skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s because the smart people figured out you can make a shit load of money doing boring, not very technically difficult things. If NASA paid as much as a high level engineer at Google, we’d have terraformed mars by now.
I think it's fair. It is, by far, the biggest hurdle to adoption and contributions.

I'm a SWE and I don't grok it yet.

Granted, I haven't spent a ton of time on it. But if you have to spend a ton of time on it, it has in some sense failed.

It's harder to learn than literally any other language I can think of that isn't designed specifically to be esoteric. Most languages, after you have picked up a few, you can just glance at and you've got the basics. Nix is its own beast entirely.

Edit: I do acknowledge that there is some difficult to manage inherent complexity. And, like many others, I love what Nix is trying to be. But I do think improving the language would be a big step.
Basil II blinded 99 of every 100 POWs and sent them all back home. If Samuel is Bulgaria cared for these troops, it would cost his empire significantly. If he were to abandon them, it would lead to a collapse in morale.

Today, our external and internal enemies blind our people in every way they can. For example, convincing our brightest minds that they will be the most fulfilled if their bank accounts are the most overflowing.
Didn't know about ufw, but I'm not on the same network as the RPI and don't have a static IP. And the RPI was already uploading data to an AWS instance.
Now if only everyone would stop inviting their own reality we would have it made!
Given that HN tries to foster discussion, I was hoping that "you would". You know, in your own words. Surely if you feel strongly enough about something, you'd be capable of discussing your viewpoint instead of just dropping a few links at random.
Does a similar such thing exist for GCP?
Trope? That's a good name.
Everyone, ostensibly. The only reason why they care about those companies is because they process an insane amount of data on a regular basis, so they will always go for the cheap wins first. I doubt it took any effort to convince Apple and Google to comply, since the alternative would be losing money (not an option to shareholders). Amazon was already under the NSA's thumb the moment they started working with domestic payment processors, and at this point the general public probably knows more sensitive info about Facebook than the NSA does. We could keep going down the Fortune 500 in such a manner, flagging people who process lots of data and determining what actual mitigation they put in place, but you'll quickly realize that they have all the information they need.
you also generally speaking need something that is much easier to verify than it is to generate. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I don't think that "verifying" a protein folding in the "cryptocurrency" sense is a meaningful operation in the "useful" way you're hoping it to be.
Because every inch of this website is dripping with scummy MLM language around his courses and we as an industry have seen scams proliferate around preying on people trying to make it in tech. https://cryptobriefing.com/youtuber-techlead-accused-of-scam... for ex. It offends me morally.

Like, look at https://kentcdodds.com/clubs for example. Doesn't this read as patronizing at best and one step away from being a pyramid scheme at worst? All it takes is to add a financial incentive to the "Learning Club Captain" position for this to literally be a pyramid scheme.
I love how they decide when and where “carbon” is an emission or not …
International transactions are pretty hard in Lebanon the government constantly puts restrictions on dollar accounts and other accounts that can process international transfers.

Many payments services are also unavailable in Lebanon for various reasons.

If you are in a position to order things from Alibaba or eBay you are already pretty well off and anything sold locally would be sold at a very steep markup.
edit: Sorry, I think I misread your question. My current ongoing project is not yet public but will be unveiled and live in a few weeks, the others were entries into hackathons for proofs of concept, but I don't have those live. I'll leave the rest of my message (targetted for dev resources in general) below in case you or anyone else finds it helpful.

The only way I can recommend getting started is the way that I did a few months back - I strongly encourage checking out and entering random hackathons! https://gitcoin.co/hackathons

There's a lot going on in the space currently - many projects are trying to attract development talent so they will sponsor / participate in hackathons. imo they're fantastic opportunities to learn something new and potentially win some extra money.

I'd probably recommend ethereum as a first ecosystem to really dive into - the tooling is more mature than other dev-centric blockchains. However, keep in mind that ethereum as a base can be a tricky place to launch your app because of high transactional fees, and you would likely want to integrate a layer 2 like Arbitrum or support alternative coins in a final application. I'll link some pages to a few technologies I used when building some ethereum dapps

https://www.trufflesuite.com/truffle
https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache

for wallet integration, either of these work
https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js
https://github.com/ethers-io/ethers.js

I highly recommend checking out The Graph too - it allows for you to leverage graphQL on your smart contract data by creating a dedicated subgraph. With some careful integration, you can replace a dedicated backend that would normally be required for various APIs with this. It's a very exciting project imo.
https://thegraph.com/en/

And of course, the solidity documentation is very helpful. Coming from a scripting heavy background, solidity was very easy for me to pick up and write a simple escrow service.
https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/v0.8.9/

