skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If engineers are the most important resource, I think being a company known for open source might act as an inbound sales for attracting top talent, too (see: Google, RedHat, Mozilla).

For engineers, it makes sense to work for companies that do have FOSS projects because they can always point to their corpus of work when switching between jobs as proof of their worth. Most engineers who realise this don't ever want to go back to working full time on closed source projects.

That said, folks making arguments against open source companies conveniently ignore the examples of Cloudera, Linaro, Hortonworks. They also tend to forget how much central open source is in the current climate because someone or the other will attempt to commoditize your core (Firebase vs Supabase, GitHub vs GitLab, Oracle vs Postgres, Docker vs Mesos, Windows vs Linux, Intel/AMD vs ARM, S3 vs MinIO, Symbian/iOS vs Android, Plaid vs Moov.io) and because of the Interwebs, these FOSS solutions will be found and a community will develop around it. It is almost inevitable.

I'm not an investor, but one should definitely invest in FOSS companies with proven tech because they attract the most precious commodity of all, developer mindshare. I'm sure FOSS companies will discover newer ways to make their businesses work (like GitLab and HashiCorp with "buyer-based open core"), and blueprints from the past are already available (especially, in terms of what not to do; looking at you, Docker). Despite what they may say about BigTech stealing their thunder away... I think it is mostly down to FOSS companies digging themselves into a hole.

Source-available licensing is a compelling alternative, but I hope the community rejects it, because such licenses don't seek to truly benefit the overall software ecosystem rather only merely appear to do so, and that's why I hate those.

Required reading:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...

https://www.gwern.net/Complement

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-way-to-...
There is a repo for the USA-Constitution: https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution

I am not sure if there are any for the states.
The third in the line of presidential succession has been in five Batman movies
This is one of the most beautifully crafted websites I've seen. The mobile experience in particular is practically flawless and a joy to use.

I'm someone who holds inconsistent "innovative" website navigation systems (particularly mystery-meat types) up as one of my most ardent pet peeves, and I have fond memories of sharing vents over the various architects' websites that won Vincent Flanders' annual "Websites That Suck" awards back in the day.

Somehow this site manages to wade headfirst into those same experimental areas that have long caused such navigational headaches to visitors and emerged completely unscathed and victorious.
I'm fine with people filtering information going towards them, its when they try to filter the information at the source that's problematic.

inter-nodal moderation works great for this, I'm sure there are many Mastodon instances that de-federate with my instance for some asinine reason.
Something else to consider: how does the median house today compare to the median house then? Is it bigger and better? Same? Worse? Perhaps expectations have changed in 40 years.
similar project https://github.com/EmberHeavyIndustries/HID2AMI

Supports mice and gamepads. You can build one yourself or buy a finished product.
Now if only the guy with the $100 million had enough survivor's guilt to give me $1 million lol

Edit: looks like my joke failed
It really depends on what you're selling. All of the Linux core tools and the kernel are released under GPL and obviously companies have no issues using them. For libraries that are statically compiled or used as part of your own software it's a different story though.
I found your project yesterday and was blown away by not only the quality but how easy you made it to get going. It motivated me to sponsor you for the insider features and has exceeded all expectations!

I never thought I would have so much fun creating documentation :) Cheers and keep up the great work!
Ask HN: Where would you sell an expensive painting (~1M)?
One of the first pics in the imgur album is the Slab City library.
To my mind there are certainly a lot of unknowns around interactions with people outside the vehicle. A simple scenario like someone directing traffic around an accident seems like a nightmare for FSD.

(Edited: slight wording tweak.)
did you mean 420 satellites? https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-president-teases-starship-s...
A glass log at the ocean floor costs no one anything.
"We've tried it and it failed" is a pretty strong argument, too strong to be brushed aside with out an argument or evidence.

The Energiewende is recent history, and the major cause of the highest electricity prices in Europe. But that wasn't enough, not even close, to bring Germany into line with France's excellently low CO2 production.

Even if the situation has changed to the point where solar is the most cost-effective option, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from Germany about how dangerous it is to take an anti-nuclear stance. They look like fools.
You make a SPAC sound even shadier than a reverse merger.
> There are absolutely other benefits to solar other than return on investment

When you are talking about a purchase which you live with day to day for 10+ years, "Return on Investment" is never going to be a straight financial calculation.

People don't buy a house based on straight ROI, nor are most home improvements based purely on ROI. I don't see why solar should be the exception.
Why do you think that? What would yet another protocol nobody uses bring to the table, smtp and imap don't? It's reliable, stable, decentralized and can be used securely.
The only feasible route to this is if Apple sold a car that allowed for increased utilization. (E.g. person-in-car 95% of the time vs 5% of the time)

If it were providing value more of the time, it could cost more and still be worth the increase in price.

