skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes. Contributing code to something doesn't mean that you suddenly control the direction of that thing.

I think the idea of gp's point about others forking code means the forkers can also influence the code because they control the fork.

Otherwise, if we take your comment at face value, we'd conclude that Google's contributions to Webkit means it can't "suddenly control the direction" of Apple's Webkit. That's true, but also becomes irrelevant because Google controls its fork of "Blink".

In other words, does Apple's Webkit control us that much? No, because it seems like Google's Blink/Chromium is sufficiently independent. If we go back farther in the timeline, are we concerned that KHTML controls us? No, because it seems like Apple's fork of Webkit is independent and not beholden to KHTML decisions.

If Microsoft really wanted to, it seems like they have the resources to do what Apple did to KHTML and what Chrome did to Webkit.
Ahh, this post feels like it's gonna be a footnote in the history of the Meta Matrix.
Do not buy time by shutting down travel and use failed watch/wait approach again - also WHO.
Looks nice, I've been rolling my own simple version of something similar because none of the existing solutions supported my main use case, which is to convert format on the fly for the target device (a la Plex)

In case you need ideas for future features :)
open source it and document it well. itll prove whether your library is valuable enough to others to leverage. You can put up a donation button for a buck. Selling the source of a tool to someone whos never used it is basically impossible. You need to garner interest first.

alternatively come up with a payment model that allows users to get familiarized for free and then commit to pay when they want some niceties, although you said youre done coding so i doubt youll want to put in that work.
Having used a Linux-based system and macOS I can tell you it's those poor folks using Linux that suffer most from bloated desktop applications. Recent macOS versions are really good at efficiently using the available memory so a 16Gb Macbook performs better under memory pressure than a 32Gb Linux box.
The bulletin board in the 2nd season also echoed LucasArts “Habitat” which is discussed in length in Levy’s book
>It seems that the market niche of tech-capable people who value privacy and customisation over a simplified UX is not capable of sustaining Firefox on its own.

>So Mozilla tries to move in Chrome's direction, removing configuration options and "dumbing down" the UI, which frustrates its existing user base (including me) while apparently also failing to eat into Chrome's market share.

You can have sensible defaults for people who value simplicity and want it to just work and have customisation accessible from the settings page for the people who want customization.
Beware that flashing your highs in Japan can mean “GTFO out of my lane”, and some drivers get really mad about it
“Capitalism is a smooth summabitch,” I said under my breath....

I wonder why the author doesn't go to one of the socialist Disney-type parks?
On-call best practices: an engineer's perspective
Nobody cares about? Mozilla tried to solve this exact problem with Boot2Gecko/FirefoxOS phones and failed.
Well, so much for any pretense that you're an objective, non-tribal commentator, amirite?

Obviously, there's a lot of hostility just beneath the surface. Unfortunately, you seem to have bought into exactly the right-wing persecution narrative I mentioned, which is designed to produce the emotional effect you're exhibiting here.

>reddit front page popular posts will give you a fantastic slice

To start detoxing, maybe stop taking Reddit comments as organic and consider the well-known manipulation of online spaces, meant to reinforce bad narratives.

I mean, you offering Reddit comments as proof of anything reveals just how susceptible you are to manipulation. It's bad. Really bad. Your reality is skewed.

>Tell me exactly which part of my argument you're dismantling

Thing is, I told you exactly what's wrong with your argument. Go back and read if you're really interested. I won't enter the infinite loop of re-explaining because every additional comment you make just piles on more bad logic--this, while your anger visibly increases. No coincidence there.

In general, you are regurgitating virtually every talking point you've been programmed to repeat, and even using the language of your programmers ("lefty", "signalling").

It's becoming a case study on exactly how the right has been manipulated, and especially how emotional and tribal vectors are used to circumvent intelligence and critical thinking; which is, of course, my assertion that started this subthread.

