skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who is "we"?

Citizen-owned software.

I explicitly said FOSS. Any one can fork. How can I better make that point?

My motivation: my county invests in its own election management system (GIS, VRDB, ballot production, tabulation, report generation, etc). I demand that this entire stack is available to everyone for any purpose. Especially other counties that want an alternative to proprietary stacks hidden behind trade secrets, copyrights, and onerous EULAs.

Is this not what you want too?

> ...it sounds like you're suggesting that "we" would be limited to a specific group and centralized control.

"We" the citizens implies "everyone".

But more to your point, what are some examples of FOSS which are not de facto centralized?

I refer you to RMS' Four Freedoms. https://openedreader.org/chapter/stallmans-four-freedom/

A good start. I reiterate that FOSS is necessary but insufficient for citizen-owned software.
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The Zoo-TV genre never took off outside Europe, as far as I know,
I think your overall take is pretty accurate. If it were really a problem, they would do something to address it.

My company said they expect much higher attrition than usual once they order everyone back to the office. They decided to do one thing to help reduce that percentage, which is to only be in the office 3 days and WFH the other 2. I assume that a lot more people would quit if we went back full time. There has been a lot of grumbling.
Your point about a protectionist racket doesn't hold for countries in the EU which have the same rules around research data and patients
Why not fix it for everyone with an IP address that's not in your boss's area?
To some extent I guess. But arguably even dating back to the Project Blue Book[1] days, the USG has always conceded that some small portion of "UFO" events were actually inexplicable. Sure, they maintained that most UFO incidents had prosaic explanations, but I don't think they ever argued that it was "all".

Compared to the conclusions from PBB:

The Air Force supplies the following summary of its
investigations:

1. No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the
Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our
national security;
2. There was no evidence submitted to or discovered by
the Air Force that sightings categorized as
"unidentified" represented technological developments
or principles beyond the range of modern scientific
knowledge; and
3. There was no evidence indicating that sightings
categorized as "unidentified" were extraterrestrial
vehicles.

It seems like the biggest change in the messaging may be around (2). And I guess that's something...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
I feel it's a net win anyway, if the procedure is not invasive and cheap, you could take one every so often (yearly?) and if something shows up you just double check with a better method or w/e. Better than nothing, which is the current alternative.
>They do, given that you’d have been informed of that before you provided your consent by opting in to Rally data crowdsourcing.

I haven't tried registering for the study, but I note that an FAQ answer is not enough. Users cannot be expected to search for the FAQ. This needs to be mentioned in the consent form, and not done implicitly 'by opting in' like corporations do.

>Kind of nice that it’d be in the hands of Mozilla, Princeton University, other trusted research partners, and the open web, isn’t it?

The 'open web' is a bit of a nebulous concept, and the CA data was supposedly in the hands of a data scientist at the University of Cambridge.
The majority of the stock is held within 华为投资控股有限公司工会委员会. Of course one would be naive to believe that the _power_ is held within the same instituition too.
I don't get it. It's for your company yet it's global? Is it like Mechanical Turk for fixing software bugs?
Depends on the company. It isn't unusual for some companies to have a few key people who can't take vacation because nobody else can do their job. Large companies like WalMart have learned that you dare not have such people (they can die unexpectedly - maybe you can stop them from quitting but death doesn't care) and so take effort to ensure everyone can be replaced as needed and so time off isn't an issue. Smaller companies often haven't learned this lesson and so will sometimes have people who can't be allowed to take time off.
>and then zone out in front of Netflix, read reddit,

You're not allowing yourself to be bored. You can't do creative hobbies if you're just going on autopilot and spending your time doing the absolute lowest common denominator timesinks like Reddit and Netflix.
https://archive.is/L0yoj Not paywalled
Show HN: Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and back in zsh
Interesting that they didn't go with Blazor.
I'm certain that they're not using the mainline Linux kernel, so this is untrue.
Then why hasn't this been happening in significant amounts to impact the U.S. software job market in the past thirty years?
Also, may I add that over 230 million people have been pushed into abject poverty in India because of Modi's inept handling of the Covid crisis. People around the world have seen the visuals of bodies floating down rivers, people dying on the streets etc.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/230...
They could also say "this is just a trap to waste the time of people who want to increase their Kernel commit counts. try again".
RCV can have unexpected surprises, but STAR voting resolves all such issues with RCV.
If wasm/webgpu doesn't get too limited due to coinminers, 'meltdown style' vulnerabilities and platform holders feeling challenged.

And some solution for preloading/caching/preinstalling large (many gigabytes) assets are added.

