skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cynically I just think he wants to play ball with the Biden administration now that they’re talking a big talk about working with republicans.
I don't see that part in the article.
> Just because you made your source code available does not mean I'll do your QA for free

Personally, I distinguish between projects by individuals running it as a hobby/side project and projects run by big organizations for profit.

If it's something like Docker, DC/OS or Kubernetes and elementary functionality is borked / documentation is flat out wrong/outdated, yes I'll rise a stink because obviously you managed to fuck up on QA and expect that the open-source community will find and even fix your most egregious bugs for free.

For individual projects I may if I have the time actually do a deep dive into an issue because it's likely that whatever I'm hitting is because I'm using the project in a manner that the original author doesn't and therefore if I want to get it running I can either pay the author a couple of beers or get a somewhat reasonable patch together so the author can either take it as-is or adapt to their coding style but at least doesn't have to think about the issue and its cause.
The author isn't asking you to QA his app. He's saying that if the app doesn't work for you then you need to incentivize him to look at why and to change it so that it does. You're very welcome to just not use the app instead, or to fix it yourself.

I admire the principle behind his stance, because supporting people for free is horrible. I'm not sure I'd ever have the guts to do it myself though.
if you are depressed because of biological reasons(chemical imbalance), this is usually a long term depression, stop eating carbohydrates and vegetables. go full on carnivore for a month and see for yourself.

if you are depssed because of psychological reasons, this is usually just few days, this is always the case when your wants cannot be matched by reality. sometimes you do not know why you are depressed, what is that want that causes it. you have to go on self exploration journey and find out. what changed lately in your life, what have you been thinking about and so on. when you do find out the culprit, you simple have to realize that the reality is what it is and it is up to you to deal with the facts. ie. "ok, this is the situation, what am i going to do about it?". letting go work most of the time.
Disclaimer: I'm just a random person on the internet, but a lot of issues you wrote about ringed home to me. So below here is how I dealt with all of them. And in some cases, I'm simply offering a thing or two here, because I feel like you need some companionship (and since I have no clue on how to meet people during this pandemic, I'm doing it this way).

> I write Python but I never learned how to use the Python debugger.

I can show you my workflow. Feel free to email me.

I love debuggers.

> Every time I'm asked to give an estimate for something I feel like I'm pulling a random number out of my ass.

I think a lot of us do. I came to accept that this is the way it is.

> I tried to learn TypeScript and React and I just can't get it.

I've learned enough React and TypeScript to have some insights into this. Self-learning this takes around 100 hours. This is how I did it:

- Read a book (e.g. Road to React) and code whatever the book says

- Then make a project on your own that is like the project of the book but not completely

- Now make a project (small) that is something different

You're now ready to code in actual React.

My route for this was:

1. Code whatever Road to React says

2. Make a favorites app. List your favorite websites and give it 1 to 5 stars.

3. My thesis (tbh convincing the academic board that a React project was scientific was as hard as the project itself :P). My thesis was an XML parser that feed to output to React components which would be rendered. Note: the XML language was academic and my claim was that there would be a 30% code reduction by using React, which was true as no parsing was needed anymore, you could use a webpack plugin.

> My wife isn't a gamer and there's nobody to play with me.

I've noticed that I only like and play games because my friends play them. And I then become quite competitive and practice that game over and over and over again. I always wondered why I was addicted to games, it was just a distorted way for my need for human contact.

With that said, feel free to email me to play Among Us. It's one of the few games that I allow myself to play (as long as I know someone who wants to play as well).

> eat the cheapest fast food lunch alone during work days

In my country it's quite easy to circumvent this as we have good bread, butter and peanutbutter (so I simply make that as a sandwich, super quick), throw in some tangerines and that's my "fastfood". Do you have similar ways of doing that?

> When I'm off work and get home, I take care of watching over the little one do her homework, I have supper and I do the dishes, and then it gets late and I have no more energy to do anything useful.

For the past 6 months, I mostly worked 4 days per week instead of 5. The difference is massive. It sounds like your energy is being depleted too much for what you can handle right now.
I was discussing the exact same set of views as the parent: those espoused on "Parler, TheDonald, etc" (and also subtly objecting to the parent's proposed timeline. The_donald started self-radicalizing long before it was quarantined. In fact, it was the radicalization that took place in the Donald that led to its subsequent quarantine and removal).

