skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been a mechanical engineer for some time. McMaster is an institution. Their catalog is still an iconic presence in engineering departments and you’re right, their site is incredible.

Even for professionals you often don’t know what to call a part, but punch in a few words and it “gets” what you’re going for. Add tot hat pretty reliable next day shipping even when ordering at 4pm and it’s not so surprising that Amazon hasn’t eaten them, even though they launched Amazon Industrial like ~7-10y ago
Oracle linux is not an alternative to anything. Anything with the name Oracle is no longer alternative to anything either.
We make a product[1] that might fix this for you. It's a tool to create digests from Twitter and other sources. You get the best content via email every day, and it's read-only.

[1]: https://mailbrew.com/
I see you completely missed my point.

My point is that in the case of M$ the defects could be publicly announced to all parties at once as a way of making M$ realize that how bad their handling is/was. In all likelyhood this shouldn't have to happen for too long before they would realize their mistake.

Many other corporations do indeed value the discoveries of researchers and do pay accordingly for being notified. Never did I suggest that this should become the industry norm (i.e not paying for private disclosures).

Now what ever your personal feelings on that idea is, it does not change the fact that selling exploits to other parties would be unethical.

Furthermore, participating in a system that promotes assumptions and flawed reading comprehension is not conductive to a good discourse. That means you.
Just curious, why don't you have a spam email in 2020?

I have over 20 email addresses and only use 3 daily/phone notifications.

Not defending the practice, but I'm genuinely curious why this is a deal breaker.
> Above a certain minimal level of education, demographic outcomes like crime rate seem to be 70-80% predicted by entirely heritable characteristics, with very little environmental interaction.

This is just racism in a language that's palatable to HN.
Tokyo Rose
At some point 40 happens.

It’s interesting though as it’s the complete opposite of previous generations where kids wanted to be treated as adults as soon as possible (request for responsibility), focused on improving their lot in life, and their passion project was raising a family.

“Cool” was something previous generations also dispensed with in very early adulthood and maybe replaced it with “respect” as something more useful than fetishizing a personality trope.

Not sure if the shift is good or bad but if it is bad you can’t really blame the kids.
I recently had an SSD failure and tried using Ubuntu 20.10 to fix my (heavily tweaked to get things mostly-working) older Ubuntu installation. After many hours fiddling with startup settings I still cannot get the live USB to boot to anything other than a black screen. This is a ~2008 graphics card with mature open source drivers. I can get a console if using safe graphics mode but then no network connectivity either. Who knows about sound, haven't got there yet. All the same issues as 15-20 years ago.

When I was last using this machine regularly, most biannual upgrades broke one of these three things anyway (and, no: the tweaks were not obscure things that caused the breakage, and several failed attempts were made to revert them, report them, or look into the causes, and they obviously don't affect the live USB).
It was end of LIFEd?
When buying electronic components, either RS or Mouser (can't remember which one right now) is super slow and fails a lot. Something like this would be awesome. (I know it's millions of references, but...)
I read about 20% of the titles I wanted to

I can relate. My goal for this year was to read 75 books, and I think I'm at 33 or 34 right now. The main one that has stood out to me so far was The Universe Speaks In Numbers by Graham Farmelo. Explaining why this book stood out to me would take a lot of words, and I plan to write a blog post on it at some point. But briefly, it comes down to it getting me excited about math again.

And as something of a counter-point to that book, I also read Lost in Math by Sabine Hossenfelder, which was also very good.

