skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating – I always wondered how exactly Travis was running their Mac OS builds.

Based on MacStadium's public pricing, which is $150/month for the base model of the latest Mac Mini, this cannot be cheap for Travis, especially given they offered (past tense) Mac OS builds for free.

Not surprised to see them start charging more, but it's coming at exactly the wrong time given that GitHub (with Actions) is now offering a product that's a fair bit better, and it's still free.
Cool project! I like the building block approach.

Is optional graphQL support on your mind? I have seen working examples using typeorm models and some glue code/libraries.
I moved to GitHub Actions earlier this year and never looked back.
Why not just do this:

#!/bin/bash
/some/long/path with lots of args
I think it's too late. We are too far down the rabbit hole in that sense. What does it bode for mankind? I don't know, but I suspect that the future won't be bright. It's frightening.

I sometimes feel like everything is burning around me, as in, on this planet. Everything is burning and yet we pretend it isn't because we are frightened of the possible consequences of acknowledging things aren't doing too great. We are frightened of real change because it might cause everything to come down. So instead we let our lives spin out of control and hope for the best. At this point I'm not even speaking about technology, but this troubles me deeply.
I didn't know fountain pens still existed until two years ago. I bought a Pilot Metropolitan and I've found it to be an improvement. However, I still have not seen another in the wild.

Err, "an improvement" probably needs clarifying, though. It moves across paper much more smoothly than the ball point pens I've used, and I find reloading the ink to be enjoyable (I've also gone two years without the pen disappearing into the void, something which has never happened for me when using disposable pens).
It does seem like fountain pens require heavier paper than ball-points, though. Maybe it's the ink I bought, but trying to write on the standard lined paper used in schools leads to a lot of smudges and bleeding ink. Standard weight printer paper is fine, unless it was left out on a few humid days.
Unsure if that can be configured or not, but if your video content distribution network can’t rate limit or handle bursts you probably have more pressing issues.
But this thought experiment has no connection to what causes most people to make more money than others. That's that they get jobs that pay different amounts of money. There is no guaranteed 10% per year investment.

The most significant structural factor that creates wealth inequality is personal conduct and talent, and the second is that some people have crappy parents. Third is location.

None of it is society [1], unless you consider refraining from forcibly conscripting everybody into communist slavery to be a structural factor.

[1] Except for all the laws I dislike.
Thanks for the info - looking at the project notes I was able to see I was also confused as to if / which? other services this uses and what the privacy implications are - I wondered if it was using google translate or transcribe or similar 3rd party services and such.

Or if this is all self contained, perhaps adding some 'host your own, no 3rd party required, and keep it all private' as a selling point.
Somewhat agree. This is not a new thing at all; the phrase "I'm leaving the community" is quite old in internet years.
Can anyone comment on how these changes are going to impact projects like conda-forge, which use the free compute time to build binaries? My reading is these projects are what's being targeted. Perhaps there are more egregious uses of their servers?
Ask HN: Can you learn too much at once?
I'm not the brightest nor fastest learner. I’m 28, have 6 YoE, and TC is peanuts. I went to a small state school in CA and work for a noname company. Nowhere near FAANG, tier2 or tier3 companies. I have been studying grokking coding interview in depth working with arrays, two pointers, sliding windows at the moment. It seems like I'm forgetting how I even solved the problems. I'll solve a medium problem on my own without help or hints. But a few days later I’ll go no leetcode I've completely forgotten how I even solved it. I’m not memorizing code; I’m going thru the problems on my scratchpad and solving them, then coding up a solution. I’m also slowly reading Designing Data Intensive Applications and system design.

On top of this, I learn languages as a hobby, currently working on Japanese and Cantonese. I have tutoring sessions once a week along with a class. I attend these activities, but feel my progress of learning the languages is also quite slow. I’m visiting a therapist for 6 months now(self worth, childhood/drug abuse.. not the point of my post), a month sober from marijuana addiction

I’m wondering if it’s possible to be trying to learn too many things at once or am I just a slow learner whose maxed out his potential? Can the human brain consume all this info at once? Can the brain multitask to the point where information and progress/knowledge is not really retained?
I use the free travis to build https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

It's 100% open source and there's almost no income (some github sponsors) for it. I guess welp we'll have to switch away, or have to constantly send "ask" tickets to get free credits :/

Many of us will be in this position.
I repaired 2 of my MacBooks during the last couple of years - one had a butterfly keyboard issue and another had a swallen battery. Both times it took 1-2 days and both times their support was amazing. The best part of it - both times I did not pay a cent for the repairs, it was all known issues. In the swallen battery case they replaced a keyboard and the touchpad module as well, and the laptop was not even under warranty anymore.

