skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure your JSON rules might not be ambiguous, but they are not standard either so every competitor aiming for compatibility will have to adhere to these specific rules.

Every competitor aiming for compatibility with exactly the set of garbage JSON you will accept, no more and no less will have to adhere to those specific rules. That's... not an especially worthwhile goal for a competitor.

[Edit: Now, if you output something weird, others might have to be compatible. But this was talking about outputting strictly standard JSON.]
Hmm this seems a bit involved but maybe I'll check it out. I've mostly stopped listening to Joe Rogan's podcast simply because Spotify is a terrible podcast platform and I don't really want to support podcasts moving to platforms over RSS.
Irrelevant to my actual opinion of the whole protest, I find this fact hilarious.

And somewhat sad…true tech literacy will never be reached I guess.
If you're going to attack "media mischaracterizations" let's be truthful.

> but because white collar, work-at-home employees are mildly inconvenienced for a week, they're advocating police action against them and calling it an insurrection.

"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for shutting down a border crossing that handles $350 million in trade per day.

"Mildly inconvenienced" is an interesting term for residents having to put up with medically unsafe volumes of horn honking all throughout the nights. Some had brought train horns and were blaring those.

We're "calling it an insurrection" because that is a stated objective of the organizers, to overthrow the elected government of Canada. The fact that this is being encouraged and funded in large part by Americans is frankly, while unsurprising, an overtly hostile act being done to an ally.
Seen here last week, exactly what you are asking for: Linux, Apache, PHP. No database, no Javascript, no framework, no AWS (or other cloud service). Part-time project by one person:

Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30302819
Because they're all symbols of foreign political figures/deceased foreign governments?
Has anyone used the Google Contacts / Airtable integration? https://www.airtable.com/integrations/googlecontacts
Yea, I understand your point and I don't think Joe Rogan has been completely "deplatformed". I'm sure it's still possible to find the books after a book burning, or more, book burning doesn't mute the author so you could find them and reap their content via conversation. My point is that his content is being censored to some degree. In addition, it seems more damaging to only censor some of his content because most people won't even know what they are missing and why.
I'm not pulling for Joe Rogan in particular. I used to listen to some of his podcasts when it was on youtube. But, I'm absolutely against this type of corporate censorship by content stewards. Yes, I think every business has and should have the right, but I don't like seeing it and choose to push back wherever I can.
Not OP (and this shouldn't be considered an endorsement of their donation/views), but it's similar to how someone in Nantucket might've donated to groups protesting police in Minneapolis in summer 2020. It's a cause you believe in and you want those fighting for it to keep going, and you may also want that fight to influence others local to you to get more vocal.
B.S.

The Government did nothing when the Natives blocked the rail links causing harm to CN/CP and Canadians across the country. Your attempt to obfuscate the facts makes you unqualified to comment and you should refrain from participating in this conversation.
Not sure about Lenovo, but I have been thoroughly unimpressed with my HP Pavilion. Granted, I'm a Mac user so my standard may be higher, but my Pavilion just feels horribly cheap, the display flickers all the time, and the HP bloatware is a mess.
All crypto, not only NFTs, but the whole thing, is a big scam.
What? This isn't MMT or conspiracy. Where do you think the Fed gets its money when it grows its balance sheet by $4 trillion in two years? I'm honestly curious, where do you think that money comes from?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
> Why not just do `l = len(x) if l is None else l`?

Because dev tooling can “see” and present information from the argument list much more easily than analyzing downstream behavior.

> What about side effects?

Those happen whether or not the computation is visible in the signature (though its more obvious to the programmer of the consuming code if it is visible.)
I think that is a big dump to make. Just because someone is libertarian and recognizes that women and welfare recipients are the biggest challenge, does it mean that their proposed solution is to take their vote away.

I'm willing to agree that by the nature of his power and position, he is insulated from the negative externalities of those he politically funds. The jump that I make, is that he ultimately wants the government out of those areas too.
As you are from Austin, you clearly have no idea that this is just more than bureaucrats but actual people live there. Many and have had to move out of their house as they couldn't sleep. This is honking all nights but also intimidating business owners, people walking by with a mask, verbal harassment, etc. This is all documented.

The people in those protests are also anti-vaxers, while 90% of the population is vaccinated, so they don't represent the working class. The Qanon "Queen of Canada" and all their crazies are there, harassing health care workers. This is very much the 1% of crazies, the working class is extremely irritated by having their health care workers being harassed.
The commonality there is Intel. My XPS doesn't even have a recent driver package for its integrated Vega GPU because Intel refused to support it.

