skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. By being the de facto standard and housing most of the people, it somewhat stifled innovation in the space. Sure there were a ton of front ends built over the top of it, and the space was vibrant, but it really shined after they were forced into the spotlight. It was like turning on a flashlight and spiders scattering everywhere. The scatter breathed new sustaining life into many many projects.
Well he does claim advocacy for social justice and other authoritarian left political ideologies, it is common practice in those circles to refine terms to meet their political objectives so it is not shocking he would attempt to redefine FLOSS to meet his political needs
Startup idea: I’m sure a lot of people in the US will pay $80-$100 USD for it to be shipped to them.

Not sure if that breaks at laws, IMNAL..

Not sure of the TAM/ SAM/ SOM
Especially not the WSJ which leans incredibly right and pro-big business. They’ve been publishing bad COVID takes since the beginning of the crisis.
It's similar to a Lisp Machine.
Damn that sucks. Works for me on literally all my client's sites otherwise, I feel happy as a clam... If it doesn't work for you I'm really curious on what's missing though, could you point out specifics?
> Autogenerating pages for white supremacists is wrong. Do we agree on that statement?

Not really tbh. Is it wrong that Microsoft Word will do a mail merge for white supremacists? I would think that undesirables are bounced at the door, not on a feature by feature basis.
Understood but what I'm taking home here is that you are taking a side to issues regarding the CCP and it's abuse of human rights as "ideological and grandiose meta rhetoric".

You were more than happy to allow discussions of human rights abuses in America and elsewhere. I'm having trouble understanding why the CCP is restricted.

Here's another CCP human rights related discussion you shut down. I can name more examples. Please explain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611392
Try KDE Neon. It has the latest Plasma on top of stable Ubuntu LTS.

https://neon.kde.org/

Also KDE Connect is awesome for integration with android phones. It's available in non-KDE distros too. Available on Fdroid too.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/
Thing About Cookie
So basically, one can begin slapping together a competitor as soon as Google rolls out a service—because the service is likely to go the way of the Reader in a few years.
Yes. E.g. https://www.hss.edu/conditions_understanding-addiction-versu...

Which makes you wonder how much drug use would be merely 'dependence' if we had free and easy access. I suspect it is a drug-by-drug case, depending on length of trip, relative incapacitation, physical dependencies (/withdrawal), rate of tolerance increase, etc.
Be fair: people don't get a fair choice to anything else. Every try to rent in a dense neighborhood? Biggest you can get is a 3 bedroom apartment, which is enough for the poor, but not for anyone with a bit more money. If you are never home anyway, and don't have kids it works, but once you want a family you will want more space if you can afford it. In Europe larger apartments are available (and at a reasonable cost).

Every try to get around in the US? With higher speed roads everywhere, and strict zoning ensuring nothing is in walking distance you have to drive everywhere, so you need space for your car.

Everybody wants it all: 100 acres, and walk to everything. That isn't possible for many people (a super rich person could perhaps pull it off, but only one per city as a second trying would make even the most dense downtown too sparse). When the above factors eliminate the city as a reasonable compromise, then it is no wonder people go the other way. If I have to drive everywhere I may as well drive a bit father and get more land.

NYC is the only place in the US that can honestly claim any sort of exception to the above, and they are not doing much to expand the part of the city with this claim (at their costs to build transit it would be stupid of them). Other cities try and have some small areas, but overall the city doesn't really leave anyone a serious alternative for those who aren't trying to make a statement.
I recommend not using websites such as Zerohedge or CNET as sources of information.
Since I'm here, any tool recommendations for visualizing state machines, and state charts in particular? XState's [1] is ok but only works on the web and offers to export, and I found its layout algorithm a bit sub-par. Writing graphviz code by hand, or using google draw/draw.io/... gets painful very quickly.

[1]: https://xstate.js.org/viz/
Alan Third (the NS maintainer) said on reddit that "It's too big and invasive a change for Emacs 27."[1]

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/mc82yk/flickering_em...
The government makes people retroactively pay for stuff all the time. It's the basis for torts.
Unfortunately I can't answer because I never learned C++. By the time my career required me to learn a low-level systems language, Rust was available, so I didn't have any need for C++.
> It's been several years of (arguably destructive) culture war; one that shows no signs of abating

But...the opposing sides already have separate orgs here: the signatories of the Stallman letter include leadership of the OSI, Mozilla-as-an-institution, and both leaders of other FLOSS institutions and other FLOSS and FLOSS-adjacent institutions-as-institutions.

And people that are unhappy that are attached to the FSF are leaving over this.

