skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact I would be surprised there would be 170k criminals around the world using a single service I had never heard about, seems very high to me.

Do you not think that, perhaps, criminals will know other criminals (I mean we're talking organize crime here), and will have whisper-networks in place? Or are you saying that you're plugged-in to what smugglers, etc. do and you had never heard of it?
A large chunk of the internet exists for the lulz. Imagine having to postpone your phone calls for an entire weekend in order to download a 1GB copy of Final Fantasy 7 on a crappy 32 kbps dial-up connection, only to open up the game and realize you got Leisure Suit Larry 6.
token is like company shares. revenue streams (such as escrow) are connected to token burning, effectively paying out dividends to token holders
While we’re at it, let’s get rid of the other meaningless stuff, like fiction novels, watching sporting events, poetry, visual arts, theater, and being a tired technocrat with shallow self-righteous ideas about what is and isn’t meaningful.

Of course, most gamers don’t game 24x7 while their multi-GPU rack is pegged at 100% either.
IMHO Quantum supremacy is pie in the sky, which will stay in the sky. So, you can probably pursue modular arithmetic safely for the foreseeable future.
Ask HN: Do you have a company budget for education?
I'm curious about this potential open source revenue venue. I believe some companies offer a "learning budget" for their employees.

I also believe many developers working for BigCorp would be very happy if they could ask the company to donate e.g. $100 randomly to an Open Source project they use and like.

So, why don't open source authors create more small courses like these? It could be a very small one, with bold letters like "this is an educative course ask your company to buy it for you", but still I believe it aligns incentives of everyone fairly well. The developer does learn a bit, the company is paying for education and the author gets money.

Main concern would be that it takes time from the developers to build, but it could be a fairly small one? Like a "Improve your knowledge of X library with practical examples" sort of things.

So, why is this not more popular? Is it too small of a niche? (not enough companies pay for education) Or is it too much work for little benefit for the authors? Or is it just because selling a course is a lot of overhead for authors? (now should be a lot easier with companies like Gumroad etc).

So, the demand question, do you have a budget in your company that you can spend for education? And would you buy a course from the author of one of the libraries that you like/use as a form of donation?
Because it wasn't mentioned yet, Dropbox was quite magical as an end user tool. You use your computer normally with folders and everything is sync'd to other computers.

Unfortunately dropbox the company chose to grow into everything except their core product.
We also have the freedom to ignore people who want the freedom to blow off both feet and demand that everyone else also has this ability. Freedom is choice, but for some reason these people will not just choose another platform and finally STFU. I guess it is just too galling to see other people decide to treat a computer as if it was a hammer with which to accomplish a job and not a way of life around which you organize your self-worth.
Windows NT4.

In two years we went from Win3.11, delightful cooperative multitasking et al. Via Win95. To something that would survive a nuclear bomb.

Then security happened.
>1 Wire for Power + 10+ peripherals is awesome, and I can't go back.

This can still be done with non-TB USB-C. Including power and video.
There's a bullet list halfway here:

https://advo-recht.be/kennisbank/strafrecht/misdrijven/welke...

Some non-firearms on the list:

* Lots of types of knives, like Stilettos

* shurikens

* Blank weapons which look like other objects, like a knife hidden in an umbrella

* Clubs and batons

* Electric shockers

* Aerosol cans and sprays for self defence

* Nunchuks

Technically, anti personnel mines, flamethrowers and laser weapons might also be considered non-firearms, but I assume even the USA forbids these.

Interesting point is your medieval flail, which is probably legal as a historical ornamental weapon. Good luck explaining that one to the cops, though
lol, docker recently consumed 22gb of ram on my desktop with no containers running. Windows 10 though
Reading your comment (and replies to) is a bit interesting because I almost never see an admission that Linux is anything but gods gift to humanity. (yes, I exaggerate, bot not too much). It's nice to see more reflection and honesty about various annoyances that came with it.

I remember being told (circa 2005) that my PC issues would be resolved if I just switched from Windows to Linux.

I tried Linux a few times back then, and it never stuck. I would hit some small issue that I couldn't solve and eventually I'd give up and go back to Window (which certainly had its own problems, but I wasn't under any illusion that it was a flawless)

I use Linux more now (mostly as part of WSL) and I really enjoy it when I get to use it.
How much money has lxc raised? ;-)
On the contrary, it really matters in some contexts, like for retirement purposes. Taxation of retirement income can really impact retirees.

Tax policy can also make a huge difference for whether rebalancing a portfolio is even viable.
It's also Undo in Vim. Cheers!
I'm not sure this has any basis in reality, every single country has committed to participating.
OLED is about double the price, but IMO, it's worth it.

