skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's possible that new aspiring programmers will gain the fortitude to read documentation after a little while programming, but I can't help feeling that if someone isn't able to type "computer path" into a search engine from the start, they probably won't be able to figure out a whole lot of programming.
another one: https://www.tuleap.org/
Yeah, that is what happens when one turns down the opportunity to own Java.
I don't understand what's the issue with the technical queries.

Are they ambiguous? Are they paraphrasing the error description?

Because for me, most of the time, I just paste the error message into DDG, and the relevant Stack Overflow answer, not question page, the actual answer, is in DDG search results for me to use and fix my problem.

This is actually one of my favourites DDG features, along with currency conversion.
Thanks @dang, I recall seeing some of what you mention. One day you might care to write a book, but for now as others have pointed out, thanks for your delicate hand, you're a star amidst the darkness. You see everything :-)
Without speaking for the OP, it seems like the case being made is not that the result is executed on a real, finite machine approximation (as all programs are) but that there exists an abstract Python machine wherein the memory does not need to be so described. This does not exist for CSS.
I'm making a game/engine with efficiency/performance as a top goal. I'v spent years thinking about the design. And after i figured it out, i found a talk from an Ubisoft employee that is mostly what i came up with.

The problems are many, especially since i want to support multiplayer. The biggest solutions are around how data is transformed and scheduling the code that transforms it, more or less.

The talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1T3IQ4N-3g
Thank you for the hard work!

Reading political discussion alone gives me a heavy heart; I can't imagine moderating it.
It's sort of interesting but I don't really understand the issue they seem to have with using protein isolate rather than the dregs of boiled peas. Maybe it's because isolate rings like a chemical name? It's especially funny when considering that folks appear to be fussy about finding a natural-enough vegan protein source to make meringues, the other half of which is white sugar anyway, aka refined sucrose if you wanted to give it a chemical name, and IMO a quite "unnatural" product to begin with
The basic counter-example I was thinking of is Mathematica. In Mathematica you can paste an image as input, and have the input embedded into the document and used as an operator.

Similarly you could imagine files/documents/etc be represented as elements of rich text.

This is _not_ an easy problem however! As an example, if I had a document referring to `~/.emacs`, it could be:

- the path on the system of the author's machine

- the path on the system of the reader's machine

- the content of the file on the author's machine

- the content of the file on the reader's machine

- A sort of lisp data structure based on the content of the file on (author or reader's machine)

Basically you enter in to the "reference or value" problem on many things. Text doesn't have this problem because it has no solution to the value problem, for the most part, apart from like embedding a base64 blob into your text.

But hey, if you're building an entire OS anyways, and you have some rich text primitives, you could imagine having that in the base libraries and setting up some COM-like primitives all over and work from there.

I mean this is basically Word, at this point. But a programmer-y version of Word would be interesting from my perspective.
Astalavista and other "sibling" sites on its parent domain were my favorites. I used to be a silly borderline criminal kid.
why would you trust those specific organizations? politics is strong everywhere. UN is the worst of them.
90% of your programming life is going to be spent iterating up and down a stack of "how do I...?", "what is...?" and "why does...?" type questions. If searching for a keyword and then reading the first hit is 'too damn hard and too opaque', that could be a sign that software development may not be your thing.
CHM Launches Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Prize
Great stuff, swyx. Thank you for saving me some time -- Randy would approve. I'm gonna spend the time you saved me watching his other video, The Last Lecture.
Kubernetes Upgrades Break My DigitalOcean LoadBalancer
2021 MacBook Pro will ditch the Touch Bar and bring back MagSafe, says Kuo
As someone part of the mining side of the supply chain ( hard rock) happy to answer any questions
There's a sea shanty called the Wellerman that recently blow up on TikTok, and listening to it I was amazed how in sync the whole thing was despite all the layers. (It uses the same chain technique, but not "live".)
goatse

(nws if you end up googling it)
In your opinion the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was ok so you're irrational
Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in London
I'm currently working on a tool to help with code reviews queue - automatic reminders, single queue list from multiple teams and more. At the moment it works only for GitLab because that's what I needed for myself. If you had used https://pullpanda.com/ with GitHub, you will definitely know what's this about.