But I don't see any path that gets there without a self-driving singularity to allow for humanless valet movement between "users." Maybe remotely operated human valet service, but that seems like an ugly rabbit hole? And that still leaves the fact that luxury users aren't going to be okay with ketchup stains and odors from the last user...

iTaxi as a social platform starts to get more plausible.

But that's more along the lines of a bus-van-social network hybrid. "Travel only with other vetted, high-net-worth Apple users" is an interesting twist, as well as a direct stab at Facebook and Microsoft (LinkedIn).
Really? In the middle of a pandemic where Covid-19 lives on surfaces for days, you can't see a reason not to use a ride-sharing car?
I don't see how RSS fixes anything they complained about.
They also recommended people use stackexchange over federated networks.
I think we've been sold the suburbanized, car-and-home-ownership-centric, "American Dream" for so long, that other options have been actively neglected if not sabotaged.

* Stability is poor. You can lock in a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with a predictable payment (effectively hedging against inflation), but there's little to no recourse against landlords doubling your rent next year or refusing to renew your lease.

* Fully pedestrianized, live-work development is still a scattershot novelty, often requiring heroic efforts to get zoning and incentives set up, but the 1000-hectare, 900 houses and 4 golf courses, 700 km of roads that curley-Q and cul-de-sac, master-planned community, has been raised to an art form.

* Attempts to support public transit are not just forgotten, but aggressively fought, in part because buses/light rail/subways are considered services for undesirable groups.

* The whole urban-renter situation tends to be treated either as a "well, it's just poor/minority/etc." as a subconscious motivation to allow stagnation, or handwaved as a transient situation for the "successful professionals" -- they'll eventually move out to a McMansion so it doesn't matter that their experience is lousy for a few years while they save a down payment.

Unless the wealthy/successful/influential embrace this lifestyle, there will be limited momentum to improve it for anyone else.
> Around the same time we switched from an (outdated) manually created critical CSS file to an automated system that was generating critical CSS for every template — homepage, article, product page, event, job board, and so on — and inline critical CSS during the build time. Yet we didn’t really realize how much heavier the automatically generated critical CSS was.

Is reducing the total amount of CSS per page so you don't have to calculate the critical CSS at all an option?

To throw my own page into the ring, here's a non-trivial product website of mine where the homepage is 0.3MB total over the wire and renders in 0.4 seconds for me (includes custom fonts, payments, analytics, large screenshot and real-time chat widget):

https://www.checkbot.io/

The major tricks I'm using is keeping the website CSS small (CSS for homepage + rest of site gzips to less than 8KB), inlining all CSS, rendering default fonts before the custom font has loaded, SVG for all images (this saves a ton), and not using JavaScript for content (which blocks rendering).

The screenshot in the header is in SVG format and inlined directly into the page along with the CSS, so the moment the HTML arrives the browser can display all above the fold content. Logos are another good one for the SVG + inline treatment.
It’s not in particularly common usage anymore though, if at all.
Well, outside the area who knew?

Is it really possible that lower TDS makes better water and better water makes better beer and coffee?

I guess that could make it a double-blind test.

I wonder how significant the number of participants is over what length of time and how it compares to the numbers and species in the laboratory rodent work.
Coool! I love sokoban! Finally new levels! Woohoo! Just gotta say, this is a great game,

some quality of life changes could be

- click to move automatically to cell if unobstructed

- scoreboard

- what is the lowest amount of moves for the levels?
Bell Labs Holmdel Is Now Mainly a Food Court
Agreed.

Dispassionately, we have to accept that we cannot bring the entire planet up to western standards of living and life expectancy.

The planet cant support it, based on our current technology and practive. Unless something changes in how we manage the planet, we'll end up destroying it.
I find their privacy policy rather disturbing.

Basically they initially say no data ever leaves the device but then they go on to say:

1) in case of a problem they gather detailed log data

2) They “may” store third party tracking cookies

3) Third parties will get access to my personal information (though they seem to promise they won’t abuse it) hmm

4) They directly write that they can’t guarantee the safety of my personal information

I think I’ll pass on this one.

Privacy policy: https://hush-1.flycricket.io/privacy.html

The extension was also posted here (where I originally posted the above comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=trastknast
People die all the time, there are even higher profile cases like the Apple Engineer who slammed in the barriers at full speed: https://www.kqed.org/news/11801138/apple-engineer-killed-in-...

There are some spectacular failures that are very scary because the car does something that a person would never do, unless unconscious, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfmAG4dk-rU

You don't hear much about it probably because Tesla fanboys are plenty and rabid, so people avoid talking about it online.