So, while I appreciate you offering yourself as a working demonstration of my point, I'm afraid I have no interest in continuing to participate in your demonstration. Fixing the damage here is well-above my pay grade, and I have no delusion otherwise.

Good luck.
True assuming good mixing (big assumption), but why are you conveniently throwing out concentration?

Are you assuming that if "any part of the piss touches me, regardless of how much - i die."?

edit: sorry thought you were grandparent poster and was a little more aggressive. But still..
Any old laptop you have laying around would do just fine and those are basically "free". It has a trackpad, keyboard, screen and speakers built-in, what more would you need. Only thing I'm worried about with laptops is the kids shutting the lid with a pen on the keyboard, breaking the screen. But so far they seem to manage that fine.
Worth noting that a "mistake" in Massachusetts includes not just things that are dangerous, but also such grave misconduct as stopping for a yellow light, going at only the speed limit, or riding a bicycle.
This seems to be a repeat of the GNOME issues years and years and years ago where people would complain that donations were used to try and encourage women to program instead of spending it on infrastructure etc. I seem to remember people who complained about it were shouted down as mysogenist.

It seems the organisations forget why they're here - to write software, not to try and solve all of mankind's issues and injustices. The scope becomes too broad and unfocused.
Ask HN: How to breathe life into a personal project (desktop wallpapers)?
Hi all.

It's Monday and I'm feeling sad. A perfect combination to sit down and write a long-read with a question. You are probably reading "New" section of HN out of boredom, let me try to entertain you and ask some questions along the way.

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Some background first.

I've been working as UI/UX/product designer since ~2000, and I taught myself everything I needed to develop a personal website - https://vlad.studio - including html/css/js/php/mysql/bash. Soon after, I started selling access to "premium" content of Vlad.studio (the definition of "premium" has changed multiple times, as well as business model - 4 different plans, then yearly subscription, etc - currently it's simply one-time purchase).

In 2010s, I was "freelancer" (read - no "real" job) and there has been a couple of years when Vlad.studio accounts were my main source of income (2000-3000 USD/month). Good old times! Then, one thing led to another, I got kind of depressed, then got swamped in a stressful job, then another one. Until maybe 2019, the website was almost abandoned.

Recently, with only some part-time projects, I'm feeling the need to breathe more life into the old friend of mine. Vlad.studio has always been special for me - a place to express myself, a place where I have no lack of positive feedback of my art. This is truly inspiring!

The profits, however, are less and less. Which leads me to my question:

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Is it even possible to turn such personal hobby website into a stable business?

I've been reflecting about whan makes people send me real money. My main theory is - a user has been enjoying my art for quite some time, and at some point, they buy an account to show appreciation (similar to Patreon, Buymeacoffee, etc).

There is no real "value", however. I'm not an app. I do not simplify your workflow or make you more productive on a daily basis.

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Some ideas I am considering:

1) add more features. What features? I feel I already have plenty. You can send any picture as an e-card (almost not used), play a puzzle, set as facebook cover. I recently introduced a New Tab extension for Chrome, as another way to deliver my art to my users' screens. I use it myself and find it useful, but it's not enough :-)

2) change business model (again). Bask to monthly/yearly subscriptions? I'm not sure I can justify them. Unless I publish a picture a week, maybe.

3) start spending money on marketing. I have never spent a dollar on marketing before! Was it a mistake? Is it too late? Maybe. In 2010s, vlad.studio was #4-5 result on Google when you searched for "desktop wallpapers". Those times are long gone.

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Some stats if you're curious: Vlad.studio receives ~1000 visitors daily, and the average income for 2021 is $360/month.

P.S. Thanks for reading this. I guess I'm reaching out to HN community because that's the one website I read daily, and I almost always skip the links and read the comments instead.
I'm specifically shitting on representative democracy. Part of the reason I'm trying to emigrate to switzerland is it's direct democracy, which I find has all of the benefits of a representative systems while alleviating some key drawbacks
Codecarbon: Pip package to Track and reduce CO2 emissions from your computing
>"collective "we" has already decided otherwise"

It has not. Many native applications are doing just fine. I have one native desktop based as a product with about 40,000 customers and is growing.

