skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how compression was a bottleneck on the high bandwidth connections? I understand @donatj's comments about having to wait for the entire file to be downloaded before rendering, but that would be a user experience issue, not sure how the network team sees it as a bottleneck on the network?
Coordinatized Data a Fluid Data Specification
And as with any other casino, the house is the only consistent and long-term winner. People bringing in the real money are just suckers, even if they score once in a blue moon. And since there is no actual value attached, every win requires an equal amount of loss elsewhere.
> boast of their “innovation” and “growth” without … contributing

… from corporations that don’t bat an eye at donating billions to (often dubious) “social” organizations - often ones that criticize them anyway.
Sadly 99% of traffic is from facebook and other corporate sites. These users miss usefulness of the internet.
"It's 100% on you."

No it's not. Microsoft's job here is to create tools, documentation and guides such that someone who wants to invest their time in learning their platform can get to "Hello world" quickly and in the right way.

Clearly they haven't done that here. OP was motivated to build something, and put their best effort into figuring out how to do so.

This is a usability thing: if someone makes a bunch of mistakes when using my software, it means I have failed to make my software usable enough for their purposes.
Putty maintainer on his attitude towards security and open source
I mean the real question is how many people are in the premises. How can they know how many people stopped in the bathroom after clocking out? They don't have an exact count but I'm sure there's some estimate.
> So if the law couldn't be written in a rational way without creating bizarre outcomes, then why create it all?

Nobody said that, I don't know why you're saying it, because it also makes no sense.

Do you also believe that we shouldn't have made murder illegal because murderer still exist?

There are always gonna be bizzare outcomes, pop-ups only speak about how lousy advertisers and tracking freaks are, but there have been certainly more bizzare outcomes, think about people refusing vaccines...

Compared to that pop-ups are just an annoyance that we can avoid by punishing the perpetrators directly not visiting their websites.

> But as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

it's all simple, until you have to convince hundreds of politicians to agree on a law that's gonna be enforced on 450 million people from 27 different countries, with 27 different legal systems.
If you had a profitable mine, would you sell shares in it?
Sounds like a great way to give your cat toxoplasmosis, which will eventually infect you via feces spread if they’re indoor/outdoor.
By any measure, the pro-Zwarte Piet protesters are much more violent much more often than the anti-racist protestors who they're regularly attacking. And the pro-Zwarte Piet hooligans are the ones attacking the police defending the anti-racist protestors, not the other way around.

Zwarte Piet protest group accuses police of failing to protect safety:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/11/zwarte-piet-protest-gr...

>[...] The group has also filed a police complaint against The Hague businessman John van Zweden, who posted tweets on Friday afternoon calling on people to turn up to the protest ‘with tar, feathers and other shit to drive them out of the city.’ [...]

And there are not two sides to the argument about racism. The pro-racist side is wrong, and has a long sordid history of enforcing their racism with violence, and the anti-racist side is correct, and on the right side of history.

>It is very common to hear being said that the anti-racism card has been pushed too hard and the lobby is losing its support.

So you're rationalizing that if only the mean anti-racists weren't so extreme and didn't protest against racism and always play that darned anti-racism card, they'd be able to change the nice pro-racist's minds, huh? I highly doubt it, or that the pro-Zwarte Piet hooligans are only racist and violent because somebody "pushed too hard" on "the anti-racism card" as you absurdly claim. Their furious butt-hurt from the anti-racist Zwarte Piet protestors spoiling their fading memories of religious childhood fairy tales doesn't justify their continuing violence and racism in the name of Jesus.

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

>Tone policing (also tone trolling, tone argument, and tone fallacy) is an ad hominem (personal attack) and anti-debate tactic based on criticizing a person for expressing emotion. Tone policing detracts from the truth or falsity of a statement by attacking the tone in which it was presented rather than the message itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll#Concern_troll

>A concern troll is a false-flag pseudonym created by a user whose actual point of view is opposed to the one that the troll claims to hold. The concern troll posts in web forums devoted to its declared point of view and attempts to sway the group's actions or opinions while claiming to share their goals, but with professed "concerns". The goal is to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt within the group often by appealing to outrage culture. This is a particular case of sockpuppeting and safe-baiting.
And in doing so expected Sublime to be an IDE and not a text editor, which means they don’t really understand what. text editor is, what’s in scope, or how it functions.
This is a classic mistake of people worship at the church of Econ 101: confusing price with value. Our system depends entirely upon things that are priced at $0 but are valued much higher. If you actually spend your life only doing things you are paid in cash for, I truly pity you. And in fact I can help you out by reminding you that you aren't getting paid for posting here, so you are morally obligated to stop doing it.
I think you'll find the cost of not doing that turns out to be higher. Like a lot of shitty behavior, global CO2 emissions are not currently economically accounted for.
Crypto is a meme--in the traditional sense of an idea, not the internet joke.

