skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the depressing realities of software and the internet. It’s especially depressing that people that likely build and sell technology for a living think like this.

I’ve been thinking about donating to Mozilla for a while - even though I don’t use their browser, I think they’re an indispensable force of good on the internet -, but haven’t gotten around to it. This could prove like an excellent value proposition for me and if it’s any good they can count on my money.
You asked:

> What if I don't want to join any unions and I just want to do what I want?

You already have freedom from union membership, and you're exercising it. What's the problem?

Also, you asked:

> What rights does the government have to tell me that I must join an union?

Common misconception. A union can compel an employer to be a closed shop through a bargaining agreement. The government doesn't tell you that you must join a union; the employer will tell you that you need to join the union because their relationship with the union is more important than their relationship with you. What the government can do is forbid the employer from union-busting, and also forbid closed-ship agreements.
For the purposes of avoiding trademark infringement all RHEL clones go out of their way to avoid mentioning Red Hat, thusly Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all derived from its sources tend to get lumped together as “Enterprise Linux”
I really wantedan excuse to PXE alpine Linux, but I couldn't figure out how to bootstrap a post-pxe script. Which I'm sure is super easy and I just missed a really obvious strategy about Linux sysadminning, the docs anyway do not provide easy to understand guidance on that, unfortunately, and I have no idea where to go to get community support for quick one-off questions.
Depends on what you mean by "real money."

On the fully indie side of things Michael Hartl has been doing it for a while with Ruby, front-end technologies, and seems to be doing OK for himself. I don't know what kind of profit we're talking about but it seems that it's enough to keep at it. https://www.learnenough.com/

Then there's Udemy. Max S. has 1.4 million "students" which I believe means his courses have been purchased a combined 1.4 million times. If we assume an average selling price of about $10 that's a lot of money even when we subtract Udemy's cut of the money. https://www.udemy.com/user/maximilian-schwarzmuller/

In general, be thoughtful when considering what you think "makes money" on the web. While not easy to achieve, there are a lot of folks making very good livings selling things on the web. But of course it's not going to make headlines if they are "only" making $100K or $500K. The press is only really interested in gaudy public stock offerings worth billions.

In the specific case of MDN, it certainly seems like they could sustain themselves using this model. If 10,000 people sign up and pay $10 a month that's $1.2 million/year in revenue. Certainly enough to pay for a rack of servers, some dedicated staff, and a rotating cast of outside contributors to write the articles.
The libraries are either header-only to permit inlining or written to operate over batches of data.
İt doesnt disable likes, it hides them.
And people harmed by the externalities of forced union choice. Two sides, same coin.
I use Instagram but I don’t bother checking like counts or the list of who liked a post. You have to go out of your way to look for this information anyway.

I suppose disabling the feature could help those who can’t resist the impulse to check and who get upset if they don’t see the expected number of likes. It’s more of a forced self-control option.

I have known people who struggle with phone and social media addiction, but I have to say that the HN caricature of Instagram is nothing like my experience or that of anyone I know. Instagram has been great for keeping up with photos of friends’ hobbies, travels, kids, and other fun things to share. I suppose if someone felt significant jealousy or insecurity at other’s success or happiness then it could be stressful to see it presented so conveniently, but that’s more of a personal issue than an Instagram issue. If you stay in touch with people you’re going to hear about their kids, vacations, new house and new cars eventually anyway.

The real problem I’ve seen is addiction to scrolling through the discover page. I can see all of my friends’ updates on Instagram in 5-10 minutes per day at most. However, someone scrolling the discover page could waste endless hours consuming random content that has nothing to do with their social network.
Ask HN: Best tool or method to document large software projects?
If you are on a team of say 80 engineers, working on a large product, in different departments and teams, how do you ensure good documentation and communication/transparency with all team members?
Sure, but I think that's a different objection?
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/ - In The Pipeline by Derek Lowe is fantastic
well I didn't mean to be rude. but it was an off the cuff remark that was wrong. People say things without posting a source and that's how disinformation starts...

first thing that came up in search suggests archive.org also is moving away from listening to robot.text files (granted this is an old blog post)

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

I couldn't find anything stating their policy clearly. but maybe I didn't search hard enough. I find it hard to believe news papers wouldn't block them if it was that easy
Hanoi Graphs and Sierpinski’s Triangle
For something different: https://www.hisutton.com is worth it for the original illustrations alone
I am from munich so my opinion may be skewed, but it is at best very average, as in some no name devshop/consultancy would pay this much(and even they tend to pay more).
Nothing I would expext from a Unicorn, but maybe the market in Berlin is THAT different.
In this case they are asking for unencrypted content as well as metadata. These days most email is TLS encrypted on the wire so you require cooperation with the email server owner to get the metadata of encrypted messages. So email is not much different than other stuff when it comes to metadata.
Congratulations to the Rocky Linux team. I hope this is a sign of things to come
Maybe it's always positive for poor performers since they become entrenched, but not always for workers generally, and not in the larger picture.

