skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>have enough progress that you can convince journalists that it's not vaporware.

I second this. I launched my first and only campaign back in 2016, but even then media outlets were wary. Back when crowdfunding was new and exciting, many of them featured products that turned out to never launch. Once bitten, twice shy.
Yes, because you never know when your contribution of a logging feature will give you a great story to tell about lessons learned.
For me open source is like math. You don't work on math so that people will thank you for working on math. You don't expect people using math you developed contributing back to math or paying you. You get paid however you managed to organize getting paid. And work on the math for the math and nothing else.

If you have other expectations maybe you'll find other endeavours more fulfilling. Which is sad but it is what it is.
We do in fact deprioritize transplants to the obese. The average waiting time for a kidney transplant for an obese person is 5 years, as opposed to 3 years for a healthy person.

And if curing your obesity was as easy as getting a shot, of course you should be deprioritized for related morbidities.
Ansiwave BBS, a modern BBS with ANSI art and MIDI music
The author’s message - which includes concluding that he’s morally superior to most people - is undermined by his blatantly partisan selection of examples.

Personally, I’m of the view it’s a bad idea to spend time documenting in detail how “our tribes have failed to unite, and it is your tribe’s fault”. It implies a lot of pride, and a willingness to turn a blind eye to all sorts of bad behaviour.

I mean, if you just want to criticise a politician or individual you don’t like - fair enough. You should feel free to make a point how you like. No one should be expected to be pain-stakingly fair in every post or comment.

But if you want a grand narrative that includes, say, 10 examples of bad behaviour, demonstrate some thinking has taken place. Include 2 or 3 examples from whoever you consider to be your tribe. Don’t act like all the problems are other people.
The Intel chipsets were limited for a long time in that they could only support a maximum of 16GB of LPDDR ram. Yet another reason Apple must have been frustrated with Intel.
I second this. The Hail Mary Project was a great read and even made it into Barack Obama's list[1]. I am working my way through The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and so far it's a page turner.

[1]: https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1471168495312420877
Why can't Telegram and Signal both be honeypots? They both get your phone number, they both are centralized, they both have dubious security concerns, and they both have got a lot of traction without powerful people going after them.
Reggy is originally a Chrome Extension for easy registrations via fake random identities and disposable emails. Allowing to bypass simple registration forms and protect privacy (blogs, forums, whitepaper downloads etc..). At the same time it's a really good tool for application testing such as login and registration forms. It recently launched its identity generation API for easier integration into any application..
I took up triathlon two years ago. Being in my late forties and never having done any sports in a systematic fashion, I’m certainly not winning any trophies. But being in shape feels great and there’s an insane amount of technique to learn. It’s a very technical sport: swimming (tiny changes in posture make a big difference in efficiency), cycling (finding, optimizing and maintaining your aero position), running (yes, you can run incorrectly and you will hurt yourself doing so once the miles start piling up) and even transitions are very much dependent on very specific minute details of technique. I find learning those very satisfying
Single vaxxed isn't immunized... If you don't get the 2nd shot you could have pissed on the first too (at least for the mRNA vaccines)
Try Patrick Rothfuss. Fair warning though, he hasn’t ever written the last part of the trilogy.

The Blacktongue Thief is also good.
Thank you for replying, and for the nuggets of wisdom!

Merry Christmas!
> It was 12 years ago. In FreeBSD, full supper for NFSv4 ACLs

You are right, but ironically we have to thank Microsoft for that ;)
My daily driver is 32 years old. Doesn't have any wireless stuff in it other than the radio.

I just bought some LED headlights, and Ima gonna replace the old dim halogens with them next week. Already replaced the tail lights with LEDs, and what a nice improvement!
> 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.

This is correct.

> And LHC experiments ruled out super symmetry in our universe. Does that mean quantum string theory pretty much got falsified?

This is not correct. LHC hasn't ruled out the existence of supersymmetry because it doesn't have a sufficiently high energy to do so. It's like having a ladder to look for socks in the drawers of a very tall closet. With the LHC we get to look at the first 5 drawers, we haven't seen the socks in there, we found some panties (the Higgs boson) but there are still drawers higher were perhaps there are some socks.

Nevertheless, the idea stands, we can use accelerators to test the theory and falsify it which comes to show that the theory makes predictions and is falsifiable.
How does that first book compare to the recent one by Graeber? They both seem to tackle the same question.
Comments are an anti-pattern. The more comments you write, the less code gets deployed to production. Only code that's deployed to production counts.
With (laser or traditional) welding of metals it gets to the point where you need to flood the area with shielding gases (eg. argon/helium/nitrogen) during the weld to prohibit poor surface qualities (due to plasma formation, oxidation, etc), and that the flow rate requirement and geometric matching of the airflow-assist structure ('shoe') becomes critical (sometimes on both sides). Basically, a generic solution has severe limitations in material, speed and finish terms. I am no chemist but would generally assume the same to be true for many food related substances. Polymers bonding will often respond better to a mix of focused ultrasonics and pressure than simply thermal energy. Alternative, use glue.
Science is evidence based.

