skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on its existing cash pile, focus on its core mission instead of growth, and hence not seeking/needing compensatory revenue streams from commercial users.

I donated and contribute to wikipedia so it's material would be free to use for /anyone/ even corporates.

If it improves other services I use or even others that I need to pay for, I'm glad. That's the point of a free, public resource.
Hey! You are right about newbies ignoring what the HN was initially created for. I agree, my bad but to my excuse 3 outher submittions I made were pretty much according to the HN standards I believe.

Thanks for such a thought thorugh reply, the point about comments exactly something I wanted to hear.

I agree, HN much more feels like a silent resource of knowledge and knowledgable point of views. WHen reading FB I rarely even open comments myself.

And I agree there are way to many goody-positive as you said sites with pure flood instead of highly valueable on average posts.

Thanks again for your reply. I value your time a lot.
Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
Having the centralized app store as the only way to install apps by default was always a mistake, a blot on the elegant "hackability" of Android as a platform. I wish Google's hegemony wasn't so prevalent and common people were at least aware that they can sideload apps on their Android phones.
with all due respect here - I've never heard of it either, and that's not what you want with a filesystem.

The draw of ZFS is that it's the log-structured filesystem with 10 zillionty hours of production experience that says that it works. And that's why BTRFS is not a direct substitute either. Or Hammer2. There are lots of things that could be cool, the question is are you willing to run them in production.

There is a first-mover advantage in filesystems (that occupy a given design and provide a given set of capabilities). At some point a winner sucks most of the oxygen out of the atmosphere here. There is maybe space for a second place winner (btrfs), there isn't a spot for a fourth-place winner.
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Or remove all letters mentioned in the domain of HN from my keyboard.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials Vulnerabilities
> This is a SJW's worst nightmare.

"SJW" here. This kind of stuff gets posted all the time. It's usually full of logical fallacies (and anecdotal evidence, like your comment) and slurped up by people who are looking to confirm their biases. Sometimes it's not even written truly by a PoC.
The 15% - 30% appstore developer cut says otherwise
My response here might be poor (difficult subject, not a great writer), but I'm genuinely interested in your opinion.

"Microsoft stops selling software to American police departments" is a good response to BLM. "Microsoft changes 'master branch' to 'main branch'" is pointless deckchair-reshuffling that signifies nothing.

By applauding the change of a noun that has the most tangential possible relationship with slavery, aren't you letting them off the hook of doing anything substantive?
I tend not to shoot myself in the foot. But good advice. Thanks.
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Job listings in the searches I am subscribed to are almost universally Spring and Spring Boot.
In legal terms yes, but monopolies should be regulated for a good reason. How about your water supply company cutting you off, because they don't like that poster on your house?
The energy 'created' (transformed) is still generated by the human by effectively burning carbohydrates/fats/etc. Might as well create a tiny alternator, spin it by hand and be done with. Alternatively, attach magnets/coils to gym equipment and there you go. If you continue further, no need for springs and weights at all - make all gym equipment with NdFeB and copper instead - 'free' energy.
My own country has been occupied by foreign forces so hard that it stopped existing for 100 years. It nearly erased our culture and lots of people died. Should I now start telling people that using the word "occupied" in places like "occupied toilet" or "occupation" to mean employment is somehow offensive to me?

Or maybe should I realize that as a literate adult, I have the ability to understand context around the words that are used?
> but I'm going to hold off on the vaccine just in case there's some crazy ultra-low probability shit

You're lucky the the rest of us will take this ultra-low risk and reach herd immunity to protect you then, aren't you.
> It's for helping the PMC stay on top

You mean the professional-managerial class? Or something else?
Depends on the org structure.

In the one I was, architects were siloed off from the projects in a parallel sub-unit in the department, making it a bit of an ivory tower. They would issue design and scope decrees without facing any schedule pressures themselves. It took me a while to realize that most of my managing peers were quietly* ignoring them, delegating the actual decisions to the team.

(*) As in, amend them to a workable design through a few status updates rather than making a stand-off in the initial meeting.
Is "don't be a dick" not enough? For a long while there was a group of militant people hell bent on having everyone keep a CoC in their repos and ironically being the more intrusive and rude force themselves. I don't think any such document I've read has had any more substance or achieved much beyond the initial kerfuffle
Yet another example of corporatist human resources feel good ‘spin’, which decontextualises the historical conditions that give rise to the need for anti-discrimination, equity and diversity issues in the first place.
Living under regolith is in "Red Mars" i didn't have to think about it, because Kim Stanley Robinson thought about it for me. As did the BIS in 1949 hypothesised moon habitation.

