skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also seen it where every comment was just who made the code change and the date. "John K. 10/13/1994"
This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual
Well, electricity plus relativity demands magnetism (current in wire example), but don't forget E^2-B^2 and E dot B are relativistic invariants, so not for every configuration the B field can be explained away with a Lorentz transformation.
The problem is some people are married to old projects that do not offer them nothing anymore. Their contribution has been valuable , there is no need for continued commitment to maintain the social credit. Wish there was some "official" open source title they could print and frame it on their wall as forever proof of their valuable contribution. Just drop them, do something new, life is short.

A lot of contributors are from countries where cost of life is much cheaper, and they are happy to contribute as they don't compare themselves. But in the end, being kept busy maintaining an open source project for the benefit of rich people elsewhere is a bad use of their time resources.
Opal 1.4 released – compile Ruby 3.1 to JavaScript
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbfhxyevdrmzfnj/meson_manual_perso...
Had it early in the year and was unvaxxed when I had it. Was 30 at the time. For me it a little similar to the flu in that I felt very weak, but it wasn't as severe as the flu at its worse, instead symptoms lasted a little longer than the flu for me.

I knew I had it on a Thursday after my partner was diagnosed the day before and I started feeling a bit off. Friday I started feeling worse, but it wasn't until the evening that I really started feeling bad. Saturday was pretty bad... I had a mild fever for about an hour, my head was killing and I felt too weak to do anything. Sunday was bad too, but I was starting to feel better. Monday I was bad feeling crappy but I was able to work and by the evening I was feeling mostly okay. For the next few days I had a mild cough, but that cleared up by the end of the week.

I didn't have to take any time off of work, though I was quite fortunate with my worst days falling on the weekend. I also have a pretty good immune system so I'm not sure how representative my experience is. I'm very rarely ill. I was actually surprised I felt so bad for two days, normally even with the Flu I'll only feel very bad for 24 hours or so, where as this was more like 48 hours.

It wasn't the worst thing I had that's for sure. I had glandular fever as a teen and that was worse by an order of magnitude in terms of fever, weakness and time to recover.

I've done an IQ test since having COVID, but mentally I haven't noticed any long-term effects. I've also had no long-term physical effects.
That was the summer that MarcA publicly announced that Netscape would be a pure Java app by the end of the year.

So one of the mainline JavaScript interpreters was written in Java, and the JavaScript could call out to that engine, so you could load Java plugins at runtime, extend the JavaScript interpreter.

So you could say "Java" many times during the tech demo.
Do you really think Twitter's and Square's boards responsible for companies worth $100B+ combined are not aware and have not discussed whether their appointed CEO is up to par to do this?

Can you name me any employer who hired a full-time employee and is happy to pay them full-time salary while the employee deceives them for financial gain and works part-time and/or outputs the minimum amount of work hoping not to get fired?

If you believe you can do more work, go freelancing/contracting/self-employed.
I'm just finishing Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor and I have enjoyed it immensely.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890486-breath

I have previously taken courses in the Wim Hof Method and marvelled at the dramatic increase in energy that it gave me, not to mention an increased ability to be warm when I want to be and to tolerate the cold, something which being a relatively stationary software developer has negatively affected over the years.

This book touches on Wim Hof but covers the approaches and results of many other practitioners as well as traditional methods, blending together science writing and reporting of results with engaging storytelling, making it a fun, light and quick read.

As someone who likes to experiment with this kind of thing I went ahead and tried things like lightly taping my mouth shut while sleeping and was amazed to feel the difference when I didn't do it. Meanwhile I've experimented with only breathing through my nose when exercising (including exhaling) and have observed that my heart rate has stayed lower and my thinking clearer when under pressure in a jiu-jitsu class.

In the same week that I started reading the book I had a grading, and the instructors repeated again and again the reminder to breathe in through the nose, advice echoed in the book. To them it is common sense that if you start panting (breathing hard in and out using your mouth) that you won't be able to perform well in that kind of high-pressure scenario.

If you are looking for a light read over the holidays and are interested in health/wellness then I can thoroughly recommend this book.
When I saw that sticker, I immediately wanted to give it to this SEO consultant I worked with several years ago. We had a Python + Angular stack so among our first conversations went like:

Him: Okay your biggest problem right now is that your website is written in Java.

Me: Uhh...no...we use Python. Why is our choice of backend language a problem? (I honestly thought this involves a development in Google v. Oracle that I didn't know about.)

Him: No, no. It's all in Java. Look...(he uses a tool that shows us what Googlebot sees).

Me: Ah...Javascript.

Him: Yes, Java.

I instantly recognized the situation I was in so I didn't opt for pedantry. I adjusted accordingly but I kept using Javascript on my side of the conversation. I dunno if he ever caught on to that or if someone ever corrected him but this has been some kind of inside joke in my engineering team at the time.

