skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of why I prefer text messages over phone calls, but for the very few exceptions when a phone call is more efficient or required. (Ie when multiple steps / detailed interaction is needed). With phone calls, I specifically don’t like how I have to immediately stop what I’m working on and focus my attention upon answering the call, as opposed to a text message where almost nothing is lost if I wait 60 seconds before looking at it.

I’m still surprised that many find this offensive when I make this request of them; or when they disregard my request and I’m forced to ignore their calls until they text.

I have one client who would called me anywhere from 1 to 10+ times a day with small tasks I needed to do , which were much more efficiently communicated over text. (Things such as “check access point of unit 302 of the Westside building , user can’t connect”). The phone calls would never be less than five minutes in length, each, and of mostly small talk and other irrelevant info to the original purpose of the call. I strongly considered stopping work for this client, but for the fact that I so much enjoyed the work he brought me. This work was all remote/from behind my computer (not onsite work).
How is the Web a centralized architecture ??
The biggest problem with this is that in bigger companies it is assumed you will need up to a year to "onboard" and that your first first few months will be drinking from a firehose of custom local knowledge and infrastructure details. We don't expect new hires to be productive for at least a month or three after hire.
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And even if the referendum had included a call for the city to build broadband, there was no price tag listed. People love programs that are free and don’t involve trade-offs with things that cost money.
Can you tell me why I shouldn't worry that vaccines which are made to flood the body with fake ACE2 proteins won't affect blood pressure, body water and sodium content? What happens to all the angiotensin II that connects to dummy ACE2 connectors?
Same deal with state agencies in my experience. My mom (unsurprisingly) had issues with unemployment earlier this year, she'd worked 1099 and W-2 jobs in multiple states so determining eligibility was taking forever. One call to her state rep and it was all cleared up within a week.
>The 1976 Swine Flu outbreak and subsequent bungled vaccination campaign comes to mind

Given that viral genome sequencing didn't even exist in 1976, I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.
The framing of all third-party cartridges as "counterfeits" regardless of whether or not they carry HP trademarks is deliciously dishonest. Buyers getting into difficult relationships with "large-scale criminal syndicates" over discount ink and toner also strains plausibility.

Whatever the reality, they've made it so consumers get burned by counterfeits (rendered completely nonfunctional) instead of HP, while conveniently eliminating legitimate competition.
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Did god put warning labels on things we should and shouldn't eat?

How do I use God's wisdom to decide if if a certain pig is "safe" to eat or not?
No, not parochial. You probably should read the history of Trump in Scotland. They hate him.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Lin...
I'd guess it might depend on whether you are in fact rich or not, and whether the gift is above or below the means of the gifted.

Seems like a bad thing either way, but for various reasons and (potentially) involved parties.
5. Refactor your SW, release a basic functional FOSS version and license ($$$) the full-featured version
If go with that example if there was a direct benefit to me in the addition. Feature requests are typically made based on what the requestor needs, not what they think everyone else might need.
I think you're speculating here. Anyway, I don't think the solution to these problems are to just get out of the way and let companies play fast and loose with our data, it's to continually push them to do better.
I mean, I'm not using faker.js but I'm not exactly sure I'd finance a potential terrorist.
> despite making a $600 withdrawal from his Open Collective fund in June 2018 with the explicit purpose of releasing v5[2].

I just want to point out how crazy it is that we expect people to releasing a whole major version for $600

Meanwhile in the commercial world, changing the colour of a button in your iOS app will cost you $1000s...
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> it is in fact an ethical problem to try to get something for nothing if you break it down

The problem with this statement is that the software was offered by the author as something for nothing in the first place.

The OSS authors propose that you walk into their shop and walk out with (a copy of) the painting. The problem isn’t taking the painting, it’s coming back later and asking for a change of background color or a new frame, and expecting that to also be free.

It’s important to be clear about this and not twist it into something that it is not, otherwise these ideas undermine the purposes of open source. If you frame it as purely a commercial exchange, then you lose the advantages that the open source movement brings to the table.
We can all live multiple lives. Accept that you have completed your current life. You achieved more than most ever do. Now start your next life.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-09-02
You got me there.

True, but you still need an X-enabler to actually make the requirement to claim yourself as at least a millionaire. Who's honestly going to make themselves a millionaire when we are all being paid incomes that are worth a pittance after taxes and so on?

I'm just fed up with such people running the show and showing no compassion to those outside of such and getting away with it with no consequences. For someone who wants to reach a further planet and showing no care or decency for the planet we live on is just despicable. And a personality type of that such is just sad.