So...what are you advocating for? That these separate entities and separating individuals shouldn't engage in public discussion that highlights their differences so that people can clearly see what each party represents?
Thanks, I found this useful.
It all depends how much state you need to manage, and how persistent it needs to be. What works in an image processing pipeline doesn't work in a web server, and what works there doesn't work in an autopilot.
Mount Kailash and the Walk around the Sacred Mountain (2016) [video]
It's not a stupid question! The short answer is: the compiler doesn't care. An array of type [T; N] (where T is the type of the elements and N is the length of the array) can be allocated on the stack or in the heap (using Box<T>, as stated in sibling comments). If you access it by value, it will be copied as-is, so be careful with large arrays! You mostly access them behind a reference, but in that case, the type of the reference will be &'a [T; N] where 'a is the lifetime of the referent value. The type system by itself doesn't actually care whether the value lives in heap or stack.
The scripting language isn't total crap, for starters.

There's a huge amount of tools (package) that enable additional features.

It's easy to interface with other stuff.
Wow, const generics were three years in the making. Longer even if you count the work leading up to the RFC. Rust's pace of change can seem very slow at times but I'm glad they take the time to do it right.
> festooned with garbage UI

Huh?! Can you point out a single UI element in that screenshot that doesn't serve a useful purpose?

Reader's UI was basically perfect. I believe that's what proved to be the end of it at Google. There was no more changes to be made to it. So Google had to shut it down, because they absolutely have to be doing new stuff.
Ask HN: The Interview with Devs and Founders who went from 0 to a 100 (or 95)
Hi! Small intro: I’m a long time lurker, sometimes poster, & lover of HACKER NEWS. I worked for a YC company awhile back and have since always come back here for interesting topics. A female in my late 20’s who’s worked in tech for her short career.

I am looking to interview developers and founders who have started from zero/pre-seed, gone through funding (by YC or not), and made their venture successful — whether you’re profitable and private, went public, or were purchased. Company type does not matter.

This is a user interview— purely for research purposes only and all information will be private and remain between us (happy to sign anything to make you comfortable)

I’m really just looking to shoot the shoot with you and have a casual conversation if you’re up for it :-)

I can’t disclose my identity here but if you reach out and legitimately disclose yours, I can assure you will know who I am.

I am located in Northern CA and am HAPPY to meet in person in the Bay Area, but am also up for zoom meetings if folks aren’t sick of that yet.

A small incentive: depending on your background, there could be a future opportunity for you. Please reach out, even if you just want to grab a coffee and chat! I’m also down to bring a converter and water kettle for tea at a random spot. It’ll be fun!

Email (again): [redacted]

--mystery woman on a mission
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Very nice tool. I don't have the patience to fully customise a theme, but i would really like to browse through the existing themes.

The only problem here is that there are a lot of themes (most of them) that were started just for checking the tool out, so they're not really finished or different from the default.
Maybe you could add some kind of publish button - or as a quick fix, don't show the themes with "Untitled" in the title.

Otherwise great project. I really think this would be great for medium sized IT shops/companies for branding their tooling. Great job.

PS: found this gem https://themes.vscode.one/theme/rpetersen29/dOaUUtdW
I would question how much this is also a function of the company or industry in which the union operates. Maybe the company the union negotiated with stipulated such terms, or the union enforces those kind of rules out of an abundance of caution to protect its members. Asking why is more useful.
I was wondering that too. I would say that having access across multiple domains, and injecting into the kernel to hook a go binary places this firmly out of the world of script kiddies!
I'm thinking about more typical clubs and interest groups. In a chess club, you can talk about chess without worrying about whether the person is interested in chess. In an underwater basket weaving club, you can talk about underwater basket weaving without worrying about whether the person is interested in underwater basket weaving.
Are the performance claims of Julia greatly exaggerated?

Julia loses almost consistently to Go, Crystal, Nim, Rust, Kotlin, Python (PyPy, Numpy):
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

Is this because of bad typing or they didn't use Julia properly in idiomatic manner?
Hey Executive Director of Open Source Collective here.

I signed the agreement on behalf of >2,500 open source projects (and the communities who maintain them) because I agree the call to action would strengthen the community, not weaken it.

This is not about the FSF or the GNU Project, it’s about building a safe space for people to participate in and build a commons that is as diverse and welcoming as it is free and open.
> What was so special about Google Reader?

It was free and web-based.
Interestingly, this is the word that Nicolas Nassim Taleb always likes to describe himself as. I suppose because he's so keen on noticing and observation, acts that promote a sense of detachment. The Flaneur is detached in some ways, but very much "with it" in others.
How easy it is to produce a compiled executable in 1.6? I took a cursory look at the docs but couldn't spot the steps for doing so.
Does the same standard apply to crime writers? Movie makers? Why fantasy about gruesome killing is just fine, but fantasy about perversion suddenly is not?
Unfortunately it is not a zero sum game - and exponential growth is no joke. We have to make some sacrifices, and I would say many of the young understands it and is not joyfully, but willfully do their part and stay home.

