skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that I think is strange about Moby Dick is the shift in language.

SPOILERS:

So most of the book is just a beautiful snapshot of a very odd slice of life in the early 1800s, namely whalers. However, not just any whaler, the book is very clear on this, sperm whalers. Also, not just any sperm whalers, nantucketers. Even though the majority of the crew is international, they are on a nantucket ship, with a nantucket captain, and are thus honorary nantucketers. Ok, so anyway, most of the book is just about learning what their life is like, and it's unusual in the way because Melville literally had to teach us everything about this unusual slice of life, to get the rest. My point though is throughout all of this, which is like 90% of the book, the language and tone is somewhat plain and often times light hearted. There are a few moments where its serious, like when there's the electrical storm and Ahab fixes the compass, or when they're towards the end of their journey and they see another ship of nantucketers who weren't driven to kill the whale, but just to make money and they're just rolling in the dough, throwing everything overboard just to make more room for more sperm oil.

MORE SPOILERS:

Any way, then in the end is really where we see a huge dramatic shift in language. For one thing it becomes *hard*, even as a native speaker the sentence structure, word choice, and ideas being conveyed are just harder. Basically what's happening this whole time is Ahab is trying to kill the whale, is failing to do so, and we're sort of consummating what sort of felt inevitable the whole time but from Ahab's perspective. I think in this sense, Moby DIck is really unique because it's almost two stories: there's all the fun stuff about learning about whaling, and then there's the artful part of it. The change is very dramatic.

Any way, I think it's a great book, but it's very different than say Typee, where the whole book stays in the same tone as the first part of Moby Dick that I described. The last 50 or so pages of Moby Dick, are borderline psychedelic.
Globant was mostly low-paid low-quality folks. Probably not a good fit.
Exactly this. These are the exact reasons why users having to 'install Linux distros' these days will always be limited to tech geeks and enthusiasts and not widely adopted as a mainstream desktop.

It also explains why Windows 11 (with WSL) is probably the best Linux distro for the desktop as it is already been 'painfully' admitted. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28960864
How could they have 'broke' the rules (notice the headline is in the past tense), if they're still within the 30 days period? Didn't the platform 'launch' yesterday (and as far as I could tell, no one can actually access the service)
Which is why some people have taken to using the term crumble rather than collapse, crumbling happens at different rates in different places and can sometimes, at least temporarily, be fixed.
Citizens small business account has been nice so far.
This is an amazing game and I didn't know the whole story behind it, although the author did provide the voice for the computer AM which is pretty creepy.

The game is ridiculously progressive for its time and has a female African American software developer addressing trauma/assault.

I saw the show Maniac on Netflix recently and wondered if they were inspired by this game. The game references psychology in the vignettes and although it's much, much darker than what happens in the show Maniac (and not the intention of AM to help the people in the simulation) the outcome is similar - the people in the vignettes overcome some of the psychological trauma that held them back.
Slack calls and Microsoft teams calls (you can attend meetings, but cant share your audio/video) don’t work in firefox.
As someone who just basically teleported to 2021 from 2013, I can tell you that 99% of my bookmarks are now dead. So, even in 8 years most web sites haven't managed to survive.
Good comment. I think that maybe what you're getting at is the intuition on particular problems is not necessarily correlated to high IQ beyond a minimum threshold.

From everything I've read, almost every contemporary of Von Neumann says he was the 'smartest' person they ever met. It seems his brain just worked at a completely different clock speed than normal people, even normal geniuses.

However, while is contributions are immense and widespread, I don't think they come close to the utterly astounding work of Godel.

While Godel was insanely smart, he also just looked at the world in a very unusual way that let him see certain meta axioms that have profound implications for pretty much every scientist and philosopher. I don't know if it was circumstance that led him to a special tool box, or obsession, or a certain spark of creativity everyone else lacked, but there's something worth exploring there.
Yeah, Pop!_OS is great! One of the first times I installed Linux and everything just worked, even Optimus / dGPU switching! :-)

(btw: your comment is a little bit funny to german speakers, where "popos" means "butts" :-P)
I interviewed for a job as the weekend-desk guy at ABC radio international, despite my rudimentary French and nonexistent perspective on international affairs. I asked my interlocutor, a young man who’d obviously been forced by his superior to interview a no-hoper: “So, if the world ended on a weekend, in Paris, it would be my responsibility to share that news on ABC radio?”