Do people really go loopy once you do reach $X?
So he was smart enough to write this but not smart enough to sock away $15k in emergency funds?
We already have contract tracing scams. I got a call claiming to be a contract tracing call asking for my SS# to tell me if I was at risk.

No clue how widespread this is, but I can't exactly blame people for assuming any call or voicemail they get is a scam, there are so many out there.
When you provide things to people for free for a long period of time, they will become entitled to it. This is true in all contexts. It's up to you to work in a way for it to be valuable enough to yourself to continue.
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Maybe we need a new terminology for “like a brick for me, possibly functional for others“
This is more of a matter of, if some Internet rando has a comfy development job, it's easy to go and flame nonconformists like Marak on the Internet.

Even if Marak was a jerk or a liar, he still deserves to be paid!
As an autist myself I will definitely check this out!

Thank you!
This article showed up just as I am looking for a replacement for my HP 1320 which works perfectly except 3 out of 4 users in our household can no longer print to it. I’ll look up the Brother laser printer mentioned here to see if people report having better luck. Thanks
> Why is this new syntax worse?

The question is, how is it better? When you have something that works, replacing it with something that's just not worse is unnecessary churn and work for everyone. It shouldn't be replaced unless its replacement is somehow better.

> It also supports newer functionality like net namespaces, and uses newer kernel interfaces.

Why couldn't these have just been added to ifconfig? Surely it could have been ported to the new kernel interfaces. As for features like net namespaces, the syntax should have been added in a backwards-compatible way instead of rewriting it all.
It comes down to the question of whether we are a nation of a single people or a nation of autonomous states. We cannot be a nation of a single people due to the diversity of people spread across an immense chunk of land. What is important to me in Alaska is only tangentially related to what is important in NYC. A popular vote is a path to disbanding states and removes an important protection by the states against a tyrannical national government. By maintaining states we allow issues of state importance to only be important in that state instead of requiring the whole nation be subject.
Yeah maybe, but somewhere in that there was probably just a passion for stuff as well? There is a reason that you listen to someone.

It's not bad advice to listen to what smart people think is important or what problems they believe to be important to work on in the future. But somewhere along the way you must decide on what you want to do and I think most people have no issues in that. But if you're young and have no experience, it is IMO a good idea to try things that people with experience like Elon Musk say will be important for the future. Then if you dislike it, you can simply drop it for something else.
I have numerous HP laser printers. Linux wifi set up is a bit tricky, but no ink complaints. I see as an ink jet versus laser printer discussion.
The results came from the independent data safety and monitoring board that is analysing the trial results on PFE/BNTX's behalf. PFE/BNTX themselves don't currently have access to more data. But there is no reason to suspect that these results are not accurate.
or for ODEs a higher order method.
It used to be, moreso. [1]

The legal 'bite' that has been attempted to be used to make these tactics work in the US (with varying success) is the DMCA. [2] [3] [4]. The argument goes, if you try to break the mechanism that locks down the print cartridge, that counts as circumventing a copy protection device. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_I....

[2] https://www.cnet.com/news/lexmark-invokes-dmca-in-toner-suit...

[3] http://brandonw.net/skylanders/activision.pdf

[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/23/texas_instruments_ca...

[5] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
That's still common in North America, just not at the major chains. I often shop at Asian grocery markets, and it's hard to go wrong picking from the big bins that are spilling out onto the sidewalk.

Another advantage: more different kinds of greens than I knew existed. And they're basically all delicious stir-fried with garlic & salt.
Such a great text.
However, the fact that the programmers are all "he" and the only reference to a female pronoun is a "hostess greeting her guests" was somewhat abrasive to me.

Previous discussion on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8036547

I get it -- it's written in an old style. And I don't want to censor art.

SO -- I made a "mod" for the book, that randomizes the pronouns each time.
https://xtao.stream

Still a WIP -- want to add more info/motivation to the site before really releasing it, but I wanted to share here & would love any feedback.. expecting downvotes.. ;)
To give a counter argument - I've embraced HPs new model.

Couple of years ago, my old printer ended up in the bin. Was a great big hulking thing with a flatbed scanner that took up too much space. For the odd things I needed printing, I just did this at work. For scanning I have a lovely Fuji SnapScan (Feed in stack of pages, scans both sides, OCRs them and gives them to Google for storage).

With lock-down, I'm working at home and maybe once a week I've found I need to print something. Shipping labels, application forms to sign etc. I missed having a printer, but didn't want to commit to having to keep a printer fed with consumables for those few times I need one.

My employer offered to pay for bits I might need at home, so picked up an HP Tango printer for the Instant Ink. I'm not going to print more than 50 pages a month, so I'm out of pocket £2 a month for any printing I need. £24 a year. I'm happy with that (plus you get a few months free, only starts charging when carts it ships with are switched out, rolls over up to 150 pages and photos printed from app are free).

