skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's value of storing and serving images and posts of individuals is all in the tech that it is built with. Are you saying that there is nothing in the engine, body or wheels of a race car that represents its value? If your product's value requires certain technical properties (robustness, speed, conforming protocols) and you did not develop those then you did not create all the aspects that your users value.

A picture's ability to convey the art, absolutely does owe a lot to the technology (ink, canvas, culture) that was used in its creation.
Depends on scale. For our initial play-testing I bought a bunch of plastic card sleeves and regular playing cards, and then printed out the 3"x5" game cards on my home printer. The playing cards are to make the card sleeves stiff and this way you can really quickly swap out your cards while play testing.

For prototyping the box and the demo copies we tried a few different print shops that operate in the US. The easiest by far is the game crafter, their website lets you upload and proof your cards through a web portal and I found that to be really good for not making mistakes. Unfortunately their quality is lower because the print runs are so small and the cost is pretty high.

If you get to large scale production (>500 copies) you can start getting things printed for reasonable cost. You can work with a chinese manufacturer directly (a bit risky for a first time project) or use one of the US intermediaries. Panda games is probably the best option there, but their minimum run is 2000.
Not anymore. The one with IPV4 is $3.50/mo now.
The problem is delivery problems are almost undetectable.

If I send an email to a corporation’s customer support, or to a distant relation, or to an open source mailing list, and I don’t get a reply, it could be a delivery problem - or it could just be that they didn’t decide to reply.
From what I understand Starlink satellites do not communicate between each other yet, maybe that's outdated info. I know there will be inter-sat comm eventually. But they are 500km in altitude and the atmosphere is 100km so they only have about 400km of vacuum from obit to Earth stations. So it's a 1,000km round trip and then through ground stations, fibre cabling.
> The person said an elaborate system of “signals and codes” had to be developed for crew members to warn each other when the Compliance Officer was coming, so they could quickly put on their masks and pretend to be on their best behavior.

Wear your goddamned masks.
> Maybe quoting MLK and supporting an Amish school really are that controversial

Depends on the context.
It is possible. I managed to stop them in the end. One of the many admin sites if I recall correctly (seriously, they have an office admin portal, exchange online admin, Azure Ad portal and everything is spread out across those)
Really? I can’t believe it needs to be said, but perhaps justice is about transcending the rules of mere sustainability.

I’ve always been curious about this course. Maybe this thread will lead me to watch it. https://justiceharvard.org/
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One interpretation is that it's satire. Another is that it's an attempt to trick dictators into planting the seeds of a republican revolution.

A third is that, while Machiavelli is a republican, he's also a realist. He understands that, sometimes, there will be a dictatorship, he accepts this and he's offering genuine advice to autocrats. That his advice is cold-blooded is a reflection of his concern with concrete reality as opposed to ideals and his belief that a dictator trying to be good is worse than a dictator who ruthlessly pursues his self-interest.
> This thread is really interesting to read because if the same thread had been made a couple of years ago, before Apple released its M1 laptops, it would have been filled with Apple fans who would be saying that the Intel MBPs were the best thing since sliced bread and that the users were doing something wrong.

I work on an Apple laptop; all of my colleagues work on Apple laptops.

Maybe what you say is true in the spaces you find yourself in, but in all the spaces I chat about these things (Android developer community) none of your claims are true. The general feeling about the last generation of Intel MBPs was initially one of relief that they didn't f** up the keyboard, and then slow dawning disappointment as we realized that the thermal design of the machine was abysmal.

Up until this most recent M1Pro/Max iteration, things were getting so bad that many professionals I know were at least considering a move off of the Mac platform that most of us have been on for a decade or more. Many of us need to compile iOS code occasionally, of course, which means we're kind of stuck.

The M1Max has completely changed all that. One of the senior engineers I know actually put together some benchmarking numbers of compile times, assembled a spreadsheet of every engineer with a pending hardware upgrade, and added up the numbers for a budget ask to buy every single engineer at their company a top of the line 64GB M1Max. The final bill added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and just putting it together took a lot of time for this person.

It was approved!

So yeah, there's some real turkey on the bone here. It's not all fanboy hype.
Never stopped being an issue of some magnitude to me. Sadly it was followed up with issues of much larger magnitude, resulting in a redefinition of “huge”. Which kind of makes your point about Overton windows.
For single core workloads, probably. Didn’t we hit the clock speed cap around 2010?
> it might be viable to have the markup be the bare minimum semantic elements.

Why is this goal worth prioritising though? It doesn't impact screen readers or search bots for example.