The fact that 90% are doing A does not mean that the rest 10% doing B are unprofitable or less important. "Niche" markets (I could hardly call native apps niche yet) can be very attractive.
>I used to hold the same opinion: Google controls the world because everything is Blink/Chromium based! Must use Firefox to protest!

The end users don't care about who controls what. They care about having a simple, fast browser who just works.
Probably because for the people that visit their website, the last thing they'll notice is the brightness of the background color.

Maybe they even feel that discomfort, but the rest is enough to keep them going.
I think do the needful is old UK argot? Not sure about condole though
It's the cancelling school (or work) for snow problem in a nutshell.

If you cancel, and there is no snow, you've caused economic damage, which has very real health consequences.

If you don't cancel, and there is heavy snow, you've caused physical damage, with very real health consequences.

Implementing full international pandemic prevention protocols in a timely manner was probably realistically impossible, given it's never been done in the 21st century.

But beyond that, it's questionable whether making the decision at the time, knowing what was known about SARS-CoV-2, was even a justifiable call. For the reasons you mentioned.

And not just because of the alarmist factor, but because of very real (and sometimes lethal) consequences of implementing them. And I don't think there was a case for preemptively being that aggressive, given MERS and SARS-CoV-1 were both regionally contained.
There's plenty of free cloud IDE / web hosts that you can use straight from your phone. That's plenty if you just want to learn.
Same from my limited experience in China. You use the horn as you approach to overtake someone, change lanes into traffic, etc. to say 'I am here'. It in effect replaces the indicators in many situations.
Stainless of the right grade to address the problem is project-killingly expensive. There is work on evaluating alternative kinds of reinforcement not subject to the same kinds of rust problems, but extremely few organizations today plan, build and maintain over the kinds of timescales where this comes into play. They'll give lip service to those timescales, but watch what they do with their budgets, not what they say.
Or maybe SARS‑CoV‑2 just become common flu. There will be herd immunity and risk will become low.
Tell HN: Thank You!
OK! I'm far too pissed (drunk), i've had four-glasses of Champagne, it is my birthday! and I'm a year older,

to be posting, four-glassing of Champagne (i do not Drink: )

If your ever have the chance, goto https://www.korbel.com - these are wondererful people!

I would like to thank Daniel and DANG for for their wonderful service, thank You Guys! You Are The Best!!!
That maybe so but common usage isn't aligned with what the Highway Code defines as correct usage.

Take lights for example:

+ flashing headlights on a dual carriageway or motorway is a way of telling a driver to pull across so they can pass

+ flashing headlights near an obstruction is a way of telling another driver that you're giving them priority

+ following on from the previous point, flashing back is a way of saying thank you to the other driver for letting you take priority (this is done after you've already started moving to make it clear that you're not trying to hand priority back)

+ flashing hazards briefly is also used to say thank you, albeit typically if a vehicle is behind you rather than in front

+ flashing hazards on a duel carriageway or motorway is a way of warning other drivers that you're breaking heavily (as break lights don't inform the spectrum of difference between soft breaking and emergency stops). At least in this scenario you are actually informing others of an oncoming hazard

I'm sure there'll be other colloquialism I've forgotten too
Partisan politics is one hell of a drug
> It's a depressing situation, particularly knowing that Firefox is pretty much kept alive at Google's whim.

Firefox or the (quite lost) Mozilla Corp ? They're not the same.
Without trying to sound too puritanical, your stance sounds like a way to avoid paying creators
I feel this just makes some things more difficult. You have to set the pwd externally in addition to flashing an image and missing or lost stickers will result in support cases. In such a case where the device is rendered useless and has to go back to the manufacturer and be reflashed or destroyed if there is no database with default password. The presence of the latter would be a security risk itself.
True, although one could argue that it happened too often to late. My go to example is still Brexit which was a legally non-binding referendum and still got passed into law despite a system very much designed to "constrain populism" (at least that's the one excuse that everyone falls back to whenever one brings up the concentration of power onto the representatives, independent of the horrible FPTP system)
Coronavirus in the '80s was defined as the common cold.

