skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea! If more thought hypothetically about the consequences of various licenses I think it would be a good thing.

In retrospect some of my projects might have more liberal WTFPL on them where I really don't care if someone else said they did it, but others I would want more recognition and more copy left for their changes. (I think some of my bigger projects side with the copy left and the smaller with the liberal.)
Never seen that approach. Instead, I've seen the opposite of adding a sign that says "Free/gratis". Much more positive message to encourage someone to take it.
> “Just like an operating system, we feel there will be a whole universe of applications that can be built and consumed using AgStack,” Johal added. “From pest prediction and crop nutrition to harvest management and improved supply-chain collaboration, the possibilities are endless.”

...said AgStack executive director Sumer Johal according to venturebeat (1) in another meaningless statement that provided no concrete details.

Their high level architecture (2) comfortably encompasses everything from ML to shells to security; “like an operating system” the press release claimed, careful to avoid saying they were actually building an operating system, because that would be daft.

...but who is Sumer Johal? Well, no one very interesting (3) it turns out, but he’s been involved in agtech for some time...

So... I guess I’m left puzzled?

What does this have to do with the Linux foundation?

Well, turns out the place to go to find out is... surprise, the Linux foundation:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/press-release/linux-found...

“Through the AgStack Project, the Linux Foundation will provide valuable cohesion and development capacity to support shared, community-maintained infrastructure.”

Or something. You read it and decide for yourself; 20 different companies coming together to collaborate with completely different ideas of how and on what.

Sounds like open office.

Can’t wait to see how it goes...

[1] - https://venturebeat.com/2021/05/05/linux-foundation-launches...
[2] - https://agstack.org/projects/
[3] - https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sumer-johal
Micro feedbacks – management advice for Technical people managers
Link to study? I’m curious if this is because of a rise in issues or because medical treatments have managed to reduce all other kinds. Relatedly, are these causes filtered out for where lack of medical intervention would have resulted in death anyway? I suspect not because that kind of data analysis is hard to perform.
A place that attracted people from all over the world for high paying jobs that is beautiful geographically with limited housing costs a lot.

Locals are priced out who were here before the high paying jobs, new people need to be in the top percentile to afford it. It’s families who want the same thing but some have more money.

The only thing that will change housing in the Bay Area is a large earthquake.
Is the photo at the top of the page an actual image of the black hole?
I agree that it is unfair to call it extortion. I'll try to be more careful in the future.

>But they don't, and I think it's because they realize that . . .

They don't realize any such thing: they're just doing what benefits them personally (e.g., surviving as a professor or apprentice professor) at the expense of the broader ecosystem.

It is a problem of coordination: if the professors, students and the governments and foundations that fund research acted in unison (and were sufficiently informed and clear-thinking), then the entire academic literature would probably be available without restriction (like, e.g., Wikipedia is) on the internet by now.

Such an arrangement would satisfy the values of the professor, students, etc, better than the current system does. But it is hard to get there because it is hard for 10s of 1000s to act in unison.
Connecting infrastructure to the internet is something that is done for many reasons. It would be a vast improvement of security if most of those connections went through a data diode[1] and only allowed monitoring.

Knowing what is happening now with critical infrastructure, through the internet, can be done in a completely safe manner. It is a solved problem.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
Tal Joffe with a fun (and effective) way for providing better feedback, using his background as a Software Engineer. I'd move the "Build on strong infrastructure" section much earlier in the post, as without it, everything else will be extremely difficult to pull off. (10 min read)
Because the science part takes a backseat to the cultural exploration.

I guess that could be either fantasy or science fiction, but since it has spaceships it must be the latter.
Like the other commenter said, it's not that impressive considering that VS Code was already written in Javascript and open-source, so the porting effort required here isn't as big as it seems. Still a neat project though!
I’ve been working with Rust and WASM for a little while now. I’ll say that at this point the tools in this area are already very good.

Most libraries that implement algorithms and data structures just work. It starts getting messy when things need access to the file system (or other environmental things) but that’s fairly obvious, and what would that be used for in a web context?

WASM already has WASI which is pretty well supported in Rust today, and works well for any POSIX like needs.

In terms of using with React or Vue, I expect no matter the language, the incorporation of WASM modules will be identical (the tooling is where things will set themselves apart).
And to think that science has enabled us to do vastly more in a few hundred years.
This isn't an unreasonable proposition at all. Humans are well documented to shape the local landscape with fire; "yes" would be the default answer to the headline question.
What’s the government going to do? Say no large company is able to beta test products with a few companies before they make it publicly available?
A quick look found you a 3 year old closed issue?

