skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tim once referred to Win32 as a free and open standard. I don't think he _understands_ what it means to be a truly free and open standard.

Sun tried to get the Windows API to be an open standard by submitting it to ISO, so that they could claim their alternate implementation (Wabi) was standards compliant.

Microsoft told the standards committee "you can't do that! That API is our IP!"

And so the Public Windows Initiative came to an end. Funny, now Microsoft is arguing against APIs as IP as an amicus in Oracle v. Google.
Strangely, Microsoft is supporting a similar law in the USA where they would be affected by it.
....a cult? Wow! Tell me how. I'm listening.
Closest thing that I'm aware of is Google Colab and Repl.it
Can you explain how buttons are a distraction? Also, by “distracting”, do you mean that the present of physical knobs prevent you from paying attention to the road?
Lots of graves because it's fact even if they get alterations they still commit suicide greater number than anyone else.
I think a lot of managers measure their own performance by how many faces they have spoken with over the course of the day.
I wonder if there’s a business model of paid hosting of other companies open source alternatives...
I will be using this, and dropping a lot of my paid AirTable bases...and let me please explain why.

Airtable makes it VERY hard to collaborate with people outside my organization. We are a team of 7 people. No longer a scrappy 1-person startup, but not an enterprise client by any-means.

If I want to add a single person to an Airtable base, that's $24 a month please. I have one client with 12 people that want to collaborate on the base by posting comments. I can't justify $288 a month just to keep the comments for all time.I contacted Airtable about this and was told the "Enterprise Plan" would be a perfect fit. Minimum $15k a year commitment.

Why is this happening in the SasS world??? Everyone seems to be either single Pro user, or Enterprise. Do they really think there is nothing in-between?
A reminder that there's always a person behind software. It's been a few years but for a long time I used OpenRC and dhcpcd, made possible by Roy working away in the background. No matter what happens with his cancer, I'll always be grateful for that.
Tangential, but am I the only one who thinks that Google News is really bad nowadays? It used to be my main source of news, but I can't stand it anymore. It's clear that it's trying to drive engagement by offering links more likely to be clicked. My custom topics are hidden away, stuff I don't want to read about is brought to the top... just overall bad in every way.
> If you're on a iOS device, you can simply tap the images.

Surprisingly it works on Android too and probability with every other mobile OS. s/iOS/touchscreen/ ?
You mean AWS?
True, the coffee is just one of the devices to take your mind off things. My ex-girlfriend had a dog and when she was sick I had to walk it 3 times a day. Even though by that time (shortly before our breakup) I didn't like her or her dog, the walks were extremely therapeutic.

All coffee and smoke breaks actually are aimed at taking a step back and gain some small extra energy to keep going.
Bah MI was given a bad reputation by Java fans but their arguments weren't very persuasive..
The diamond issue? As shown in the article, it isn't really an issue, Eiffel actually use this solution.
Adobe paid to promote their stuff
Good point people are making that attitude is not the whole story.

But it does seem that many are not aware that perseverance is such a large part of anything. Before you get to perseverance even, there is the desire to try. A lot of projects are dismissed before they are even started as being too difficult or impractical.

One tendency that I have, which I assume other people have also, is that in certain areas that I am invested in, I am happy to keep working on a project despite many small or large setbacks. I generally don't consider them to be a big deal. But other areas, such as cooking or promotion, I put a minimal amount of effort in and find it difficult to find motivation to continue when I have a setback or poor result.

Part of it is my expectation for how hard things are. Some things that I am not particularly familiar with, I kind of expect to be fairly straightforward. But I am starting to think that almost every type of task is going to have setbacks and require perseverance to get good results. Which is good news, because it gives me hope that if I can be persistent when approaching those types of problems, I can be just as successful as I am with programming (when I don't give up).
Tesla certainly isn't in the market of $4k cars, but it is an interesting thought that with their new casting process, they could basically cast the backbone of a small car in one piece, lowering the assembly costs drastically. So if they ever decide to make a super-affordable mini car (perhaps for the Indian market?), it could be astonishingly cheap.
The problem with healthcare is that "basic minimum" is wildly subjective.

Healthcare is still very expensive. There are diseases (including cancer) we could easily spend millions per patient on. Pulling out all the stops you could spend 10s of millions. But we really don't have that kind of societal overabundance, not yet.

So how much do you spend per patient? Are there certain diseases that you don't spend any public money on because the interventions are so expensive compared to success rates? It's really not a simple set of decisions to make, and those decisions do need to be made (or more to the point: agreed upon).
Hourglass on pricing tables makes no sense. I'm not a moron and after scanning the page I have no idea what this means... the only thing I can assume is some kind of feature not ready for production yet?
Something that would be really cool is if there was an open source - self hosted version of notion.so.

