - it's not a trivial problem to solve.
Great question. If I ever go back into the office it would be interesting to retest again.

The mapping is fairly straightforward and many of these technologies require periodic remapping. We’ve yet to test (or find) any tech that does a self healing as things change.
Because their owners believe it is their last chance?
Just pledged. Looking forward to this, hope they meet their goal.
This won't work. It will create another layer of grant writing bureaucrats that shovel the money towards their favorites and cash in on the process.

Corporate money already has a bad influence on software freedom. This will be worse.

What would work is UBI, so persons who are willing to live frugally for a couple of years can create software, no strings attached.
Lots of greek & roman statues have lost their noses too.

Also, you may be thinking that because Egypt is in Africa, its people in 2000BC were African in the colloquial sense of today. That's far from obvious, the Sahara is wide. Although the upper Nile reaches some way across it.

I am lazy to dig for references, but IIRC the status from ancient DNA was that the fraction of sub-saharan african descent in north africa has increased slowly over the last 2000 years or so, to maybe 10% today? I don't know whether such DNA tends to represent the elite (as you might expect statues to do) or not.
Being able to quickly flip and spread pages on a desk is always faster than a screen but, remarkable of course has its benefits for some scenarios.

While I love to read and write on paper, I don't buy any paper books anymore.
readwise kinda helps do something similar?
What does 'patrolling' mean in this context?
> because there's no universally agreed set of human rights to discuss

This statement might be technically true in legal terms (I am not a lawyer so I don’t know), but there is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights[1], ratified by all 193 members of the United Nations. That is a good place to start. Additionally the UN has more in depth declarations (e.g. Convention on the Rights of the Child[2]; which my native country of Iceland came within 5 minutes of breaking a month ago but the children were safely hid from the authorities who were going to unjustly deport them).

1: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...

2: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx

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PS. I truly encourage everyone to read the Declaration of Human Rights[1] in their native language. It is such a beautiful read and gives you a sense of shared humanity. It is not that long, and has over 500 translations. In my native language the translation is really clear and easy to follow.
I'm another user of the predecessor to Conducto. We're using it to orchestrate very large regression test (usually ~40-50k independent processes run as part of the regression testing).

I also use conducto's predecessor to manage "data science" workflows (simlar to https://www.conducto.com/docs/advanced/data-science) on a large computer. It is miles ahead of the alternatives we've tried (and built).

The biggest win we've gotten with conducto comes from the composability. We can ship part of our application as a function which returns conducto nodes. Someone else can call this function an stick it into their own tree (code, not configuration!)

Our integration test suite builds a conducto tree ships containing test code from 4ish different libraries (developed by 2 different teams), each of which includes it's own tree-building functions. Likewise, we ship many of our applications for the large computer as functions which return conducto nodes. Users just call our functions and embed our portion of the workload into their own trees.

Give it a shot!
Some details here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...
What about other propaganda like US, UK, Chinese, etc. Of course Rand is concerned with US interests but we should recognize every country participates in propaganda and usually the more powerful the country, the more propaganda it does.
The argument you're making is common and always boils down to this belief: "most people are too stupid to discern the truth"

History shows this to belief to be incorrect, and instead shows that any central power holding this belief will eventually commit terrible crimes against humanity.

A small group of "intelligent" people can not possibly out-compute billions of humans' brain processing power.
The noses are broken off in order to deprive the statues of their power.

It's the same reason the the Muslims scratched out the eyes of Jesus in all of the mosaics in the Hagia Sophia.
From this to the wholesale destruction and slaughter of the two World Wars...
This is fascinating. I assume it means Cloudflare would proxy images and other assets?

I assume it would have implications for tracking users, which would now impact not just Cloudflare customers but all web entities?
But this is the only way the children are safe. Dont you even care about kids? What are you a terrorist sympathizer?

Anyone who felt a jolt when I mentioned the T word should see a psychiatrist.
It's already happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728971
Private Censorship of Public Information?
Seems like Hasura is picking up legitimate competition
The lack of commercial purpose of ReactOS (and Wine) and it's primary goal of interoperability, plus the fact that it doesn't really damage the value of the original Windows platform, means it's probably a very easy case of fair use.

Android isn't fair use, is a massive commercial endeavour, and has obliterated the value of mobile Java, while breaking interoperability with Java. Oracle winning the case will not be kind to stolen platforms by tech giants.
It’s not a contradiction unless you think employers should be able to violate the civil rights of their employees.