The major problem with CSS + HTML in my opinion is how to write it in a way that's easy to maintain and extend. More CSS pseudo elements could easily make that worse.
The marketing machine around Matt, WP.com, and OSS is just incredible. Automattic has taken nearly a BILLION dollars in VC money (including 300m most recently from Salesforce) to essentially execute a hostile takeover of open of source WordPress. Automattic forced their rewrite of WordPress (a Squarespace clone written in React) on the community and it has been a disaster, leading to many resignations of long-time contributors and their replacement with paid Automattic employees: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/reviews/

Automattic/WordPress is like any other VC-backed venture looking for their exit, except this one is doing off the back of a once-vibrant OSS community. The open source connection is a fairy tale (and apparently powerful marketing tool). They will not save the Internet.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/automattic
> It’s an illusion that we need Facebook or any other company as a conduit for feedback. We are choosing that path. It’s not one we need to take.

But it's a decision we took as a collective. Same as with many other things - we (people) use Facebook/Whatsapp/etcetera because _others_ are using them, not always because we need to.

If you as an individual decide to pull the plug off that stuff while people, groups or others around you that you're in touch with are still using them, you're risking to become a digital outcast. (I used Facebook from 2012 until 2018 and yes, it became a little harder to get in touch with people or many things that just assume everyone uses Facebook)
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FTP/SFTP are still very much in use today. Removing support from the browser actually makes sense to me as the majority of browser users are not using it for FTP. There are a myriad of FTP/SFTP clients that are vastly more powerful and have more security options than any browser implementation of the FTP client ever had.
Both voice calls and SMS are routed over the internet today, though…
Why not change from FOSS to FOSSFI. Where -FI is "for individuals".

Then all businesses must pay to use FOSS.

Is there any benefit in making FOSS free for all users including corporate users?
Every time my artisanal mails went to spam it was an overzealous corporate spam filter (mostly for mails with attachments). Never from one of the big hosts.
I was using a colocation hoster in Belgium. They actually moved me to another netblock to test (they were a really nice small company). But the same happened.

I heard Kimsufi is indeed pretty bad as it's so cheap people tend to use it for 'throwaway' purposes. It's basically the white label budget brand of OVH :)
I think the problem is the word "free" in open source. Along the axis of freedom, this is a strength. You can read the source, figure out how it works, and adapt it to your uses. Or, as my senpai (pity English doesn't have a single word for "talented co-worker that demonstrates the ideas you haven't thought of yet) puts it, "I can read the source for a feature I like, and then I know how to do it, and I can avoid the features I do not want." This isn't copying, this is studying. You read the source to understand, then write your own implementation that better fits your use case.

However, there is another axis to consider: In English, "free" also means gratis. This means that no one with recognized authority is enforcing a shift of resources in exchange for using the code as written. Yes, you can ask for resources, and there are many ways to do so, but without enforcement, you get the most common behavior of "thank you, I will" and all the attendant problems, be that of pushing the license to limits, finding loopholes, to lack of funding, dead projects, to (possibly) self-interested actors placing features in open source that they can later exploit because no one really audits the code (See also log4j. I am not saying that a government placed something exploitable in the code. I am not saying that a private actor did so. I am saying it is interesting that a piece of widely used infrastructure has had an exploitable feature for so long).

Criticism aside, how does one provide freedom to learn and explore while curtailing the free rider problem?

A first-generation solution: Sell copies of your source code for the resources you need to maintain it. One example would be to make the source available once money has changed hands. You cannot stop the buyer from turning around and giving the source away for free: Once you have made a sale, you have made a sale. That particular copy of your source has created all the profit it will create.

A second-generation solution: Sell future updates. This is an idea I have been playing with, in terms of a business plan. Your source is free (both gratis and freedom) and you sell tokens. The tokens are capable of being purchased separately. Tokens can be exchanged for votes to determine which new features are developed and which bugs are fixed. They key is in selling the tokens.
> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part

It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound, while continuing to handle inbound a different way. Obviously SES doesn't count as fully self-hosted, but it does solve (or at least significantly ameliorate -- zero issues here) the reputation problem
I think that companies will need to diverge on whether they are remote or whether they are in office. I did hybrid for a while at my last company and it amounted to people being in the office most days just taking Zoom calls at their desks.

That is not satisfying to anyone.
I've survived all my life just fine not being able to drive, doesn't mean it wont inconvenience others to not have a license (though yes, even without that they'd 'survive').

It'd definitely be harder to keep abreast of some events I go to without it and I'd never bother keeping the numbers of a lot of people I have on there without it yet can benefit from being able to reach.
Bottom right is a switch to let it snow and have them sing a Christmas song ;-)
Looks like it may be using metaballs? Pretty cool demo.

