skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can't remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that's generally the case and there isn't really anything you can do except accept it and learn to deal with it and just take care of yourself as always. After being able to speak again etc I remember the frustration of feeling tired but subsequently not even being able to deal with previously relaxing things like watching TV or reading a book or listening to music. Pretty much was just sleeping 16 hours, eating and meditating during that time. Had to learn to speak a bit slower (used to speak too fast anyway) to work around damage in that area of my brain. Still get brain fatigue almost every day which gives a subtle strange kind of headache and makes me struggle with words and clumsy etc. I still get stressed a lot more easily and find it more difficult to concentrate. I think my IQ must have dropped; also according to friends. Regardless I've learned to live with it pretty well with a lot of help from experts; kept my job but working 20 hour weeks now, with colleagues shielding me from stress, helping out and accepting when I have a bad week. Also learned that even while I'm tired and feel stupid; that's not the end of the world either and I can still do and enjoy things. All in all I can do most anything again; just for a shorter time and gotten used to it where it now just feels normal. Feel pretty blessed with all the help I got and that I was able to recover as I did. Could have been a lot worse.

Anyhow, yeah, sorry for my rambling. Be careful with your head and carpe diem and all that!

PS: Keep doing fun and challenging things as far as possible. I happened to dance 3 to 4 days a week before; am back to 1 to 2 days now except for Corona measures getting in the way these last years. Think that can help exercise your brain in many ways. Also working and speaking different languages etc.
I'm really shocked about the claim that most people don't know about this. That's something I figured out when I was young by myself.
Fish Fight v0.3 – Open game with level editor and modding
> Every actor in the game world was to have a personality, daily routines etc.

I tried this on a limited scale in a text-based MUD in the 90s, and even then it quickly became an ungodly nightmare. What sounds good in your head isn't always feasible in reality.
At first I was concerned that you're deploying code on Saturday. Until I remembered that we always like deploying code on reddit on Friday afternoon because the lowest usage of the week was Saturday. :)
“Scala CLI” – Tool or Toy?
> No one is forced into buying it.

This may be interpreted as the purchaser accepting known risks from a product, but no such consent exists from those around the car. Safety standards exist to protect people outside the car as well as inside, and may not be unilaterally waived on the part of those inside the car. Even assuming that the purchaser is fully informed about the risks when given consent, and is not misled by Tesla's erroneous use of "Full Autopilot" to describe something that requires continuous human oversight, not even that shred of consent exists from pedestrians struck/killed by self-driving cars (e.g. link below).

https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-lawsuit-model-x-autopilot-fat...
>This can lead to corporate capture. We see this in some projects already.

Could you share some examples that weren't corporate projects to begin with?
What percentage of people actually end up sending their compostable plastics to an industrial composter?
Unless that was the very late 90s that might not have been D, since D was born roughly in 2000 ish I think.

Anyway D is a good language. It pays my bills.

You take from D what you bring. If you basically want to write C++ with nicer OOP you can, if you want to write heavy-metaprogramming functional code then you can as well.

The only thing I would say is that D is a language that does take a little programming experience to really appreciate.
All of the weapons indicated in that article have muzzle energies well above 16J.

If the projectile was some kind of sharpened dart, 16J might be enough to be lethal in a headshot. Maybe. I'd have to do a test to see if it could punch through mass equivalent to the bones of the skull. But a disc or a ball? Unlikely. Could take out an eye, sure, but that's about it.

Absolutely unsuitable as a weapon.
“Getting 30-50k$ from those companies for support for one year can be very challenging, long or leading to nowhere at all.”

Do you have reps that can wine and dine high level people? From my observation this is where the money is.
The state of Washington pays multimillion dollar salaries to college coaches
Then you theory is exceptionally hard to disprove, as someone would have to come up with a huge number of individual examples to have "statistical significance".

There are also a few websites, whose entire domain is banned in Facebook Messenger. It was discussed here previously. thedonald.win is a political example of such censorship. I think The Pirate Bay links are banned in Facebook itself.
I find the French press easy enough to do quickly - and the waste goes fine down the disposal. It's also free of any plastics so long as I use a glass/steel press. Only takes 4 minutes and a supply of hot water. I've been known to heat the water up in another coffee mug (preferably a tempered glass measuring cup) in the microwave in a pinch.
I wouldn't bother with betterC. Use the language as it's intended to be used first.
I have lesions in my brain. It is probably toxic leukoencephalopathy, but no one knows. Some neurologists say it is MS, but we do not know anything for sure. People probably does not or would not believe me, but opiates are the only thing that help with a lot of my symptoms. I do not get messed up on them like others. I get no euphoria. It works for me just like alprazolam (Xanax) does. The problem with benzodiazepines (e.g. alprazolam) is that I get a quick tolerance build-up, and I become tolerant after just 2 weeks, and when it works, it does not work as well as opiates do. Opiates have been keeping me productive and focusing on my future, otherwise I live in the past, I am stuck in the past, and I am an emotional wreck.