He nodded.
Yeah seriously. Been dealing with this attitude from the Linux Desktop community for literal decades now.
Google is a monopoly, they don't have to be good.
The things listed there are completely worthless though. In case of system collapse I'd want to know practical things like agriculture and simple power plants.
as long as sound is well recorded, so often you had online talks that were entirely unwatchable
I'm also not directly targeting you, my comment was to the OP. There was another comment that said very similar things that you alluded to, which kind of helps prove my point that this advice is parroted everywhere without any consideration for the developer themselves and their unique situation.
I love the hubris of this. It's going to have to be something profound to have anyone, including your progeny, care about it in 50, let alone 500 years after you are gone.
You can get paid for producing open source software you know..

It’s actually kind of shocking that people don’t know this these days. Have corporations really undermined free software so much?
Does everything have to be good or bad?
Anyway I saw Facebook when it started out and it was kind of nice to be able to chat to my mates around the world, however for me it was always just a junk thing to be a clown on, little did others or myself know it would impact the very cores of society. Instead of it being monitored and controlled like most other major impacts it was left to just snow ball into a massive situation we have today. Lol FFS to allow them to employ people to focus on addiction techniques like what the hell how was that even legal, I mean come on where were the audits and protections it's crazy.
Ask HN: How should I build my portfolio to land a job as a developer?
My background is electronics and IT support. Day to day I keep a big financial company running. I have 12 years of experience in this field, but my professional goal has always been to be a developer.

I haven't needed a degree so far, but I have re-enrolled in school to get a software engineering degree. At this rate, working full time, I might graduate by 2025... that's too far in the future.

I've been sharpening my skills and I've started applying to jobs recently. I still think my resume and portfolio don't really sound appealing to a hiring manager, so I want to improve that.

I am working solo on a personal project that should be of significant impact in the biotech community and might land me a paper once finished, but it's also taking me a considerable amount of time to complete. It's nothing too fancy from an algorithm standpoint, I'm not breaking ground, the value is in it's functionality, not the tech stack.

What can I work on to put in my github to demonstrate that I am ready to devote myself to the change and that I deserve a chance? I really want to do this, but I think I need better material to sell myself.

Any help is appreciated, and if anyone wants an apprentice, I will gladly work ad honorem after hours or on weekends.
Could you please point to how to make such an arrangement legal in Germany? I thought it’s only allowed for 18 months to work as a contractor only for one company?

Or please send me a brief email, I have been looking for quite a while for a solution to this.

Thank you very much in advance.
So I looked for all instances of 'network server'. Nowhere else in the license text is there any requirement that the source be made available on a network server, other than in that disjunctive clause I posted.

Thus, I stand by my original belief that the source code has to be made available to users, and that snail mail / individual requests of the source code are a viable means to comply with the license. And I stand by my original belief that this copyleft group is politically motivated, as it publicized the claim that truth social is not complying before it gave it any time to comply.
What's TOPAZ? No acronym finder produced a result relevant in this context.
What do you mean by "host a personal page"? If the goal is simply to pass on information to your descendents, there are many better ways to do it than setting up a web page on the internet.

If that is a strict requirement, then trying to come up with a single technological solution today that will work forever is the wrong approach and is guaranteed to fail at some point. What you want to do is set up some company/trust/other organization which will keep the site up to date with technological (and other) changes.
firefox lets you assign labels to bookmarks. i just type `hackernews` in the URL bar and it opens the URL associated with that bookmark.
I work for Microsoft in Redmond USA, and have had team members I work with daily who are outside the US.
hacker.news too
Encode it into your DNA and make sure to spread your seed far and wide.

If we haven't destroyed ourselves until then, you should be able to go to your local DNA reading store and view the contents.
No, the point is you can’t use the fact that websites are currently under 500 years old as evidence that they won’t ever be 500 years old.
Trolls have no problems finding patents, it's not that limited of a pool that you can suck them all up. And sure about MAD with big companies, but that's orthogonal to my comment on trolls.
Completely agree. I'm an employee right now, but if I were ever looking for a co-founder, my shortlist would be the people I've worked with, hacking together some random project at all hours.
I think the answer is usually, someone who has skills that you don't. When I think about looking for a co-founder, I know what specific skills I am looking for, there is a gap, this second person would fill that gap. Some other thoughts:

- Specific skill set (what is their expertise)
- Values alignment
- Ways of working (work life balance, etc)
- Communication style
- Conflict resolution and disagreement management
No, but I often find people are more likely to read "lead" as the metal. Not really for "leading".
Now I'm wondering what he does for a living. Maybe he's an activist or something/.
Sure, but that is backwards compatible / a superset of ASCII.

What I meant to say, is that it's totally possible that, in the coming few centuries, even basic ASCII won't be readily understood. As in the character mapping in modern systems will break down, i.e., int 97 is no longer 'a', but some glyph from a language not yet conceived.