Do you think making it illegal for employers to discriminate against their employees based on their race is a violation of the employers’ rights?
>companies reinvest profit

There central company to the article’s point (Snowflake) has no profit to reinvest
Maybe it's time to set a timer to see how long this HN post will be 'not flagged'.
Instead of Guilianni, they could have just said "persons familiar with the contents of the emails."
Robust Proof of Stake: A Consensus Protocol for Sustainable Blockchain Systems
I was hoping to use the technology to locate where in my home my pets are at any given time.
There’s no such thing as a self-made billionaire
So the thing about LA is that there is a beach... and on that beach there are people with smartphones... and on those smartphones are cameras. What I am trying to say if that is a jetpack it is unlikely to have taken off from the city. Possibly from a boat, although flying jetpack from a boat sounds sketchy.

edit: I was wrong, LAX arrival corridor is inland and takeoff corridor is over the ocean. So this has to have been spotted over the land. See below comment by taneq.
Youtube and facebook refusing to host something is not a slippery slope to something being completely censored. Anyone can rent a server in pretty much any country. Saying the biggest companies in the world not hosting you is the same as being completely censored is like saying you will die of thirst if you aren't allowed to drink coke.
I’ve been wondering for some time if all cognitive biases are necessary for us to function; some socially, some because evidence is extremely scarce compared to scientific standards, some because of the need to avoid negative effects of exploration, etc.
> collaborative work in "studios", basically reimagining the offices into collaborative/convening spaces that you go into from ~once/week to once a quarter depending on team/role.

I’m forgetting their name for them, but IBM has been doing this for decades now. They buy up office space in every major city, and then, rather than permanently stationing any teams there, essentially make all such spaces into private-access coworking spaces.

In these IBM offices, there’s cubicles, hot desks, and meeting rooms, all set up with runs of Intranet-accessible Ethernet + wi-fi + softphones; and you can either just drop in to work, or freely reserve any amount of these from the office’s concierge for days/weeks/months at a time — for yourself, or for your entire team, if you’ve brought your whole team with you to another city/country to do a high-touch customer deployment or something.

At least in the office I went to (Burnaby BC), it was almost entirely empty most of the time. So there was plenty of spare “capacity” in this network for any random need a team or individual might have.

It’s a very nice model. Slap an API on it and you could call it “elastic office-space IaaS.” :)
Can you compare yourself to Hasura?
Don't they use accounting tricks these days so they can keep their cash and then carry it to the stock market? This has the double advantage to keep the stock market inflated and compared to R&D where you risk product failure, the stock market is backstopped by the government and risk-free.

That's why we don't have flying cars. Instead of investment in core competencies we invest in the market.
Nice link, I've followed 18F a little and I'm interested in everything they're doing.

I think whipping contractors into shape is the easiest path to increasing government participation in open source. It's easier than coming up with new regulations specifically around open source funding.

Billions of dollars are spent each year by the federal government on custom software development anyways. And on the whole, they end up spending about what big tech companies do for engineers (but not getting the same level of quality) Forcing the contractors to be more open will probably keep them more honest and make them write less shitty code.
Nowhere close, but you gave me a chuckle.
> BJP asked some committee to fund Astrology courses

Yes, fund Astrology courses and offer it as SCIENCE degrees - that's BSc and MSc degrees on something that is not even a psedu science but total bullshit. What an incredible waste of money and resources! Anf why - because these religious fundamentalists think of it as a "Science" and want to give it some legitimacy.

> I am sure you wont get it as it seems from your posting history that you are extremely biased

Oh yes. I openly admit that I am no admirer of the religious fundamentalists currently in power and ruling my country. Their retrograde ideology is not spreading discontent and polarising communities, they are also slowly destroying India's economy.
IMO, the is a monumental underestimation of the man-hours put into make Windows as compatible as it is, even ignoring the fact that Microsoft's engineers are/were highly skilled.

I like the ReactOS idea, but I think it will take decades to be compatible enough - and I'm even talking about enough.

If the objective was to run obsolete software, I personally had to distribute resources, I'd just do assign them to Wine. It's surely much more productive to make software compatible on a per-case basis, rather than writing a whole operating system with the objective of being compatible.
I guess you haven't looked into the ideas behind implanting trackable devices in vaccine doses (because that's crazy!), but here's something I pulled up in 3 seconds https://news.rice.edu/2019/12/18/quantum-dot-tattoos-hold-va... . I'm not sure that "misinformation" is the word I would use other than to characterize the categorical denial of people's concerns.
It's both a very hard problem, and a very interesting problem.

My impression is that most of the work on the project is motivated by interest in learning about OSs, rather than demand from real use-cases.

If the problem had strong enough demand from real use-cases, I presume it would be stable by now.
I think HN is one of those rare site I really wish they had ad or some donation button where I can paid. Dang is doing an exceptional job in holding things together. And despite a slight downward trend in terms discussion quality, HN is still by far the best tech and other "nerd" interest forum. And the community as a whole self police each other. The vibrant and large number of active users, compared to a SubReddit, Dev.to and other site makes astroturfing HN really really really hard.

Anyone who have submitted anything on HN would know. Getting on the Front page isn't an easy task at all. And staying on front page is even harder.

And Cunningham's law doesn't always work on HN. Sometimes the community just decide to ignore it. Lol