skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently contributed to a project hosted on sr.ht for the first time. It took some getting used to. I can see the potential, but there are some sharp edges.

The email-based workflow could be convenient for some, but speaking for myself, I'd mainly prefer to interact via the web UI. The ability to send updates to patches submitted from the web UI seems to be missing. If I made a mistake or was asked to change something, I had to completely re-submit the patch as a separate email. I couldn't find a way to communicate on mailing lists without using an external email client. Basic things, like needing to hand-wrap my emails at 70-something characters, and remember to remove quoted text from the bottom of emails, is an unfortunate barrier to entry for new contributors. All of these things could be abstracted away via the web UI for those who don't want to use email.
Heavy things delivered means you are contributing to pollution as well as anybody else

What's really polluting the atmosphere is not people's cars, it's the constant and unstoppable traffic of goods delivered from country to country for no real reason other than "economy of scale"

A friend of mine has asked for an eye pencil replacement the other day because it was delivered of the wrong colour

It costed a couple euros and came from Korea

They gladly sent another one and picked up the old one

For a two euros eye pencil

Imagine what the fashion industry produces when it moves the 30 billion pounds of clothes that every year are discarded in UK

Not to say that people don't pollute, but that the control should start on who produce the most pollution and also profit from it, not from the last ring of the supply chain
And take 1h 30m for that ride that is done in 30 minutes? No thanks.
I think you misunderstood my comment William. 1876 was a time when the Republican party generally wanted a large federal government (as opposed to a smaller government favored by Democrats) and you can look at the policies they supported during this time to verify this. It's not controversial, it's historical.
Sorry to hear that. Two things that I've seen help, I mean actually help, are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and for me reading great Stoic philosophers like Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. You have to learn to be comfortable in your own skin and love yourself or you will always feel bad. You are as valuable, indeed more valuable to yourself, as anyone on this planet from your perspective. Learn to love what you have -now-. If you live in the past and the future all the time you will always be miserable in the now. It may be trite, but it's as true now as it was 2000 years ago. I had almost this same converation with a friend last night who is tearing himself apart trying to keep his relationship together along with a crazy work schedule. Walk it all back, shut it down, and take care of yourself and your means of supporting yourself during a recovery. Volunteering to help the homeless on the weekends, helping someone else with projects, anything to get yourself out of the rut. If I can do it anyone can.
VC funded Twitter is a de-facto left activist outlet. CEO Jack Dorsey has admitted as much, though I don't see much action into fixing the blatant bias in their hiring pipeline. For all the 'diversity problem' they like to complain about, their workforce is a 99% left echo chamber. 'Diversity and inclusion' is a political shibboleth used to keep out people with different perspectives, excluding half the country that is conservative, and being intentionally biased into hiring and promoting individuals from the 8% of the country that qualifies as 'progressive activist'.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17857622/twitter-liberal-emplo...

> Twitter is so liberal that its conservative employees ‘don’t feel safe to express their opinions,’ says CEO Jack Dorsey.

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/31/18039528/tech-employees-polit...

> Employee donations to midterm candidates by party

> Twitter 98.7% Democratic

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-twitter-employees-...

> Twitter employees donated $347,270, or 98.99% of total federal donations, to Democrats, making individual donations of $200 or more. Meanwhile, only $3,556, or 1.01%, of federal donations from Twitter employees went to Republicans.

https://psmag.com/news/the-seven-political-tribes-of-america

Progressive Activist 8%
I think this might be more accurate. Sometimes it only takes one, not a whole lot.
I recently migrated part of a platform over to a distributed architecture with a heavy reliance on serverless functions. We had very specific reasons for doing it that I wont get into, but I can confirm that its an unbelievably bad experience from a development standpoint. We tried all the usual tools like localstack and SAM local and it all just suuuuucked. Something that would have been a day or twos worth of work with a tranditional api endpoint would stretch out to weeks. We ended up getting fed up and put all the calls to our serverless functions behind interfaces. Then, when running locally, we swapped out the transport layer to call a simple webserver that can call the the functions directly. We've been leveraging that approach for a few months now and its smoothed out a lot of issues for us. The downside of course is that you aren't using the same networking as whats deployed but so far it hasn't been as much of a problem as I was afraid it would be and our velocity has increased quite a bit.

