skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont disagree with you but I think that is a very old school of thoughts on OSS. And may be no longer accepted as such.

In the past ~5 years, most ( at least those who have been most vocal ) voices have suggested Open Source is not just about your source code being open / available, but it also means the community around it. And how everyone helps and contribute.

And these kind of thoughts has some sort of correlation with certain political ideology.
Is it really an unreasonable expectation that you should be able to use the editor of your choice to build an app?

Perhaps you're right that this is the case for niche platforms like macos, windows, certain embedded systems, etc, but for general programming a text editor + compiler/interpreter is the default expectation.
Would something like https://www.airtable.com/ work?
There's actually a (not yet documented) API available. If you curl curl https://www.pastesafely.com/api/paste/P73 you'll the paste and it's metadata in json. Would that work for your use case?
I wouldn’t be either, except that IIRC in South Korea you use your social security number, and I don’t imagine Americans (or other Westerners) will be comfortable with handing that over to gaming companies.
Gforth uses the same trick. https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/threaded-code.html
That's a good point. So the performance part of their pay can be set to be relative to that of other teachers in the same school.
Checked out Jon Lennart Aasenden's compile-to-JavaScript Object Pascal IDE/compiler?

I don't know how far he's got with it, but might be worth looking it up.
I think the main challenge with MBTI questioning is less the results (which openly talk about hhow people are on a spectrum between the 16 personalities) but that companies tend to talk out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to describing their own culture with regards to MBTI-style traits.

You can be data-driven or sentiment-driven, but not both.

You can favor disciplined structure, or you can favor creative chaos, but not both.

You can favor generalists, or specialists, but not both.

You can favor ambition or humility, but not both.

But companies will gladly tell you they have room for diverse personalities, and only after being there a number of weeks, months, or sometimes years, will the untruth of that scenario hit you.
I use the Backblaze client on laptops and desktops, and B2 for NAS backups. No complaints.
> insult, among many, the curage of people who may have no fear of dying?

There is no courage in choosing death. If people could live forever, and some people suddenly started choosing death at 80, that wouldn't be seen as "courageous" but just plain weird.

> Have you ever seen an urban slum, or an overpopulated rural area?

Historically, higher populations do result in faster progress. This is pretty much fact.

> dont you think that this wouldnot deprive many from most of the meaningful aspects of their lives?

It would be a choice - live forever or have kids. Many people would find life much more meaningful choosing the former.

> What if longevity causes social changes which are difficult or impossible to reverse?

The slow deaths of billions of people, entire generations, is not an acceptable cost for faster progress.

It is absurd to justify the cost of progress with death. If people lived for 10k+ years in a static society, you would be called a monster if you implied that they should be dying slowly and painfully at 80 so some aspects of their society evolve faster.

> The generational conflicts may be very high in the ageless society you envision.

Again, this is not worth the deaths of literally BILLIONS of people! It is mad scientist talk to say that death on such a massive scale is acceptable for any cost.
Yes sorry didn't know they were different. Well atleast I learnt something today.
A similar and newer project from 2013 to 2017:

https://www.illustris-project.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29534390

Both via https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Das-Raetsel-Du...
HN still suffers from group-think censorship though.

There are quite a lot of members here who will flag any reply to them as they don't agree or simply don't like what they are reading.

Power abuse is just a casualty of cleaner boards.
I stumbled across corn starch a while ago, after I nearly killed one of my dogs with these poisons. Corn starch, as in the packet of "corn flour" many people will have sitting in their pantries (it makes a very good thickener) that we all eat and is totally harmless to just about anything.

Anything except rodents, apparently. What I stumbled across said it's a very effective rodenticide:

http://www.ratpoisonfacts.org/low-toxicity-rodenticides/

My initial reaction was "bullshit". But intrigued I searched further. You can't use anything in the EU without some declaration, and indeed there is a declaration saying you are allowed to use corn starch as a rodenticide in the EU:

https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/44bfef85-fb69-79f0-c0...

