skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do exactly the same thing. Snapper is amazing. I've used it once, but only because it was a bit more convenient than downgrading the one app that got messed up.

I also used it recently when I tried to get the new Assassin's Creed to run. I knew it was a bit of a crap shoot, so I took a snapshot before I started compiling and installing the Git versions of graphics and translations libraries. After a couple hours I realized it wasn't going to work and just rolled my root directory back to before I started throwing packages all over my system. It was very satisfying. :D
A cursory glance at his feed did not instill confidence. Seemed like a pop business huckster.
It doesn't gloss over it at all; as previously mentioned, there's lots to criticize about the US and other countries. The US ought to do better, but its sins (especially those prior to our modern understanding of environment) don't vindicate Brazil's deforestation today. This line of argumentation--that we all need only be as good as the worst of our rivals (and by whatever standard suits us in a given moment, no less)--is just a race to the bottom and I reject it wholesale.
I get the impression that 99% of those invested in crypto just want their investment to perform well, and could care less about any project specifics.
From my perspective, I do not think Apple is making their changes in iOS to limit small business in anyway and is having a positive impact in many respects with relation to privacy. I think you can still have privacy and help businesses succeed. Imagine if FB were more privacy conscious (might reduce their annual turn over a little but i dont think detrimentally), worked with apple to product a product and tech that preserved privacy while allowing advertising to continue.

It can happen, FB just doesntt want to for either $$$ or for loss of control.
Do you mean customers, or the engineers building CentOS? There are only a handful of people working on CentOS.
Ubuntu or SLES for Enterprise, Debian for everything else. Red Hat really foot-rocketed themselves with this move to me.
This reminds of a colleague's joke: what do you call a physicist a few years after they get their degree?

A data scientist!

I only completed my undergrad in physics before shifting to tech, but I've seen many instances of people working in software/programming/data science roles after their undergrad/grad studies in physics.
I really like the idea of businesses focused on their core value proposition. However, in tech, these businesses get crushed by larger platform plays see for example Firefox vs. chrome, slack vs teams, Aws vs digital ocean.

There are a few factors at play here, but I’ll call out a few I’ve observed.

1) If you hire good engineers and give them autonomy, branching into new markets is cheaper than you think. “Focusing” engineers tends to just cut back on autonomy, both lowering productivity as well as limiting the quality of engineering talent one can attract.

2) Unified, integrated solutions, with great default options are preferred by nearly everyone on the market. Sure lastpass let people store passwords easily, but how many consumers bother changing the default password manager in their browser?

3) Investors recognize this pattern and funnel money to the biggest “platform” they can in any given market.

I never understood how bad point solutions were from a business standpoint until I worked in the application performance monitoring space. For any given monitoring feature there are dozens to hundreds of small, high quality point solutions targeting one market niche or another - but most customers will simply purchase their preferred all in one solution and forget about the other options.
Good for you that you can deal with that. I tried for 1 month and I gave up. It was too annoying to me.
I think of it maybe a little differently.

CentOS was acquired as a marketing tool to sell support contracts.

RedHat was acquired by IBM because selling support contracts no longer works as an open source software business model. It was a rescue operation (on both sides), really.

In a twisted way, it's a success story for OSS. The software is so good and its main users so competent that the support contract has moved from being the value to the value-add. (aside)

Unfortunately, this is the same thing driving the adoption of all of these new split licenses, which I don't think is a positive direction.

(aside): This is actually the second demonstration of this. The first was when Rackspace got rid of its world-class support organization in a race to compete on costs.
I wonder why Firefox even has to beat Chrome. Wouldn't it be enough to have 30% marketshare again? Or even 10% would be enough to consider Firefox a serious competitor.

Somewhere along the line we got this idea that if you're not #1 you've failed. You don't need to crush every single competitor into oblivion to be successful, you just need to succeed at what you set out to do, and in Firefox's case, isn't that just to build a good browser?

The only way to beat Chrome, is the same way Firefox beat IE: Someone else will have to do it.
How much energy do you think the current financial system consumes? Eg paying for a pack of gum with your Mastercard

Edit: This wasn't intended to be a hypothetical- I agree BTC uses significantly more per transaction, but I'm curious how it compares to the entirety of a system like Mastercard divided by number of transactions (including all employee/office space/commute/etc energy consumption). There are clearer/fewer inputs for Bitcoin for sure but that doesn't mean we shouldn't account for the total environmental cost of a behemoth like Mastercard.

