skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you should apply and interview at least. If it doesn't feel like a good team fit then decline.

'tech at a museum' could mean a lot of different things, even within the same museum. If you are able to talk to someone that works on the same team then ask them how much their job changes each year, that would give you a sense of whether you will be able to grow your skillset or not...
How I Discovered My Love of Math (2019)
I'm sure there's lots of unhealthy things that will make you temporarily not feel suicidal..I feel great after 5 tequila sodas but it's obviously not good for me. You should really get help
Hasn't WD been doing their own silicon (at least from a design standpoint, they still use someone else's fab) precisely because the 'small percentage' ARM charges matters for their margins? In a world where we have ESP-01 boards which retail for $2, even a couple of percent matters.
It might have something to do with the fact Toyata has literally no ability to enforce driver usage.
The high performers, the people who make money for the company, are rarely the first to be let go.
The emotions you express are perhaps empathy, compassion, and regret.

Emotions about the affected people, not about how hard it has been on you personally.
I owned a Corbin Sparrow (3 wheel electric car from the early '00s) and indeed, it was suboptimal.

The good: pretty stable, drive in commuter lane, able to park almost anywhere, registers as a motorcycle (cheaper than a conventional car). It had two wheels in front, so it wasn't unstable like a Reliant Robin.

The thesis was that it was a good urban vehicle. As a commuter car it was fine as long as your commute was under 45 minutes.

Unfortunately it was a single occupant vehicle, so as soon as we had a kid it was a nonstarter for my wife. Also it could only carry a single bag of groceries.

People buy cars with multiple "jobs" in mind, and also like the flexibility of changing plans mid trip (stop at grocery on the way home, for example, or go pick up a sick kid from school).

And Smart cars (the Smart brand I mean) took over the urban market in Europe.

I don't see any future in 3 wheeled cars.
A sleep-like state in Hydra unravels conserved sleep mechanisms
What prevents Google from replacing Signal on the Android Application store with their custom and backdoored version ? Can we check a hash or something ? Does the signal foundation do that on a regular basis ?
They've been delivering that vacuous promise every few years. Being bought by Canyon Bridge, a private equity fund owned by the Chinese government, a few years ago has unfortunately not changed anything.
WireGuard is a spectacular gift to the community and I am grateful to have it.
Especially when they stop pushing firmware updates and leave the whole thing open to become part of a botnet.

Seriously, keep the damn thing open.
It'll be interesting to see if the cryptocurrency mining industry will help subsidize this work, since their primary edge is power/performance.

During stable price periods, the power/performance of cryptocurrency miners runs right up to the edge of profitability, so someone who can come in at 20% under that would have a SIGNIFICANT advantage.
To me it certainly seems like they share some core insights. The main difference is meditation, which is really the core of Buddhism.
Discord API is currently thick server and thick client, as far as I understand. Have you had a chance to review the current state of the Matrix protocol, which is thin client and would be useful as an inspiration for the next API revision of Discord.
I did the same thing over the past few weeks, along with some other self-hosted apps to get rid of as many SaaS dependencies as possible, DropBox being one of them. Fairly easy to install, but someone would need to write the "glue" to piece everything together for it to really take off.
I’ve used Webflow directly and seen it used within companies: although not perfect, my assessment is that they’ve bridged the gap between WYSIWYG and website builder. They’ve got room for improvement but they’re definitely on the right path, I’d bet on Webflow — if you look to how Wordpress is used in most companies, Webflow is all the good parts.
"after some time, loses enough social credit that the government decides to deprive him of the ability to use his car"

I know its easy to mentally walk down the dystopian road on this, but hasn't this always been the case? The only thing new is these policies are now getting codified using technology as society embraces it. Even from an apolitical stance, we as a modern society have always had mechanisms to take away a person's driving ability and car based upon a number of benchmarks based upon social behaviors.
We would need a third party, like the government or a nonprofit. When a company or companies get large enough that they monopolize a niche, when they apply arbitrary restrictions, said restrictions can be challenged in court.

