skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a personal thing—some people love dark mode (myself included) but some people either don't prefer it or can't stand it.

As long as designers understand and support both light and dark, it's good to have the option.

For me, any time I pop open HN or Google Drive, my eyes have to take a second to adjust to the glaring brightness compared to everything else on the screen.
As far as I am aware, the only times contributions were not incorporated were because the work was done by under the terms of an employment contract with the result that the employer ended up owning the copyright, then the employer decided not to sign the CLA.

Can you think of a single instance in which code written by an individual contributor not bound by an employment contract was prevented from being incorporated into a project that required copyright be assigned to a central entity?

I have read multiple accounts of open-source contributors who have successfully negotiated when being hired that copyright to any code written on their own time on the own hardware will remain with them (so as not to complicate their contributions to open-source projects).
The emoji skin tone customization preference is a small thing but as a POC I really appreciate it. Never knew they had it.
I have had so many late packages lately. Fedex Ground was supposed to deliver Friday ... then it slipped to Monday, then today. This morning the tracking was updated to say it'll arrive tomorrow. So frustrating.

USPS has been really bad here in the Detroit area, too.

Of course Amazon packages are rarely or ever late.
> Commercial aircraft were also totally unreasonable for quite a time after Wright's first flight in 1903.

That's comparing apples and orangutans.

This isn't a 1903 situation at all - we've launched rockets on a weekly basis for 60 years and operated crewed reusable spacecraft for more than 30 years.

This is well known territory. All limitations, possibilities and risks are well known and documented.

If you have to make a comparison, choose the Concorde versus Ju-52 or something. But even that's flawed because it doesn't fit at all.

The concerns I mentioned aren't going to magically disappear - even a "perfectly safe" (by whatever definition) rocket still has to deal with these. A 30-engine, 122m, 65MN rocket will generate a literally deafening blast and for that reason alone cannot be launched near cities. This is a fact of nature, not just a simple engineering problem or overly cautious safety concern.

Same goes for airspace closure, weather on both ends, and simple things like customs and security checks.

Starship won't have any cross-range capabilities, full stop. That's how rockets work and one consequence of this is that bad weather means a scrubbed launch, simple as that. Nothing to do with attitude or "modern America".

That's just physics and natural phenomena that exist and cannot be wished away.

Again, none of this prevents point-to-point travel from being possible, it just demonstrates that it's likely not going to be an everyday occurrence like long-haul flights. A novelty, maybe. Another option for the rich and important, sure.

A viable alternative to regular jets, I think not. Time might prove me wrong, but I'm fairly certain the odds are stacked against regular point-to-point passenger flight service using huge rockets.
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Yes it is true, but in terms of CPU, there is an issue too...
(Lots of sub-processes by apps, means higher context switching, etc.)

And If I need 32GB and 16-CPU to run 5 or 6 apps...

Asimov was right after all :)
I've found in practice, Clojure's different implementations are actually way more useful then Common Lisp. In CL, you can in theory take code from ABCL, and then run it over SBCL, but the spec is actually a lie, and not all code will be portable, and most implementation have their own slight deviation and additions to the Spec. And in CL, each implementation is basically the same with a few differences, and thus very few reasons to use one or the other. Where as in Clojure, there's good reasons to go from Clojure Java to ClojureScript to Clojure CLR, to Babashka, to Clojerl, to Ferret, etc. Each time you switch the target platform you get a Clojure that is well adapted to the new platform host. That has made it much more practical I've found in practice. It's actually because there are enough host specific differences that in the end I find it more useful.
It doesn't need to make it just like Mars, to be as inhospitable. An asteroid big enough to crater to the mantle, sending out massive waves of lava and darkening the sky for years would do. It might wipe out all humans on Earth. Of course, unlike Mars, Earth would recover. Not that humanity would care.
Every company in China is essentially state owned as they need to follow whatever Chairman Xi says.
I mean, duh? Does Apache Kafka ever made the claim that it is a database?

Other things that are not a database: Apache Traffic Server, Apache Mahout, Apache Jakarta, Apache ActiveMQ... hundreds of these exist.
It does however mean that it's winner-take-all on the vendor end. That's troubling for the future.
Can anyone recommend a good post about why it's so hard to name things?
I use this extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

It offers dark mode and many useful quality-of-life UI tweaks.
> What is Flutter missing, in your opinion, for it to be a viable competitor?

Maturity and the breadth of the surrounding ecosystem, for one. Flutter is looking very promising long-term, but it's going to take some time to evolve past a mobile app framework.

Qt is most widely known for the UI framework, but it actually has far more functionality under the hood. Qt's core target audience values those features. Most of the people who see Qt as a simple UI framework don't.

