skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought about this many times. I even had consultancy once doing webdev. But now I have no idea how can boutique consultancy can succeed? Who do you market to?

Mom & pop shops are best served by Shopify or Wix.

Large corps with work with other large consulting companies or hire.

Mid size corps maybe. What would be your strategy to market to them?
Well, I would have thought that "molecular simulation codes" such as QM, MD or the related methods to MD should have been on this list. They pretty much all arose from academic groups such as those of Karplus and Pople, and all profit from the staggering increase in compute power. They drive material design, drug design, ... all of which are significant technological problems of today.

EDIT: I think the Unix family tree should have been high on the list as it forms the basis of most of today's servers.
Mozilla Persona, for anyone curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
If it has come so far that the government has to steps in than they are probably done. Once government starts to bankroll them, they'll have no incentive to be competitive and all the smart creative people will leave for better pastures.
As I understand it, the largest consensus around probable cause for that decrease has to do with neonicotinoid pesticides, which both bioaccumulate and also affect many more species than their intended targets. I don't actually know whether larvae of a brood that's been underground for over a decade would be more or less likely to be exposed to concentrations significant enough to do harm.
> The federal government is the government of the individual states.

In that case, why aren't state legislatures or state governors voting for president and members of congress?
Happens every time we get a new president. Nothing unusual about it.
Everything from Trumps whitehouse.gov site is now located at https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov
I love the idea of hosted bridges (in fact I was thinking about starting my own service like this) and I'm glad that the bridges themselves are open source. However I would much rather that the client was open source as well (It would make it way easier to get all my friends to Matrix with a well polished client).

Basically $10 a month for access to bridges that funds bridge development is great however I don't want some of that to fund the development of a closed-source client. If the client was opened, or had work upstreamed to an open source client I would be all on board.
The very first issue "Make GitHub support readme.dumbdown" gave me a good chuckle.

One man can dream, right?

[0] https://github.com/treenotation/dumbdown/issues/1
Yeah that sounds familiar. We went through a lot of that.

Feel free to get in touch if you need any help jay@seed.run
That’s fascinating. I personally haven’t found any statistics on how many crimes of any type are committed that didn’t include estimates, only statistics that count arrests(1) since those are discrete and easily countable.

I agree that statistics are an incredibly powerful tool to understand the world but I disagree that they’re the “only lens on reality” since in some cases, ideologues are able to summon numbers that fit a preconceived notion.

Edit: oops, forgot the link
(1) https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
>But the Supreme Court doesn’t make the rules, it just interprets them.

The supreme court literally decides whether X real-world activity is made illegal by Y law. Interpreting the rules is making rules.
Wow, my Chrome RAM usage went from about 2GB to 8GB after removing TGS.
Having moved away for money in the past I wouldn't do it again, human connection is hard to buy, family is hard to move, and friendships tougher to make the later in life.
Did they wipe out the entire old site? The link isn't working anymore and everything looks different.
> then fled there before moving on to Russia

That’s just a lie. He was in a plane on his way to Ecuador when the US cancelled his passport, resulting in him being blocked in the Russian airport for a while. At some point the situation created such a mess for the airport that Russia accepted to let him enter the country.

All of this has been documented at length, and anyone on this forum is likely old enough to remember the events from when they happened live.

At no point he wanted to be in Russia. The US forced the situation by canceling his passport mid-flight and putting pressure on any country that would offer their help (my home country did and was publicly pressured for this).

In any case, you can forget about the guy, the information he gave demonstrate that the NSA under Obama was committing plenty of illegal surveillance of the US population (and of course other countries, but US citizens don’t seem to care about non-US rights), created a system of hidden courts, and lied about all of it. That should be enough to consider him a whistleblower.
Single 15 year term with a guaranteed pension afterward.
Awesome! Thanks a ton!
Yep, the site gets wiped in a new administration.

The page linked is now hosted here: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/st...
I use weechat for this and it works fine. Slack, Discord, Signal, etc. all bridge fine (though Signal is a bit messy). And of course, IRC. The one thing I haven't figured out how to connect is MS Teams, and it doesn't look like this service offers it anyway; is there a reason to use it?
Archived URL from the White House: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/st...
NoFlo really is impressive. Great work.
Aren't there some amazon tribes that have basically had no contact with the modern world? By your logic, we are under an ethical obligation to go in and "modernize them".

So, you have an example right in front of you.. it's no longer hypothetical.
Writing a table of contents is my formatters job, not mine. It takes place after both my editor and my proofreader have completed their jobs, at which point I don't touch the file any more. If you format your own, then you're already in an small niche.

Some people may need "special characters" they can't type, but I have keybindings for the characters I use.

