skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to get paid, charge money. It's ok if "opensource" is more important than getting paid, but it is probably helpful to acknowledge which one or the other is more important to you.

Be aware that charging money is hard for a lot of people and they would rather pursue something doomed to failure than face the possibilities for rejection that come from asking people to pay.

Good luck.
This is a helpful apolitical perspective. We need to improve social safety. But the pandemic is different in scope. It's not that the plane crashed. Rather, our technology "may have" allowed us to accidentally make a pandemic. It's as if no plane crash had ever occurred before, and now we made one happen. If we understand what really happened, we might see this event as bringing us into a new era in our evolution. The fact that we can imagine this to be the case even while firmly denying it to be what happened it's a firm sign that the times have changed.
Seems like it's similar in performance to Jackson?
If you happen to have, or know of a list of the others, I'd be very interested in reading it.
"In 1942, engineers took a 130-horsepower Russian aircraft motor and bolted it to the back of the car for some test runs."

"Test runs" is likely a euphemism for "got drunk and nearly killed themselves playing silly buggers". That thing is a steampunk precursor of the insanity that was the ME 163 Komet - just add wings and a leather flying hat with goggles!
> It is not a mere coincidence that discussing Marx’s Capital is never the point.

> They are approximately equivalent in their influence on humanity, but only one of them offers a critique of the immediate situation.

And only one of them lead to the death of millions of people. There is a reason some things are discredited. People don't generally spend time debating the points of Mein Kamf either.
Unsolicited Bulk Recruiting, perhaps?
I really think this is a great list however I think one of the major factors why this project succeeded isn't listed but is mentioned in the intro.

> We hit production with a 3-person team in less than a year; and subsequently scaled the team to 30+ engineers spanning multiple sub-teams

Starting with a small skilled team to build the core and actively plan for a larger team at some point is absolutely critical for project success in my experience, especially with complex projects like this. That small team can have a much tighter communication loop and all keep a single unified picture of what the end goal is. When the team grows this single unified picture is no longer feasible so it has to be broken down into sections, which is a good thing, but if the core isn't setup so that the sections are sufficiently decoupled things fall apart quickly.
> While NSO Group created hacking tools, and then did some questionable things with them

Wow, that's some serious softballing there. At a minimum, The NSO Group knowingly facilitates criminal activity. They shouldn't be treated as if they were a legitimate organization.
So I take it that getting $600,000 in the US is not hard?

What world do you live it? Apparently one where you expect taxi drivers to 1) own a house instead of rent, and 2) have enough collateral in the house. I certainly couldn't get that sort of loan.

> Signing a prescription with their name and MD however would be a felony.

Like I said, if an MD moves to another state and does the same thing (that is, doesn't get a medical license in the state) then it's also a felony. Does that make the MD program from other states bad? No.

> It's unclear how much classes ...

It's also unclear how many classes a German MD (or one from India, Russia, Japan, or any other non-US program) would need to take to be an MD in the US.

You haven't pointed to anything to back your statements. I have.

Here you go - https://www.ama-assn.org/education/international-medical-edu... :

] "After ECFMG certification, physicians who wish to practice medicine in the United States must complete an accredited residency training program in the United States or Canada. This process will take at least 3 years. The physician will have to complete a residency program regardless of the training he or she has received overseas."

By your categorization, NO medical degrees from outside the US and Canada are recognized in the US. I guess we can conclude "That speaks for the quality" of ALL overseas medical programs, not just Cuba's.
Interesting take but how do you explain almost half of all companies being founded by immigrants or their children?
Just another case where a library tests and publishes results for all competing libraries slower than it, but none faster. cough simdjson [1] cough

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[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
That’s just dodging the parents point though, which isn’t the implementation of whatever is in the pages of a text but that the text itself doesn’t get as much discussion intentionally because it’s more relevant than other works that serve as feel good dopamine hits for the intellectual.
It's almost as if everyone has forgotten that the wet market/eating strange things hypothesis was concocted by the Chinese government.

You guys should see the propaganda du jour- the Chinese government claims covid comes from deer in North America.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Debt

It would be good to find a review (positive or negative) of that movie by economists, not movie critics. Until then, call me a skeptic.
I have all the Affinity apps (Photo, Designer and Publisher) and they are all excellent alternatives to the Adobe equivalents (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign). Unlike Adobe apps, Affinity apps are not subscription-based.

Note that the Affinity apps are feature rich and produce professional results, but they are not designed to mimic all the tools in Adobe apps i.e. Affinity apps are not feature-equal to Adobe (by design).

If you are designing YouTube thumbnails or posters, then the Affinity apps will be more than capable.

There are also a fairly large number of tutorials on the Affinity apps, particularly on YouTube. And if you ever get stuck trying to achieve something in Affinity Photo, there's enough overlap between Photo and Photoshop that you can usually follow a Photoshop tutorial and recreate it in Photo.