Also, the 2017-2019 Intel MacBook Pros are poorly suited to "professional" workloads, throttling under load or if, get this, the "wrong" (Intel) TB controller is used. There are reproducible TB bugs that are abandoned, and I still believe T2/BridgeOS was Apple's response to Intel's poor security design; they were forced to design adversarially against components they couldn't trust.
Yup, I bought a Thinkpad after even 5 minutes perusing through both the Thinkpad subreddit and the Dell one revealed that Dells are plagued with issues and it is really just dumb luck if you get a problem-free unit, and their support is not helpful.
The polls I've seen had ~half of Canadians sympathetic to the protests [1], and about 20% strongly supporting. It's completely true that it could be one highly motivated individual, but that has nothing to do with your first assertion (which is a mixed truth at best). I think that the government's claim (echoed by many media outlets) that this is purely a fringe movement has added fuel to the fire.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/8610727/ipsos-poll-trucker-convoy...
This is hilarious and spot on.
> The Rust project was originally conceived in 2010 (depending on how you count, you might even say 2006!) as a Mozilla Research project

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-...

Who is a liar? that dude or mozilla? or both?
Is this a conspiracy? Or is the mod team on Dell's forums just ignoring their job and browsing HN front page all day :D
Whether or not anyone is prosecuted over this hack (and doxxing) will be telling.
Build Goodwill with Your Software Client
Ask HN: What can one do now to be more effective in hiring in the future?
In the future, I hope to be a startup founder or an executive at a company. A key component seems to be able to recruit a strong team. Things are generally going well for me professionally (and I’m happy at my current job for now), but I feel that I could be doing more to expand my network and my ability to recruit a strong team in the future. So my question to you is:

What concrete steps can a person take now to improve their ability to attract and hire a strong team with a diverse set of skills in a couple years?

A few ideas off the top of my head:
- Try to have more ambitious and visible professional accomplishments at my current job.

- Blog more about lessons I've learned at work.

- Attend more technically oriented meetups / conferences (although that seems difficult lately due to COVID).

- Put more effort into keeping in touch with past colleagues (although one downside is that my past peers have a similar skillset to me and I would want to find people to help balance out my skillset).

- Put extra effort into trying to recruit people for my current company.
- Work for a few years at a larger company where I get exposure to experts in a variety of technical roles. (I work at a small startup and get exposure to a limited number of people).

- Find and attend more startup-related meetups (how to find such meetups with strong people)?

No matter how I slice it, it seems like forming such connections is going to be difficult (but of course, very valuable). Especially gaining visibility in domains where I’m not an expert. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated! If this post takes off, I'll put the results into a blog post :)
She's blaming the company for something they have no real control over.

There's a global pandemic on. People are scared. The world doesn't know how to fix this.

This is the wrong approach to a topic that scares people and with good reason.
"The People are on our side!" "Everyone against us is against The People!"

Hmm, where I have heard that rhetoric before...
I'm not Canadian and the reason I asked for a better source is not at all irrelevant. Those who are not Canadian might want a higher-quality source to learn about the topic in question. It is, obviously completely irrelevant whether "everyone in Quebec knows" this. Most users here, to put it rather mildly, are not from Quebec.
By any chance, do happen to know HowTo's for configuring phone to run Android and Linux side by side ?
Is there something about Gemini's version of the interest bearing account that makes it less problematic than Blockfi's offering? Why is it that Blockfi has taken so much heat and Gemini has seemed to fly completely under the radar? Does this suggest that the issue was the marketing and the implementation that was the issue rather than the product itself?
Hello,

I am a Canadian and my government has allowed someone we did not vote in to shutdown our economy and restrict me. If the government can do that, we the citizens can do it.

My province has increased covid rules and keeps pushing opening up for vaccinated down the road. While everywhere else is easing off. We can't even go to a gym to work out and our hospitals are way under normal capacity.

I am not pro outsiders funding our citizens to do these things but at this point I'll take the help I can get.
I am a Quebecker and yes he is notorious for that. Here's a 51 year old video from CBC, Canada's state media. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1241195075951

"The state must use every means at its disposal" ... "Just watch me"
Tesla uses the .Net Core/Angular combo for internal tools.
For a while now, the Treasury has been borrowing to pay the interest it owes, and everyone knows that we don't actually pay down the federal debt, we just roll it over into new debt.
Yeah, well the establishment journalists are doing everything they can to cover for Trudeau. Meanwhile if you really want to be informed you can find tons of livestreams on Youtube from every angle of the protest in Ottawa, 1988 Watchman is good. I've been watching for over a week now and I've seen people helping and feeding each other. Filling the food banks, food banks are declining food donations now. Cleaning the streets. People dancing and singing, kids playing hockey in the streets. It's a big festival and a lot of people are showing up to celebrate and come together. It's inspiring in a time when people are so divided to see joyful people having fun.
> is anyone else growing tired of the sales-pitch we're all using?