If Uber prevents people from working from them who disagree with a certain party, people can sue them and argue that it isn't a justified restriction. Preventing people from working who don't pass a background check is justified, because it protects the safety of customers (assuming the background check doesn't unfairly weed out certain groups).

Whatever restrictions are required / allowed / banned is up to society as a whole. Probably we would generally err on the side of allowing things, because we like freedom, but ban anything which most agree is illegal, immoral, or dangerous.
dont worry, not doing these decisions lightheaded :-) just wanted to express that i admire the thought of skipping the "money making mission" i am on to take care of the real things i care about being my family and my head.
I hope you all get a great 2021!
I was came across a stackoverflow question where someone was confused as to why their production database was being wrecked repeatedly. The answer was that they had rampant sql injection vulnerabilities in their code. The original poster refused to take down their site or notify users of a breach.
> but the needs of system administrators are not the same as the needs of developers. That's why my development machine is on a rolling release, but my servers run Debian stable with as few out-of-repository extras as possible.

As another code monkey-cum-sysadmin, I very much second this: my servers are Debian stable without non-free, and there's damn good reason for that.

I can appreciate GP's argument, and I've been there, pulling down CL libraries for playing around on my development machines. But what GP leaves out is that more often than not, those distribution-external packages break, and if I was relying on them, I'd be left holding the bag.

I do agree, there is a problem (that the LWN article goes into), and it definitely needs attention. Distributions might be able to handle newer ecosystems better.

But for all the awesome whizbang packages of NPM, QuickLisp, etc, developers need to realize that sysadmins and especially distro maintainers have to look at the bigger picture. Maybe consider that if your software introduces breaking changes or needs security updates on a weekly basis, it isn't production ready.
I'm the maintainer of ActivityWatch (happy to see it mentioned!) and automating the process of time tracking was why I started building it (along with frustrations I had with RescueTime).

Curious what you mean by 'non-functioning' here :)
> Some really repugnant attitudes from time to time need to be downvoted.

I disagree. Just call them out. I don't like it when anything is disappeared
2022 is now the year of the Linux desktop.
It will also only happen if CloudLinux goes the Debian route. Which they won't, as they're launching what looks like a somewhat credible initiative to replace CentOS.
It wouldn't be a gimmick, I imagine it would be a hard requirement for me to use the program at all.
The PC hardware market also had fairly thin margins, if I remember correctly. It didn't stop Apple carving out a profitable niche and then expanding it.
Linksys is currently owned by Foxconn.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17166272/foxconn-buys-bel...
It is a shame but I think they figured they had to go on a diet or risk an LBO.
And why don't we use Usenet anymore? I'm too young to have used it, but Wikipedia offers a hint: "Almost all unmoderated Usenet groups have become collections of spam".[1] There were other factors too, but this seems like a major one. Who would want to stay on an unmoderated, spam-filled board? You have freedom of speech but there'd be no one around to listen.

The evidence suggests users like moderated spaces. Otherwise wouldn't your utopias of unmoderated free speech still be flourishing? Why aren't you on Usenet right now, and making your arguments over there?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Moderated_and_unmoderat...
University degrees are totally doable without going to lectures, or attending any classrooms at all. People of univeristy age should be able to self-learn, and I see no difference to a video of a lecturer vs sitting in a hall. As long as questions can be emailed to them.

Schools on the other hand...plenty of students are unable to learn on their own. "Self learning" is a skill, that even at the ago of 40 I'm still trying to master. (Anki seems to be the key here!)
Letterboxd, a social media network for film lovers, doubled its users last year
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Hundreds of Delivery Robots Are Coming to Los Angeles Streets
You might be interested in this work which integrates a programmable fabric directly with a MIPS core in order to speed up inner loops: http://brass.cs.berkeley.edu/garp.html
This story from Vice about a fully autonomous Taxi service you might find intersting: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygzvz/one-star
Tbh the tech on those vehicles is really outdated stuff. No computers, no tracking chips, nothing.