Like the parent comment said, most of the people who are complaining about the licensing costs are on the wrong side of the Qt value proposition. They should use simpler, freely available tools like Flutter or Electron.
Personality traits that are not advantageous in some way are unlikely to be maintained over many generations of evolution.

Personality traits that are universally advantageous would not be discernible as traits, because they would become universal to everyone.

Therefore, all personality traits must also be disadvantageous in some way.

So-called "dark trait" behaviors obviously confer advantages at least in the short term. In the long run, we're all dead, but early success compounds, like interest.

Some of the luckiest psychopaths will end up at the very top, while some of the unluckiest will end up six feet under.

This is difficult to accurately capture in statistics, but the expected gain from "dark triad" traits across the whole population is probably zero.
I would pay/donate up to $20 once, or $1 a month or something, if you created a (very easy) containerized deployment I could deploy on my home server and limit to only the phones I choose to allow access, that way only my wife and I (and later my son) can hook into this and share locations with each other. I already have our phones setup to VPN home when off the home WiFi, so this would be great for privacy.

I would pay that much for the cloud offering if you had a contractual/legal obligation NEVER to sell my data EVER, or to sell the service to any company without wiping ALL of my data first.
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If you think that's bad, it's even worse at many non-tech companies.

The profit center employees (say, traders at a bank or hedge fund) get top of the line machines. The cost center employees (tech) get shafted.
> Will the pilot be able to override MCAS at take-off or landing?

The pre-fix MCAS has not enabled when flaps were down, which covers a large part of takeoff and landing. I think there was also a minimum altitude for it to be enabled.

I don't know if any of this changed with the new version.
> Wider GPL adoption is central to the discussion!

Sure. And so the question is, did the GPLv3 improve or degrade adoption of copyleft licensing?

To quote from Star Wars, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

Like it or not, companies fund the vast majority of open source software development, not hobbists, and when the FSF tried to "tighten its grip" by making a license which moved the balance of benefits more towards free software users, and away from the companies which funded the work, things didn't go well for them. And so what the FSF has found is that the the goals of the free software manifesto has been, more and more, slipping through its fingers.

Unless you can make non-free software illegal across all countries, at the end of the day, you need to find a balance where all stakeholders are comfortable with the result so that users, developers, and company freely and happily choose to use free software. This is a negotiation, and if there is more value that can be gained by signing onto the free software ecosystem, then perhaps the balance can be shifted a bit more towards the free software goals. But until you can, given that most open source developers do like food with their meals, a successful open source strategist has to be grounded in the economic and business realities. Just raising your right hand in a fist and shouting, "power to the people" and "freedom" is generally not going to get you very far.
There's lots of negative reaction going on, but this has happened before. CentOS grew out of RedHat Linux going away and Fedora being the feeder for RHEL. At the time there were a bunch of competitors that were building the RHEL source. CentOS ended up "winning".

I fully expect this to happen again. CentOS will wither and die because no one actually needs the cutting edge repo -- Ubuntu has a way better process for this. RHEL is build on open source. They publish their SPRM packages. A bunch of people will grab these and start bootstrapping DentOS and everyone will move to this. IBM will be sliced up by PE and RedHat will be owned by someone else. 10 years will go by and RHEL will acquire the leading "DentOS" and today's DevOps will be tomorrow's greybeards and will patiently wait for EentOS to emerge.
You may want to browse it using https://cs.opensource.google/fuchsia. Much nicer interface.

(disclosure: I work on Fuchsia at Google)
What "rate limited budget"? As far as I could tell there were no limits to Github Actions open source free?
Brown assistant professor Lisa Littman has published a paper on rapid onset gender dysphoria, suggesting that peer pressure could be a cause. I have children in public schools, where I think transgenderism is being promoted by teachers stating their preferred pronouns and asking student what their pronouns are, and by the presence of a LGBTQ club. I wonder if the fraction of trans teens is lower at Catholic schools that do not approve of transgenderism.
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For me it was The Truman Show, which uses several of his pieces from other works along with some specifically made for the film.
The author presumes that every use case requires a transactional database. ACID is nice, especially if it's needed, but generally not needed, especially in many streaming data applications for which Kafka is most suitable.
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Hint: it’s more than just Zoom and Github :)
Isn’t flutter based on skia? Or is that integration abstracted away?
And yet the hospital laying off and furloughing worker
There will always be small numbers of cases of stupid coroners, clerical mistakes, etc. Finding one is not proof that there are hundreds of thousands.