What you're buying is the prediction that someone else will come along and buy it for more.

As it increases in value, it gets more exposure and more appealing, so the idea spreads.
> isn't having to do things like that kind of the whole point of an airgap?

Nope. The exe files are supposed to do it's thing without internet and no extra effort like it was for a long time.
"I don’t care a shred for the convolutions of front end web dev that come along with an Electron project of any significant complexity"

Already caught some of that action. Dumpster fire.
This should be temporary. The popups are basically just dark patterns. Once there has been a few fines for sites using dark patterns, it will hopefully be better. These fines though have to be making a proper example, using all the available opportunity to impose penalties.

We need to see a few proper company-ending fines dealt before it gets better. If a couple of massive sites are wiped off the face of the internet for using a generic pre-packaged cookie wall, that should (hopefully!) scare everyone into compliance.

Cookie questions should be unobtrusive and single click to be without tracking, never limit the service provided (no “we need to show tracking ads to pay the bills”).
How would you audit that their server is actually executing the open-source code that they say they are? The incentive for said server to, in certain cases or when detecting certain networks, also install a silent and subtle payload for future backdoor access (which every nation state has in its back pocket for a moment like this) is phenomenally high.
Pytorch occasionally does this as well w/ model weights and it's a royal PITA
Amazon should pay for cleanup, at least then there is some self regulating pressure.
Off topic, but this really struck a chord. I arrive at the trailhead for an afternoon of mountain biking in the mountains. I can't record the ride route because my mountain bike specific trail/ride logging app can't get an internet connection to log me in. I don't want to be logged in. I just want to record GPS over time. No maps needed. No server access needed. I guess they never thought someone might want to mountain bike in the mountains! Sorry, but that is an idiotic design decision. Unfortunately, this approach to "personal" computing has become the norm rather than an exception. People are not allowed to exist on their own.
Right, maybe it's like an oscillating system where high real estate prices depress family formation, a generation or two passes, real estate becomes cheaper because a third of the population is gone, people can afford homes again, then they have more children, and so on. Obviously heavy immigration breaks this natural cycle. Financializing your country’s real estate and selling it all to foreigners and investors probably exacerbates the problem, assuming anyone who made these policies actually considers this a problem.
Most of the search misses I see would never be an impulse buy… God knows why I would want to buy a cycling shoe if I’m looking for a weightlifting shoe. There may be some cross-over somewhere between powerlifters and cyclists, but it sounds really niche and certainly not warranting placing the cycling shoe in third position… I think they have some serious categorization issues.
That is pretty funny!
I don’t believe this is true.

You are a draw from the pool of genes of your ancestors - with mutations.

Assuming a specific mutation didn’t give you an evolutionary advantage that you’d feel compelled to pass on, sometimes the optimum play is to optimize for the _pool of genes_ you came from and not your specific draw.

There is an counter-intuitive evolutionary advantage to altruistic behavior, in which an organism can most efficiently propagate its own genes by increasing the probability of the overall species/sub-species survival - even if that means self-sacrifice.
In exchange for favorable resource deals, yes I think so.
The mac is trying it‘s best to catch up. Should you build your app with AppKit, SwiftUI or UIKit+Catalyst "Optimized for macOS"? I can‘t tell you.

Thankfully It‘s still a relatively straightforward process to create and compile an app with Xcode, which is the only option anyway. It‘s also a 30 GB download, but at least it‘s free.
Apology accepted. I'm not a native English speaker as you are not a native Greek speaker. Which btw should give you pause before trying to teach me a lesson about my language. I've deleted a comment that made that point more forcefully and I'll now leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how I know you're not a native Greek speaker.

"Homoioi" (όμοιοι) means "equals" or "peers". That's what Spartans considered each other and they'd use that word in context, but used the demonym "Spartan" to refer to their fellow free citizens of Sparta as did everybody else. The helots were called either helots or ..."the Spartans' slaves".
Yep, plus increasing/making benefits such as maternity/paternity leave, tax deductions for parents, investing in school districts so parents don’t have to move to a good school district, build more housing… I guess just making it a lot easier to be a parent. Because currently it’s not.
Qt is a big framework. But you can ignore 90%+ of it to start with. Just create a "hello word" app in QtCreator and then start adding some QWidget derived classes (QCheckBox, QComboBox etc). Make sure to read up on Signals and Slots.
That _is_ the internet, no? :)
So I figured with all the stocks they are handing out to employees, they would have have a net increase in outstanding shares. And this used to be the case. But in 2018 the number of shares peaked and now they are indeed decreasing.
Gzip is streamable (windowed), so perhaps it was the extra CPU cycles that caused the slow down, misconfigured gzip, or just incomplete gzip implementations?
I assume they meant that the network could move bytes faster than the CPU could compress them.
You can't vote out the police in the USA, generally, otherwise people would have done so long ago.
all of what you describe happens when you try to build a modern web app using any of the hip languages or frameworks too.

what kind of app do you want to build? that is the first question to ask. then, you choose the right framework for it and the right project type in VS. with windows software, just like with mac osx, you need to read the docs first and think about what frameworks to use and what application type. preparation will help a lot down the line.
I wrote with my right hand until I was 24 years old and then discovered that I'm naturally stronger and more dextrous with my left-hand. I transitioned to left-hand writing and I've been writing with my left ever since.