Others that were definitely worth reading:

Analogy Making As Perception by Melanie Mitchell

Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky (re-read)

Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 by Ben Goertzel

The AGI Revolution by Ben Goertzel

And on a lighter note, some fun - if bizarre - cyberpunk styled novels I read were Necrotech and Nanoshock by K.C. Alexander.
Easily 50% of the articles on HN are advertisements. If you remove news articles and personal blogs that jumps to about 98%.
I wish they still made CRTs.
I mostly hear Alpine in the context of either embedded systems or tiny docker images. I'm not even that worried about the server, but one of the neat things about CentOS was that I could run the same or a related (Fedora) system on my dev machine, too. So I'd be interested in reading more about your experience with it as a workstation system. Do you use this as a main development machine or "just" for testing server stuff?
Why the hell do huge companies spend tons to acquire things and then kill them? This seems to happen more in computing than other industries. You don't see shipping companies buying completely functional container ships so they can park them out in the middle of the ocean and dynamite a hole in the hull and watch them go glug glug glug for the lulz.
It's like their physical catalog
1. 99.00% people don't even think before tweeting.
2. 0.99% think but tweet only one tweet at a time.
3. 0.01% only think and create a long thread.

Hence is it really required?
What REAL pain are your really trying to solve?
For how many people will use this?
Are people already searching/paying for this?

This is a cold hard and harsh truth. May save you lot of your valuable time in the near future.

Pls DON"T build something that NOBODY wants.
Beat me to it. Also Sweden is leading in tech, how exactly?
It actually isn't online at the moment. I keep meaning to put some of it online but still haven't yet. There's some personal stuff in there also that I'm not sure I want to or should share that I have to strip out, and some of these projects I'm not sure I want to share all my ideas about publicly the instant I record them, way before I start looking for publishers. Not that those ideas are likely to be taken or anything, but still. I'm not always the fastest at getting my games complete, I keep bouncing from idea to idea.

I have started working on a proper personal site again, but it's not ready enough to release yet.

That being said, the game I'm referring to (I've simulated mechanisms for other games using simulations, but this is the whole game, because it's tiny), I submitted to a contest (in which it wasn't selected), which required a rules document. In that rules document I included a section for Analysis where I discuss the simulation I made, and I also included a link to the Repl script I made for the simulation.

I highly recommend checking the rules for how to play the game before checking out the script, but I'll include links to both here:

Rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ukL_uPt_NEzt_tLmWJw6y7-e...

Simulation: https://repl.it/@bacable/EvenTheOddsSim#main_for_manual.py

I'm also working on a web version for this game, made using Phaser, but it's also not ready for release yet. It's playable, but I'm still working out some bugs with the Minmax implementation and it needs more UI and polish. But I don't have that online yet either. Need to get on that.

But technically, if you have 7 colored wooden cubes in each of 6 different colors, you can play the game yourself. It's how I tested it :)
"Use RAID10" is basically the storage equivalent of "use paper ballots". Sure, it feels suboptimal, but critically your intuition on how it can fail (mostly) works. That's a really nice property to have for storage.
I agree. I've spent 14 years building ecommerce sites, and the hardest thing for me was dealing with bundles. My client sells cot beds and mattresses, that come from separate suppliers as bundles. And once the bundle feature was added they went to town with it, but it makes stock hard, it makes forecasting hard, it makes promotions hard, it makes shipping hard. It's much easier when you sell items in multiples of 1, with each item priced and discounted individually. Good luck with your project.
Hmm, I'm not sure if the comment you're replying to is the best example of "lack of self-awareness" or "consider yourselves superior" as they also somewhat mentioned "balance is important". Discussions on this topic seem to always descend into inflammable territory. Though I agree that there are definitely tons of people out there who fit your description, that's for sure.

A lot of the "environment, safety, human rights" stuffs originate from official propaganda by western state apparatus which want to contain China/feel threatened by China's progress, so they want to reassure themselves of their superiority and contain every country in their designated place in the food chain with a certain narrative, just like how China does official propaganda to paint the west in a bad light on issues such as COVID containment and affirm its own superiority. But people who unquestioningly gobble up such propaganda are definitely aplenty out there (I would guess the desire to feel superior/justified against an unknown threat/"others" could even be part of human nature, which however is what education and rational thinking are exactly supposed to allow us do better at).
This presents a nice way of dealing with Twitter, if it fits your use case.

