skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had fun finding these on the keyboard for a while - it's great to come across a new emoji that combines and then go through all the others to see what you get. (The key question being, will it combine with City to give Giant X Destroying City, or just City With X For A Sun?)

One that annoys me - _something_ combines with bread to give Giant Circular Tear And Share Bread, but I've yet to find out what it is. (Edit: oh my god it's monkey bread.)
Gitlab.com has elevated error rates for Web, API, Git, Container Registry
They are dragging more into the public sphere than necessary

That's a bold claim. For you to accurately make that claim, you'd need to know every other piece of the story that lead to this point and lead them to feel that this public statement was their only remaining choice.
Anyone who’s followed the price of a 12v 100ah battery on Amazon has seen the plunge over the last year. $900 -> $400.
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
9000!!! In the PHP Dev environment, 9000 has been used for debugging for over a decade and the fpm-php project comes out and uses 9000 as their default. This is the definition of shooting yourself in the foot. Both solutions can easily switch ports but why choose 9000. It's not like xdebug was an obscure piece of software, it's the most widely used debugger on the platform.
Since you want impractical suggestions, you might enjoy “if Hemingway wrote JavaScript”
On an unrelated note, the video at the end demonstrating the new release it is awful. Awful in that anyone new to this who isn’t a tech nerd will be very confused and put off purchasing.

I know that purism does focus on the tech nerd audience - but with demos like that, good luck selling it to people who are just privacy-conscious who want a glorified, private flip phone replacement.
I'd rather say that a specific very annoying type of wrong people feels righteous, for reasons that range from psychotic entitlement to not understanding what they are doing. Right people often feel righteous for valid reasons.
Other philosophers enjoy watching meatbags trying to communicate through flatulence, delight in the many interpretations a single sound can entail, and marvel at the ensuing chaos.

On one hand, I agree that it sucks that the 'crypto' term has been overwhelmed by hucksters. On the other hand, I'd rather expect cryptographers to either pwn it, or comport themselves with a bit more dignity and call their field what it is: cryptography. You only lost a nickname. Deal.
Setting up Syncthing takes maybe 15min, so if that's compatible it would be sweet.
Type hints aren't actually enforced in Python. So for example a third party can import your code and call functions with the wrong type. Because of duck typing, sometimes this won't result in an error but could still cause a bug. You can explicitly check types with isinstance(), this library automates that.
Burkina Faso Internet Shutdown
You can't downvote submissions on HN.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123981 user 'pwg' says:

> Flagging is the closest to a "dislike" option available. But it is suggested to use it for items that are off topic.

> The better way to make sure items you find to be "positive" make the front page is to upvote everything you think deserves to get there. Upvote the positive, ignore the negative, and the negative will fade from view.

Officially, there's https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html but I wish it went into more detail about what the HN norms are regarding upvoting/downvoting/flagging.
The Dwarvish caps look stunning. Technically, the dwarves were the first beings on Arda (excluding the Maiar and Valar), so they've always held a very special place in my heart.

LoTR (and associated works) is so ridiculously good - I really encourage people to read them if you haven't.

Anyway, ordered a set of both. I don't love the colors for the Elvish but this is probably the only series in the world where I would actively be a collector of things for, and I love my mech.
From the replies I see that the focus is mostly on embedded and/or consumer. I understand the point then.
If your argument is that the NSA doesn't have your fingerprint because only the Global Entry Program has your fingerprint, I find that highly suspect. Of all the databases to be shared with the CIA and the NSA, Global Entry seems entirely reasonable that they be given access. Unlike state's driver license database where it's objectionable that the NSA be allowed to access it, Global Entry has to do with people coming in and out of the country and so seems entirely reasonable the NSA would have access, never mind the fine print no one reads when signing up for the program. I wouldn't be surprised if any of the three programs (Global Entry, TSA Pre, Clear) have it in their fine print that the CIA is legally given access to that database.
AFAIK iOS actually uses the pattern of veins below the fingertip rather than an image of the fingerprint itself. So I can't imagine this would be enough to unlock an iPhone.
It absolutely does not, according to /r/cpp. There have been disputes that nearly led to physical violence, racial slurs, and more. It's just all more "private" by nature of happening in conference rooms and private mailing lists.
Maybe Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes[1]. These techniques might not be useful to everybody, all the time, but they can be very handy in places.

Edit:

A couple of other suggestions.

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images[2]

Mining of Massive Datasets[3]

Algorithm Design Manual[4]

Network Algorithmics[5]

Neural Network Design[6]

I think all of these fall into the category of "Won't be applicable to everyone, but can be good for those who need this kind of stuff."

[1]: https://github.com/clever-algorithms/CleverAlgorithms

[2]: https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ammoffat/mg/

[3]: http://www.mmds.org/

[4]: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...