Sourcr:- my Dad's 2002 Corolla is in Yemen
LASIK is generally a few hundred dollars per eye. Is it really $50 in Europe?

As far as births, the lifetime cost of the injuries that do happen are built into the price. Maybe not a good system, but it's clear enough where the money goes.
I have been asking the same question for many years now and there isn't a simple answer. Until now Winforms and WPF seemed reasonable choices for desktop applications. Now that ARM on Windows is becoming a reality maybe Xamarin or UWP (this one is being replaced by Windows UI, or so it seems) are better options. Developing for the Windows desktop has been a guessing game for many years now.
> "Man what's up with frank today?"

> "Oh he was pulling an all-nighter doing a non-urgent task."

> "Did anybody ask him to?"

> "No. In fact we asked him to stop."

When I am doing this, it is usually because I have the strong feeling that I am in complete control of the problem right now, hours after midnight. Two fears then kick it: will I make it to this point of control a second time in the near future (3-6 months)? Will I even remember the extremely abstract concepts a few days from now? To me, the answer (confirmed by experience) is often: most likely not, better finish it now.
Ask HN: Are you/anyone you know actually *thriving* under lockdown, WFH? How?
"Magic Mushrooms" is ambiguous, so yeah, anything around it is a myth. When it comes to Cubensis, it's commonly found in the places you mention. I think the "myth" you mention, is about Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata) which you can find basically anywhere in the northern hemisphere, very common all over Europe. While Liberty Caps don't directly grow in the dung, they do love cow and sheep pastures and is more commonly found there. If you're an adult, never experienced psychedelic drugs before but would like to, and live in Europe, try looking for Liberty Caps in a nearby pasture once temperatures went down to between 0-10 degrees. I'm sure you'll find some.
It's not just about design. Apple makes very useful things, for example the, imho, least annoying computers. If they can improve on cars in some way.. why not? Because I doubt they will be able to compete on brand value only. Cars are too expensive for that.
"People who care about improving compile times of the Linux kernel with Clang."

"There are literally dozens of us!" /s
This is an interesting article which feels plausible and close to my own experience - not that I consider myself to be one of these ultra people (nothing could be further from the truth). The internet contains a wealth of knowledge. However, this is also the extract same reasoning and rejection of the mainstream that leads people into believing conspiracy theories, trusting snake-oil salesmen or joining cults. The idea that the most people are sleepy brained sheep but that you can boldly find the hidden truth is an enticing lure. The key step then, is deciding who to trust to curate your inbox.
Desktop OpenGL 3.1 on Mali GPUs with Panfrost
Thank you, I saw that news in Reddit and was also wondering how it happened. Yours is the best explanation I've read.
Yea this is valid, I'm just terrified of the tech companies having this kind of power to just censor people and shut down competitors at will. They were kind of justified this time, but given corona, all our communications are flowing through these guys. They're not neutral, nor accountable, and they are very powerful.

They also just demonstrated the ability to collaborate to destroy a company they didn't like without some kind of legal order forcing them to.
Desktop Linux is developed by people who develop Linux.

Our operating system in an outlet for so many cultures — privacy minded, seeking freedom or free, people who hack and patch, etc, etc. And your first instinct is to take it away, make it another Windows/macOs for you who don't even run Linux.

I feel sorry for people who tried to help you, that's you who expect others to be like yourself.

Linux gives me the system I want — functional understood minimalist retro style [1]. And I am not alone [2], these are not tasteless, that's my home. Get off my lawn!

[1] http://sergeykish.com/side-by-side-no-decorations.png

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
Yeah, there's something fishy with Signal, though it's been obvious for years that HN is one of its propaganda hubs.