If you don't think that's true, then why not start a company where you build in a union from the start? You can even have all workers be owners with equal voting rights. There's nothing stopping you from doing that! Or join an existing one, as they exist, even in the US. It's completely legal and you won't be opposed.

Forcing your model on existing companies is where it becomes objectionable. Start your own if you think it's a better approach. If it is, it'll win out and you won't have to force it on others. They will copy it willingly and eagerly.
Always Include Units
It’s not an issue in servers really, look at how much power high end NIC consume heck 10GBE SFP+ modules can consumer 5W> each and you can easily have 48> of those in a switch...
First they make a virus, then they let it loose on the world, then they won't let others buy the vaccine for it (or join the WTO, for that matter).

Can't wait for the commies' next contribution!
This is an important consideration for companies assuming to be fast growing billion dollar business (startups). Most business do not fit this criteria and should not seek venture capital.
It might be accurate if you are internally discussing PCI compliance.

However, to the layperson, "bank details" definitely includes name of bank and last 4 digits of account number. It does come across as deceptive to use that terminology to respond to customer complaints.
But.. I was told..
Why didn't I think of this. Looks awesome!
Or httrack! It's old as fuck but it still works.
Right but that’s tangential to the main point which is that if people come together to create something and you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Don’t attempt to strongarm them into making something you like, or punish them legally because you think they have had too much success.
Strong second, and I'll recommend his Analog Antiquarian blog as well, covering general history in a pleasantly lyrical style. Jimmy can tell a story like nobody's business! Definitely worth your while.

https://analog-antiquarian.net/
Yes? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Can you elaborate?
Where exactly says in the article that “most scientists […] say that the lab leak theory is the most plausible”?
It's a bad country for women's rights. Among other things a woman needs the written permission of a male guardian to enter or leave a marriage.

It's only "good" in comparison to their neighbors.
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
Tim Bray’s aeons-old blog is always good reading: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
WebRTC is much, much faster. 21ms round trip “glass to glass and back” is the lower limit we demonstrated in practice from data center to headset with 3dstreamingtoolkit. There are a lot of reasons that you gain latency in large scale videoconferencing apps, but it ain’t because the tech is lacking.
>no one's ever seen any but apparently everyone knows what it is, anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent#History_and_dis...
Can Rilke Change Your Life?
Average rate of return?
"finl is not attempting to replicate TeX and LaTeX but to reimagine and replace it. It’s more like Java vs C++"

So what will it be: Java or C++.

No,... don't answer...

Joke aside, LaTeX was a pain to use 20 years ago and still is, so good luck on your endeavor !
I doubt that Klarna, a bank, have OSI layer 7 proxies in the cloud, with TLS termination in their CDN solution, on AWS. I would assume this traffic is outside of that. But then again, I know they wasted 25M+ Euros on a garbage NodeJS platform. They also created an own cloud once. Yes, it is in the trash bin.
Let's discuss in public, I think others might be interested. What do you mean by scale?
Are you saying that the biologica are too expensive and you are looking for cheaper solutions? Apart from the price AFAIK they are the best known solution.

In that case hurting yourself trying to find sth. cheaper is not worth it, because:
a) it is bad for you
b) it doesn't help others either, since even if your special cocktail ends up working for you it will most likely not work for others.

I would focus on making tnf-a blockers cheaper, probably by circumventing or straight out ignoring the patents. This stuff is not rocket science anymore.

Have you researched the prices in other countries? Looks like in Europe its below 2k€ per month but more around 20k in the us? Whats the price in India?
The thread is about "Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?"

...otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
From what I remember there was a lot of pushback from infrastructure as we thought using https for the whole website would increase CPU load. Never verified if this was true... but I'm sure someone here should know.
Any product/platform where the relevant metric to value your interaction with it is engagement has all the incentives to become harmful for you as end user.

We should realize this, and move accordingly, does not matter how much we try to regulate it the incentives always end as harmful.
We Rendered 3 Years of Video Using JavaScript
Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC
It's not IRC, but there exists a working libpurple plugin that you just auth as with your normal user account:

https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple

I just use it with Pidgin, but there are curses clients too (I'm aware of bitlbee, there are probably others) if you prefer the IRC-style experience.
> Not quite. You'd need to look into how people play chess. It has vastly more to do with present positioning and making high-quality evaluations of present board configuration.