Evidence changes with experience and time.

Evidence is subject to errors in method and interpretation. With luck, those are also corrected with time.

What science does not do is choose some ideologically convenient belief, then selectively cherry-pick and selectively ignore evidence or arguments to buttress that.

At the very top of the article you link is this note:

Since CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made the comments discussed below, scientists have pushed back against the idea that vaccinated people “don’t carry the virus.” We've published a deeper analysis of the debate here.

That is: there is disagreement over the evidence.

The upshot of the announcement, in April of 2021, was this:

[T]he most important part of the recent CDC findings is that vaccinated people are very unlikely to suffer asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections. Participants in the study who were fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines were 90% less likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Of infections that did occur, only 10.7 percent were asymptomatic. Taken together, this means vaccinated people are highly unlikely to transmit the virus when they are not suffering symptoms. This also means that as vaccination rates continue to rise, the virus will have fewer and fewer possible hosts.

Again, highlighted at the very top of the article you've selected to link here.

You've chosen to highlight the headline, which was not selected by the CDC and may well not have been selected by the authors either. (Traditional practice is that headlines are written by a headlines editor, more recently, headlines are often selected by A/B testing for impact, clicks, and engagement.)

Moreover, the point made gets to another complaint that's been raised repeatedly by the antiempirical crowd: why should vaccinated people need to wear masks if vaccines protect against transmitting or receiving the virus?

What we've learned since this announcement and piece is that even if vaccinated there remain both transmission and infection risks. Vaccines are not some majickal warding spell, but are simply a technological tool that leverages the body's own immune defences. Sometimes more effectively than others.

And I very strongly suspect that you either know all of this, or have chosen deliberately not to based on your submission and comment history.
The startup scripts that were in use before systemd did one thing but they certainly didn't do it well.
Thanks for this, I'm going to try it on my personal website.
> All that is required to beat this, honestly, is a few people serving as positive role models with transparency and not abusing their authority

In corrupted countries such people are getting killed.
The blog is really mixed up and conflates different issues.
It uses a tiny set of not representative examples to validate a conclusion the author has already come to.
I totally agree that some people and companies take advantage of what others do for free, but that is not new and would be true if you said the same about the relationship between employees and employers or similar. It’s also true that when people go above and beyond someone somewhere could blame or take advantage of the extra those people gave - again not new and totally possible in any scenario or market. We’ve all been there and bought the T-Shirt. The author has expectation mismatch, perhaps taking a break and then making a final decision is best.
TL;DR Nothing has changed. The joke has become scary. (Especially Dogecoin and all the other useless meme-coins)

All these meme-coins won't survive more widespread regulations when banks go after using CBDCs instead of the actual cryptocurrencies.

As for DOGE, Just don't be like this guy who was willing to bet that DOGE will be over $1 by the end of August: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046019
> You're saying the speedometer is the only instrument that needs to be scanned regularly?

In practice, I'd hazard a yes.

Keyword: regularly...unless you're driving something that's pissing oil all over the place and/or has a cooling system that's out of service, at which point you clearly have much bigger maintenance problems and probably shouldn't be on the road with that vehicle anyways (perhaps even in a lawful sense).

> I would've said that the speedometer really isn't needed - if you go with traffic and don't hang out in the passing lane, you're never going to get in trouble.

The obvious naivety here is a dependency on another driver ahead of you both maintaining situational awareness and doing the right thing...never mind sparse traffic scenarios, e.g. super late/early hours, neighborhoods, small towns, rural areas, etc. In the case of incident, the police won't care; your insurance provider won't care.

> It's a lot more important to me to know if I've lost oil pressure or am overheating.

Contrived. There's a reason why high-contrast event indicators (termed "telltale" as defined by US FMVSS statutory regulation[1]) baked directly into every passenger vehicle which control for permissible location, identification, color, and illumination targeting driver visibility. These discrete telltales are explicitly designed to ping a driver's peripheral vision with the intent of eliminating a need for active monitoring in practice.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...
You're not paying $5 for the cup. You're paying $5 for the guy making it for you at a moment's notice, for the warm couch to sit in while you drink it, and for the other guy who comes after you leave and cleans after you.
Fortunately this supply chain is less at the mercy of global transportation woes.