It's even mentioned on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_corn_cob and you can buy it off the shelf: https://myhousepests.com/rats/natural-rat-poison.html.

Needless to say, it's total harmless to cats, dogs, kids and owls. And painless for the rodents. They starve and dehydrate, dying of heart failure in the end, but yet don't feel thirsty or hungry, apparently. But they do feel lethargic and generally wander off outside to die in a burrow somewhere, so the smell isn't a problem. It is in short the perfect rodenticide. It's almost magic.

But not in Australia, because it's not approved as a rodenticide in Australia. I have no idea why. Maybe it really is a scam, or even a giant conspiracy by the rats to trick us into feeding them. The Australian government is very good at proactive protecting it's citizens from scams. (I think that's why we are one of the worst countries in the world at falling for internet scams per capita - because this person wouldn't be contacting me if the government didn't allow it.) And if it's so cheap, natural and safe, why the hell isn't everyone using it instead of these other poisons???

I'm leaning towards a conspiracy. A conspiracy by the rats, or a conspiracy by the poisons manufacturers so they can keep selling us expensive poisons. But definitely a conspiracy.
On a whim I brought out my SDR tonight for a bit of low frequency exploration. I found a wonderfully odd signal at 157 kHz and decided to look it up on sigidwiki - only to discover that the page was intensely unstable. Now, an hour later I saw this post on the front page of HN, Fermi’s exclusion principle must work for hobbies as well it seems.
This one

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...
Buy your Jade face roller before it runs out
Tried to use backblaze to save personal files on a laptop I was going to lose access to, at first it said it was incorrectly permissioned. I changed a few setting and the message went away. My fun surprise when I went to restore from the backup and 90% of my files were missing and my former computer was bricked.
Richard, besides donating, how can those of us with technical skills help the effort?
The performance of flutter on the web is unusable, I would be ashamed to ship an app using it.

What other framework doesn't maintain 60 fps in its hello world?!

Flutter works great on mobile and desktop though, I shipped multiple apps using it and currently writing a desktop app.
This is from October.

Has it had any impact since then?
Onus confusion strikes again <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29276656>. The (mediocre) tooling for lockfiles isn't bedrock.

In a discussion about Skub, no one need to explain why the Skub-powered approach isn't good enough. It is the duty of anyone pushing Skub to explain exactly what makes Skub so special to the point that we need to have Skub in our lives.
It would be funny if you could only smell it if it was your biological child.

Although getting serious statistics on the matter is not easy, the estimated numbers can be surprisingly high (e.g: "One in 25 fathers is not biological parent": https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/aug/11/childrensser...)

If suddenly we discovered an easy way to give a hint you should do a DNA test, it could do some serious noise.
Borgmatic (or plain Borg) to rsync.net is appealing.

One thing to notice about the super-affordable Borg plan is that it doesn't include free ZFS snapshots. My understanding is that you can have the SSH key used by the host to push its backup restricted to only Borg, and only append-only, within its repo... but if there's another way to access the ZFS (e.g., with an unrestricted SSH key), the Borg repo could be deleted. And then you might really want automatic ZFS snapshots as an additional layer of protection.
by supporting indie bookshops, do you mean the “yearly faves” account on bookshop? that is a clever way to get people to buy through your bookshop account, but also whack and misleading
I'm sorry but so many people are waiting for the boomers to die and relinquish control over our lives. I'm not sure we should warp speed this quite yet
Gradual replacement uploads would retain continuity of consciousness
I've got some long black traps with a "flag" on them that pops when triggered, and those seem to work well enough. A chunk of rebar to poke around and find the tunnel, a bit of hand digging, and I can start pulling 'em out in a hurry.
What we mean by “fair” in sports is that everyone obeys the rules, not that everyone has the same abilities. One rule for women’s sports is that you have to be...a woman. Letting men compete is not fair.
Social media enables “undue influence”. Commonly known as brainwashing
I already contacted support and this is the only thing I got so far. They literally told me to manually match all those files.

