skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it could take other forms though, for instance you could identify people who are already maintaining or creating significant foss projects and pay them while they keep working on them. probably it makes sense to limit this to the most productive/driven few. it should be really straightforward (though time-consuming) to see if someone is cheating, because all the work is there in public view in the form of git commits.
Consider this example: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/discussions/967

How would you solve this with directory structure and "function structs" respectively? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the former and ran into shadowing problems with the latter.
MacOS isn't Linux-based.
You talk as if haggling over prices during a medical emergency was normal and are proud you got a good deal.

That's what normalization of deviance looks like.
Genuinely curious- why are so many on here upset by this statement?
Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
England imported the cotton that was harvested by slaves in the new world. The fact that the manufacturing of finished goods was based on wage labor doesn’t change that the required raw inputs depended on exploitation elsewhere. Unless you think there were lots of wage based cotton plantations in England.
This is for public policy people to figure out. They do stuff like that all the time.

Of course it's not easy. But if it works, can be tremendously effective.

Maybe a starter would be to give some maintainers of already successful projects a salary, if they want. Impossible to game.
Amazon warehouse workers who don’t make numbers and are let go work MUCH harder than I ever had to, and I was born into a single parent lower middle income. For me, luck was finding a social circle centered around stuff like Unix shell accounts and building Linux boxes.
Surprise! You were not middle class.
I mean, this is an example of where their technology reporting isn't even close to adequate. They're reporting an 11 year old fact as "news", that doesn't actually reflect the reality of today.

For a technology-focused community, BBC reporting on technology isn't adequate. And a bunch of blogspam articles have "covered" this "news" as well. I think it's a sign of bad journalism.
Just don’t use chrome ?
Or if you really like chrome
Use a chromium browser that won’t implement cohorts , why bother feeding it disingenuous data instead of just not feeding it anything ?
FWIW, Enterprise is the same, but with more updates... which sadly install at whatever time W10 wants with no regard for active hours (not sure what's up with that).
A Rant on Reusability
These are great tips. I do miss my days spent outdoors (took a few years off to run a flower planting crew at a landscaping company and run some long distance races).

As for nutrition, I do think I'm doing well there. Other than a sugar fix at night, I eat pretty good/healthy/whole food.

Unplugging is probably my short term answer. I'm also going through the stresses of resigning from my day job and ramping up my side work, so that's a source of intensity too.
Ask HN: Any dumb-but-great games that you play?
Are there any simple yet addictive games that you play? Like the "offline dino"?
Or do you deem them unworthy? ;)
windows 11 ought to be a Linux distribution. That's much more sensible and less work for everyone. I've emailed Satya about this multiple times. Hopefully, he listens
Bugs involving printers are among the worst, as everything software with them is a few notches down on the quality scale. Also, troubleshooting involves reams of paper or giant rolls of labels.

A good test for a printer/print spooler is to set the printer offline, but still accepting jobs (eg: open paper tray), then send 20 print jobs and count how many the jobs get printed.

I’ve spent countless hours and a 3’ diameter roll of labels trying to figure out why a printer would occasionally not print&apply a label, causing all packages to be labeled with the wrong label. The printer could print&apply 1 label/second, so it made a lot of mistakes when it failed. We eventually had to dismantle the printer and test each major circuit board in isolation to find out that its internal network adapter had bad firmware that the manufacturer did not want to fix. It turns out that most IP->LPT adapters also have this same flaw too, so we had to basically buy a huge pile of them to find 1 that worked.
I can’t make sense of this. Are you telling me that any Android user with “default” pixel setup will use my SSID for location tracking?

And that if my WiFi shouldn’t be part of Google’s (and Microsoft as well) data collection I need to suffix my SSID with _optout_nomap??

This has to be a joke. Any docs/refs/links?
Everything New in React 18
I think Worm counts? https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

It's one of those things that seems impossible to write without a supportive fan base encouraging the author to regularly output it. I'm sure for a lot of these, the story and writing style might even change iteratively around the fan base.
It doesn't seem hard to understand. They figured that SSIDs aren't private information, so having any method of opting-out at all is just a courtesy.
The blood-sugar sensor, which would help diabetics monitor their glucose levels, is unlikely to be ready for commercial launch for several more years.
How about the Wuhan Lab conspiracy theory?

Easy for the media to label something a conspiracy if it doesn't align with their worldview.

Critical thought made it obvious that this was a distinct possibility, even from the early days.

That being said, of course there are conspiracies so radical they're almost certainly untrue. But we should be hesitant to label something a conspiracy outright without compelling counter reasoning.

Lack of evidence does not make a conspiracy
Probably not American middle class ;-) . In Asia it is (was?) common to have a driver, servant and yes even a dedicated babysitter for the kids.

