skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not Open Source software, that's proprietary software whose source you let people read.

If you want to force people to contribute back if they distribute, make your software Free, if you want to force people to pay you, make your software proprietary.
I would argue that NFTs have very little scarcity, because you can create an infinite supply of them. It's kind of like posts on reddit. Yes, they are all more or less unique, but there's a never-ending supply of them. At some point, the novelty wears off and you stop scrolling.

Also, data is infinitely replicable. By trying to claim ownership over data, you're trying to swim upstream. You're paying for a certificate that says you own a piece of data that anyone can replicate and have a look at.
Ask HN: Post-Truth Office Politics
The company I work for appointed a new CTO a while back. He plays post-truth office politics. With this I mean he makes up narratives to support his agenda without any regard for the truth. He doesn't care whether what he is saying is true, or whether it contradicts what he said two weeks ago or what he will say two weeks in the future.

Most of the old timers have left the company. New employees last less than a year before they resign. The remaining long term employees are just sitting tight, not speaking up, not pointing out the lies, not correcting mistakes made by new employees, not peer reviewing code by the new employees, etc. The group-think seems to be to not get involved, not associate with any of the new software that is being written and just wait for it all to implode.

I have found out the business has been very unhappy for a few months because they need a report that apparently can't be produced. I coded a similar report a few years ago so I was surprised. I looked into it and found that the CTO deleted the raw data about a year ago. He is now claiming that the system I coded was never able to do this kind of reports.

For a number of reasons, resigning is not an option for me.

What is a good way to deal with this situation? Both the concrete issue with this report and the wider problem of constant lies.
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Do you have any references/tutorials/examples on how to do this?
I see a sleep/wake button, but my Raspi 400 has no such feature, and googling about whether this can truly be done are inconclusive. 5h standby time suggests the sleep isn't a very deep one.
It depends on how you implement the measure. In the future, we want to determine reforestation based on the carbon emissions of products. With the help of projects like https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre or https://www.electricitymap.org/map, this would be easy to do for energy consumption. In this way, digital services can be transparently and recurrently compensated for emissions in the long term.
What if you want to sell your thing?

Who is hosting this db?
Except VideoCore? Or has something changed?
Ask HN: Complicated web project that would push my skills?
What would you recommend as a web-based side project to show future employers?

I want to spend quite a bit of time as I am finishing my studies.

I have hard time coming up with something interesting, that wouldn't be like a week of programming
I’ve been following this project for a while. I truly hope they succeed, but as always some caution is warranted about crowdfunding projects.

They ran a Kickstarter last year with a target ship date of late November, but I’m not sure how many orders they’ve filled. None of my friends who ordered have received theirs.

Their open source repositories are available here: https://github.com/cutiepi-io

Note this isn’t a tablet in the traditional sense. Think of it as a Raspberry Pi with external touchscreen, camera, and battery folded into a tablet-like form factor. They’ve done some cool things with software and hardware to bring it all together, but it needs to be viewed as hackable open source hardware and not a competitor to a cheap Android tablet from Amazon.
I agree broadly, and I think we both agree with the author's main point... life goes on.

But, I think we need to be careful with our expectations. Currently, the biggest factor determining what content gets created is the preferences or MO of a handful of big guys.

Netflix is like the old world. Executives. Deals. Do Netflix insiders still like sexposition or do they think it's corny now? It's a lot like selling a show to a cable channel. On Youtube, a minute of news equals a minute of fart jokes and subscribers are important. That's their ethic.

The future isn't really about what "content" will do.. it's about what youtube or amazon will do. These companies are not neutral conduits of consumer preferences, whether or not they make decisions algorithmically.
In a way yes, but currently it is not sustainable. I think we can do much better.
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Learning about bitcoin
> Are you aware there is an extreme left bias online?
Evidence please.

And I need to take a class in logic....

>> > Even here on HN these posts have support, until dems downvote it beyond the upvotes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

So you watch the votes and downvotes come in? Before the downvote parade I had near 10 upvotes, net result after dems, -20. Clearly this is a conspiracy.

> Meanwhile in actual face to face conversations people can’t stop talking about it.

So instead your sampling bias is correct? Where is your evidence?
Yeah sorry if it sounded too entitled (otoh there is not much “entitlement” I paid for all this with my taxes several times over). I’m happy that you have he the chance to be with your kid more I just read your post as “it’s impossible for fathers who work to enjoy kids prior to the pandemic”.
I think it's simply because one article gained a lot of interest and then other websites followed up on it. It IS an interesting topic, especially since the flavour of homeworking is added to it and how it affects the working culture, something probably a lot of people (here and elsewhere) have experienced due to corona and like to read about.
Worth noting that WiFi 5 is 802.11ac, which only applies to 5Ghz; any WiFi 5 gear is using 802.11n for 2.4GHz. (Edit: Pi 4 can do 5GHz) One wonders if they skipped doing a 5GHz antenna for cost/space/other reasons.
This is perfectly normal in SoM projects. Effectively the carrier board is the motherboard, and the module takes the place of a socketed CPU.
> we plan to support Raspberry Pi OS desktop and apps via XWayland.