It's equally "toxic" imo to torpedo a project, and all the efforts because of some bad communication.

Sure, the dev did fly off the handle initially but if you read the whole tread, he comes around, and actually keeps responding - in other words he cares.

We already seldomnly argue the point anymore. Now it seems we don't even evaluate software at core value anymore, rather we must know the personality of its creators.
The 1980 film The Lathe of Heaven is wonderfully done, especially when you consider it was made as a PBS project for $250,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(film)
Well, you have been convinced of these things so it seemed like you might have stumbled across convincing resources. I'm sure there's a bunch of garbage to filter through on this topic on the open internet.
>In Europe, they are bound by the same law, so return policies are not something I worry about.

No, the law does not mandate a specific returns policy. It just sets minimum standards. I can return almost anything to Amazon for free if I don't like it. I don't do that very often, but knowing that I can is one of the biggest incentives for me to buy from Amazon.

>Shipping fees are clearly stated at checkout and honestly so damn cheap that I don't care.

I have often gone through a lengthy ordering process before finding out at the very last step that my £20 order would incur a £5 delivery fee. And it's fine. It often doesn't make economic sense to make free deliveries to the doorstep. But that's yet another reason in favour of small stores sharing a logistics platform such as Amazon.

>Delivery windows? It's the same delivery companies that Amazon uses or used to use. In Germany mostly DHL, who I never had a problem with.

Here in London Amazon makes most deliveries directly. I can track deliveries in real-time and I know what they do if I'm not home. I had lots of issues with other logistics companies. They often lie about having made a delivery attempt and drop off parcels at some distant shop or depot.
Your comment brings focus to the question of why reviewers agree to do these unpaid reviews in the first place. I assume your comment is in jest, and you were fully aware of the unpaid nature of the work. But what was your motivation to do it anyway and spend 2000 hours on it?
This whole thing is a shit show. I’ve said for awhile that App Store monopolies won’t last forever. But it’s not clear to me what the alternative is and maybe that’s why they will last.

First there are a couple of different issues. Deciding what’s on the App Store is one issue but payment processing is a potential separate issue.

Second 30% May have made sense once when this was a small business. It’s not anymore. Apple is inviting these lawsuits by simply not throwing big publishers a home with reduced rates.

Third, the whole tax on digital purchases is completely arbitrary. There was a time when Apple was working out what to do with Amazon and that’s when this role came about. Not being able to purchase kindle books just highlights the artificial and arbitrary nature of all this.

Fourth, at the risk of offending HN folks who self-servingly believe everyone wants or needs side-loading apps, most people benefit from the filtering of apps. Side-loading and unrestricted third party payments would simply be another attack vector.

Lastly, a bunch of different app stores is a terrible user experience. Just look at the friction of finding which streaming service has a particular movie or TV show.

I honestly think Apple could make most of these objections and potential problems go away by simply having a tiered percentage that rewards high volume publishers. It could scale down to 10% at which point the business case for an expensive legal challenge mostly disappears.
What makes a Unicode code point safe? (2017)
What a coincidence, I just finished The Lathe of Heaven by her this morning. It's not on the list here but I enjoyed it quite a bit (4/5 stars I would say), so I'm even more excited to check these out.

The Lathe of Heaven is about a man whose dreams change reality—rewriting the past so everything fits—but his therapist is trying to use that power for his own gain and to create a utopia. Things don't exactly go as planned though.
> No estimation is perfect, nor expected to be, and so your criticism is unreasonable. You're doing exactly the things that you are criticising the study for, and more so. You provide zero evidence to counter their sourced evidence, and ignore and dismiss points that don't match what you are trying to say.

They have provided no "evidence" -- they made a model. They have provided no validation of that model, so it could be completely incorrect. Nobody knows.

Furthermore, I just showed you that of the sourced evidence they did consider, they dismissed nearly everything that reduced the death rate attributable to Covid, and said it was "too dificult" to quantify.

Mathematical models without prospective validation are not evidence. They are not science. They are bedtime stories.
I didn't believe you at first with quintillions... but my back of the envelope came out as sextillion lol...
CodinGame Spring Challenge 2021
> Lotta early-rock-history-for-newbs in there, I'll give it that.

I think this is not giving the article enough credit. It's not just that people are "newbs" to music history, it's also that real music history is buried under manufactured-consent style industry narrative, which the article explicitly points out halfway through:

> the rest is music industry history — something we need to make an discerned effort to divorce from actual music history.

By the time I write this comment, the article has received 1.8k "likes" (or whatever they are called on Medium), and has probably been read by an order of magnitude more people. It pushes back against this narrative.

