skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but all of those projects were work projects.
This all seems very absurd to me. I can't imagine working at a company where I'd even be notified if CS had kept a list of funny names, much less expect owners to weigh in, repeatedly, about the attendant moral issues.

It's unprofessional, shouldn't have been done, we're stopping it, if people recreate it that will have appropriate consequences. Done. What's the point of even mentioning this trivial thing again?
It's a good point that the air being fully public leads to a tragedy of the commons situation.

Either way, we're asking a lot of the comperence of the system. If the air were privatized we'd still need a legal system that isn't corrupted by special interests. Since it'd still be (I'm assuming) a representative democratic process that creates that system, corporatism is still possible. Thoughts?

I've always seen a pollution tax as a Libertarian friendly solution to air pollution. A libertarian system needs to raise some tax money, so isn't it better that all tax money comes from a tax on externalities ? If we don't tax externalities then aren't we left to tax productive activity which is even worse?
In general, they serve the company but not necessarily the human leaders inside the company. Plenty a CEO, even a founder, has been shown the door (when justified) after investigations like this.
I've got a feeling there could be some nootropic experimentation involved?
I can always get my next phone from Samsung, just as I can always get my next meal from McDonalds.

But this meal is locked in. If I don’t like the pickles on my whopper, they don’t provide McDonald’s pickles, do they? The don’t allow me to get a McFlurry with my Chicken Sandwich?

Bundling is allowed in every other instance and is key to many great products. Apple can do it too.
I've used these commits to identify the correct fix for bugs before. An early commit changed something to do X, but did it wrong. A "more fixes" commit tried to fix it but made it do Y.

It was obvious that the later commit was wrong and I could fix it to do X. If it were squashed I would have thought the original intent was to do Y and spent way more time trying to figure out how to fix it.

Obviously it's not guaranteed but throwing away that information is a bad idea if it's just for some arbitrary aesthetics. Same goes for rebasing to clean up the commit history, which would ostensibly do the same.
Sure, but what are they acquiring?
> "If your employer was expecting you"

Firstly you are comparing performance guarantee of a person vs a router. Secondly employment law is a different from consumer law. It's a separate can of worms, with specific clauses for discrimination, etc.

The reason this is important is to limit fraudulent claims, if my business is selling a 1 GB/s internet connection that actually only reaches the speed once a month, and someone is selling 1 GB/s internet connection that works reliably, our marketing material and contract might look the same. I would be defrauding the consumer and my competitor.
MuseScore is also GPL, so I assume there is no intent to attempt to change the license. This probably is more about the organization, funding, direction, etc.
She mentioned that she's not making much money from it. People are migrating from this model into sponsorship such as patreon, with followers chipping in for their favourite creators.
We are in the process of figuring out a paid plan. Happy to know your feedback on the same.
> Today you have all of that in a phone.

But you replace them every two years. And the market for them is still growing. And there's now a resurgence of a market for single-purpose appliances that happens on top of the smartphone market - not replacing it.

(It's also possible more matter goes into making a modern smartphone than a bunch of devices it replaced, because of the demand for more exotic and more pure materials in the processes along the way. But maybe it doesn't, maybe an individual smartphone is a net matter and energy saver. I can totally buy that, we've made a lot of efficiency improvements in manufacturing in the past decades. But there are limits to such improvements, and in the meantime, manufacturing as a whole keeps growing.)

Perhaps I've simplified my diagram too much - I should've drawn an additional "bypass" into "WASTE MATTER" from every other node, because every step in the pipeline loses some of its input as waste.
Trademark maybe?
Wasn't Expressjs the framework acquired by some company? It seems simple, a company take control of the official repository/webpage from its original author/developer in exchange for money.
This reads out exactly how a manic or hypomanic person would experience things and rationalize past events and feelings. The idea that it has to be something complex and in a sense grandiose compared to "just being burned out" is often a very telling sign.

Perhaps it's Twitter forcing the format a little, but I could see myself thinking like this during a hypomanic episode. I'm diagnosed with bipolar disorder (type 2, rapid cycling). I could see a lot of people with undiagnosed behavioral disorders being thrown into a complete mess of a situation with any resemblance of a functional system being thrown out of the door when Covid-19 hit.
Thanks.

You are referring to the example exploit in section 5.3, right? Please note that this example is for a standalone VM, not inside the browser (where JavaScript programs -- and by extension, WebAssembly modules -- do not have direct access to the filesystem).