I am not familiar with the Linux Ecosystem, so I don't understand what this really means. Can someone please explain? Will any Linux apps run on it directly or do developers have to create separate apps just for the platform?
It's not about "shaming", as these SBOMs might not be publicly available. But serious customers might have something to say when they realize that they are getting obsolete versions of components full of security issues.
Man it really sucks this is being down voted. Software engineering is not like reading. Reading conveys information about reality. Software code conveys solutions to problems.

The latter requires understanding of computers, problem solving, domains, etc. Just like I can't pick up a book about organic chemistry and understand it, people are not going to some day care to know about how distributed systems algorithms work.

It is indeed a skilled craft and this weird, cyberpunk-ian idea that everyone will just converge on technical literacy is very hand wavey and ignores simple facts like some people just not having ANY interest in computers or tech.
Certificate is a pretty fancy word for a blob of json with an ephemeral url.
Yes -- our non-profit publishes nearly all of our games to the web because they run reliably on browsers in schools and public libraries without plug-ins. We've deliberately gone in this direction to make games available to educators without risking the ire of network admins.
Jacob Collier was going to sell an nft that granted lifetime access to any of his concerts.

That seemed like a not terrible use case for an nft.

He changed his mind when people pointed out the environmental impact of cryptocurrency.
why is resigning not an option?

If you know that he deleted some kind of important data inform the CEO or board members. I don't know this situation looks very sketchy I would abort
Even the idea of "settling on English as a working lingua franca" has issues that display how deep this schism goes. When one of the questions you're exploring is "how exactly does language shape our thinking," for example, picking one language may be limiting what can be expressed, and therefore, thought. Some terms specifically have relationships to their meanings in the language they're written in, and so even English translations leave them in the original language and treat them as jargon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7y3cdi/cmv_mo...

why bother with involving a computer and a hard to modify paper trail?
Many older Thinkpad Models still have WiFi N, it's not that bad as you describe it.
>I still think it's a total bubble but have to admin there's a lot of other people who disagree.

It doesn't matter if they disagree; a pyramid scheme is a pyramid scheme no matter how successful. And if it somehow still ends up as the world reserve “currency”, then it'll have made a lot of profoundly incompetent, undeserving, and shady people rich. We'd be no better off, even worse off than before. Bitcoin fuels the fire it was set out to extinguish: greed induced financial crime. https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Everything this team produces and sells.

This team isn’t involved with the Raspberry Pi team. They’re just using it in their open source product.
No. It's just lining up the pockets of some shady "reforestation" orgs that has zero to do with actual reforestation except maybe the name.

Plant and ocean response to rising CO2 is unknown at this time. The only mostly certain thing is that it is highly non-linear.

Any world-ending projections of CO2 content in thousands of ppm are wild guesses and scaremongering.
Because the system can't be intelligent enough for that.

Say the process wish to write to a particular file; — how far up the directory tree does the system ask for permission?; only that specific path? the home directory?; how can the system know this?

Of course, the other issue is that, say the system be implemented so that the write call blocks until the permission be given, that they will timeout with an error because they have limits on write calls that take that long, and assume there is something else that is wrong like mechanical storage failure, if a simple write call truly take seconds.
>“Amazon does not tolerate violations of labor laws," Leah Seay, an Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard. "Where we find repeated violations, or an inability to correct labor violations, we terminate contracts with DSP program participants.”

At some point you can't pass blame for repeated violations through contract vehicles. The general population are becoming aware of these practices. Amazon may not have directly committed the violation but they've created and shaped an environment ripe for rampantly abusive labor practices.

If Amazon is serious about fixing the problem and committed to good labor practices, stop contracting out services and take control of the issue. Set policies in place with teeth that remove managers and middle managers caught pushing such work conditions. Don't just leverage cheaper labor from labor abuse until it gets public attention and then terminate a contract set in place to pass blame and responsibility.

Are you really outsourcing labor or are you outsourcing the risks associated with abuses of labor needed to meet your demands?
When I install something using dnf for example it installs near-instantaneously! Makes me wonder wtf Gnome Software does in the background to make installs so slow :P
It lags even more that slither
> But instead, we're dealing with Latex - a language that overcomplicates the most basic features such as fonts, tables and special characters.