I'd also recommend checking out other chains once you become more comfortable with the system. I'm currently working on Solana and it's a bit more difficult to work with due to the tooling not being as mature, but it is a very interesting chain to work with and I hope that it can scale better than Ethereum has.
Hm… This excites me: Go. Containers. The Linux kernel. Static site generators (pick your desired flavour). AWS Lambda. Laurent Bercot’s s6/s6-rc (the former is a suite of programs for process supervision, the latter is a service manager).
The more comments like these I see around reasonable and fact-based discussions on covid and the covid vaccines, the more I am sure that my decision to hold off on getting the vaccine is the right decision. The pro-covid-vaccine movement is a cult just like the anti-all-vaccine movement.
I respect your hardline approach but for most people it's a rather soft thing. I want to be able to choose WHO i share my information with and under what conditions.

You can argue that once information is shared it's up for grabs by anyone but i argue that this is simply not true, it just feels like that it is.

We could do so much better and we should never forget that.
I think this study is quite good but it does come with one important caveat:

From page 5, "This is before the introduction of Apple's new opt-in mechanism for tracking in 2021. Our dataset therefore reflects privacy in the app ecosystem shortly before this policy change."

Personally, I would prefer to see the difference between apps monetized by customers paying directly and apps monetized by advertising. I take for granted advertiser will track, and I assume paid apps track less but I wonder if that's actually true in practice. It very well might not be.
Thanks for the detailed writeup, and all the pointers in it!

> About the VM per project, unless you want to do this for some other reason (security maybe?), you don't need to. As I said before, you can use things like `nix-shell` and this will already give isolation enough for development purposes.

That's great to know. I don't have security requirements there - I'm just looking for a way to isolate projects along with their dependencies and supporting software (e.g. if I need a one-off installation of some program to create project-specific assets).

The problem I'm trying to solve is the system getting messy over time - accruing multiple versions of runtimes for programming languages, system configuration changes, pinned library versions etc., all because every other project needs some OS tuning or system-wide dependency. Eventually, I always end up hitting a roadblock where something I need now is incompatible with something I changed 2 years earlier no longer remember why. So I'd like to keep various projects and activities isolated, and to be able to just get rid of them when they're no longer needed.

The reason I'm asking about VMs is because I recall reading a blogpost or a HN comment where someone described how they're achieving what I'm after by running a hypervisor on their main machine, and doing everything in one-off VMs. I can't find that post/comment now, and I'm left wondering if this is something people do, and what the tradeoffs are.
Another technique is to print in ABS and then give it an acetone vapor bath - you preserve details much better, but setting all that up is a pain and a little dangerous.
...because? I'm not sure what you mean.
Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
I am not classifying any of these as good or bad. Consider it as a list of observations.

* There were more stories about the technical platforms of startups. Most of the time, the technical founders joined us here for those discussions. We had heated discussions on the philosophies of DHH vs PG. Now we don't hear about those bootstrapping stories or seed investments anymore.

* The quality was greater, in my subjective opinion. I lost count of the number of useful or interesting experimental thoughts or ideas I read only here. On no other social platform could I find such diverse and thought-provoking thoughts and ideas. On more than one occasion, when I asked a question about a company or a framework, the founder or creator replied. They all seemed to converge here. It was amazing.

* This place had a lot of active Googlers of every age range. Now, people identify themselves as FAANG employees more often than not.

* Show HN (or its equivalent) used to be very active. Now, when I go there, the page looks like a ghost town.
Glisp: A Lisp-Based Design Tool Bridging Graphic Design and Computational Arts
People made full blown characters rigging and scenes with a blend of node and direct interaction. It's not just for trivial tasks only.
It’s pretty obviously a Bezos pyramid
“Moral” as I’ve heard it means something akin to “moral of the story”:

“This is morally correct, but suffers from a technical fault in the naive approach.”

…is the same as…

“The higher order structure of this proof is a reasonable (and ultimately correct) idea, but you can’t use the most basic encoding of your objects as parameters because of a technicality, and instead must first transform the parameters before being fed into the proof schematic.”

…and is akin to…

“Your password check function has the right logic, but you need to filter inputs to prevent SQL injection.”

Every field that has to make that kind of technical comment has a language for it — and for some reason, the analogy in mathematics was between the moral of a story and the idea behind a proof.
Your bones are definitely not anti fragile… it’s a common misconception in fact without modern medicine a compound fracture will not heal right on its own in most cases.
Just curious, and this might sound naive but this is a serious question.

Are drone "blades" (not sure of the correct term) more efficient when they aren't enclosed? I understand this is a test unit and there are myriad safety precautions taken when testing. But my first thought when seeing open blades is what happens if it falls, trips or otherwise goes out of control? Then you have rapidly spinning blades going helter skelter to deal with. Not just hitting into any soft humans standing around. But the floor, tables, doors, wires, expensive computer equipment. It seems a bit daft unless it has a purpose that I've missed.
> someone off the rails agreeing with a large group on one issue doesn't mean the whole group is off the rails.