I like notion because it’s a hybrid of wiki, table/database, calendar, kanban. You can do a lot more than just tables.
Exactly. One of the arguments Adobe was making in professional circles about the subscription switch was that people will save money because they will be able to subscribe to each piece of software and for short periods of time when they need it.

Truth is that anything other than the full suite (and maybe the photographer plan) doesn't make sense financially. And then they killed the month by month subscription as you said.
I look back over the last 22 years, and we had very different attitudes towards privacy back then. It's sad to think that almost 2 generations are now growing up without knowing what privacy was, or how much actual freedom there was in being a free range kid with the only obligation being home for supper.

We overestimate the change over the course of a year, but seriously underestimate it over a couple of decades.
Can you explain what makes you say that figure is worse?
@Dang : Could you please change the title to convey this better.

'Dhcpd will need a new maintainer' - doesn't tell the real story.
Sometimes not?
Yeah? Check out any very public discussion of Rust and to a first approxiation there's always gonna be someone talking about how we should all just be using C instead. It's also not hard to find instances in open source projects of people ascribing ulterior motives or brain damage or ineptitude or whatever to anyone using another programming language.

They don't call it C-lioning for nothing :^)
We have been working on this to a degree with our new platform, along with other layers of the agreement process. We are mostly focusing on contracts for digital agencies (and their clients and suppliers) to begin with, with templates based on services being delivered, deliverable signoffs, variation handling, and recurring agreement elements.
And now one of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448822 in a subthread where the other main commentor says the subthread is his favorite of this whole thread. There just might be something to this downvoting claim..
I mean, it's not a legal obligation, but it might be a nicer world if we considered it an ethical one.
With many (most?) free software projects, implementing it and getting it to a stable working condition is only a fraction of the overall amount of work invested over time in maintaining the thing.

Compilers change, system libraries change, operating systems change, build systems change, language standards change and so on - and you, who just wanted to write, say, a DHCP server you or your organization needed at some point in life, tear yourself away from your day job, your family, your current pursuits and interests - which have likely not included fiddling with that old piece of code you wrote all those years ago - and bringing it in line what the current state of things.

Sisyphic work, which is usually rewarded mostly with complaints about why the thing is not up to date. "But they only just broke it! Do you expect me to spend my time also anticipating what infernal subtle ways the rug is going to get pulled from under me?" ... but you never tell people that.

You dutifully write your fix and re-publish (which can also be a bunch more work, since the platforms for publishing your FOSS project also change).

I salute you, Roy Marples!

(and I donated.)
> It seems trivial to imagine a thing that is very expensive but still has ~no value as a currency.

What are some examples?

Keep in mind that Bitcoin doesn't have to ever be a "currency" for it to remain relevant, as a "thing".
So what you’re saying is that we need more Baptist preachers in politics? ;)
I know someone who bought an electric kettle for his geriatric mom, this electric kettle was metal with plastic underneath. You can imagine what happened to the electric stove when she tried to boil water and forgot how this thing actually worked.
> why is it helpful to add this caveat?

It's not really a caveat, though, is it? It's an entirely false premise, that intent & direction & purpose are irrelevant. That the primary factor that matters is attitude & self-belief. As commenter Zepto rightly pointed out, this article is proposing magical thinking: the conceit that what you want or what you think is the thing that shapes reality all about.

Besides being delusional, it also has all the other obviously bad impact that it's twin the Prosperity Gospel brings: those without riches & success have all failed to be worthy, are all faulty. No matter how hard you work, how good you try to be, judging in Attitude or Belief as the only/primary/core determiner of success doesn't allow for misfortune, or for it to be the world that was wrong. Often, the world _is_ wrong, and only those rebels that hold up their flame & let their light shine are what it takes, what makes humankind & the human spirit so great... but so often those folks are crushed, too. And not for a failure of attitude or belief, nor often strategy nor execution either. Hard things, sometimes, ought be tried & embarked upon, but to internalize success as the judgement of whether the hard thing was right or wrong? That is petty, small, and insufficient. It diminishes the light of the world to require & judge only by success.
What good products are they making? Haven't used any of their products in ages but I still get the impression that no one really enjoys their products (excluding excel maybe?)
Why should any single person carry the weight of the person in desperate need? UBI + healthcare implies that there’s a social safety net that creates an entire network of people to carry this weight. I don’t have a clue if any implementations would successfully do this but to just throw people in desperate need to the wolves is inhumane.
That's the treatment that I got back in September in the US. I think they stopped using Remdesivir since then because it didn't correlate with any positive outcome. It also was destroying my liver, so they had to cut off the treatment halfway through.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2021/01/31/remdesivir...
> You really went out of your way to attack me personally and read my past comments.