We take for granted backwards comparability. Just because ASCII has been readable for the past 60 or so years, doesn't mean it will continue to be for the next 60.
> one of those things that are part truth, part myth

Yeah perhaps true. But then I’d say that it’s essentially a meaningless conclusion to hold as some universal truth.
> There's a whole new class of electron-like (usually WebView oriented) frameworks appearing for languages now that make building desktop apps fairly straightforward.

It was already fairly straightforward. Now it's just understandable to people who are mostly familiar with web-centric development, which is a different claim entirely.

Qt is not an ecosystem; KDE is (like GNOME). Qt (like GTK, at least historically) cannot be an ecosystem because it has to be cross-platform.

You can build GUI apps in Qt or in other GUI toolkits and they will just work. They do not need integration into a desktop environment (though it can help in some cases if they are.

"OS-native look and feel" is overrated. There are numerous apps from Apple, particularly in the media creation sector, that do not conform to their own "native look and feel", and several of the most successful apps in this sector from 3rd parties also ignore it. Maybe for "office/productivity" apps it is important...
PipeWire is an intentional swamp draining effort that takes a lot of these ideas/solutions, and applies them more broadly. In the audio domain it does so by scaling to the requirements of competing APIs like JACK and implementing them as well. But it also expands them to the video domain (think arbitrating access to camera devices, or processing chains spanning multiple processes), which has a lot of the same challenges. And underneath it's built on Linux kernel infrastructure (e.g. dmabuf) that wasn't as present during the early PulseAudio days.

A decent one sentence-summary for PipeWire is shell pipes for A/V between processes, with pluggable policy (hello mixer) and plugins to inject sources into the graph.
I've never hidden anything, yet my Firefox only has an out-of-place mobile style menu.
I used to wonder about questions like this, but somewhere along the line they've become unimportant. I'm not sure why that is, or whether that's a good thing, but my best guess is that I've grown less delusional about how much others care about me.

It's an interesting thought experiment to ask how important such a page about your father or grandfather would be to you. It seems much less important to me than my own page. So it will be for others.
Is there anything current day that is potentially stable for 500 years ?
Can you please stop promoting your site like this? That's not what HN is for, and we're getting complaints about it.
This is correct. The "happy path" for a new linux installation is much worse than for windows. It's gotten much better over the last decade, but it's still much harder.

Further, if you really want to drive adoption the linux onboarding process has to be better than the windows onboarding process, which is a massively difficult because the windows process is "purchase a computer, hit the power button, and watch the OS as configured by the manufacturer boot."
Google did it with ChromeOS. Sure it's more limited in scope but it's built using traditional GNU/Linux components in a user friendly and polished way.
Who is going to pay for your domain name? I was in jail and luckily had someone pay for one of my domains, but all the others I owned got recycled because I couldn't get to the Internet to pay for them.

How many years in advance can you pay? What does ICANN support? 10 years?

"maximum remaining unexpired term shall not exceed ten years"
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/faqs-84-2012-02-25-en#...
Pretty sure advertising on a billboard in Times Square is also more expensive than on a highway billboard in Nebraska...
https://vimeo.com/43536445
You'd never even heard of the EO before today, so I understand why you're confused.

Nothing ever went into effect, it would have run afoul of the First Amendment, and it made demands US gov agencies that are statutorily outside presidential control. Trump didn't know this because...well he's a game show host. That's why I used the word "sought" (you can scroll up to find it).
>My complaint about that track is that it's very muddy (none of the instruments playing together sound very clear).

This is partially the point though. It's meant to evoke a feeling, not to be a picture perfect, clean separation, pristine recording of instruments. One of Spector's sayings when talking about certain instruments in his Wall of Sound arrangements was "Felt not heard".
Ellen seems to have gotten the most growth from the original short story. And I was very happy to see that, because the original had a couple of cringe-worthy passages about her. Maybe they weren't as eyebrow-raising in 1967, but I definitely winced a few times on re-reading it a few years ago.
Funny, I was just reading about this https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-paper-data-storage-option/ a few hours earlier.

Trying to find paper storage schemes for digital information.

ps: oh and the main linked site is dead (sic) so https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
Ok, it's pretty obvious at this point that you are not actually trying to have a serious conversation. My slander? It's slander to say that white men have oppressed and often continue to oppress women and people of color? Ok my guy. Apparently history and paying attention to what is currently going on is slander. Stop your trolling.
My actual business name is fairly generic, so the LLC can be repurposed if necessary. I make my branding unique and fun.
Like I get that PulseAudio was unreliable for many years that fostered hate for it but it's absolutely crazy that people say that it's useless. You need something to collect sound streams from applications and mics, mix them, transform them, and output them to a bunch of different kinds of hardware with different requirements. Like Pipewire is fantastic but it's just a more reliable PA.
> How is the data encoded?