Not growing, been there for years. Another common annoyance is when they have a pricing page that ultimately asks you to schedule a phone call with their salespeople (not applicable here, but a common sales pattern for these sorts of things).

> I don't know what I want in it's place

The core of the problem IMO is that so much of these sorts of pages are filled with fluff that doesn't communicate very well about the product (or maybe it does, but not at a level that I will ever engage with, like case studies). One solution in some cases is to put a video demo of the product front and center.

Look at https://about.gitlab.com/ for example. To some extent it's following the same pattern, but when you load the page the first thing you see is a pair of buttons. Get a free trial or watch a video demo. I'm annoyed they make it so hard to find their FOSS Community Edition (IMO that's a far better "free trial" than the one you have to sign up for), but just judging the landing page, the first thing you see is a CTA to get more information. The OP's page's first visual doesn't have that. You actually can't even find an actionable link until you've scrolled all the way to the bottom (if we ignore the top bar).

Another annoyance of mine is the marketing cheapening of words like "awesome" and "amazing", which is in full force in OP. In marketing copy (and in common vernacular among some people) they're just white noise. It's a fun exercise to rewrite marketing copy with all the adjectives removed.

Marketing criticism aside, though, I like the interactive element on OP. It's unnecessary, but cute.
I'll often do the "first draft" as a design doc with an API sketch or a quick prototype that I'll post in chat or email to the team but not actually "mail for review" per the tool. That way I get early feedback that I'm going in the right direction for a code change.

That makes sense for some types of changes, but it's too high-level to address the actual well-factored nature of the code, which is one of the main things I'm thinking about in the "second draft" of my code. Nobody's design doc is going to address "what's the right set of helper functions to extract here?" or "what's the right way to structure this logic to make it the most readable?". Design docs are great and they're super important for bigger changes, but they're often completely orthogonal to "is the actual code that implements this design doc readable and maintainable", which is the biggest question I'm seeking to answer in code reviews.

This is also completely orthogonal to "do I have tests for this", "have I run the linter", etc. Certainly there are types of readability problems that running the linter or writing tests for your code can catch. Having focused changes with test coverage is only one part of making sure your code is long-term maintainable by the rest of the team.
In 2013ish I had the XPS 13 "Developer Edition". It always felt extremely underpowered for the specs, so I wonder how long they've been doing this.
Yes, it's very idealistic to think 'hacktivists' would take the upper ground here in what is already a very dirty fight.

I mean you have 61% of donors not even being Canadians. They're funding a movement that shut down a major commerce corridor into the US, directly affecting the US economy.

To say this is about the 'working class' is naive. I mean you think Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, was tweeting support of it because he loves the working class?
Yeah, Sonic isn't ALL about speed. There are parts when you can go balls out, but on your first playthrough those will be rare. Sonic really was supposed to be a "better Mario" so his games are platformers first and speed games second. Just play it carefully, like an ordinary platformer, and learn the patterns the levels use to guide you along. Rack up a few lives and faff about with the physics to get a feel for what Sonic can do and how these abilities can negotiate the terrain. It's not all chaos. Hint: Higher paths tend to have fewer obstructions, so stay high if you can.

As you play through the games again, you can learn to get through them faster. You gotta learn to play scales before you can effectively improvise. And yes, the idea is to play them again; back in the day almost no one said "I only play a game once and then I'm done with it". We couldn't afford to buy very many game cartridges for our systems, so we played the same ones over and over, and that afforded us plenty of opportunity to "git gud" enough to learn how to speedrun Sonic, Mario, and other such games. And games were designed to have a bit of longevity to them and to be challenging enough that people would need multiple playthroughs to develop skill.
I'm pretty sure OP is explicitly NOT assigning/painting left and right, but rather saying with the "pulled back the veil of opposition" comment that left vs right is an illusion/artifice, and the struggle is actually upper vs lower class.
I think we're going to see the pendulum swing in the other direction relatively soon with this type of aesthetic, mainly because it's so transparently inauthentic and sterile. It's almost turned into a parody of itself.
> As one of the donors included in this hack, I am not entirely sure what they're out to accomplish.

Find targets to cancel. ie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...
I've been in tech for years but my background was also 'non-traditional' (I didn't commit an crimes but definitely didn't have a relevant degree or connections etc) I would be happy to help you with some intro's to startups who would consider a candidate with your background.

Feel free to email the address in my bio and I can see if you're interested in talking to anyone in my network.

