skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my theory: tools for developers are one of the most obvious and satisfying kinds of projects you can work on, and immediately benefit the person working on them, which means the free/open-source options are exceptionally competitive (compared with the free/open-source options in other categories)

Though there is probably also a "commoditize your complement" effect going on from big tech. Just look at VSCode: it's incredible - Microsoft could definitely charge for it - but they aren't even interested in doing that.
They are grown as single metal crystals in order to avoid the weaknesses of joints. They are very strong!
At points in my journey I've thought that the one genuinely good thing that I could maybe end up doing for others is to end my own life so that the way mental health patients are treated receives another impetus for change so that others can get the help I didn't get while desperately reaching for it.
You couldn't create a parody of this naming convention that's more outlandish than the way it's actually being used.
The Magna Charta is a document, but not an E-Book.
There's no reason to get into comparisons, except to the extent that it helps push them to compete harder, and make more progress.

A public space race of billionaires is exactly the kind of thing we should all be hoping for. They can leverage their relatively small funding to push much larger government funding in productive directions. They're better than most government administrators and don't have as many constraints, so they can take more risks and pay experts what they're worth on the open market.

The public should be calling for more of this kind of thing across all major areas of civilization. Let's get a public race among billionaires for curing cancer, HIV, and poverty.

If it feeds their egos, all the better. Almost all progress is connected to selfish goals, even among the greatest and most "pure" scientists. They want to win a Nobel, for the money and the recognition. Or they're doing science because it's just extremely pleasurable for them, which is not a selfless reason at all. The sooner people realize that base motivations aren't a sin the better we'll all be. And in reality, motivations are always a mix of (mostly) selfish and selfless reasons.

Motivations aren't what matters. What matters is making progress that can (eventually!) benefit everyone.
One: Decentralized exchanges (aka no KYC, limits or restrictions of any kind).

Two: Crpyto-backed smart-contract stable coins (similar to DAI). (aka USD tokens without the need for the US financial on-off ramps).

Then watch this space skyrocket into the stratosphere.
So where do you draw the line? What's the number? And when that number is reached, what happens exactly?
It is available out of box. I was referring to "Quick Add Next".
https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/multiple_selection_with_the...
By design, Firefox supports and reports to sugar daddy Google. Nothing really "private" about that.

https://www.googlewatchdog.com/how-tos/how-to-eradicate-goog...
I understand that that stuff is all relatively niche/not necessarily useful in every day life (I know nothing about sockets or TCP/IP) - I just figured your average SWE would at least be familiar with the concepts, especially if they had formal training. Guess it just comes down to individual interests
> They made billions from excellent businesses on which the world relied during a time of crisis. What would people have done without the likes of Amazon and fast delivery of nearly everything?

"Excellent businesses" that are modern day slave labor, in the case of Amazon.

Their employment is predatory to the maximum, optimized around the ridiculous churn rates. Blocking unions from forming the same way Musk and others do is really just the smallest part of that at this point.

This article below touches some of the insane practices one should keep in mind while watching Bezos thank his employees and customers for paying for his cowboy space ride.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...
I've always thought "from lib import star" is somewhat of a anti-pattern.

Personally I think that makes sense - because sometimes when I read code, I just have no idea where something comes from.

But I've seen import star everywhere, couple of examples:

Doc for this product

FastAI's course

Bing ads code base

So I'm guessing it is more of accepted than I expected? What does HackerNews think?
All depends what performance metrics you're comparing, there are plenty of data points in this article showing ad blockers slowing down the browser experience, typically on pages that aren't ad-hell. That being said for pages that are ad-hell (typical news sites are a perfect example) an adblocker prevents loading 90% of the site content so is still faster than not. For a page that's 90% not-ad-content it results in a slower experience. The latter gives particularly bad results for ad-blockers in benchmarks.

All depends what sites you compare.
How do you expect The Independent and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to make money?
They, minus Musk but plus Carmack, aren’t in it for the money. It’s no coincidence that they all chose the same field to work in, which happens to be one 9-year old boys tend to be fascinated by.

And it isn’t because it’s such a good opportunity only they have a chance to succeed on, or we’d see plenty of large companies or a few unicorn startups trying as well.

That doesn’t mean they will never get some revenue, maybe recoup their investments, or even see real profits. Space
X is on a trajectory in that general direction. But it isn’t what motivated them.
That is so cool. You are my hero.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27910998
None of the points make sense really. They are more about their own priorities rather than good advice. 4 is just especially weird.
of course it is; nothing of value is exchanged, no goods are produced, and the outcome is not under your control.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-extend-sw...
> solving a specific problem

The problem to me is that Kubernetes is not solving a specific problem, but a whole slew of problems. And some of them it's solving really poorly. For example, you can't really have downtime-free deploys in kubernetes (set a longish timer from SIGTERM to increase the chance that there's no downtime).

