skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's Google AdSense auto ads (ML based placing of the ads in the page). I've set the level to "low" but I guess the number and positioning of ads are modulated by google using the info it has on you. I see only 3 ads, but maybe different users see different numbers of ads.

That's unfortunate
I've benefitted an enormous amount from the USDA soybean research. They run soybase.org, a repository of all things data around soybean cultivars. In my experience, no other crop has a database as complete as soybase. Perhaps it's a political phenomenon? The US pumps a lot of money into soybean so other countries are not that interested in soybean research, while for example rice databases are splintered across China, Japan, the Philippines etc..
Yeah I was like, hmmm who are the rats in this? What is the poison? Maybe it's me?? I have to change my ways!
The original meaning still works. In the software world, where abstractions abound, each dependee of yours can be said to add one 'state of being dependent' to your set of requirements. That's what it meant originally in this young field; when an author chooses to use a library instead of writing their own code, they're adding a requirement for the user ("Hey, you gotta have this thing already installed"). The software is in a state of being dependent on each of its dependees, individually. Each such state could be removed by replacing the library, and thus there'd exist one less 'dependency'.

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Yes, this is mental gymnastics, another fine staple of this glorious field.
>> Multiple sourcing. Big-failure avoidance.

That must be why Apple is putting all eggs in one basket, aka, China. /s
So far I solved 1,2, and 3. I start with the 4 today while I write the article on the solution for the puzzle #2.

Let's see if I'm able to face them all (that's also my first year that I join the AoC - so it's totally new for me)
1-e^-1
rofl, high change I'll end up this way. But right now I'm excited about this approach :D
We don't have modular nuke because it offers too little scope for official, wholly-legal corruption.

Thus far photovoltaic solar and wind turbines have been proof against official corruption. It is just too quick and easy to field a competing system not subject to corruption tax.
Minimum wage where? $7.25 for 40 hours is still $290 before taxes, yes? That's federal minimum wage in the United States, and that's only for untipped workers on W-2 who can manage to get a full time schedule.

Some states have substantially higher minimums, though, and don't allow wage discrimination against wait staff.
Hmm, why you can't edit your comment? There is an edit button in hackernews.
That's why i wrote "not the next google, but the other 99%", and now that HN-guy comes around and compares it with dropbox....

99% of company's are hairdressers, lawyers, builders, insurance etc.....and NOT the next google/dropbox/facebook...are you so far away from reality?

I know how much it costs, because that's exactly what i do since ~19 years.
Lol a list for the people who hate Britain then. These clowns are surprised when we elect the tories
Yes, a huge difference. The latter is orders of magnitude worse.
Fascinating, as I always thought it was based on a person called St Nicholas(and it sort of is) but never really knew it's roots in modern times.

Here is an album made by the same artist on Santa Claus.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Santa_Claus_by_T...
Great suggestion! I guess I'll write a followup with the convolution-based solution
if this were true then FOSS would never have reached the popularity that it does now. FOSS users give a lot of valuable feedback that makes software better, and they don't generally expect their problems fixed for free.

that mainly comes from greedy corporations that exploit free resources for their own gain.

i give away my software for free to give back to the community that gives me tons of other free software and to get feedback and patches. if i were to sell it, that would just not happen because we would all compete on price.

and because i can't tell the difference between individual FOSS users and large corporations when the software gets downloaded i can't force corporations to pay. nor can i make a license that forces payment from a select group because that would not longer be FOSS.
Looks like OXO makes a fully stainless+silicone version: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GF4WYGT/
In the Roman empire you had Pater Familias, doesn't mean those 'rights' were exercised.

> In theory at least, he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia through ancient right. In practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised. It was eventually limited by law.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pater_familias
ok point taken but that was about me. instagram imo is ephemerial, tiktok more so. same as whatsapp. you need fresh content to keep the machine churning. people don't usually spend time rewatching old stuff, or do they?
Faster than light trvael might be possible; first warp bubble discovered
Will Starlink ever be affordable for people living in least developed counties?
You can tap on "Pick my book" to get a random book from all the books available. You can also scroll through the books (left-right) and tap on what you like, for more control.
Did I? Where?
Advent of PBT – Day 12 – ValidParentheses
>They don't. I've worked with some of the best competitive programmers in the world, they do think it is a positive and look for people with a strong competitive programming background.

That's fair

I'm unable to find what I've been reading, probably some thread on spoj (edit I found this [1]) or this https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/17302

for now I only found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4rykKLcduI&t=435s

by https://codeforces.com/profile/Errichto

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[1] - https://discuss.spoj.com/t/spoj-a-praca-i-zycie/26380

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOJ

Title: SPOJ & work and life

It's written in Polish, but as I see that was about kinda different thing

>How were SPOJ and programming skills useful in the context of your studies?