Being able to have TRUE blacks with no light bleed anywhere is amazing. Yeah, you've got TVs with a hundred zones as you said, but that just means you get blocks of grey when there's something on top of true black. Depending on the scene, that compromise can look even worse than just allowing all the black to be grey from the backlight.
Just 10 years too late, I remember when Facebook switched to Mercurial because the Git community wouldn't care about big monorepos. Mercurial is great!
Reminded me of the type of statements he made last year on another set of mailing lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24430424

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2020/08/22/msg007842....

https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2020/08/22/msg03...

https://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2020/08/23/msg026693...
I oscillate between living in luxury, and spending less than 2k a month in an expensive city (6-12 months at a time)
I know what you're saying but the discoverability of such tools, especially on DOS, was poor. Everyone I knew was buying compilers or, ahem, downloading them from other than authorized sources. It was unreal when I was able to buy a RedHat CD-ROM for a few bucks (from Tucows?) and get access to a full tool suite. You couldn't get huge software packages over 56K modems from BBSes.
Yeah we end standard support release+2 years and extended support release+5 years for major versions. Given that it's still mostly the same core code that was implemented 10 years ago, not sure how this would gel.
> helped to get more cards in the hands of gamers

Well, you know, except for the cards that they binned specifically so they could be sold as 'mining' cards. There's no such thing, these are all 3060 GPUs, the mining cards have a slightly different firmware that wasn't even able to do the one thing it was supposed to do.
Until the first 'hypercrash'
Runway.com is a good team that is recently backed by a16z. They are still in early access development so I am not sure how our products differ. I think there are several people tackling this problem and that's a good thing for founders and entrepreneurs overall.
IMO streetcars in general are a pretty bad investment, as they are generally just a way of making a bus, but more expensive and stuck on rails. (Streetcars are not usually grade-separated.)

I learned recently that part of why streetcars have been in vogue is that the Obama administration made a big push for them in order to have some visible progress on their transit plans.
The paper is VERY interesting, but oh boy, how bad is that first visualization... https://imgur.com/8P7Sqop

It doesn't include units in the axes and the labels are just centered there. And what do those dots even represent?
Funding rounds overflow after Z. It is known.
To me a num pad is a waste of space, but my Dell M6800 with a 3rd mouse button on the trackpad - wonderful luxury!
It's not physically more hostile than the moon, but we've never colonized the moon for the same reason. It's really hard to live there for not much benefit. There are plenty of sparsely-inhabited deserts on Earth that are much nicer places to live.
That's not totally fair. They also hide your IP from sites you access. So if somebody sent me a link to an IP logger and I clicked it, they would not know what city or state I actually live in, for example.
This is exactly right. Docker is like lxc/lxd with some extra stuff (much of which I personally dislike.)

It's not rocket science, and podman is obviously a drop-in replacement.

The ssh example is good though - so much depends on ssh, yet how much do we invest in it?
My plan is to find some users for it, but I'm not sure the best way to get it out there.

I don't think I'd ever want to accept donations or sell it. It should always be pretty cheap to host unless it blows up, which I kind of doubt. But who knows!
Every message should have in it's header:

1. A unique message ID

2. The ID of the parent message

3. The group it was posted to

4. The subject line

5. The authors email and name

6. the date/time of posting

So rebuilding a single repository of linked messages is TOTALLY do-able, and mostly programmatically to boot.
You wrote '(in Europe at least)' suggesting that you were also contemplating green movements outside Europe, and mentioned Harrisburg, a US radiation accident. Also, the language of 'green zealotry' is a popular political trope in the US. Since you cast a broad net, I assumed the US could be included in discussion. I disagree that it is irrelevant because the 'green new deal' proposed by some Democrats is a subject of hot debate but originates within the 2 party system.
Sounds interesting. Any link for info about this?
Pay fair market rate and decent equity. Or pay below market rate and substantial equity.
Teen ‘mastermind’ behind the Twitter hack sentenced to three years in prison
That was my first reaction as well when i saw the way swift team was laying out the roadmap to actors. The broke all what we consider an "actor system" into pieces, and implemented every part in different, hopefully orthogonal, proposals..

If that works it's going to be quite interesting. But i feel that it goes against what i've learned from go language design decisions : concurrency is such a deep concern that you have to build the whole language around it, as well as from erlang, where they basically designed the virtual machine around the actor requirements.

It's going to be some interesting times..
The science against mass vaccination during a pandemic (viral immune escape)
I was lucky enough that we had a second phone line dedicated to the modem.
Version Control. Imagine going back to FTP-ing updated files onto servers not knowing if you've overwritten someone else's work. Or not being able to see a file's history.
I’m imagining a future where you can get idempotently vaccinated w/ legit antibodies for any in person event you attend for near instant immunity to illness.
In an ideal world, yes. In this case, not really.
What if the way you want is using the App Store's payment infrastructure?
Freedom of speech is the most notable. In general, lower taxes, fewer regulations regarding building, starting businesses, more checks and balances to government. Again, I'm not saying it's better or worse, the United States government is just more restricted in its capacity to impede individual liberties than European states, and far more so than Asian states. The rise of automation and increasing wealth inequality is putting the American model through the ringer, so we have yet to see if there's a place for it in the future.

