skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You open source to build a major piece of developer mindshare. You have to ask what the value of this is, and what, if any, moat would you have on that mindshare?

Mindshare can be valuable if you're doing it for recruiting purposes. Or if you’re a major cloud provider and want to create the de facto solution to a problem so people will buy your cloud service version of it. Or you’re a consultancy and you want to offer services around it.

But doing open source well requires deep pockets often unclear upside. Who builds the open source full time? Develops the community and conferences? Who evangelizes the tech and gets devs excited about it? Who teaches the tech? Who engages the community to see what features are needed?

All that takes significant investment. What’s the business mode to capitalize on the dev mindshare you’re getting enough to support all that? How would such work on the community support your business model. And developers will resist you “owning” the community.

You know who can invest at any time in your community and take on the risk, even if the upside is years away? Big tech companies. They can hire away your best OSS devs and evangelize their “love” of open source more effectively than you. Just look at Amazon taking on Mongo and Elastic right now for an example of this.

So not sure your exact problem space or business model, but there’s a lot of reason to tread carefully. The projects success doesn’t mean much of you have no moat and a big tech company can come in and land and expand in “your” community once the project gains enough traction to be interesting to them.
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It took 24 hours for me to validate/check my 16TB disk (I don't know the linux commands, it was a tool /r/DataHoarders suggested). I've upgraded the quality of all my video files and I've still got TB's of space to go..

120TB.. Man, to those in the future laughing at this comment with your 120TB games and your 60TB super-high-definition VR feature length movies.. I'm jealous.
I use 1Password and still pay for a Bitwarden licence to support development of a viable open source alternative.
It’s easy. I don’t want to live in San Francisco for 10 years to have an extra $1.24m. Most of my family would not be “just a plane flight away” where as right now I make good money and it’s a 3 hr car ride to see them. Those things mean something to me that money won’t replace. The cost of living being nice here just means I can also do all the things I want to do easier with less money.
You want libraries to be able to offer implementations that are polymorphically async-or-not (perhaps using higher-kinded types). That's how I'm used to working in Scala.
Really? Because they made posts using the word homo, a picture of Hilary Clinton naked with a penis, Dalai Lama performing sexual acts...
This exactly, people are crying "big tech, boo hoo", but the fact is these technology companies like elastic search and co thought they could make open source work for their business model but they struggled in the face of competition and so got defensive.

And this is the fundamental issue, can they build a strong company based on this software, it's potentially possible but that seem to think they can't be competitive hence the license moves.
Covid's Partisan Errors
Best terminal editor for Linux released
It seems it’s a very corrupt institution and probably always has been. For a while there they made people believe them to be the “fourth estate” the defenders of the democratic faith, etc. Sadly, it seems it was all a rouse and a bullshit narrative.

They are not defending the constitution in any way. All they care about is whatever happens to be their particular agenda at a particular point in time which may coincide with constitutional interests.

I’m not referring to your local beat reporter but rather your journalists with renown who bask in the power they feel they have and aren’t shy to wield their symbolic swords.
> All classical liberals are liberals

This goes against any common, modern understanding of the plain unadorned term "liberal". For example, former (Republican) house speaker Paul Ryan has called himself a "classical liberal"[1]

I'd also note:

Core beliefs of classical liberals did not necessarily include democracy nor government by a majority vote by citizens[2]

[1] https://www.badgerinstitute.org/WIInterest/Spring20171/Guest...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Hm... Maybe I should get my story published someday too. Born and raised in Baghdad. Lived through three major wars and participated in the last one as a translator for the US army. Built Baghdad's first correctional service access database, which ended up being used at three prisons including Abu Ghraib. Spent over a year living as a refugee between Syria and Jordan before getting admitted to the US. Started with 20K of debt and.. who am I kidding.. No one gives a shit.
Careful, Greenwald has gone a bit off the rails recently.
how many people dream it is to work 23 years on a shell utility?

Just the warm up to my builds take 2 hours :(
Writing "tech bro" and "sharecropper" makes it easy for people to stop trying to look for meaning in your writing.

Also, while I'm sure it's unintentional, your backwards of "sharecropper" smells racist.(It actually means paying someone for the right to do you your own work, and was an attempted to recreate slavery after slavery was banned in USA).
Gonna disagree there. I’ve worked with journalists (am not one) and it’s not BS as you seem to suggest.
Agreed, the comment was short sighted. Was hesitant to even post it considering many involved are likely here on HN.

I wasn't sure how independent Github is from Microsoft after the acquisition. My thoughts were initially in moving engineers around internally from within Microsoft to work on Github.

Multi-threaded race conditions in a Rails app under Unicorn Rack takes a lot of experience in specific tooling.
Sorry for your loss, hopefully they're in a better place now.
Basically there's 2 versions of the database file, the old (KDB) and the new (KDBX) which has more features/fields/etc.