Grammar checking and corrections is my proofreaders job, not mine. It happens after I've converted my document and sent it off.

Macros are supported in pretty much every editor I've ever used for plain-text. I use lots of macros, but exactly zero of them for my novels.

I don't need to send and receive documents with no conversion needed. I do one export when I'm done with my first draft, and then I edit and do one more export before handing it over to my proofreader. Then, sure, I review those changes in Librewriter. The proportion of my time that takes is tiny. It'd be nice not to have to, but I'd take that over having to work in a word processor during writing any day.

> No offense but you don't sound like someone who writes a lot?

As someone who has written several novels, that's how your comment came across to me. At the same time I know novelists range from the pen and paper type (e.g. Gaiman, King to give two examples discussed in this thread) up to wanting word processors with all bells and whistles - it's very much down to taste.
Sure, there will be some illegally produced alcohol. The majority of the alcohol consuming public will start consuming less alcohol. So that's no reason not to tax it, is it? What you're suggesting is like saying we shouldn't forbid some random crime because people will commit it regardless.
in cambridge analytica documentary they showed indian national congress was involved in manipulation facebook users and whatsapp groups. https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/bbc-documentary-s...
Are there already many similar apps? I used two: Rambox https://rambox.pro/ and Franz https://meetfranz.com
Yes that’s what I’m talking about when I said the committees were lied to. I’m sure they would’ve been interested to hear from someone working at the lower levels that the NSA director lied.
Yeah, fascinating and a bit morbid. It's 10h now.

I really think this is getting unhealthy hyperfixation and I really hope this is unusual for marcan, as this comes at a cost you can never make up for again.

Btw. if you enjoy these extended coding streams, you may like the Scanlime livestreams: https://www.youtube.com/c/scanlimeinprogress/videos. She's also a fascinating person to observe in her natural environment. The videos are also low key trippy and artsy.

Main channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/scanlime/videos
I have the tee-shirt.

1. If you haven't done so already, you need to immerse yourself for 3 months+ in the target country in order to understand the lifestyle, the people, the culture, the weather...

2. You have a successful side project. If there is room for growth, you just need to wait a bit longer to achieve the magical 1m.

3. Depending on your personality, you may become a bit of a liability to your current employers. Having an independent income changes your perspective from a decision making perspective because ultimately the success of the company is no longer tied to putting bread on the table.

4. Life is short. Money comes and goes. Work out what would make you happy (not necessarily an easy thing to dow), and then work towards that goal. You are lucky, you have an amazing opportunity, don't squander it!
The Stochastic Markdown Bug
This is always funny. I, and everyone else in the world, had the same idea during covid. I never built mine, but I did put together this spreadsheet of competitors. There are around 50 separate projects doing the same thing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R5DXWtz4H7eIT5VbGYJE...
https://lobste.rs was supposed to be something like that.
Ok so it seems the real problem is that your employer does not provide you with the tool you need to perform your work, i.e. a computer. If they did, they would have the responsibility and ability to secure it. By methods which could include installing some auditing software.

It's obviously not really reasonable to expect you to install such things on your private computer. Sounds like there could actually be some legal issues with such practice?

If it was your own choice to use your private computer then that's a different story. But it sounds like it is definitely not by choice.

> Nobody really cared for the fact that my all machines are running Linux

2021 is the year Linux becomes a mainstream desktop OS right? ;-)
Every time they make a lower offer counter with a higher price. They will soon learn what kind of person they are dealing with.

If they actually do come up with $120,000,000 - will at that point nobody will be surprised that you cashed out. They might be mad, but they won't blame you.
Hi Amir, this is Iliana, Laila's co-founder. :) You can reach us at https://www.manara.tech/contact. If you're seeking to hire talent, use https://www.manara.tech/hire-engineers instead. Thanks so much for your support!
Though, this really kind of fits with the metaphor. Pipes typically just send liquid.

You could have a conduit connector to join a bunch of wires/signals, I suppose. But, realistically, that is a mess always.
C programmers can give you a couple of advises about "correct" modulo on negative numbers.
Have you had any issues with reliability or downtime in running it yourself? Or any use cases it hasn't supported? Interesting to hear you're running it with so many users!
Heavy, pricey and not worth it. Anybody else surprised?
I once made that decision, to move away to another city for 4 years. So can definitely agree that it is one of the best experiences to move away, at least once. On the other hand not sure if I would be ready to settle down for example in Zurich.

Also, governments lookout for you. So basically if you start a business in my country and are then not satisfied, it becomes much more difficult to move away. You will have to pay a tax on the liquidation value of your company. Actually I never dealt with this stuff and was surprised about all the laws around this topic.