The Affinity website has a showcase of work made in their apps: https://affinityspotlight.com/

If Affinity feels like overkill for you needs, an online template service like canva.com might be worth a look. Canva have ready-designed templates you can modify (including posters and YouTube thumbnails). They have a free tier and paid subscription tier.
Apple Suing NSO
> why should I trust that you will ship flawless code

You shouldn’t, because no code of sufficient complexity is flawless.

> just deploy a new version of the smart contract

On the Ethereum blockchain (for instance) storage and smart contracts are tightly coupled. If you move to a new smart contract you may well lose your state. This is fine in many cases and preferable in some. But not in others!
Any discussion of falling turkeys must include this WKRP excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
Replace "Apple" by any traditional car company and you should immediately become concerned. Shouldn't a car company have absolute, one-sided control over the cars they sell? Like should the car stop working if you agreed to obey the speed limit but then sped? Or stop working if you didn't use their branded fluids?
> there have been cultures without the concept of private property

Someone taking your car is fine if you can go take a different communal car.

If everyone else still has private property, and now you can't get to work or the store, that's a very different and very bad situation.
Big discussion, currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320986
> And only the most pretentious of font snobs (…) could tell the difference between a Helvetica and an Arial specimen.

Everybody with a passing interest in typefaces can tell Helvetica and Arial apart—that’s hardly a hallmark of pretentiousness. Judging Arial as a Helvetica clone might be pretentious, especially given how Helvetica is itself a clone (of Akzidenzk Grotesk).

> TNR is an absolutely brilliant font for its intended use case (i.e. dense body text).

Being optimised for denseness makes it a bad default choice for Word though… Especially for the page wide one column layouts that 99% of Word documents are. I think it works much better in the narrow newspaper columns for which it was designed, and where space is at a premium.

Times and Times New Roman get used often in scientific publishing, I imagine because the fonts default-looking-ness makes things look undesigned and unfrivolous. Also here it looks off in the single column designs most books use. I have a hard copy of SICP, which is typeset in LaTeX, and it really bums me that it’s set in Times. Especially since LaTeX’s default font Computer Modern works better for readability IMHO.

> Virtually every mainstream font out there is a riff on some design that's been around for a century or more.

For sure! https://i.liketightpants.net/and/no-one-starts-from-scratch-...
Right. In the case of USDC, whoever has the private key to their proxy contract’s owner account. You’re trusting their engineering team to do the right thing.

(EDIT: if I’m reading my etherscan correctly, it’s account 0xfcb19e6a322b27c06842a71e8c725399f049ae3a with upgrade rights. Sorry, I’m in transit so tapping on my phone.)
As far as I'm aware CBDCs are a largely theoretical concept right now, do you have any links to an implementation such as you're describing? No videos please, I don't watch them.
Biden Now Trying to Mandate Inter-State Covid Vax
You want civil war?

This is how you get civil war.
As far as I'm aware CBDCs are a largely theoretical concept right now, do you have any links to an implementation such as you're describing?
Right now I'd conclude that you can accidentally release things from labs with virtually no consequences. Just make sure that a similar virus exists naturally somewhere on the same continent, don't share any internal records, don't let your staff talk to the press, and you have plausible deniability.
> Mastery learning doesn't have to be harder than regular teaching. It just requires the teacher to split the class after each quiz and spend some time teaching remedial content to the under-performing group.

This very easily leads to teaching three different grade levels of material. If you have a larger class the spread can very easily be even bigger. This is why ed schools emphasise enrichment over acceleration. You cannot teach a class where most of the class is doing Grade 6 material, three are doing Grade 9, two aren't really ready for Grade 5 and one kid is doing Grade 11.

> I think your point is that teachers don't like teaching unmotivated students so they ignore mastery learning programs.

Not really. I don't think mastery learning is necessarily harder than age based classes but it would require at minimum a complete reorganisation of how schools work. You would have to abandon age based classes altogether.

> Many Charter schools are specifically set up to teach under-performers. Why do those schools ignore mastery learning?

It's weird. The teachers don't want it. There's no demand for it.
Reminds me of when the Oracle v. Google case was argued in front of the Supreme Court on a series of metaphors, among other things comparing Java to football teams: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/9/21506172/oracle-google-ja...
The author strikes me as someone focused on something other than incident and problem management. The answers or depend on what you’re looking at.

The cause of the incident used in the example is the configuration change. Resolution is rollback.

When you look at problem management, the root causes of the problem are likely process issues that need to be addressed. (Or not)

Think of a non tech example to help understand. Look at a picture of an early superhighway from the 1950s like the New York State Thruway, New Jersey Turnpike, etc. Notice that there are no guardrails or they are made of wood.