Bitcoin can never and should never replace our current payments network as it simply cannot scale in its current form. But, I do think people simply look at the cost to run the technology itself and assume that's the total environmental cost of a system.
Asset != Currency

Being in an ETF does not make something a real currency. BTC is still hobby money.
Internet explorer is also a very innovative browser. It introduced XHR and a bunch of other stuff. But that is a different measure from standards-compliant.
I'm not sure what kind of defaults you would like to see. For instance I have this in my i3 config:

bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id amixer sset 'Master' 2%+
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id amixer sset 'Master' 2%-

but there's no guarantee that this would work everywhere depending on what's installed, I just know that it works in my case. It's easy enough to look up anyway ('linux change volume from terminal'), so users would just save 5 minutes if the default worked for them. I think the message is that i3 is not targeting the same people as Gnome, and it's fine. Different software for different needs and trade-offs.
The Observer Effect interview with Tobi Lütke
> there's no company behind them to put their name behind an SLA.

I agree that this is a sticking issue; most procurement offices have vendor/supplier questionnaires that ask about their cash flows etc., because companies want to deal with going concerns. FOSS without an org doesn't check that box.

BUT isn't this exactly the point of having a Mozilla Corporation, as separate from the nonprofit???
I don’t know what the actual CPI says. But as a person on the street, I definitely see inflation everywhere I go. It’s especially obvious to me as I spent a few years out of the country and came back to much higher prices. Everything is significantly more expensive than it was five years ago.
When the block size got blocked at 1MB from those looking to profit from moving transactions to layer 2 options... I switched over to Bitcoin Cash. If you try it out, it operates like Bitcoin has operated for years until the fee market started.
Ask HN: How to Flip $1000
I'm sitting with 1k in my account right now well checking account but I also have few other thousand that is my final that I have to my name.

I'm sitting here on my laptop on line browsing offerup and looking at cars or bikes and wondering what can I do to flip $1000 or even $5k to make it double atleast and learn investment or stocks? I'm lost right now I feel like as a 25 year old I should know how to flip this.
Facebook blasts Apple in new ads over iPhone privacy change
Facial expressions most common to emotional situations worldwide
What amazes me about Nathan Myhrvold is that he has 850 patents to his name. How is that even possible?
He is 61 years old, and lets say he was working for 40 years.
That a more than 21 patent a year, how much he needs to pay for keeping the patent rights each month?
I guess after 25 years patent expire but still ...
I have a Samsung phone, and it's updated quite recently, but I've never noticed this.

I virtually never open Samsung Internet only because I virtually never open any web browser. Browsers launch as a side effect of something else. For example clicking on a link inside LinkedIn, Telegram, bank app help, etc.

When that happens, if a separate app gets opened it's usually Firefox Focus that opens for me, so I guess that means the default URL handler is Firefox Focus (must have set it years ago) and it's not being changed by software updates.
If you're lucky, you traveled back in time and disabled Firefox updates before Fenix rolled out. If you're unlucky, you later visit a site with an exploit for that old version.
That's irrelevant right? The point is that it's reproducible. Whether you define purity as to include non-termination or not is besides the point; the point is to avoid side-effects. Lack of side effects matters in the context of configuration, non-termination does not (and see the thread you're replying to for an argument as to why that is). That's kind of the whole point of the argument.
What are some examples of common ground that you think deserve more attention?
> b) a Thunderbird Android email client. There should be no reason why people should be locked into the default Android google/gmail email client. I can't even view message headers on it. I want a full featured "power user" IMAP-over-TLS + SMTP email client for Android that is also open source.

K-9 mail should satisfy these requirements. It's been slow moving development wise the last two years, but it is not dead:

https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail

https://github.com/k9mail/k-9
Openstreetmap is behind apple maps, facebook maps, and much of mapbox, if I understand it right.
London taxis are supposed to do the same. Decent idea for hybrids.
I totally agree with you, but too many HN visitors seem to be invested in Bitcoin.

What I notice is that so many of the kind of posts you respond to seem to be self-serving. To generate the kind of hype and demand and awe.

But there is nothing.
If you want to wait minutes for a single frame, go for it.
There's still time for the course to change, you might prove right in the long run - the average Hacker News reader's parents weren't even alive when EO 6102 happened, which seems wild to us now. The threat of shutdown seems less pertinent than the threat of outright state seizure, similarly to EO 6102.

EDIT: I meant of course our parents, not us - there might be a few 90-year old readers among us though :)
A computer science study plan to become a software engineer
It was a bubble, it is a bubble, and always will be a bubble - as it's not use for commerce. All these years and it's only used for speculation! So, it needs to be rebranded to cryptospeculation, not cryptocurrency!
Is Ethereum going to be worth more than Bitcoin (market cap) when people realize how technologically superior it is?
At least it's actually useful and beneficial.
Taking in to consideration scandals like Cambridge analytica, its impact on the election, disinformation, do you really think criticism of FB is not valid?
These days, my Macbook can quite easily handle any game I actually want to play, and I just bring a nice monitor and my gaming keyboard/mouse. All of it can fit in a duffel bag that I'm already packing with clothes anyway.
"When CentOS 8 reaches its end-of-life, Red Hat will become something of an outlier among commercial Linux server developers, as the only one not making free version of their product available to users. Ubuntu Server is free for users to download and use, and a drop-in replacement for SUSE is available in a downstream community distribution, openSUSE Leap."