No production website yet, but I'm already using it daily. I need to deploy it to heroku and release a version that can be usable to others. If you'd like to try it out, please reach out to me here or on twitter @arathunku
I'm working on something that. It's reactive instead of proactive (it asks what you did instead of what you're planning to do). Just jot something down for now and deal with your todo apps at the end of your day.

It can do Pomodoro sessions, but I'm adding a couple of variant timers (alarms, actually) that are designed to eventually work around your schedule:

https://radleymarx.com/2021/time-journal-wireframes-round-tw...
Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN and stop using HN for political battle. We ban accounts that do those things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hamsterdance
Since debian both provide version numbers and codenames, I don't think making codename same as the release version makes any sense.

When I google Debian 5, I get results to Debian Lenny (which is 5). Also Debian denotes versions in official notices and it's widespread in internet so, codenames are not hindering anything in practice.

OTOH, codenames play a bigger role in the ecosystem. It adds motivation, fun and sense of originality. I love to have them, I love they're in fact Toy Story characters.

It makes it almost lifelike and masks the burden of maintaining one of the biggest distro projects in the existence.

While I love minimalism and utility, I think Debian should keep these. It's fun, memorable and original.
If it includes a recommendation system, then something to mix them up a bit so that people can see things that are different to what they have holed themselves into one view/subject by their own karma curation. The idea is that each recommendation has a chance to be anything, more likely something suggested by karma, but has the tiny chance to be the thing that karma suggests I least like. I like the idea of seeing a subject that I didn't know I was interested in or posts I would find objectionable some of the time.
From what I read online, bullseye is only expected to be released in Q3 or Q4. Does anybody have experiences with using pre-release versions of Debian?
This article is a great lesson to everybody claiming that these binary tree type interview questions are pointless and college classes equally so and we should just focus interviewing/teaching on how to do plumbing in $framework_of_the_day and how to use react and docker. The exact opposite is the case.
The UN is big, just like a big megacorp, different groups are different. A few of them could take up the initiative.
Cool. I would like to hear more about go based open-source projects, mainly the ones which are not so well-known yet
AWS chooses to do this with TypeScript: https://cdk8s.io/
Full stack social media app. All the current work is a native Swift app. The server was written two years ago.

Kind of a big project, but coming along nicely.
Doing the smallest amount possible to make money on a side project.
I've been around enough startups to know I can just grab a shovel when the bombs fall.
Everytime an open source project changes it's license to protect against cloud services not "paying their dues" a lot of people say it doesn't matter because the company will only go after the cloud providers, the big players, and if you just use it internally it won't affect you.

I think people forget that these companies might be bought in the future by Oracle.
Andrei has a pretty amazing CppCon talk similar to this: https://youtu.be/FJJTYQYB1JQ
Tks. This is one of my topic's I tweet most about
Funny how you can replace MacOS with FreeBSD in this article and it's the same thing. OH WAIT! eyeroll
I'm building a simpler newsletters reader: https://newsrack.app

After you sign up it creates an email address that you can use to sign up for the newsletters and mailing lists you want to start collecting in your newsrack. As it receives new emails, it will organize them for you by the author.
That price, combined with the fact that pricing comes first in the menu is just off-putting. It seems to be more focused on extracting money than on being an actual good product. Signing up and seeing it just confirmed that for me. It's not even optimized for mobile screens.

I'd be fine to pay such amount if the app was polished and had great UX. Not arguing with what you stated.

Seems like this is a common thing people need and I too tried to make an app for this. I gave up on it because the complexity grew fast, but my plan was to release it for free and have some sort of premium. I wanted to have a good product first before asking for money.
Pitch this to Amazon Studios and I'll watch it on Prime Vide... uh, never mind.
After this, anyone who supports Bitcoin is in the same camp as anyone who supports Parler.
> According to Lokeshwar, potential causes for these declines could be increased obesity/BMI, assay variations, diet/phytoestrogens, declined exercise and physical activity, fat percentage, marijuana use, and environmental toxins.

