skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What it seems like is most people enthusiastic about weight lifting spend far too much time near their physical limits trying to increase that maximum target and end up with a growing list of increasingly permanent injuries. If your goal for exercising is to be good at exercising, I just don’t get it, and I have experienced far too many people who treated exercising as their lifestyle and appeared by any reasonable metric to be addicted.
Would you be open to some questions from someone wanting to launch their first mac app?
Let's just use domain names?

ytld.org/youtube-dl

google.com/rust_icu

facebook.com/react

Don't have a domain name?

marak.github.io/faker

Not everything needs to be reinvented.
Haven’t read about that. Will look into it.
Do you know if there's any of his books in English? Granted I only did a quick sweep of Amazon and Google but found little.
This is the terminology Douglas Self uses. No one apart of him call class B class C.
Well this somehow reflects what I am seeing for last 20 years.

Hobby or just passion of open source is fueling the industry to forge massive profits while on other side provide peanuts for authors, far less than if they were their employees (or lets rather say: 0).

I was working on multiple close source projects for different companies that were avoiding anything GPL, searching for permissive replacements and in never giving back anything - not even bug fixes.

Like openssl[1].

Actually even GPL is not a protection here, with sources given away they become almost a manual how to re-implement it which is far simpler than making it from scratch (oh and yes, people are doing that without copy pasting).

What open source has accomplished was for sure making technology more available, but on the other side, to name just a few:

- lowered expenses of companies on buying software, especially on various SaaS companies that dont distribute software

- keeping the need for experienced developers and vages down while on the other side raised paychecks of system administrators and system integrators

- creating a viability to hire anyone as a developer while on the other side driving anything complex out of industry as companies were avoiding doing projects where complex knowledge is needed (I am not talking about top of gauss curve companies)

- lowering a quality of software - putting together lego blocks and if they dont fit writing a little glue is hardly ever as efficient as writing tool for problem solving dedicated to the problem. Not to mention free availability of tons of over-complicated "does it all" frameworks that dont really fit to solving any particular problem perfectly, but are good enough to avoid solving complex problem where you have no workforce that would actually be able to solve it.

And guess who profits - engineers certainly not.

Actually we are denominating our work by giving it out for free (try to get someone to paint your walls, to lay down some ceramic tiles, to fix your car,... for a price of mentioning who did it behind the bumper, under a tile,...)

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisstokelwalker/the-internet-is-b...
So write the license this way. I think it's a fabulous idea.
> Yet, we continue to pay for our daily basics; food, water, electric…Yet we’ve decided for some insane reason that all this programming work the world’s richest companies rely on is worth absolutely nothing.

Stop making stuff open source, and there will be more paid jobs, and the paid jobs that exist will be valued more because they are no longer just "plumbing together open source components". Easy as that.

Will the software be higher quality? No. But that does not seem to be a concern anyway.
Can there be a 3D equivalent?
I can’t figure out if you’re seriously accusing one side or the other of cheating, but fwiw, I have confidence in our elections.

All this hand-wringing about fraud when attempts at disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of votes happens in plain sight. Just one example of many:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/gop-pennsylvania-bl...

(If it weren’t for massive “cure” efforts by both parties, a shocking number of ballots would be discarded due to errors like DMVs failing to forward registrations to BOEs. In 2016, the NC Democratic Party through cure outreach got provisional ballot acceptance here from 30% to 50% if I remember correctly.)
How to use Command Pattern to manage large amount of context menu actions
Interesting:

> Hi, Saagar from the iSH team here. We received a call from someone who runs App Review at Apple earlier this evening. They apologized for our review experience, telling us that they've accepted our appeal and that they will not be removing iSH from sale tomorrow. We'll work out the details with them in the coming days.
A huge thanks to all of you for your support of iSH!
This is a really cool part of the wiki page:

"A possible use of phosphenes as part of a brain to brain communication system has been reported. The system called BrainNet, produces phosphenes using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). The goal of the research is to connect thoughts brain to brain using a system where signals are detected using electroencephalography (EEG) and delivered using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). An experiment was conducted with 5 different groups, each contained three people. The subjects were split into two groups. Two subjects functioned as the senders, and were connected to EEG electrodes, and a third person functioned as the receiver, who wore the TMS helmet. Each person was stationed in front of a television screen with a Tetris-style game. The senders had to determine if there was a need to rotate the falling blocks, but without the ability to rotate them – only the receiver was able to perform this operation. At the edges of each screen, were two icons with two flashing lights in two different frequencies, (one at 15 Hz and the other at 17 Hz). The sender focused on one icon, or the other to signal that the block should be rotated to the right or the left. The EEG produced a unique signal, which was transmitted to the TMS helmet of the receiver, who perceived phosphenes which differed for the 15 Hz and 17 Hz signal, and rotated the block in the relevant direction. The experiment achieved 81% success.[27] These results could eventually lead to mind-to-mind communication technology"

Does anyone know if other research into this method has been explored yet?
> For the bathroom, I (a man) peed sitting down. I’m not ashamed to admit it.