The other day I described one of my concerns with it here [0]. I made no demands or anything like that (this is HN after all) yet someone chose to basically label me "entitled"... that must address all concerns, right?

Anyway, today I woke up and it seems this global campaign to ditch Facebook works, because some contact of mine added me to a group of "friends", people who "forgot" about me for years (because I'm not on any social network) and who had no idea what Signal was until now, who never knew or cared about privacy, but apparently decided to start using it this week. Neither he nor Signal asked for my consent, and now I'm faced with the unpleasant task of leaving that group and possibly hurting people because I never wanted to receive hundreds of vacuous messages every day. Thus I'm one step closer in my mind to moving to set up Matrix on my own server.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25692885
I just sold my position on DBX. I used to be bullish on Dropbox and I'm a loyal user, but the reality is that Wall Street doesn't appreciate this space given how commoditized it has become.

Unfortunately I have started to believe them. There's really no recent breaktroughs or interesting bets coming from Dropbox. Also the fact that migration is as simple as dropping their folder into the folder of something like Drive or iCloud makes that supposedly sticky factor not real.

Paradoxically what was their UX breakthrough will be their demise, given how easy is to migrate out.
One thing that's changed a lot in the past decade -- when I left my first startup, SigFig, in 2012 (after 7 years of slow, grinding failure -- company has since had a renaissance let by my cofounder, who stayed), it was really unclear what I was qualified to do next. As a founder, I had a lot of general skills but few specific or tangible ones - I'd spent a lot of time in sales, product management, marketing and generally doing the admin basics like taking out the trash, but I wouldn't really have considered myself qualified to run a sales team, lead marketing, or generally run any of the functions at a "real" company that I'd dabbled in as a founder.

I tried interviewing for jobs -- but from the perspective of employers, it was unclear what specific skills / experience I had - (most ppl would not have heard of the company I started, so it felt a lot like a 7-year gap on my resume). I was 32, but mostly was only able to interview for entry-level positions. I got very close to a job as a PM at Quora (thank you Marc Bodnick, @ccheever, Adam and Sandra)

We'd pitched 70 different VCs over the course of the co -- I emailed all of them to let them know I was leaving hte company, and asked to meet with them to get advice about my future plans. I only heard back from one person -- Brian Ascher at Venrock, who ultimately b/c an investor in my next co.

I ended up starting another company in part b/c it just didn't seem like there were many other good options.

This has changed a lot -- many cos, from growth-stage startups to stereotypical BigCos really want to hire former founders into positions that have meaningful scope and ownership and impact. At Rippling, we have some crazy ratios here -- around 40 ppl out of 350 are former founders, it's a candidate profile we actively seek out and view it as a badge of honor.
I find this quite refreshing, because I've often ended up on websites with the "From around the web" widget that contains links with clickbaity titles.

I guess after a while of still seeing them, and assuming there's no higher authority to take them out, I got used to them.

"I guess it’s much easier to accept mediocrity than to pursue adequacy."
- Relevant quote from this article from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719796
Super curious to know if anyone out there is actually doing better than before, while under this virus situation? Personally, family, work-wise, hobbies?

Do you know anyone who has really made the most (in an unexpectedly exceeding way) of this crisis? Personally all I can say positive is that I ride my bike far more than I ever have in my entire life.
> no amount of evidence

Surely some amount greater than zero would be a start, however. Citing statistics isn't a great first choice, since it's so easy to retroactively fit statistics to whatever outcome you want to see. Fraud on the scale you are alleging would leave a hell of a lot of evidence that couldn't possibly be completely swept under the rug. A misapplication of Benford's Law is a really weak argument.
This is a very interesting project and I'm looking forward to diving in over the coming weeks.

Why not immediately? Because I'm a happy user of ActivityWatch -- a fantastic similar tool, which, quoting the authors is " The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused."

I encourage you to check it out, if you haven't already. The pluggable and diverse watchers that AW uses are the true source of its power. It's under active development (donno why another comment claimed otherwise) and I've been using it on everything for 2 years now.

