skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had COVID a couple of weeks ago. I’m in London. Was like a mild cold for me. I track my resting HR, HRV, body temp and whatnot via Oura ring and the ring didn’t even register any meaningful increase in resting HR or decrease in HRV. I like to think I’m pretty fit (run 40km per week) and healthy (no mineral or vitamin deficiencies). One strange symptom still remains where I feel slightly hungover when I wake up (I never drink enough to get hungover these days) but it clears soon after waking. Could be unrelated.
It is not the owner of the car that is getting the adverts money, but rather the youtube streamer (and their company?) that do.

The car owner did get some screen fame, got to experience an explosion, and if they bought a sport car then they might not care too much about the potential money for selling the chassis.
It looks like the English translation of Haffner's memoir is titled "Defying Hitler: A Memoir". Thanks for the recs!
That does not work.

After several years of hard work a prior open source project that grew to immense popularity got me employment a few times. It wasn’t the actual project, code, or capabilities that meant anything. The only thing appealing about that project was it’s popularity.

Nobody ever looked at the code, except people interested in submitting pull requests. If you think a prospective employer will take the time to analyze the code you are either applying for an exceptional specialized position or completely mistaken.

Work on open source because you like to solve tough problems, want to grow as a developer, or because you just want to build some interesting product. Don’t kid yourself into thinking the code will immediately solve some business interest.
I'm not quite there yet, but I've been making $300/mo running an uptime checker for JavaScript apps (supports normal websites too): https://onlineornot.com/
Oh I meant “when anyone today writes a toy ray tracer, this is usually the first scene you test with it”
> It's awful the way log4j is being treated.

Sadly, that's the way all FLOSS gets treated. I saw this exact same sentence when heartbleed came out with just the project name changed.

I don't think that anti-commercialisation clauses in the license will fix anything, though.
I've been using Kroki for this - https://kroki.io is a hosted server for it - and it's pretty great, and supports a tonne of formats
I recently created web version with builtin currency rates and some crypto

https://numbr.dev
Gmail always had a loading screen.
Even then, an elite institution cannot be huge by definition. There will be many, many very qualified applicants who won't get in.
1. "Helgoland: The world of quantum theory" It's relatively light on physics but I loved the philosophical mixin.

2. "Seed of knowledge, stone of plenty". Mostly about the electromagnetic properties of ancient monuments and how electromagnetic fields can impact seed fertility. I can not believe how this is such an invisible book.

3. "Humankind. A hopeful history". I thoroughly enjoyed this fact based retelling of human history.
Is it 'worth' working on? That's a function of what I deem worthwhile, which no one else can really answer for me. 'Anymore' implies that it used to be better, which may be true, but I'm inclined to think I may have changed even more than the ecosystem. My time was worth less in the past, so it may have been a valuable use of time (valuable as a term leading back to the first point) than currently. Is there still value in working on FOSS? Yes. Is it worth it to you, or me, or any certain person? Maybe. Is it changing, likely for the worse? I think so, and the examples in the article are concerning.
Thank you! Vlad.studio is not a big source of income these days, but it sure is a huge source of inspiration and appreciation. I am addicted to positive comments, I must admit :-)
Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
So... my point was that we have a cultural bias towards representing the romans as clean and medieval people as dirty - "As to who was cleaner, it depends heavily on class, region and specific year." So you agree with the core of the idea I was presenting, but you then immediately dismiss it as bad scholorship. Apologies, I didn't think I needed to google the details for this conversation - but let's correct the record: romans didn't have soap during the republican era, but they did during the roman empire. At least by 200CE, perhaps as much as a century earlier. Happy?

> That's the problem with preconceived notions, they lead to bad scholarship

I agree. E.g. missing the forest for the trees. As you just did.
Yes, you can self host both, Plausible and Fugu.
True, i agree with your point on private prisons. Anything for profit will skew the everything towards that which makes more profit
Yes,

The most important thing of FOSS has always been about ensuring an alternative to closed source. This provides people with leverage in negotiation with the corporations and states in a way they simply would not have without it. Beyond this, It provides a pathway for a much quicker evolution of the products, something actually driven by the most driven users, instead of corporates approved. Writing this on firefox on linux I'd say its working and has done, and will keep doing great good.
A comment at the end of a long block can be helpful. If you have to scroll up to figure out what block just finished
Neither gold nor crypto will bring you to what ever "the other side" is (so much wistles).

Crypto currencies are bound to a functioning infrastructure and can be unpredictably volatile.
Gold is no currency at all in the sense of a common trade value and this is the essence of it all. No, actually its labor. Labor is the only kind of value and any "worth" (eg money) has to be translatable to that. Crypto and gold is not.
If you like science fiction, there were a few books published this year worth picking up:

- The Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir (of the Martian). Nice page turner and he's back to form with his third novel.

- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. Enjoyable and fun; though arguably not his finest work. I might pick up his earlier work for re-reading over Christmas. Anathem probably, which I would recommend to anyone.

- Leviathan Falls (part 9 and the last one of the Expanse series). James S.A. Corey (the writer duo). The whole series was quite enjoyable and this is a fitting end to it.
"Jussie Smollett staged a hate crime, and was convicted of such."

Doesn't the fact he was convicted and received widespread ridicule everywhere disprove the author's point.
> But its not like any reader ever supports it fully, hell most readers dont support showing the other images in a png file.

Do you mean APNG? In all fairness, that is not even in the specification although there is discussion to add it. https://github.com/w3c/PNG-spec/issues/26

The one that was specified was MNG but it was a different format and practically no one used it since it was not parsable as a PNG.
I interpreted Chomsky's comment more as `it’s an attack on my liberty [for the government to have the authority] to make me stop at a red light.'

not `it’s an attack on my liberty to make me stop at a red light [no matter the circumstances].' Though, oddly, your example was a stop sign .. and doing a rolling stop at a stop sign is probably the most common illegal action people do.

I see nothing here that suggests Chomsky is promoting blind obedience.

We know from his own history he was prepared to go to jail as a result of his anti-war civil disobedience. Surely that's the direct analogy.

The state currently has the power to compel vaccination (Jacobson v. Massachusetts). If you have a principled objection to that law, then like every other action of civil disobedience (MLK, Megan Ric, and many more) be prepared to be removed from society.

Who knows, your action might even cause the law to be removed.

(To be clear, Chomsky is not asking for the government to assert this power, but rather for the unvaccinated to voluntarily withdraw from society, though this may change if COVID becomes something more like smallpox.)
I get about 10 support requests per week. If I get many of the same, I add info to the FAQ.
Software is eating the world and it's mostly through proprietary licensing models. But this doesn't mean that the fight is lost. In fact quite the opposite: it means that FLOSS is more needed than ever. Generally, when a new area opens for software, proprietary software usually has a massive head start, but once the area becomes more well understood, FLOSS products emerge, and often they steal the show of the proprietary competitors, at least in the long run.

In the areas FOSS was able to get a footing, it usually remained. Web browsers have been trending towards the open core model for example, same goes for compilers, most of which are FLOSS. On the server, the GNU/Linux platform is the most commonly used one. Same goes for embedded applications including Android.

Does this translate to end user freedoms? Sadly, in many instances it doesn't. But I think it's still worth fighting for freedom, even if the only reachable audience is other freedom loving enthusiasts instead of the broad majority of people.
AI Research Trends:Sort ArXiv papers by its popularity on social media sites
Completely agree. A Tesla is one of those rare products were going back to the previous state of technology feels like moving to a Third World country. Sans the adventure and possibility for self realization, that is.
> The psychological effect on the people who have lived within their means and met their obligations will be radicalizing.

First, this entry tries to conflate student loan forgiveness with a potpourri of ethical issues. It is not similar to the other examples.

It is reasonable to question the structure of US policy toward student loan programs. They are predatory compared with those of other nations.

If the US comes to terms with this problem, and major restructuring is done, is debt forgiveness on loans that are no longer even possible to get some massive psychological burden?

It seems more like sour grapes of having to run your own loans through bad policy.
Like gitlab you mean ?
XPM and gzip are still not that simple. QOI is much simpler.
One that's missing: comments should explain why a piece of code exists or is written in a certain way (and implicitly, when it can be changed or removed). This overlaps with "explain unidiomatic code in comments", but there can be idiomatic code whose purpose isn't obvious.
Hi Vlad,
I love your pictures and I'm using your wallpapers for more than 10 years for sure on all my devices (including mobile phone). Hmm I did not check your page for some time, I think I know what I will be doing today .
I gave the specifics in another answer at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29671485 .
The iOS app is much newer and much more niche, but it’s starting to break ground.

For now most of the revenue is in macOS but my ultimate goal is to make iOS be my #1 platform in terms of revenue. That’s because, simply, I’d rather offload a lot of marketing and deployment/payment bandwidth to the App Store to focus on the products.
But it becomes less so every year.
Is the point of health insurance to increase health, or to insure against catastrophic health failure?
One of the things that surprises me about the EFF is how much good they do with a modest budget. Their budget for 2020 was only $10.8M dollars. [1]