I went to check if you had an history of bias, which you clearly have

> Please report.

No, I have wasted enough time on you.

> I suspect behavior like yours is way more detrimental to the community.

Calling out people who have a clear political agenda and participate to the discussion in bad faith has its risks, but I think I did the right thing by exposing the reason you would support such a weak argument.
Share your logo and your media kit properly
That's sad to hear, but to think about the situation a bit more deeply, is DHCP software really something that needs "maintenance"? The protocol is decades old and stable, and no doubt the implementations in equally-old routers and other equipment continues to function unchanged and interoperate with much newer equipment.
A lot of people seem to be missing the relevance of this critique to NFTs.

It's actually uncannily prescient, politically and economically.
Coinbase tells me there are no fees for crypto to crypto conversion, just when I initially buy crypto with cash. What does a decentralized exchange give me that beats that?
> The world is not as toxic when profit isn't involved.

Got it - this evinces a certain idealism that ignores some pretty glaring stuff that defined the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. All the places that either outright outlawed profit, or otherwise viewed it as evil.

Also regarding your list - what a weird view - that there's angelic spheres where we somehow transcend human behavior.

You only have to look at the scandals of the knitting community to see that no one is immune to toxicity.
And Java is based on Objective-C, except without the good ideas like messages and with new bad ideas like checked exceptions.
I hate that in the new design, when I'm IN a specific subreddit, there's no way to limit search to that specific subreddit. After the search is done, it'll show a link do only display results from inside that subreddit, but 100% of the time I'm in a subreddit, I want results from that subreddit.

Edit: adding that because of the search, and lack of managing multi-reddits, I'm still using the old reddit with the RES extension
I mean, it's probably infeasible to rewrite everything and it makes sense to focus on the cases where it'd have the greatest impact, sure.
Had me at "self-hosted"

Following the repository now, and tried an online demo account. Looks promising but now quite ready.

Will be switching from Airtable when:

1. More field formats are supported ( like Currency, Collaborators, Multiselect )

2. Kanban views are supported

3. Automations are supported
>It solves the issue of trust.

No it does not. There are already complaints of vested interests holding back technological advances to BTC. Nothing technically prevents vested interests from colluding to fork the chain ala the ETH DAO scandal. It's not a minority hoarding bitcoin, it's minority controlling bitcoin. You could say you haven't seen enough evidence of this being a problem, but then BTC hasn't been around for centuries or nor does it run a global economy at scale yet.
>it seems people prefer to balance their kettles on the tops of stoves, like peasants

Is your kettle faster than a stove? Perceptions of speed are funny.
If you're willing to accept that Bitcoin is not viable as a currency, you can then embrace that it's a better store of value than fiat currencies because the monetary policy is static and it is scarce. Bitcoin is digital gold, not a currency.
Even if Bitcoin succeeds, whatever that means, what will it have accomplished? For one to not be skeptical don’t you need an objective to be accomplished? Unless the objective of Bitcoin is simply to increase its value in perpetuity?
I don't know if you can say "traditional" so much as "historical". It's extremely difficult for software services to differentiate a domestic offering in the same way as physical goods - let alone when both countries share a language and the service has little cultural content per se.

Has a second-mover service ever overtaken a first-mover via on this strategy within in the Anglosphere? Or even within "the west"? (Xing vs. LinkedIn maybe? But everyone I know has both...)
Sleeping at work is sometimes allowed because it's accepted there is such a chronic lack of sleep generally. If they were taking turns sleeping it means they probably already were overworked and needed a nap. The story sounds like "history is written by the victors" or just more fetishing of Japan.
"Do you know how much that costs, how long it takes, and how hard it is?! No" This company has vehicles on public roads already!...

this is why imo "just let the market figure it out" is not always the answer to every problem...
Office politics exist regardless
> I worked my ass off to reach financial independence

This is a false pursuit, and in a sense a vacuous statement.

You are never independent of society around you. You are in constant need of others doing that invisible and visible labor - in production and in services - to maintain your way of life.

It's only with Capitalism being the way it is that you need to "work your ass off" to not be financially dependent on your parents, or at the risk of a crisis and collapse upon losing your job etc.
Sounds like you're still pretty angsty
See also zeroth order backpropagation which allows 300X faster training while not reducing throughput that much
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08895
How much zero-3 affect accuracy?