I can't wait to do a head between the two, and a writeup. I'm sure there are features that will "cross potentate" between the two projects
My Macs and my iOS devices are neither hostile nor obstructive to me. Again, if you are confused by this, you aren't trying hard to understand.

I control my Mac just fine. I've built tools from source; I run whatever I want; I can automate tasks I find tedious using the same shell tools available on Linux, and I still have access to MS Office (and no, open/FOSS "alternatives" don't work sufficiently well for me) and other COTS tools I depend on.

The Mac is absolutely the right platform for me, and I don't find it limiting or broken or hostile AT ALL. And neither do millions of other folks.

I also work regularly with Windows, and have a higher-end Dell XPS on my desk for that purpose. Windows is so profoundly broken and un-discoverable and inconsistent (not to mention unstable over time) that I cannot fathom choosing to use it over anything else -- and it's the only OTHER platform where I could get access to some of the tools I rely on. Linux isn't there, and hacks to try to make things like Win software run there imply a level of tedious fiddling that I'm 100% retired from.

>Is this such an unreasonable opinion?

I guess it depends on whether you consider an unstudied, single-POV opinion reasonable.
If you wish to be more certain, use something open-source. For instance, Matrix has many clients made by different teams, in the open, and several of these are part of e.g. Debian, so you should be able to find at least one you can trust.

What about Mozilla? What could they store?
> * Apple car found to have transported terrorists to sabotage Capitol building. Should those with morals be boycotting Apple?

Why is there any reason to believe this would be a headline? Even ISIS using Toyotas didn't have any serious repercussions for Toyota.

I know cancel culture has gotten itself pretty ingrained into society, but this is flat out insane.
I think we all want to have every explanation neatly "packaged" and settled but the truth is there are 1000 reasons for someone to do or say something and 1000 reasons to misinterpret each. When I was younger my go-to explanation was that any aggression is because of a certain class I was part of (read: gender, race, nationality, religion, etc.). It took me a while to realize that while people can always use a reason to act the way they do, they don't actually need that reason. The advent of the internet just made it easier to see this and to do it.

One of my comments on HN was repeatedly downvoted for saying something like "I don't use more than a bit of a particular ingredient in food because it gives me a throat burn".

This makes you realize sometimes a downvote is just "because". In someone's mind anything can trigger a "penalize" response towards the comment or the author. But I'm fairly certain most times guesses for the reason are very likely to be wrong.
Dropbox and Evernote, for me are two very similar companies. Startups that innovated on a great user experience and had a flawless execution in the beginning. I was an early adopter of both of them, and they worked well. Dropbox sync between different machines worked like magic. I still remember some of the nightmares my coworkers had with OneDrive in meetings when the files for the presentations were missing because of the poor sync capabilities of OneDrive.
Dropbox is no failure. Their projected revenue for 2020 is $1.8B. This is 3x more than Slack, but their market cap is 3x smaller.
Both Slack and Evernote are facing the most powerful companies in the world offering their products for free or at really discounted rates. What makes their situation even worse is that they don't own the content (documents, pdfs, spreadsheets). The documents will be edited somewhere else and then shared in dropbox. On top of that many other applications like chat offer file transfer and sharing.

Bottom line: I don't want them to fail ( I don't want Evernote to fail too), because it points to a world where only 5 to 10 big tech companies can survive. We need smaller innovative businesses to succeed too. It will be a sad day when a $2B business can't survive and is forced to sell.
I think you mean above 80 degrees Celsius
No, I think they could survive independently on VC funding.
I'm not sure this article is relevant to HN, but it reminds me to point out that Congressional security forces ultimately report to the Speaker of the House, currently AKA Nancy Pelosi...so blame for security lapses or missteps ultimately lands at her desk. I wonder if it's ok to ask her what role she played in this debacle?