[1] https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/043091431_202006_990_...
Ordinary Men. A great book about a bunch of ordinary men (50 year old police reservists, from Hamburg, of different socioeconomic classes and political leanings) and the atrocities they committed during WW2 in Poland ( mostly against Jews), why, and how they coped with it. There are some fascinating pieces of information there ( post-war interviews with the men form a big part of the narrative establishing what happened), and it really reinforced some of my already established opinions on "bad people", the Nazis, etc. There was nothing unique about them and such terrible things can happen again, which is why it's so important to teach and remember history - if you don't know how the Nazis convinced millions to do unspeakable things, you can more easily fall in the same trap.
https://calmcode.io/ - learn code calmly
They are. I recommend using `height:0` and `overflow: hidden` instead. Or the more advanced `.sr-only` class: https://kittygiraudel.com/snippets/sr-only-class/
On HN it makes sense to me, because a long link would interrupt the flow of text. So you do a footnote to make them go out of the way. Otherwise Wikipedia has a happy medium I think; footnotes are on the bottom where you'd expect, but they show on hover so you don't have to jump there and then back.
The last movers advantage is a tradeoff. It becomes increasingly difficult to make major paradigm shifting changes the further you go. Being conversative increases the length of the runway and Java has benefited from that. Though, the superiority of Java's version when it finally gets some feature is often debatable.

Two major initiatives for many years in Java have been Loom and Valhalla. A cynical take on that is that Java is attempting to copy something that Go and C# (and others) have had and excelled at for a decade or more, and were designed to do from the start. Sometimes, at some point the expense and complexity of dragging decades of code forward (with all accumulated mistakes, design assumptions made based on now obsolete hardware, backwards compat constraints, etc.) outweighs the cost of going back to the drawing board to start again.
I just read that string theories are all supersymmetric and attempts at formulating non supersymmetric ones pretty much failed to the point noone is interested in attempting to make them.

And LHC experiments ruled out super symmetry in our universe. Does that mean quantum string theory pretty much got falsified?
Telegram not would also do the job.
The Patreon page isn't HTML. Guess there are limits.
I absolutely loved The Road, but I couldn't finish Blood Meridian ... I had no interest in the setting or the characters at all.
* Experience parenting. This teaches you to call bullshit on defiant or obstructive team members with confidence and directness.

* Writing. I have worked with many developers that have a phobia of writing anything down. The ability to write down precise guidance in finite simplified ordered steps separates the adults from the children in the room unlike any of factor.
That and data being sold, haveibeenpwned gives me a larger list as the years go on from all the “secure” services who werent.

I feel bad for people making new services now who have to deal with this, but the internet isn’t new and they have to overcome our experience with all the bad behavior of shysters who operated like these apps and ended up lying about the service
I'd bet good money they whitelist the IMEI. You need your target device to spoof the IMEI of the original router.
> The FOSS that was imagined by Stallman, where end-users could actually use FOSS products in their everyday lives, is not possible under capitalism

I have to disagree. Use a Linux based operating system, self-host your internet services at home, use google free android, or do a subset of that.

Its all open source and works locally.
~~With progressive enhancement, you could arrange to display only the current subpage. When Javascript is off, the whole page would render as a long-ish HTML document. Which is indeed no issue at all with the sitemap in a sidebar.~~

Edit: I obviously didn't read the article...
I love the second one, it leaps about more, but I really enjoyed the way the ideas of the first book are expanded in multiple strange directions
> I have written licenses to make GitHub hesitate before using my code as input to Copilot

Microsoft has claimed that consuming code for Copilot is fair use, and therefore does not require permission from the copyright owner, so how would a license—an offer of permission under limited terms—impact that at all?

> But even if I solidify the licenses, what stops GitHub from ignoring them by claiming that their Terms of Service allows them to use my code?

Well, the fact that arguing the ToS would be a retreat from their position that they don't need permission in the first place, whether or not the code is hosted on GitHub.
if you dig deep and long enough you will find examples for any group at all levels..

the examples he gives are weak. For example, Trump's hotels saw an increase in business after he became president. Is this a surprise or a bad thing, given all the media coverage he got? Of all the things we can fault trump on, is this the most damning, which was not even under his control?
I had a look at Kotlin and it's definitively an huge improvement with regards to Java. It is free of all the ceremony and boilerplate of Java and null values are so much less of an issue. Still, coming from Scala I'm a bit underwhelmed.

Don't get me wrong - Kotlin is a very fine language with lot of promise and the comparison to Scala is not exactly fair - Scala is just a completely different league.

I really like what Odersky and the Scala community did with Scala 3; they lifted the language onto a sound new theoretical framework, streamlined the way implicits are used and got rid of puzzling irregularities. Did I mention the new sound macro system? But I'll stop fawning now.

I'm currently working on a project where we use Kotlin instead of Java. Probably wouldn't have taken the job if it was with Java and Kotlin makes it quite fun. But damn - I do miss Scala.
Yes, this year I redid all my solutions in our own language (been working on it for 2 years with a friend) after submitting; to test how will it works for these cases. I must say, next year we'll definitely do it fully in our language.
That makes sense considering how omnipresent wechat is there.
This is great! I messed up my ankle when I began taking transit and walking to the office in a pair of terrible dress hoes.
It's saddening to see that even in 2021 manufacturers still insist on rolling their own custom shitty UI on top of what is essentially Linux's iptables and iproute2 and obviously get it wrong and introduce security vulnerabilities (not to mention miss/break/restrict functionality that the aforementioned components give you for free), all while OpenWRT is around and is trivial to port especially if you're a manufacturer.
So how does this all encompassing freedom of speech work? Am I allowed to come to your house and say whatever I want and you can not throw me out? Now you might say your house is not a public space. So what about your garden? I guess I can come over and place any signs I like in your garden because it's my freedom of speech.