I guess my case is a bit different from yours, but I was very satisfied with their technical competence as well. I suppose it depends on the country in the end, in my case it was Singapore.
I worked on a Backbone app for several years (and still do, technically - we're about to do a final push to finish migrating it to React).

I also liked the fact that you could step into Backbone code, and back out to app code on the other side. Backbone's source is small, and you can see exactly what it's doing.

However... React is simply a fundamentally superior programming model, for a wide variety of reasons. I can treat React as a black box, knowing that if there's a problem in my UI, it's because of either the logic in my components, or the data those components are using for display. (Then there's things like being able to arbitrarily compose child components together and pass them props, vs randomly trying to attach subviews or something via umpteen different plugins.)

I'll agree that seeing a stack trace with React library code isn't typically helpful. But, the error messages are usually sufficient to tell me what kind of an issue is going on, and point me to the right component or part of the tree to start debugging the real issue.

Somewhat related to this, I put together an extensive post earlier this year called "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior" [0] that digs into detail on how React's rendering actually works, as I've found that a lot of people seemed to be missing how some of the pieces of rendering fit together:

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
I didn't mean to suggest anything about the directionality of the skew, just to mention he's not a classical conservative and there's likely some skew between supporting Trump and having conservative political leanings.

(On a side note, there's some smaller skew between voting Republican and having conservative political leanings. I'm conservative in fiscal policy, foreign policy, and favoring action at a local and state level, but liberal regarding most social policies, criminal justice reform, and environmental regulation. I think government enforced price transparency plus a German-style universal healthcare system via private insurance decoupled from employment is preferable to either a US model or a Canadian/UK-style single payer system. I've always registered as a Democrat.)
I'm wondering if there's still a solid reason to use Travis for new projects. I can't be bothered to move my current builds from there to GitHub Actions, but for future projects GitHub Actions seems way more lucrative to use. I think both pale out in comparison to GitLab CI however, it's a pity GitLab is less popular.
I think the parent means that both Clinton and Biden are establishment candidates. Neither of the are boat rockers like Bernie or Trump in 2016. I think the reality of Trump’s presidency is far more establishment than his original campaign but still.

Liberal & Conservative in the US usually have to do with what changes a person wants to make but Clinton, Romney, Obama, Biden, hell Bush are all literally conservative in the scope and amount.
Happy to see ML become mainstream. In the future, I don't think ML will be a separate field of programming. It'll just be "programming," the same way webdev is.

There's a tendency to think of ML as "not programming," or something other than just plain programming. But as the tooling matures, that'll go away.

(Lisp used to be considered "AI programming," till it became useful in many other contexts.)
As much as you want to act like vaccine skepticism is a right-wing thing, I don't think it's that clean and cut. If you asked them, most people are probably fine with vaccines. There's a small portion of very vocal people on both sides who you could describe as "antivaxxers" or people skeptical of vaccination. Now, the thing is, I imagine if you asked most people if they would be up for government-mandated, no-questioning forced vaccinations, I'm sure that's how you'll get bipartisan support AGAINST vaccinations and even further light the fire of antivaxxers in this country. Be careful with what you wish for.
Portable and lightweight cross-platform application development framework
FWIW, you should also switch to using our official Redux Toolkit package [0] if you haven't already. RTK is our recommended approach to writing Redux logic. It includes a number of utilities that build in our best practices, prevent common mistakes, and simplify most Redux use cases.

Related to that, we've rewritten the Redux docs tutorials to teach use of Redux Toolkit and the React-Redux hooks API as the default, as well as using simpler patterns like structuring Redux logic as single-file "slices". See the new "Redux Essentials" [1] and "Redux Fundamentals" tutorials [2] for examples.

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[1] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co...

[2] https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-1-overview
Curious about your thoughts on TypeORM. Have you used it at scale at all? I rebuilt the API portion of an app using it a few months ago and instantly ran into issues with things like relationships and slightly more complex queries. I know it is an ORM and isn't suitable for every use case and definitely not super-complex queries, but it seemed very limited and unstable.

Honestly, I don't like any of the Node ORMs out there, especially when you compare them to more mature projects like Rails' ActiveRecord or Laravel's Eloquent.
Frameworks for Hiring
All OSS projects are supposed to move to the .com domain by the end of the year. They plan to shutdown the .org domain on December 31st.

Source: https://mailchi.mp/3d439eeb1098/travis-ciorg-is-moving-to-tr...
Have you actually tried this?

I’ve tried both, for extended periods and I ended up much preferring the Wednesday off.
That is an excellent idea.
Counterpoint-->it's a contradiction, it's not universal.
Also what about not-cis women? I get the feeling this was a poorly thought out idea.
That's really interesting to know! I'll have to add saying "octante" to a French person to my bucket list. (That'll show them.)
Errata:

- Due to public and political _profit_

Quick hn poll has _anyone_ seen anyone else talk about “Twitter rewrites any URLs”, Facebook, google or Hyperlink auditing?