I'm hoping if he has this on his laptop lid, it would serve as a "hobo sign" for future software engineers he might have to meet with. (Not to be mean on Christmas! He gave us competent advice, this issue aside.)
Its such a nice experience to not hear fans or burn your lap with couch programming.
Pretty much. One of the stated goals of Swift is to be able to be used from writing operating systems up to writing shell scripts.
I think for me it’s pretty clearly about maximizing the total income (immediate and cumulative for passive sources) per unit of time invested, as opposed to building something myself. This might also be the reason why I never actually started anything, which is just a different way of stating what you quoted from my previous message.
This is the unfortunate logical conclusion to industries becoming capital-intensive rather than labor-intensive.

When most industries were labor intensive it made little sense to aggregate businesses. Your costs are defined by the price of labor; there's little to save by grouping up. It may even have been a negative, because of the unwieldiness of large businesses.

Capital-intensive businesses love to aggregate because they can make more efficient use of the capital investment. You can buy one set of machines and do 100% utilization, rather than have two companies with two sets of machines each at 50% utilization. That's a gross oversimplification, but hopefully the point is clear.

You can also see this in older companies. It's not an accident that the Dutch East India company was massive. The sailors cost nothing relative to the price of the ship and the goods it carries.

And yes, competition does go down because nobody wants to get into a capital-intensive industry where the only way to be competitive is to scale up to the size of the existing competitor. It's a zero sum game, and you're starting out way behind.

I don't know what to do about that, but I do think this aggregation is making our supply chains brittle in exchange for cheaper goods.
You can also inline images by putting base64 in img tags. Pandoc creates nice single file websites with flags to inline both CSS and images.
Thank you! I do have Facebook and Instagram and they seem to be my main source of traffic. Every week / month is the hardest part, but I'm hoping to make it happen in 2002!
Space telescope ushers in a new age of astronomy
I re-read my favorite book, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, but this time, I read it aloud to my kids (albeit with occasional censoring of some parts).

I'm prone to bursting into laughter with that book, and my kids quickly found it very funny as well. They could almost immediately divine the next contradiction in the narrative.
Having had teachers on the family, including my mum, I kindly disagree in regards to math.

Having bought several books from open source projects as means to try to help the authors, I am quite aware how little it brings home to keep a sustainable life.
This raises my trust in Chinese security researchers. Log4j bug is one of the biggest security loopholes ever and these researchers knew exactly what they were doing when they made the announcement - avoiding a potential catastrophic comprise via Chinese state hackers. I totally admire the guts of these people.
Remembering when I was wrong about something I felt strongly about in the past can be a good reminder to suspend harsh judgment.
This would be a fun game. Take some heavier stickered entries from DevLids.com, Photoshop some of those misbrands-stickers, and let people guess the "fake" ones.
ferris.svg - The rust mascot crab (called "ferris") with the face and color of Gopher (the golang mascot)

github.svg - GitHub in a Gitlab styled logo

javascript.svg - JavaScript written in a Java-styled font + the Java logo (Sun/Oracle)

pip.svg - Pip (the python package manager) styled in the npm logo style (node.js package manager)

rails.svg - Ruby on Rails with pretty much the rails logo, but in the color of WordPress. Also the "RubyOn Rails" text theming is in the style of the WordPress logo typography

react.svg - ReactJS in a the Angular logo, including the font style

rust.svg - (this one was truly painful, personally :P) "Rust" (the language) displayed in the node.js logo font styling, including colors

ubuntu.svg - "Ubunutu" styled in the debian (linux distribution) font styling, along with the debian logo. This one specifically, is where the hybrid feels the most accurate since Ubuntu is a debian-based linux distro, but I do believe the communities don't get along very well (or at least that's the running joke)

vscode.svg - VS Code (Visual Studio Code, the IDE/Text Editor) displayed in the "Vim" logo font styling and the logo with the stylized "V"
Why not render them on your own computer after you write them?
Would be cool if they also thought about the manufacturing side of the house who as I seem to recall had to install “suicide nets” on site because conditions were so poor that staff were killing themselves in such large numbers.
Nope - FreeBSD is almost free of GPL, and will probably become entirely GPL-free in 2022: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase.