Sounds like a great opportunity for Ubuntu and SuSE to pick up market share as the CentOS replacement.
Not specifically, but Julia would be a better choice than Python + Numpy.
IDK, I think disposal and recycling is really where we need to focus.

Some chemcials are damn useful while being toxic. I don't think the right thing to do is banning all toxic chemcials because they might cause environmental damage. Instead, let's focus on figuring out safe handling upfront.

A good example of this is batteries. Super toxic, super useful.
This is roughly it, but it's also about making the development of RHEL itself more open. I wrote more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25373050
Well, wasn’t email designed in a time when the only supported standards were everyone’s form of Extended ASCII? So it would make sense that IMAP only supports ASCII. Heck, attachments are encoded in some base## form before being sent because the entire standard is based on text.
If you have the money, buy Negativelab Pro for Lightroom.
>Under Red Hat, the project was directed by an independent governing board and many of CentOS's head developers were Red Hat employees, working apart from RHEL developers as part of the company's open source and standards team. As part of the agreement, Red Hat took possession of CentOS's trademarks.

Embrace

>CentOS itself was not actually providing that much usefulness to Red Hat

Extinguish
Paying for questionable smut, yes, excellent.
> you forcibly kicked out founder Brendan Eich

That is total bullshit. Get your facts straight, and stop pushing your batshit crazy GamerGate conspiracy theories that are based on lies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25303513

Mozilla didn't fire Brendan Eich. He resigned of his own free will, against the Mozilla board's request that he stay. His own words and the Mozilla FAQ quoted below, I'm not just making this up.
Down the following thread, Brendan suggested googling "constructive separation" -- but I'm not sure if he meant for that euphemism to apply to how he left his job at Mozilla, or to how he wanted to cancel and destroy existing happy same sex marriages in California against their consent. All of the google results have to do with marriage, not employment. Brendan, care to clarify?

As JavaScript proves, Brendan Eich never really understood the concept of equality: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24127716

DonHopkins 3 months ago | on: Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses ...

Eich was not forced out or fired. In fact, just the opposite: the board actually tried to get Eich to stay, but he decided to leave all on his own. Don't try to rewrite history to make an ideological point. It's all very well and unambiguously documented what really happened, and there's no excuse for you spreading that misinformation.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

Q: Was Brendan Eich fired?

A: No, Brendan Eich resigned. Brendan himself said:

“I have decided to resign as CEO effective April 3rd, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.”

Brendan Eich also blogged on this topic.

Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.
"There is no "environmental mitigation" for Bitcoin's energy use, this behavior ... is an essential property of cryptocurrency, without which it would cease to exist."

This is based on the false premise that energy, or anything else needs to be given up in exchange for crypto, or any other form of currency.

We could create a zillion cryptos out of thin air and just hand them out. That's one way to do it.

Central banks do it another way.

The 'energy' thing is just nonsense, it's just something that happens to be baked into this specific form of BTC generation.
One has to wonder at what point the utility of clothes doesn’t make sense, and astronauts should just get used to working naked.

Not actually advocating for that—beyond cultural difficulties, I’m pretty sure clothes are useful enough to maintain—but it’s an interesting thought exercise to zoom out from “how to wash clothes better” to “how to do the job clothes do better with minimal cost.”
For a large fee and with a lot of uncertainty on if it will make it into a block. Try the fork of Bitcoin that still operates like Bitcoin used to up until 2016: Bitcoin Cash.
As in, your config file was deleted off your disk? That seems concerning in general, not just for Emacs.
Speaking as co-founder of Geocode Earth(https://geocode.earth) where we do provide autocomplete geocoding, it's a much, _much_ harder problem than regular geocoding (not that any geocoding is exactly...easy).

For one, the latency requirements are much more strict. People type fast and if results don't come in within about 100ms or so, the interface doesn't feel responsive. We spend a ton of time ensuring our servers are as fast as possible. There's always more work to do here, since obviously network latency matters, so where your servers are matters too.

Second, the queries themselves are much harder. If someone has typed "India", did they want the country? Or have they not yet finished typing Indiana? The answer probably depends on their location, which may not always be available. That's a simple example, obviously there are much more subtle queries that don't always have as clear an answer.

