skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are active discussions about this to eventually do that, yes. It was hard to kick that off during a pandemic, so the decision was made to create the foundation first so it could be discussed and eventually worked out. In the meantime there are informal activities to try to directly help some projects right away, while we work out something more expensive.

That said, there is no way to directly help every one of the millions of Open Source projects, so there is a big interest in doing things that help many projects at the same time.
> There are large groups of people who believe that censorship like this validates a worldview in which powerful interests are censoring true information in order to maintain control. It's similar to the Streisand Effect or "Banned in Boston" but for belief rather than attention.

Similarly, there are large groups of people that believe there are large groups of people who believe that censorship like this validates a worldview in which powerful interests are censoring true information in order to maintain control. The degree to which the respective beliefs of these two groups of people are actually correct, is unknown.

I suspect that the group of people that believe this is considerably smaller than the other two groups, at least in Western cultures.

I believe this phenomenon is (at least in part) what Hindus refer to as Maya.

https://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/essays/maya.asp
That is fair. I have not done enough exploratory work in Rust to comment. Maybe there are abalysis patterns that can avoid bumping up against the borrow checker.
I guess this is not important enough to make it available to the public without a pay wall...
What a crazy story. Reminds me of the movie “Following” by Christopher Nolan. Similarly, a weird person who is stalking people. Worth a watch...
Perhaps they've transcended and work only for themselves? I know a guy who spent years writing complex threading code, but well written, for the simplest things. Turns out it was just practice because we were underutilizing him. When we gave him more (better) work he did it without flourishes but brought the skill from his tinkering.

Sometimes good corporate behavior even looks like sabotage. An old dev said something along the lines of "We reinvent everything because our review process rewards it. If you try to use an existing library you go to a review process and people undercut you and try to convince management you should use their pet library, only available on their stack of course, and you never get anything done. Instead just rewrite the bit you need and move on. Do what rewards you, not what you think is 'right'. Let the company decide." And indeed, some companies favor this because they can't get their process under control.

Once I was in a design meeting and my product had a config file (10-50 settings, tops) which got noticed. A senior architect said I should put it in a database ... and that the DB should be Oracle. "Nothing else is as stable or respected."

I argued a bit but when it was clear he was huffing and setting himself up for a win-by-authority I folded, left, and removed the config file so I never had to speak to that guy again. Now you set any changes in environment variables.

It literally would have quadrupled the work and footprint to add Oracle, or any DB. Had it been a compliance-req and not an idiot-req I'd have used SQLite or something, but Oracle was insanity. And by contract with our customers, had we used it, we'd have had to hire a specific Oracle DBA who of course would do no useful work in any other area.

Years later though, a friend asked me what would have paid better and I had to admit that I'd probably have gotten my promotion a project earlier by pointing to the big expensive parts we used.
Not quite, it depend where the carbon forming the CO2 comes from. Carbon extracted from sewage is already in the carbon cycle giving a net 0 carbon when burned. Extracting and burning fossile carbon ADDS carbon to the cycle, hence the problem
I'm sure our nuclear plants are safe against all foreseeable dangers. So only unforeseeable dangers are a problem. I can't foresee any, so we're safe?
But... Chinese people are still people? Who deserve to not live in poverty. I don’t understand your point.

I have also heard some compelling arguments that a similar transformation is likely on the way in sub-Saharan African over the next few decades.

Also these are real dollars, they are adjusted for inflation.
I absolutely agree that we don't have a long term solution for storing nuclear waste.

The thing is, we don't have a long term solution for storing CO2 either.

The thing I like about nuclear waste is is it's obvious, its tangle and it sits around in sinister looking containers.

As opposed to CO2.
I see people pushing 3d printing pretty far, but the progress I've seen in the past decade has been more "because we can" and not in the direction of seriously replacing traditional manufacturing. At best, it's gotten to the point that it makes sense for low-volume runs of simple parts and low-volume runs of complex, expensive parts.
What about the types of sprites that you would find in an Atari 2600 or similar system? Would it be even remotely practical to store these on the Ethereum blockchain?
A few thoughts:

-I've noticed the overall experience of downloading and installing on a lot of "classic" windows apps making installing a little dicier- ads are served on the download page, and look like official install links, and installers themselves have issues like the above.

-App store is one way I supposed - it's a way to cryptographically sign things but with an element of control delegated to the central computer vendor; which is unpalatable to a lot of the open source/free computing crowd

-The one thought that came to me - is blockchain tech - i.e. Blockchain Chicken Farm, NFTs, etc a parallel development to address this sort of thing? The parallel seems to mirror Jennifer 8. Lee's book on the rise of General Tso's Chicken (open source) vs. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (corporate), vs. the old ESR essay re "The Cathedral vs. the Bazaar" model of Microsoft vs. Linux development?
Methane is an incredibly potent greenhouse gas, however it breaks down rather quickly.