The fact that you already knew this as a music superfan (or whatever the reason might be) does not reduce the article's value in this regard.

Thanks for the links though!
How early ateist settlers used religion like symbols in their everyday life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5530042/
Well I think names and usage do matter.

Not that Wikipedia is an authority, but note that this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music

correctly covers the whole fields of music for dancing that is made electronically. I am perfectly content to be in the wider field of Electronic Dance Music.

But this specific initialism of EDM came out of the US music industry, and was never in use prior to that.

Wikipedia notes that the specific term "EDM":
> By the early 2010s, the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the American music industry and music press in an effort to rebrand American rave culture.[3]

which is where us ornery old techno bastards come in. We will not be rebranded and renamed. Everybody is welcome to come up with new things and new styles, but you cannot rename a past culture.

Imagine if some industry press decided to rename Rock and Roll to "RNR" and back date all usages to 1959, editing Wikipedia to insert their new term in there and push their newly branded marketing channels (eg. https://edm.com/ )

Underground dance music has been fiercely against the mainstream music industry. We had different distributors, different press, different rules. This EDM term and this AOR (Adult Oriented Rock) over replicas of classic 909 house beats is the kind of thing that what we spent our whole lives fighting against.

So I hope that explains why we object to that particular the term, as strange and as petty as it may sound. It's political.

Remain Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5t0l2aOW2o
You only need atomic reference counting if you're sharing objects between multiple threads, but if you use an object from one thread at a time then non-atomic inc/dec is enough. Rust allows you to make the choice between the two kinds and the compiler can infer which kind you need to use.
With all due respect, if you're not familiar with the concept of voice in linguistics (which has a particular technical definition, and makes no sense to apply to a purely adverbial phrase like "surprisingly" or "to our surprise"), maybe you should read up on the concept before trying to determine the difference between active vs. passive.
I wonder how much of this is owed to the financialization of medicine where many patients especially in poorer areas are now not seeing a doctor but a 'nurse practitioner', where responsibilities are diffused by design.
Install Telegram: https://o0d.short.gy/how-to-install-telegram
A lot of people are saying the maintainer’s reaction was over the top. I don’t think so, but I think it comes down to your perception of Issues, specifically whether you view them as an area for bug reports vs an area for discussions.

Alacritty is a really popular project. It probably gets a ton of issues being opened. As a maintainer, every single issue is time you’ve got to take out from stuff you’d rather be doing. From that perspective, someone popping in to complain about the default colorscheme because it doesn’t look like their previous editor, when they can easily change the colors to be however they like, is going to be super frustrating. This is doubly true if you don’t usually view issues as a spot for general discussion.

I can see that the person who posted the issue was trying to help, but honestly it’s just not very helpful. A lot of people view airing their own personal dissatisfaction with a tool as being helpful, and generally that’s not true.

Edit: also just noting that alacritty has an IRC channel linked on their README for discussion of things that aren’t bugs.
Institutions require validation for the legitimacy of scientific endeavors. The established method for establishing legitimacy is the competitive, peer-reviewed scientific paper. Which publications are the most prestigious? Those that have the most rigorous processes, best editors, careful reviewers and respected authors. Does this cost money? Yes. Should readers have to pay for it? No. Scientific institutions and the scientists who work for them are the financial beneficiaries of the scientific publication system. The benefit from publishing in Nature or JAMA goes to the owners of the IP. It is fundamental to their business development.

Make scientific institutions pay to play, just like a patent application. Then open up free access to everyone, and watch innovation grow exponentially.
Come on way to buzzkill
Harder to be dealing with operators violently when they’re safe at a desk in territory you don’t control though.

Next up - targeted assassinations of computer dudes?
Especially ones funded by public money.
"Feeding the sheep and seeing how happy they are makes me happy, too."

That is some heavy Zen right there.

Also: "two pieces of fish, one big onion, an egg, baked beans and a few biscuits at the end"

Is probably very healthy. Minimal sugar, high protein. Would be nice to have a bit of veg and that would be it.
If you have any specific examples of anything in those articles that's wrong, please do present them. Otherwise, ignoring all the factual matters discussed in them has no intellectual merit.
Are they outliers? Most public “name brand” tech companies I can think of out here pay like that. Uber/airbnb/lyft come to mind. Hell, I’m at a under the radar (but still public) company and we get paid the same as FAANG. Sure it’s not the norm, but outlier is a stretch. Especially when you account for the disproportionate headcount at the high paying companies.
Some advice: Remove the furry stuff. No ones going to want to work with you
Indeed. Choosing one or the other is making a choice about what should be emphasised. Any form of writing is subjective, and scientific writing is not different.
I think prestige is a very unfair characterization. It’s my belief that most people just want their research to be seen and engaged with by their peers (it is, of course, the fundamental purpose of producing a paper). Universities however want prestige, and enforce the policy “publish or perish”.