I've never understood why it is considered un-masculine for men to pee sitting down. Or even if it is, why so many men pee standing up just to play along. It's one thing to use a urinal in a public toilet, but at home it's potentially messy and probably not hygienic to release a partially aerosolised stream of urine just below waist height.
> You don't own the music. You can't share it, use your own software to analyze, shuffle, remix it, etc

I'm a consumer of music, not a creator so I don't care that I don't own it. There are tons of ways creators can analyze, shuffle, remix or do whatever with it, but as a pure consumer Spotify is simply much better for me than CDs. I never cared about owning Music, CDs were always just a transport Medium so I can listen to the music.

> But now there's Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, Showtime Anytime, Peacock Premium, etc. Except now instead of one easy to use interface to access it all, it's spread out all over the place and inconsistent as hell. And more expensive!

They aren't though because you can be selective and cancel anytime and resubscribe. And you can watch exactly what you want at any time compared to cable. As a consumer it is way better because there is way more choice and competition at the moment.
GPLv4 cannot exist. The GPL was a clever hack the first time it became popular, but it is fundamentally a singleton that cannot be instantiated more than once.

Not like we didn't try.
A 1 in 1024 chance is not an absurd premise! Something that has a 1 in 1024 chance of ocurring to a person happens to 7 million people. If you get that evidence, you need to be capable of interpreting it correctly.

The OP's example would also worked well enough with even just 5 heads; you'd already pass p < 0.05, despite the actual probability of having picked the biased coin still being minuscule.
I realise what is happening. I realise there are thousands of people whose work contributed to being able to do this.

I also realise that some of those people are getting pissed off and annoyed that their contribution isn't being recognised (see TFA for details). And those people have the ability to "inject code that steals secrets" into my code base and cause massive headaches for me.

Which is why I'm extremely careful which dependencies I use, and don't use dependencies whenever possible.
You might honestly be right, for anyone who expects to buy five albums a year. The downside being that all the music you've "bought" might just disappear if the service goes down. It might be worth it, but the best of both worlds would be nice.

I'm not sure what that should be, but unlimited local copies of everything for a small amount of money doesn't sound fair -- but Spotify hardly deserves a big cut of it either.

A pickle indeed, if only there were a service that was more of a co-op of artists. Happy to hear recommendations, I'm using soundcloud still.
last one is sort of basically what GPLv3 has.
May I suggest something along the lines of Dmytri Kleiner's Peer Production License?

As discussed more generally on P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Copyfarleft
> instead of one easy to use interface to access it all

one easy to use interface to access whatever was on
Yes, a company will pay you to work on open source projects that are considered valuable for that company.

I am surprised that Marak hasn't been offered a satisfactory job that pays six figures already. Perhaps he makes some mistakes while applying, or luck hasn't been on his side.
> - Wikipedia still has the best common-sense/canonical info about singles. For example, Wikipedia will tell you in the first sentence (or infobox) "song X was first released on album Y in year Z." Answering that can actually be quite challenging on other services.

Sad fact: For a while Discogs had an experimental feature aptly called "Tracks". It allowed individual tracks, not just the whole release, to be viewed as separate entities along with references to all releases on which said track appeared. A database of canonical tracks.

It enabled me to see if that great track from an ultra-rare and hard to find album perhaps appeared on a compilation or any other much easier to buy release. Sure, you can achieve similar results by simply searching, but it's much more cumbersome and downright difficult when it comes to rather generic track titles leading to countless irrelevant results.

Sadly the feature was abandoned: https://www.discogs.com/track
I like this "right to deprive" wording and toyed with it myself. Reminds me of the way DMCA anti-circumvention works. Perhaps we could call this the anti-snooping right.
Consulting the Doctor Online Easier
This is something the whole world is talking about. Since we are undergoing a lockdown, self-quarantine, social distancing, we can’t head to the hospitals easily. But somewhat at some time, we need doctor consultation.

To do this possible, video call consultation with doctors becomes the talk of the town. people started to use this to consult with doctors online and take help for an emergency.

Yes, Second Opinion is one of the trustworthy and leading online doctor consulting apps. They provide you with the prime doctors for a consultation about your health problem. They are experts, and well-experienced doctors have attended hundreds of surgeries. Not like other services provided, they give you random doctors for your health issue.