Now, provenance may still be an issue...
Accept my IBAN – Discrimination is against the law
That 30% reduction in depression sounds pretty good, though. Depression kills.
I think their point is at least Oracle employees are paid for any abuse thrown their way.
Thr biggest risk is that your pull requests will be ignored. You won't be in a way at all. Even very good pull requests are often ignored for reasons unrelated to quality. Don't do anything big before you are reasonably sure the project will process your commit.

Surf through projects to find ones that seem to be interested in contributions. Red flags are many ignored unresolved pull requests or too much hostility in project.

Some projects have issues labeled with "beginner friendly" or some such. Have a look there and try to fix something. If it turns 9ut to be boring, move onto another project.
It's not, but it's not what the author is talking about. He's mostly talking that FOSS is a thankless job creating artifacts that will get appropriated by some greedy corporation.
As soon as you start typing your search, it starts making search suggestions. That's a complex feature which must involve lots of code.

Also, the search page is not just the search page, it's the portal for all Google services and has corresponding links and menus at the top.

So we should expect the page to be much bigger than "a few bytes", and it is.
I am a bit dubious about the way this is measured, with rare exceptions the kind of medicine considered healthcare isn't good enough to actually improve these metrics but rater mostly improve quality of life in subtle ways, and the analysis does mention stress reduction/depression reduction. I totally get it reduces stress to have access. But how many things happen to people in a few years that healthcare can actually treat? or at least treat in a way that shows up. I've been to the doctor once or twice a year, but its been twenty plus years since appendicitis which is the one thing in my entire life they could fix which concretely improved health.

Vaccines are great, but we generally dont count them into things like this. Painkillers are great for pain, but generally not required. As are splints, physical rehab, stitches and plastic surgery to reduce scarring, but none of which actually improve health in a way measured by studies like this. Dentalcare is great, and the most common form of surgery people truly need, but again, not in studies like this because they are still a part of the blacksmithsguild instead of healthcare for obvious reasons. Antibiotics are great, but its damned rare you actually need them, and a lost week of work doesn't show up in studies like this, and contrary to common opinion, almost all infections go away with soap, rest, and careful cleaning. Breaking a bone and not getting it professionally set is risky, but is more likely to result in permanent pain and minor damage, but it wont kill you, or force you out of work long time. Antihistamines are great, but are available without prescription in most places,

With rare exceptions medicine just isn't good enough to actually help, not in a way that measurably improves lifespan. But what it does do is give you something to do about your suffering, and trusting this help exists helps, as does having some rituals to follow when temporarily suffering, massively reduces stress in a way that is worth it for society.
You haven't answered why homed is so bad to warrant such an emotional response.
To save you a click:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3160670/apache-lo...

The HN link links to a twitter post that links to the above link.
> What I do mind is the price...if you read the FAQ, they want to charge as low as $10/month, $30/month for families once it exits beta. ("As low as" means "possibly higher")

$10 a month is less than one lost hour of work.

I hope they price it around there somewhere so that many will use it but even at $20 it is a no-brainer for me.

The results are in another league compared to what I get elsewhere and by now it also feels like an insult every time I realize Google has altered my query: do you guys really think I don't know what I am doing?

Google probably works better for illiterate people these days, but in the process they have alienated me. I have lost too many hours searching for things I knew used to be there only to be ignored and corrected by their AI. It is rather patronizing at this point.
It adds more complexity to relationships, but it can also keep families/friends closer because they have more shared goals.

There are some cultures where family businesses, where most members of the family work and participate, are the norm. Quite a huge population of people operate that way.
Is there a reason Intel put that limitation in place?
Stripe doesn't pay taxes for you.

You may want to use Paddle (which takes a bigger chunk of your profits) for that or some other marketplace: in that way Paddle is selling to end customers, taking a cut and then paying you in a business to business transaction.

You are also responsible for other types of taxes (assuming you are working via a limited liability corporation): sales taxes / VAT, corporate taxes, personal taxes, capital gain tax.

Some countries allow you to do some trading without setting up a company but as your earnings go up it will become either not very efficient from a tax perspective or not allowed by the law.

From my experience:

You need to pay VAT in European countries no matter where you're selling from (I use vatlayer.com for getting all the different VAT rates).
You generally don't need to pay taxes in other countries until you reach a threshold of earnings / number of sales.

Quaderno.io is another service which track all these different factors for you.

Sales tax / VAT is displayed and charged to customers and you need to pay it to the relevant authorities every quarter.