I can’t really argue with the rest of your post, but in my experience this is incorrect. Fonts and special characters are both trivial if you use XeTeX, and tables, though slightly clumsy, are still pretty easy. As an example, see the documentation I wrote for https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey, which makes extremely heavy use of all three features. (As documentation for a keyboard layout, it uses characters from pretty much every corner of Unicode, and accompanying tables of many shapes and sizes to show how to type these characters; I needed to use Gentium in order to render all these characters, with Times New Roman as a fallback. I found that LaTeX could ably handle all of these complecations.)
Are you talking about mio? If so, that might be the bug I've been trying to find all week.
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I have a bicycle. I sell you the NFT for that bicycle. I then sell the bicycle to my neighbor. How did that work out?
I'm kind of confused but by research [1] says the CM4 they've selected does indeed support wireless AC and BT 5.0 LE

[1]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Raspberry-Pi-Compute-Module-CM41...
Yes I did. Of course there was a screw-up. Maybe people can bring back backups, maybe not. This is nothing new and the devil is in the details. It could just as likely've been a flood, fire, short-circuit and everything else.

Nevertheless, data inevitably gets erased. It's part of the data management lifecycle. If data is non-trivial to backup or obvious to find, it must not be very valuable to those who own the data. Think about it.

Not deleting data, you might even become criminally liable, according to privacy laws like GDPR.

So while this stuff isn't as clear-cut, stable and easy as it should be (we agree there), people must keep their data with them, if the data is valuable to them.

I don't see any way forward laying blame on others for the rest of one's life. That's no way to live.

This is why one implements data and IT governance.

Ownership is with the user.
Is the rear-facing camera connected using standard CSI interface and can it be swapped for RPi HQ Camera?

I sometimes use HQ Cam in the field and for now I use RPi 4 with 7" touchscreen and external power bank so this tablet would be great usability upgrade.
Are fibreglass boats made today more resilient than fibreglass boats of 30 years ago or do they still have pretty much the same lifespan?
AI camera-based cashierless checkouts
The reason they're late is because they switched from the Raspbarry Pi 3 compute module to the (then recently announced/released) Raspberry Pi 4 compute module very late into the project.

I would have preferred if they had shipped what they had, instead of delaying the project for that upgrade, but it seems most backers preferred to get the shiny new thing, even if it meant the project was delayed.
Additionally I thought a lot of students from elite education institutions were finally wising up to these practices and big finance was hemorrhaging talent to big tech the last few years?
As with any technology we only see its impact with the pass of time.

Bitcoin is holding pretty strong after 12ish years, you can't deny facts.

You can question the practical applications but technology is often used in other ways than it was originally intended.

In the case of Bitcoin it may prove to be useful only as a cross border digital store of value instead of an every day currency.

Same with NFTs, you can dismiss the hype but that doesn't mean there are no practical applications that people may end up adopting.
Ask HN: Re-Entry to Software Engineering
Hi,
I was a software engineer for a couple of years in a big company.I then pursued my Masters in CS. Post my masters was working for a startup as a Data Scientist. I was laid off and it has been 5 months since my layoff still unsuccessful in finding a job
. The roles I am open to are SDE and ML. Do companies hire laid off people?

I am losing hope day by day in making a comeback. I am interested in SDE and ML related roles.

Help me with your suggestion.
Typical HN crowd upset that people don't agree with their technomancer future and down voting anyone who says software engineering is hard.

You're right, in the same way why math literacy still isn't a thing.
It looks even worse that Quake3 to me and it's gameplay is just dull.
Letting people in law enforcement, and the banks deputized by the AML enforcement agencies, monitor all private financial interactions, in a warrantless dragnet manner, to make a 1% dent in crime [1], is a terrible trade-off.

[1] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/anti-money-laundering-has-les...
This is the only reason why emacs is no longer my default editor. I value customization, but I learned I value snappiness more.
Out of curiosity, how much does it cost to stream 24/7 off cellular like that?
In case you missed it: the university IT department ran software that erased files on users' local devices, as an unintended side effect of trying to delete former-users' files from... somewhere to reclaim space?

Its hard to imagine how they messed up so badly. Lovely that they gave themselves admin write access to user's devices but didn't implement a basic backup system.
Ha.. I thought people are free to bring their own laptops (which they have total control over and university IT has no control over except allowing them to join university network). Considering how common laptop usage seems to be among students, I expected that to be norm. I'm probably missing something.
A simple way to help plant trees is to use the ecosia search engine:
https://www.ecosia.org/
How does that work, what links a private key to an object in such a way another private key can't be linked as well?
I’m curious about why did they chose elixir to build papercups
I like Safari, it goes a long way to provide sufficient protection out of the box and without the need to install or configure anything.
Remember the Ammon Bundy incident and trial? This was the case where a group of right-wing tax protesters took over a chunk of Federal land in Oregon. A big part of their subsequent acquittal was the reveal that nine of the occupiers were actually FBI informants.