Unfortunately, it looks like what was perhaps in need of a correction is being leveraged by the sort of authoritarian overcorrection that has been the downfall of more modern states than any other philosophy.
Giflib-turbo A faster drop-in replacement for the ubiquitous GIF codec
Sounds like you were five years too early. And prepandemic I would agree with you. Today I can't.

I also said "an industrial revolution" and not "The Industrial Revolution". But I'm glad you could no longer argue the validity of crypto currencies and the implications of mass adoption and use.
Here's quite technical but old whitepaper for anyone who's showing interest in CTASK and dispute mechanism
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13zuCikwuh3Ns8fCEUYlU1YE_PnL...
I know you are being sarcastic, but I don't know if everyone understands Sam Altman's motivation for running OpenAI the way it's being run. Sam is trying to create AI which causes the greatest benefit for humanity. That's openAI's mission. Open sourcing everything now would not achieve the mission.

In case the "why" is not obvious: AI progress is limited by a) great research talent; b) money -- specifically being able to invest in compute. If OpenAI were to open source everything, they would not be able to raise the money they need to invest in compute, which would cause a death spiral in their ability to attract and retain their researchers. They need to have a story for why they will make money in the short term to continue being a top tier AI research org. And since AI is "winner take all", it is likely worse for the world if a less altruistic company takes all the talent and source code.

If your point is just that OpenAI is a misnomer now, I agree :). It's not open. But I do think they have settled on a surprisingly good point in solution space (the capped-profit company, the charter, etc); I don't see ways to validly criticize the company from an altruism perspective.
> To be clear, I've no animosity toward your posts.

No worries, no animosity assumed.

> If venting is the total of your goal here are you okay we blow that off or is there something else you're hoping for?

I don't like venting. I said I was scratching an itch but venting makes it sound like it had no substance at all and suggests what Netgate did was alright. To be clear, I think the more Netgate gets criticized and called out the better. But I had no hopes beyond that.

> My 'hidden' agenda is this: Because hostility takes a toll on the recipients (us) ...

Putting aside that I'm not completely on board with the hostility characterization either, you're recipients of it only in the sense that you happened to read it. I disagree with you about the degree to which Netgate deserves the criticism of course, but none of the "hostility" was addressed to you or anyone else in this thread.

It shouldn't be taxing. It's pick-me-up to anyone who's read one too many overly positive comments about the pfSense Plus shenanigans.
In the macos case, they actually are. docker runs in a vm on macos.

Actually, I believe one text file is the docker killer feature.
There are also the various static checks that prevent you from accessing actor-isolated state outside the actor, or passing non-Sendable state across actor boundaries. It's not clear how a general language extension mechanism could implement those.
> We had enough wealth for everyone to have what we need a long time ago.

That's obviously not true today: There isn't enough coronavirus vaccine to go around.

There almost certainly will be enough eventually, but human beings live in the now. There will be another pandemic someday. Or some other natural disaster that creates localized or temporal scarcity. We can't just spin up a new lifesaving drug or a million new homes overnight. Maybe someday we will?
It's got much more to do with supply and demand than power.

Table salt and unskilled labor are both cheap primarily because there's an over-supply relative to demand.

Cleaners (as an example) provide huge value-add, but it's not unique value-add because there's millions of people that are capable of providing that service, and therefore the market rate is low. There's no centralized power that's dictating that cleaners should earn a low wage.

Some reasons for over-supply of unskilled labor in rich countries are globalization (U.S. workers now need to compete with Chinese factory workers for manufacturing) and technology/automation.

This isn't to understate the incredible difficulty of being poor, but let's not misdiagnose what the real reasons are for low wages.
True, but you at least have a functioning display out of the box, which lets you get to that website.
This is not a startup by any meaning of the word “start”. He should call it “high growth company ” If you go by growth then Apple may be considered a startup after 40 years in business.
Not if you use 4k or even more.. DisplayLink compression sometimes gets so bad that you can measure it in seconds per frame.
"gross revenues of $605 million" in 2020... So 2020 many people traded but what if this trend declines?

Isn't a 10.4 Billion valuation a bit high? And AFAIK eToro has a bad image (many people complain they have problems with paying out their money)
Correct.

But a borrow checker does not change the set of possible programs. It only identifies the subset of possible programs that would need "unsafe" blocks.