I don't mind a good hook title but this is kind of insulting the reader
> Not without getting downvoted to oblivion for the only reason which is having an opposing opinion.

You have no idea why people downvote things. I find these discussions trite and boring.
It's both not understood by modern science and very underrated by "woo woo" people.

My guess is, it's not understood by modern science exactly because it's underrated by "woo woo" people :( But I notice in later years an increased focus on mental studies so maybe modern science will get to this as well. That is, if it's not too busy explaining the earth is round... (*edited to reformat)
Right, this is an actual reason why someone may have friction working with TS and it is better not to choose that developer.

But still the question stands. Like imagine we compare web game dev with JS vs C++. Obviosuly you need to plan much for testing and QA engineers need to be more skilled when we talk about C++.

And also I as a PM will plan from the start that using JS and corresponding framerworks might limit me in what I do.

Same thing here with TS vs JS. The question stands :)
> What's a lever puller?

Sorry - trolley problem, pull the lever to kill one person and save 3 others, that kind of metaphor.

> stopping using that vaccine will cost lives

In the EU, there are alternatives (e.g. in my country I could actually register to Moderna and due to the shorter time between shots I'd actually be completely vaccinated faster with Moderna than with AZ).

Look, I'm not saying AZ should be killed either. Just that in my mind, precaution is justified. Symptoms are bizarre, affected people are young with no other obvious reasons to be affected. Also read what this guy says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473368

Again, I'm not saying "AZ=bad". I'm saying precaution is reasonable, and the view that precautions states are "obviously wrong" and should just plough through with vaccination using AZ is a bit simplistic and less informed than people would care to admit.
I wonder if the differential response between AZ and J&J/Pfizer/Moderna is due to the use of the stabilised form of the spike used by the latter and not the former?
Yes, flog yourself! Repent for your sins! If you draw enough blood on your back, the plague will stop!
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Most likely they didn't and you're just weird.
I guess he could try to fuck the goat next, to remove the male father goat from the equation
LCD uses significantly less than a watt unless they have a backlight as well. What takes the most of the energy is the microprocessor.
Totally agree. Everyone who's not far right is woke and everyone who isn't far left is racist, if you listen to Twitter etc. That's intentional, gotta make moderates afraid to speak up, leaving the discussion to extremists, bot farms and professional opinion havers.

But I was talking about a more agreeable definition of "woke". Many people on the left are very comfortable with this subculture, just like many people on the right are very comfortable with Trump. I very rarely hear people on the left saying anything against the woke culture, so in my mind it's very reasonable to equate or at least strongly affiliate the two.
>Is a name change really that difficult for everyone?

So whole world has to change because US has its core problems?

>We, developers, are having the best job in this world, do we really need to get pissed off for this?

do we?

spend thousands of hours of your free time in front of computer just to learn stuff,
then spend 3.5/5 or even more years for degree

then stay competitive / in touch with tech as a part of life style

just to have office/remote job with good pay?

is this "best job"? seems decent, but I wouldn't call it "the best", especially in countries where programmers do not have really outstanding pay like in SF.
I don't understand why aren't there more real left (no quotes) organizations or parties gaining traction in the US.

There are. The Democratic Socialists of America has grown a lot over the past few years. They even managed to get four member elected Congress this last election cycle.

It seems as if it should have happened "naturally" one or two generations ago.

I have no evidence, but I suspect McCarthyism and the following hard crackdown on leftists that followed during the cold war greatly slowed down this "natural" growth. It took a generation removed from the cold war for this growth to start up again.
And we'll stop in the event of the demonic invasion of Earth, but Doom 2 remains just a video game.
I assume he's been taught to be and gets off on it.
> Based on the bugginess of Maps, Duo, Hangouts, Wear, Stadia, and other products

What are your sources?
What, so now words don't matter? Funny how that works, if only somebody pointed this out in the very beginning...
My point is that an hourly rate can be exploitative even if it is the highest in the area.
That fast.ai post is insane. I feel really bad for him. I watched Lex Fridman's interview with him and he seemed very nice and thoughtful.
We could always switch to pitcher/catcher. /wink wink
Wikipedia? They have plenty funds to sustain their infra and core team to maintain it.

What about all the (big) freeloaders who use OpenStreetMap Foundation's map tile server infrastructure [1] instead of self-hosting as it was intended [2](or using a SaaS)?

All the corporate sponsors who fund OSMF [3] roll their own map stack, but outside of them still there occasionally appears a rogue app/website with high traffic. IIRC, most of the tile server traffic comes from outside of osm.org.