>Virtually not at all. I will say more - these skills were an obstacle in obtaining the title of engineer.

><rant about higher edu institution>

>...

>How useful are SPOJ and specific, classic algorithms at the programmer's work?

>Wandering around the labor market, I got the impression that it was easier to become a programmer with a vague idea of algorithms and extensive experience in creating specific projects than being a master of all kinds of algorithms, but without experience in coding something bigger.

So the point was kinda different than I remember

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I'm English and I think this list is terrible. It won't help you understand this country except for the narrow section of opinion that went mad after the Brexit vote.

I won't make an alternative list but reading The Pickwick Papers will give more profit than this whole list.
When more than one person needs access, like say a social media team, then usually the 2FA has to be piped into some mechanism for the entire team to get it otherwise things get very frustrating very fast and then it gets turned off. So it’s entirely understandable that it’s either off or not as much of a preventative as you might think.
> Yes, a huge difference. The latter is orders of magnitude worse.

Do you base your personal assertion on any evidence? I'd love to see the basis for this line of reasoning. I mean, carbon emissions-wise the difference between biomass and burning oil/coal is already undisputed.
Yep, I totally thought that it would be about some law that ruins the internet for everyone while at the same time does nothing to stop bad actors. Like the EU cookie warning mandate.
True, but as with many things like this, if you want to grow enough for a few cups of tea a day, every day, you are going to need a fairly large garden - a somewhere to dry and store a few months supply of tea, if you want it year round.

None of that is a good reason not to grow a few plants and try it, if you live somewhere warm enough.
I think it's more of a poverty problem than technology problem.
I don't think this argument makes much sense, beyond completely legalistic.

If you add backdoor to the used library, then yes you shipped it there. You don't have legal liability for consequences when it is found, but it does not make not being the one who shipped it.

It just protects you legally, as it should.
The main reason to use perforce in the first place is because of assets.

Locking of files too, but that’s only necessary on non-diffable assets.
> Some devs are in it for the passion, some for the experience, some for the challenge, some for the learning, some so their work will live on when they change employers.

Sure, but what about people who could write code, help with docs, testing etc., but can't because of the current financial disincentives to do that?

With my current salary in my country, i make around $21k a year, about which i wrote here (including information about my savings): https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/on-finances-and-savings

With these current circumstances, i cannot be in my right mind and decide to meaningfully commit to open source, apart from small bug fixes or something, unless i want to miss out on spending time with family or anything else over the evenings and weekends, because my day job takes up the rest of my time.

Sure, you can talk about that particular salary number (though it's similar for many people in Eastern Europe, India and many other places), or talk about how i should try to convince my management to allow me to contribute to open source (which is a non starter in many circumstances), but at the end of the day it'd be like quitting my job because i want to develop a video game or something without having a clear plan on how to make money and just vague hopes and dreams instead (which i've seen often as well). For example, i'd have to give up freelancing to do that, which would just further hurt my finances.

I commented on another thread here, but just look at this: https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html

Open source isn't a financially responsible choice for many non-privileged folks out there (e.g. company doesn't invest in it, don't have savings to avoid having to live paycheck to paycheck). Just look at this comment in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29525272

> The default is that no one will use your thing, no one will contribute, no one will fund you, etc.

In my eyes, doing meaningful work is logically supposed to be followed by not being punished for it, such as not having to starve or be homeless (maybe the "just world" fallacy on my part). No one should be able to praise the open source devs for their work and then just turn around in that same sentence and shun them for wanting to be supported financially for doing that, or claim that these incentives are not valid in some way.
Java 11 is not deprecated. It is fairly absurd to frame it as old.
Or ask a friend to do the draw and verify it.
Could demonetisation also affect how your video is featured/promoted on the platform (because YouTube wants to serve users videos that have ads)?

I would assume if certain content is viewed as ‘non advertiser friendly’ then they would also prefer not to actively promote that content on the trending tab for instance.
They're not even difficult to buy. In the UK most supermarkets will stock at least one variety where the bag is fully biodegradable. Sainsbury's, Aldi, Waitrose own brands are too I believe.
I use https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Then they would have just posted a credible sounding message instead of an obviously shady looking link.

Saying, “My advisory team studied safest crypto currencies. We are considering making Bitcoin as official digital currency of India”, would have worked better.

Or “From X:Ypm we are making Bitcoin India’s only and official currency”. Given his track record I might have beloved it.

I think it was what happened - chasing dog getting the car.
Try unplugging it and plugging it back in.

I’m glad your TV works for you, I haven’t found one that boots in 3s and is usable- even from standby.