"don't do anything just for money if you can help it -- and you usually can." Can't agree more. Been always my mindset as well. It changed a bit to be honest as I'm thinking about paying multiple millions in taxes that can be avoided just by moving to another city. Especially since the Government actually wasn't able to provide a good and fair regulatory framework. So there is a non-zero risk that they could kill the company.
If you live and breath the command line it's a great skill to have because it's available everywhere and it's a very powerful editor. If you're not a heavy command line user, you are probably fine sticking with whatever you already know.
And the power of Congress to override the presidential veto is... what?

Any time you create a second system, you can see similarities to the first system. That doesn't make it a "modified copy"; it makes it a "rewrite that has some similarities".
Djikstra does a good job of selling the virtues of 0-based indexing, but he doesn't give the same attention to the situations where 1-based indexing is better. That's the biggest problem I see in EWD831.

For example, if you need to iterate backwards then it is nicer if the interval is closed on both ends (as is the case with 1 based indexing). This way, iterating backwards is as clean as iterating forwards.
Already done for indians. Impossibility of FTL travel just saved all life in universe from you.
A potential corollary being that the posting of content on social media that warrants a account ban is shockingly common.
Netflix has a wide distribution infrastructure, both in physical data centers and in cloud providers. Fast.com will usually give you sustained fast speeds even if your overall internet access is spotty. IIRC, some people were able to watch Netflix even when there were global internet outages. Their team is amazing.
All of the ISPs merged with media companies, instituted data caps, and then exempted their in house media from the data caps.

So yeah, fairly substantial.

https://www.theverge.com/net-neutrality
> The pardon doesn't do anything to address systemic problems in the justice system

Of course. If the laws are rotten it's the court's job to tell the legislature don't do that.
> The US has a solid set of traditions and an extremely civic culture; and that's why it works

IMO this is something that I wish more citizens understood. They put way too much faith in the Constitution and don't realize that it's the tradition, the mythology of America that really holds this country together. If we lose that, we lose everything, and the Constitution won't save us.
Consider the alternative: a president who announces they will blanket pardon all white people and no one else.
Troubleshooting with Traceroute [video]
Because a long time ago, Microsoft bought Skype and created its own communication protocol.
It was all downhill from there on...
A tangential question, why is .so the new cool TLD to use for tech startups/projects?

I know the lack of availability of .com/other common TLDs is a problem. I understand the reasoning behind using .io to represent software/saas startups (stands for inputs/outputs). I don't understand .so though. From what I remember, Notion was probably the first high profile startup using it, and it just kinda took off. Searching "why .so domain" comes up with nothing except a Reddit thread with the Notion founder saying it was mostly because it was just an available TLD for "notion" at the time.
thanks for replying!

If we were to have a seperate thread, then folks should absolutely not post these things in regular threads, thus leaving them cleaner and with a better tone.

they are free to reference this incident on the grievance thread. There, different downvote rules should apply of course.

There might be others who feel the same way, and therefore might upvote it. So, this way, you can get a sense of how many/deeply feel about a particular issue, and then address it suitably.

Once this particular case is addressed, then we create a link of sorts, and the next month someone brings this up, we just point to it.

I am thinking - maybe once a quarter -- to start with, and vary frequency as needed.
And this is how the English language has become what it is. If someone politely points out that the use of a word is incorrect, instead of thanking and correcting themselves, people just shrug and say: "it is what it is" and continue to spread the incorrect usage. I even wonder why bother with grammar in a language like this.
I didn't realize the alias were pre-defined and not just user created. Thanks for clearing that up in reasonable way.
> If we assume that Oumuamua is an alien construct, what "new vistas of exploration for evidence and discovery" open up that we are not already pursuing?

I think what he's trying to convey is that thinking of this object under the assumption of "aliens" pushes us to develop experimental technology to prove it. This could then lead to future advances (whether intentional or accidental) potentially helping us detect alien technology where we otherwise wouldn't be able to had we not begun that pursuit. He's looking at it from a very long-term perspective.
I think it's also a problem that engineers are rarely incentivized to make the right decision initially. If the initial price is low they will be prized if they able to cut down the development time. After that if the solution auto scales then it will be the beancounter's problem.
Higher precision in intent for many standard operations. These aren't perfectly Vim commands, but from the Vim-like 'evil mode' for emacs, I have some examples of common idioms I use frequently:

- 'I want to change the name of this variable. <cw> (Change Word)'

- 'I want to copy the contents of this braced block. <yi{> (Yank Inside Matching-braces)'

- 'I want to surround this word in parentheses. <vaws(> (Visual-mode (region selection) Around Word Surround-with Matching-parens)'

You get used to the separate modes fairly quickly. Your existing editor already works that way when switching between 'region' and 'insert' modes; it's just the command mode that throws people off initially. It's not that rough, especially if you have a reasonably placed key to return to command mode.
Were these codes successfully commercialized?
>Conversely, before automatic updates web developers were stuck supporting Internet Explorer for the best part of twenty years. Many of the people using it had neither reason or knowledge to update it, and it became the reason my parent's computers got riddled with malware.