Happy holidays / merry Christmas all
Ethical Tech Starts with Addressing Ethical Debt (2020)
Maybe my age (finished grad school in 2004) but I never created a Facebook account. Seemed like a waste of time and energy. And now? I’d gladly buy an Occulus but nope, need a Facebook account. Seems like a horrid company and where the cigarettes analogy seems apt and I used to smoke Marlboros as a kid. A lot of kids are now addicted to a product that actively harms them, Instaspam especially. Frankly love that FB makes it so hard to read stuff posted. Every time I’m linked to something there and it requires an account, I nope right out. I’ve banned Facebook from my life. Highly recommend not what you’ve lost, but what you’ll find instead.
Mine is rather unconventional.

Started a side project (https://javfilms.com) that aggregates popular Japanese adult videos (NSFW site by the way).

It didn't fail, but it never picked up to a substantial point.
I was thinking hydraulics as in shocks, not as in retracting mechanisms. Thanks!
I always believe in focus. I spent 14 years on my first product, then 5 years on a second (still working on it). Why not take one and iterate?
Are forums like HN not also a social medium?
In my case, the freelances and lawyers are actually not the cheap ones, that's why it is so frustrating...
WordPress doesn’t have a CLA, so contributors retain rights to their contributions. Automattic is a major contributor to WordPress, and has an agreement with the Foundation to use the trademark, but otherwise has no special permissions†. Also, the Foundation owns the trademark, domains, and is the legal entity for events, but also does not own the copyright on the source code.

(† nb: some asterisks that only matter to WP insiders)

(I’m a long-term contributor to WordPress.)
I liked the article. The Covid employees and the bureaucracy seems fiscally wasteful, and disingenuous.
Same boat. I ended up just paying for adguard and using safari. All the browsers on iOS are just wrappers of safari anyway, as far as I can tell.
I suppose I fall into the artisanal category (postfix,dovecot,spamassassin,roundcube etc). In our case everyone runs mobile/desktop IMAP clients, web mail at least seems to be a "when all else fails" backup plan for quick emails.

I do have a specific beef with all the consolidated email providers. If one of them determines your SMTP server to be spam (false-positive), ALL of their clients now reject your email with little recourse for the admin. Just had this happen with a solution that rhymes with 365. Even their clients were clueless as to how to resolve it.
Same in Eastern Europe. Park in neutral with handbrake on. I leave the gear in when parking on an incline. Older generation always parks with the gear in though.
Values for older cars with less tech has shot through the roof I feel like. Recently I was a Ford Excursion go for $100k[1] which is fucking bonkers for a 15+ year old Ford product. And looking at the market for older Land Cruisers is just as hot, used to you could get a mid 90's LC for around $10k, now they go for $20-30k. Even my 2009 4Runner, you used to be able to find the nicest one around for $10k and I bought mine for $14k with nice ones going for over $20k (keep in mind, for a 12 year old car at the youngest, usually with >100k miles). I think folks are getting fed up with these high tech cars.
Things to get right and you're good to go:

- Reverse DNS

- SPF record

- DKIM record

- DMARC record

- limit outbound number of emails to catch possible spamscripts
I have not had time to read a lot of books, one (475 page) book I read is "Androids" by Chet Haase. Haase was on the Android team and interviewed most of the programmers who wrote the initial Android versions. I program Android and find it fascinating. It gives you an idea of how such a successful project from somewhat recent times comes together. Android was originally going to be an operating system for cameras written in Javascript.

It covers a big team, and jumps from chapter to chapter on how the Java virtual machine was written, to how the SD card code was written, to how notifications were implemented. Thus it does not have the compelling narrative drive of something like Masters of Doom, which is another good book which follows a much smaller group from id software. But Androids is a very informative book on how something like Android is put together.

Also, some books of this type are for the lay person and are breezy and talk about personalities and not much about technical matters. A lay person could probably read this, but it does dive into technical decisions, which I appreciated. For example, I knew Android has a process called zygote which handles the initialization of each Android application, but this book explains why such a process exists, which illuminates things for me beyond me simply knowing that it does exist.

Also interesting is how the teams from Danger, Palmsource, and WebTV came in with various ideas of how a device should be built, which all culminated in Android.

If you are interested in great prose or a narrative drive, read another book. If you are interested in how the folks from Danger (and Palmsource, and WebTV) had great success at their second swing at bat, in creating a technology that has become ubiquitous worldwide in the past decade with three billion active Android devices - it is an interesting read.
Hi, I am Imtiyaz, I’m the co-founder of Curatora - A content curation and social media publishing platform.

We started building Curatora just a few months back but the story started at least 7 years ago when we set off to create a human-curated reading list for entrepreneurs. This led us down the rabbit hole of information overload and the thoughtful way to deal with it. Over the years we built internal tools, processes, and systems to make our job easy in curating 100s of content pieces from 1000s of sources on a daily basis. Fast forward to 2021, we have now packed all our learning, experience, and code into a powerful application and made it available for everyone to use and benefit from.

Curatora is a content curation platform that helps anyone sort through hundreds of articles very easily and seamlessly to find the best content to share on their social media platforms.