I had a couple of appointments with my neurologist. She saw me with and without opiates. The first time she saw me while I was being on opiates, she told me how much better I look and all that. If I told her that the difference between the two was opiates, I bet she would approve of its use in my case.

In any case, this is what works for me, and I have been through a lot of psychiatric medications without any success. Opiates are not really an issue at all. I get regular blood tests done, I get MRIs done and so forth... everything seems to be fine, otherwise I would not use it. Constipation is the only issue, but I take magnesium citrate for that.

I would like to add that I wish I did not have to depend on opiates or anything at all, I would rather prefer that, but this is what it is. I am happy I found something that works for me after so many unsuccessful attempts. I found it by accident, even.
Wow, that's incredible! 12% gain in runtime perf of Postgres benchmarks is no joke

Also check out the LLVM patch, it's got a C code example explaining what is going on: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113289
This article makes me feel like an old ranty man in the pub.

We have glass jars with coffee in. Using a spoon was apparently too difficult for some people, so we created plastic mesh bags to put the coffee in.

For whatever reason, some of these people decided that putting plastic in the bin was some sort of insurmountable task and so threw it out of the window.

So we now need to remake these (utterly pointless) plastic bags into something else, so that they can be thrown out of the window or whatever.

It's all just utterly bizarre.
This is a myth. They usually taste worse, because they've been bred to grow to a uniform size, to be pretty, and to have a long shelf-life.

As far as nutrition is concerned, it only seems this way because they're pumped full of water and end up tasting just like bags of mildly tomato flavoured water.

If you take a heirloom variety and a mass-produced hybrid variety and grow them in the same good soil in full sun, their nutritional value should be about the same.
> what would be a good response that didn’t involve censorship?

Educate people. Replace advertisement with search tools and opt-in configurable recommendations.
Selling software is hard. No one is guaranteed to be successful at it. Obsidian decided to go the free-for-personal-use route presumably because they thought it was the best route for them. They didn't get nothing for that: they got early growth of the user base, beta testers, community built plugins and themes, voluntary user-to-user support, and free advertising.

I'm not sure what the alternative is here. Is it forbidding free software?
> Another example, how does Jetbrain make sure that the people paying for their software via personal licenses aren't getting money for it from their companies?

This is a great example, perhaps companies like Jetbrains just assume that a certain percentage of their user base uses their product out of license and they just deal with it, which undermines the original argument. Software inherently wants to be free, but we as a community agree upon the proper way to compensate those make OSS because we're taught that the exchange of money for goods should always happen upfront and there is no other way to conceptualize alternatives, which I disagree with.
Beaurieux said he called out for a second time, and again Languille's eyes fixed on his.

He added: “The eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time.”
This, and at least in the US, your choice is really between two candidates who are— in practice— virtually identical on most issues. Want to vote for a pro-privacy, anti-war, anti-monopoly, fiscally responsible, forward-thinking candidate? Great. Your candidate will get 0.0001% of the votes. The Republican and Democrat machines don’t give anyone else a chance.
Learning How to Surf
In every real world work problem that is solved collaboratively had some time before where people understood the context and the problem by themselves before. At least they know the codebase, the business goals, the colleague.

There is no situation where a boss call two random engineers, throw a completely new problem at their hands and ask them to solve it in 45 minutes.
> For example, I could use opensource internally, add features to it but I dont have to submit those changes back to the main source for others to use. Not only that who is going to police it? Its not like there is some magic open source police who will police my computer is there?!?

There is nothing to police. You making changes and not releasing them is perfectly within your rights. You can even distribute binaries with your changes legally.

> So sure whilst the statement is true that Open Source runs most of the internet, the companies using it like Facebook or Google are not under any legal obligation to submit any changes back to the public domain for the greater good under some of those contracts.

That depends. Both named companies have a global ban for anything using the AGPL license family. Except from that, you might be right that they aren't obligated to distribute their changes. You might find, however, that they do so anyways. It's much easier to merge your changes upstream than to maintain an internal fork indefinetly. And by merging the changes upstream everyone else profits.