Than yeah webgames have a very bright future ahead, assuming a method of monetization is found.
We do support Python. Here's an example of a Python scan:
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That gives an idea of the sorts of results we flag in Python code, though we don't expect people to interact with that full bug list often. Recommended usage is to enable Lift on a repo and use the pull request integration so you can focus on results related to code changes as they come in.
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That's still a lot easier for some to say than for others. Until you've actually done it, it's just so much hot air. Quitting a job when you already have wealth saved from other job (or from inheritance etc.) is not the same as quitting a job when you have no savings at all. Quitting a job when you have skills and credentials that make it easy to find another is not the same as quitting a job when you have none of those things. Quitting a job when you're a citizen is not the same as quitting a job when you're dependent on your employer to retain your residency status. These are all forms of privilege. Privilege doesn't mean you're evil or weak; it just means that you might not be able to generalize your own feelings or decision making to others who lack that same privilege.

FWIW, I have quit a job for moral reasons, when I was poor and unskilled and not at all sure whether it would end up with me in the street. (Cold-calling people to sell worthless coupons.) I'll bet I could count on one hand the number of HNers more qualified to make a claim about what they would or would not do in the face of such moral qualms. And I still wouldn't generalize my experience to those who had a criminal record, less evidence of future employability, or even a different skin color.
> would you be alarmed at the body count at Arlington?

Alarmed isn’t quite the right word. But it’s likely close.

> Then why are you alarmed at the body count of a overgrown cemetery "found" where it was expected to be found, and containing roughly the same number of graves expected?

I had no idea this was a thing or that any schooling system regularly buried children.
What resources are you using for the first two?
That is not something I've ever heard before - could you explain further, provide some links maybe?
Thanks to the recent stabilization of WebAssembly SIMD, this should run at full speed in Firefox and Chrome!

The audio is generated from scratch as samples (floating-point numbers from -1 to 1) by the WebAssembly code running on your browser's audio rendering thread; all DSP logic there is custom, and it is SIMD-accelerated for high performance even on mobile devices.

Some other features like the filter are implemented using the browser's built-in Web Audio API. Visualizations are made using WebGL with a library called PIXI.JS, and the core of the application is just a plain React app.

I have a blog post where I go into much more detail about its inner workings: https://cprimozic.net/blog/fm-synth-rust-wasm-simd/

Give it a try! Test out a few presets to see the range of sounds it can produce.
I live in a townhouse and our meters are outside next to where we park our cars. I can read my neighbors energy usage whenever I want.

One uses more electricity than I do and the other less.
It's not in a vacuum. The other alternatives are either the same or fully closed.
Lifetimes! That's what I need help with! How do you learn lifetimes?
One Man’s Quest to Break Open the Secretive World of American Voting Machines
Middle Schoolers Learn to Code with Blackbird
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Piano has also been my go to this pandemic. I've also been finding a lot of joy in applying my programming skills to music as well. What are you using to convert MP3 to MIDI? How accurate is it?
> had better discoverability

I don't agree, particularly in the case of mobile App stores where the top charts are consistently dominated by the same few games.
Funny you should mention this, as I'm on my way there. I'm just at the Data Analytics with Python portion of my studies, but with time I want to learn the Machine Learning and AI (baby steps, I suppose). I like to know the behind the scenes sections and the inner workings, so I tend to get side tracked on occasion and deep dive into parts that interest me... Probably not good for forward momentum, but better for my interest, I suppose =/
I don’t get why people use Go. It’s just an awful language without OOP and without FP. Looks like an ancient language compared to Rust.
Math: if you're self taught, have you heard or looked at Open Universities maths degree? It's well regarded for an online course and around £18k for the entire thing. I know a DPhil at Oxford who came from that course.
I love Hey. Completely revolutionized email for me.
I hated it before, now it’s a joy to use.
It’s really cool this guy documented and shared all His steps to switch over to fast mail.
This approach to dependency management is destroying Linux distributions.

It's already making FOSS less accessible to people who are not developers.

Not to mention how quickly it rots.
I am in my early 40's with 0 friends.
Had them earlier in life and once I had kids I just could not figure out how to balance kids, work and friends. Now I have no idea how to make new ones.
Yeah, I am all for the altruistic and environmentally sound utilization of Antarctica. However the Maori, for all their cultural richness, were a product of their times and the struggles they faced in surviving in a geography that had its population support limits. Perhaps they are not the best contrast to industry aided colonization. Maybe only a less effective version.

> Soon, Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama began to takahi, or walk the land, to lay claim to it.