We can rule out the "they're reporting everything as COVID and that's making the numbers high" hypothesis by looking at overall excess deaths - how many more deaths is the nation experiencing than is typical. A misdiagnosis won't affect excess deaths, as it counts all deaths, regardless of cause. The CDC provides a page for this:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

As is readily visible in the chart, we've been substantially over the norm since late March.

(Switch the chart to New York City for an even more obvious example of how a spike in excess deaths shows up. Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/zSkNbxT)
> Well I meant the IP was enough for getting a warrant.

That makes more sense, but I suppose you can still frame somebody for the warrant only and make their life miserable. (Rebekah's computers were confiscated, as an example.)
I don't have much doubt that this will increase educational inequality and it being only 8% of compulsory education might understate things, given the "stacking" nature of each year building on the foundations set in prior years.

If you miss learning addition well, subtraction and multiplication is going to be hard. If you can't subtract and multiply, then learning division is going to be hard. If you can't multiply and divide, algebra will be impossible, but many life tasks will also be more difficult.
Heres a graph that circulated that gives you an idea of what the forces are (please note the graph is not an actual graph, but based on the characteristics as described):

https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=457125#:~:text=T...

Note that the resistance does not start dropping until after the stall. Also note what MCAS does with the forces.
I recommend his book, "I heart logs". It's a short read, but changed my perspective.
For Zood Location, I'd like to add a 'Find my phone' feature. It's already mostly done in the Android client (I don't think it's possible on iOS). I just need to implement a landing page on the web that folks can use to log in and make their phone start ringing.

Re: other services.

I'd like to implement something akin to Google Photos but where all your images are encrypted before going up to the cloud for storage. All the fun face recognition features and indexing would have to happen on your phone, but phones are plenty powerful enough these days to do that while you're sleeping and your phone is plugged in and charging.

I'd like to implement a simplified personal assistant like Google Now, that doesn't depend on sending your personal data into the cloud. Again, phones are so powerful and they already know so much about you based on local context, that I think there's a big opportunity for making a "good enough" assistant that doesn't compromise your privacy.

More mundane, but I think still very useful, is being able to store your contacts in the cloud, but making sure they're encrypted with a local key you control, so the storage provider (e.g. Zood) can't see your contact list.

An actually trusthworthy VPN provider. Mozilla entered this space a couple months ago, and I think it's great that there is at least one trusthworthy VPN brand now. It's a very confusing market for people to navigate, but I'd like to earn the trust of people so a Zood VPN product would become a viable service.

Along the theme of helping people extricate themselves from the advertising and surveillance economy, a service that helps people remove themselves from these junk snail mail lists. You can do it on your own right now, but it can be overwhelming.

I have lots of other little ideas, but they aren't quite ready for discussing. :-)
I would take this article with a grain of salt. It gets a lot wrong and a lot of it is questionable.

For example, notice something about the stats it gives throughout the article? It's whole numbers, and with large variations: 10-20 per cent of individuals, 30-50 per cent of people, and so on. That variation and the whole numbers should be a read flag. When performing a study very precise numbers pop up. This isn't a confidence interval they're calculating, it's made up numbers. (The real numbers btw are between 8 and 9% of the US population.)

Let's look at the premise:

>For 15 years, research into dark personality traits (including narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) has been rapidly expanding.

Straight from the get go it uses fuzzy or vague terminology. Furthermore, it does not attempt to explain its chosen initial terminology.

The actual terminology is:

- ASPD for something close to the Hollywood psychopathy/sociopathy stereotype, there is no official psychopath in the DSM.

- Narcissism is NPD, and NPD is quite different from what people typically call a narcissist looking at themselves in the mirror, so the audience is going to misunderstand without explanation.

- Machiavellianism. It explains how countries slowly take over land of other countries. It explains how to maintain power on a national level once you have it, and so on. I admit I don't even know what the machiavellianism stereotype is. Maybe Game of Thrones and people backstabbing each other? That is not Machiavellian.

Using vague terminology is a way to get people to believe things without questioning them. It gets the audience to think they know the topic on a deep level, but instead their understanding is reduced. A lot of conspiracy theory websites do this, and even political websites as of late. Sadly, at times, vague terminology can be used as a technique to manipulate people. Fuzzy terminology is a red flag when validating a source.