That is what Alpha Zero does when you remove tree search

> A NN is just a system for remembering a dataset and interpolating a line between its points.

Interpolating a line between points == making inferences on new situations based on past experience.

> If you replace a tree search with a database of billions of examples, are you actually solving the problem you were asked to solve?

The NN still performs well on positions it hasn't see before. It's not a database. The fact that the NN learned from billions of examples is irrelevant. Age limits aside, a human could have billions of examples of experience as well.

> A NN is just a system for remembering a dataset and interpolating a line between its points.

So are human brains. That is the very nature of how decisions are made.

> Only if you thought the goal was literally to win the game; or to find the route to the bottom of the hill. That was never the challenge

So then why did you bring it up as an example other than to move goal posts yet again? I can build a bot to explore new areas too. Probably better than humans can. Any novel perspective that a human brings, is, by definition, learned elsewhere, just like a bot.

> Intelligence is in how you win, not that you have.

Sure, and being a dumbass is in how you convince yourself you're superior when you lose every game. There are many open challenges in AI. Making systems better at learning quickly and generalizing context is a very hard problem. But at the same time, intellectual tasks are being not only automated, but vastly improved by AI in many areas. Moving goalposts on what was clearly thought labor in the past is just handwaving philosophy to blind yourself from something real and actively happening. The DOTA bots don't adapt to unfamiliar strategies by their opponents, and yet, they're still good at DOTA.
How would we know if it had "actual awareness" and not "the illusion of awareness"
>...we require evidence of wrongdoing in order to convict someone of a crime...

Most evidence is not communications. Most crimes have a victim that can testify.

Otherwise, how did we ever prosecute crimes in a world were people just talked to one another in private?
>they are requiring the service to log things they aren't logging at all now

That actually is a big deal, last I checked (in the US anyway) you're not really required to log much (if anything) as long as you can keep illegal content/abuse off your service.
I guess the difference is that the bytecode is executed by the interpreter and an intermediate representation typically isn’t executable?
> Before RH took over CentOS it was pretty much dying on the vine, releases were getting VERY slow, etc.

A slow initial release and dying on the vine are two completely separate things. There's significant overlap in time between major distro releases, and while many users of CentOS were excited about getting newer versions, it was usually not imperative and all involved would likely agree that making sure existing releases continue to have timely updates for security and other things was more important.

> It remains to be seen if the cloud companies will find a CentOS-like OS important enough to fund the development of things like Rocky.

Whether cloud companies or not, there are a few ways forward now that weren't really considered previously. CentOS always had a somewhat tacit agreement with Red Hat to not overtly compete with Red Hat's revenue stream. i.e. Don't sell support, if advanced help is needed refer them to Red Hat for a license and support.

I would say the relationships now are a tad more adversarial. Asking for money in more direct manners may now be more feasible. Even without that, I do think the cloud providers can easily fund one or more of these projects enough. The amount of money even one could spend to ensure the staffing of one of these projects is less than a rounding error in their operating budget, and given how often I suspect CentOS was chosen as the deployed OS in a way that makes their total cost numbers reflected back to a CTO look less, a very good investment for them.
https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples
It's not just your time in the bed/room, there's often a line item on your bill for skin-time. On top of that, you pay for your time in the room.
While what you're saying is how it may play out in practice (which is, I argue, the case for any closed-source client), it's not necessary when using threshold encryption; you can construct an encrypted message such that K out of N keys can be combined to decrypt the ciphertext.

If those public keys are on the client, it does not require the message to be sent to a trusted server.

mtgx's comment points to some practical implementation and logistics issues, though. Never mind how one would handle key revokations...

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In case of the main article, though, that's irrelevant, as an e-mail provider necessarily has access to each unencrypted e-mail as they deliver them to and from the user. I can see it being the least bad way to log messages (if they would need to do so). Rather than logging in cleartext, or encrypting with a single key, it could be a threshold encryption where, say, more than one entity inside law enforcement/high court/etc are required in order to decrypt intercepted traffic.

I think our learned instinct has become to say "yeah, would be nice but good luck making anyone implement that"... But why not?
You don't really need to pause in Talon if you set it up right and practice: https://twitter.com/lunixbochs/status/1378159234861264896
You're doing it again.

"Telemetry" doesn't have spyware connotations. You choose to view it as such. Telemetry means taking remote measurements.

OpenTelemetry facilitates this. It doesn't facilitate Github installing spyware on your system. It's an internal tool. Something you'd understand, even as someone unfamiliar with it, if you would actually have paid any attention to the article.

And OpenTelemetry IS in fact open source, so your argument, confusing as it is, falls flat on that too.