Nowadays, it's easy to customize devices like mouse, keyboard, etc.. to be either right-handed or left-handed dominant and so it's an easy adjustment for me.
Christianity too. On the extreme side, quiverful or evangelicals.
There's another option -- those seeking to SaaSify F/OSS can support/partner the software they use. Sustainable hosting isn't something that larger corporations are into, but the right companies can do it, and as companies that have this mindset/condition built in (best if in writing, of course) grow, F/OSS becomes more sustainable by default. All it takes is a reasonable % of revenue contribution to the F/OSS powering your stack. I think the range should be 20% to 50%[0], but even if it was 10%, imagine if open source projects that power even small to mid size tech companies in the world received 10% (or even 3%) of the revenue being collected?

The problem of getting the money down to F/OSS that powers inner machinery (libraries, frameworks, etc) is a bit tougher, but I think that could work out easily by doing a general % of revenue and deciding allocation. For example even if you do a 1% allocation to libraries in particular, as libraries are reused much more easily, at scale library authors will do quite well.

Maybe a license that asks for a % of revenue is an easier static goal but I'm optimistic enough to think that the partnership approach could work.

[0]: https://nimbusws.com/#sustainability
Re the author of "open source is broken": The irony of bashing open source on a websiate using systems/code/infra containing thousands of open source lines of code which I am sure he hasn't paid for... has probably escaped his attention.

Honestly, I am not sure why there is an argument anymore. Let people write or use free or proprietary software as they see fit. You all know the pros, you all know the cons, make a decision and god's speed, live your life. I side with the free software. You do you.
Someone please convince me we all aren't completely fscked. No, really. Please convince me. I'm 55 and envision living out my last decades with clogged lungs and and brain full of rotted toys.
Oh I didn't know that either, yeah that too. Wow.
Dumb question: what does it mean to “vendor” your dependencies?

Best guess is something like “ship required source or binaries along with your end product.” Like static linking but extended to dynamic languages and source control.
For the sake of discussion, which age would you want to pause at? 16, 24 for insurance reasons?
I don't think most websites honestly care about personal data. What most sites want to know is what anonymous users are doing on their sites so they can improve them.

I for one need this data on a daily basis to help me decide how to make products better. I think the legislation doesn't do it's job properly. Why not force it so that like apple, the browser informs the websites that they don't want to be tracked, then it is the websites issue if they are caught tracking. Or all browsers forcibly obscure a users PII.
Covid Policy Analysis
Ask HN: Does Agile dev inherently produce more-buggy, less-stable software?
I always took this to be obvious, but I think I saw what might count as an admission in this AWS Devops Training slide text:

"Developers change things quickly, release often, and measure success by the rate of delivery. Operations are driven by maintaining stability of the application. Frequent releases are a cause for concern of the stability and reliability of the application on the supported platforms, especially during high network traffic."

Another bit of text later on seems to have a typo -- i.e. a bug -- which is just funny:

"With DevOps, you can quickly while retaining control and preserving compliance. Use automated compliance policies, fine-grained controls, and configuration management techniques. Monitor for security incidents and adjust your configurations and software as needed. For example, using policy as code you can define and then track compliance at scale."

It's mainly interesting to me because, of the 18Z pro-Agile articles and the 19Z anti-Agile articles I've read, none seemed to talk about this aspect of Agile -- end product reliability.

Granted, this AWS course is about 'Devops' -- its culture and processes and tools -- not 'Agile' -- but Devops, to me, is driven by Agile, CI/CD, etc.

If it is true that Agile leads to, or can lead to, or has a higher risk of leading to, less reliable software, then I would like to see some more truth in advertising going forward.

And, if there is a way to Sprint but still maintain or even increase the reliability of the end product (over/instead of a non-Agile dev process), I'd like to know what those techniques/safeties are.
Got any examples of audiophile scams?
How is this different from taking Senolytics? Is it that the vaccine helps your body fight senescent cells rather than having Senolytics remove them?
Its probably time for the next generation of open source licensing to make the code not usable for profit making purposes, thus ensuring open source is either funded by the companies that use it or forms its own separate community away from corporations.
"Although infanticide happens occasionally in most societies—including in modern times—many cultures shun or disparage it. Sneed says there’s little to show the Greeks were any different."