So, if you struggle to find time to keep your social media streams active with fresh and engaging content, you should try out Curatora!

And please feel free to let me know your feedback and ideas on what you think about Curatora and how we can improve it. :)

Thanks,
Imtiyaz
Yeah but then why keep putting me on the Blacklist every month? After I've been in touch so many times.
I see where you are coming from. I didn't know about the bond situation. Is that US specific?

The idea is to go for whatever that is currently accepted as low risk. For example, if bonds are considered risky, maybe high interest saving accounts are the next best option. And you can adjust your retirement goals accordingly.
I’ve never quite been able to understand from a technical perspective, but from a Geo political perspective, is why we can’t cut China off from western Internet? A better diplomatic sanction would be to block all Chinese internet traffic.
Ditto all the comments about swapping from 2019 MBP to 2021 MBP and being silent and powerful again.

The other big game changer is battery life. My top of the line 2019 i9 would chew through battery on Zoom. I could barely get 1.5 hours… which makes the term ‘laptop’ a little silly.

The 2021 can run long enough I don’t pay any attention to the battery, which is the point of a laptop - mobile computing.

General computing is even better, people didn’t even bother bringing their power supplies to work anymore with the M1. They could go all day doing development and the occasional meeting.

Power consumption and MagSafe are the hidden gems of the M1 models imho.
I'll probably eat my words saying this, but "normal people" ie non techies and non gamers are pretty reluctant to don VR headsets for anything.

I predict meta will be a failure if it requires VR hardware.

Not to mention the cost.
Found it: https://www.tiktok.com/@geerlingguy/video/704386612371181086...

Now sitting at 3.7m views.
I felt bad that PHP and Django were unfairly left out in the RoR misbrand (well, Wordpress is written in PHP but that looked a bit remote), so I decided to fix that: https://imgur.com/a/quN1aEa. Now THAT should make someone's blood boil.

(sorry for the aliasing, the font was taken from a screenshot)
Just wanted to highlight this since it’s pretty far down the list:

> Added read support for HEIF/HEIC file format.

I’ve been using a Nautilus script to convert these on the fly before launching darktable. Nice to finally be rid of that.
What the Hell is this Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
I think that's what they're talking about in terms of 'you don't send your own mail', but it is a good solution and SPF+DKIM means you should have very few issues with deliverability and reputation.
Thanks I wasn't aware of this option. I'll consider it. Thanks for the tip! At least I'm not the only one but I'm sorry you're experiencing this too.
From Open Source Maintainer to Founder / CEO
This list is super out-of-date and in no way canonical; you’d need to check svn to see the real list of contributors. (The Codex is, to some degree, abandoned given the existence of the new developer documentation.)

e.g: I’ve been a contributor to WordPress for about 17 years, I personally own the copyright to a huge chunk of WordPress’ source, and I am not on that list. :)
A fantastic Christmas treat, best of luck to all the teams involved :)
Just found this FF add-on [1], yesterday, which removes all links from a page. Works reasonably well. Can also invoke reader view after removing links and get the benefits there.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/nolinks/
I ran this build once again now making sure nothing heavy was running in the background. It took 11 minutes and 5 seconds. The fans did audibly spin up and all CPU cores were 100% loaded (asitop output: https://i.imgur.com/OY36RVB.png). Here's the breakdown of how long each build step took: https://i.imgur.com/TcdfA4L.png

Do keep in mind though that the NDK (which takes like 90% of the build time) is still built for x86. So the 4x difference is mighty impressive when you consider that you're comparing an old x86 CPU running its native code to ARM emulating x86, even if doing so via translation.
Exactly. If you have a car that’s worth $10,000 more after five years, then that car can be priced such that it sells for more when you sell it the first time. How much more? Not the full $10,000; it depends on the discount rate - a 4% (real) rate, competitive with the stock market, suggests about $8000 more. And the reason the car has value 5 years out is that it’s still good for another 5-10 years. that driving value is the ultimate reason people buy cars at all.

No, a consumer won’t do that kind of calculus, not directly, but a leasing firm sure will.
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It actually works pretty good ( member management for sport clubs), but I'm going to turn it off.

Only 1 club is using it consistently, while i didn't have to do anything for it since 2014 ( except moving it off Azure to reduce costs).

Failed to gain any traction, had an email list of prospects but it didn't have any results.

Sad thing is, sport clubs don't have much to spare. So I gave up on this project.
Yeah for fantasy and sci fi both there is just a cast of about 20 authors that will be recommended in every thread that mentions a book. There are some gems in there but for the most part the fiction recs around here are fairly narrow and don't align with my preferences so I've learned to avoid them.
The WordPress Foundation owns the trademark, but not the copyright associated with the code, which remains the IP of the contributors (see my answer above).
How to track Santa around the world, thanks to NORAD