Edit: Prove me wrong.
Haha keep it lit brothaaa, more life to you and your loved onEs!!
My guess is that they back into parking spots to avoid that scenario
What's worse, I think it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, for another project to start from either a fork or from nothing and provide an alternative, as developing a browser (with its own rendering engine) is extremely complicated, comparable to an operating system.
How much does it cost tax payers to police copyright?

The rent-seeking is ridiculous.
I work for a company whose product runs on the web and it’s super frustrating that when we have a browser error our response is “are you using chrome”? One of the big draws of browser based apps is that they can run unchanged on Linux/Mac/Windows. But now you are telling me that most apps only work on chrome???

Also so many of the tutorials on JavaScript are done with chrome. People are learning how to use the chrome dev tools, and then not able to transition to using other browsers for web dev. It’s a mess.
Didn't a doctor state that omicron had mild symptoms? Seems like the easiest solution to building global immunity.

But that would definitely get in the way of The Authority.
> I flash them a grateful hand sign when passing their mirror.

You'd probably use the warning lights for this in Germany. At least with truck drivers this is a common thing.
To me some of the things you mention sound like anticompetitive practices from behalf of Google.
In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_schedule#United_St... it says 4 doses.

Also in your second link, in page 8 says

> All children should receive four doses of IPV at ages 2, 4, 6 to 18 months, and 4 to 6 years.
>For example: 'I myself have noticed this'

More likely ‘main khud’ - ‘main hi’ would be explicitly comparative
It really is disheartening to see such willful political bias. The article in question spends much of its time talking about the "ACT UP" movement, which was a movement headed by LGBQT political activists marching against the FDA, yet here you are brushing it off as if this is some partisan issue because it's an article written by someone with different political bias than yourself.
Yes, that was when they seemed to give up, it seems.
There will usually be tax benefits as well (capital gains vs income).
I assume most people already own a PC. Even if you are a family who runs Windows you can still use WSL or a VM.
Caddy is fantastic. I do the odd freelance contract making touch screen interactives for museums here. These have to run on the local host machine which usually isn't networked and Caddy is perfect for this. The last one I did had a massive DeepZoom/OpenSeaDragon image tileset and Caddy managed to serve that flawlessly where my old go to server Mongoose couldn't keep up.
I drive quite a lot on single track roads in Scotland (i.e. entire road width can only handle one vehicle at a time) and I don't think I've ever encountered anyone using their horn like that.

At a blind corner, you just drive slowly - no uncivilised horn usage.
On my old laptop, it took like 15 minutes to start IntelliJ IDEA
Nvidia at risk of $1.25bn loss if Arm takeover falls through
> That type achieves nothing.

The idea of taking params that can't be invalid is that validity is enforced by class invariant.

> std::sort doesn't return an instance of Sorted

It can't, because it sorts in place and therefore has no control over the sequence.
Sorted constructor would sort to guarantee success.
The UK maybe not, but my country of Germany was (source in german https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/vernichtung...). Or rather: it omitted to ensure it could pass on vaccines that it would by and is not sticking to the contract it signed with the vaccine suppliers.
I have seen horns being commonly used on (extremely) rural Staffordshire roads at blind corners. It's definitely a thing.

The other usages you describe are indeed more typical, though.
A cell tower can't interrogate a handset for a list of supported bands?
I'd rather they fixed the remote development in IntelliJ first. You can sort of (ab)use the remote deployment feature in Ultimate for it, but it's clearly not intended for that. And it's extremely clunky - for example the ability to exclude files from syncing is completely underpowered.