Well, any contemporary and well-understood encoding would work very well.

Perhaps the presence of such an object in the sky, visible to anyone, would automatically preserve knowledge of the encoding (people have always been interested in the stars). So if the encoding was US-ASCII in Cockney English, knowledge of cockney rhyming slang might well be conserved (at least among some "priesthoods") for hundreds or thousands of years.

$DEITY, I hope people don't start engraving their tweets on huge rolls of tinfoil, and having them unfurled by Bezos in upper orbit.
I don’t know what the OP was referring to but WSL is Linux on Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/
You could equally well get or buy a PC pre-installed with Linux where someone else made sure everything was well-supported. It's not that Windows has inherently better hardware support due to its architecture—rather, hardware manufacturers put in the effort to ensure that their (new) hardware can be used with the latest few versions of Windows, since they would otherwise lose a large part of their target market.

On the other hand, Linux tends to be much better at supporting older hardware that the manufacturers are no longer interested in selling, as well as working across a broader range of hardware platforms ranging from embedded IoT devices to supercomputers.
Why are some people not willing to spend money on these things? Isn't it a good thing to be willing to?

HW acceleration, great sleep support, nice trackpad drivers, good battery life, well integrated high-resolution display support, high res audio (AAC) over Bluetooth or integration to your other devices etc. etc.

Where's the freedom in not even being able to pay/opt-in for these things in your OS?

How is this thought providing freedom for the developers of a complicated driver or another great piece of SW?
> Ultimately it's a lack of resources. A company could produce a polished Linux desktop but nobody will pay for it so it won't happen.

Sadly, I have to agree with you. I am more than willing to be convinced otherwise, and I wish someone could/would convince me!

I have worked on commericial and open source desktop projects. On the commercial side, I worked on BeOS and OSX. On the open source side, I worked at Eazel, was a main developer of Nautilus (year 2000!) and worked on numerous GNOME libraries to improve the linux desktop experience.

When I compare the process and resources we had at Eazel to the process and resources used at Apple, there is no comparison. The amount of coordination, dedication and time put into shipping each version of OSX was incredible.

I want open source Linux desktop environments to succeed. This is why I poured my heart into Eazel and Nautilus. I would even do it again if I could be convinced the effort would succeed. After my experience with Eazel/Nautilus/GNOME and seeing how problems were solved at Be and Apple, I am not convinced the current system of linux desktop software development will ever yield a usable, general purpose product.

Please convince me I am wrong! I know various distros work for some and a certain set of people will continue to be pleased with what is available. I frequently look at the latest offerings and am visited (in spirit) by my various mentors from Be and Apple, pointing out all the issues and I realize how much work it will be to make "them" happy.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/nickdale/status/14506173593753436...
Care to elaborate on the teleportation mechanism?
Could you point to the violation please? I don’t see how users would be entitled to their modified software if they do not distribute it. Using the software is not distribution. Or is it?
No video tearing in years. Sure, I can haul an old laptop out of the basement. QT 5.6 is holding me back a bit. That is about money though and not linux. It is easier to absorb license fees in commercial software, sure. Need to read what the KDE people are doing.
Go is a solid piece of kit. No head or hand tracking, but the benefit is low weight and power efficiency. Basically, it's an all-in-one GearVR, which is a solid minimum viable standalone VR headset for lots of things like anything that involves a large virtual TV screen or spectating things like events in VR. Nice to see that it will be an open platform now, which will provide a nice baseline for apps to target who care about ensuring their content is accessible via cheap, open devices.
The common path for someone using Linux for home computing is transitioning from windows on hardware they already own.
Depends on the meat. I prefer braised (cooked in liquid) brisket/shank/tendon way more than cooked sous vide.

I've tried the 8-48 hour sous vide with beef/pork and didn't find it worthwhile.
Yikes, eight years waiting for a trial? Whatever happened to the 6th amendment?
What type of person knows how to install an operating system that isn't a tech geek/enthusiast? Not even Linux, who can install Windows or MacOS on an empty hard drive, but doesn't consider themselves to be a "computer person"?

If the Linux desktop can't take off until my grandma is able to install it herself, then well, yeah it's truly fucked.
I know of one that was over a hundred years old, and was gone in a few months.

One of the grandsons took most of the money, and it folded.
Well, the downside of calling them judges is that sometimes they make a call we don't agree with. Maybe legitimately, maybe not. But it isn't necessarily evidence of a systemic problem, even if it is entirely unjust for you.