The failure is not that of Internet Explorer, but rather the OS in which it runs, which has a faulty security model. No operating system should trust executables with everything by default.
They included the FFT.

Also, you'd think computer algebra systems would make the list. Macsyma, Mathematica, etc.

Mathematica has had a notebook interface since before I could personally afford a machine that could run Mathematica, but somehow the newer and inferior Ipython/Jupyter system makes the list?
You're assuming his education was publically funded - it might not have been. Can you say that he required the infrastructure or security to be successful?

So you're saying that immigration/emigration should be illegal? I believe people should be able to move if they want to if they follow the process. It's important that people can live under a government that they support and believe to be the best one for them.

It sounds like he has been paying his taxes all these years. So he has been contributing his fair share. Don't forget, him leaving means one fewer person for the government to provide services for. Knowing that healthcare costs increase as one gets older, this could be a large amount if healthcare is something his taxes cover.

Honestly, the logic that he owes society money for the past services is pretty convoluted. The government isn't keeping a tab of what people owe if they ever make more money. When then, would someone have paid their dues to society to earn the freedom to move? The people currently making money are paying current taxes. Are the kids in school paying taxes? No, it's the property owners, some of whom might not even have kids.

Tax schemes are designed to collect the amount that society needs as an aggregate. They try to be logical or socially acceptable in how they are collected. Society has not implemented a tax scheme saying you owe more for previous services because your income went up. They could, but they haven't.
The original article, me, and a few others in this comment section.
FP decouples the AST (symbolic functions with input ports and an output port) from the evaluation context, which might be async, or sync, backpressured, stateful, exceptional, incremental/reactive ... mix-n-match whatever behaviors you want, all for the same abstract AST
Thanks! Beeper looks amazing.

> Our desktop client is closed source, but you can use Element (or any open source Matrix client) if you prefer.

I see most bridges are licensed AGPLv3 [0]: Aren't you required to AGPLv3 the desktop client, too?

[0] For ex: https://gitlab.com/nova/whatsapp/-/blob/master/LICENSE
It's not just marketers. The vast majority of engineers are just fine with this term. The set of people complaining about it are a tiny minority.

I'm the lead engineer on Cloudflare Workers. We didn't originally call it "serverless", but after talking to lots of engineers who said "Oh so it's serverless?" we decided to go with that term. The decision was not made by marketers.
The author's arrogance and the pretentiousness of their over-the-top sarcasm are even more annoying than both the stupidity of the suggested solutions and the idea that the 1950s are a magical time of justice and prosperity we'd want to get back to.
Sorry, but this is the same non-answer I have heard my entire life.

I do primarily work on the command line and I can assign $EDITOR to anything I want. So what makes it so much more powerful than the plethora of other editors in the space?
I think they will come to regret this move in the long run. With Amazon signing up to sponsor rocky linux, it's only a matter of time before the user base moves there vs. dealing with all the headaches of "free" RHEL.

Especially given that they won't make any commitments to long term availability beyond "we have no intent".

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-r...

>We have no intent to end this program and we’ve set it up to be sustainable

https://rockylinux.org/
Thank you! And totally, the region's entrepreneurship scene is growing quickly. Our current YC batch has at least 5 companies from MENA. We're excited to be a part of (and unlock) this growth.
Recipe for Meaningful Change
> " by the way why on earth does this monstrosity want me to use hjkl? That don't make any sense!!!!"

Indeed, why? Using hjkl is about the worst way to move around in vim...
My current approach, for whatever it's worth: I subscribe to the Sunday print edition of my city's daily newspaper. For those too young to remember, this is the week's largest edition, which includes summaries of many of the week's stories. I read it over coffee on Sunday morning (away from my laptop). I'm roughly as informed as anybody else about the events of the day.
If you are generating revenue exposure can be very useful. However if you don't already have a good business model it just digs your hole deeper. Be very careful to be sure which you are in.
No, those are totally different. They're just Electron shells around web versions of chat apps. They're also extremely resource-intensive and buggy.

Someone forked Rambox and kept it FOSS, and it's called Hamsket.
I'm posting this to get reactions from a privacy and employee rights standpoint. To me this seems like something that could easily be used for managers to control their reports. Since WFH became a thing, management by "butts in seats" was thrown for a loop. But what if your manager could tell if you were working or not by how and if your monitor band responded?