For the clients, 2.x uses KDBX files, but is also compatible with the older KDB files, while 1.x can only use the older KDB files.
> Increasing video resolutions only make the problem worse, not better. How many 4K60 streams are you going to get over a single interface?

How many does a prosumer need? One, maybe two. Maybe 5 in a NAS. A single drive today can already handle that in 8K.

When it comes to media files, we hit storage limits all the time but we're nowhere near the bandwidth limits of a hard drive. We're not on the edge when it comes to performance per megabyte. Program files and game files are miles away on one side, and videos and photos are miles away on the other side.

There's some point where increasing the density of hard drive platters is too slow for a prosumer media library, but I'm confident it's far out there, past a petabyte.
My wife's MB Pro faced an upcoming support reckoning with Apple, and I just tossed Linux on it. Problem solved ;)

I've also used FreeBSD on (non-Apple) laptops in the past. It actually worked ok, I even had wireless working (this is very hardware dependent though, and things may have gotten worse over the years for all I know).

Based on the rest of your profile I think you might enjoy switching that workstation away from OS X to FreeBSD. Of course, it means some tinkering and looking for new tools to replace the ones you use now, but the tinkering is half the fun... :)
If anyone is interested, there is also a YouTube course based on this book: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA_-EWSPTJcuy5VyJyvem...
TTL is probably not doable (discrete transistors with multiple emitters are basically nonexistent) but DTL is definitely feasible, although it would increase the power dissipation greatly.
Well, I can't. I didn't choose to use this shitty software, my company is using it. Even if I make a statement to replace it with something better, my clients are still using it. I hate it with the passion, but it is hard(impossible) to change habit of others
I don't believe in letting

Someone else's code munge my code

Decreasing its readability for others

And possibly introducing unforeseeen issues

Only to save a few bytes here and there
Agreed! There is a sort of belittlement that’s baked into the “overly compassionate” view of the world that robs people of their agency.

Things can usually be fixed at a more immediate level if one can absolve everyone else of blame and do the hard work oneself.

That’s not to say there aren’t large-scale problems which require collaboration to solve, though.
The article is baseless speculation, like this:

>>The name of this game is “number go up.” This is about pumping B20, so holders and Metapurse can benefit when they go to sell the token—i.e., get more ETH, buy more NFTs, rinse, repeat.

First of all, the buyer putting the art up on a digital museum is exactly what you'd expect from someone spending $70 million on an NFT. The author spins it as some scandalous revelation.

Similarly, the buyer selling tokenized shares in their art collections is being cynically spun as nothing more than a "number go up" game, which completely discounts the value this business model could provide, in democraticizing art ownership, enabling art to be more readily used as financial collateral to access liquidity, etc.
BPF Meets Io_uring
Being proud of being Scottish, or Norwegian, or Irish or whatever is great. Nothing wrong with being proud of your roots.

But being proud of having white skin specifically without any other context is... odd.

Conversely black people in America do have a common cultural context binding them regardless of what specific culture their forebearers were originally taken from - they all came from ancestors in slavery, they all share a common cultural understanding of being in America because of this.

This is why black pride (and Colombian pride) is okay, and white pride is not.
This reminds me of Bobby Fischer's (rumored) KF2 blitz game against Nigel Short:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B9p2PrsKWY
Prions are why we use more disposable tools for surgeries instead autoclaving. Autoclaves aren’t hot enough to destroy the proteins.
'Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming' by Peter Van Roy and Hadidi may be a better book than this and even SCP, since it presents a well organized "science" of computer programming..
> My spouse and I also don't want kids, and it's not because we're doing coke every weekend and can't wait to die, it's because we never felt like we wanted kids

I guess Sub-Saharan Africa is the future of humanity then. Because they are the only ones who are having children.
I think it depends if the house was pre-built or meant for rentals. I had the unfortunate experience of buying a used pre-built house in the Tokyo area and it was terrible. Every room vented directly outside, windows were single pane with bare framing, and it felt like it had only token insulation. Same with rental apartments, with the only benefit being small places.

The builders I've worked with; Tokyu Homes and Seksui House build all over Japan and have a catalog of options catered for each region. ie: Kanto (Tokyo area), Tohoku (Aomori), Hokkaido, etc. The contents of the catalog are surprisingly different. For example, triple pane glass and heat exchangers for ventilation is not shown in Kanto catalog.

My ex-partner was an architect and I have a strong interest in things mechanical. Along with experience of having multiple homes built for us and with a western attitude, we were able get a livable house that's fairly efficient (for a Western lifestyle).
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> The main thing I want for Async Rust is the ability to not use it.

This is what many of us want. Sadly this doesn't seem to be a use-case many in rust are interested in supporting as a first class citizen (from what I've read at least).