[5]: https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...

[6]: https://hagan.okstate.edu/NNDesign.pdf
Thanks for pointing out the URL - I tried and failed to find it when I discovered these for myself, but now you've found it for me I might try to make something to enumerate them.
Every non-trivial collection of humans contains drama; personally I’ll be sticking with Rust for as long as the language itself continues being great.
Pretty much everything by Smullyan is interesting (probably all, but I haven't read it all yet).
Well, have they provided an account of those reasons?
> the immediate number of downvotes on this comment is interesting. I'd be interested in hearing from a down-voter on what their objection is

Did you edit your comment at some point after publishing to be a little more mild (e.g. remove the word "childish" or something)? I apparently downvoted you at some point, although I don't see anything currently in your comment that would have caused me to do that.

I'm not sure where I land on COC-style stuff myself, but I have zero patience for people who are insulting to those in favor of them with words like "childish." If you had something like that in your comment at one point, I would have downvoted it. (TBH your comment is borderline with claiming COCs are "arbitrary," but I wouldn't have downvoted just for that.)
Here in the UK stroads were pretty much eliminated everywhere during the 70s and 80s by building bypasses. A bypass is a road built in an arc around a town to divert through-traffic away from the town centre, leaving only the slow street traffic (mostly people coming from outside town to shop). Larger towns have more complicated arrangements, but the pattern is the same: keep through traffic away from the streets in the business area. The business area itself is often pedestrian-only and always has restrictions to make driving through it a slow business.

Typical example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9997356,-0.9166437,14.25z?...

More complex example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1101752,-0.1713974,7297m/d... . Note the M23 on one side, Crawley Avenue on the other, and Peglar Way right in the middle. All of them serve to route traffic around the town centre instead of through it.

In many cases you can see how the original through-road (sometimes dating back to Roman times) had the bypass patched on; without the bypass the "High Street" would have been a stroad.

(Fans of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy may recall Arthur Dent's cottage being demolished to make way for a bypass. This was an issue: the nature of bypasses meant that building them often required the demolition of nice little cottages on the outskirts of small towns.)
heads up that the RealID deadline got pushed back to May 3, 2023
I like the dark brown crispy splotches.
It was PSP 4. Everybody else was heads down working on PSP 5, and I was the new guy, so I got the grunt work.
I agree, my thought is less that I think an amoeba feels pain (I don't) but that I don't personally believe things with insect-level complexity feel pain. That they react to negative stimuli definitely doesn't prove sentience, and I personally find the totality of how insects interact with the world to be too extremely mechanistic to believe they feel at all. This is true of crabs as well, I've never really looked into lobsters enough to have an opinion on them.
> benevolent dictator is not significantly worse

I think your normative justification for project dictatorship misses the more important point: there's probably a dictatorship either way.

In these cases, the main advantage of the overt dictatorship model over the layer of indirection dictatorship model is that you at least know who's really in charge.

In some odd sense, the mod team that just resigned is in agreement: their resignation lays vare exactly who's in charge.
Just "crypto". Many words have multiple meanings, and we use context to figure it out.
That looks good! Thanks!
There have absolutely been rapid meme based crowd funding of projects in the past. Crypto enhances it because there are a lot of people who’ve made so much money that handing it out like candy is something they can do, but that really wasn’t new.

Also, they lost.
>It's not a power grab, because they just relinquished power

Relinquished what power? If they had said power, surely they would have gotten their way yes? Perhaps this is just an incremental iteration of the ongoing fight for power, a last ditch effort to get public sentiment behind them.

>agreed to it

This could have been a tactical choice to avoid fighting head on in that battle, waging the larger war against the CoC by simply ignoring it over time. It is just as likely to assume many who "agreed" to it didn't really agree with it, evidenced by them not following it. And here we are, it seems these people have "won" as they didn't follow it and the the team pushing it/enforcing it lost. So perhaps this strategy was the optimal one. "Agree" to a thing to move on with more important matters and ignore those who nominally are tasked with enforcing it but have no real power, if ignored.
Interesting metric. I recently came across this team [1] in Seattle that is building what you mention. Disclaimer: after coming across the team I decided to invest in their equity crowdfunding effort.

[1] https://joulecase.com/
Enthusiasm for actually building EVs has been pretty mixed among the established players

Dieselgate may end up being the best thing that could have happened to Volkswagen as they were all in on extending combustion as far as possible before they got caught cheating. They have made an excellent pivot to BEVs in a pretty short time for such a large company, with MEB designed to produce profitable vehicles not just compliance cars.

Ford is also really embracing electrification, with their two most valuable nameplates already getting EVs in F-150 and Mustang (even if it is a crossover and not a pony car). I'd like to see them have more aggressive plans for ramping up production, but announcing doubling their plans for 2024 recently was a good start.