Also, it’s not politics - it’s mostly just that the old GNU cruft is being replaced, and newer, better solutions prefer more liberal licensing, see GCC vs LLVM.
James Webb Space Telescope reaches launch pad for Christmas liftoff
Until reflection comes into play, you can get similar capabilities with template meta-programming.
as someone who uses linux and free software as main interaction point with computers, yes it is
No chequer board pattern. Is this even really ray tracing?
I do have this nostalgia remembering my first tr/td spaghetti codes. However, it was never really usable for visually-impaired people, and flex/grid give me proper responsiveness now that 4:3 displays aren't the only way to browse content.
Not defending the OP post itself, but this is close to saying why hang around a capitalist country. There aren’t many options. You have to play the game to survive, or thrive, and have a non stressful life worried about a big bill
Were you vaccinated?
A MacBook M1 max I guess.
Don't compare apples to oranges. Amongst only electric vehicles, Tesla has been a solid market leader with way over 60% since 2018 [1], and amongst luxury vehicles Tesla is #3.

[1]: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134120_tesla-is-losing...
It's a gopherris inepta, clearly.
Just a very tangential note about the last part of the post

> I can't even get a job

IMHO, making a single contribution to an important FOSS project (e.g. Linux kernel, a major programming language or a widely used library), although not easy, will definitely land a job very easily for anyone.
I love Julia for AoC, especially for matrices. It's just that good and I'm surprised more python people don't use it.
And that's how you end up with FOSS that has the user experience of math, and the documentation style of math. :)
> Rule 6: Provide links to the original source of copied code

I learned this rule viscerally early in my career. Back in the golden age of Experimental Flash Art there was an enigmatic site called "flight404", and one day the site's author released source files for some of his more popular projects. All the Flash devs in my office started poring through them, and soon after my boss called me over to show me my own name in one of the comments!

Apparently the author (Robert Hodgin - whom I very much looked up to) had asked for help anonymously in a forum, and I had helped him out so he credited me in a comment (just for his own reference - in those days there was no Flash open source community and designers rarely distributed their source). That experience made me pretty obsessive about crediting outside influences in my source code whenever I get the chance.
Sure, vertical integration is nice, but why is it so hard - maybe even impossible, to achieve similar results without it? Windows is such an entrenched ecosystem with millions of PCs running it. The code running on most of them isn't complete blackbox. I find weird that Intel and AMD are not able, despite their cooperation with Microsoft, to achieve similar kinds of results.
It is kind of ironic that 20 years later this needs to be re-discovered.
More likely, being able to use a new architecture that isn’t burdened with decades of legacy compatibility works better than an architecture that is burdened with decades of backward compatibility.
That why the next step is to introduce move-only types to have the same defaults as Rust.
Le Guin's prose is incredible.

Her writing style exemplifies St. Exupery's quote about perfection being "...when there is nothing left to take away."
Why, apart from inventing them (in Windows NT) in the first place?
> It's thanks to Open Source that I'm writing this on a system that uses 100% Open Source software

no, it's thanks to free software and the GPL. Thanks to open source you get Playstation and macOS which both use BSD to create the most proprietary system possible.
OpenPGP Card Support in Sequoia
A nature lover's tip for Google Maps; old growth primary forest appears a far darker shade of green than secondary forest. I've found this very useful for finding good hiking close to urban areas.
Your loss!
Dogma inhibits the growth of knowledge.
If people are so bothered by mouse research, why don't we have a line of research aiming to make humans look more like mice?
Let's amplify road rage and catcalling. What could possibly go wrong.
> But this will NOT turn the light on because the energy received will be extremely small.

It doesn't have to be very small. The pair of wires form a transmission line and if the characteristic impedance of that line is low enough the current will be much higher. You appear to understand that so I'm not telling you anything.

But there is still value in proposing this because if one were to perform this experiment with really low Z coax (12 ohm or something) the bulb would instantly light to nearly full brightness, yet the 'mystery' would be dispelled or at least trivial to explain: the instantaneous current is supplied via the distributed LC circuit inherent to the transmission line.
Raimund Genes Cup: Trio of near misses ends as PwnThyBytes finally claims CTF
Not sure if healthy food is accessible to everyone: if you're juggling 2 or 3 low-paying jobs you neither have the money nor time to buy and prepare healthy food. In the US fastfood is often cheaper than healthy food.
> Retirement by 35 means others must retire later than they should, unless you pretend to be self-sufficient.

The advice includes lowering your expenses by spending less. You are providing less total work and you are taking the value of that work back at a slower rate. So there's no reason anyone else has to work more or less. We simply don't need the lifestyle we are buying during our working years. Personally, I think it is time to drop the standard to a 30 hour work week.

It's funny that there is usually no winning with an argument over change in work habits because either you hurt people by making them work or you hurt people by taking away their work. ( Somehow the status quo is accidentally perfect, unless of course you examine any part of it.)
You're already earning 50k/year through dividends, if you can live with a lot less money then just quit and start some side project. Or just take a part time job and live for a while.
The one app comes to mind that does what web3 promises, but doesn't need a blockchain at all, is Scuttlebutt[1].

[1]: https://scuttlebutt.nz/about/
I have been working on Castup, a podcast editing startup since Jan 2019 and it's been an amazing journey so far. We crossed the $500/month profit mark after the first six weeks and now the team has expanded quite a bit.