I certainly do take issue with extreme views on the other side, but those views are usually things like crystal healing, not Coups.
I have to say my experience with Hive has been nothing but exceptional. All the way from having it installed back in 2016 (when we moved in) to this day when it came on for an hour this morning. The controller is right next to the boiler in the eaves of my house and is connected via ethernet through a
TP-Link TL-PA9020P powerline adaptor. In all fairness the thermostat is very close to the receiver, in the landing, so maybe that's why it's never been an issue. I don't think I've ever once had a single issue with using the app, whether that's from downstairs or from the other side of the Atlantic. It will be the first thing on the shopping list when/if we ever move.
I wouldn't downplay where they were in 2016. TD was crawling with things like Pinochet helicopter kill all leftists, celebrating punching protestors. Their "community bubbles" were never a place to respectfully disagree about immigration policy which you can and always have been able to do on whatever platform you like.
People seem to get furious about being blocked. I’ve seen people post publicly the name of the person who blocked them demanding an explanation. It seems to escalate things rather than calm them down.
Doctor Who's sonic pioneers to turn internet into giant musical instrument
Right, fixed it, thank you :D
Wake up Dang, this is another one of those "political flame-bait threads"!
Help me understand why MBA graduates placing into technology companies as, eg, PMs see little leveling benefits for their efforts versus graduates from the same schools placing at consulting firms? Is the network really that much more essential to a consulting career than a PM career? And is the hours-adjusted total income of a consulting career that much better for wealth building than an extra million bucks pre-tax at age 30?
Nothing happened. Its alive and doing well. It is community supported, just like Voat.
It's not hard, you just run the wires in conduit. Yeah, you can see the conduit, but make it part of the decor. You'll see this in a lot of retrofits.
grappling with this myself these days. I would happily
choose music over food years back. but once i started making code money, i got so comfortable. built up a whole world and « lifestyle » that now I (feel like I) have to maintain. and it feels like that’s how life continues to go as you accumulate a partner, pet, kids... you keep building up this house of cards that gets harder and harder to prevent from it all falling down. i dunno, sometimes I just wanna stop and run in the other direction because it feels like i’m doing it all wrong despite these being « markers of success ».
I see where you're coming from, but in this case I think it's not too bad.

In the end I guess it depends on how you sit on your couch, but AFAIK the ergonomic guideline would be that your eyeline should be aligned to the top of the display.

Meaning that, if you're sitting on your couch, you're sitting slightly reclined, and the eyeline would be angled upwards. That's why you often seen the rule of thumb for home theaters "eye height = middle (or even lower third) of TV".

Incidentally - that's how I've rearranged my own viewing arrangement recently (raised the TV for ~20cm to make room for a well-positioned center speaker), and while being skeptical myself in the beginning, it has worked out great.

But yeah, TV over the fireplace is still terrible. :)
Mastadon is not "uncensored" either. They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse.

The only real solution to censorship will be a completely distributed system, where users control their own data and associations, and all communication is peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, with zero middle-men.
Alarmist nonsense.

As I said before in a different thread: The internet is a malicious place, filled with the non-technical and uninformed. So I guess we’ll wait for you to design a better trust-based system that allows you to stop malicious software from executing on N different machines without needing N users to do anything?

I want code I run to be signed and notarized. I want malicious executables to be disabled quickly and efficiently.

You can disable the filtering bypass but then you’re in an uncomfortable position where malware that’s able to install a network filter can filter out its own revocation check requests!
Says in the video, 20lbs of force is sufficient to trip it.

I wouldn't worry about it crushing one of my cats but I would close it and then hear a plaintive "meow" from wherever it was sleeping inside :D.
At risk of entering Rube Goldberg territory, I suppose we could speak of two baskets hanging by a common thread.
The NSA once got handed a copy of a whistleblowed document by a journalist to confirm its authenticity and they tracked the source down within days.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-m...
I am using it for a zipscreen, it has never failed. Comes with good software & API, but you can flash your own if you want.
Reporting the bug would at least save someone else some headache trying to figure things out why it is not working as expected, or make them able to decide whether the piece of OS is useful for their use case. If you don’t want to receive this, disable the issues feature in your code sharing platform..
Apple users deserve to suffer.
While the arrangement was not perfect by any means, it did mean that the politicians of that era were men of substance with a wealth of knowledge tempered by real-world experience.

Yes exactly. I don't hold with the notion that the head of the NHS has to have been a doctor or the head of the MoD has to have been a soldier - there is value in being about to look at thing objectively with an outsider's perspective. But at the same time, I do absolutely believe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be someone, from any industry, who has employed people and had to make payroll on payday come hell or high water.

It would also benefit everyone if some life experience was required before becoming a teacher.

The ballot box is not a high enough bar when all the candidates are of low quality.