> A Māori chief, Te Rakatau Katihe, said: "We took possession ... in accordance with our custom, and we caught all the people. Not one escaped. Some ran away from us, these we killed; and others also we killed – but what of that? It was in accordance with our custom."
Just look at what the French did to Vietnam, what the early Americans did to the Native Americans, what the Germans did to all of Europe, what the Dutch did to Indonesia, the list goes on and on... Doesn't seem fair to criticize one of these and ignore the others. Maybe better to just accept that time has moved on.
tl;dr: I agree and healthy human organizations should never scale beyond ~5 degrees of hierarchy, which is totally manageable via basic recursive JOINs in a RDBMS without fancy stored procedures or graph theory.

I like to use Dunbar's Number (100-250) to approximate the levels of heirarchy in human organizations. The idea is that these organizations are most efficient when organizational layers don't exceed ~150 elements, due to the implementation details of the human brain.

Basically, you can do log_{150}(N) to get a very rough idea of how complex the organization of N people should be. This works for small startups and entire countries. Of course, startups should probably get comfortable with the idea of teams well before hitting >100 employees. Teams can then scale into departments (with new subteams), and once there are many departments, add regional layer, strategic/executive layer, and so on.

One interesting fact is that the USA population has roughly increased by a multiple of Dunbar's number since its organizational structure was codified in its Constitution. Perhaps time for another look?
I might agree with the author if `go get` wasn't such a terrible and confusing command in the first place. It actively deceives users new to go now that modules are a thing because it does not do what you would expect if you are in a directory with a .mod file. Projects that list “go get” as the install method do not work in subtle and surprising ways for users new to the language, period. It’s 2021 go modules have been around for what 6 minor versions now? Flows have been convoluted (broken) for quite some time. The author fails to discuss the real issue and is simply pandering to some “but workflows might break” argument. If you have a workflow that depends on go get and you aren't using modules you will have at least months to update it to go install.
I recommend CreditKarma Tax. Intuit purchased them to destroy them but was forced to sell that division to square. if that's any indicator of how much of a threat they are to intuits revenue stream.
Looks cool but the cost/time to set this up seems way overkill for how small the plots are.

The smallest kit is $1500 USD.

The watering seems like the actual place where time could be saved but that could be accomplished with a basic automatic sprinkler.
There's a reason for this.

The reason for it is that you don't win elections by convincing the other side that they are wrong, and they should vote for you.

You win elections by convincing your side to show up.

And the best way to do it is by telling your side that giving the victory to your opponent is voting for a Trump.
I think virtual consoles are the answer here like pico8. But i am not a fan of pico8 limitations and also the design tools don't work on browser. I am keeping an eye on quadplay(https://github.com/morgan3d/quadplay) which seems interesting but also lacking design tools.
https://archive.is/Nb6d8
You can tell people to "go away" politely (yet firmly). It is an art, but it can be done without vulgarity.
You're completely missing the point of GP's comment.

Their point is not that Python3 should not have broken backwards compatibility, it's that Python 3 should not have been entirely incompatible with Python 2. That decision is what hampered migration for years, because it turned out not to be a feasible migration strategy, it would have required the entire ecosystem to migrate in lockstep which when you think about it made no sense.

Python 3 migration picked up steam once the core team backported what could be backported to Python 2(.7), and reintroduced syntactic compatibility features to Python 3.

At that point, and with a few shims for standard library stuff, libraries could create cross-version codebases, which meant they didn't have to try and fork their own codebases. And dependents could migrate at their leisure.
Since it incorporates mixed effects models my guess is that it allows you to leverage structure in your data to improve the efficiency (in the statistical sense) of the estimation.

That is, you may have a panel of groups. So you might assume observations have in-group and out-group variances (or some other clustering of errors) and furthermore, observations come in time dimensions.

Then, obviously, making use of that information will improve your "fit" in the sense that the regression error will be lower when you estimate across the whole sample, since the dependencies are taken into account.

Something like that.
Yep, it's based on device certs.
Your supposition is misguided. When a person creates a product, they know what their monetization model is. YouTube creators included. They know their money comes from ads, via views. This suggestion of handing out money to them is misplaced. If your friend opens a shop and knows their monetization model is sales, are you implying if you want to support them you are just going to hand out cash to them?

Me watching their video with the ads open up a whole lot of other revenue opportunities to them as opposed to just handing them out money. They are not a charity case.
From this weekend. Jenkins, Groovy and BitBucket
You're still misunderstanding how the retirement trust works: selling shares does not imply a withdrawal, it just means that instead of owning stock, the retirement account now owns cash. Because selling is not a withdrawal, there is no withdrawal penalty, and no influence on the trustee's ability or willingness to sell.
Largely agreed.