I would go as far as to say the unfriendly local dev experience is almost the point. They want to lock you into having to use their platform to get anything done. They want to make this stuff as difficult to abstract as possible. They want you to use their proprietary methods for code sharing (looking at you lambda layers...). All of it is designed so that you simply can't run your logic without tying yourself inextricably to their platform. It's a spiderweb that you don't notice until you are trapped in it.
There's vintage and vintage. Old film scanned today (with modern resolution and chromatic fidelity, reproducing accurately chemical and optical issues in the original) is very different from old TV footage (with anisotropic filtering and old magnetic tape degradation effects) and from early digital cameras.
Not by much, even then he comfortably exceeded life expectancy for West Bengal.
Those platforms sell a product and that product is your attention. Their customers are advertisers. Hence they don't give crap about your tweets which actually are not yours but theirs. Parler will not be any different.
Gaslighting now?
It's merely about usability. EVs are great for short commuting hops, but offer no solution if you want to have a road trip with daily mileage exceeding the full battery range. Also note that the posted ranges are "under best possible circumstances", so factor in real-world use, battery degradation and not wanting the charge to drop below 20-30% for your own peace of mind, and your effective roadtrip range is sliced in half.

Sure, there are charging stations, but if you are traveling with kids, having an extra 1-hour break, could be a huge headache.

A common standard for batteries that could be quickly exchanged at a charging station, instead of charging them, could solve the problem 100%, but instead we see governments forcing less effective solutions into everyone's throat.
It would be fun to watch him lose again.
The sentences have different meanings.

"I don't think a lot of people know what they want." -> I believe it is a rare trait in a person to know what they want.

"I think a lot of people don't know what they want." -> I believe it is a common trait for a person not to know what they want.

These things are not mutually exclusive nor mutually inclusive.

Lots of similar sounding statements are subtly different like this in English. "I am not happy" and "I am unhappy" have slightly different meanings as well.
No, it's not unfamiliarity, I have had to use email to manage and submit patches before, and hated it. This just stinks of doing things the old way in cargo cult like fashion. This whole approach, some development in email, some on the web, and some on a disused IRC channel is exactly why projects like Cairo suffer from lack of contributions. Do people really want to deal with text patches in 2020? I appreciate the back-to-basics approach and aesthetics, but srht just seems to be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
The trick is to do as much as possible outside the CI system. Ideally, each step should just call a single script, Makefile command, or your language's build tool equivalent.
Matrix is the backend, Element (formerly named Riot) is a frontend.
The Science of Data Analysis
that looks fun. is this something i can pay to do?
Yeah, I'm probably sticking with HA for the time being mainly because I don't have the time to redo the whole thing right now. It's just frustrating to hear people recommend HA to complete home automation noobs with little or no linux experience.

Related to that, I keep the HA configs routinely backed up. I should probably switch to nightly backups because HA now manipulates those config files when setting changes are done through the UI. Every once in a while, I shutdown the system and completely clone the Pi SD Card image to save elsewhere. I (thankfully) haven't had to restore from this in a while, but before switching to a durable SD card, I had to do it with every power failure.

Backsups, cloning, industrial cards. Again, I have no clue how a non-linux user could even begin to use HA.

I'll checkout the TP-Link switches. Thank you!
Packrat Parsing: Simple, Powerful, Lazy, Linear Time [pdf]
Matrix is a protocol. Riot is the old name of the flagship apps built on the Matrix protocol by the core team. Element is the new name.
Pretty much any file you could open on your computer can be used to install malware (given the right conditions). It’s not limited to applications. And that malware can now hijack these services that bypass firewalls, VPNs, etc undetected.
Yeah, I'm convinced OP's position is anti-fragile but he's got a right to run his project any way he wants. Strong agree with everything you said.
‘inoperative statement’: meaning and origin
If he didn't know he was depressed maybe he isn't? There's no reason to believe two psychiatrists would provide the same diagnosis.
I think it's past the latest hate cycle to good all boring now, kinda like php but with a bit of a better rep. I'm not sure actually why php and ruby are so despised.
>Or are college graduates these days trained to a level where this type of project is expected

Well, I would be unpleasantly surprised if wrapping python's dicts with a simple API was beyond the capabilities of an average college grad.
The problem with your arguments is that they are full of assumptions of things that you say are good for society and humanity, while we don't actually have a scientific understanding of what the humanity is for to even be able to decide what is good or not to get there. Which, of course, makes all the arguments imply a power in someone's hands to decide what is "good" for humanity and society or what they are for as long as it's not "primitive dopamine hit engagement driven advertising", but someone more aligned with your ideals. I hope you can see how this is not much different from somebody else you don't align with having that power.
You don't even need that. Documents have been identified before because some versions replace characters with nearly identical looking but different unicode characters (say, the various variations of spaces, or the semicolon with the Greek question mark.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_m...
I own a single laptop, am I a $2,000 startup?
Improving seasonal forecast using probabilistic deep learning
I think the "future of food delivery" is larger ghost kitchens, preparing food under different brands to give customer the feeling of choice.