--Marijuana use? Is that legitimate? Does THC do some kind of endocrine confusion in the body? How in the world would marijuana use relate to the testes? Is THC or some derivative differentially absorbed in the testes with some detrimental effect? What would the mechanism be here exactly?
Slashdot and Fark were good and still exist
Ask HN: What is the best Zoom alternative for mobile-web video conferencing?
We want a mobile web based webinar or conferencing system, that we can integrate inside our App, preferably via Web SDK.
Zoom as Webassembly based Web SDK, but the experience on mobile-web is not good and production ready as compared to desktop web (in fact zoom themselves don't use it for mobile web, they redirect users to app, even for the meetings which can be joined on desktop web).
Is there any good quality platform which has SDK for implementing video conferencing inside our webapps, for mobile web?
Don't do this here, please.
Maintainer here:

Please tell me here or on substack in the comments on what frequency of newsletter you prefer:
bi-weekly, tri-weekly (uncommon, but why not), or monthly.

Second. What are you most interested in:
a) Go Packages/Libraries (to use in your projects)
b) Go-based tools, open-source software ( to use and/or to study code )
c) Golang related content, like tutorials, blog posts.

Thank you
Textfiles

HappyHacker
Make James Earl Jones Speak

Find the Pope in the Porsche

sidewalk.com
I think the term is open-core
Yes. I guess the author is (successfully) going along with the general popular hype that paints it as a new architecture.
I went from Fark to Digg to Reddit
'db-to-sqlite' is exactly what I need for a project right now!

Awesome tool collection. Thank you for building this!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bu... for a Twitter-free analysis.
All kinds of abandonware sites. I used to download games and record them on CDs in internet cafés, even before I had my first computer:)
Old Man Murray
Ooof. I thought this was the last lecture person. Randy Pausch was amazing and really influenced me on my current life choices.

I really can't recommend his "Last Lecture" enough.
Vampire Radio
In France we have the not-for-profit "Nos Oignons" :

https://nos-oignons.net/

https://nos-oignons.net/%C3%80_propos/index.en.html

It collects donations and pays for hosting of ToR exit nodes in various ISP, mostly not-for-profit too:

https://nos-oignons.net/Services/index.fr.html

It's now about 0.6% exit probably through their node.

Outside of managing donation money and the technical platform their main task is to answer judiciary requests.

Detailed activity report (in French):

https://nos-oignons.net/Association/

Disclaimer: I'm a volunteer for one of the nor-for-profit hoster for Nos Oignons.
JNCO jeans website, Angelfire sites, Homestar runner (‘99) to name a few.
The first musician could be the conductor and they already are accustomed to conduct a bit ahead of the sound. Or they could put the instrument with most notes.
In general, pretty cool stuff.

There's no need to use Sympy, it's kind of overkill. If f(x) = 1/x^2 - a, then f'(x) = -2x^-3. You can find x_new easily:

x_new = x - f(x) / f'(x)

= x - (1/x^2 - a) / (-2x^-3)

= x + (1/2) (x^3) (1/x^2 - a)

= x + (1/2) (x - ax^3)

= (3x - ax^3) / 2

= x(3 - ax^2) / 2
In a way, they always have been.

Bitcoin is a fun Venn diagram of ancaps, people who have been genuinely misled about the extant economic and political system, people who have been brainwashed by moon lambos, and some engineers who find the technology interesting.

I suspect that the "Parler" crowd is almost a perfect subset.

The problem is not Bitcoin and it's not Parler - they're both symptoms. I've been lucky enough to grow up all over the world, and spent much of my formative years in Canada - a stable, functioning democracy (give or take) with freedom and "SoCiAlISm." I've spent the last 10 years in America watching its descent into failed state territory where people board up their windows for elections, cities create authorized homeless encampments and badgeless secret police disperse gatherings nobody find a common description of. Parler is among the least surprising of recent developments.