In summary - it suits my needs and I suspect those of many others. If I needed to print loads of course I'd just buy a laser, but for occasional 'I need a printer' and don't want to get annoyed every time I hear it pumping though ink to clear the heads..
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Keyword being "deaths". COVID is peaking and cases are 3 times worse than in June, but deaths are staying flat.
One of the major upsides of iPhones is that carriers absolutely cannot fuck with the defaults (be it settings or software).
http://archive.is/4yFGV
Did it work at scale, or did it work because it was employed early enough (along with other strict measures) that it didn't have to scale much? The latter is my understanding.
>meant you’re wrong about Redis. It was in a unique position for a long time, if you pulled it out there would be nothing to really replace it.

You haven't really said where I was wrong.

>RedisLabs does charge for redis (extensions, and support) and seems to be doing pretty damn well for the matter.

Charging for extras is not the same thing as charging for the product.
> food supply not dependent on inputs like artificial fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides aren't that old and that some countries never adopted it due to the costs associated.

I was reading a thing the other day (I'll link to it if I can find it) that was pointing out that something like 70% of the people in the world are still fed today by old school farming. Chemical/industrial agriculture only supplies food for about 30% of the world.
I would argue that attention is the most valuable asset for productivity in every case, period. I guess I sort of thought this went without saying.

The details in this article are great, I'm a productivity geek despite never really getting to a point where I "always feel productive" - and each point here is definitely relevant specifically for focus as a software developer. I'm a manager so minimizing meetings is out of the question to some degree, but my "OS minimalism" is much more extreme so maybe that balances out.

Ultimately this article is great from the POV of a software dev, but the point of it applies to everything in life.
Yes, the HOA signs a contract and makes the payment, and then adds the per-unit fee to the monthly assessments.

These small local ISPs are super efficient - they concentrate on infrastructure and support, with 1 or 2 people for sales and billing: one sale equals hundreds of customers, and hundreds of customers equals a single payment.
Chameleons' bones glow in the dark, even through their skin
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https://archive.vn/sEf7p
Nah.

1) People use their phones long after their official support window.

2) The price of Android phones most people around me buy are 50€-200€, well under most iPhones. Also consider that iPhones are more expensive outside the US, where more people buy Androids.
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Notes:

* One reason Envoy was so successful is that it was created by an end user for an explicit use case. By the time it was open sourced it was feature rich, rock solid, reliable.

* In hindsight they were naive about the effort it would take to open source Envoy. It takes a lot of work to create a successful open source project. Matt came close to complete and total burnout working what was essentially two jobs: his Lyft job and Envoy.

* The success of Envoy has made Lyft far less likely to open source projects because of the huge time commitment it takes.

* Most open source projects are a net negative. You'll put out more effort than you will be returned in community development. Very few projects become successful enough to justify the effort.

* Starting a successful open source company requires the same effort as starting actual company. It requires engineering, PR, marketing, hiring maintainers and contributors, blog posts, build tooling, documentation, talking at conferences, talking at meetups—all the things that make something successful.

* Google's adoption helped a lot because they didn't just contribute code, they created hype by talking at conferences.

via http://highscalability.com/blog/2020/11/6/stuff-the-internet...
It's about the sharing of code, whatever label you put on it. Terminology usually lags behind practice.
You'd need a lot of controls.

See a startup with 50k MRR after 12 months and 10m followers? Those 10m followers must have really helped! Oh wait that company actually raised 10m and spent 2m on advertising...
Yet another reason to move to a plant-based lifestyle. Covid came from some folks in China using exotic animals for some purpose. Now a new variant seems inevitable from animal populations. Is it worth the burgers and coats?
I’m more interested in why the re-use of the same word to mean orange the colour and orange the fruit happens in different languages.

Other fruits are orange. No other colour is named the same as a fruit.
What about photos? It's been a few years, but last time I checked laser printers were still way behind ink in terms of photo quality.
I have one, and it is clogged up now :(. The only printing mode that give somewhat readable prints is the “Epson photo” mode (or something named similar), which is really slow. But I hope it will magically fix itself if I keep on printing in that mode for awhile.
The complexity of the distribution of such a vaccine on such a large scale will be a major bottleneck in a return to a society without imposed pandemic measures. A much less sexy and more human bottleneck, which permits of far more classes of failure of getting the virus to people well. The distribution is important work which we will see being the subject of much criticism. I hope everybody can keep their expectations in check. Getting working vaccines is incredibly important, but this is just the first step. There are no easy fixes - we'll be in this situation for the foreseeable future.
I'm from Denmark and had to get a visa because I have been in Iran. It was rather easy and took two months or so.
Yup. My $100-ish Brother laser is 12 years old and still going strong.
> No, that's a mutable value.