It helps the doctor give the best suggestion and prescription for your problems. Try the mobile app if you are interested.
> Err, yes, obviously.

It's not really that obvious because an escalating global trade-war is rarely good for anybody, and tariffs only end up costing the consumers.

That's also why even after years of Trump tariffs on China, and all kinds of other countries, there was still no major shift of manufacturing back to the US.

> This is a very very easy problem to solve... once we wean ourselves off the cheap tat China produces

That "cheap tat" is by now a globally unique industry [0] that took decades to be built, by a government that can centrally plan in the decades. You can't just replace something like that from one day to another, and it most certainly wouldn't be easy.

[0] https://youtu.be/hp6F_ApUq-c
Yeah, he appears to be in a bad way.

"If anyone can provide me a safe place to live or sanctuary please send DM. I'm looking for any friendly tribe to take me in. Send help yesterday."

https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731
Virtual Consensus in Delos
XuanTie C906 based Allwinner RISC-V processor to power $12 Linux SBC's
You should probably not do this. A key cause of keratoconus seems to be excessive eye rubbing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus#Pathophysiology
Is this about not wanting to support bug and feature requests from big companies for free or does the developer can't find a day job? Surely someone who created some popular open source software wouldn't have a problem landing a high paying job?
That's all just called capitalism.
Yes. The problem with licensing your software one way or another is exactly that: you agree on sone terms NOBODY imposed upon you.

Open Source developers need to take burn out into mind before committing themselves to such a labor.
Making an ethical judgment based on religious text is a serious folly.
Marak sponsors me on Github. When I was thanking him I also asked, what’s your name? His reply: “I am marak.” Not a word more.

Marak is a giver.
It's hard to answer everything so I'll just focus on a few key aspects.

Wouldn't forcing senate reelection in case of failed impeachment allow the party that controls the house to force that reelection?

Let's say Party A controls the house while Party B controls the Senate and the Presidency. If Party A wants, they would be able to send impeachment to trial without real reason and then by the fact that Senate didn't convict you would get a reelection of Senate.

Way I see it, this would allow manipulation of the election process. In my mind, it would be much more logical that the House has to be reelected as they pushed forward an impeachment that was not convicted upon. This would make it so that House would not bring forward frivolous impeachments as they would have their own positions on the line.

About unseating a president, I understand your point. I agree to a degree. A sitting president can be limited in power by the fact he doesn't control the legislative branch. This may seem less optimal but it has a couple of advantages. Executive branch can keep on working within the confines allowed to them, without having to juggle for political support in the parliament. This allows the President to keep working with little regard to losing his position. This is especially good for military or foreign affairs as they can work on this with little to no political support.
[Replying to the dead reply: I was able to buy a bunch of model-f terminal keyboards, and last I checked they're still available at non-astronomical prices; presumably due to the difficulty of connecting them to modern hosts.]
should be possible.. I got something similar working in 3d a few years ago, and I'm just a mild-mannered code monkey who almost flunked out of the relevant courses on computational differential equations in college.

Mine was sloppy cpu-based C# code and not this butter-smooth webGL, but mathematically it's "relatively straightforward" so long as you aren't doing anything too tricky with the boundaries
What? You opted for Spotify model when you sign up for the service. I am pretty sure you are still free to purchase the music or album in iTunes.
Very few and I'd say, without checking, that it's probably much more common to lose a finger or a toe. That's a better analogy in this case too; it's unlikely that a mishap caused by the absence of encryption or the presence of a back-door will kill you. You might have to live with their consequences for a very long time though.

Arguing whether the World has suddenly become more dangerous is counter-productive in that aspect. In the end, we keep becoming wiser, technology evolves, and the World changes because of it. It doesn't matter if things actually got more dangerous or if we just got more afraid of them; it's the outcome of our actions that we need to focus on.

There is something to be said in comparing encryption to what usually amounts to spinning blades connected to some kind of engine; abusing any of those technologies can result in outcomes that are undesirable from society's point of view, and potentially from the users' point of view as well. Because, you know, fingers and toes.

The main problem is that just as if you outlawed the sale of lawn-mowers without specific features, there's nothing stopping people from using their existing lawn-mowers (or even building their own ones)anyway, the current encryption technologies won't go away. There's nothing stopping anyone from saving existing tools, or the source-code of existing tools, and keep using then. The only difference would be that such encryption, and the protection it brings with it, would now be restricted to the very criminals that the outlawing of the tools meant to stop in the first place.