I remember seeing someone being down-voted into oblivion for the mere suggestion of some sort of basic fallback executor in the standard library.

Rust's async story is a weird one.
> That said, the bands will almost certainly be collecting a lot of data. That might include incredibly fine variations in typing patterns; overall levels of bodily tension; and any biometric information captured by fitness tracking sensors, augmented reality glasses, and other tech that could be integrated with the bands.

Why on earth anyone would hand over that much personal data to a company like Facebook is beyond me. We all have to do a better job at educating non tech people of the implications.
IoTPS://exfiltration.com
Why Alien Life May Be Like Life on Earth
Love the thread idea. For me, it's gotta be:

* Smart phones. I felt this sense of immersion I never got before.

* Bullet trains (specifically the Shinkansen in Japan). Felt like I was flying at ground level.

* Electric cars. I rented a Model 3 once and more than the speed and responsiveness, it was the lack of noise when accelerating. Felt like the wind picked up all of sudden and everything is coming near very fast.
they had the MSDN cd (microsoft developer network) for documentation in these days; that cd had a lot of thorough documentation for apis and developer tools.
“It would be a nightmare for all of us.”

I bet that doctor would call that an understatement when asked now, or even 2 months later.
Not the OP but I believe efficient means the least number of bytes in this context.
I stopped eating beef for a long time after that, then stayed away from ground beef for a lot longer. These days I eat gourmet burgers from time to time.

The carbon footprint of beef is a disaster anyway. There are plenty of other reasons to stay away.
True. Our brain also makes similar guesses, e.g. in the blind spot, and in most optical illusions.
Dart's static analyzer & lint rules: https://dart-lang.github.io/linter/lints/

Each rule has its own url. Tool therefore easily gives you a link.
Sad to see HN flagging this away. Queue Greenwald being Russia-influenced
Show HN: A Search Engine for Conversations
Discover and participate in conversations happening in realtime across the internet. Want more info: kin.so
One thing that might motivate lawmakers is if someone starts tracking THEM (with license plate readers, face trackers, camera based heart+breath monitors, Bluetooth/WiFi/Cellular trackers, etc.) and makes the data public. It's currently legal for anyone to do this in the USA as far as I know. Perhaps some cities have laws limiting their police but I don't think they limit the public or corporations. Do talk to a lawyer before making the data public though.

You could do this on a personal level also, use your phones camera and start telling people their heart rate, breathing rate, radio emissions, etc., to raise awareness. Start saying "Hi" to them before they are within site range of you when you detect their phones transmissions. People may start to think you're a creep, but they'll certainly start to recognize that they are at the mercy of creeps. A likely outcome would be a ban on remote sensing during workplace meetings or at the workplace in general which could lead to a nationwide ban eventually. I don't think anyone's boss would like their employees monitoring their heart rate or stress level during meetings or using that to get an advantage over other employees. Or maybe everyone will love it, you could automatically terminate meetings if everyone's stress level gets too high and people may become more forgiving if they find out what raises other peoples stress levels. You can get heart rate from cameras and variability in heart rate is strongly correlated with stress.
Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
> Spare me the "Life is cheaper in the 3-world non-sense"

You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

I'm from Brazil. If you paid me $40.000 yearly to work remotely i would be a top 3%~ earner.

This would entitle me to:

- Renting a 60m2 2bdr, 2bath appartment in a top neighbourhood of São Paulo

- Having a really nice car (by brazillian standards)

- Top notch health insurance in the most respected hospitals in Latin America

- Easily keeping 1/4 of the money for investments and private pension
Adobe adds “Enhance” button to Photoshop
I was actually really interested. I'd definitely read your biography.
Come on. Many people, like myself, have come from vastly greater privilege and accomplished vastly less than her.
I'd just like to mention popol here [1]:

Popol is designed as a minimal ergonomic wrapper
around poll, built for use cases such as peer-to-peer
networking, where you typically have no more than a
few hundred concurrent connections. It’s meant to be
familiar enough for those with experience using mio,
but a little easier to use, and a lot smaller.

[1]: https://cloudhead.io/popol/
I agree and hope this trend continues. I think the more lightweight, self-hosted, decentralized sources of information we have, (blogs/etc) the better. I miss the old days of example.com/~user