Whether that exploit is more or less concerning than the browser and Node.js examples, I think is hard to answer in general without additional qualifications. If the standalone VM uses fine-grained capabilities (e.g., libpreopen) or is sandboxed, then changing the file that is being written to might be possible inside WebAssembly memory but access could be blocked by the VM.
Yes, but concretely, what did they buy? And from whom?
This. This is the problem in india. Vedic books. Especially with the well educated priestly caste who had the exclusive access to education before the britishere's arrived. The vedic scriptures (basis of hindu religion) advocates stratification of society(caste) and give privilege based on birth. For this reason no matter what, there are literate people who will support and justify the actions of anyone who tries to uphold the vedic principles. BJP, RSS, Modi are all just a pawn in the grand scheme of preserving the privilege by birth advocated by veda's.
Off topic, but tragomaskhalos is such a fun word, I'm going to implement it into my daily speech.
I've never known anyone here in the US (friend, coworker, family member, acquaintance etc - Internet forums don't count) who has moved to Europe permanently. I know that many do, obviously, I just don't one personally. At the same time, I personally know many Europeans living here and have seen many more coming over the years.

I can't find hard data, but probably we should not say that "those who have the means to, do". It's likely more of "a tiny percentage of those who have the means to, do".
Is there an Audacity company to acquire?
Much agreed on the history of Audacity. It has so much capability, but it's high time we fixed UIs that inspire anger or still depend on Athena widgets.
They did away with peer reviews and somehow that is a bad thing too, if I read others on Twitter. It would be a serious notch against me taking a job if I knew I had to write a peer review. Stupidest corporate shit ever.
Seems like they’re just hiring the maintainer and maybe their copyrights. Given the number of contributors, not sure how useful one persons contributions are.

Sounds like they want to connect it to their cloud services and improve the UI. They say in the comments they’re not looking to relicense and it’s hard to see how they could.
I'm sure that among certain demographics the word is still used, but that is no different from the use of the N-word in the US, where it is used by some black people as an in-group term for their exclusive use (think gang culture and such).

In polite Dutch conversation, print publications, television, radio, et cetera, the word is not bandied about, and addressing a random black person as 'neger' is certainly not recommended and will likely get you in trouble.
Good to know. This new era of aggressive hardware flaw exploitation has me motivated to leverage my mobility and flexibility to evade. I don't think I have a better strategy.
Haha, exactly my thought! I can form a mental image (photo) in my mind, but how do I know others can "see" it similarly?

It's not very clear as I can't really see it in front of me, but it's in my head, and there's a different kind of "seeing" happening...

One evening I asked my 5yo daughter that when she imagines something in her head, does she see it almost like in real physical 3d? She said yes. I wouldn't say yes to that question. But again, it's so subjective...
The problem is, at least in my experience, that phrases like "neo-nazi" more commonly refer to Trump supporters, Republicans, edgy Twitter wags, etc and less to Mein Kampf reading would-be perpetrators of genocide.
Because animals are food, that's literally the most natural thing ever. Nature is violent, period. Animal suffering, of course I'm against it, but killing an animal with respect and then eating it without waste is another thing.
How, exactly, do they think they're going to implement such a ban?

As a non-US person, I have trouble understanding how the legislature of one, single state could have the slightest impact or effect on entities not registered or having offices in that state.
I'm the last person to judge you. I myself am most certainly not "sane". My coping strategies lead me away from work. I need to maintain balance to actually work. Not even sure if I even have a real coping strategy. I do breathing exercises, ride my bike and in the evening I treat myself with a little bit of weed. So, that's that. It just seems to me that it might be worth digging a bit deeper and broader if you want to narrow down the cause/s. Good luck for sure!
Moar addictive. I just can’t get enough. I keep putting more dollars in, and keep getting less and less bitcoin back every year. Addicted.
Muse Group hires Audacity team is simpler and much better said, nobody can acquire Audacity.
Ask HN: If sentiment analysis of your user's data is important, then why?
Content-Aware Image Resizer in JavaScript
More broadly it was a nationwide CDC advisory and not only that, the same shuffling of elderly infected back into nursing facilities happened in countries across the (mostly western) world. Probably based on shared implementations of policy briefing/ pandemic planning documents.
In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium they're also known as "negerinnetetten" which translates to "negro woman's tits".
> OSS needs more UI/UX people, and I think Tantacrul is fantastic for this.

True, Blender really exploded when they re-designed the interface. I hope someday GIMP team understand that. The software is solid, but the interface isn't great. Some very simple workflow changes made Blender easier to use.
I feel like a lot of companies (including Google) are still reeling from Google's "Bring your entire self to work" philosophy. It does feel like good management where companies like Coinbase have reified their mission/goals, and given those who feel like solving X needs to be included, a nice payout to leave. The world has a lot of complex problems and not every entity needs to work on fixing all of them--that may in fact be counterproductive.
I recommend James Suzman's recent book Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, which examines our relationship with work from our evolutionary beginnings to modern day. The interplay of most of our human past from before agriculture, that revolution, the industrial revolution, and our beliefs about economics and distribution of scarce resources or abundance will likely change your views about how much to work and where to get satisfaction in life.