Ordering a drive from them is very expensive if you're not in the US like me.
Via https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Das-Raetsel-Du...

For translation I recommend https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
Wow, look at the graveyard of services in the "share" menu. It leaves me longing for a time where the Internet had more than three social media platforms (yes, I exaggerate).
Because OP is being disingenuous. 20GB is for the _full_ install of VS 2022. The required components for what he is doing is literally half that.
I'd be surprised if it were allowed in any jurisdiction.

It seems pretty universal that you aren't allowed to lie to people to make a sale.
So you never push your work branch which you can fetch on your local workstation?
Complain about the guide then. Instead you choose to make a clickbait title, and certain type of people followed along.
> the human walks against an object, and she does this standard video game 0 mph duck-walk

Is that really part of what uncanny valley represents now? I feel like we're moving the goal posts. Fifteen years ago the characters really could be uncanny and disturbing. I don't get that anymore. I feel like it's very close to real, but not real. However, it's in no way off-putting or weirdly creepy.
Also body language. Especially Keanu's right hand/arm.
Ah, I glossed over that. But that just makes me more confused, not less. On a long lived project most changes to node_modules will require code changes... just not sure what the point is.
> death is what gives life meaning

We define the meaning of life, not death. I would find my life perfectly meaningful without death.
I do the same, but with B2 which is nice cause it can be very cheap.
SyncTERM is a BBS terminal program
We also have to take care of old people, and the less we have to do that for the period of their lives, the cheaper everything could be because there are less dependents to support. A countries economy is often reflected in their dependent / non-dependent ratio, and the less non-dependents you have, the better economies perform!
Check out the upcoming ATX power consumption and compare it to what we're using currently...

What you said was true for a very long time, but Moore's law has slowed down a lot over the last 5yrs and power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion.

Maximum power draw of 2.4 kw for about to 10% of the uptime is ... sadly going to be reality soon.
For me it's zero.
The dependent exemption and old age exemptions definitely look like they could knock out 1.5% of income. If you have an income of 70k and two dependents, you would have an effective tax rate of 2.14%.
> Now nobody uses Delphi and it is impossible to find people who knows it.

Hey, if you need somebody who knows Delphi, I do.
> it isn't material information

Why not?

The SEC doesn't take that attitude when they catch people artificially manipulating the frequency at which something is trading.
SSDB
I agree that not everything in the world is a business transaction. What does that have to do with getting paid for doing OSS?
Croteam did wonders with that engine, truly a beautiful looking game inside and out.

Shaders are one of those topics that you can easily get lost in. It was one of my more recent "you don't know what you don't know" topics. The idea that your code will run one time for each pixel on your screen, 60-144x a second (!), is mind-boggling. It's still hard for me to wrap my head around it sometimes and when I finally write something that compiles it feels like magic every time.
I use this!

- Mute my computer when I put it to sleep or when I change wifi networks

- Hyper key

- Mail.app menubar indicator

- Spotify menubar current song

- Shortcut to move mouse cursor to another monitor

- Window switcher that only lists apps in the current workspace
They did, later... Too late :-(
I have been enjoying espanso[1], which at first glance is just a text-expanding keystoke saver, but can run shell scripts when it's doing its thing. So I can type :extip anywhere and it will curl ipinfo.io then pipe the json response through jq -r and leave my current external IP in whatever app I was typing in.

1: https://espanso.org/
I seem to be one of those, and people often say that things are afraid of me. And I have no idea why, maybe it’s just luck…
On macOS, Backblaze ships with 21 identical copies of the same executable, nearly 200 MB in all, presumably because they don't realize you can just execute one binary n times (with different argv[0] if they'd like) and they haven't written their code to be thread safe.