The problem is still as you say — the only way to do so reliably is to give up your ownership to a prestigious journal (because prestigious journals are widely read by the relevant folk).

Ultimately the fix is up to the top universities. If Stanford suddenly says all CS papers are now being published on SciHub first (or through some new filter), who’s going to argue? Every CS researcher will immediately add it to their reading list... because they want the good shit
An author’s intent doesn’t change what an author actually said, nor does it mean we should assume it means something different. “Surprise” in any form should usually not be used, but if it is, the two phrases are still equivalent unless the context dictates otherwise or the author makes his use explicit.
There are different simulations focusing on various aspects of the universe. All the CDM simulations give (predict) a dark matter density profile close to the so called Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) profile (i.e. here https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Battaner/node27.... ) . This profile has essentially two parameters, mass and concentration. These are the two free parameters you work with for individual galaxies if you try to match the data.
Install telegram: https://o0d.short.gy/how-to-install-telegram
Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon
>here is an example where a cheaper store missed something

I don't think they are saying itch missed something (itch certainly doesn't think so)
Why? Apple makes everything from the hardware up to the apps on the homescreen. Why do you trust the hardware, the kernel, and the OS, but not the "apps", when all are made by the same organization? They're the same as any other software on the device, they just have an icon associated with them.
At least in SF it’s totally accurate.
Those kinds of beliefs are what lead to anti-vaxers, belief in homeopathy, astrology, etc... It has nothing to do with good or bad imagination. An egghead can imagine Star Wars or Lord of the Rings but that doesn't mean they aren't imaginative when someone tells them a grouse predicted a death as though they actually believed it.
How does the newspaper find this guy?
Inefficient Efficiency (2019)
Alacritty has an IRC channel for discussions, and their contributing guidelines make it clear the issue tracker is for bugs and feature requests. I can see being frustrated with someone raising this issue as a bug.
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)
Kent Beck wrote a post that represents exactly how I feel about software development: "By emphasizing latency [of process] we get feedback sooner. Learning and adapting to external changes lead to less waste and therefore greater efficiency. Each piece is inefficient (compared to some theoretical maximum), but the whole is efficient. In my world, latency dominates. Mostly. But it depends." (4 minutes read.)
I consider myself pretty flexible, and don't have many never-evers, but I will never, ever, ever again live in a home with any kind of shared wall or shared space. No apartments. No condos. No townhomes. No single family homes close enough that I can reach over and touch the neighbor's wall. Never. Ever. I would quit my job and move if that's what it came to. It's the one thing non-negotiable.

I don't want to see my neighbors. I don't want to hear them. I don't want to smell their cooking. I don't want to have to deal with their problems that they drag home every day. I don't want to have to deal with their friends who bang on the wrong door at 2AM. I don't want to have the police always around because of whatever they are deciding to do that night. I don't want to have to park next to them so they dent every car I buy. I don't want to have to hear them complaining about whatever annoying thing I'm doing, because I'm probably an annoying neighbor just like them.

Politically, I'm totally fine if that's your thing. Go wild and build concrete honeycombs (as someone else here put it) all over the city, and live in them if that's what you like. We need the housing. But it's just not for me.
This is neat! You also did the auto-complete for the terminal (muscle memory as I 'tab' on it) :)
You mean initial claim, the purpose was always money.
Google is going to turn on 2FA by default
A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins found similar results: iatrogenesis kills 250,000 Americans each year[1].

"The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates."

Doctors don't keep a record of the people they kill, just like the military or the police doesn't keep track of the civilians they kill.

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_su...
If you look at the bar chart, you will see: 1. this third is much smaller than the first and second, 2. other categories are carefully divided small categories. The "third" is not a meaningful comparison. A meaningful one should be the percentage of medical errors among medical treatments.
It’s interesting to me that so many on HN insist on the value of privacy, but are hostile to financial privacy.

To quote Edward Snowden: ”The central property of cash is fungibility—meaning a dollar spent by a plumber is honored equally to one spent by a sex worker: they are indiscriminable. Adversarial chain analysis of Bitcoin's public ledger reduces its fungibility over time. Only privacy guarantees fungibility.”
How do I get this prompt if the app is already installed? Do I have to re-install?
That Washington Post story is dated May 3, 2016 and now I'm wondering if that justifies flagging the post.