Some good choices too (e.g. Plausible for analytics).

Only thing I wonder is, why I can only learn that you are Mailbrew Inc. from the PP or Terms of Services, and ...

> For our Patron in-app purchase flow, we collect related information such as payment amounts, times and currencies to validate and secure payments.

... that your revenue model apparently is in-app purchases?

Why not be more open about that with a nice About page where you present yourself and the product you offer.

(Note that this same feedback holds for so many services that are launched, where the lack of this transparency imho is an oversight).
Made this before discovering Chirr. But very happy to see another great product in this space from a fellow maker!
You should definitely rethink your priorities. You go to work to support the rest of your life. You don't live to work.
I went down a rabbit hole on this yesterday, and PADI does 40, 45, and 50 meter certifications. Each has the previous one as a prerequisite, plus nitrox and others. Perhaps that's the reason I was told that PADI stands for "Put Another Dollar In".
If you visit the worlds link, be sure to select "Show Options" and adjust the time of day. I'm assuming there are a lot of programmatic elements that create these effects.
Haven't tried Conrad, but Manomano it's a mess if you wanna look for something concrete. Once you enter in a category, it's like searching in eBay. It's so difficult to search by brand, model or specs...
I'd like a general "follow people" app, where I get an easily navigable interface (i.e. not just a dump) of posts on twitter, facebook, hacker news...
> I'd be really happy if I can just:

> 1. Create a window 2. Render pixels in that window that allow 2D/3D space drawing/coloring. 3. Create some basic shapes from a square to a cube and further real-time transformations. It can't be that complicated can it? Hah.

All this really depends on what language you want to do this on. (A viable example on Java)[https://youtu.be/KA6rJZOfTTQ]. I think what you want is basic software rendering, so be advised: software rendering gets really slow really fast.

I tried something akin to this a couple years back l, it didn't end too well, but I learned a ton in the process, feel free to (take a look )[https://github.com/jonnelafin/PB3D], but the code is crap, so I think you are better off on writing your own.

Also these are some wikipedia articles on perspective transformations etc:

(Perspective projection)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection] (Perspective projection -> Mathematical formulas)
(Rotation matricies)[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix]
Your Identity != Your Profession
> (c) it gives your work that cool Bell Labs vibe

If you wanted your work to have a Bell Labs vibe, wouldn't you use troff?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff
Obama and the democrats together only had the political opportunity to squeeze a fraction of his healthcare vision, after which it has since been withering away. The fact that presidents are very expected to be re-elected, but not this time, implies that American voters want a return to norms.
That diatribe is simply demonstrating that somebody made a broken LaTeX style. It has nothing to do with LaTeX nor with Lamport’s article.

I find it disingenuous of Bernstein to use the existence of a broken style as if it were a counterexample to Lamport’s points. This is not what I would call a “stinging criticism”.
Waiting for PostGIS 3.1: GEOS 3.9
Thanks so much for the feedback!

We've put a "by Mailbrew" logo in the header, and also if you click on the chat widget in the bottom left corner of the app, you'll see info about the team.

As for the business model, this is a little experiment to play with the write-only Twitter idea and create awareness around Mailbrew, which is our main product and core business.

Finally regarding Plausible, it's not just better because of how privacy-friendly it is, it's also such a great product that we recommend everyone to use.
This looks like an awesome tool, with a lot of neat features.

I went through some hoops to try and build it on my Mac, but apparently I don't have the patience to deal with compiler errors today.

I would have definitely started testing this tool if there was a DMG available.
Two totally different markets. RHEL (and its free clone, CentOS, rip) are for regulated industries or anyone who values extreme stability over any newness. You can turn updates on and feel as safe as you can be against known exploits while at the same time feeling as confident as you can that your stuff won’t break. Once or twice a decade, you port to a new version and then go back to not thinking about it too much.
They are targeting a niche who is likely more willing to pay for this than average internet user. I only ever see long twitter threads from VCs, developer advocates, CEOs, startup people who spend $$$ on productivity software to optimize their life, etc.