Needless to say it doesn't instill confidence in the quality of software engineering that I rely on for disaster recovery.

% openssl md5 /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bztrans*
MD5(/Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bztrans_thread00)= 772308dbd9b8083f4dc1c31bfe6a28da
MD5(/Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bztrans_thread01)= 772308dbd9b8083f4dc1c31bfe6a28da
...
MD5(/Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bztrans_thread19)= 772308dbd9b8083f4dc1c31bfe6a28da
MD5(/Library/Backblaze.bzpkg/bztransmit)= 772308dbd9b8083f4dc1c31bfe6a28da
> I agree with you on both counts, and would like to see a return to a niche web that doesn't work for most people.

That would be a web without Google, and in fact any search engine at all. Do you really want to go back to 1990 level of functionality?
Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
> Nobody in their right mind will sanitize (and specifically not encode), on receipt, something like a name to be safe for every logging library, query language, or output in HTML/terminal/etc their backend may use. Such an undertaking is even provably impossible for combinations where one component requires escape sequences that again would need to be escaped for something else - in a circular manner. And that's just one thing that's objectively wrong about the idea.

You aren't understanding. You should only need one regex per input. It's super easy. Developers should understand what data their applications expect to receive from a client.

From OWASP:

"Input validation is performed to ensure only properly formed data is entering the workflow in an information system, preventing malformed data from persisting in the database and triggering malfunction of various downstream components. *Input validation should happen as early as possible in the data flow*, preferably as soon as the data is received from the external party."

See https://owasp.org/www-community/Injection_Flaws for more details.

> For example: your SQL client library will automatically build queries in a safe manner, your HTML template library will escape all provided strings by default, and your logging library will not look for magic characters in format string arguments - that's what the damn format string itself is for!

Except when those libraries fail. Just like in the headline for TFA. Libraries can't always fix insecure application logic.

I don't understand how you think additional security checks are somehow detrimental. If I know some URL parameter should be a 16 character alphanumeric string, it should take you about 10 seconds to make a regex for that.
I use Arq with B2, which seems like a happy compromise.
Again I stated that I don’t think new legislation is required computer misuse acts and civil litigation is more than adequate currently, ban cheaters find a way to issue a restraining order to prevent them from using your service and if they disobey it they are facing contempt which is a criminal offense.

For the people that make money off selling cheats and or are disrupting the service at scale current laws that cover computer misuse should be sufficient.

I am perfectly happy to have the book thrown at someone who hacks say a Minecraft server to fuck with someone just as I’m happy to see someone who breaks into someones property and ransacks it.

Computer misuse, trespassing, public nuisance and property damage are already criminal offenses.

Cheating in an online video game can easily fall into one or more of those categories.
This would be much better as a collection of sharable playlists. Not text titles...
Lossless compression of their 4 colours dithering PNG (34 kB) :

* AVIF : 69 kB (+100%)

* WEBP : 27 kB (-22%)
There are also services which you can get a reserved IP with all ports open, and then you wire guard tunnel it to your server.
Do you doubt any particular part of the data? Funding source is only relevant if you can show it intentionally wrongdo funding previously.
It’s interesting that there is apparently no effort to render or generate voice/audio, only optics.
Yep that is definitely one business model that might work. So you agree with me that having a proper business model for your OSS work is the way to go instead of complaining that people don't send you $ out of the kindness of their hearts or some moral code that only the OSS maintainer is aware of.
Too bad. Yes, the location does make it rough.

There are some funny stories about Backblaze personally delivering an emergency drive to someone in a remote part of the world, but they don't help the median user.
EarthDAO – We are buying the Earth
Shirts aren't securities :)
City is taking intermediate responsibility and covering costs. They could in turn still claim it from the final responsible party, but I think that's really just them. I'm still working out a final future damage claim for my career etc. Will definitely get something, hopefully enough to help me buy a house.
You could say the only fault with those help pages is that they were too good: Some time after v. 5 they stopped including those lovely paper manuals, probably because they figured the help pages were good enough to replace them.
Watching the demo I thought the biggest part of the uncanny valley aspect of the characters was the lack of spine flexion. Every character walks like they're having lumbar spine spasms.