Instead I'd rather solve each problem in a good way. It's not that hard. I'm not implementing it from scratch, but with good tools that exists outside of kubernetes and actually solve a specific problem.
I personally don’t think many people are banking on colonizing another planet, but rather the technologies created as byproducts of that effort. Between energy creation, energy storage, thermal regulation, extraction and refinement of products necessary for life (oxygen, water, etc), and transformation of atmospheric gases, there’s plenty that can help keep our current planet healthy and suitable for human life.
> I thought that Medicare and Medicaid had strict rates that generally trend slightly below what most private insurers pay for Medicare and substantially below what most private insurers pay for Medicaid.

Its a whole lot more complicated than that, especially for Medicaid which is a bunch of different state programs with different rules, lots of which are exceptions from even the baseline federal rules due to waivers, and which is sometimes fee-for-service and sometimes capitated (and sometimes a mix of both for different services in the same state, and sometimes variable by geographic areas within a state.)
The article argues that, "Through successive booms and busts, the price of Bitcoin has been manipulated by a handful of large players, using fake transactions, imaginary assets and sophisticated timing."

It highlights the role that Tether plays. "[W]henever Bitcoin’s price began to fall, Tether was issued by Bitfinex and sent to two other exchanges, where it was used to buy Bitcoin – which would then rise in price."
Not a huge fan of the new Firefox Proton UI, the tabs look more like buttons and I found the previous design a lot more streamlined. The new design doesn't feel as usable as it should be IMO, and it'll be a reason for me to move to another browser if the design isn't updated in the future.

At the moment, I've switched off Proton in the about:config section, but it's only a matter of time before this will no longer be an option. Hopefully Firefox will go back to the old UI or at least make some changes!
99% of crypto ventures are pump-and-dump schemes. Centralized crap pays better in the short term and that's what these projects are after: a quick pump.

Don't focus on the short-term if you want to make serious money or learn a technology that will stick around.
You see earthly stuff as a risk because all the positives are grandfathered in and you only see the negatives.

Bats and pagolins, now are public enemy #1. In general animal reservoirs for viruses and species jumps can't possibly happen on Mars because there are no animals and no other specie. So we have eliminated that risk right?

But....that also means no food, no ecosystem, no biosphere, basically absence of everything. So the benefits provided by bats , poultry, bovines etc. outweigh the negatives of a pandemic every 100 years or so

Even an Earth ruined by supervolcanoes, mega asteroid, nuclear war and climate change all at the same time..is better than Mars.

The only cases in which Mars comes out on top are a huge comet impact and a Gamma Ray burst which strikes the Earth but somehow misses Mars.

Bezos is right saying that we have to go to space to save the Earth, then we can talk sci-fi type things such as mind uploading ourselves in silica, and once that process is complete than Mars and the Earth will be equally valid to host us. But that ship won't set sail for a long while.
By providing better journalism than what I can get for free. That starts with the user experience, which is currently quite poor.
It sounds as if you are talking about something that everyone should know. What do you mean? The mention of "emergency use authorization" makes me think you are mistakenly talking about the SARS-Cov2 vaccines - mistakenly because they indeed went through human trials that established safety and efficacy.
“ makes me wonder if I should feel bad for him. I don't, because my gut reaction is that he…”

You don’t know him and you can’t claim to know what he thinks or believes. No one follows the catholic theology to absolutely strict adherence. Just some are more strict about some aspects. You accusing him of having no faith or belief in the religion he has dedicated his life to is offensive. Your quick judgement is probably because he’s gay… and religious, thus a hypocrite, in some peoples eyes. Just remember it’s the Church that turned away from gays not the other way around.

Having to abstain from physical contact with another adult human is a deeply unnatural and inhuman protocol. I don’t judge any one for wanting to touched and loved.

As for your quick and abrasive judgement: A group of men preparing to stone an adulterous woman to death were addressed by Jesus with the words: ‘He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her’ (John 8:7).
You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from working in Tech, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Tech Lead who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the developer who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other project managers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the start-up. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!