To respond to the people who are going to say that's just exploitation of the poor, well, your Uber driver and your food delivery person would like to talk you, as well as the people who were poorly paid to mine the rare minerals found on your fancy phone.
Really? Because that is how googles documentation says it works: https://web.dev/floc/#how-does-floc-work
AOLserver is effectively dead. Naviserver, AOLservers original name, is being actively developed https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer.

I still have a few internal apps that use Naviserver.
Stripe Thinks Like a Civilization
In those cases I usually take the PDF, open it with LibreOffice and paste over my signature, scanned once upon a time. Never got any complaints, but it could be easily discovered for sure.
You’re right. The original 68k chip was contemporaneous with the Z80 and 6502.

I was thinking of the later chips in the 68k series, which got much faster over the years.
I have a Win 7 laptop from 2011 that honestly runs faster than a modern desktop with twice the RAM running Win 10. Had Win 10 since 2015 and it seems to be getting slower with each update.

Which flavour of Linux is closest to 'just works'? Mint?
I assumed that it was the other way around. Can you point me to further reading?
Congrats! I’ll be curious to see if you tackle how to continue developing on top of a PR in review, a la stacked diffs. One of the biggest frustrations I have with GitHub workflows is that stacking PRs can be painful but often required if teammates take longer to review PRs.
It’d be nice if there was a painless way to have stacked diffs but in the Git framework. That way I can build off of PRs up for review with having to deal without nasty rebases once the first PR is merged into master.
I'm Portuguese. It's an European country but sometimes doesn't look like it.

We get fed the notion that if we work hard, study, pay our taxes in time and etc we will be good in life. Absolute lies, a big percentage of poor people in Portugal actually have jobs and these jobs are stable...

We also have licensed workers receiving minimum wage (640€)...
Psychological pain is real pain, wouldn't you agree? Isn't it all "in our heads" either way?
Typical doesn't mean we should accept it and move on. Which is why we should keep talking about this and keep the pressure up.
So, it's basically just the default commitment Microsoft makes for new Windows versions, according to their Lifecycle Policy. It doesn't reflect the Windows-as-a-Service model at all, so is almost certainly not relevant to their actual plans.

The newer understanding is that Microsoft will release a new feature update every 6 months, and support each of them for 18 months. Almost certainly, this big refresh being announced soon will continue that model: All Windows 10 PCs will be eligible, support for existing releases will be for 18 months from their release, etc.
SF investor catches heat on Twitter for 'unpopular opinion' on working weekends
I've been over a magnitude more productive for many years thanks to medication. That it can't have massive long term impact is just nonsense. It doesn't make focusing trivial, but it makes focusing possible and that is all I need. If I was diagnosed earlier I'd not have wasted a decade of my life, but at least I can do stuff now.
Contra Built-In Library Types
But that has nothing to do with Airbnb. People have been doing vacation rentals for decades.
I use Mint most of the time with MX Linux now and then .
One option for saving a few bucks on fees is to try to disintermediate on booking. Especially where I tend to look (Oregon coast), most properties are run by a management company that will include their name in the listing. Once I find something I like on AirBnB, I search the property name on Google and typically save 10+%.
Isn't it obvious that this cannot be solved by startups?
Sweden has higher funding per capita, but does not answer why it became this way.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1071105/value-of-investm...
my defensive of something I love, which gas grown & flourished, & which is now being assaulted by a preconception that it must fit some other smaller view is venom to you? I'm not sure that I can see how better to do this non violently while still advocating the truth of this situation. suggestions welcome.

I could definitely tone it down, try to pad my defense for your sake. I feel enormous commitment to this though, and even acting a fool, arguing ineffectively, feels necessary given the despair of this strident assault the one open growing standards based medium that the world has been suffering lately. that you feel bad weighs against a very very real damage actively & ongoingly being done by this vocal anti web reactionary movement.
anecdotal experience needn't ever reflect data, since humans can cluster into similar groups.
that’s my understanding of how it works too. could you explain?
Thanks for the thoughtful list.

At the risk of sounding churlish, the last three can be done on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows, for varying degrees of downloading 'sketchy tools'.

Notepad.exe upgrade occurred last year I think? But one feels like Microsoft could have done that at any time in the past 3 decades. I suspect anyone who was hurt by this was likely to long since shifted to Notepad++.

Virtual Desktops are indeed a compelling feature, which I've relied on with KDE since last century -- though I still haven't tried them on a Windows box.

Hyper-V -- I've used this a few times on Windows 10, though I believe it's not available on the most common version of the OS, right? I'm using Pro and Education versions - which do have the feature.