Aside from the motion though they look incredible.
I have huge respect for Open Source Devs.

Developer Ecosystem wouldn’t be same without them. I truly appreciate their efforts to make amazing software in there free time and it means a lot to me.

As a developer I owe a lot to open source thats why If I can’t contribute to their software I always try to personally thank them when using their software.
(a) In the current economic model jobs are simply not a limited resource. For instance, immigration creates jobs because among other things, you need more resources to sustain more people.

(b) In the future, there will be more humans than jobs anyways thanks to automation and this is a problem we are going to have to face one way or another. Social contract will change, and the economy will need to be refactored commensurately.
How Erewhon made luxury groceries a lifestyle
This is a deep misunderstanding of what jobs are.

They're not "things" that exist in a limited supply.

You can think of them as relationships between people.

When population increases, no one worries that society will "run out" of friendships or marriages. Jobs work the same way.
> A lot of newer, fancier cg in movies and games is deep in the uncanny valley for me.

There's a lot of uncanny CGI in modern movies. There's also a lot of CGI that is so perfectly realistic you have no idea it isn't real. This is usually more environmental and less characters.

If the tech gets past the uncanny valley then you'll never know. This is basically true by definition. :)
Has it ever been marketed as zero knowledge?
So you're saying we need software lawyers to figure out if rolling a new transaction is safe or not?

Weirdly, that seems worse than having just lawyers.
In the early 2000s, ElementTree was such a relief after trying to use the stdlib DOM or SAX parsers. That was my first conscious use of effbot code, and I was grateful for it.
uncanny valley naturally changes goal posts. It has for the past 60 years
"Directory Opus (or "DOpus" as its users tend to call it) is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid-1990s. Commercial development on the version for the Amiga ceased in 1997. Directory Opus is still being actively developed and sold for the Microsoft Windows operating system by GPSoftware and there are open source releases of Directory Opus 4 and 5 for Amiga."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Opus
Didn't open this post/article because I assumed it was about mobile phone display technology. Couldn't have made just a tiny bit more effort on the title wording?
I well know that the notion that teachers could be affected by performance based pay is an anathema to the school industry.

But it would be inexpensive to try a simple experiment. Pick a school, any school. Offer teachers a fat bonus for every student they bring up to grade-level reading.

I bet a miracle will be observed.
“Actual consciousnesses” defined as…?
> I'd love some kind of a modern hybrid.

I'm working on it. A BBS with a built-in ANSI art + MIDI music editor, accessible from terminals and web browsers, all unicode, no telnet. Ready later this month most likely.

It's hard to replicate the local feel of BBSes though. You can't really enforce local usage on the modern internet, and it wouldn't be great for privacy if you could. But the rest we can do.
Yes and no; while it's still true that you can write FORTRAN in any language, there are network effects that mean the effort required to write efficient code is different per language/community/framework.
^ I really wish this existed too. (Something akin to it does exist at least for certain niches, eg detailed web performance audits where the perf expert has an explicit emphasis on teaching the audience...)
Yeah, well. That is an observation that is pretty bloody difficult to explain with MOND type theories.

Any MOND proponents want to have a try?
Not true if you want to learn to speak Chinese.
Yes, what will we do without the famous upward mobility of the factory worker?

Seriously though, the majority of humans never see material upward mobility in their lifetimes, and a world without mandatory low-wage jobs per se isn't necessarily a world without upward mobility.
My point is that the evidence is in and clearly companies/people don't do that. And some OSS maintainers then get all upset and throw their toys around because people don't behave as they expect. My answer is: Grow up. Accept the world as it is. And act accordingly.