That is the problem with these arguments if you actually think them through consequently it becomes completely impractical, because by forcing a "freedom from consequences" you violate every other right.
I have not! Thank you so much!
>Lin-Manuel Miranda used as a reference for the musical

I have to admit - this is a mention of a topic I would not have expected to see on this site in a million years, but yes, this musical is fantastically entertaining, even with a complete ignorance of American history.
Currently reading it.

I recommend “Against the Grain” and also “Pre Industrial Societies.” They give a really good perspective on human life and the structures we create. One of my favourite quotes is: the hallmarks of a state: appropriation, inequality and hierarchy.

Grains are the only agricultural product that can grow an early state, because it can be easily taxed, it’s fungible so you can pay with it, and people can’t run off with their field and canals to somewhere else.

It’s kind of a wonderful point that without the taxman there would be no civilisation.
Gergely Orosz has been writing some great stuff - https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
Apple introduced voice processing on the devices with iOS 15 (that's the current version if you are not so familiar with the system.) Older versions of iOS required an internet connection for any voice command. This works on all but the oldest supported devices (which are ~iPhone 6), from what I remember.

Edit: scroll down to section "Siri" here: https://www.apple.com/ca/ios/ios-15/features/
If we want thrift stores to act as some kind of welfare institution we shouldn't let everybody shop at them.
Nobody has ever observed the interior of a black hole and reported the results to the outside, and nobody ever will (unless GR is drastically wrong). And yet we consider our theory of BH interiors to be basically valid except at the center, where it breaks down. That's perfectly good physics, so deal with it.
I've skimmed the README and documentation but the benefits over Vimwiki still aren't jumping out at me.

Can you clarify?
Google isn't as bad as you are saying. Doing a search of "test" the result page is about 130 KiB. This is an order of magnitude smaller than what you claim. It also loads in between 900ms and 1 second the majority of the time.
>The clear intent from the author here is to make the reader feel like they too should have gone looting. This implies, to me, that the author perhaps doesn't have a particularly strong moral compass of their own because my honest answer is:

This is a really uncharitable interpretation.
I guess if you want to maintain compatibility with all the existing ecosystem, it's better to be extra careful.
I don't know about you, but I have had to re-pair my bluetooth quite a few times with my car.

Sometimes bluetooth just seems to get itself in a state where things won't connect and you have to start again. It happens on pretty much everything with me eventually, be it my bluetooth keyboard with my laptop, my phone and my car, my headphones and iPhone...
Initially, just posted in a bunch of subreddits on reddit to get engagement. But the retention was quite low. I still used that engagement to get a couple hundred followers on twitter.

Afterwards, realized that twitter had the most solid trading community out of any other platform. So all I've been doing for the last one year is build a community on twitter now (and of ofcourse discord too since everyone's there these days). I try to post ideas from the system every day, and when people see them work and make some money off of them, they subscribe to the paid plan.

Discord has a massive portion of the overall trading community, so I created discord bots to pull data from the web product, and every data item had our logo on it. That helped quite a lot in expanding the brand name and reaching more people. We're in about 250 discords and reach about 100k members in them overall.

Finally, 12 hours of sitting in front of a laptop every day lol.
> determined the features increase engagement / revenue?

This. Nothing else matters.
Oddly enough, my purchase decision was driven specifically by considerations of size, resolution, and suitedness to task.

Again: at 8", e-ink is pretty broadly useful. If you're frequently reading scanned-in journal articles, the 10" or 13" devices shine, though these can be accessed on smaller screens using in-page zoom-and-scroll. (Onyx BOOX has several settings for this in its NeoReader app.)

Note-taking, which was not a use I anticipated using, also happens to be really well-suited.

Yes, you can read on a smaller device if you must. However you're making the same sacrifices for mobility that are present in pocket-sized printed books, and the format is best suited to largely unformatted text (e.g., prose). Diagrams, tables, and other layout translate quite poorly, and this is intrinsic to the display itself.

The one task to which the tablet format seems best suited is precisely e-book reading. So I've ditched the "smartphone" (a pocket snoop) and settled on laptop / desktop (productivity) + tablet (ebooks), and dedicated devices for specific other applications, most especially capture (audio, images, video).

"The Case Against Tablets"

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e...
>Why would anyone ever sign such a contract?

Because they want a job?