I guess what I'm saying, and maybe it's off topic, but things are pretty bad here now, man.

The best contrast I can point to is that the US Embassy in Ottawa is an absolute fortress, with two rows of bollards, concrete barricades and a giant fence along Sussex Drive. [1] Sitting next to a virtually unguarded Parliament Hill. I mean, it's got a fence, I guess. [2]

[1] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Skc_MiFdts0/Sx8Gt9gBpQI/AAAAAAAAAz...

[2] https://www.kitchenfrau.com/canadian-poutine/img_2645est/
Very NSFW, for anyone not aware.
> concerns about hormones

are there chickens anywhere that are given hormones?

As far as I have been able to determine, this is a myth, and the reason they grow quickly is selective breeding.

For example, in Australia https://theconversation.com/ten-facts-you-need-to-know-about...
The initial Oberon OS is indeed from 1987, but there are many Oberons. The original Oberon GUI was the everything-is-executable-text one, not the ZUI.

The ZUI was part of Thomas M. Frey's work for his dissertation "Bluebottle : A Thread-safe Multimedia and GUI Framework for Active Oberon" [2] (Bluebottle OS) submitted in 2005.

This was built on top of Pieter J. Muller's work for his dissertation "The Active Object System" [1] (AOS) submitted in 2002.

There are many more ETH (PhD and student) projects based on Oberon before and after (ARM Oberon, WinOberon, UnixOberon, Oberon.NET, ...) mainly in Jürg Gutknecht's group.

[1] https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...
[2] https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...
Both the Debian Free Software Guidelines[1] and the GNU Free Software Definition proscribe limiting fields of endeavor. The OSD[3] borrows heavily from the DFSG.

I remember reading (alas, I can't find my source) a spokesperson for the OSI admitting to the existence of licenses that meet the OSD that they don't want to be OSI-approved because they don't add enough value versus the cost of proliferation of licenses that are substantially similar.

[1] https://www.debian.org/intro/free

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw

[3] https://opensource.org/osd
This sounds like the equivalent of lead poisoning being one of the causes for the fall of the Roman Empire.
I hear products whose main objective is to inflict pain to their user are hard.
Check out Asahi Linux:

https://asahilinux.org/
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/
I think this is a great point. I would really appreciate to see more accurate lists or, better yet, more diverse lists.

However, I have to point out the irony here. Every time someone complains about the lack of western representation they just pretend there isn't a southern hemisphere in the planet. The East is not composed of only Europe, Canada, and the United States.

That's to say, fight for overall diversity, not for western vs. eastern representation because that's a false dichotomy.
cartoonnetwork.com

There were a lot of fun Flash(Shockwave, as it was called back then) games!
I am building Duolingo for piano. Set of exercises in browser with midi support, I launched first two exercises as of now and adding another two next week. You can check it out at https://legatoforte.com
Hey thats a sweet landing page, looks very solid from what I see, if you're planning on scaling fast, use an Auto-AB testing toolkit like Quicksand.ai to optimize from the get-go.
>Debian labels itself the 'universal operating system', and makes no aspirations to cater to the lowest common denominator of users.

That's a bit of a contradiction.
There are certainly roles out there for a Data Scientist who just crunches numbers. A good friend of mine does exactly that for a large traditional retail corporation. Just by using standard ML tools he replaced a whole team of analysts for pricing items. Maybe not in cutting edge tech companies, but roles like that are all over the economy still.
> Pasta is the devil y'all.

And yet Italians are generally slim and healthy :)
Elixir is a fantastic language. I wrote an app several years ago and haven't had to update or do any maintenance on it since and it has happily served several million requests a month without errors. Actually the only reason I've touched it is to upgrade the Heroku stack it is on. The best part is I actually had a lot of fun writing the app and even writing the docs. So much of my preference for Elixir is in the developer experience and how quickly I can ship changes with high confidence; all of the amazing performance and distributed aspects I may never need for my projects.
I think the correct question would be: why not both.