- default feed display: was designed to give you their message - twitter: “it’s what we say is happening”

- engagement base timeline - again we only allow those that have passed our filters and tests to show you most content - another “it’s what we say is happening” tweak.

- defaults to switch all behaviors: and then planned re-defaults to get 80 of the 20 that switch back each time

WHY YOU SHOULD QUIT TWITTER NOV 4

MORE THAN ANYTHING: there’s a mouth breathing ugly person at twitter making these decisions and _they actually think you’re too stupid to realize all these changes gives them editorial control_

They think you’re too stupid, they think they’re done genius that got away with it, that you can’t put 2 and 2 together

They’re gloating right now - laughing at you

2 + 2 = 4

break free, don’t give your time to be told someone else’s version of what’s happening, your time is too valuable

Lock up political profiteers
Do we know the terms of this deal? It could end up looking a lot like debt in the end.
Koh-I-Noor Toison D'Or (2009)
There’s a “hugo import jekyll” command, but it doesn’t import my theme, so there’s going to be a fair amount of porting it looks like. It brought all of the posts over, though, so that’s good.

Using drone with caching for rubygems got my jekyll builds down to under 2 minutes (I use docker) but I imagine hugo will be under a second once I get it switched over. I’ll probably just commit the binary to the repo.

Shoot me an email if you’d like me to share the sources.
The example video clips in the post look nothing like me and my team's view when using the new feature. Most of the time half of our hair gets blurred or replaced and hand gestures will cause either our hands or head to disappear.
> what would be different?

A fair question.

The focus would be on the absolute state of the people at the lower end, rather than their relative state. There wouldn't be an implicit assumption that the (let's call them wealth creators) did something wrong.
> In the mid-1990s, the NSA had found out that somewhere under Copenhagen there was a backbone cable containing phone calls, e-mails and text messages from and to countries like China and Russia, which was of great interest for the Americans. Tapping that cable, however, was almost impossible without the help of the Danes, so the NSA asked the FE for access to the cable.

This was revealed in details about 20 - 30 years ago in the Danish publication "Månedsbladet Press". I remember they had an insert, looked like a small newspaper, containing all the details about this. I remember this because this was the first time I heard the term "echelon". I my memory serves me correct I think that insert in the magazine was the first story or source of Echelon operating outside of the US so there is some kind of historical significance to this story.

If I recall correctly they did this wiretapping in a underground bunker in the middle of Copenhagen. The bunker had no toilet and they got spotted by the journalists that wonder why more people was coming out of that bunker everyday to go the bathroom than people going in. Something like that.

I don't have the magazine anymore but I know that the main library in Copenhagen has a copy as I checked several years later.

If any historians around here want the backstory behind all this you should contact the library and get a copy of that publication. The publication stopped long ago, but that was the only newspaper-like insert they every had so it should be easy to locate in the archives.
But finite life expectancies effectively act as a cap on that process. In the very best case, you only have about half a century to compound wealth.

Modern America is not very conducive to preserving intergenerational wealth. Of the top ten richest Americans, only one is not a first-generation billionaire. Rockefeller despite amassing an enormous fortune, equivalent to $400 billion today, does not have any heirs in the top 100 a century later.

There's a number of factors at play here. First, US estate taxes tend to be consistently high around 35%+ and pretty hard to avoid. Second, unlike traditional aristocracies, the scions of American capitalism rarely arrange marriages with other prominent families. Consequently dynastic wealth almost always gets diluted by 50% or more every generation. Third, US GDP growth has historically averaged pretty high around 3% per annum. The relative size of a fortune to the broader economy is constantly shrinking per year.

These factors combine to make the relative size of a dynastic fortune shrink by about 85% per generation. Assuming a generation gap of 30 years, you'd have to achieve consistent real returns of 7% a year. And that's assuming no loss of capital due to consumption, philanthropy, divorce, capital gains tax, dividend taxes or fraud.

Over the past century, equities have only averaged a 6% real rate of return. Unless you have significant financial or business acumen, sustainably beating the stock market on a large portfolio over decades is virtually impossible. On an inter-generational basis that talent is very unlikely to be present in every scion. A dynasty with a penchant for risk-taking is far more likely to blow their fortune by some idiot son along the way.
There are rollerballs with regular ink now, such as the one I have from Schneider. It does need a refill, but writing with it is efortless, just like with the fountain pen and the writing also looks good because the trail is continuous. I think they have a ceramic ball tip instead of a metal one. I absolutely love them. One can also reuse the cartridges and refill them with regular ink using a syringe if they can be bothered to do so.

https://schneiderpen.com/en_us/cartridge-rollerballs/easy-wh...
> ask any open source developer about this

I am a full time open source developer, and wealth is created.
Digger! I found you again!
> XML editor

What’s xml?