Luckily I said compared to Windows XP, because Hyper-V's been available since Windows 8 / Server 2008.
> That's two things: the people and the degree, not just the degree.

Yes, true, it’s a valid point, but there’s really no debate over whether getting the degree is causal. And side note, the Fed’s data is for all Americans, not just a suggestive sample. The line between holding a degree and not is surprisingly clear. All the debate is over what the cause actually is. Specifically, to what degree the content of the education is responsible for better earnings vs whether simply holding a certificate, but not necessarily learning anything or gaining skills, is the reason for higher income. And I’m no expert here, I’ve only browsed a handful of them, but my understanding is that they more or less all conclude it’s a mixture.

And yes, selectivity of school has less effect than selective schools might have you believe, at the same time that just having a degree from a state university has more effect than some people suggest.
I find Win10 Enterprise to be almost as good, with some group policies set (like "Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences" and "Restrict Internet communication," among others) it is quite stable and unobtrusive.
> I like feeling a part of the neighborhood or city,

As long as you know that you're getting those cute feelings at the expense of contributing to screwing everyone that actually lives there (who isn't a landlord) by contributing to a market that creates a situation ever more hostile and unaffordable to renters.
Wouldn't that leave a fairly obvious trail? You have to enter your credit card details to call an Uber...
Same as petermeyers: how can I have my personal information removed from Stripe Identity? thanks!
The value of these could be in private datasets. Model architectures are not really patentable and ownership of a trained model has always been very muddy water.

That being said, if I am selling a bird classifier chances are that to train it I had to combine multiple datasets and someone can't easily finetune it to get better results.
My app doesn’t always allow me to edit comments, I meant “without having to deal with nasty rebases”
Same here. RM2 is probably one of my best investments for research and learning ever. Only drawback is I cannot read it without light at night. Would have been perfect if there was a back light like kindle.
I went to hospital and they assured me my procedure was covered by insurance and I wouldn't need to worry about that and in worst case scenario insurance would contact me. Couple of days later this hospital sent me $400 bill. It took me several phone calls to get them to acknowledge that they sent it by mistake.

Exactly same situation happened year later but with ~$800 bill.

Although doctors and medical staff themselves are ok, the US healthcare system as a whole is some incompetent clown mafia.
The author seems to be suggesting that one can "finish" a project solely by limiting technical scope. But what really allows one to finish is limiting the set of users and use cases. Limiting technical scope is just an indirect way of accomplishing this.

So there's a huge tradeoff between "finishing" and potential impact. I've heard of ZeroMQ. Until today I'd never heard of Libmill.

And that's okay! I'm just saying I don't think it's possible to have a project that both has a large set of users and covers a narrow enough set of functionality that it can be "finished" by a single person.
Not yet. But we hope to make it open source in the future.
I totally agree with the sentiment here but is this actually true? My understanding is that health care providers have legislative power and influence and have used it to actually ensure that a legal obligation to pay is created in situations like these.

Is that not correct? Would they actually sue under an unjust enrichment cause of action, or is there statutory authority most of the time?
My worst "impossible" bug I encountered in 1991 (and I should blog about it one day), while writing a DOS game (386/486 PCs era). Game was a mix of C and assembly and for the life of me I couldn't reason about it / recreate the conditions to make the bug appear. It was seemingly random, only very rarely happening.

After days I gave up and invented the thermonuclear weapon: I decided to rewrite the entire game's engine to be deterministic. This took me along while but then I could record events (joystick/keys direction/firing etc.) and at which frame these inputs happened, and could deterministically replay the whole game.

Thing is: back then deterministic games engine / replay based on inputs didn't exist yet (AFAIK). At least I didn't know of any.

The first time I remember reading about a fully deterministic game engine was on Gamasutra, a post-mortem on the first Age of Empire.

So basically my first impossible bug made me discover the idea of deterministic game engines and tiny "replay" save files.

The actual bug? Well eventually it appeared but now I had save files and, sure enough, I could have the whole game replayed automatically and the bug would now show up. And so I knew it was now just a matter of squashing it. Just some good old C dangling pointer IIRC. When the hero had the option to get two shots (usually he only had one) and when one of the shot shot was still active when the level was cleared, that shot would keep being alive in the next level, but invisible and would invariably lead to corrupting the memory of the next level.

Fun stuff.
Looked up the density of stars closer to the center of the galaxy and its measured in thousands/millions of stars per parsec.

Any SF books on civilizations starting nearer the center/bar and moving out to the suburbs as supernova/gamma threats become a thing?
It's always obvious that something can't be solved by a startup until it is. That's what "disruption" and "innovation" are.
I think the primary purpose of the press should be to hold people in position of power accountable for their actions. That's pretty much it. The role of reporting on world events and generating a shared reality can be useful and informative, but is mainly a distraction from the first (and primary) role that media plays in society.