Edit: Seeing as I'm already on negative karma people might not get the reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeF1JO7Ki8E
The problem is that we cannot use the scientific method to be sure of past events. The correct answer to a lot of anthropology is "We don't know" which is the most scientific explanation. I expect most people have the same expectation of truth across different sciences. It is a difficult concept for many people in my experience that hard physics is more truthful than anthropology, which are both called sciences.
Many/most senior devs do not have the experience you described. But there are often a lot of meetings, reports, and managing other devs.
very curious by this statement.
As you said it yourself the symptom of COVID are way worse than the flu. Do you also think getting the flu vaccine is not worth it?
It's funny. What he is saying is that Bitcoin's value is philosophical in nature.
Taxes barely go to roads and infrastructure they go to welfare and warfare.
Since when has competition ever spurred innovation?
Could you imagine the criminal reforms that would result from a world in which corporations could be sentenced to death?
sure, but the reason it's not worth arguing over is because large organization are exploitative by design. i'd argue it's the whole point of becoming big, as it's certainly not about being more service-oriented.
It's interesting that Bezos is coming out with these big PR initiatives after stepping down as Amazon CEO. As the world's richest individual and face of Amazon, he endured a lot of (perhaps justified) smear campaigns, but didn't really fight back in a major way, like target the (more wealthy) Waltons or something. The MBS phone hacking scandal got a terse, professional Medium article.

It's also interesting to note that the horrendous stories of Frito Lay factory worker conditions are coming out now, despite being a widespread and longstanding issue. Previously, the media narrative around poor work conditions was all "Amazon, Amazon, Amazon", with little indication that it's a systemic issue with--let's be honest--far worse cases in America.

Now Bezos is going full throttle. To what end? Why not operate from the shadows on a megayacht? If it is all ego, why not do this populism drive earlier to mitigate some of the damage?
> It's how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species.

No, it's not we. It's them: billionaires and their friends. Other people will never go to the moon and mars because billionaires are using their money to lobby politicians in order avoid taxes and get more subsidies at our expense.
>? Imagine being misdiagnosed by a computer and the clueless human health care workers don't or won't question it because the computer said so. You'll be one the phone talking to an AI which is looking at records generated by AI full of data compiled by AI. Why pay costly humans when you can replace them with a computer.

Has already been happening.
> Things have changed...

Let me get this straight: someone who expressed hateful left-leaning political opinions was _not_ fired, and then later someone who expressed hateful right-leaning political opinions _was_ fired? What changed, exactly?
NASA is beholden to congressional funding, and congress is supposed to act in the interest of their constituents.

Even if we assume everyone is rational and the system works as-designed, NASA must work to keep each state and even district within that state happy. That means hundreds of small contracts and explosions of complexity in order to do some of the work in each state.

NASA's mission designs for the last 50 years have been a mess of complexity and ridiculously expensive, and rarely happened as a result. Only now with the commercial contractors are things starting to change.
I don't understand the point about trying to make this a character referendum on one specific billionaire.

Just make federal minimum wage $15 / hour and be done with it. Why is there so much rhetorical energy wasted on singling out one billionaire or another, as if they are going to feel bad and unilaterally raise everyone's wages in some kind of real world Ebeneezer Scrooge moment?

Democrats technically control Presidency and both US Houses of Congress, but it's looking like they won't accomplish anything because of Manchin's love for the sanctity of the filibuster is greater than his love for delivering concrete economic benefits for his constituents.
Good ole Bobby "Bashrocks" Neander. RIP Bobby.
Cliffs get eaten by the ocean too. Depending on the type of material and other factors, the ocean may get closer to your home by several metres each decade. It has become a problem in several places in France, where they thought they were safe because they were not low and on the sand but high and on the rock, but they are not safe any more.
Software today is more like jets in the 1940s than modern day air travel. Still crashing a lot and learning a lot and amazing people from time to time.
> That certainly has something to do with their job.

“certainly”? why?

i’m a contrarian. i will argue against you on pretty much any subject in order to bring out the best arguments. are you still so certain my contrarian opinions will have something to do with my job?
100x the poverty line. Excess earnings goes to taxes.
Harold Lasswell has an interesting model of communications:

- Who?

- Says What?

- In Which Channel?

- To Whom?

- With What Effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasswell%27s_model_of_communic...

Lasswell, Harold (1948). Bryson, L. (ed.). The Structure and Function of Communication in Society. The Communication of Ideas. New York: Institute for Religious and Social Studies. p. 117.

All communication is performative art. The performances and audiences differ. Often for the same work.

Communications such as these have two principle audiences:

- The general public
- The interests for which the speaker is operating.

The message to the public is pretty clearly "fuck you".

The message to organisations which may have used such services, and who may or may not have a history of acting with lethal force to protect their interests, is "we deny everything, we are the shield between you and the world, and we will not be talking further, and we can say this as bluntly as possible because we have major institutional, interest, and/or state backing."

That's not an uncommon message. It's generally not phrased quite so bluntly. That it is here may in fact be part of the signaling.