You seem to have a very warped view of what open source software and free software is about, and what rights the users may have or not have.
Pain that one shares makes for great humor. Pain that one does not makes for uncomfortably bad humor.
Ffmpeg’s code is owned by hundreds of people, you’d have to get them all to agree to relicense.
Author of the post here, can you please turn this comment into a blogpost? It is lovely and I love it.
> Tea bags have nothing to do with tea

Seems like a stretch to make this argument...
Project management is quite often a major task of the team managers, especially if they span across multiple teams. You need to budget for the teams, arrange for the work to be roughly scoped further in the future than one or two sprints. You also need to balance things if e.g. new people are hired, or teams are split etc. You are not an individual contributor anymore.

Of course you can have the team lead do that, but they will quit in a month because they no longer have any time to write code or spend with the team.
I have seen it claimed that in the US, elections are significantly moved by the votes of prisoners, in the sense that, while prisoners may not vote, they are counted as inhabitants of the county they are imprisoned in, so they increase representation of those who can vote nearby.

Locations of prisons tend to be rural and have very different demographics from the places where prisoners would otherwise be living.

Deciding to let prisoners vote needs to be followed up by a decision on whether to let them vote as if they returned to their former home, or in the location of the prison.
Thanks for sharing. Nightmarish. Good on you for keeping at the healing process.
Why do that when they can push the activist down a depressive spiral into suicide?
Joules are defined as kg * (m/s)^2. Weight is already factored in.

Shape does matter, though! A dart might be lethal if it hit a major artery or the heart. I'd have to do a test to see if it could punch through mass equivalent to the bones of the skull. Unsure, but I'd put money that it wouldn't.

This weapon looks to fire discs, not darts. No way that's going to be a lethal round at 16J.
"against the official lingua franca"

Beautifully put: the official language of the Franks! I'm not joking either. There are some fundamental concepts that get given a particular epithet and gradually it becomes a errr "thing". It doesn't really matter what that epithet is, provided we all agree on what it means. It doesn't really matter which language it is in either. English is particularly flexible in this regard.

The British isles have seen quite a lot of coming and going over the last few thousand years and the locals have always been welcoming of incoming ... income. The mineral wealth is all mined out now but the outward looking attitude that has characterized the place for millennia due to trade links and easy access via longboat and later the Empire thing is still lingering for now. Anyway, English happily appropriates foreign words wholesale.

So we have the Latin phrase: "lingua franca" The language of the Franks. The Franks are roughly France these days. So very old French was the interchange language in Europe for quite a while. Thanks to the invasion of 1066 in England, French really did become the lingua franca hereabouts but as it turns out it largely lost out eventually to a more Saxon (German) language. We ended up with a Germanic language base that had huge dollops of French, pots of Latin and wodges of Greek interspersed with lashings of nearly every other language spoke on the planet.

English is a relative newcomer to the game of communicating what is going on behind your eyes to making the air vibrate and causing tiny hairs on tympanic membranes to vibrate and finally making neurons fire in another brain. I think it is quite good at it.

However, I never want to see the demise of other languages or them becoming secondary or whatever. English is not perfect. Language like all other things needs diversity. English in its current form could not possible exist without all its predecessors and frankly (lol) all other languages. Modern English has a simplicity and fluidity that is probably due to becoming the language of the Franks - the lingua franca.

I suspect that its fluidity is actually due to foreign speakers and not built in. I think that English has been shaped more by foreigners than locals (whatever that means).

EDIT: Removed silly nonsense (sorry).
"It's the hand to use." (disclaimer: I'm a righty, but seriously, lefty is much better at it.)
yeah it's nuts. I wonder what the upper limit on a responsible disclosure bug bounty would have been(of course who would pay that is the question because it's an opensource project with a few maintainers) vs. the nation or underground price. This has been described as a once in a decade RCE.
Even if you could force every app development company on the planet to support two-channel updates for "security only" and "everything else", How long would it take for them to force non-security related updates into the security channel through some vague justifications?
No doubt a balance bike is an effective way to teach someone how to ride, but it also sounds like a way for bike companies to make more money. I taught my kids on normal bikes but with the seat lowered so that it was easy for their feet to reach the ground.
The Untitled Goose Game OST did it recently too for an entire side (https://www.pixelcrib.com.au/products/untitled-goose-game-vi...)
> Anecdotally, I have been told remote start via the keyfob will continue to work if the service ends.

I've read the opposite.
Shit, I didn't know that!

Serious face back on.

Have you ever seen a concise word for algorithmicly-drowning-people-in-shit-on-social-media-because-profit?
Aside, take care not too eat too much rice grown in the Carolinas. (Brand names notwithstanding.) Apparently the arsenic used for cotton is easily absorbed by rice grown in that region.
Assange has stroke in prison: Fiancée blames stress caused by extradition battle
No it isn't. Not at all. The author is mixing systems of project governance with monetary incentives.

Open source is a system is project governance and maintenance, whether engineers are paid for working on those is a completely orthogonal question.