When a 1950s driver fell asleep and ran off the road, flipping and getting ejected from the car, he died. The cause of the incident was him falling asleep and losing control.

But for the highway engineer, many problems are introduced by this incident. The shoulder could be graded to avoid rollover. Appropriate barriers could prevent the rollover. Rumble strips wake up the driver. For the mechanical engineer at a car company, seatbelts prevent ejection, safety glass prevents eviceration, crumple zones prevent trauma.

None of those things prevent the guy from falling asleep in that incident. But they address the greater problem of highway fatality.
You have the option to choose any of the other EV makers, but this one EV maker has very fast charging stations worldwide in strategic locations, with lounges and predictable charging rates.

Of the 3 EVs that I drive, only the Tesla I would take outside the city. Even if the others had a much bigger range (they don't) I would not be comfortable outside of the Tesla supercharging network because I've encountered many difficulties with ChargePoint, evGO, etc: stations not working, backed up, slow charging, high cost, etc.

The ecosystem is its charging network because it's very reliable and eliminates range anxiety.
I’m surprised to see “this book is dangerous” as a reason why a book shouldn’t be discussed in intellectual spaces in a place like HN.
They'd have to prove that Apple was negligent to sell software with flaws, but that's gonna be tough considering that much software has flaws.
It's simpler just watching unboxing videos? or finding some keywords on youtube?
What’s Cystic Fibrosis? – HealthLineFit
Not sure if you're in on the joke, but for those who didn't go to the repo itself:

https://github.com/golang-jvm/golang-jvm

It's just a copy-paste of JRuby on April 1st and the readme now includes a rickroll.

Maybe it's irresponsible of them to leave it up in a way that Google still finds as a legitimate-looking search result.
My RSI was mostly solved by switching from a split keyboard to a tenting keyboard (Goldtouch V2 at 30-degree tenting angle) and a vertical mouse (Evoluent). Then it was finally solved by strength training of my back and shoulders (10 sessions of "Body Pump" fitness class and ongoing maintenance). Maybe those things would work for you, too?
The big difference between Marx and Plato is that Plato’s political theories have never been empirically tested.
> Yes, it's cheaper by the fluid ounce to buy a barrel of Pine-sol at Costco.

Its frequently cheaper to buy the same size package of a grocery item at a traditional grocery store than a dollar store; I've seen cases as extreme as things that regularly go 4/$1 (and occasionally go on sale at 10/$1) at regular grocery stores going for 1/$1 at a dollar store.

But if you don't have a regular grocery store in convenient distance (walking/biking distance if you don't have working car!), that doesn't matter. (Costco and similar stores present another level of problem; they tend to both be more distant for most people than even standard grocery stores and to bias toward larger package sizes—aside from whether you can afford to tie up money in the larger item even with a smaller unit cost, storage space becomes a problem.)
This is great! I remember Raymond’s post from my distant past. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again — it’s very relevant.
Using Awk with CSV Files
thank you for posting this.... it looks like exactly what I've been wanting. Looking forward to where the product goes!
It's sad to see a simple password manager go. Even if it's integrated inside Firefox most users will probably look elsewhere (Bitwarden, Keepass). I use the later, the file db works great and its easy to move between devices when needed.

Also, donations to Mozilla go to the foundation instead of the corporation. The only way to give them some useful money is paying for the services they sell like the VPN service (but also don't forget that Mozilla is just a Mullvad reseller).
Plenty of people, including me, fill tires with free air at gas stations which gets them in the door. It's not surprising that cheap tire pressure gauges would be sold near the checkout, unrelated to drug use.
I'll definitely second Affinity. I use both Affinity Photo and Designer. I find it has all the features I would expect from something like PS or ID. The only issues I have ever had with it is relying on 20 years of Adobe muscle memory, but every time I use it I get that much more comfortable with it.
Java, the language where linear probing is considered high-tech.

What's gonna happen once they discover robinhood hashing?
*Apple VP of SW Engineering: "Apple devices are the most secure consumer hardware on the market"*

... except for how Apple sends a copy of all of your data that passes through their servers to the NSA. No, I'm not espousing a conspiracy theory, this has been brought to light by Edward Snowden's revelations. Now, we don't know how much of the data on Apple phones gets sent to Apple's servers, so it's not literally everything on your phone, but at least everything that's backed up remotely, and possibly more.

So, pot calling the kettle black.

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*"to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware"*

Note that Apple is not saying "to prevent", only "to curb". But even worse than that, they're saying "curb abuse", not "curb use", as though that type of state spying is not inherently abusive.