Erm... infanticide is an epidemic in our society! There's nothing occasional about it.
I still don't see why this means FOSS is a "victim in a way". If you don't want people to take what you put online for free, don't post it online with a notice saying "you can take this for free".
This would be solved if people were educated on dual-licensing - no new license needs to exist if you go GPL and have a paid commercial license.
How are you posting from the 1830s? And even in the 1830s, don't they teach people that tautology is bad?
Tensions with China revive old fears for Indians of Chinese descent
I just wouldn't use it then. Or I'd use it and just not tell anyone. Or take its essence and build it from ground up with a different name.

Who's gonna sue me?
I'd rather die by internal hemorrhaging than being stuck to glue until I starve
rust enthousiasts arriving in 3…2…1…
Why when you already have GPL? Most companies do not allow GPL software to be used for products.
I feel highly unsettled at work anytime anyone trys to explain how to do something, which should be a simple local command, with a multitude of tangled services, each of which I need to request access to. My manager is obviously more than happy to help, but this friction is killing my motivation and atonomy.

The fact this is how we're starting to develop software also helps me understnad why, as a user, all my shit's jenky as hell.

OSS (to me) was supposed to allow us to bridge the gap between developers and users, making code easy enough to tweak that when a problem or unwanted behaviour comes up you can just fix it yourself. But it's getting harder and harder to see this dream anymore. There are a lot of nooks and crannies in OSS though, and I know there are still plenty of places where this dream is still very much alive. It's just become less and less mainstream, sadly.
Did this happen with Strava? My usual morning MTB lap has no cell service at the trailhead and it’s never been an issue. But I’ve also never found myself logged out before.
Ok, I wouldn’t have a hard time believing this, I just don’t see how they make more money throwing random irrelevant crap at very specific searches…

For instance, I search for “mens” apparel all the time and get about 33% womens results.

I also search for “golf” or “weightlifting” and get inundated with results for completely irrelevant sports…

I can’t see how that improves their bottom line. In my case, since they shove some of their relevant results down to the end of the SERPs and I don’t have the patience, I am starting to drift towards buying in specialized stores where search and discovery are not such a nightmare…
My barn cat likes to present me with just the organs. One time, he presented them on a bed of grass, like a fancy chef. He's got a closet in the back of the structure with a (cat) door to the outside and a ramp, so he had to work hard to get those blades of grass up and into his room to show me.
Abortion is not infanticide even if you happen to think it's exactly as evil. It's useful to have specific words mean specific things, otherwise you'd still need to invent a new word for non-abortion infanticide and what's the point of that?
> no decent manager gives a shit about your away time indicator

If they feel your output is weak and you are very often offline or away, it's just another data point they can use against you, however.
The massive 5G infrastructure push should help deal with some of you “occasionally offline” dissidents
Its doesn't have to be a software. Mine is a python script that jiggles every N minutes, where N is a command line parameter.
They exist, they're just not used a lot. I assume this is because most apps are made for profit.
> Embercado still maintain Delphi, so it still an option

They appear to have a hobby edition:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/product-editions

> Delphi® - Community Edition

> Our free Delphi Community Edition is designed for freelance developers, startups and nonprofits with revenues under $5000 USD and it allows them to easily design, code, debug, and deploy applications for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS from a single codebase with professional and integrated tools.

That said, I would probably recommend Lazarus:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Both are rolling dice/die?
I bet this will be settled in court
This comes to mind

http://audiophile.rocks/index.html
Google uses both OCR and automatic subtitles when returning YT search results, so most likely they also use it for censoring.
VS Community Edition and VS Code are also free, and are certainly sufficient if you want to build a desktop app
I don't think they will. WW2 media is still dominated by things other than (say) BF:V

They will have no sense of the Soviet contribution to the war, because that media will be American.
The Goldfinch (32 hours)

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Goldfinch-Audiobook/B00ELMXI0...

not sure how many credits it costs.
It will hardly make a human immortal. That's just fixing one problem with the human body, if the vaccine's promise is to be believed.

It will probably be incredibly cheap to make and administer, but not a silver bullet.
I'm not sure what there is to solve. The problem of giving stuff away is obvious; it's the first thing people ask when they hear about Free Software. The free software philosophy is that people do it anyway, for reasons of their own. Of course they are taken advantage of.

I don't think there is a solution, short of radically restructuring the entire world economy. The fundamental problem is people being people.

I don't know what software will look like in a generation. I suspect it will be radically different, but that's just my guess. But I suspect open source will trundle along as the rickety, half-assed philosophy that has worked (more or less) so far.