In the absence of a borrow checker, libraries are left to carry the responsibility to define an API that is hard to misuse. Such an API could be slower than what one would define for a library to be used under a borrow checker. But code written to satisfy a borrow checker is sometimes slower than code that doesn't need to.
Not really. China's big projects all have corruptions, but corruption can help sort things out. Read my comment above. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26483703
A Csv editor/viewer in Rust using druid. Very early stage, but the goal is to open large files (1 GB and over) easily and have some good filtering / sorting options.
Excel stops at a certain amount of rows, LibreOffice is ok but slow and other editors I looked are not cross platform
I know you can just import a Csv into a sql DB but it can be finicky it can take some time to map the columns, filter out invalid data etc. This can and should be all be automated
> I am also very Cold War revival.

Complete with threats of total annihilation?

> We should be launching competitive science wars with each other

Don't we have this now with competitive global capitalism? I guess it's not the nationstate so much now as the multinational corporation, though, that are the entities competing.

I can kind of understand your wish for a Cold War revival - we certainly had more of a sense of national purpose during that period. But it was driven by fear of the other and I'm not sure that ultimately that's a good motivation.

You'd think that maybe something like a global pandemic would give us a national purpose that would have brought us together, but look what happened, just more fracturing: anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, even covid-deniers.
That's exactly why NIMBYism is so destructive -- overall it probably would be a net positive for the community. However one very loud resident (I'm exaggerating a bit) says "nah, I don't want the noise" and then the whole thing gets stalled.

But that library has to go somewhere. It has to be in somebody's backyard. Just not MY backyard.
The problem isn't miners. The problem is no one wants to stop bots and scalpers from buying them en masse.

If eBay prevented scalping and e-commerce created bot protections, demand would stop being absurd.

Nvidia stopped selling cards on their site because they couldn't figure out how to prevent bots from buying them all. Not to mention Nvidia is selling cards directly to large miners by the pallet load.
Here is an old whitepaper with technical explanations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26484040
I wasn't saying what we should do[1], just saying that if the reason data collection hurts a person is that the data is evidence of a crime then the situation involves more than just that person and we should think about it that way. It stops being enough to say that we should avoid all harm to the user. Instead, we need to ask if the harm to the user in recording the data might prevent or address greater harms.

[1] Personally I feel like providers should be legally barred from doing anything other than responding to warrants for information related to a real person and they should, in that case, be prevented from including any information linked through statistical imputation.
NMD does similar work, but not in a checksum-like way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense-mediated_decay
What do you think he should be doing instead?
> could reasonably be expected to know

I’d wager I know about 1% or less of how restricted 99% of what I buy is.

There’s probably some term or condition on my water bill saying I can’t export it to Cuba or use it to moderate nuclear fission.
I think I'm being thick on this one - there is the first section with the guide overlay, and then a link to the full demo (hosted at demo.navattic.com). Does Navattic create both of these, or just the first section that walks the user through the product?

Off-topic: did you use a framework for the demo app? It's very nice looking!
they can't take the heat?
When I went to install docker on macos and it started phoning home from inside the installer, my opinion of them changed.
Not a single mention of Spotify, the first version was magic, click a song and there were no lag, started to play instant ..
loll i was like "oh no what did Andrew Yang do"... as an asian and non american i was a casual fan of his but kinda knew he had no chance in the primaries. still.. maybe someday.. he's young
I think this... pretty much speaks for itself. Wow.
Quantifying Criticality
Heh. In my relative youth, I was pranking a fellow co-op student on our work term fairly regularly. One of my faves was that he was on an HP Unix workstation in the shared computer room, and the X display defaulted to allowing all connections from other hosts.

I'd set my DISPLAY environment variable to his desktop, then use xv to open whatever gross / unflattering / whatever pictures I'd found on the net that day.
Yes, in the middle of Manhattan. A substantial number of people do live there. For reasons.
Former YC founder talks about why PDFs are hard
Except getting a $100k car shot into space also probably requires personally building the company that is "launching the rocket anyways." The SpaceX waiting list to launch junk into space for laughs is a very exclusive club.
IDK if the philosophy of it matters all that much. Apple is, likely, going to grow in China. We don't have to solve the "agency question" to know this.

That said, I think there is a decent amount of determinism at play here. It's like the "why are all politicians such politicians?" problem. The companies with an interest in entering the Chinese market will, mostly, do it. It's predictable. Predictable isn't determinism, but it's en route.

For a more poetic take, I'll paraphrase leonard cohen on "do you believe in free will?":

I think free will exists, but I think it's over-rated. Mostly, we act because we are compelled to.
> This brings me to a general software gripe. Why do companies seem to love to ship products of unacceptable quality?

Modifying the very subjective "unacceptable" adjective of your question into a more objective adjective like "low":

Because the market is not able/willing to pay for higher quality products. There are amazing high quality products (software, and hardware) for Medicine, Space and other domains. Real High quality software costs money; more money than what the average consumer would be willing to pay for it.

Would you be willing/able to pay 10x of what you pay for all the software and online services that you consume?