[1] https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/

[2] https://switch2osm.org/

[3] Who still are controversial for their constant "bargaining" on how to put the copyright notice in the least visible way, even though it's required by ODbL license.
You can literally create the app described in his quote in about 2 minutes flat with the following lines of code...

import SwiftUI

@main
struct FooApp: App {
@State private var isClicked: Bool = false
var body: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
VStack {
Button("Click me!") { isClicked.toggle() }
if isClicked { Text("Hello, World!") }
}.frame(width: 640, height: 480)
}
}
}
So is it that it could be the next seasonal COVID-22 and vaccines will be ready by then?
Yet another sad attempt to impose your narrow focused view of the world on it.

The author seems to have forgotten: There are people outside of the US who work in tech.

As shocking as it might be to him, they don't wake up in the morning thinking "O gosh, I'm white, I need to repent". They actually read and write things like "master-slave" and not for a second think about what went wrong 150 yrs ago in some far away land. An no: Not thinking that isn't racism.

Yet we all have to endure your petty fights and identity politics.
I do wonder if this is related to dwindling editor engagement. With fewer people investing a lot of their free time into the project, a move away from a more open-source approach and more into a content marketing one inspires less opposition.

We might be seeing a final cashout attempt by Wikipedia top brass here.
In world history dating back several thousand years or more, slaves have existed. It is nobody today's fault this happened. I do not see how using a medieval historical reality to be offensive. Master slave hardrive settings on IDE drives for instance, who were offended by that?

What is next?
What about the byzantine generals problem? The byzantines, I am sure someone will dig up some dirt in them and label them off limits.

Is it now offensive to say "Slaving around?"
I have been actively hiring for the last 15 years of my life. And running two startups for the last 13 years. I know what motivation is better than many other managers out there.

And I am sure many people attend work not only for money.

Problem is that many who work in outsourcing do the opposite - they attend work, to get money, to exchange it for goods and comfort.

So in this picture there is not much place for "being proud" and respecting the project you are on.
I did not mention that mathematics did not teach me that, but programming pushed that to a limit that maths didn't - probably because I do not spend 8h a day, every working day doing maths :)
> this kind of window-dressing might actually be harmful as it distracts from addressing the root cause

The root cause can't be addressed by the same people who reap the benefits of this system, because it's so deep in its core that it would require substantial change, possibly breaking the system itself.
Yes, they can stop their ICE contract for example. Or they can stop fixing non-issues for just the illusion of caring.
These ideas about inclusion and language aren’t actually new. They just got more attention recently.

While I agree that we should start fixing bigger and more perceptible issues about racism (e.g., hiring biases), but let's not mix these things together. I assume people that pushed these changes don't have influence on hiring. So let's celebrate their small but impactful success.

I was personally a bit skeptical about the whole idea of not using “master” or “whitelist & blacklist” because my brain never associated them to race and racism and I assume it’s just the same for everyone. So it seemed like a pointless change at first glance.

But, maybe we should change it. Maybe the whole notion of “black” being used in “bad” and “negative” context has an influence on our perception about other things that we are not aware of.

For comparison, the notion of associating Pink to girls and Blue to boys isn’t something very old at all. It’s a 20th century change and yet it comes so naturally to us that you would be surprised when you learn about its history. Perhaps “black” being the label for unfavorable things has an influence on our subconscious and how we see other things around us.

There are many studies about how language has influence on our culture and the way we think. Actually you can even see it with programming languages. A Scala programmer solves a problem very different than a Python programmer would. Their mental model is very different.

So I personally don’t mind changing them anymore. Why resist the change and insist on something so cheap to change? Let’s try it and perhaps it will take a few generations until it becomes the new normal. Every small progress is still good especially if it has deep cultural impact.

I welcome changes and I admire forward thinking. Don’t fall into the trap of false but appealing and convincing arguments against this and also don't mix it with other issues that we have.

At some companies diversity & inclusion initiatives are just about language and nothing more and we know that’s very wrong. But, progress even in a company like that is still a progress. Let's try to fix other things too while we take some other small steps.

After a few times hearing it, I think I quite like “main” for branch name. I think it even makes more sense to say this is the main branch.
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And recursion :)
Growth hacking strategies with Georgiy Kostiakov at TemplateMonster
What is implied under ‘growth hacking’?
1/ constant experimentation and extrapolation of your successful experiments;
2/ different types of testing;
3/ new ways of making data-driven decisions;
4/ being sure that each of your next steps will be profitable for you and not harmful.
> Aren't you worried that by applying political labels like 'left' (or equally often seen in the US context: 'liberal') for something that does not really represent that political ideology

I don't have the experience of any other group doing this. I agree that it is not inherently a political ideology.