Like I said in a sibling post, the big advantage is that biogas is Net 0 carbon wise as you’re reusing carbon already in the carbon cycle
> If that’s true why would be this obstructionism be there? It does not make any rational sense if we can use nuclear to win us time until we have working fusion and/or wind/sun/etc energy implemented.

You said it — it's irrational.
It's a different Dan.
We're about to find out who the terrible managers are
Is there any verification of this story? The way it ends with "As told to Amy Sedghi" makes me think this is some spoken word story rather than some journalistic recounting of events.
If the CO2 was recently extracted from the atmosphere, then burning the gas is carbon neutral.

It might be more thermodynamically favorable to use the gas as input to a carbon capture process. Even if that is the case, bootstrapping a market for biogas will lower the cost of biogas. In turn, that will lower the cost of biogas-based carbon sequestration.
Something like this is what I've been looking for for a while now! Are you going to offer Miniflux as part of your repertoire? I have lots of feeds, but I'm assuming you're going to charge something.
Windmills didn't use cement. I assume they used lime mortar like most medieval structures.
>> And that's cool but to a very great degree these often boil down to an exchange of time for money

So you want to collect rent.

And businesses based on open source want to collect rent from the work other people have already done for free.

Sounds exactly like one of the reasons Free Software came along in the first place.
I am also puzzled. Apple's iMessage/SMS app (there is only one app that does both as you say) will only send iMessage messages to numbers that have iMessage enabled (I know there are some edge cases but these are typically only for those who have recently migrated away from Apple). iMessage will always default to SMS (and is usually the only option) for numbers that have no iMessage enabled. Not an Apple fanboy but how they have set up iMessage/SMS actually is pretty good.
The botijo has the property that once filled, it cools the water that it contains, acting as an evaporative cooler..
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Your definition of DevOps is correct as far as I've seen it in theory and in practice. If you have a separation of dev and ops and you still try to say you use devops then you are probably just playing the buzzword game.
> has been caught manipulating, confabulating and straight up lying multiple times.

Can you point to one such instance? Because personally I think the articles Zenz writes are much more reasonable than articles other people write with reference to Zenz. Specifically, he thoroughly annotatates factual statements with links to sources (often official data provided by the Chinese government), and when he presents his own interpretation, it is clear that it's just his opinion. I happen to often disagree with his opinions, but never with the facts he's basing them on.
And that's if you're in the US. If you're in some (many?) other countries, you may not use SMS--also for historical reasons--and instead use an app.

Also why are some messages green and some blue? Well, one in the phone company's native service and the other is iMessage. What's the difference? Well, green may cost you more depending on your phone plan. Why? ...
And that's fine if go were the only language I ever used, but it's jarring going from unopinionated languages to a highly opinionated one. I have to have a special set of "go rules" in my mind to be sure to follow when using go which has the effect of increasing cognitive load. "oh right, go wants me to compress my if else clauses and put the brackets a certain way"
We can't even handle a pandemic and you think we can handle nuclear energy?
I don't think 10k will go very far. I think it makes more sense to team up with a few people who are also willing to invest and help companies raise $XXX,000 for a serious seed round and take an advisory role to help these companies succeed.
Lenovo X1 Carbon – Gen 9 review
> A failure of containment would release high-pressure jets of finely-divided radioisotopes, forming an effective dirty bomb.

I'll let you do that first. Please do it somewhere remote kay? :D
So her time would be better spent calling out specific legislators (wouldn't that be whining as well)? She already does that all the time. I'm not sure getting more people to think "donors have too much influence" is effective at all since that's already an extremely popular opinion (bipartisan even!).
> Maybe microsoft was always doomed in the mobile space because of app support, but they did a lot of things wrong that sealed the deal.

I don't think they really were. They were actually gaining market share in the 8.x days, in part because their low priced phones were a lot more usable than similarly priced Android phones. Had they continued that trend with 10, instead of making a terrible release and pivoting towards high priced phones, they might have gotten enough market share to change developer's minds. And it's not like Microsoft didn't have experience on breaking into a market; the first xbox was weird and different, but they became a top tier console.
> TBH, especially if they offer it as an "upgrade" later.

Well, the point was, that it is not manufacturers that offer the upgrade later. They can't, even if they wanted to, because the different software results in different CO2 (for example), thus different "fine" that is paid at the time of sale. If they were able to offer such a thing, it would be a workaround against the environmental fees.