The log4j vulnerability is a perfect example. Software has bugs. Open source is no exception.
But instead of this being hidden inside some corporate closed code we all now about it, and a fix was already out when the story.

I do (strongly) agree with the Author on the fact that "freeloading" open source software does not work. In the end to some extent you get what you pay for.

Personally I am lucky enough to be paid to work (in part) on open source software.
Yeah that's a disaster, many applications/pods/docker containers store secrets in the environment. Even if it doesn't expose the service from the outside due to firewalls etc, its a(nother) way in for malicious internal users (which I believe are a large portion of, or the majority of, breaches).
>You have now stated that utility exists.

I never said it doesn't. In fact I opened this thread by writing "The very idea that there is some measusable "utility" to compare in the two cases, independent from your moral values and sentiments, is inane".

That is, it's the independent from the person, measurable, utility (as per the example in TFA/theory) that I called BS.

>but quickly becomes useless for anything in the real world

My sentiments exactly.

>All that matters is at some point you weight all the factors you consider important and make a decision based on them. You can come up with a complex formula to put numbers to it, or just go with a "gut feeling" (in many cases others are involved - perhaps a spouse). Regardless you have made a utility function for your situation.

Sure. But none of this has much to do with the theory as presented in the post's examples...
Dumbest comment of the internet today. You think the guys that published the watergate stories just said "hey give us what you got and we'll see what we can do with it?"

At best you're blatantly astroturfing. At least have the balls to stick your opinion to your account.
I didn’t know - I never really thought about it. What caused you to think about it?
Great comment. I think this speaks to overall what’s happening in the world today.
I built and maintain a small open source tool. It's a very niche tool that is useful for some big enterprises, but not really useful anywhere else.

When I built it, it was great to learn about some interesting new tech, and scratch a personal itch. But by far the biggest reason I keep maintaining it is the community. Every once in a while (maybe once a month or so) someone randomly comes up to me (in person, or in a chat) and says thanks, and tells me about how this tool saves them a huge amount of time and makes their life so much easier.

Would I want to be paid by a company, in exchange for providing features and support to them? Fuck no. That would kill any joy I had in doing this. Why would I want to ruin the fun by having to adhere to a timeline set by some corporate project manager?

If a company wants to help, what I'd much prefer is that they help out with the boring stuff. Pay someone smart to triage bugs for me, provide first-line support, write user docs, all that stuff so I can focus on the fun parts.
We wanted a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Are we settling for "a future without manipulation" instead?
*"reduce to rubble" or "destroys"

How tragic, I feel awful for their families and so close to the holidays. :(
Lightning SHARE: open-source file sharing service
> I'm a neurosurgeon

Username checks out

seriously, though thanks for the insights and... how the hell do you have the time/energy to visit HN?
In most companies this is something that is delegated to either the team lead or the tech lead (formal or not)
>You mean they were good managers who know how to bring out the best out of their engineers?

No, I don’t mean that all. I meant that they provided no value on their own. They passed every bit of the responsibility to someone else, while still collecting a hefty salary and stock compensation. Did they actually earn anything? I don’t think so.

If the senior or staff engineers do everything, even down to recruiting, why do we need managers? The manager is a dead weight - letting go of them is actually the right thing for the stakeholders and shareholders of the company.

The general trend I see is that when their lack of management results in things actually derailing, their way of accepting responsibility is simply throwing one or more of their reports under the bus.

Sure, they’re shrewd and figured out a way to play the system. I’ll give ‘‘em credit for that.
Where are you getting those numbers? This project is $40/MWh, and includes 4 hours of batteries! https://www.energy-storage.news/developer-8minute-says-more-...

Solar power is now less than $10/MWh in Spain and Arizona: https://qz.com/1995355/the-era-of-subsidies-for-wind-and-sol...
> Presumably this uses a SIM card, where Toyota is paying a network provider for connectivity. So... it seems reasonable to ask for a subscription payment?

If it did, then I'd agree, but it doesn't.
Has Nobel bar been lowered? I can't tell if this is a misunderstanding of the current state of the world, hypocrisy, or a combination of both.

The State (as well as traditional Media), regardless of country, is losing its power and influence. Big Tech knows more and thus is able to influence more. The USA and other "democracies" are not immune to this shift. If nothing else, Covid has swung the pendulum back a bit, or has at least delayed Big Tech's complete undermining of the long standing status quo. That status quo isn't going to surrender. So do not expect 21st Century totalitarianism to look like the 20th Century variety. No one saw it coming then, just as too few see it coming now.

I mention this book often on HN, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" spells out the history and The Truth in a very 21st Century way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

Calling out Russia isn't bold or new. In fact, it's a dangerous distraction.