What model do you have?
The fact that there’s no mention of the `npm ci` command (or yarn or pnpm) makes me wonder how deeply this problem was investigated before using it as a justification for this hacky workaround.

One wonders why they aren’t checking in the binaries for their database and language runtimes. Surely this would save crucial seconds in project setup.
You're in for a deeply strange, wild time. Stick with it after the bizarre opening and abrasive dialog; it gets better and is quite affecting by the end.

Boorman depicts the Arthurian myth almost in religious way; it is intentionally solemn, weird, almost painful in its lack in humor, and jarring in its refusal to explore the psyches of its characters, preferring instead to insist its tale itself is transcendent and demand reverence. The closest other film I can think of that makes remotely similar choices is David Lynch's Dune (1985). Dune is seen as odd by the Lynch fanbase, but I've come to view it as fitting perfectly with Lynch's fascination with subjective experience, given what we see is the depiction of the 'Messiah' through the frame of devoted believer Princess Irulan. Dune (1985)'s disinterest in authentic human experience is built into the frame; there's a reason some viewers felt like they'd sat in a 2 hr Sunday school lesson.

And yet...
What did he mean by "everything is fake"?
This is correct. Public Domain is a concept unknown to the EU. You can never waive your copyright, only give permission to use to everybody.

It's one of the reasons why SQLite sells licenses even though it's released as Public Domain.

https://sqlite.org/purchase/license
he was hacking journalists using pegasus .. not surprised
I guess that depends on how much they develop and how ubiquitous the tech is.

Cell phones, for example, are widely used in developing nations. Tech in general has been the best at reducing costs over time compared to things like food and energy which haven't really fallen in price.
Very possibly the worlds largest population, considering how unreliable some statistics are.
Wezterm seems to have its own take on multiplexing built-in. And it supports terminal graphics (But not both at the same time for the moment).
Impressive.

How come they died from kidney failure shortly after re-establishing contact? My guess is that it was due to salt. Their kidneys had adapted to live without salt and now with getting salt again they could not cope.
NASA Ogma: generate hard-realtime C runtime monitoring applications
Node.js Native Rust Modules vs. WebAssembly
> This does not mean humans have not also participated in numerous extinctions, ancient and modern. It only means we cannot be responsible for the sudden American extinctions.

This is a may, not a can: a trivially fitting hypothesis is that the clovis culture was based around that megafauna, and when it finally went through everything it ended with them.

This also explains the synchronicity of the disappearance, because any megafauna hunted to extinction would lead the hunters to fall back on the next genera, increasing hunting pressure on it and thus accelerating its disappearance.

> Given more time, we would no doubt have wiped out many of the species. But horses and camels survive on other continents, exposed to humans. Why would Americans have, uniquely, chosen them to wipe out?

Either coevolution (meaning the megafauna would have had the time to adapt its reaction pattern to the rise of humanity), or environments which allow them to evade hunters and avoid extinction which may not have been available in the americas.
And, to add to this, he wears red, because Coca-Cola co-opted him for advertising purposes.
You're drastically overestimating the storage requirements. Time is far, far more valuable than storage savings. The point about CI builds running faster is enough to sell the idea all by itself.

Oddly not mentioned in the article is that it allows you to build when npmjs.org is down or unreachable, which happens often enough to be frustrating, and if it happens when you're trying to deal with an emergency, it's downright infuriating.
Oh my, Bryans, this means you missed the potent revival of the Carmina Burana opening the eighties...¹ Have a good Boorman. Do not miss noticing late twenties Liam Neeson.

(Then, can I recommend Point Blank? And I am sure you heard of Deliverance.)

¹ O Fortuna, velut luna, statu variabilis...
Note that in some legislations it may be illegal to use this against other people's systems without their consent.

As long as it doesn't break stuff i guess you are unlikely to be sued.
internet really is empty and is a front for government psyops (see dead internet theory)
"Sparta" is commonly understood to mean the city of Sparta as a political entity and "Spartans" its free inhabitants. Only in the blog you quote is the term "Sparta" used to refer to the wider city-state of Sparta that encompassed subjugated settlements outside of Sparta. Historical sources, ancient as well as modern, do not consider the helots to be "Spartan" (or even "Spartiate", a term made up by the author of the blog as distinct from "Spartan", a distinction grammatically impossible in the Greek language).
> People are unreasonable when they expect free hand-holding support just because the software is free

I agree. I don't argue that people should expect support to be free. What I am arguing is that if you don't put a market value on your work then you are signaling to the world that your skills and hours are worth $0. Even though your work clearly has intrinsic value for companies/people.

> Trollish, because telling open source developers that their software has no worth comes awfully close to the “no personal attacks” rules ycombinator has.

Not at all. The work open source developers do clearly has intrinsic value. It is useful. That's why people use it. However it has $0 market value when maintainers give it away for $0. And that has real world consequences.