On the other hand, Toyota looks poised to be dragged kicking and screaming into a BEV, Honda's response has been pretty underwhelming (even if I'd camp at a Honda dealer to get an e if they brought it to north america), and Nissan has completely squandered any early lead they could have built from Leaf.

Everyone else is somewhere in-between, with GM making some interesting moves in Volt and Bolt (terribly confusing names) but lacking a strategic vision, Stellantis seems content to dabble (but that's true of their ICE plans as well), and JLR is planning BEV Defender and Range Rover which done well could be real hits for them.

*edit: totally forgot the Koreans. Kia/Hyundai are in the enthusiastic group, with the new e-gmp platform using 800V batteries and the ionic 5 being the best looking car you can get right now.
Translating from don't-sue-me "extreme skepticism" obviously means "they're a clique of manipulative liars".
Agreed. I'd say that we've tended to be more biased against and dismissive of his viewpoint, though. Primitive. Noble savage. Convert. Re-educate. Exterminate. etc.
There's a bunch of literature on this if you start with a search for population-weighted density. There isn't one true way to do it, and scale matters greatly.
Perhaps try the following - which admittedly could be considered risky depending on your tolerance?

1. Save up as much money as reasonable. This will help buffer you in case you lose your future job (and can not return to your old job).

2. Retain as much of a good relationship with your current employer as possible...Because if you lose any other jobs, you want a fallback. This might seem odd, but when i worked in real estate, apparently that was somewhat not odd. Folks jumped ship from one realtor company to another and after some time back again, etc. Not everyone, and not all the time, but this industry more than others that i've worked in seemed to be ok with this. (I'm not suggesting that you joina real esate company, simply that some industries are ok with same person jumping back and forth into a company.) Also, if you hit a really hard time and have dependents and/or need any benefits like healthcare that come with this, existing job...you want to be able to return to your legacy job in a pinch and provide for your family, etc.

3. Once you have some savings, and a good relationship with soon-to-be-former employer, try one of the following: join a startup, and maybe join it at a slightly junior level than what you do currently; or, start looking at contract-related/project-related work; or, try and start your own business (I suggest a 1-person business at first...do not go for some mega business or even a multi-person company right away). In other words, do NOT try to get a "conventional" full-time/permanent, 40-hour per week sort of role at a non-startup firm. Any of these options will expose you to very different scenarios...and all could be something that you either try for a short time and then move onto other jobs...Or, if you enjoy, can stick to the same one.

I want to clarify again, that doing the above is risky...or at least, if i were in your frame of mind (as you described), it would feel very risky to me. And even if you can mitigate the risk at first, you might still feel overwhelmed since even only the "newness" might open up new/rusty synapses in your brain...likely giving you that nervous though maybe exhilarating feeling. FINAL CAUTION: I am not a doctor nor life coach or anything like that...I am only a random person/outside observer on the internet, so please take my suggestion with a grain of salt for what is appropriate for your life. Good luck!!!!
Just put out an ad to have someone take over your lease. Sweeten the deal if you have to (offer to pay their first month). I've had a couple people do this without problem.
You aren't being cynical, it's basically been the story of the last half century in the US. Despite massive increases in automation of all kinds, most wages haven't kept up with inflation, and wealth inequality is worse than during the gilded age. In the tech sector we are moving toward digital feudalism in which we own nothing and survive only on the good graces of our lords. In the physical world less land than ever is owned by actual human beings, and more is being bought up every day.
That's no scoop at all. This reads like it's just some guy making stuff up.
Dirtbikes aren't exactly very heavy. Even a sedan with a small trailer can pull a few dirt bikes.
How to Work from Home – Revisited
> This could have been an easily avoidable data breach.

Like Twitter has done it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking ?

It is super easy to give lessons after the fact
> Even though provable, tech transfer in aerospace innovation proves most abundant.

When someone (usually NASA or NASA fanboys) does a Gish gallop and drops of huge list of things supposedly created by NASA, it's worth picking a couple to take a deep dive into. When you look at the details, the amount of tech transfer is often not anywhere close to the amount claimed.

Still, there is good science and technology that comes out of NASA. But it's likely we'd have a lot better results if a large chunk of the NASA budget wasn't spent throwing people up into space for no reason.
But if you just say "we don't want to be moderators anymore" nothing would change would it? The whole point of the statement is that the mod-team believes something in the organisational structure needs to change.

What would you have done in that case?
See the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306.
Proprietary software has a lot of problems and open source was a good response to them, but it's notable that proprietary isn't as prone to the 'middle school' problem. When money is involved, there's more alignment.
>I don't get it. So you're okay with obscene profits, as long as they're taxed appropriately?