Since if I had to make a choice, I would single out Flightradar24 too, since the (iPhone) app is just great.
The Touch Bar was a huge misstep IMO.
Please stop posting comments that break the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is not on Bitcoin, but a seperate network with its own token (STX) that is secured by "Proof of Transfer" - see https://www.stacks.co/

Also, it could, in theory, be attached to Ethereum too, and probably more trivial to do. These networks come with their own security guarantees, trade-offs & governance pitfalls, but unfortunately do not mention these on their home page of their shiny professionally designed website.

I also don't see a future for these things on Bitcoin, because as soon as bitcoin block rewards diminish, the miners would need to be paid from transaction fees. However, for the miners to be profitable, the transaction fees would need to increase an order of a magnitude - making solutions such as these potentially expensive and infeasible.

There were a few projects like this in the past, one from memory was called Counterparty. Not sure what happened to that. I guess the 10 minute block times and high fees might have been the culprit.

Conclusion: Anybody promoting this is just trying to sell their bag of STX tokens.
In the same way the AGPL satisfies it, you can run it for any purpose if you provide the source code to users.
My impression was that the Ogalla aquifer was stressed. Considering potable water consumption is relatively inelastic, what would that mean for agriculture usage if groundwater sources of potable water were depleted?
I also wish for that as a west Aussie, but I can't help but feel with the climate crisis the way it is, we're going to have more and more pressures on top officials (the bush fire saga with Morrison comes to mind, that was an embarrassment).
theconversation.com is speaking loosely - it is the only known inland site. That is different from being the only inland site.

The Pilbara is very large and the Aboriginals have visited a lot of it over the last 46,000 years. It will be riddled with ancient sites, which nobody cares about. The only reason they even bothered to look was because it was in an ore-rich area.
> You're trying to build a fast and slim UI that's gonna be deployed on routers and possibly loaded on low-power devices? You better care about every single line that gets loaded on the device.

Unless you've gone out of your way to buy a (more expensive) part with less memory, your router will have enough memory to make 86.1Kb an utter irrelevancy; so will most of what were traditionally considered "low-power devices". Yes there are extreme cases where it matters, but we're talking about a vanishingly rare proportion of use cases.

> I'm not saying dependencies are always wrong. I'm also not saying it's always right. I'm saying why you need the dependency and the quality of the code it includes is important to consider, and knee-jerk reactions of "of course I'd use it" is hurting the profession more than the library reuse saves us currently.

I think this is backwards, and the knee-jerk reaction of "of course it's important and you need to carefully think about it" is what's holding back the industry. The overwhelming majority of the time, the right thing is to use the dependency; the best development practice is to default to using dependencies and reassess if and when it you hit an actual problem.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political/ideological battle. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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happypuppy.com (happy puppy games). Used to have all sorts of shareware in the 90s, and free demos. Sadly gone now apparently, but here's a reddit thread discussing it 10 years ago about how someone hadn't thought about it for 10 years previous to then!

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/at1ux/anyone_rememb...
FYI the Actual title: “The raging trust crisis and its consequences“
This is super cool, well done
Albino Blacksheep, slashdot, and of course the amazing Homestar Runner!
> If I'm spending $100k/mo on my logging stack, and it's falling over frequently

I do the same and AWS ES works fine. I did try Elastic, performance was bad. They run it in containers internally!
http://bash.org/

(It may be early 2000s.)

I really miss IRC.
> how fast electrons travel in copper

Signals are fast, electrons are slow - on the order of a quarter of a millimeter per second.

> the drift speed through a copper wire of cross-sectional area 3.00 x 10-6 m^2, with a current of 10 A will be approximately 2.5 x 10-4 m/s

https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae69.cfm
Can you provide a link about this?
Very creepy.
Facebook made me do it, I love the government. Why not blame the piss poor representation that most Americans feels as a catalyst??