The press is never unbiased - look at newspapers from the 50s or 60s which had strong anti-communist propaganda. Everything has a slant - I don't understand where the obsession with "unbiasedness" came from.

The only question that matters (in a democracy or anywhere with a free press) is - does the media hold people in positions of power (whether political-power, wealth-power or celebrity-power) accountable for their misdeeds or not. Bias is only a problem when it interferes [directly] with this purpose.
My guess is that most users of Windows won't even know what items 2-4 even mean much less find them a boon to their every day workflows. They're nice but they don't seem like the sort of things that couldn't just be added to XP/7.
From a development perspective 8.1 caused me more problems than 8.
I think finishing your stuff is a late step in a software engineer's journey. It's appropriate when you feel you've had your fill experiencing the fun of exploration and exhausted the growth you achieve by taking on a technical challenge that's beyond your experience (but not your ability!).

It's the final touch - it proves you can craft something and put it on display, ready for the world to see.

(Of course, there are always bigger technical challenges and new areas to explore. This doesn't apply to them.)
Speaking of clojurescript and bad assumptions:

Clojure and clojurescript are both dynamically typed, but clojure is strongly typed (type errors throw exceptions), and clojurescript is weakly typed (type errors are technically valid code). Too many clojure enthusiasts act like they're both the same language, but that is an absolutely massive difference.

Try the following code out in each: (+ "1" 1). In clojure you get an exception, in clojurescript you get "11" (maybe a warning at compile time which won't show it's face at runtime when the data is fed to you from an API call).

That bug silently corrupted analytics data for 3 months for a service I worked on. That alone was the reason I stopped using dynamically typed languages.
Fedora with KDE or Gnome probably? It has fairly fast updates for their software repositories but is still stable and will just chug along without breaking things. Also historically it's very good at upgrading major OS versions without any trouble.
Work 3 jobs. Get a mortgage for a low income home. Double up your mortgage payments. Build up equity. Sell it. Use it as a down payment for a nice home. Get a promotion and quit one job. Not that difficult.

The real problem are people around you. Not environment. More like locking up one person for a petty crime, and you find out all these arsons and murders suddenly stop.
Three problem is, these institutional investors lack the ability to evaluate risk:reward on entrepreneurial projects.
Not yet I am afraid. We need to make some work to make it available as OSS. If you sign up on the website we will let you know when it is released. Also happy to discuss your use cases in the meantime.
You can look up the torchvision model zoo for pretrained weights of most popular architectures.

Tensorflow as an equivalent tool but I can't remember the name.
I think a user registration system would make sense: People who wanted to register their APs are probably using Google Location Services, and the incentive is hence, self-serving. Businesses may want to register their APs to help customers' devices locate themselves at their buildings.

And yes, Google could incentivize people to register in some way. One thing you'll notice is that the most valuable companies in the world seem incredibly reliant on free labor: They take for free what other companies used to pay for or pay staff to create or gather themselves.
I'm a European, living in Europe, developing software. Lack of imagination is not our problem. It's so good that we supply our best talent to the US where it does extremely well revolutionizing AI, designing hardware for Apple, developing games, stream online music, etc. E.g. Amazon's CTO is Dutch. Basically the person that has been running AWS. The people and the education system are fine.

Europe does have a few issues that make it unnecessarily hard to build successful startups here. People do start companies here but more often than not success is followed by US investment and before you know it the company is headquartered in the US. There are many reasons for that but a big one has to be that raising similar amounts of money in Europe is super hard. Investors drag their heels, founders have to take on more risk, etc.

A second reason is simply that the US as a big homogeneous market is a nice one to tackle for European companies as well. And often that means having a (big) presence in the US. The EU is basically many markets unified by really complex rules, bureaucracy, etc. There is free traffic of people but companies have a harder time dealing with local variations in legislation, hurdles for billing and taxation (e.g. VAT), banking, bureaucracy, etc.

That's much less of a thing in the US (though it is a bit of a thing there too between states). And that's before you consider language and cultural differences. Simply put, the same company in the EU will have a very hard time growing compared to doing that in the US. Being successful in the US market, means having the deep pockets to go international. Doing the same from a small country means you barely have enough to expand to another small country. Going international is hard work. Not something you do with your MVP. It's not very scalable either: you need to worry about cultural differences, bureaucracy, localization, understanding the local market, ramping up sales, marketing, etc. Especially with SAAS companies this is super expensive.
While you are right that older Notepads were annoying because they could not handle other line endings except CR LF, Wordpad could always handle them.

So the solution on Windows XP or other old Windows versions was to change all text file associations from Notepad to Wordpad and everything was fine.