The people involved proudly proclaim to be left and liberal. I think it is important to say that because I know people in other parts of the country that see these as insults and would be surprised to know that people commonly self-identify as these terms.

I find that this group thinks their behavior is better and more helpful than apathy, "silence", and the idea of rampant exclusionary hate from the right. When its really not better, its different, but its not more helpful. There is absolutely a constant threat from people afraid of bird watchers in a park, people that blend into their ranks and are willing to weaponize their understanding of race, two seconds after donating to the Democratic Party.
Cryptocurrency over banks. Having your own money, in digital form on your own device, was a paradigm shift for me.
you do know you can measure energy in electron volts. Using the standard volts would need to have current given and time to transform to energy, though.
> If anyone cares about real environmental impact and does something about it, it's Greenpeace

No

Given Greenpeace's actions against Nuclear they're only helping the oil/coal industries for all I care
Fully open source, multicloud stack with Ubuntu, LXD and Mist
Sure. If I have a ready drone and one that will be ready in 4 years, which should I hire?
I don't believe anyone was ever offended by this, if they were, that would be their problem and corporate language policing or any other institutionalized efforts like that are evil
Well, I try my best to avoid bugs and be as precise as I can. But hey, I'm only human ;)
I've seen similar happen in London - black people stopped and seeming to be harassed by police for no obvious reason.

But the main anecdote for me is when I was crossing the Swiss-French border near Geneva in a car with my girlfriend.

She is black; I am white.

She was told to get out of the car and required to present various paperwork, then they checked up on the paperwork, holding her for maybe 10-20 minutes, making phone calls.

A man with an impressively large gun stood nearby.

She had a decent job at the UN in Geneva nearby, a perfectly good identity card, and it's not at all unusual for black people to cross that border in a car.

I thought they might check my paperwork too, but they were not interested and didn't ask me for anything, not even to get out of the car. It seems I was free to pass, except of course I waited for my temporarily detained girlfriend.
I had an 800XL that I got for cheap at the end of the 8-bit era. It was an amazing machine. A few years later, my then girlfriend's mum's boyfriend got a new computer, a 65XE. I was shocked when I realised it was basically the 800XL with very little difference. But, hey, I lent them a lot of games. The 65XE was marketed as "new" at the time in the UK, which was quite disingenuous really. A bit like the Commodore 16. Both were a bit past their prime.
That's a utilitarian argument (I think?) that I could get behind (not that anyone asks for my opinion on what rooms should be called). From that POV I guess it would be best to just call any room that isn't a kitchen or bathroom just 'room' and let buyers decide. But then again, most people don't have much imagination and like to be shown how space can or is intended to be used, much like how a neatly decorated house sells easier than an empty or cluttered one.

But the objections I read about last summer (tried looking but I can't find it any more) were moral, that the term is also 'oppressive' (not sure if that's the actual term they used, that was the gist of it), basically the same arguments that are made for removing 'master' from Git, language frames our thinking etc.
Also, this kind of change might increase cynicism.
Mr Krebs, Please do your due diligence. The attack vector only works for Landlines, VOIP, Toll-free.

Upstream agreements already block Mobile carriers.

Further, SMS from Short Codes are blocked by default. You can only receive SMS from long-numbers. Eg Wicker ..
In the UK, lots of real estate descriptions side-step the problem completely and use terms like 'Bedroom 1' for the largest bedroom and 'Bedroom 2' etc for the 2nd largest.
Luckily this doesn't happen all that often. Unfortunately this is gonna happen in every framework. Compromises is what you always get when reusing somebody else's framework/program/anything basically, because use cases are never 100% similar.
This is actually worse. With bikeshedding, once the bored people have finally decided on the color of the bikeshed, everyone just goes on with their life unhindered. With this, once the bored people have decided to make the change, everyone and their mom has to waste time on following or actively resisting the change on their end.
Well it was 1.21GW, but for how long? The lightning strike lasted what, 1/10th of a second? 121MJ. Plug a capacitor into a socket for a day and you're talking a 1.4KW draw.
I think "integration" is a sham. Integration implies a give and take, a compromise. It seems actually assimilation or submission is what many Euro countries want.

As a Canadian (Vancouver), I can tell you true integration happens over generations of people working together and respecting each other. In those conditions, it is unavoidable.

If either group lacks respect, the outcome is always conflict.

You put their kids into school together young and they won't know not to be friends until you tell them. That was my experience, anyway.