I am also happy to see less Medium and way way less Facebook. I believe that not everything on the internet has to exist to generate revenue. I appreciated the "old web" where users put up information because they wanted to, not because their first goal was money.
I think OP is saying that Indian fathers will dress up their poverty in order to appear more virtuous than they actually are. Like grandpa who walked uphill to school both ways. I don't really agree with this racist aggrandizement of lived experiences, but I think that is what OP was getting at.
Yeah, your logic is pretty good here. Prions are a super interesting emergent phenomenon of a complex system. In a weird way, like cancer or viruses, they're just an inevitability of having enough of certain materials interacting for long enough time. Proteins misfold in just such a way that allows them to induce the same type of misfolding in other proteins, leading to propagation. It's less a definitional thing, and more a matter of the fact that something more stable will persist longer, encounter more opportunities to propagate and preserve its form. That said, surviving harsh environments isn't an entirely necessary condition, as not all prion generation requires transmission. Unfortunately, if you have the wrong gene(s) broken, you're at risk of just generating them yourself. That said, transmission is significant, and since it involves needing to be able to survive a harsh outside environment with no propagation between hosts, extreme durability is a definite boon, as you suggest.
Nice. Pasted it in a fiddle: https://jsbin.com/teyupesuqu/1/edit?html,css,output
Yeah, getting people interested in the person who writes infrastructure software for torture sites is going to be harder than getting them interested in someone who shoots robots onto Mars.
Note that this is not only an editor but a full featured assembler and linker. Good luck assembling 6502 code using a text editor (Emacs maybe?)
thanks! you also have https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/dynamic-analysis for stuff like valgrind; A star from me for both of them.
Lockless patterns: full memory barriers
This is an interesting analogy and question. I'm a fitness guy and you're right, things like push-ups or squats are a vital, great thing to do regularly.

I don't think performing a specific exercise is the route here. It's probably best to work backwards and find projects/challenges you find interesting and implement them in c++. You'll inevitably build new muscles + strengthen existing ones and most critically, be motivated to do it.
Wow, what a cool story. Having Kirk McKusick write patches for you is almost like that old Weird Al song:

> I’m down with Bill Gates

> I call him “money” for short

> I phone him up at home

> And I make him do my tech support
Show HN: Muchhire.dev – open-source job board and community
So this was a weekend project that I started last friday night and figured it could turn into much more. Before this project ends up in my endless bag of procrastination, I'd like to share it with you guys.

muchhire.dev is a free and open-source job board + community project with the goal to provide tools to help talented people find work. As you can tell, I'm no designer, but I'd like to be. If anyone has any tips on learning design, let me know.

In the meantime, I plan on adding the following features soon™...

1. Newsletter that sends relevant job postings to subscribers as they happen (or in batches)

2. Discord bot that sends updates to the relevant Discord channel when job posts happen

3. Partner program where companies can get instant-approval on their posts, featured posts, and more direct access to participating job seekers.

p.s If you're new to web development and would like to learn, this project is pretty friendly and I would definitely be willing to mentor you. I've been working primarily in the backend for the past few years, though, so don't expect me to teach you how to write awesome UIs.

Much love HN!

https://muchhire.dev/

https://github.com/muchhire/muchhire.dev

https://discord.gg/emjFktKXKG
> Someone immigrating from a country with so little money

I meant she had little money, not the country – $300 to be precise according to the article. Bad grammar on my part including spelling.
I agree with this. I’ve used the Pixelmator Pro feature a lot and it’s damn good.

I hear it’s just monstrously fast on the M1 too.
Personally I think it’s a dumb thing to be proud of. But saying a group of people can’t do something because of their skin color is the definition of racism. These double standards have to stop if we want healthy race relations.
> SARS originated in China and killed more than 800 people worldwide in 2002 and 2003

Only 800, yet it felt like such a big deal back then...
What are you two even talking about?
You're replying to John Nagle, as in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm -- perhaps it would be worth considering his words further, before dismissing his concerns?

Surely we can all agree that spinning up unnecessary threads is undesirable?
Feedback turns into insights, which turn into ideas, which turn into shipped product. Interweave helps collection of feedback (interviews, surveys, bug reports, and idea boards), helps you synthesis that, helps you prioritize work, and connects back to users when you ship something they're linked to.
I think it may be a matter of google being the only ones allowed to do the tracking, creating a tracking monopoly by stopping others.
Wow, Tam Hunt touches on this exact idea in this podcast at ~21:00:

https://mattasher.com/2020/07/19/episode-11-tam-hunt-on-cons...

He pitches the idea (which I'm poorly paraphrasing) that there's a relationship between the complexity of matter and the complexity of its aspect as consciousness. Smaller fields of consciousness merge with a common resonance to form larger more complex consciousness. Anesthesia or coma being states where those smaller fields fall out of resonance and the more complex consciousness breaks down.
"and now she is a middle manager there"

Wow, really need to throw some (what you think are) insults in there huh?
I've found Shotcut[1] to be pretty good. It's not quite professional, but not at all hard to learn as an amateur. It is also open source, and works on Windows, Linux and macOS.

[1] https://shotcut.org
Theranos's technology was imaginary that an average person should have questioned.

Did uBiome's technology work? That would offend me more if it didn't.

Body Brokers is a good medical fraud movie if into such things, based on the NPR article with some license - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9585676/
A blood bank's live visualization of blood reserves