> There are a lot of free market fundamentalists out there that think the free market will magically solve all problems.

I am not one of them.
Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?
For many months if not years I've been thinking about sharing knowledge I have. That's natural order of things of course, but because of limited opportunities of face to face contacts I didn't really have a chance to listen to people's problems and challenges. I work as full time software engineer, but also I do a lot of experiments and side projects. Because of that I've accumulated lots of different impressions and perspectives.

So I'm asking here: what would you like to read about, what are your current doubts about programming in general or related to dreaded by many subject of JavaScript and frontend frameworks. Is there any 'next level' you'd like to reach?

This question can help many other people in situation similar to mine. Thanks!
I remember those 'levitating tea bag' experiments (empty up a tea bag, open it up as an open ended cylinder, light the bottom part on fire, and it flies up), and I never smelled anything plasticky.... there are either really miniscule ammounts, or they just don't use plastics here.
OSS definitely has a reliability and credibility problem on its hands. Codes of Conduct that prioritize belonging over, say, competence and truthfulness is not helping. We need more people like the old Linus that are more concerned with the quality of the artifact than increasing the size of a community
I consider myself very well off. My internet is 4G and gets me about 15-20Mbps on a good day. I was considering starlink, but a set up fee of 600€ is a bit too much. Starlink is NOT feasible in developing countries. It's Elons' cash cow now.
Or was the internet using them ? ;)
Throwing new people who never seen your project at the mainteners during critical situation will just slow them down.

Adding random new people generally does not immediately speeds up the process, but it is actively harmful in the middle of crisis.
> WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

This is great. I’ve been looking for a GPU-accelerated terminal written in Rust and haven’t been able to find one. Glad to see someone finally wrote one.
Though beyond the crore, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about.
Thanks for the hint to Olivetti mode. I usually either split the frame horizontally (C-x 3) to look at multiple buffers side to side or narrow the window. Long lines are bad for programming too.
They will disrupt muscles the same, but the contacts are only a few cm apart and apply voltage for a second or two while a proper Taser will send the current through several hundred cm for 5 to 30 seconds. They're in completely different leagues.
man 2.5d pixel art reactive layout is so satisfying :)

kudos
So it is possible just hard.
Plants used by Aboriginals may inhibit chemoresistance in cancer cells
I think you're living in a bit of a bubble here. Your 'evidence' is a bunch of cherry picking that's hosted on reddit, a left-wing website. You could easily make the same case for twitter, with the caveats that 1) reddit probably wouldn't let you do it 2) you'd dislike the people twitter targets so it'd be less morally objectionable.
> I think making it easier for companies to pay open source contributors is the right approach.

Making it easier and making it a common habit. Companies need to realize, that paying maintainers/contributors pays off for them.

> I would love to see a tool that, given a pool of money, will collect dependencies from projects in any language (extensible), find the authors (git commit history, etc.), find where they accept contributions (extensible), and pay them, based on both computed and hand crafted weights.

Looking at https://flossbank.com/, this seems like just what you describe. I don't know how it works exactly, though.
If my company was liable to have to pay out for each one of these projects we would be bled dry and our business would no longer be profitable.

To put that another way, your profit is derived entirely from arbitraging the value of open source software for your customers. If you were actually paying what the software is worth to you there'd be no money left. Effectively, you are taking some of the value of the work done by open source developers and keeping it for yourself rather than passing it on (that's not a criticism btw, it's how practically every "supplying goods" type business works.)

That's very unfortunate. You're not really creating much value, so I imagine your business is too small for anyone to worry about. In the case of something like YouTube that clearly that isn't the case though; they create far more value from the open source software they use. YouTube absolutely could afford to pay a fair fee for what they use. If nothing else, it protects YouTube from a problem like the log4j issue this conversation has arisen from.
Ask HN: Where Can I Find Balaji Srinivasan's Startup Engineering Course?
It seems that Balaji's Startup Engineering Course has been taken down off Coursera and the Stanford website. There is a Youtube playlist [1], but I can't seem to find the other materials.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL58C6Q25sEEFVyISrZc80RhYFpyMF_DYl
Have a look tomorrow and tell me they aren’t kind of lined up again.

It’s very exciting to see this at sunset. Tilt your head so that the solar system is flat and you can truly feel that you are on the side of a sphere with the sun in the middle and the planets in the plane.

Venus is coming towards you (looking down on the system, the planets rotate counter clockwise.) Try to imagine what that will look like in the sky.
The button is available only for a time window (2h?) after the submission.

Which makes sense, on a message board (which HN is) the feature is mostly supposed to allow quick fixes over minor errors, not retroactive editorial work.
Alacritty?