> The variable is the lexical representation of a value. If you change which value your variable binds to, you have changed the representation of the variable; you have mutated it. The underlying values in memory have not changed, they are immutable.

I completely agree with you that values and variables are separate things. However, mutable variables are still memory slots that can be mutated, while immutable variables are not. The memory slot of a variable usually lives on the stack, and contains a pointer to a value that lives elsewhere in memory.

I think the difference will be clearer in a language that distinguishes between introducing a variable and setting a variable.

var foo = "abcd"; // introduce a new variable binding
foo := "xyz"; // set a variable

Here's an example of what you can do in a language that has mutable variables that you cannot do in a language that only supports shadowing bindings:

var strings = ["str1", "str2", "str3"];
var foo = "abcd";
for (string in strings) {
foo := string;
}
println(foo); // Prints out "str3"

In this case, foo itself is a memory slot that can be mutated, independently of the strings, which are immutable values. foo is a mutable slot in memory that can be updated to contain different pointer values.

Now, if you only have shadowing, you end up with this:

var strings = ["str1", "str2", "str3"];
var foo = "abcd";
for (string in strings) {
var foo = string;
}
println(foo); // Prints out "abcd"

Each iteration of the loop is introducing a new binding with the name foo, but it is not changing or removing the original binding of foo. It's just that within the loop, only the local binding is visible.

I think part of the confusion around Elixir is that it only supports introducing new bindings, but the syntax looks like it's setting the value of a variable.

Another example that will hopefully help clarify:

var foo = "abcd";
var bar = "xyz";
println(bar);

That example is nearly the same as this (and in terms of what the program does, it's identical):

var foo = "abcd";
var foo = "xyz";
println(foo);

The only difference is that in the second case, the first foo binding isn't visible after the second one has been introduced. At least conceptually, they both still exist, but because of scoping rules, there's no way to access the first one.
"The most exploited web browser is Safari"

And considering Safari is not by a longshot the most popular browser, what does this say about Apple?
I know you say that in mockery, but I'd rather be in isolation for longer and have a better idea what the long term of this looks like. Most other vaccines have the same process.
He was co founder of Nodejitsu, the company who raised kickstarter funding for NPM, the same time NPM raised money from investors . There was a legal conflict about who owns NPM, they didnt refund or make a statement the money they raised for a project they don't own. That Kickstarter campaign was a scam and they got away with it.
you can be sure that even with the vaccine that I'm going to be wearing my mask around everywhere for a long time
Depends on a country, most is 10 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_the_United_Stat...
You can overwrite most of it: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner. AFAIK such overwriting will fix the bug in your link (and this is exactly what Purism is doing).
Yeah, bringing money into free software equation complicates things.

It comes down to donors expecting something back for their donation, while authors expect something back for all the effort they put so far into the project that is obviously useful to other people.

For my open source project I made a hard decision not take any money. This curbs expectations and puts users at disadvantage, but lets me take as much time off as I want and I sleep better.
> Depending on your domain, 1 month is not enough to even understand the problem.

I ran across this too in brief skimming (There's a lot there) but I assumed it was talking about building the MVP after doing the learning needed (in as much as you ever fully understand most domains) and designing of the MVP system.
If you release software under a commercial license, you're essentially forming a software company. It's hard work and not guaranteed to succeed, but isn't that legit and well-traveled path to wealth? Also not mentioned is using your coding skills to land a decent tech job, which seems like a much better shot at financial stability than what many have.
Or just displaying whatever graphic they want full screen on a phone and taking a photo of that.
Yeah, emphasis on the feature requests being variable. Hopefully for the burden the more inconsiderate ones create, there is at least a commensurate level of unspoken gratitude. Thanks.
Well, Microsoft didn't spend $8G on Github out of the goodness of their hearts...

As Neal Stephenson said two decades ago : it's not like Microsoft controls developer's means of production and distribution ! (/s now)
Is it not suspicious that they announce this right after the election? Pfizer gave more to Biden than any other political candidate. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfizer-inc/summary?id=D0000...
When police departments are requesting access to live video feeds from doorbell cams, what will stop them from requesting access to everything else if the city is directly providing the service?
This is such a low comment not worth of this community. Hardness happens to everyone, have some empathy please.
Is it possible to buy "sample keyboard"? Kind of couple of keys to hear and feel? I know it's possible to buy switches themselves with all the colours, however I'd like to try how they work with keys before I buy the full keyboard.