These facilities can share personnel, stock and equipment between different brands. Larger volumes may allow investment in more automation. Facilities can be optimized for quick pickups. The whole food preparation process can be optimized together with deliveries to allow courier to deliver more food on one run.
Absolutely. Apparently CSPAN's coverage of the US election was far more even-handed, but people want to watch Fox or CNN because they're drawn to the smell of blood from the tribal war. People love to band together with their tribe to hate other tribes. It's sad because when you look at the basic needs of all people, they're the same. And when you put a reasonable Democrat into a room with a reasonable Republican, ban any talk of party affiliations and just discuss those basic needs they'll agree more than they disagree. The internet is a marvel, but humans didn't evolve the ability to stay rational in large numbers, so ultimately I think we're better off without it.
>hate speech

It is amazing that this term is used so frequently while being entirely undefinable. Hate is an emotion that is unquantifiable in the general sense but is used ad nauseam throughout the media without regard to it's undefinable scope. Worse yet, it is used in laws that have incarcerated people base on some perceived level of "hate", again which has never been defined.
Most statin problems caused by mysterious 'nocebo effect', study suggests
You might well surprise yourself. The hardest part of the whole thing is accurately distilling exactly what was causing the failure. And this is also where you the user is the best placed.

Mine had to do with Python Datetimes and timezones and after figuring out how to reliably reproduce it with a minimal case I could step through the stack trace and see what the library was doing (not much, just 'adding' some times together) and could see what might be causing it. (I haven't actually got to the bottom of it yet - I had other stuff to do.) But really the hard and time consuming step is that first bit. Of course, like anything it's a cost benefit - if it'll take weeks to nail it down and fix, vs using something else - then of course, a new approach is needed.
The quote is from William Gibson and was about technological development being different based on wealth and location.

You seem to have hijacked my point with something that's bothering you though :(
> Especially among HN users, who you would assume would be more likely to see the benefits of new technology.

I think people closer to the frontlines of tech understand better the problems with new technologies as they are implemented in practice, hence more people prefer having the choice to use older, less sexy, more time-tested technologies.
Isn't normal Rails the fast, scalable and easy to pick up framework for a Rails developer? Elixir has hype factor, but it still lacks the library ecosystem of Ruby. It's entirely possible to get to github scale with just Ruby and not have to learn all the gotchas of BEAM and OTP.
What happened to this story? It's not marked as "flagged", but it cannot be found in the story listing. Is there some sort of shadow-flagging in HN now?
The second hit includes a CafePress mug where the keyboard navigation diagram is wrong. So maybe they’re not all equal.

https://www.cafepress.com/mf/54286678/hjkl-vim-navigation_mu...
Indeed. My experience wading into the comment sections of conservative places is that they've been far /more/ censorship-friendly than the baseline.
I have several projects on GitHub, and I have different experience depending on the target user of the project. For something that is library, or the thing which usually used by technical users, I generally have good experience with those, because I can get good bug report and quality PR.

In contrast, I also have some projects that can be used by nonprogrammers. I didn't have a good experience dealing with issues in these projects. It is usually just "not working", bad questions or some feature requests for their use case, so it is rare to have good bug report or quality PR.
Examples: https://github.com/maple3142/aria2c-ariang https://github.com/maple3142/GDIndex
It could be some corrupt force. Or it might be that once a president gets in and gets up to date on all the intelligence and geo-politics and complexities of leaving those countries, they decide it isn't such a good idea after all.
Pickups in Europe? Practically don't exist
What is a drag race strategy?
Isn't that player just your file manager? e.g. on Windows I just (at worst) group them by type and there's my tunes - I then click them as I have vlc as my default media player
The dual taxonomy of so many animals is interesting. The line between a pigeon and a dove seems to be one of judgment, like with rats and mice. Or the slightly more distant mantis and roach.
> Wow, seems like the people who voted for a candidate who said that mail-in voting was a hive of fraud for six months before an election were less likely to vote by mail, leading to a huge number of mail-in ballots being cast for the opposing candidate. Odd.

That isn't what they are complaining about though e.g There are saying that some areas have very high turnout (over 95%) in specific counties. Even in countries with mandatory voting you don't get past 95% of the population voting. I haven't looked into these claims myself. So I have no idea if they are true.
Yeah iCloud is really nice for this.
I lived in London for 20 years until I escaped five years ago, 15 years in a terrace street where parking occupancy was 85% or higher most of the time (except when Google last scanned it) and almost 100% in the evenings.