Arguing whether the World has suddenly become more dangerous is counter-productive in that aspect. In the end, we keep becoming wiser, technology evolves, and the World changes because of it. It doesn't matter if things actually got more dangerous or if we just got more afraid of them; it's the outcome of our actions that we need to focus on.

Edit: As for the outcome, keeping encryption from everyone but criminals is outright ridiculous. It might get to some of the businesses selling specialized solutions catering to the people law enforcement is after, but in the end it will just result in the baddies simply moving away from those platforms and onto other platforms that are out of reach of EU law-enforcement. That leaves us with everyone else having a big target painted on them because this time we know there's a backdoor in their product.
About your first point, I've had people open issues on one of my Github projects, asking for new features. I then politely replied "I currently don't do free support for this project. If you have a budget, then I can make time. Let me know."

For me, this is the best way. It's clear and states that the ball is in their court.
Damn that blog is a gold mine. Thanks a lot for linking it.

This makes me want to make myself a wiki-type blog for keeping notes and developing ideas.
Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?
How sad is it, that the top comment in that thread, suggests signing up for a different social media account, to complain about the first.
Establish an industry standard with the programmer union that you will send any project they are using some agreed upon amount based on size per year. Distributed programming, distributed payment. Doesn't have to be a trick to it, just the slightest effort.
I'm pretty sure if I looked I could find you:

1. A voter registration of a T R D* in the Detroit area in the 1970s

2. A death certificate for T R D from the 1980s

3. A record of a T R D voting in the Detroit area in the 2020 election.

That's because T R D from #1 and #2 was my uncle, who grew up in the Detroit area, and died in the 1980s; and the T R D from #3 is my brother, who also grew up in the Detroit area, and is still alive and well.

It turns out that 1) a lot of people are named after their relatives. And also, 2) a lot of people still live where those relatives lived. And, 3) a lot of those relatives, being from the previous generation, have died. Any intersection of #2 and #3 will give you the "evidence of dead people on the voter rolls" (or "evidence of dead people voting") that we've been hearing so much about.

How big is that intersection in a state with 10 million people?

(* Full name redacted, but I have a very specific T R D in mind)
Unreal Engine license is along these lines: it's free if you are small / no significant revenue, and it's 5% of your revenue otherwise.

That said, not every shared-sources project would be used, if its license requires to pay royalty.
One size does not fit all. It's good that OSS exists, as is the case for public domain work.

But it's only natural that there is only so much goodwill in a person when their work is used by billion dollar companies that enrich a select few and can't even pay their employees fair wages, let alone share their success with those whose work it is built upon.
Adding my domain ( language-homework.com ) was fairly painless. You could make it easy to add the redirect (of the domain to the sales pages) by adding a DNS target. For example, if i point my root to your IP, you'd return a page that redirects to your website on the correct page ?
I don't like Facebook but I don't think I would have a problem with creating a Facebook account for the device only (with an email address only for this device).

But what seems to be the main issue here is that it must be an active Facebook account.

I don't think any judge could call that a fair policy.
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Used the open source licence to get popular and now you're butt hurt? You would have zero users if your project was closed source.
I've had jobs where I would 100% agree with you and jobs where I would 100% disagree.

In that sense, I sort of want to congratulate you to only have encountered productive, collaborative work environments, and not backstabbing, infighting, untrusting ones.
> we should farm fish

I was more driving at: let's stop consuming fish at all...
You've missed my point entirely. I'm not talking about one legislator, I'm talking about an entire nation. At the end of the day, the one leverage you and I have over our policy-maker overlords, is the vote.

> It won't force bad faith actors to cooperate [..] as the GP said, won't hold their politicians to account.

The only way you can hold this belief, is to also believe that voting behaviour doesn't change over time, and that you don't have a part to play in that. What else could motivate you to speak with such passion if it were only futile?

> It's just wishful thinking and I'm hoping enough people are done with the feel good woowoo.

You miss every shot you don't take. A platitude, maybe, but also a falsifiable proposition, which is clearly true.

For instance, there's nothing magical about taking your vote to any of the independents with much better policies. Sure, their pitch for the white house is impossible, but they might make headway into the senate, and each % point that goes to an independent provides a signal to the established Red/Blue teams that maybe they should adopt some of those policies.

Nothing magical about organising with like-minded people, creating and crowd-funding a lobby group. Or even taking part of one that suits your interests.
That would be a 2D print.
Yes, bone loss or osteoporosis is (or should be) a big concern over 40, especially for women. Continuing weight training can reduce or even halt this loss.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/strength-trai...
If Apple really cares about security, they'll allow these alt stores to use Apple Pay's APIs, even if this specific payment mean adds 30% to the price.