Agreed again, voting now is about holding your nose and choosing the least-worst. I want "none of the above" on the ballot paper and if it wins, the real candidates are banned from politics for life. Repeat until some decent candidates show up. But none of our incumbent politicians would ever pass that law for obvious reasons.
No free speech is about only saying things I agree with!
Why, o why, doesn’t this show the (supposedly; he text doesn’t convince me, and because I never noticed broken monospace handling, I’m not interested enough in this to compare it, even in a single browser) broken handling?

Screen shots and “in your browser the default is this; this change makes it this”

I would also think browsers fine-tune their behavior to their default mono space font, on the assumption that those overriding that will tweak the stylesheet, too. Are those so similar in size between browsers that a single css rule can be optimal?
> you left the lights on and you are already in bed

1970's technology to the rescue: https://www.amazon.com/Clapper-Sound-Activated-Switch-Each/d...

As for when my hands are full, elbows work just fine.

If/when I become bedridden or crippled, I'll probably get Alexa. Until then, I get up and walk to the switch. It's a privilege to be able to do that, and I'll do it as long as I can.
“Owned” != checking a signing developers public key is still valid and that the underlying binary is safe to run.

Ffs how is this news.

Cheap hit piece from a brand that should know better.

As a professional security architect + applied cryptographer, I’m the very type of person who buys Purism type products, and this type of nonsense does nothing for their brand.
I don't even know what you are arguing about anymore.
> Hackers intuitively understand something many computer users don’t–ownership is not about possession, it’s about control.

Yes and having that control is moot for 90% of people, especially when it's so easy to hand it off with crap like drive-by-download malware, buddy-poke type of crapware, malware and such.

Of course I'm in the 10% that takes value out of having control of their hardware, but most of people don't. Also I can run the freest of free softwares and that might be useless if I need a specific software for a specific task. Then what?
Iterations of this design show up in intro architecture design studios every year, Shortly after Italian smart furniture videos appeared on Youtube. I've seen many based off library rolling shelving as well, most older than aforementioned designs.
Pretty natural conceptions for architecture student + student living + spending time in library + furniture design (easy to tackle small scale project). Of course after graduation, most of these ideas get dropped because (I guess) market conditions were never particularly fertile for these designs to take off. Even now with vanlife, micro living, I rarely see smart furniture like this in real life. Still extremely niche. I wonder if there's a term for multiple discovery / simultaneous invention for design ideas that gets spontaneously rediscovered due to very specific conception conditions but never material on mainstreet. Something sisyphean about it all.
Millimeter accurate GPS.

I played with survey grade equipment for a day and it's crazy. Being able to repeatably measure positions and distances down to millimeters feels like magic. Imagine a VR headset that doesn't need trackers, a vacuum cleaner without camera/lidar, and so much more we can't even imagine without access to the technology. It's probably more than five years out though.
If rich people payed tax at the same rate as ordinary people, we'd be living in the same system without harmful extremes of inequality.
Again, lots of speculation around this, no reasonable evidence in favour.

Like, I'm not American (and I would have voted for Sanders twice if I was), but the core issue here is that people are focusing on conspiracy-like theories to explain their loss in elections, rather than trying to understand where the other side is coming from.
In my case, I received most of the entitled requests via email to the address that I had used for the git commits. It's exhausting having your inbox flooded. But I agree. Delete + ignore is the right reaction in most cases.

That said, I feel that the balance in open source has shifted from fellow developer users to companies leeching off your stuff to power their SaaS.

So these days, I prefer offering a rate limited free API instead of local tools and / or source code. That also conveniently keeps non technical users away.
The most famous use of the ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater analogy was 1919’s Schenck v. United States, where the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that protesting the draft by passing out pamphlets exemplified a clear and present danger worthy of regulation.

A handful of exceptions do exist to the First Amendment, but free speech absolutists tend to be skeptical of the comparison you make in your post, because historically there have been some serious legal wrongs performed in the name of said crowded theater.
I am tired of these articles. Can we please stop?

They don't have anything new. I know it's fun to pile up on apple or any big tech company for that matter but apple users here are already aware of most shenanigans and they have already made up their mind. It's the general public that needs more of these articles with better explanations who don't know about what they are accepting.
Thanks! That already works very very easy (there's a tool which allows to to cut/split/reverse cut and the like, with instant preview at all times) ;) For things like this, I would say my app already shines :)
And... That's fine I think. Nobody actually knew that, even though many suspected it. Less strict versions of that sentence would be completely fine. Discussing the details of things like their secret rooms at internet exchanges and countermeasures in case it was true would be great too.

But it's like people saying "MS is selling all your behaviour data" today, which is likely partially true, but not quite in that way. And when they take that extreme position without having something to back it up, it's hard to / not worth discussing.
Right, but then you have to go to the bed, turn the bedside lamp on, go to the door, turn the room lamp off, go to bed. Bit of a round trip.