> Don’t be weak.

I think I know what you mean. The key word to me is "assess", as in "be mindful" of the gap between your goals and reality, your options, and the likely consequences.

Since this kind of aphorism ("Don’t be weak.") can be interpreted in many ways, I like to elaborate. In this context I would say:

* Know your legal rights

* Be proactive, protect yourself, have back-up plans

* Understand the pros and cons of your options; e.g.
standing up for yourself. The downsides may involve employer friction and perhaps legal cost and lost wages. The upsides may be deferred and quite uncertain.

* Pick your battles.

Beyond the individual dimension, raising awareness, organizing, and collective action go a long way towards promoting employee rights. These improve the "menu of options" available to individuals dealing with organizations that tend to benefit from a power imbalance.

P.S. VPN = Valiant Pun Noticed
The Meaning-Enhancing Properties of Psychedelics [pdf]
I get what you’re feeling, but the magic is you.
You decide where things route. After that it’s magic.

Unlike social media and opaque algos, you decide what goes to the feed, to the paper trail, who gets screened in and out, etc…

I’ve found it super useful, my email was a nightmare before.
https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-shee...

Working link.
“a five-year longitudinal static analysis of millions of Android apps to study the increase in their sizes over time and identify various sources of app storage consumption. ”

I thought it was going to be about analyzing what’s eating up my phones storage (system storage I’m looking at you) - and note it focuses on Android only. Not sure how much of the analysis extrapolates to iOS apps.
IIRC, the actual article says they're going to do a large trial, with 150k people, and someone in the article expresses skepticism that the estimated FP rate of 0.5% is accurate, because so far it was tested in people where there's some evidence of cancer.
Really wish it's possible to afford publishing hardcore computer magazines in paper nowadays. Looks like most of them are online now because of cost.
>Your data is valuable.

Yet again though we're being asked to give it up for free...

>But for too long, online services have pilfered, swapped, and exploited your data without your awareness. Privacy violations and filter bubbles are all consequences of a surveillance data economy. But what if, instead of companies taking your data without giving you a say, you could select who gets access to your data and put it to work for public good?

So taking and benefitting from my data is alright as long as I'm aware of it?

>But, being “data-empowered” also requires the ability to choose who you want to access your data.

No...being data empowered would mean I'm profitting off my own data, not giving it to companies to profit off of.

>We’re kickstarting the Mozilla Rally research initiative with our first two research collaborator studies. Our first study is “Political and COVID-19 News” and comes from the Princeton team that helped us develop the Rally research initiative. This study examines how people engage with news and misinformation about politics and COVID-19 across online services.

And the first study in this is about politics, that great word again 'misinformation' that gets tossed around everywhere.

So, the first study will be using user data on the news they read and how they interact on social media in regards to politics for what purpose exactly?

This makes the world better how?

>Soon, we’ll also be launching our second academic study, “Beyond the Paywall”, a study, in partnership with Shoshana Vasserman and Greg Martin of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. It aims to better understand news consumption, what people value in news and the economics that could build a more sustainable ecosystem for newspapers in the online marketplace.

So, the second study is 'how do we make news organizations more money?"

I'm kind of noticing a pattern here...

>With Rally, we’ve built an innovative, consent-driven data sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of people.

No, you've found a way to convince people they should give you their data for 'research that benefits the world' that's in reality thinly veiled market research.

It would be nice if a company could just be fucking honest for once.

This whole blog post should just be:

"Look, at Mozilla we realized we can make money collecting data, we're going to pretend we couldn't just take it from you and give you the option to opt in to make us money."

Seriously, just fucking say it straight.
PSA

Your data is not secure unless you have 3 copies.
1. working copy
2. backup
3. archive

END PSA
You know, I was just at Walmart, where they only had one cashier. I heard a group of people complain about how "no one wanted to work anymore" not one of them moved to the self-checkout line when a bunch of them opened up.
These are absolutely wonderful! Simple, but with an excellent 'pen feel', great movement and demonstrate a really keen eye for detail & composition. With training, Carroll could have easily been a professional illustrator, not that he would have wanted that, I assume, but the fundamentals are all there.

For me, drawing is truly the 'handwriting' of an artist. So individual, so quirky. The pen doesn't lie.

It is amazing that this work has been preserved!
>Then why have the linked page. If it's literally not informative enough than it's just a poorly written press release.

Usually marketing pages will include just enough information and imagery to grab your attention. There will be some links embedded which ultimately lead to more and more information.

Basically, if you're interested in learning more, you'll be motivated to read/click further. If it doesn't interest you, you leave having taken a fraction of the time than had the page been filled with all the details.