It's fine if it is $100 from 10 customers than $5 from 1000.
happened to me in publishing. we had built our own online portal to our legal book products, couple million a year in revenue and growing, bought by Reuters, everything shut down, didn’t even bother to look into keeping any of our talent around either. it was weird! severance package was great though.
I have to admit that I'm not too excited about the default "ad copy". Are "business influencers" the target demographic?
https://publiccode.eu
An opportunity isn’t a choice. It’s more of a dice roll, and you don’t get to see the number.
PlotJuggler author here. I am sorry, but I had no opportunity/time to test it on Mac :(
Ubuntu has been fine for us. We just jump from one LTS to the next.
In some civil wars it was neighbor vs neighbor. In the Lebanese civil war people were pulled out of cabs and shot. This wasn't the state you have to worry about.

How would you compare the success of guerilla war in the last few decades against larger powers?
debian-stable amd64
Yep they are bastards.

Watch Microsoft carefully.
The only thing missing is anti-cheat. I don’t know if it will ever happen.
We'll see about that :) We're seeing nice traction, and early feedback is from people that were tired to get sucked into the Twitter timeline and algorithm, and finally have a nice focused environment to tweet their ideas and move on with their day.
We do that too. This was initially born as an easy way to cross-post from our markdown blogs to Twitter.
arch or freebsd. Ubuntu lts/debian depends on ur packages.

Freebsd isnt linux, but is great server OS.
Isn't this basically an adjustable bed + PC setup[1][2]? The fanciest kinds can raise back, raise knees and tilt the whole bed forward separately[3], so it's easy to stand up and also feels like a laid back chair than on a bed. Prices and features would vary between regions but I think leveraging these options might be faster and easier to further improve.

1: ignore text, just look at pictures https://de0.hatenablog.com/entry/2015/10/30/212015

2: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/36289488

3: https://www.paramount.co.jp/cms/img/product/homecare/new/200...
Tips and tricks for working with types in JavaScript
I follow a lot of people who sometimes tweet out intelligent, multi-post threads.
Google – Year in Search 2020
Depending what exactly you want, CentOS is still a great choice, especially if you are also using the machine for more than set serving jobs. My understanding is, that CentOS will be exactly in the middle ground between Fedora and Red Hat. So it will be ahead of Red Hat a bit, which is a good thing if you want more current software versions. But not quite as cutting edge as Fedora. Personally, I am fully on Fedora for my development machine as I want current versions of software. I didn't have stability problems with it.

There seems to be also a (planned?) free version of Red Had, if you want complete stability and only security updates.
They have number dispensers at the meat or bread counters in supermarkets which is quite neat. You do not have to wait in a queue and can do your other grocery shoppings until the display shows your number. ;)
They have RSU which can be sold, or hold for even more money later.
For a blogging platform that loads fast, it’s hard to beat https://bearblog.dev as it’s pure html with no js and style sheets all in a single call.
Many reasons:

- Eliminate a competitor

- Absorb another company's team

Not all the reasons are as macabre as they sound; sometimes the bought company failed to monetize properly whatever they were doing, and their developers decided it was time to stop eating from bean cans. In those cases an acquisition can improve their diet slightly.
FreeBSD is looking pretty sexy suddenly.
Scientific Linux was discontinued early last year.
I also want to say kudos, I am very impressed by your work!
I fail to understand how your CNC production is different from any industrial production which you seem to be against.

This possibly stems from the idea that that you don't work the materials yourself, correct me if I'm wrong.
I would think for some it's the acquihire, for some it's a way of preventing competition...
Here's a modern font that really stretches the limits of packing hanzi into a tiny number of pixels:
https://3type.cn/fonts/dinkie_bitmap/index.html
as a side note, the design of the parody centos.rip website is a pretty decent clean wordpress or other CMS template, if they didn't build it by hand.
That is not the worst idea I ever heard.
> You misrepresented what I said by removing the conditional part of the sentence - that's a misquote.