You may not have many empathy towards the older population who is endangered directly, but perhaps the many who will not have place in hospitals due to the flood of COVID patients, causing many many indirect deaths.
Teardrop DDoS attack sort of, but different. TX a little and get an amplified RX. Fragmented logic instead of packets, etc...
I quickly glanced at theoldreader.com front page, and it looks nice. I tried setting up a new account and it immediately proposed to try out 14 days free "premium".

Not only do you have to click on a tiny link to discover what the premium brings, but there is no information on how much the premium plan costs. That's a really bad UX.
It supports multiple readers, and writes are atomic - no reader should ever get corrupt data just because there is a write happening in parallel. You probably should not use the OS to copy the live db file, rather, have an in-process thread that reads the db and writes to a backup location periodically.
In the early days it was. Most people still lives in the old areas, and your house wasn't that far from all the advantages of mixed use. So it seemed like you got a quite street yet were close to everything. Then we made the exclusive zones more than a few blocks wide and it took a while to realize that isn't a good idea.
Then you'll be excited to see the upcoming redesign that I have yet to publicly launch (but want a few users on to test the waters early): https://beta.newsblur.com
I have built gccemacs a week ago. I didn't see much difference in speed and it breaks wanderlust... Are there things to know to get the speed (and yes, I've checked it was enabled during ./configure :-)) ?
Fauci explains how dangerous virus gain of function is (2012) [video]
This is, literally, the exact same reason I use const generics. I was so excited when I started using them on Rust beta and could shave off some allocations!
So, in your mind, the world's most active software ecosystem is failing because it doesn't extract as much capital as a system set up as a premium product ecosystem targeted at the world's elites? Interesting take.

By the same logic, you could argue that Linux is failing relative to both OS X and Windows in the server market because it's not making as much money.
it's nostalgia for lost youth, same as nostalgia for anything. it's meaningless sentimentality.
The vim bindings are only one part of Spacemacs. The other (and I'd say most important) part is the SPC menu that exposes hundreds of keybindings in a discoverable, unobtrusive, and interactive interface.
It's an integral part of operating systems often pre-installed on there these days, so I think you could probably point out distros who have tried and failed to replace this component that they have to ship. I think a few distros tried libressl and had to end up going back because of reasons I'm not entirely sure of, but I suspect enterprise interests has something to do with anything like this breaking compat and causing them to have to do more work
> When you got to pick sides and there's no nuance left

That's exactly RMS’s perennial position.

The only difference between him and the most extreme trigger-happy advocate of some specific narrow position on gender or racial politics is the subject area on which Stallman focusses.
> They all came and went and yet she remains.

She didn't have to be elected..
Guess this daily 2 seconds of downtime is worth it, when that reduces cost say from $2000/month to $20/month.
That's coming. Pieces are there but still need polish and integration. Fib was around 44kb with no runtime required.

Check out staticcompiler.jl
We also support that less dense living through subsidies and regulation. Without the subsidies and regulation, it may be that people would choose differently.
This is just recency bias. We remember those that did great things and we forget those that did not. In 100 years, folks will look back on our time and remember Elon Musk, Bezos, Jobs, Gates, etc... and will wonder why we were blessed with such great visionaries and will complain about how their generation is nothing but bean counters and bureaucrats.
As pushback continues to mount against this political behavior in science, those who created the environment, sensing a loss of power, will push more of these "can't we just get along" articles in an attempt to silence those pushing back against their bullying and political gamesmanship. Far beyond this situation, attacking and then suing for peace, then attacking and suing for peace, over and over again is a timeless battle tactic. Those who want to do science instead of engaging in political battles are easy targets for this tactic because they just want things to end so they can go back to research. Those who wield science as a sword for political purposes of course will take advantage of this weakness and the manipulation will never end by concession.

If science journalists are serious about wanting peace, they can adopt a zero tolerance policy for politics in their content, including the passive aggressive writing that attempts to sneak in political attacks inside other content. But they won't because ultimately the politics are far more important than the science. If it were otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten into this situation in the first place.
Some Unofficial WireGuard Documentation
How to Make a Photo Trap with a Raspberry Pi and a Sony Alpha
>> I'm not sure how meditating on it is supposed to negate the latter.

That's because you haven't tried. You're biased in ways you don't see. I'm not pointing a finger or trying criticize here. You seem to have a lot of anger - figure out where that comes from.
How GitHub Actions renders large-scale logs
Thanks for the input! We've been asked for a viewable list of performers a few times and it's definitely something we plan on adding. I agree, searching randomly can be tedious. Especially if the bands you're looking for aren't signed up yet.

We do plan on reaching out to our network of artists to create profiles to make this more user-friendly for the fans.

Also, the wish list idea is great!
Not sure I understand: sqlite is file based, so snapshots and concurrent backups are literally just file copies/backups.