And why the hell is selecting files yet another different way of doing what's basically the same task as elsewhere? I'd suggest they should be using the File Scopes feature except it's terminally useless, with it's wierd-ass, barely documented and inadequate syntax. I've never managed to get it to work adequately.

There seems to be a common failing with JetBrains product development, they try to rush out as many different features as possible, presumably for the purposes of marketing "tick lists", but many of them are poorly designed, bug ridden and never worked on after v1.0

IntelliJ - because all the alternatives are even worse.
> Mozilla need to [...] build a new browser

See The Book of Mozilla, chapter 11.

>and a “browser toolkit” to let other people build their own

XULRunner was essentially this.
Fascinating read. Apparently the antitrust case mentioned towards the end is still ongoing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aluminum-lawsuit-idUSKBN2...
I would love the future IDEs to be fast with low footprint instead of slow monsters running Javascript in browser behind.
What I say above makes it sound like I think that it's sole responsibility of the drivers to keep to the rules but I do understand that the rules are much easier to follow when the vehicles are in good condition and the roads have amenities like escape routes for trucks and occasional third lanes to allow overtake, both of which require wealth and strong institutions that are not present everywhere in the world.

Still, from my experience in India (mostly in and around Delhi) what you get is not an occasional honk, it is a permanent infernal cacophony that pierces through your skull day and night.
If you only plan on supporting one platform it's okay if there are bugs on other problems. You have to make assumptions when making software and it's hard to know if some random platform breaks one of those assumptions.
OP refers to VSCode being built on web stack. But AFAIK there is little to none actual DOM manipulations after initial setup since everything is rendered on canvas.
Believe me, I understand the appeal. Yesterday we were discussing something dropping support for some platforms from an open source project and the issue is... we have no way of determining how many installs are on such platforms.

Telemetry would fix this, but it's not our right to collect data from other people's machines. So our best bet would be to detect the condition we expect to cause problems, notify them in advance, and allow time for feedback before implementing a change.

Is it less pretty and a worse user experience than telemetry? Absolutely. But when you realize you have no right to data collection on someone else's machine, telemetry isn't a viable option, and we would betray people's trust by doing it.
I only downloaded a few albums off what.cd since I only had a laptop and bad internet back then and couldn't maintain the ratio their standards demanded.

However I gotta say, their content and organization was better than any music library (legal included) that I've ever seen. It is truly a shame that we lost it so the labels thought they could make more money. I would guess that humanity might have lost some rare lossless records.
So this is a pretty good example of a non-constructive response created by polarization. Obviously we are only interested in the returns to modifying (b) under the constraints of (a). Obviously markets can price this kind of thing.

But no, let's obsess over any technicality in a critique of our ideology (in your case, the deregulation position) until the Sun explodes.
I have been using FF on Android exclusively for 3+ years and never need to switch to Chrome.

In fact, switching to Chrome is agonizing because I lose my adblocker.
I believe they are referring to using vscode, which is based on Electron. Thus, instead of native code, it’s HTML based (although, not necessarily DOM based).
This variant is already being found on nearly every continent as I type this. We still don’t seem to know if this variant is more or less contagious or more or less deadly. It’s too late to stop it’s spread. So then what? Just keep pushing the worldwide vaccination campaign? I don’t see what else can be done that wouldn’t simply be kicking the can down the road more.
It might be in specific forms ready to be processed - eg. blocks of specific dimensions or weights.

After 10 years outside, it's probably covered in dust and grime, and gotten an oxide layer. It probably isn't immediately sellable to a car factory...

But it could be reprocessed very inexpensively and become sellable. The loss of value would probably be well under 1%.

People saying "it's so old, it's basically scrap" either don't know what they're talking about, or they're deliberately deceiving - and being market traders, I suspect the latter in the hopes of pushing market prices higher.
Isn't the whole drive behind hacking to make something do things other than it was intended to do?