See also https://github.com/microsoft/fastformers
Note Java is actually explicitly based on Objective-C, not on Simula or C++. They just removed most of the Smalltalk bits to make it faster and less scary-looking to C++ programmers.
I self talk a lot to build confidence in myself. It worked. I now have too much confidence.
It will have succeeded in turning all available matter into ASICs and all free energy into heat.
Yes, without a doubt -- network software especially needs at least some maintenance to deal with security vulnerabilities. I'll say that not all software needs constant security supervision, but I think DHCP client/servers should. Among the other duties of maintainers. Bless all those who take up the thankless job...
I don't think that's really true because 1) currently developed states like the US got that way in large part by IP theft 2) if this were really true you'd expect it to be a detriment to, e.g., learn well-known algorithms in school instead of deriving them from first principles.
Who is "significant"? If you make many people significant, you have a hall of fame so big that nobody can remember anybody. If you make few people significant, then most FOSS labor is again performed by unsung heroes.
Get Things Done with Emacs
A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother
Analog photography you could at least use E-6. Processing was tightly controlled and standardized, and once processed, you had an image.

The nice thing about this was that you could hand the E-6 off to a magazine and end up with a photograph printed in the magazine that was very close to the original film. Any color shifts or changes in contrast you could see just with your eyes. You could drop the film in a scanner and visually confirm that the scan looks identical to the original. (You cannot do this with C-41.)

This was not used for forensic photography, though. The point of using E-6 was for the photographer to make artistic decisions and capture them on film, so they can get back to taking photos. My understanding is that crime scene photography was largely C-41, once it was relatively cheap.
Vital was also open-sourced recently!
One thing I think is worth considering is the effect of living spaces on WFH enjoyment/productivity.

There’s a lot less living space in the typical Japanese house/apartment compared to the much of the west. A lot of the apartments young people live in in the cities are little more than bedrooms with a kitchen area and unit bathroom attached, often with poor natural lighting to boot. That wouldn’t be a pleasant space to work months on end in.

I lived for a number of years in a “2DK” (2x rooms + dining/kitchen) apartment in Tokyo. While a reasonable size by Tokyo standards, frankly it was small and cramped. I can’t imagine really enjoying WFH there.

Comparatively, I now live in Australia in a house with about 4x the floor area of that apartment. WFH here is great - I can start the day at the dining table while eating breakfast, move to my study during the day and then when I feel like a change I can move to the couch in the afternoon. I could even sit in the garden if I wanted. It’s a great environment for focusing on a particular task.

We’re doing 3 days in the office currently and I’m pushing to maintain that - office for collaboration and team building, home for focusing.

In Japan in comparison the current discussion seems to be about more people moving to the regions. That helps solve the living space problem but makes in office collaboration harder. It will be interesting to see if the trend sticks.
There's a progression that is "forced" when you get a cancer diagnosis, especially if they have to surgically remove anything. They won't start chemo or anything else for several weeks post-op. It seems like you're trying to get appointments or whatever, but realistically, they're getting you in as soon as their liability (or patient care laws) says they can. Stage III, stage IV, doesn't matter. If they operate first, you're going to spend a lot of time waiting.

If you're an american, remember that FMLA only lasts a quarter, so if you can go back to work after the surgery but before the chemo i strongly suggest you do that if there's any concern about insurance or whatever, since you're probably going to want to sleep for the first few weeks worth of chemo dosing. Good luck to 1/2 of the american population, because that's the rate of cancer in the US.
You'll be relieved to know I've been writing C code of varying quality for like fifteen years on and off. These days I get asked to write Go most of the time and we've gotten rid of the last C codebase we were maintaining a while ago, but I'm always down for discussion of strict aliasing rules or stupid preprocessor tricks.
Norway just taxes fossil fuel cars so much that it's cheaper to buy a Tesla. They are like a Gulf state. Low population and a lot of oil. Plus the abundant hydro. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from that.
I have also seen it construed the original prohibition was against pedastery as practiced by the Greeks, not homosexuality in general.
Of course it needs maintenance. Architectures change, packaging methods change, software is started differently or earlier in the boot process, etc.
I'm a skeptic not in that I think the price will tank but that the Bitcoin ordeal won't result in a net win for people. It's just a vehicle for speculation and a drain on computing resources, along with a tool for illicit trade. I can be correct that it's a bad investment for humanity while it remains a good investment for individuals.
It's really coming along! It took Dolphin a few years to nail it but i'd imagine a near-perfectly emulated 4k switch in a couple years time.