Note that it's very hard to give you the benefit of the doubt when you're so incredibly hostile to a word you've chosen to view as bad, it sounds like telemetry is just a trigger word for you.
In the compiler community, people usually use IR to mean something lower than bytecode, usually used as part of the compilation process itself rather than used for storage or when not actively compiling. IR is usually not intended for direct execution.

(LLVM IR is an unusual exception therefore. Please don't 'well actually' me I'm trying to give a useful practical explanation.)
Now to put warning signs on Facebook's fact checking warning signs: "The reported fact-checking is potentially false"
Ask HN: How do you think that today's ergonomic office chairs can improve?
Comfort is key, but I was curious on what extra features or design standard shifts would improve the experience of sitting in front of a screen for prolonged periods. For example, one of my friends was talking about how it'd be cool to have a chair that could electrically stimulate his back muscles to relieve his back pain.
I’d say “neither”. CentOS would have fail had Redhat not taken over. My guess is that supporting all the companies who do not want to pay Redhat, for free, is going to push developers way pretty quickly.

Even if I’m wrong I’d still want to see at least two or three solid release before using either in production.

Just use Redhat or switch to Ubuntu. Then you can re-evaluate in five tears time.
Point taken. I'm getting a tiny bit lazy connecting the batteries (too bad XC60 connectors require so much force). But I'm very cautions to make sure my fingers aren't in the line of the props (I actually used to wear welding gloves when connecting the battery). I just need an inline 60A switch or something even safer that doesn't keep my fingers in the line of fire that long. Thanks!
I know you can turn a MacBook's brightness essentially off, just by bringing it to the lowest tick. On iOS there is a VoiceOver gesture to turn off the screen even while the phone is on, so there may also be a purpose-built version of that in VO for macOS.

edit: Evidently there is VO-specific tooling: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
Movies from the 30s to the 50s are still mostly captured under copyright now. It's directly movies from the 30s to 50s that are possibly one of the biggest reasons to oppose Amazon buying MGM, because it is one of the larger 30s to 50s back catalogs in general, but especially it was one of the larger 30s to 50s back catalogs not directly associated with a specific VOD streaming service and so open to and optioned by many of them. Amazon consolidating that to Amazon Prime will potentially be a huge blow to the general availability of older films.
Lists like this I’m sure are useful to startups for startups, but for many (most?) I can’t imagine being on product hunt or the like being remarkably useful.

Best to be where your target audience lives.
It has taken us millennia to understand that the burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused.

To claim that someone benefits from Structural Racism is an accusation. Yet Structural Racism is poorly defined and is - in practice - used as a grab-bag to contain any disparity, any grievance, and any complaint. Thus, it is impossible to defend against. Indeed to defend against it is to 'benefit from White Privilege.' Hence the Kafka-Trap book, 'White Fragility.'

There is nothing good about this sort of stuff and it needs to go away.
Denver metro is getting a new area code next spring
Google Discover will get a major theming overhaul in Android 12
It's pretty common in the US as well although not the norm. I think it's kinda dumb to be honest. Just get an epidural. My wife was induced twice due to risk factors and got two epidurals. We still got to cuddle them new born. We also had to bottle feed the first week pretty heavily to stave off jaundice although they were mostly breast fed afterwards.
It was mostly the lack of any usefulness. But one of the other major reasons I deleted my Facebook years ago was that I used to feel disappointed when one of my posts had less comments or likes. I knew it was time to delete that social network.

Children and teenagers could have life altering effects due to constant exposure to such experiences on these sites.
Yes I think we do agree on many things. I think in general we both value property rights and that’s a good place to be.

We may disagree on which is the cart and which is the horse. I think that in general you need a moral people who will enforce the rule of law to get economic growth, so the rule of law is the horse. And the horse’s horse is the morality of the people, something Weimar Germany was certainly lacking. Get those in order first and I think prosperity will follow. Try to put prosperity first, then it won’t matter what rule of law you have b/c the most important thing is to make money.
Seven years is quite a long time in this area. It's possible that running exactly the CentOS-in-2014 model would work now even if it didn't then.

It's also possible that in 2014 CentOS would have found other ways to remain viable if Red Hat hadn't stepped in.
While Joseph Campbell (who was not an actual “expert in the field” for most of what he wrote about) has a big reputation among the public because he wrote books directed towards a popular audience, and e.g. George Lucas's praise of his work for Star Wars guaranteed him renown, he is not taken very seriously by actual specialists on folklore and anthropology. IMO, citing him does more harm than good.
In terms of speed it looks as if Oracle was the first to get 8.4 of their RHEL clone out of the door, Alma Linux came second and RockyLinux is still at 8.3
I'm optimistic that they will get faster!