I'd much rather SQLite not waste its time on implementing features they're not good at, leaving that to the tools we already have available for rolling file backups, instead spending their time and effort on offering the best file-based database system they can.

(Heck, even failover is just a file copy initiated "when your health check sees there's a problem")
Hey, Head of Product at Open Collective (and former Tidelift employee) here:

As far as I am aware Tidelift pays maintainers in exchange for a minimal set of commitments, which is used to sell the Tidelift subscription. They curate packages of ‘known good’ open source projects for enterprises and provide a set tools for users to better understand what software they depend upon.

Funds is a little more free-format, facilitating a relationship between maintainers and organisations on their own terms. No contracts, no promises, no agendas. We take on the work of administrating payments to projects and of ensuring companies have what they need in their procurement processes.

In doing so we hope to lower the barriers to the degree that we broaden access to funding for open source.
All I could think about when I saw the title was 0xDEADBEEF:

> 0xDEADBEEF or 3735928559 is frequently used to indicate a software crash or deadlock in embedded systems. 0xDEADBEEF was originally used to mark newly allocated areas of memory that had not yet been initialized—when scanning a memory dump, it is easy to see the 0xDEADBEEF. It is used by IBM RS/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, it marks freed kernel memory. The DEC Alpha SRM console has a background process that traps memory errors, identified by PS as "BeefEater waiting on 0xdeadbeef".[1]

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DEADBEEF.html
> Man riding a bicycle was twice as [efficient] as the condor - way off the end of list [compared to all other animals]. And what it really illustrated was mans ability as a toolmaker, to fashion a tool that can amplify an inherent ability that he has.

> That's exactly what we think we're doing here – we think we're basically fashioning a 21st century bicycle here, which can amplify an inherent intellectual ability that man has and really take care of a lot of drudgery to free people to do much more creative work.

My takeaway of this perspective really illuminates the value of augmented reality (AR) over virtual reality (VR). The escapism of VR is fine for entertainment, but amplifying our understanding of the real-time real world with AR is very exciting as a species.
Thanks for NewsBlur! I’ve been a paying customer since Reader got cancelled.

I recommend NewsBlur to everybody: super uptime, great API, integrated with IFTTT, and supported by a lot of good mobile reader apps
Fauna has no native syntax, instead it has language-specific DSLs. This helps with type safety and query composability but it does indeed lead to awkward syntactical situations when the host language and Fauna semantics don’t quite align.

The snippet in the grandparent post is JavaScript; is there an ORM or other library that has an example of an idiomatic JS or Typescript syntax that either of you would prefer?
How to Remove a Cybersquatter and Recover Your Domain Name
Journalists loved google reader, and they have outsized publicity effects when you kill something they love, that is related to their work.

Therefore it feels like it dying is way more of a deal than it actually is, since what is talked about with journalists feels like is what everyone actually cares about, even if it isn't.

Personally I still miss it, nothing was quite as fast or robust in reading RSS queues. RSS feed updates were fast & reliable, the UI was fast, keyboard shortcuts made it fast to use, it didn't have basic bugs that current alternatives have at times and the few alternatives don't quite approach how good it was.
I agree that PostgreSQL has some great tooling around it. For SQLite replication, you might want to checkout Litestream: https://litestream.io/
Newsblur has support for twitter feeds alongside RSS. You need to setup an API key for it and it's a bit hidden in the settings, but once setup it works really well for consuming (not participating in) feeds.

Combined with the training features of Newsblur you can curate twitter feeds even more. Don't want to see re-tweets by a specific user, thumbs down. Don't want to see replies by another user, thumbs down. Want to percolate a specific keyword to the top, thumbs up.

I don't think I've looked at my native twitter feed in months.
Rise of a New Class of Plutocratic Tax Cheats
It's not density, it's walmart and places like it. Walmart is now the coffee shop, book shop, delicatessen, butcher, flower shop, sports equipment shop, optometrist, etc, in these similar sized American towns, which once had all of these things as well
It's rather strange you assume that I support all the exaggerated points above (none of them mine). I was trying to use respectful language to engage in a meaningful discussion. I never said google results are fake or dislike english source either. 4 million results of trivia is still trivia. I don't know where these assumptions of me personally come from but I hope it's for a better understanding of the issues, not a lecture on my googling skills.
>"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it." - Dr. Pamela Zave

That's a really good advice
Yes, because making a vaccine for which there are over 7 billion customers that need it is absolutely the same as selling whatever. Production capacity is so far below what is needed that any vaccine manufactured in the first year or two is guaranteed to be bought.

In any case, the question at hand was whether or not the US admin funded Pfizer, and it did not. It gave them assurances, but so did many other entities ( like the EU), so the US really cannot be hailed as some sort of visionaries that made the vaccines possible with their generous help ( which was what GP was claiming).