The defence is usually stats about human drivers crashing more often and it makes sense until you dive deeper into the numbers because these stats are usually oranges v.s. Apples. It feels like they have some playbook with statistics to slap when someone says something negative. If that doesn't cut, they say that the victim should have followed the manual that says "your attention should always be on the road" then proceed posting a video about how thanks to the latest update they can sleep drive to work and attach a banana to the driving wheel to disable the attention safeguards.

If someone asks how is this an autopilot, there are usually two ways to handle it:

1) Autopilot is just a brand name, the self driving software is in beta, so the victim should pay attention all the times.

2) Autopilot is like on the planes, so only fools think that it is autonomous, therefore it was working as intended but they should have been using it like an airline autopilot. Crash due to user error.

I'm actually a fan of Musk and Tesla but I feel like the community engagement is very unhealthy and lacks scrutiny due to the "online army" of his.
I see myself in here, particularly w.r.t. learning about other cultures and histories and using that knowledge as talking points. I guess the only thing to do is break out of 3 tiers entirely, like Creed Bratton.
> If your software tells the user that one is eight and the other is 10 letters long, it is not "less correct". It is incorrect.

In fact, if the software tells you that either of the strings is either 8 or 10 letters wrong, then either way the software is incorrect - those are both obviously 6 letter strings.

Now, does UTF8 help you discover they are 6 letter strings better than other representations? There are certainly text-oriented libraries that can do that, but not those that simply count the UTF8 code points - they must have an understanding of all of Unicode. Even worse, the question "how many letters does this string have" is not generally meaningful - there are plenty of perfectly valid unicode strings for which this question doesn't have a meaningful answer.

However, the question "how many unicode code points does this string have" is almost never of interest. You either care about some notion of unique glyphs, or you care about byte lengths.
> In practical terms, how can you acknowledge that "black people are discriminated against if there are no black people"?

Think about how you would practically go about preventing discrimination against a group of people. I don't think any solutions require the acknowledgment that the group exists, officially. Discrimination can happen on a number of lines that are not in whatever survey the state creates so any effective solution has to address the tendency toward discrimination of all sorts. In the US, we don't collect information (officially) on sexual orientation or religion yet we still take steps to protect people from discrimination on those avenues despite having no metrics.

I think collecting that data has a danger of creating a list of officially recognized groups which can be discriminated against (at the expense of those not tracked). This happens in the US with sexual orientation because it has not been in the list of things that it's illegal to discriminate against innthe past. Instead of just making discrimination illegal, it's only illegal to discriminate by race, religion or gender. If, instead, it were just illegal to discriminate, that wouldn't be an issue.
I thought it does not matter which instance one choosen, since you see posts from all the other instances?
Literally just an article that highlights the problems with social media in general.

Total click-bait; I sure thankful for ublock.
Wow, do we know if that poster was telling the truth or if it’s a creative writing exercise? Interesting nonetheless
I’m imagining that without ownership, car companies would begin to operate like the worst American companies.

You’d have super complex mileage caps. Per-minute surcharges for peak & late night hours. Early subscription termination fees. Zoning issues: Only Kia & Suzuki will service your neighborhood, while your neighbor down the block can get a Toyota with twice the range allowance at half the cost. The median income for your particular area may not justify building charging center hubs by other manufacturers.

In the event of a power or telecommunication outage, the centralization will undoubtedly strand people wherever they are.

Then, the moralists. Since you don’t own the vehicle, they can dictate how you use it. No driving to the strip club or liquor store on Sunday. Arbitrary restrictions on what you’re allowed to transport. It can be a new vector to govern behavior and control populations.
What's more, there were 64 bit laptops in the mid 90s. Not particularly mobile ones, but if you could tolerate a 7 pound behemoth, you could get a 200 MHz 64 bit SPARC processor with 512MB of RAM in '96/97. The AlphaBook with an Alpha processor that was announced in '95 comes even earlier. https://www.vaxbarn.com/index.php/other-bits/555-tadpole-alp...

One thing that always strikes me about workstations and (especially?) these laptops is that, while the CPUs themselves weren't always much faster than competing Intel ones, they always seemed to have much better I/O options. The SCSI drives and controllers seemed to get much better throughput with lower CPU utilization, which pays dividends to how the overall system performs.