Then you can pay yourself a salary (which is a cost) from the money you received in the company, based on your country's personal income rates.
On what's left, on your company's profit you need to pay corporate tax rate, based on your country's corporate tax rates.
On the remaining profits in the company you can generally chose to pay yourself dividends (on which you pay other taxes, based on your country's tax rates on dividends).
If you sell your company, you'll have to pay capital tax gain taxes on the profit you made with the company (the delta between the company's capital and how much you sold it for).

TL;DR: you probably need an accountant.
Sadly every half wit middle manager & pencil pusher thinks that they're atlas, meanwhile there org survives on tacit knowledge of underlings who don't 'work to rule'
> Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

They are putting it wrong. You do not work on open source for compensation, but because you want to.

People who got into opensource with sole aim at scoring high profile job with some dotcom make no good for the state of opensource community.

Big, high profile open source projects die from maintainer/contributor dilution who confuse supporting an oss project with full time job.

There is a critical mass limit of such people introduced into OSS projects, past which irreversible "toxicity chain reaction" starts. Then "Foundations," "Steering Committees," "CoC councils" start to grow like barnacles on the body of the project, and it soon dies because normal people can't, and wont do this stuff.
All crypto projects appear the same to me, make the hype, the hype makes it valuable, step 3, profit.

It doesn't matter if the idea is good, workable or needed (and many are), they are all hyped primarily as it's all about making money and hype makes the money with crypto, not the idea.

Most discussions get bogged down in the "is it a good idea" question, where it's really about a kind of big vision or aim. Crypto doesn't have any attractive (e.g. for me, libre/freedom ) ideals it seems.

It's basically like a startup putting all of its runway into marketing. But with crypto, I suppose, the marketing produces the product and becomes more valuable if it succeeds.
Like someone already answered systemd started as init replacement "to make Linux boot faster" - that was PR pitch. But then it consumed many system services like logging, time, logging in, hardware detection, network, mounting, audio, GNOME, etc etc. That alone is enough to clearly state systemd is bullshit. Everything is now interdependend and it is realy hard to replace some parts of it like eg. udev - decade old story ?

Yes, some things was improved but it could be done in sane way - making things by design replecable, as it was always in UNIX way. But systemd is intentionally
self absorbing, more - looks like it is intentionally layer above Linux. Now what we can do when one day Pottering or anyone from that IBM/Intel/MS cabal will merge Linux kernel uncompatible change ? And make Windows kernel "working flawless" - for some time of course. And with build in tracing. Or login right licensing ? :) That can be easily done today. And what plain users will tell ? "Works for me, what you talking about ??" Remember, some idiots already tried to sell plant seeds that you needed to re-buy every year. Business unchecked becoming evil.

Btw. about that "boot fast" :> Now it is dropped, of course. Also making system gooing down almoust instant is broken for years now.

My prediction is that in some time facepalm will be most common reaction when someone hears "systemD".
Everything she writes is great.
> You could make 1/2x where x = 4 evaluate to either 2 or 0.125

Ouch, you just made me think that if I see this equation just "horizontally" like it's presented here, I would say 2. But if I imagine it like you would write it on paper, I would answer 0.125.
Partisan? I'm not from the US so I don't know all intricacies of you politics, but his first 2 examples are Biden's son and Trump. Seems he bashes both side to me.
Ask HN: Something you did this year that you would do differently
Just a yearly thread on reflection. What is something that you did this year that if you get another chance would do differently. It can be from any aspect of your life.
The technology just isn't there yet.
"Since companies steal Open Source software without a care in the world"

If you don't want companies to use your code for free, don't publish it for free. If they violate the licence, presumably it is a case for the courts.

People have different reasons for working on open source. Some want to make money from it, others don't.

As an example, I don't know the full ElasticSearch story, but if Amazon's fork was legally allowed by the license, it worked as intended. People insist on open source precisely because they don't want to be dependent on one vendor's decisions.

Isn't ElasticSearch worth billions? Would they have become as popular if they hadn't been open source?
Woah the first update in years. Glad to see it!

Very sad about haxjump being gone, flying around the map is the main reason I played
I second this. Honest people can feel anger, not that they should do the same.
If you’re not English speaker, do you always write comments in English, or in your native language? I personally see the latter as bad practice - in 21st century it’s almost impossible to expect that your code won’t ever be read by a foreigner. But I wonder how do you feel about it?
I accidentally left a cronjob running for a decade scraping niche music sites and cross referencing the data with Spotify.

This tool picks random selections from that dataset. The job is still running so you can see new items added to the database in the latest section.
Which one is the oldest, Utah teapot, bunny, dragon, default material cube?
There is a massive almost limitless supply of money at the moment, and you cannot put it into a savings account so you have to bring it to the stock markets.
In those contexts samples are loaded once and then kept in RAM.