I wound up with a LED strip attached to a RPi under my bed, driven by a clapper script. Doesn't work completely reliably, but well enough.
I write Free Software. My users aren't leeches and I wouldn't insult them that way.

(There are leeches who try to get you to solve their problems for them as opposed to reporting bugs, but that's a tiny minority.)
I wish there was a dedicated, light text editor that could be comfortably used as a typical vim config but was fully compatible with a windows/mac paradigm for discovering shortcuts or standards (e.g. with the mouse or using standard keybindings). Gvim isn't quite there but close. This fictional editor should still be usable by anyone in a terminal but should be used like vscode as a standalone tool and yet very, very low resource, low fuss. There just isnt such an editor. Vim itself is just too hard for a beginner. It took me far too many years to know it and Im still learning years later...but I'm hooked now and struggle to edit text using the mouse, end, home, delete, enter, tab and ctrl-chords. I'd recommend it to anyone but more as a fun learning project; an esoteric plaything with real-world applications that give you a bit of an edge oftentimes.
Having seen the decisions made by many of these startups, I'm extremely sceptical that this is the case.
Good idea to post an anonymous poll.

Ever since I experienced ego death in the wake of a mental breakdown, around five years ago, my mental health has improved a lot :).
I don't doubt your experience, and I have no reason to.

I only asked because I was curious. Please don't take it was me trying to invalidate you.
At his age — or maybe a little older, 14, 15, I’d have to check my version control history — I was developing a multi-user networked chat client using kevent/kqueue :) I remember being so inspired by the C10K problem. I miss the times when everything was new and exciting, tbh.

I will say I’m really happy I kept all my old projects. Looking back I actually wrote really good software, expect for my long since shed distaste for testing.
in my opinion, this seems like Apple, once a computer company that catered to computer users and the expectations of computer users, is now a mobile phone company catering to and responsive to the lower expectations of phone users. to engineer these plain text surveillance communications over the public internet between a users private computer and the company responsible for building that computer is like if my home informed the company that built my home every time I started any unique activity while inhabiting said home, as long as I hadn’t been engaged in that activity for some amount of time. It’s extremely disrespectful to Apples users, who are also Apples customers, who are also mostly all of us on this message board. My goal is to one day grow a backbone and stop putting up with this.
What is the opposite of damning with faint praise? Supporting with faint condemnation?

That is a little bit outside the usual norms of the OSS maintainers that I've seen. If that is the strategy adopted in a repo then it would be polite to document it somewhere obvious when users try to submit bugs. Like a paragraph on support policy or something.

But yeah that is the only strategy that makes sense to me. If they want a guaranteed professional response, they can pay professional rates for it.
There are switches that use the kinetic energy of the button push to work. No batteries, no wires.

https://www.enocean.com/en/products/enocean_modules_24ghz/
I imagine this view will not be looked on with approval, but the ethos espoused by the BLM cadre is explicitly anti-capitalist and anti-police. To many who are right of center, that looks like an extreme left-wing view that is not only tolerated by tech and social media companies, but actively promoted. It’s not all crystals and homeopathy.
Why the dichotomy? IDEA Vim is an excellent IntelliJ plugin. For XCode there's XVim2 and Visual Studio has VisualVim. In fact the pervasiveness of good Vim plugins for ide's is one of the factors in Vim's lead over Emacs.
How charming. I take it you spend most of your waking hours glowering at anyone you see in public with an iPhone in hand. Thank you for your invaluable service!
> In my case, I received most of the entitled requests via email to the address that I had used for the git commits

Same here. To avoid getting overwhelmed by this, I have setup a particular email address tied to my git commits, that gets re-sent to my main email address, where it gets filtered, marked as seen and tagged as "potentially spam". I look at this tag sometimes (maybe once a month), depending on my available time, but in most cases, I just receive automated spam that is not even worth opening.
Recall that for at least 3 years, Reddit, here, and many other places were pushing the Russia collusion conspiracy theory.

Nobody can fact check for you. You need to make your own opinions based on the knowledge you have, and suppressing information does not make you more informed.
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The problem with that is that he's a physicist and not an ontologist, so that's not a partciularly strong appeal to authority.
Twitter is ridiculously overstaffed for what they are and it resulted in very few improvements over the years. I really wonder what most people there do. And yes, I’ve run popular apps so I’m not underestimating anything. If Parler can grab a percentage of this market and not unnecessarily overextend themselves, they’ll be just fine.
I don't think we'll start getting reliability like that until manufacturers 1) stop trying to hook them up to the cloud 2) default to wired and 3) implement failsafes (you can still turn off the light switch manually).

Until then it's the internet of malware infested broken toasters.