A well designed workstation is more than just the sum of its parts. While these workstations/servers were arguably overpriced and it's not surprising they failed to the cheaper Wintel machines, they just seemed more well rounded...
Ask HN: Deep Learning with Free Software
Dear Hackernews, I'm curious if anyone has experience with "deep learning" setups on GPU without any usage of CUDA/NVIDIA. Ideally with just free/open-source software (frameworks and drivers). Also happy to learn about up and coming solutions and things that require a lot of effort and/or are incomplete. Software freedom is more important for me than convenience.
Mastodon is only a little confusing (it's inherently going to be a bit more confusing than Twitter, which was the GP's main point). The complaints of the OP and much of the thread are more related to Twitter and microblogging being kind of, well, terrible. The "us versus them" quality is magnified if Mastodon consists of Twitter refugees. Twitter is moderated by the way the whole world can hear you when you scream - and that does not seem to moderate it well. Equating these constructs with BBSes seems kind of absurd. BBSes are the opposite are far as "controllabillity" goes - of course. You can moderate them any way you wish, including no moderate or even moderation intended to set people against each other (if you're truly evil). But the BBS or web forum belongs to someone and has this flexibility.
I second this as a great resource! Your game HyperRogue was also a big inspiration for this game.
Cool and spicy. I used to play sokoban as a kid and quickly figured out how to play it. I just wish the gameboard was larger, it is quite crammed but still playable on the phone.
ffsubsync – Automatically sync subtitles with video
OP here. This is part of a new in-depth interview series with founders. Would love any thoughts/feedback.
Well, I'm not exactly suggesting they eat cake (btw, I didn't realize she actually said brioche - TIL!), I was asking if there were other alternatives. There may not have been. With that in mind, my position has always been: if the currency is failing, it's because the government is failing. If the government is failing you have bigger problems than your currency. Once you remediate the government, your currency is no longer a problem.
Is anyone else confused on the merits of Waymo's argument?
They differentiate "driver assistance" from "fully autonomous" systems in that Tesla somehow can never achieve the latter because they have developed the former. The only specific reason for this that I could find was a mention of LiDAR and how Waymo sees it as indispensable.

> Krafcik says that Waymo has largely completed technical work on its self-driving software and is now focused on scaling the technology up.

...cool? Again, no mention of a SPECIFIC reason Tesla cannot do the same work as Waymo outside of not having LiDAR sensors. They attack Tesla for not developing a fully autonomous vehicle from the get-go, but don't seem to explain why this makes it any harder for them to make the finished product.
OpenBSD is admirable in that it’s conservative and just works compared to what you see in some but not all linux distros. However, is package management truly as sublime as you mention compared to what you would find in Linux—such as apt? And two, does OpenBSD have good if any support for containers?
I am not so sure about this. Modern cars come with a lot of safety features, like automatic braking and adaptive cruise control. Sure, if you replace all 1995 Honda Civics with Teslas, you will save many lives. I don't think you could save any lives by replacing all modern 2020 cars from other manufacturers with Teslas.
As much as the US sits around hand wringing about manufacturing being outsourced, does anyone have a good perspective on how this has played out in Japan? From our perspective, they're one 'generation' of outsourcing from us, two if you count Taiwan, and we've had at least South Korea and Mainland China since then.

I got a little taste of their recession in the 1990's, but not much information since then. Are they as worried now as we were when Toyota ate everybody's lunch?
Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Like
I think the FSD beta rollout is completely irresponsible from Tesla. Rolling out a clearly half-baked safety critical technology to its customers (yes, I know it's only a few beta testers) who are untrained is nothing but a tactic to generate hype and get more customers to buy that $10k FSD package.

This is on top of Tesla being the least transparent company out there in reporting safety data or their testing methodologies (Tesla's quarterly safety report is a grand total of a single paragraph). Compare this to how transparent Waymo is [1], the difference in safety culture between Tesla and its competitors is stark. Not to mention how Tesla skirts around the rules by refusing to report autonomous miles with the excuse of classifying it as a driver assist system, while naming the technology "Full Self Driving" and Elon Musk hyping it up every chance he gets on how it will be Level 5-ready by end of the year.

[1] - https://waymo.com/safety/
Wow that second one is terrifying. Particularly since that was only 7 months ago!
It is not rational to choose something inferior for some unrecognized civic duty. The government heavily subsidies the live in a detached house and drive everywhere lifestyle via free highways and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. And by literally banning apartments in many areas.
Just to get a Chromebook thread going; there's some really exciting options with the new Ryzen *C chips and the new Intel Xe powered Evo chips coming out this year. Lenovo has/had an awesome sale [1] on their ThinkPad C13 Chromebooks with $300-$500 off. I can't stand those upside down ThinkPad trackpads though so I'm waiting for one with a normal glass trackpad.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-c-ser...
It matters because you're rich, which means you don't have to live in those neighborhoods.
Does it have a storage tank? If so how often do you sanitise it? If not annually they will build up with microorganisms.
What is Racket primarily used for? I'm not sure where it fits in the language landscape in terms of strengths/weaknesses.
What is it like using Clubhouse?
Don't know which article were talking about since there is a couple of articles saying that.

Ethnically Japan isn't homogeneous (almost no country is), culturally it depends.

I think their stance on LGBT says it all, no one cares if you're gay/trans, until you announce that you intend to have a long standing relationship, then people especially family will care a lot (negatively).

Because you go against societies own mandate, of family before yourself.

China has a more extreme version of that.