It is being done by some guy in a garage with a suitable cable and firmware image. Of course, you are losing warranty when he does that. It's no different than the chipping that was done 20-30 years ago.
Thank you for sharing - just so you know HN loves to hear stories about successfull side projects. If yoy haven’t already, it would be great if you post about it in great detail.
A bakery is a business. Selling the bread to consumers in a shop is the business model.
Seriously one hopes. I think of projects in C++ that takes half an hour to compile, in rust they would take half a day or longer.
I think this is a terrible idea.

The answer to "who's raising?" is: Almost everyone with an idea, but doesn't mean they should.

The answer to "who's investing?" is: Very few but everyone wants to feel like they could.

On the Raising Side - Beyond the immediate risk of breaking various Blue Sky Laws, the sheer volume of completely unprepared and unvetted people trying to raise will drown out everything else. Most people should NOT raise money yet because they haven't figured out their core value prop, can't express what problem(s) they're solving, or don't know who their target market is. Most are in love with their particular solution and you can't do anything to budge them from that.

And others should not raise money ever because their business can't provide the type of returns necessary OR they have no clue that raising money builds a ticking time bomb in their business.

On the Investor Side - anyone active has no problem finding deals. That's not the problem. The real problem is finding "good" deals. There are NO foolproof ways to prove "good" but referrals from trusted people provide a filter and working directly with founders and getting to know them is another.

And that's not even considering the "investors" who wrote a check once ten years ago and now consider themselves an angel and will waste founders' time with nothing to show for it.

We do NOT need this noise on HN. That's what Angelist, Microventures, Wefunder, your local angel network, accelerators, and your own network are for. If you don't have a network, start building one.. but it takes years before it will be productive for you.

Background: Two IPOs under my belt, a handful of angel investments (one is dead, a couple neutral, others are providing returns), a flock of professional failures, and a decade of mentoring companies before, during, and after accelerators.
CERN approves two new experiments to transport antimatter in the back of a van
Having a wife and kids does not preclude being a non-binary gender, heck it doesn't even preclude being an ambiguous biological sex.
You can have another dev on the same team do a review
... it's incredibly potent as CH4... and then it "breaks down" into CO2 and H2O.

I think enkid's point is agreeing with you: might as well burn that sewage CH4 for energy-- you end up with the same CO2 in the end and less CH4 in the atmosphere in the short term.
How is this different from the monthly "Who's hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" posts?
Ok, bad wording. How about: It emerges from conventional fixed supply. In any case it's no law of nature. So not a concept that is necessarily relevant in the furure.
> Killing viruses or bacteria in vitro is a vastly different thing than killing them in vivo.

> https://xkcd.com/1217/

Carvacrol is a component of oregano oil, a common herbal supplement. This is one case where the XKCD strip is clearly wrong.

> Also, if you want to cite some evidence, Braz J Microbiol might not be the best source.

Is the Brazilian Journal of Microbiology not trusted or something?
I thought localbitcoins was made illegal in the USA unless the seller has a certian money handling license? It could just be an NY/CA thing, but still...
Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level.

I posted a comment on HN in response to some article about Emacs. Later that day I saw someone had copied my comment word for word in reply to the same article on Reddit.

I still have no idea why someone would do that. I thought at first it was some kind of karma farming operation but the post history of the Reddit user didn't really fit that profile. Plus,it seems like r/emacs would be a really poor choice for that.

I've always been curious to know why someone would do something like this. It's interesting to read about it happening on a way larger scale.
>why would be this obstructionism be there

The short answer is the oil lobby.
> Haskell has the C preprocessor

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Are you saying you can use #ifdef, #include etc. in Haskell code?

> No offense but this just sounds like bad design.

I agree. However that's just one way you get multiple definitions for the same struct. I think a language should detect such an error. It will detect it for functions. If linkers did not detect multiple function definitions, would you shrug it off by saying "having multiple function definitions is bad design"? (I'm asking in a non-accusatory way. I'm not sure how to word the question more gently.)

Many of us don't have the luxury of choosing the quality of code we're employed to debug. It would be nice if languages had some rudimentary sanity-checks to, well, preserve our sanity.
Either way, in almost every online discussion I see the term base load is used in the wrong context.

Base load exists on the consumer side, as the minimum power the grid needs to operate during a cycle of X hours/days/weeks/years/whatever. It used to exist on the producer side since the cheapest power plants were also inflexible regarding ramping their power up and down coupled with high fixed costs and low marginal costs. Therefore, nuclear and coal was termed as base load providers, although it was purely an economical coupling leading to a term existing.

Nowadays with renewables undercutting everything they are the new base load providers, but it also brings new challenges for adapting the grids and consumers to more variability in the supply. This is our current world were the high fixed, low marginal cost power plant is pushed out of the market, as we are currently seeing globally. This is unless they can find a way to get their prices below renewables, but that is getting more and more unlikely with the steam cycle itself soon adding more to the KW/h cost than an entire renewable operation.
You won't be welcomed everywhere with open arms, sure.