No, this was a possible solution

>What counts as "obscene profits"? Purely from a % point of view? What if the drug has high R&D costs? What if they drug have a small patient base to amortize fixed costs over? What if the drug was a moonshot project with little chance of succeeding?

I included all of this.

My issue is with this law of economics "prices should be the maximum possible" so if you notice the R&D, risks are not part of the price, is all about maxing it out at any costs (lives, environment,some laws etc). Of course you should make enough profit to recover your R&D, risks and all the other costs the problem is the economic people will tell you don't stop.

Btw there are people that are not obsessed by making more money, especially by harming others, but I seen a lot of "how to get rich fast" books,webinars etc where some dude will teach you how to sucker others and make a lot of profit.
I quit my job in 2018 without any other opportunity lined up.

I used all of my savings to go on an extended trip to Asia, the idea being that I'll travel around, work on my own projects, and do some freelancing to cover my expenses.

Things didn't go as planned though, I got robbed in the hostel I was staying at and lost my macbook. Eventually I decided to cut my trip short and go back home where I started freelancing (which I'm still doing currently) and I would say it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
This doesn't scale though, and OpenBSD - as much as I love it - is a clear example of that. Compare Theo who remains abrasive at times, and Linus, who realized that project the size of Linux cannot be handled with complete disregard for safe, inviting environment. Toxic leaders are the reason there's this idea that projects that are built on merit somehow must be ruthless and uninviting. It's really easy to e.g. confuse critique and criticism and in result give project the "avoid whenever possible" badge.
Wow I love both Hemingway and JavaScript. I look forward to this book.
I left my job (Senior Developer at an Agency) a little over a year ago. I did have a plan in that I've always wanted to build a SAAS product, but I knew going in that it was very unlikely to be successful enough to make a living at.

It's been overwhelmingly positive experience for me. Caveat is that I have no children, no debt outside of student loans, and had several years of living expenses saved if I needed it.

The peaks:

- I built a SAAS product I'm proud of that a few companies are using and paying for. This has been on my bucket list for a decade or more.

- I have total control over how I spend my day, which has mostly (see valleys) been a tremendous boon for my mental health.

- I've had a healthy amount of time to spend with my partner and loved ones (although Covid obviously complicated this pre-vaccine).

- I've had more time to focus on my hobbies, and have made more progress on music in the last year than ever before.

- I've managed to contract with some great companies and individuals to cobble together a meager living while still having a lot of control over my time.

The valleys:

- Some days can feel directionless. Sometimes I can turn this into a positive and take a meandering walk and think about things, sometimes it makes me feel unproductive and down on myself.

- Even though I've barely tapped into my savings, I'm frequently concerned about money / unplanned expenses.
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>OpenPOWER has little software. ARM has a lot of software.

Most Linux software has being ported over.
The services (schools, police, fire) aren't better in a city. They're more expensive and usually significantly worse.
So they take security patches from Debian for some packages. I guess the kernel has to be Linux-compatible at least for that to be sensible, so it's probably Linux.
That's what investigations and courts of law are for. Your hypothetical of "what if you killed someone and then framed it as self-defense" is an argument as old as time. It is the basis of every justice system humanity has ever created. This idea goes beyond the Bible.
Might be better to link directly to the paper (which this press release does not bother to do):

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/ee/d0ee0268...

Here is their better chart:
https://pubs.rsc.org/image/article/2021/EE/d0ee02681f/d0ee02...

Looks to me like price decreases are substantially slowing on a log scale.
I read Mythical Man Month last year and was amazed at how relevant it still was even at a space of several decades. So much wisdom in such a small book.
What else have you read of his that you recommend (related or not to this thread)?
As I've been touch typing for 35 years and never look at the keyboard, I like to make my keyboards unusable to my kids to encourage them to stay off my computers. I currently use the Das Keyboard Ultimate, which has plain black keys with no lettering.

The hardcore elvish looks nice though and might work pretty well in an office environment. Although I might go Dwarvish for my data mining needs.

The best setup to drive people made is arranging the keys alphabetically. It's tougher on a person who can't touch type than having blanks.
The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate
Arktoon Minecraft (Creatures and Texture Update) – Minecraft PE Mods and Addons
See also https://emoji.kitchen/ by who I assume the same folks as the Gboard feature.
It isn't naive when practically every other Western country has far less homeless drug addicts and people in desperate poverty than the US. Unless I am naive and the incentives to commit crimes like this do not come from poverty and the lack of opportunity. Cars in other countries have catalytic converters. Is this kind of crime as rampant there?
With most OSS projects nowadays I don't think you have to use a mailing list or anything that would have an MOTD in order to contribute. Contributions nowadays are often done entirely through the repository, so it makes sense to put in them the things that people contemplating contribution should be cognizant of.

Repositories for most projects are more project repositories than mere code repositories.