A big takeaway is that much of what many of us believe are human traits are more products of an economic system we choose than our basic wiring. Ignorance of other systems keeps us from seeing we can change our beliefs.
Right, the train station. If there isn't another train on 30 minutes or less you don't have enough riders to pay for trains in the first place
Roam appears to have a similar graph structure to https://www.thebrain.com/ for nodes.
You can buy the copyright from the copyright holder(s). That seems quite straightforward if the holder is a single entity, like with Qt, for example. If it's multiple entities, as with Audacity, then in theory it's no different, but practically speaking I'm not sure how they have done this.
And previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995610
Ask HN: Resources on Blockchain, Smart contracts and Oracle networks
After listening to one of Lex Friedman’s latest podcast episode (Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks) I’m thinking on learning more about #blockchain,#smartContracts and #OracleNetworks

Any recommendation for someone who start from scratch?

https://t.co/1HyTpcoom4

I already have in mind reading their white paper, but maybe it’s more useful to start from the basis.
That's great! Hoping to see julia get snappier at every release! (as it seems to be going)
I would say the GIMP team does understand that and they often put a high focus on UI improvements on their roadmaps. I suppose they just have limited resources to work with.
It's a Game of Society, and it's not our friend. When you're sold the story of how your life should look like through ads, people around you, etc, of course you struggle to achieve that.

I think OP said he was in debt, and needed money to come out of it while supporting his family.

So here's the result of the game called "society".
This is awesome! Twice dang has emailed me to give items I submitted a second chance. I am constantly pleasantly surprised by the care and attention he pays to making this site great. I’m going to make it a point to check this often.
For music copyright is split in 2 types: composition and recording. The copyright on the composition is probably expired, but on a recording most likely isn't. The automated system most likely claims it's a copy of a copyrighted recording. Since it's a popular piece, it can be hard to tell recordings apart.

Note that the composition might also still have a copyright because it's not the original composition but a derived work, but that seems unlikely in this case.
I wouldn't judge a person for who they were, I would judge them for who they have become. People learn and people grow. To get life experience, you need to spend... life.

Back in the day when you forked a repo on Github, it said "intense forking action". Sometimes people don't TRY to be offensive, they just want to be funny. Mix in immaturity and stir. But, given my example, should we never ever use Github again?
> It's likely more of "a tiny percentage of those who have the means to, do".

Yes. However, the main reason I phrased it the way I did is that "if you don't like it, move to a different continent" is a very arrogant approach.

An American barely surviving on minimum wage is very unlikely to move to Europe.
Also, typo:

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Hope "Right to repair" keeps its momentum. Not for being cheap but for a lower downtime and re-use opportunities in developing countries and low-income houses.

My retina MacBook pro overheated and needed a paste replacement and fan cleaning. I live in a small city in Mexico, so no there is no local Apple Store. Results: 2 weeks without a computer while being in the shop.

Now I use an old Thinkpad T440p, it's older and cheaper than the MacBook, but faster because I was able to upgrade the CPU and RAM... and probably will support new versions of Linux and windows for another 5 years at least (I have no idea what will happen to Intel MacOS). Yeah, it's heavier, and the screen it's bad. But it's reliable and can be repaired everywhere, a lot of places don't accept Apple laptops because they are painful to repair, let alone upgrade.

Why the comparison of orange to apples? (no pun intended) even without covid and chip shortage, here in Mexico, it's really hard to get access to hardware for anything less than one or two months worth of salary for the average worker. And thanks to old laptops that are easy to repair like the Thinkpads, Dell precisions, or HP EliteBooks. A lot of people here were able to re-use 2nd hand corporate hardware with something like 70% of the capabilities of a modern computer (not top of the line) for a 1/3 of the price.

Those machines just require a little bit of care and time. Something people in developing countries have, but people in a good position will probably prefer just to get something new for the convenience.

So yeah, the right to repair can help not only corporations reducing downtime, but the world reducing e-waste and adding real opportunities for developing countries repurposing old hardware that's still good.
> Edit: BTW are you actually suggesting the Irish of the time were a race apart from other indigenous people of the British Isles?

Where did you get that from?
A lifestraw is better at removing bacteria, viruses, and protozoa. See page 7 here. https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/hwt...

I don't know the cost of lifestraws to NGOs, but I guess they're more expensive. And you need one lifestraw per person, where these sachets can do bulk buckets of water.
DroidScript Restored but the Google Play Store Appeal Process Is Still Broken
That is, in the French speaking part.

In the German speaking part of Switzerland they where called "mohrenkopf". There is a raging debate if the Mohren part stems from Mohren, the dark-skinned people, OR the old German word Môre, which means wild pig.