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*"State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability. That needs to change,"*

Apple has a larger R&D budget than most world states. In fact, Apple themselves probably spend more money on sophisticated surveillance technologies than half the world's states combined. Certainly if we count things like dynamic image analysis from all those cameras on phones and cars and such. Why is it an unaccountable foreign corporation better than a government? They're both pretty bad.
I recently listened to the audiobook of Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. It's full of great descriptions of a habitat akin to one of these, especially with the experience of getting from the entry-point at the axis to the outer wall.

It might be the only book that's ever given me the feeling of agoraphobia with some of the descriptions. I'd love to see some kind of adaptation, but it's not sure if a TV screen could ever do justice to the scale.
All the networks were obsessed with real-time audience metrics, which is even more prescient.
> it's the opposite of how sanitation tends to be handled in large JS frameworks such as Angular.

But they still do server side input validation, right? Otherwise, that would be a security concern.
It seems its mostly written in assembly? I'd be worried about portability, maintainability, and security.

I'd be way more comfortable if it was written in C, or better yet Rust.
> You're confusing safety with stability.

Potayto, potahto I guess.
Tutorial: Start Collecting NFTs on the Wax Blockchain
Where does that say that it will autofill?
while living in a small apartment long ago, I had to give my weekly laundry to someone in the neighborhood who owned many many laundry robots

to their credit, they charged an incredibly fair price, and even folded
Thats actually a good question given the paper overhead non-accredited investors prob. don't get access to any decent opportunities.
Don't get so hung up on that salary. Managing a 400 million + revenue company with 700+ employees is a big job with lots of responsibility and legal liability. Considering what US developers make, 2 million is not a lot of money for that job in SF and perfectly fine for a qualified CEO.

Mozilla did not find a qualified candidate and had to make due with a weak one, probably in part due to the low compensation.
It’s not that it’s dangerous. It’s that it has been tried and shown not to work.

It certainly merits a history lesson and a post-mortem discussion, but that’s about it.
Yes, 20 years ago there was an enormous demand for being able to watch any show you wanted at any time, in any place.
It would be nice to have a button to switch between exaggerated depth and normal depth.
It wouldn't be hard, from a technical or scientific point of view, to give access to the labs' files to an independent commission of inquiry. That's what democracies do, but obviously not communist dictatorships. If there was a leak, it could be easily found, and if there wasn't, while the absence of evidence would not be definite proof, it would lower the plausibility for the hypothesis.
That explains a lot. I must have missed that episode, thanks for the pointer.
well to be fair, you should never exercise if it isn't early exercise. the odds are very much against you. I mean, by the odds you shouldn't early exercise either but at least you don't get hit by the AMT bullet.
"this is a not-for-profit organisation, so 'business model' is a bit of a loaded term"

This particular not-for-profit may have no business model, i.e. no revenue outside of donations.

But there are many not-for-profit entities that rely on services/fees (as opposed to donations) to fund their operations. For many of these non-profits, the main things that distinguish them from for-profit companies is that:

A) The founders don't get rich from an exit. They (and their cronies) get rich from buying their own services.

B) They can more easily get contracts from government entities that can for-profit companies. Because somehow people see outsourcing to for-profit companies as 'privatization', but outsourcing to non-profits as supporting the local economy.
I'm confused. So... someone figured out that you can use cc65 to compile C code for the C64, and then he stuck it into an Emscripten version of VICE and put it on the web? I can click on "run" and it looks like it's compiling the two programs, puts them on a floppy, and then runs VICE with that floppy... What's the point of this?

I can see the source code when I click on "show files", but I cannot edit anything, I think I'm obviously missing something here... how is that an IDE? Or is the IDE running inside VICE and I can load it somehow?

Can someone enlighten me?
Perhaps the convenience of having one device function as both a notebook and all-round e-reader is not worth the trade-offs you mention.

My 2013 Kobo Aura HD (still in perfect condition!) is a standard item in my bag, and still sees daily use as a bedtime reader. Having Calibre automatically sync reading positions between devices would allow me to leave it at home. Problem solved :)
Ok this is very helpful yeah, there's this strange dynamic where people want to come by to take a look ( as if we're a vendor on the side of the street which we kind of are in this context ), but then no one wants to be the first to move. On Zoom everything is extra weird because ... Zoom.
It's very surprising that in the 30 years of computer animation the sources of actual experimentation with the style come from ... Marvel and Riot Games.
> Since education rather than money is calling the shots, we have the freedom to ask unheard-of questions.

Who is paying the bills, then?

> no grades

There's a reason why students cram at the end of the semester. Without pressure from grades, they won't do the work of learning. I know for a fact that I don't learn if there aren't exams and grades.
GoDaddy Breach Widens
Answer: no, they weren't. The paper uses a maximum of handwaving ("granite is slightly radioactive and slightly ionizes the air, so it must be a critical part of the generator") and a minimum of numbers or data. Plus a giant heaping of credulity.

The blog is not technology, not history, and not engineering.