That wasn't my intention. I just didn't want to reproduce the whole post in my reply.

> So then you should trust literally no software or hardware.

I give free software the benefit of the doubt. I don't trust hardware. It sucks that hardware costs billions to manufacture. Centralized resources are easily targeted by governments. Maybe someday we'll have 3D printing technology that makes it possible for hackers to create their own chips at home.
>Europe’s share of the 440-billion-euro ($533 billion) global semiconductor market is around 10%, with the EU currently relying on chips made abroad.

$533 billion for the entire semiconductor industry seems small.. That's like .25 Apples.
Totally just blurting out from the top of my head, but I'm guessing it's more because digital things are intangible.

The tech and talent is still being used, like the cargo ships in your example, it's just the competition that's been killed.
Many sources use "recreational" to describe diving with ordinary air (or maybe nitrox), and "technical" any diving with more complicated requirements. Both are distinguished from "professional" diving, so you can be doing "technical" diving recreationally without doing "recreational diving".

Wikipedia says that the exact definition of "technical" varies between certifying agencies, but 50 meters is definitely well below it. You can certainly do it without being certified, but the training classes make it clear that you're taking a massive risk (oxygen toxicity, nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness).

I've got only the most basic certification myself, and only a short list of dives, so I can't speak to how realistic that is.
What makes you think that CentOS was killed? It will be available and actively maintained.
Hmm, I'm not sure if encouraging people to shout without listening is a good thing. It seems to me like it would just exacerbate the problems with social media.
How about "SpentOS": Surreptitiously packaged enterprise operating system
Cool stuff. But it already has _too much_ CSS! ;-)

The fonts kill it. On my iPad the page had finished loading but I could not see any text until finally the font had finished loading.

Don’t use external fonts!
But what do you think one gains by serving json instead of serving valid html like a body with just `<data src="actual.json"></data>`?

If you can retain full functionality (and hack on your ideas) AND be standards compliant (to make sure someone who decides to start offering a new web browser doesn't have to worry about 10% of websites serving this instead of valid HTML), then you should do that.
I find it quite off putting, that the general approach of EU institutions is to direct resources and economic activity from the top. It not only has demonstrated to be a failure economically, but it's an arrogant attitude by politicians, giving the message they know better than individuals, and that a free market leads to preventable bad outcomes. Also, it's tied to price controls and redistribution concepts. They will assign the money to each person they find moral. Which at the end means a mix of connections and sentiments.

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I mean I don't know why I waste the time arguing with useless commies online.

They have a long history of failures and disappointments and still stick to this emotional garbage ideas, at this point it's not something I can fix since I am not a psychologist.

It's kind of amusing that HN has such slanted audience, given that startup funding is the biggest exponent of hypercapitalism.
>Someone please help me evaluate my design.

Have you submitted your research for peer review, and if not, why?
I'm not sure that CERN would like to work on it full steam but, it'd be great though.
Not knowing much about Linux distros, can anyone explain the popularity of CentOS to me?

I mean, having used it only a few times, my impression of CentOS is "a Linux with lots of horribly outdated software, in the name of compatibility and well-testedness". Eg when I used it last, the PHP version it shipped with was 8 years old.

Now, I understand the appeal of that to certain super risk averse enterprises who value stability over any kind of developer or user happiness (including the ability to run latests versions of userland software that happens to require somewhat recent php/python/etc versions). But aren't those exactly the kinds of enterprises that would want normal RHEL licenses anyway? If you scratch those out, what audience is left? Why would I run such ancient software for any technical reason?

I know this sounds dismissive, but I don't know how else to formulate this and I'd like to understand this. I think I understand RHEL and I think I understand Fedora, but I never got the appeal of CentOS.