No, it means that the "nazi fuckwits" and "off the rails people" are _recruiting_ and doing so where the audience is worked up and receptive to their radicalisation.
Yes, and useful in many contexts. What a great technique!

Other methods, such as solvent mists and such, can be toxic and or dangerous. And doing all that costs a little time, space and money. Not a huge deal, but given how simple and cheap this is...
I've recently switched (from Arch) to Guix for my new desktop. Works great, though does require some work (I enjoy the tinkering). Depends on what you want of course, and needs you have especially in the non-free or things like JS (Guix does not package, but you can use Nix package manager or other tools I think). Here is the HN post for the article I wrote to see the article (about the hardware) and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628344 I'll have some followups soon on what I like about Guix for this usage and how I set things up, with some tips.
In the Willamette valley where I live, we had plenty of bumblebees this year, along with the usual honeybees and some wasps. I don't know which particular species of bumblebees. What struck me as unusual this year was during the heat waves the bumblebees seemed to really struggle, with many of them found dead or dying on the ground. Maybe this is an annual occurrence that I've just never noticed before. We like having insects around so keep them provided with water and flowers, but it just seemed like the bumblebees were having a bad year. If anyone knows more about their life cycle I'd be interested to hear.
I think you misunderstand the statistics. Modern cars are so clean that the two-strokes powering lawn tools really are most of the smog in some cities. Getting rid of them will be a big improvement for many people.
There are other bumble bee species in “the west”. that seems likely to be true in other areas.

In the Seattle area there are:
yellow bumble bee
tricolored bumble bee
yellow-faced bumble
Western Bumble Bee
Franklin's bumble bee
Rusty patched bumble bee

I have seen reports that at least some of these species ranges are greatly reduced.
Kapla
Wealth is an incentive for wealth aggregation those aren't the same thing. More wealth would be created if companies payed their workers more (since poor people actually need the money to pay for things)
1920-1970

1970-2020

I think most people would agree that in the 50 years before 1970, the world changed more?
celebrities are just like us /s
Add "toy" https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sextoy&type=things&sort...
Kahn was from the 90’s, cryogenically frozen and set off in space at slower than light speed.
I have questions. If you're doing it all yourself why do you need to go to a silicone shop and "talk to the experts about your needs"? Why tell a beginner to use 3D Builder or Meshmixer when you could do it in ninety seconds in Tinkercad? Why would you slice it in Chitubox to get the volume when your original modeling program or regular slicer would give you that info? On what printer is 0.25mm a step-integer layer height? Finally, is this really any better than printing your dildo and using a $35 clone-a-willy kit?
Good article. Among other things, it highlights how much we still don't know about this mess.

I like to always highlight not to reduce reality to a single variable, when the correct model contains so many we can't even enumerate them.

I also try very hard not to be told what to think. This requires work. Sadly our society, perhaps fueled by social media, sees individuals who "know" the truth about all kinds of subjects. In quotes because, more often than not, what they believe is in a range between false, a fantasy or, at best, inaccurate or incomplete.

We all know that the concept of vaccines (isolated from any particular event or case, just the idea) is good. From there to always religiously equate "vaccine" to "good" is a mistake. Even worse, label those who do not want to get vaccinated as stupid, well, to be kind, potentially uninformed.

We need more conversation and less hatred.

Issues rarely boil down to a single variable. Through conversation we often learn about the hundred or more we might have missed because we "know" the truth as it was told to us.
The only harm happening here is people like you overstepping bounds and ultimately trashing actually correct usage of the language because you are operating under some pretext that there's a woke conspiracy to remove all gendered pronouns from colloquial usage. This conspiracy may well exist, but it simply does not apply to this situation. As multiple people have explained and linked, the singular "they" is used to refer to an antecedent of unknown or unspecified gender or when gender is simply irrelevant. "They" is not being used because "satoshi could be trans let's not hurt zer feelings". It's because we literally don't know. You're barking up the wrong tree here. I care because I cringe every time someone says "We were just at Mary and I's house baking cookies." which is so obviously incorrect it drives me up a wall. I guess that makes me a grammar nazi.
I disagree that free speech is/ought to be free from other people judging you on the contents of that speech.

I openly and intentionally judge people based on their speech/thoughts they express. Say smart, curiosity-invoking things and I think more highly of you. Say closed-minded, racist things, and I think less highly of you. I find it hard to imagine that most other people don't do exactly the same thing (possibly with a different fitness function, but updating their opinion of someone based on thoughts expressed nonetheless).