(I have a dream - noxml jr)
I think the lynchpin is not knowing. We don't know what all the data is used for or why it's taken. As long as we don't know we lack the ability to judge. We don't have the power to make a strong rhetorical argument without shared knowledge.

Colbert's white house correspondent's address covered it. Politicians don't talk about super depressing stuff like guantonomo bay and journalists have the courtesy to not try and find out.. We don't talk about data collection in any serious manner.

I think the weakness of data collection is when it gets in the average joe's way and it hasn't done that yet in a big way. The more we hammer home that it must facilitate movement through life and not hinder it, the better the middle ground will be.. maybe.

There is a requirement that both sides get really good at eviscerating lies and liars. Neither side of the fence wants fake data or betrayal.
SF HR departments are actually training staff to talk that way. Of course, they call it "compliment sandwich" instead.

The really soft shit sandwich is when somebody opens with superfluously thanking you for attending a scheduled meeting, then attempts to attack you. They think they have to thank you as the first layer of their shit sandwich, before the garbage layer. Of course, it sounds ridiculous to hear somebody thank you for doing nothing except showing up.

The reason for such "training" is that there is an epidemic of staff complaints against each other. It does keep HR staff busy (fullly-employed), but it also causes attrition.
"42-foot-tall Athena, with a 6-foot-4-inch statue of the goddess Nike in her hand"

And my favorite info as a kid who visited his grandparents in Nashville, Nike has wings which is the source of shoe brand's logo.
I wish people would not react with "well, it works on my machine" to stories of personal experience. Personal experiences have value - at least some, if they are well written and reflect important trends - even if they don't match yours. Dismissing it just because yours is different... well, it's fine, maybe it has no value for you. Claiming that it has no value to anybody ever is just hubris.
Coinbase Goes Down as Bitcoin Approaches 2019 Highs
I was kid when this happened around 200 km from my place. I can clearly remeber all the graphics which were used in next day newspapers to show the mid air collision. Today reading about it gave me chills...again.
I can vouch for this. I haven’t really needed the background blur feature personally, but I’ve tried it and both myself, colleagues, and friends — pretty much everyone I’ve talked to that has used it — loathe Google Meet’s background blur, and prefer Zoom’s by far.

In my experience, it doesn’t completely cover the background most of the time, and if you move at all, as you point out, it can’t keep up.

Kind of funny to see Google engineering blogging about it when it feels extremely half baked.

This makes me sad, because in all other areas, I think Meet excels well beyond the competition.

EDIT: removed my general sentiment on Google
If twitter starts invading the homes of quitters and executing them as traitors, it would certainly add a degree of risk to these decisions.
It's also a popular place to take pics, but it's not used as much as the rest of the park.

It's really kind of bland most days of the year and you have to tilt your neck hard to really see the cool things around the top, most of what it is eye level at the ground is not much of a different feeling than standing outside a courthouse or something. (in my not very frequent experience)

I suppose if you go inside (and that is open when you are there) - then it's more inspiring.

There might be a permission slip needed to take pro photos in that area of the park - pretty sure I saw a blurb about that somewhere over the years.

The article says full scale replica, but I was under the impression it's like a 1/3 replica... to scale, but not 1:1. I could be wrong, not an expert.
Thanks - I haven't used Travis for much in a while, so I didn't see this!
> I would also like to hear that. It sounds almost like if Linus wanted to cash in, he could just revoke the license? I doubt that.

That would be the implication only if Linus was the sole copyright owner.

As it is, no one is asked to assign their copyright when contributing code to the Linux kernel, and the amount of code still remaining in the kernel that Linus has personally written himself is a rather small portion.

So if Linus were to "take his ball and go home" as it were, the affected code could be replaced.

That said, the multiplicity of contributors that retain their copyright to their contributions is also why relicensing the kernel to GPL 3 is largely a non-starter, even if Linus weren't opposed to it (and he is).
While the viz is nice some numbers would but mucho mas nicer

Also everyone should read pride and prejudice because it’s funny as hell
> base + UINT_MAX+1 must access base + 0 when the index is `unsigned int`, even on a 64-bit machine.

Ironically, given the topic, that's actually not true, because `base + UINT_MAX+1` is `(base + UINT_MAX)+1` (with a pointer, not a unsigned int, as the temporary value). That should probably be `base + (UINT_MAX+1)`.
I wonder how the think tank people are dealing with the current administration. I’m sure at all levels below the top it functions normally and can ingest policy papers etc., but then the boss applies a random number generator to all outputs.
Interesting. I didn't realize you can use GitLab CI/CD on non-GitLab repo. Do you happen to have a documentation on this (my searches came up empty)?