Anyways, we enjoy the challenge of autocomplete and hope to continue to do a better and better job, even after Amazon inevitably releases their own :)
Electric cars still have a significant environmental impact due to the space they take in a city, the production and recycling of the cars, and road maintenance.

The efficiency of combined use of trains, electric buses and bicycles dwarfs electric cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
"Look, just because the terms under which we got the bulk of our product stated that 'You can have this, and build upon it, and even sell it, and all you have to do is make it available for the next guy same as you got it yourself...' and we agreed to those terms, that doesn't mean we can actually tolerate a bunch of parasites mooching off us."
Maybe a year ago this would have been worth it. But the resources should be used for mass vaccination instead.
I remember reading that the Lightning network can be attacked by people spamming it with withdrawal requests, resulting in funds being stolen from users. Furthermore, I remember reading that this attack is to some extent not solvable. I need to find a link. [EDIT: I think this might be it: https://decrypt.co/33917/bitcoin-stolen-lightning-network-at....]

I'm pro-Bitcoin, and I own some, but what worries me is whether the scalability problem will ever be satisfactorily solved. It's been 5 years since Lightning was first suggested and it's still only at Alpha stage.

And if the scalability problems are never overcome, will Bitcoin still maintain whatever value it has now?
DAO rollback made them untrustable for me. You do you but a key required feature of my cryptocurrency should be sovereignty.
Not a single reasonable person I talk to has faith in the currency so I'd say they're right.

I don't give a shit about lambos, nobody gives a shit about bitcoin as a currency and they never will.
No, but they also dont have as much of a negative impact on humanity (disinformation, cambridge analytica, elections impacts etc). I think there is a big difference between being annoyed by a decision that has very small blast radius vs what facebook does.
Same here. What's problem does this solve? Or, is this just a neat proof-of-concept project?
This isn't a loaded question, I'm genuinely curious.
bspwm master race checking in here. I love tiling window managers. Hands down has been the best development environment I've had the pleasure of working with.
You store all the gold you're using for a long-term store of value at your house?
Chilling, honestly. The way news is presented and consumed now means it's all horrors that we can't escape from.

It's all intensely personal and polarizing.
No no no, please don't go into personal attack on HN, and particularly please don't bring in someone's personal details as ammunition against them. The damage it does to the community is not worth whatever else it might achieve, and we don't want the online shaming culture to rule here.

Besides, people are often simply unaware that they were breaking rules or conventions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(I've redacted a name from the parent comment.)
Their entire business model is sketchy. They'll collect payments on your behalf whether you're signed up to them or not while removing your ad revenue.
Well, if we’re nitpicking, it was 2016, not 2015 :)

And wow. Has it really been that long? I thought it was like 2 years ago, so when I first saw your comment, I had to go check myself!
Exactly!! This!! I say this all the time too! The vegan labeling is the death of many a food startup that thinks the branding is going to bring them more consumers. It is exclusionary and drives consumers away.
I have kept a journal with pen and paper for years. I usually write something down every day. I'm particular about what I write with so I use PILOT Vanishing Point fountain pen and large hardcover Moleskine grid ruled notebooks.

My journaling consists of:

- 70% thoughts and ideas.

- 20% todos related to thoughts and ideas.

- 10% events in life.

Usually if I'm working on a project or considering a project I write down my thoughts, things I've learned, and so on. Sometimes I refer back to old entries. Sometimes I don't. Every now and then I might turn some of the entries into a blog article.
Probably should not bother writing this because it's not going to be appreciated but I will try anyway.

The browser evolved from an information dispersal tool to become a networked operating system with a few implementations loosely compatible.

My suggestion is that now with web assembly we have a chance to almost start over with that. The problem is that people are not really approaching wasm as an operating system or shared platform. Rather they are making piecemeal efforts and adding little bits of functionality in here and there in different runtimes etc.

So so far it seems a missed opportunity to create a framework where people can collaborate on what the platform is. Something like a common ABI. Or a distributed package registry. Or a voting mechanism for new features.

We should have a new shared platform built on web assembly. And for the information distribution part, drop CSS and HTML and start over with content-centric networking and markdown. Focus on instant retrieval and pre-dissemination.
A few notes on that:

* This only shows public channels. Most wallet apps that people install on their phone, etc open private channels

* This shows capacity, it doesn't show throughput. I work at a company that accepts payments over lightning, and our volume has grown a lot over the past year, but our channel capacity really hasn't had to grow all that much (since we withdraw funds to layer 1 regularly)
I don't get your point. Bolsonaro is the fourth Brazilian president since 2008. And yes, environment weren't the top priority at any point, but there were actual efforts to lower deforestation, and the last URL you linked illustrates.
Mission statement has never made sense except to read into it anything you want that they may get into....
I believe uBlock requires the same permission