Of course, Bundy went on to do other crazy stunts later on. But given the information available to the jury at the time, they decided that the government had gone too far in the Oregon case.
I agree, but only to an extent. From my perspective OSS contributors are not "privileged developers" who can afford to commit their spare time. Yes, software development is a privileged career, but the privilege is not really pay, but education. Anybody in the world with access to the internet and a decent education can become a software developer. It is a highly competitive global market. My suggestion to any developer who is working something crazy like a 996 schedule is to look for opportunities elsewhere.
I mean what do you want to have happen? ptrace every application, stop on every openAt(2) call and pop up a permissions dialog?

macOS can get away with solutions like this because they control the kernel and userspace but on Linux it’s a much tougher problem.
I rarely reply to a comment here on HN. But yours resonated with me. Software as a new form of literacy is a good mental model. Also "You cannot compensate for lack of literacy in a company or society" is spot on. Thank you.
This sounds like depression and distance more than all your friends being bad. Consider an alternative view that may not be filled with suspicion. Wouldnt you want your friends to offer you the same courtesy if you stopped reaching out. The pandemic has been hard on peoples social rythyms and cues and there are way less events to talka bout or meet up at.
That's generally the case for everything in our lives, though. Part of what keeps civilization going is minimizing variance / maximizing predictability of people.

In modern societies, we try to keep unpredictable people away from anything important. In the most extreme cases, we lock them up in prisons and mental hospitals. In less extreme cases, we gatekeep: for example, you have to go through a psychological evaluation to get your pilot's license, driver's license, to be allowed to own a firearm, or be employed in certain positions. Degree of such gatekeeping is usually proportional to the damage wrong behavior can cause.

And then in general, we have laws and cultures and social customs that slowly grind us into shape, every day of our lives, making us ever so slightly more similar to each other with every interaction, so that we can predict each others' behaviors and cooperate effectively.

(I bring this up sometimes in context of AI/ML, where I complain that modern ML is made of black boxes with unpredictable failure modes. The usual reply is, "but humans are black boxes too!". Well, they aren't completely opaque - thanks to shared hardware architecture and "theory of mind", and to the degree it's not enough, society ensures predictability is maximized.)
Ask HN: How do you personally process bad emotions?
I never learned it properly so I'm looking for any and all tips.
I agree, I can't wait for autonomous vehicles. I actually want to walk to get in shape. I like to think about abstract problems so driving can be difficult in those situations as automatic as it is.
It's such a horrible company. Starting with the ugly website full of counterfeits and fake reviews all the way to grinding humans down in their warehouses, delivery service, while bilking subcontractors[1]. Somehow they managed to deliver the highlight reel of all the flaws of capitalism while never turning a profit.

Complete with the faint defence offered by fans. "B-b-but their massively overpriced cloud service that looks good on my resume." Sad.

"And I can save three minutes buying toiler paper that I then spend watching crap on their complimentary video service!" Pathetic.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/amazon...
Something I keep thinking about is that 100 years ago we had a huge cadre of workers called "clerks," whose job was basically to gather, organize, and transfer information. You'd think those people would be replaced by computers, but there's always a bit of complexity in each transaction that needs the human touch: Does this ECO make sense, for instance.

Outside of engineering, a lot of people with "manager" titles are similarly engaged. Their supervisory work, while important, is about 4 hours of work per week. The rest of the time is spent on tasks assigned to them, such as creating a new process for replenishing the hand sanitizer, or approving documents.

It's just that we believe that by now we should have eliminated clerks, so to make ourselves seem modern, we re-title them engineers and managers.
Important to realize glyph's twitter followers are not representative of all Python users.

In general, people who follow him are going to be more "into" Python than someone who just uses it to get their job done, and thus more likely to use optional tooling with a large overhead like mypy.

That will skew the results in favor of mypy in this poll. Though the poll getting on the HN front page will balance that somewhat.
On Oberon, Mesa/Cedar and Lisp Machines, the experience extends to the whole OS and any application, or REPL, not just a plain text editor.

Althought I haven't mentioned, Smalltalk also provides a similar experience.

Here are some videos that try to convey it, from my playlists,

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

"Emulating a Xerox Star (8010) Information System Running the Xerox Development Environment (XDE) 5.0"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP4hRUEIuxo

"SymbolicsTalk28June2012"

"SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU

"Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

The Native Oberon demos available at

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6NbzmjW-wLvqVbxOXj7Ug/vid...