I could keep going and critique this article all the way through, but it would be quite a long post. (eg, they say these characteristics are more common in men, but there are more female narcissists than there are males, which is the largest group.) In short, a healthy dose of skepticism is helpful. The article aims to solidify a stereotype, that makes it easier for actual bad actors to not be identified. Sadly, reality is darker than these stereotypes.
Mapbox has been extremely generous in releasing their rendering libraries under a permissive license. Creating a map renderer that matches the user experience of Google Maps is a FAANG-level effort, and Mapbox GL also encompasses:

* A single style specification format that works well for both base map rendering and data overlays

* Parity across native and web rendering

* Smooth SDF text rendering with decent i18n support

* A font to SDF renderer that is open source: https://github.com/mapbox/node-fontnik

* A tiled data format that is open source: https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec

I hope this licensing change can spur some competition among open source renderers. I’d recommend taking a look at:

* Tangram: https://github.com/tangrams/tangram - another WebGL based renderer with some key advantages over MapboxGL JS such as custom shaders and canvas text

* OpenLayers: https://openlayers.org has some vector and WebGL capabilities now as well

* Harp: https://www.harp.gl is another new WebGL option

I've been working recently with Tangram, so contact me (see user link) if you have questions or are interested in collaborating!
Time to EOL all our CentOS platforms and migrate them to Debian.

Every time a corporation takes over an open source project it absolutely ruins it. We need some kind of "enterprise open source cabal" of people who can work on open source projects without any IP or copyright going to the company so the companies can't unilaterally screw the project.
But can I ask you, do you actually believe the FSM exists or is it more of a statement about how nutty religion can be? Because that's what Wikipedia says, not a religion, a social movement.

"is a social movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools"

So, yes, followers maybe, religion no.
Irony? The blog you linked to is in light mode, unlike the HN link.
Wow.

Thanks so much for teaching me how to live.

I'm sorry that the city where you live is such a terrible place, I come from a poor country in Europe and homeless people here are treated freely by the State, because people taxes pay for public universal health care.

And every neighborhood in every city has their own local homeless that are part of the living tissue of the place, not a nuisance (or something to bring up when you talk with others about what's wrong in your city, we use holes in the road and waste management).

I understand that when you are a rich country, you can't afford to waste resources on it.

I also understand that it's easier to blame a middle aged man like me for "virtue signaling" (I don't even know what that means, sorry) than apologizing.

Homelessness as "a problem" is the symptom of a selfish society, more than a failure in city management.

Anyway "that incident" is an anecdote, it doesn't prove anything, nobody knows if it's the truth, it's simply blaming the poor, disguised as caring about the city.
Switzerland's own fault they way the have managed to be one of the worst Corona places on the planet. Same people who want the WEF here are the ones that pushed so hard to prevent a lock down at every cost because business is more important than life.

In the end the economic damage will be much greater than if we had just Locked down and gotten control but people think so short sighted.
Looking at the rates of deaths and infections, the worst of COVID is right now, at least in the USA.

It's good that the vaccines are starting to be distributed but it was only a week ago that my state sent out an emergency text for the first time ever stating that statewide hospital capacity was 90% used up.
Agreed. When a service gets bought by a PE firm it's a bad sign. It's not the cause of trouble but a sure symptom.
Wikipedia support supplying your own custom.css which is applied whenever you're logged in.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs
> I don't know - on the other side of the coin imagine if no data was collected. It would be near impossible for companies to do any sort of troubleshooting or QA.

Good. Companies got by in the pre-internet era by running supervised QA tests with customers in person, or using special devices modified to allow surveillance. There's no reason why this cannot be brought back.
> I think the parent commenter is saying that in order to make a superior product these days, you need an extraordinary amount of investment for R&D which can only be made up by selling it at volumes that someone like Apple can achieve.

True if you're selling average products for average people. Not true if you have a niche.
My experience with git-crypt is it works fine until you have a merge conflict. This tool seems a lot more compelling in that regard, since only encrypting the subset of the file that needs to be secret I'd imagine diffs and merge conflict would be pretty seamless.
I just can't imagine scenario where it's cheaper to use something like Flutter and port, test, debug and maintain it in operating systems and devices myself or find consults to do it to me.

I'm an entrepreneur with 6 guys working for me. 4 of them write embedded software, 1 uses Qt. I pay for Qt because cost/value is right. I don't develop any more software than I have to. I get a product, I can buy consulting with reasonable price.
Electron uses Blink as a renderer which is LGPL. Everyone who ships an Electron app has to apply to the LGPL terms in the exact same way than for Qt. It's just the Electron API itself which is MIT.
If I'm not mistaken, Electron also ships with FFMPEG which is also LGPL.

Source: the copyright headers here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/refs/head...
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The problem for offering them back at $0 is that if they try and raise money again that will be a hard discussion to have with a potential investor who would also try and determine what an appropriate price would be for that stock. When you exercised your ISO you had a price, you might actually get further by trying to petition them to sell them back at that same price.
All the world needs is Linear like client on top of GitHub issues. Anyone building this?

The closest thing to this was Ship (https://www.realartists.com/blog/ship-20.html) but it died.
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How I translate the academic Zettelkasten note-taking to app development