(All clearly conjecture, though it coheres.)
You don't use a screwdriver to drive a nail, and you don't user a hammer to drive a screw. Its good to use the right tool for the job. In many instances, a relational database (often SQL) makes a lot of sense and is the right tool for the job. Some workflows, a NoSQL/Non-relational database design can be nice. Document databases, K/V stores, etc can be more optimized for those specific use cases which can lead to some better experiences. That said, lots of relational databases are quite powerful and quite performant that unless you really need the particular use cases the NoSQL databases focus on, it may just be better to use the tooling available in your relational database.

There are a few instances where I've really preferred using a document database. Things like logs are often really useful to have in a document database like MongoDB. In one collection I can stick all kinds of logs. The schema of all the different fields in the document are really relevant to what kind of things I'm logging. If I were to have a column for every field I might have in the log message, each row would have a ton of null columns. If I wanted to add a new field to easily search on, I might have to add a new column. A "schemaless" design can then be very useful. Of course this is true of pretty much any document database and not necessarily only MongoDB, and these days some relational databases have decent JSON document database functionality as well. There are always certain kinds of tradeoffs to be made when choosing one database technology over another.

Another thing I've found useful with MongoDB in particular is GridFS, that has been pretty neat to use. These days there are other systems of handling binary blob storage, but as mentioned earlier there are always tradeoffs with choosing any particular technology.
If you ask Elizabeth Warren, yes.
The quote is wrong. Antarctica is next. Then the moon. Then the bottom of the ocean.

But all these places are desolate of life and not even resource rich, so there is little point to go there. Mars is like this as well. It's not like you are colonizing a rich continent like America.
The UAE and Qatar will disagree. Direct taxation is a thing, and is unavoidable (whether you are using crypto or quantum currencies).

Complex taxation that hides where you paid taxes (ie: VAT) or where your taxes went (ie: infrastructure or old persons pension) is what's at risk here.
> The U.S. infrastructure deal was unanimously supported

No it wasn't. By all members with a (D) after the name who she leads, perhaps, and some others, but not all.

> that could also be proof she didn't use her influence

I don't find this a compelling enough argument that it would likely restore the public's lost trust in these institutions.
Then food has got to go up the profit margin is not there. We talking $10 per taco them people will complain about that.
Besides medallions or a similar registration program, how would you balance vehicle capacity with limited street capacity? The "artificial monopoly" is a physical system, as two vehicles cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

I don't support medallions, by any means, but I do support a fair quota system to balance transportation availability with congestion management.
It's a religion at this point. The problems facing humanity on Earth appear daunting, so it's easier psychologically to put faith in sci-fi ideas that might be impossible, but are simple by comparison to thinking through concrete solutions to our woes.

Humanity sits atop a food chain that is going extinct, right before our eyes, and it's long past time to stop hiding from it. Human life on Mars is neither feasible nor imminent. We aren't getting level 5 autonomous vehicles or AGI or androids or flying cars or time travel any time soon either. These are ideas we run to when facing the absurdity of our existence becomes too much to bear.
I'm pretty sure your comment is tongue in cheek but wow this is a pretty bad look for snopes:

>Was Nancy Pelosi’s brother, Franklin D. Roosevelt D’Alesandro, charged with lying during a rape trial?
Status: MIXTURE
The Facts: Nancy Pelosi’s brother, Franklin D. Roosevelt D’Alesandro, was charged with perjury during a rape trial in the 1950s. However, he was eventually acquitted of those charges

How is that a mixture? The poster claims he has been charged, not convicted, Snopes confirms he was charged but... Ends up labelling this as mixed? That's pure damage control from Snopes at this point
What an overtly political move by Bezos. He could have donated to libraries, schools, medical research … nope donates to defacto narrative control.
Correct, but we can have many logical, systemically positive reasons for changing it, but if we can’t address or overcome the concerns of those holding the power then it’s a largely a moot discussion.
I’m getting my data from the StackOverflow surveys and just talk around the Net. See the 2019 survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#salary) and 2020 survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-salary-b...) as examples.
Fixing (stopping) climate change is a dead idea. We've talked about it for decades and done nothing and now it's too late.
> the trades don’t actually look suspicious nor requiring non-public information

The consistent beating of the odds is what makes it suspicious.

If you roll 12 with two dice, it is not suspicious. If you do it 10 times in a row, my trust is gone!
What are some good / mature / performant libraries to programmatically achieve compositions of text, audio and image files, perhaps with a timeline in which these can be declared at various timestamps, and the output is a video file?

Does this one do it?
> Who pays for the k-12 educations and public universities that these employees used to become educated?

Ummm...the people living in that community pay for the schools in that community. I’m not sure why you think Amazon is responsible for paying school taxes in some location where they have no offices.