If I say something that makes you think I'm an asshole, I think you should update your opinion of me in that direction without waiting for me to make some physical action to that effect.
Oldsters remember when this was a slower process, where people would write angry letters. They would undertake letter-writing campaigns, persuading others to take up the literary torch. They'd write to newspapers and magazines, where "free speech" was subject to the gatekeeping editor. Shorter screeds would appear in classified ads, again, to be censored if the editor didn't want to print what you had to say. It's faster, it's more transparent, the gatekeeping is more often post-facto and more there are more platforms to try if one blocks you. Writing quality and wit has definitely declined, though. But I wouldn't say that this is a complete transformation. My dad would fume over his letters for days before sending them.
Or, depending on the polymer, smoothing can be done chemically.

This is simple, cheap and clean by comparison. I have the same inclination to try it too. I think it's brilliant.
She mentions that it loses a fair bit of surface details, so good for largish organic things, but maybe not so good for miniatures?
Do you mind sharing some? Most websites I can think of are either highly distributed (e.g. Facebook, Netflix) or their customer base is geographically limited (Yelp).

Uploading media files to (or from) developing countries with weaker internet infra often results in timeouts and dropped connections. I tried uploading a 8GB file to Singapore S3 from Florida and my connection often timed out.

I'm trying to imagine how you can deliver a fast website to users around the globe without distributed systems.
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Hey he correctly identifies 0 users 0 problems
Well that is just my point of view, following Microsoft ecosystems since MS-DOS 3.3.

Everything I state comes from reading between the lines from ways things have been written, presented and so forth.

I might be wrong, obviously.
It's tough to diff the privacy between Android and iOS, as an OS.

However, as an app ecosystem, it's not tough at all. For example, there is not a single open source email app on iOS which supports GPG email. In the iOS app ecosystem, privacy and FLOSS is an afterthought, since iOS users are more likely to pay for proprietary software. On Android, there are a lot more options, including things like F-Droid which are full of FLOSS apps which are graded based on their patterns and anti-patterns.
> and among the peoples of the developing world, who did nothing to deserve it.

I don't agree at all here. People in the developing world don't consume/pollute less because of some kind of moral virtue, they consume/pollute less because they physically can't consume/pollute more. If they had the ability to pollute as much as the developped countries, they would do it (and some are in fact already doing it).
The fall of Intel.

For my entire life (born in 1972, same timescale) Intel has managed to keep a leash on what personal computers could be. The few times it's slipped have led to exciting advances, but they got them under control again quickly.

The explosion of held up potential that will happen when they shatter should (I hope) make the AT&T breakup look small.
Good point, they also filter similar words like buttplug and dildo. Sad, a niche market within a niche market. Their loss.
Might be insinuating that whoever named her Billie had a jaundice fetish?

edit: the other answer is a way better answer
have you ever heared of antibiotics?
Observing the status quo isn't the same as rationalizing it. Many things exist in the world today which are unjust. Some are even common.

If it is possible for taxation to be egregious, then at some point there must be a boundary which is crossed. How can we define what is a just amount of property to confiscate with our subjective judgment?

It is a moral issue in principle. In practice it amounts to whatever politicians can get away with. Ideologues present wealth as evidence of greed. Envy is celebrated. The person with a bigger slice of pie is blamed for other's perceptions of insufficient portions, as if markets represent a zero-sum game.

Cries of, "You didn't build that" are overly simplistic and misleading. If they were valid, collectives and central planners could produce surpluses without need for individualized incentives. Yet history tells us a different story.

That slice of pie which so many here seem unhappy with is much bigger than what was eaten in years before. This is the result of individual profit incentives, competition and innovation, not taxation or central planning.

If it is to be a moral issue, perhaps we should start from the point of not coercing others or violating their property rights?
With a cloud server it's obviously less of an issue, but even with a desktop for Nix its less of an issue than any other distro.

Each time you update your configuration it's essentially reinstalling. When you boot you have the option to boot the previous version (which includes previous app versions and etc).

Reinstalling NixOS and updating it are extremely similar actions except for full reinstalls having data loss (formatting) and taking longer (cache is empty).
Not old enough to verify anything either, but I'm really curious about why you think this.

My impression is that the smart kids from a few blocks would go to Nasa, and those are the ones we remember. Many smart kids had no access to higher education, or were lawyers and doctors (which is absolutely fantastic).

When I recently watched For All Mankind I wasn't thinking "people did cooler shit then". I was thinking "that particular shit was really cool, overall most people then and there were worse off, including most smart people".

May be it has to do with me being spanish and our specific culture, but Im pretty sure there were plenty of geniuses doing bullshit or evil back then. Why do you think otherwise?
Productivity also drives inequality. It’s at least a double edged sword.
If this were some shady crypto thing I'd assume it was juicing the numbers to get more money on board. :^)