[1] https://useCastup.com
No, but it is a start. Just like not working 7 days a week was a start, and not owning humans was a start.
Yes, of course you can use it. The API is free, does not require an api key. The only issue is when many use it and the server crashes. It runs on a t2.micro free tier EC2 instance.
> got me booted from several platforms

This bothers me. Can I get some more detail and drama?

> Today, I don't have a place for that kind of thing

If you want to share your work with close friends, you could use say, self-hosted Gitea or GitLab.
Ask HN: What are your goals for 2022?
Looks like a GUI wrapper around jails, with some seccmp hacks to work around deficiencies in namespaces.
I like news where the US federal govt is like - nah ah, you dont get away with this. It's good learning in how to regulate enough to ensure economic growth.
See also the Quintillion cable:

> Phase 2: Extends from Washington State to Japan. Connects Alaska to Washington State.

> Phase 3: Connects Alaska to Canada. Extends through the Canadian Arctic to London, with landing stations at Thule AFB and Iceland.

* https://www.quintillionglobal.com/system/out-asia-europe/
IANL, and am always willing to learn. What clause does this violate exactly?

I would guess that you mean one of the following, but I do not see any violation:

> 8. "not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution."

> 9. "restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. "

> 6. "restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research"

In addition, that is the "The Open Source Definition", but the phrase "open source" cannot be copyrighted (there is legal precedent, IIRC with Lindows) .

According to the DoD, Open Source Software means "software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and re-distribution by the users of such software" [0]

In practice, there are many "Open Source" licenses that allow paid licensing [2]. The most well known competitor, FOSS, only slightly differentiates itself with the phrase "Open Software" and openly allows fees.

[0]: https://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/#q-what-...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
You want offline viewing?

Chrome: File > Save Page As... > Webpage, Complete

Safari: File > Safe As... > Web Archive

My god, it's just text files and images, you don't need JavaScript.
> it's not even the Tesla owner's YouTube channel.

So? You think he's not getting a cut financially? Why would he deal himself out of that money?
The Vanilla JavaScript Toolkit
I feel a bit letdown that this doesn't follow the structure of the usual structure of Myths Programmers Believe about
Yep! How this passes QA is and why everyone else who knew old Google isn't crying out loudly is beyond my understanding.
YMMV though, I briefly owned a 5900HS/3080 Zephyrus G15 and though it was indeed a powerhouse, it absolutely got more hot and way WAY more noisy than my 16” M1 Pro does now doing the same things, while overall not being as nice of a laptop (far worse screen, somewhat chintzy build, meh speakers, barrel power connector, huge power brick, bad battery life, etc).

That G15 was better at some things than my M1 Pro is now but not by enough that I’d want it over the M1 Pro, even considering the price difference.
> To be honest they should have picked a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java.

It was marketing very much in cooperation with Sun.

That's why JS has a C-style syntax: Netscape simultaneously looked at embedding Java and hired Eich to embed Scheme, which then morphed into a bespoke language with Java-inspired syntax but semantics closer to Scheme's.
How I wish it had native Vulkan support.
Some software does. Most probably wouldn’t if the author could be convinced to stop when it was done.

Personally, I’ve shipped several open source libraries that are still in use in lots of places despite me not having added a commit in over 10 years. They do the thing, don’t do anything else, don’t depend on other stuff, and thus don’t have a lot of surface to attack.

Imagine if the log4j guys had built their thing to spit out logfiles, then stopped before adding the bit where it can execute arbitrary code. I’m sure there was a version early on that did that. And I bet that version would still work perfectly well today. It was finished.

It just needed somebody to not unfinish it.
I thought the Rust one might have been trying to look similar to the C++ logo, but the node font looks like a better match.
Neither of those, I'm serious. I think this approach has obvious flaws (see any discussion about what a "sane subset of C++" is), but complaining about it here while I don't even use the language would be a waste of everyone's time. Instead, I prefer to focus on the positive, which is that there is a lot to learn from those posts.

I wonder if some day we will see a platform ship with an obvious system language and an obvious application language. Right now everyone seem to want to do everything at the same time, and I'm not sure if it's the best approach.

It's also always very interesting to see how programming languages evolve. If I don't change industries, I still have at least 30 years to spend in this one. 30 years ago Java, Ruby and JavaScript didn't even exist, but something like ML was already 18 years old, and records, sum types and pattern matching are just landing in Java/C#. So there's a lot to learn by studying history, and what's happening right now is part of it. I've also followed Go's generics, OCaml multicore, Java's Loom, Valhalla and Amber, and each time it was intersting and insightful. Our industry is all about tradeoffs between change and stability, and those projects are an example of that.