Though I do know a few independent contractors who cater to small businesses and are doing fine, that's why I suggested the idea.
The way design tools are built – Sketch, Figma, XD... – its an added burden. I believe this is the future for collaboration between front-end & UI designers, but I feel it won't have an easy adoption until its tightly integrated in the designer's workflow.

I've recently made the switch to a similar workflow with Framer just a year ago, the difference here being that devs in my team use & maintain the same components that I use for prototypes/design, so the collaboration aspect is quite seamless:
https://github.com/framer/framer-bridge-starter-kit
Apart from Gonum[1] numerical libraries, I haven't found specific data science related Go libraries in my search for it for some hobby projects when compared to Python ecosystem.

Interestingly Prose[2] A Go library for text processing yielded better results for named-entity extraction when compared to NLTK in my tests in terms of accuracy and obviously performance.

Perhaps Go is not being applied enough in the Data Science/ML and for fields where it's applied (Network) Math in the standard library seems to be sufficient.

[1] https://github.com/gonum/gonum

[2] https://github.com/jdkato/prose
I completely agree. You'd think that we as a species would have left slavery in a less civilized time... But I guess when money is involved, people find a way to put their morals on hold.
It's not hard to tell the difference between a really top-tier programmer that is being underutilized and seat-warmer that is padding his accomplishments. If the rewards are misaligned, it doesn't make the programmer better, it just shows the company is poorly managed. The scenarios you outline are completely unlike the behavior of a programmer who doesn't understand or seek to understand things that don't suit his preferences.
What specifically can she do single-handedly to fix everything she complains about?
There is only one single Data Source for Maps in China. You are not even allowed to Map China and own those Data. So as long as that Data Source no longer shows H&M, every single App including Apple Map wont have H&M on it.
I would imagine that one of the biggest concerns associated with China taking over Taiwan is that China would gain control over some of the most significant semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the world.
I was mostly mocking how fast JS ecosystem moves. Evidently, HN didn't find it funny. Just about the time we have a matured React framework, we've got another framework to jump to.
Base load results from demand, not from supply. You positively, absolutely must provide a certain amount of power at all times.

> In any case it's no law of nature.

Yes it is. It's a law of human nature :-)
You're not thinking of a Tritium battery are you?

They produce very little power (W).
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Wind $26-$54
Nuclear $129-$198
Lunar orbit
Great idea! I think the biggest objection will probably be that the styles are too 'vanilla'. If folks are using some framework like Tailwind CSS they still have to map the classes. It's still a great start though :)
Sure, burn that methane. Is there enough of that to many any significant impact on energy needs?
TEU means Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit and is a measure of container capacity. A 40-foot container is 2 TEUs.
Really? I post some recent academic papers and you respond with “yeah but what about Telesur?”. I have to stop wasting my time trying to discuss politics online.

> Telesur works as a propaganda network for the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro (Wikipedia)

I’m sure their coverage has the very best quality.
We are a startup trying to revolutionize multi-effect pedalboards and we're raising.

https://moddevices.com

I can be reached by email at ale@<our domain>.
I see. Does it disrupt your use of the computer in any way? In other words, if you weren't looking at a CPU monitor, would you notice?
I see you still haven't learned what dispatchable means.
Advanced Promises in JavaScript (DataLoader Pattern)
That’s exactly the point I was trying to make - it isn’t clear that nuclear power has less C02 emissions than wind turbines.
It’s also something that needs a very long view to calculate - nuclear waste needs storing and protecting and wind turbines aren’t being decommissioned all that much.
All I see is styles with with and hight set to an absolute value. How can this be useful?
Yeah, but I imagine in such a scenario most of the talent that built that world-class semiconductor manufacturing would be resettled to Western Powers - most likely the United States.
Base load exists on the consumer side and unless energy storage ramps up 1000-10000x across the world, I don't see how solar and wind could ever cover it until then. Human power usage patterns don't change that much because we don't change much. You need to be able to provide X energy at all times, no ifs and buts.

Actually, there is one thing, we need super capable and reliable super long distance power grid connections, maybe there's some progress on this front?

Because solar and wind absolutely are unreliable on a local front.
Why not something like a channel map? Give it a channel and a function and you get another channel with a goroutine running in the background.
It's almost always bot accounts. Reddit is decent at catching bots so the botters copy legitimate comments, build a post history, and then switch to scamming or spamming after the account has some credibility.
I can't comment on native drivers. When I said ODBC-like interfaces I was trying to use a catch-all phrase for sources that look like a typical server-based data store (i.e. PostgreSQL, Hive, Kafka).
This is basically what we already do, and it works fine. But opponents will still pester you about where to put the sealed boxes :P