But since it's en vogue to be woke, large retails are super quick to either change the name (Schokokuss, or chocolate kiss), or get rid of the product altogether.
> We have tables and art and a stove and fridge and cupboards and bookshelves. [...] So not furniture-free at all, but it's true about the chairs.

Clickbaity title eh? So it's like a traditional Japanese house.

That said, I've heard the same arguments that it's part of why the elderly in Japan are generally pretty mobile: sitting on the floor and getting back up many times a day for your whole life helps retain basic joint and muscle fitness.
didn't all this issue start because of a list of names?
My common sense
Its close (oh and I’m absolutely on your side here). It’s not a religion (this would require it be not-math and not-physics), but it is a very virulent meme, like religion. It might even be the greatest meme - that is, energy based PoW 21 million coin sha256^2/ripemd/ecdsa with 10 min blocks just as our savior Satoshi commanded. As another commenter said, it actually delivers unlike religion.
Thought they had an economic meltdown when I first speed-read the headline.

But this is _way_ more interesting than that; a culture shakeup — and since Basecamp are usually trailblazers in so many areas, I’m sure we’ll see many more orgs doing similar realignments in the months and years to come.

Knowing Jason and (having also met) DHH, I know they usually do things (esp the significant things) with the utmost consideration. So I’d be shocked if this wasn’t a long time in the making.

And I won’t have to wonder about the topic of their next book any longer.
"As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation."

The innocence! In 2021 many "open" source projects are controlled by representatives of FAANG, who do very little but want to establish themselves as whip crackers.

So they play the game that corporations love: "Grow" the team at any cost.

In 2021 you are absolutely entitled to "contribute", be pushy and scold long term maintainers, as long as you pander to the corporate cabal.

Reading this gist makes me sad. It is a relic of a better world that has been corrupted by money and mediocrity.
I wonder if you may have aphantasia, and I also wonder if it may be more common (selected for even) amongst engineers.

If I say: "imagine a red triangle", can you do it easily? Is it red? Does it visually exist in front of you?

I have asked many people this, and many people say it is laughably easy. This tells me it is "normal".

I can't do this. I also have a terrible episodic memory. But my semantic memory is fantastic.
This reads like a piece about nothing: setting an arbitrary dichotomy to pontificate about it.

Using such a broad stroke (who's to say that someone is uncritical, etc.?) is an iffy process. Beyond the armchair psychoanalysis of the so-called haters, casting people as such is an opportunity to cast aside actual criticism. And critics is what people with an audience and a privileged status (e.g. economic, social, or political) will, and should, garner. Power should come with its own criticism.

This can be exemplified with the treatment of Musk' critics, who are more often than not labeled as haters. A quick, dirty solution that fits in today's social media driven PR environment.
Ehh, Google has gone to great lengths to ensure that the largest holders of copyright have their content libraries available to check against new uploads and apparently no lengths to ensure that public domain content is available for the same purpose.
> It makes sense that you are selfish

As this is how you choose to converse, I'm no longer interested in discussing this with you.
Ever heard of narcissistic injury?

When it comes to hurt feelings, it's not always the fault of the speaker. Some emotional pain is completely fabricated for egoic or malicious reasons, or is simply mistaken.
Presumably this is rising because of the topical current Basecamp saga.

But I don’t think Basecamp is like the simple model put forward here by Paul Graham, who is saying “if you’re famous you get fanboys and their opposite and that’s just an outcome of being famous”.

Basecamp and it’s founders have over many years taken extremely opinionated and contrarian positions, and it’s always been presented with an air of breathtakingly arrogant superiority. The tone of their communication has always to me seemed to be bursting with superiority and smugness. They haven’t just ended up with haters just because that’s what happens if you’re famous. They’ve ended up with haters because they almost appeared to actively be trying to create haters because they wanted to generate extreme opinions because it’s good publicity.

And now finally Basecamp founders have taken yet another contrarian arrogant position but this time it’s fallen flat and backfired severely. And now many former fanboys are haters and there’s no goodwill and all there is, is haters.
I have had multiple Indian co-workers (from our Chennai office) test covid positive and get sick. Young healthy people.
If anything, the data suggests the contrary. They were testing people extensively in Haridwar when the event took place. The cases that were detected from the city during the time the festival was happening represented less than 1% of the total number of cases happening in India.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coronavirus-over-1700...

> Medical workers conducted 2,36,751 tests over the five-day period in the mela site. Out of these, 1,701 came out positive for coronavirus.

For context, at this time, India was already registering over 200,000 new covid cases a day. The test positivity rate (<1%) from the mela site is also much lower than most other parts of the country (~5-10%).

Basically, covid had already spread so much in India by the time Kumbh Mela happened that the cases from there were only a drop in the bucket.
Audacity uses wxWidgets (though almost everything of the primary UI is custom painted, so it doesn't really matter which toolkit is used).