It was sometimes hard to get parked here never mind near your house or by a lamp post. Take a look at the street on Google street maps (Link below). These are old houses built over a century ago and many are now multiple occupancy with 1-3 cars per house. Counting lamp posts and cars (when full) there's probably one lamp post to every 15-20 cars. So lamp post charging is not going to work practically here and this is typical of many such streets.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5646881,-0.0087098,3a,75y,68...
> is it smart to be the first company to start mass-producing an open-source medical device?

Certainly none of the existing ventilator companies would have that incentive. The best case would be public funding -- a country with a large enough single-payer system could potentially justify as cost-saving and building supply chain resiliency.

A new company, that doesn't have to worry about cannibalizing its existing line of business, may be able to make it work also. Just because a business model is less lucrative than another doesn't mean it's infeasible.
Bodo Tasche, a fellow HN user, submitted the sloth emoji and it got accepted

https://twitter.com/bitboxer/status/967151030713704449

http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18074-sloth-emoji-.pdf

https://emojipedia.org/sloth/
I have opened an issue on the React Native repository, please share it and help me find a solution.

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/30395

Hopefully they will be helpful, and I don't have to take legal action regarding the project name, nor file a GDPR complaint for the loss of control over my personal data.
You can add a kill/shutdown message handler and move your state somewhere else before the process dies.
> Yeah, this is a popular saying, but couldn’t be further from the truth for the most successful people.

Sergey and Larry tried to sell Google for 1 million dollars, and failed. Zuck thought Facebook would never be profitable. The idea that "successful people" have plan all along is fiction.

They might have a vision and are pursuing said vision, but things rarely turn out anywhere near the way they are intended.
> They have much longer than 9 years to get the infrastructure right.

No, these seem like pretty solid questions to ask if you are going to be forced to buy an electric car, not just if society is going to go all electric. Unless we're trying to convince people to just stop buying cars altogether in 2030.
Bullshit, buddy. Ant getting target-tanked by China means America is still the best place for innovation and risk-taking.

Every generation thinks they have it the worst.
(Replying again as I can't seem to edit my original).

> It is a little bit less likely that you dislike heartland America

This is a strawman. Relatively few people "dislike" heartland America in and of itself. The objection has always been to people voting for bigotry, and on top of that, it's always to their own detriment, plus it is all too common that it is "heartland America" that are the ones who need to exercise more empathy and are the most likely to disparage "others" and outsiders because they are not exposed to them. There's a reason people become more liberal and in favor of progressivism as they move towards higher population centers and become more educated and exposed to the rest of the world.
I miss SlashDot hey-days.
Am I blinkered in that I expect people contributing to a media player to know C, or do you mean in terms of working with the walls of apple's garden (haven't touched an apple product for five years now so I've never used swift)
Yeah. I'd really want to work as a data engineer for a Bio phd that deals with pb data, for free or even pay a small fee...
Imo reduction of plastic is certainly important, but we don't seem to have shown that is quite the imparitive that climate change is.

Bioaccumulation of plastics is certainly terrifying, but I just haven't seen evidence that it's the threat to civilization that climate change is.
> The climate is fucked

Not because of manual gears...

Or because people love to drive

But because we move too many things burning fossil fuel

Pleasure is never stupid, before considering driving stupid, there are many things I would call it first

For example drinking beer, to quote you "you are literally burning fossil fuel to produce something that poison you"

The war on ice is wrong in many ways similar to the war on drugs: it is punitive only for the final user.

Do you really want people to stop using cars?

Instead of putting public money in private companies to help people buy the expensive new electric cars, give the money directly to people to not use the car and see what they use the money for, so you can better understand what their needs are, instead of creating an artificial one.
How to cull photos quickly with a faster photo editing workflow
It is not really historians and it does not really push the narrative of government "given up on citizens as reaction to them not trusting government".

Government and citizens are not even two super distinct entities, government are citizens and is put in place by citizens.
> The climate doesn’t care about economics, only total parts per million of atmospheric CO2.

But behavior cares about economics, taxes change the economics, and behavior affects CO2 levels.

The devil is in the details, of course. Taxes would have to be high enough to get the behavior under control. It could turn out that, in order to get usage down low enough, the taxes need to be 500% of the cost of a fossil fuel car or 5000% of the cost of fuel. And maybe that's not politically feasible or something.

But my point is in order to dismiss the idea of taxes as a solution, you can't start with the idea that taxes won't have any effect. Governments all over the world use taxes to change behavior, and there are obvious examples of it working, like tariffs in trade wars.

Note that I'm also not saying taxes are the right solution here. This is really just a point of order.
DynamoDB and AWS Step Functions are notable exceptions to the fact that AWS services are usually not available locally. The vast majority of AWS services isn't available outside of AWS.
Quite right – typo now fixed.