Good Luck!
Two things that have helped me are:

1- "Done is better than perfect" ... I read that phrase from an article posted in HN last year (I guess)

2- Incorporate the Agile mindset into my life for any kind of achievement. MVP oriented and always thinking "what can I done today with the amount of energy/resources I have for today/this week?"
Again, depends on the amount of money. Sure, there is not gonna be a lot of action from the IRS or any other government entities for $2 million. But when we're talking about $100 million, you start to ruffle some bushes. So they will start to dig where it comes from. If you describe that you got $100 million from mining Monero, you're gonna have to show proof that you have the equipment to actually get that, over the timeframe you're claiming you have mined. If it doesn't match up, they'll dig deeper.

But yeah, I'm not claiming it's impossible to clean stolen ETH. The only claim I did was that the IRS will definitely start asking questions if you go from a declared income around average in the US to a declared income around $100 million from one year to another. To believe that they are just gonna accept "I mined it lol" is a grand delusion.
Funny because we (B2B SAAS company) literally built an in house tool to manage customers at a "Company" level rather than Contacts/Users. However we decided to switch to Helpscout as we didn't wanna self host and it has been a bad experience with helpscout. They have no concept of "Company" and we are honestly considering switching back to our home grown tool. There definitely is need for tool like this.

I will be happy to beta test if you are offering.
I had to Dremel out a Dell desktop case to fit a standard ATX power supply, circa 2005.
I like SRB2, but I love SRB2Kart. It has a huge amount of levels and a vibrant modding community (mods for a mod of a Doom mod...)
> 90 percent of Canada's truckers are vaccinated

is this actually true, or is this just an extrapolation of "90% of Canadians are vaccinated"?

regardless, it's not as though only 10% of truckers are involved in this protest...
Speaking as somebody who does consultancy and commercial support around the perl ecosystem the number of people who completely fail to realise how much revenue it's still generating for how many companies is part depressing, part hilarious.

Then again, Java, PHP etc. programmers seem to have the same experience on a regular basis, and these days the naysayers seem to have come for Rails as well.

Programming is, as ever, a pop culture, and given our tendency towards self deprecatory humour as a community the worst part of the whole thing for us a lot of the time is that 99% of the people criticising/insulting perl are so bad at it.
I agree with you. The author is trying to automate human connection - but it probably doesn't come off genuine.
I don't want to keep in touch with more people than I have digits. I would call the desire to do so marketing; that is marketing yourself or your business. Which is fine if this is your motivation.

Friendship is your partner who sticks by you.
It is the person you go for walks with and just talk.
It is the person you meet for lunch and you argue about who pays.
It is the person who knows what is going on in your life.
It is the person whose floor you have slept on.
It is the person who listens to you and then takes action.
Because I'm sympathetic to their plight.

I'm a class traitor frankly. My whole family works in jobs like this that have been impacted. One of my old co-founders was a 24 big-rig truck mechanic and his dad is being put out of business by the California CARB restrictions.

But aside from the specifics, I find it odd that people are decrying cross-national donations of money to causes. Were similar complaints made about CA->US donations in 2020? How about national disasters? I don't need a reason to give charitably to causes I care about in the world, and a supposedly cosmopolitan populace wondering about transnational giving seems contradictory to me.
I don't mind if it inconvenience the government, but they have severely impacted residential neighbourhoods as well. Others in the movement have blocked commercial traffic across the border, putting people jobs at risk.

Ironically, I think these higher pressure activities will back fire. They could probably find a lot of support for easing restrictions, but destroying people's homes and jobs is not going to make or keep friends.
Show HN: A website for discovering NFT projects (upcoming and already launched)
Hey guys I'm Daniel and I created a website you can use to discover NFT projects called Fomo Fix. I'm sure most crypto-literate people already get the drift off the name alone. Open to suggestions for improvement.
Mostly, I am pretty tired of the "I got a really small serving of fries today; capitalism has failed." commentary. I see it everywhere: something negative happens, someone has to tie it into capitalism. Now, I am well aware of the fallacy of the excluded middle, but let's not kid ourselves that the "capitalism has failed" crew are anything but collectivists kvetching. I bring it up because a younger generation has little to no idea of various atrocities and grinding misery that also happened under various collectivist -isms, somewhere between ignorance and willful blindness.

Maybe capitalism isn't great, but dang, some of the replacements turned out to be a lot worse. It'd be nice if that context were provided instead of just another jibe at capitalism, which is one field of attempted solutions to the vast and intricate problem of resource management.
It's not just a run of the mill worker's strike, though, it's tactically ingenious- they were able to put huge pressure on people very quickly without ever needing to get violent or aggressive. Good for them.
> sending the army into the streets, as Trudeau did, was an appropriate response.

the army part was the premier of quebec not trudeau. Policing is a provincial responsibility. Having the armty come in was a provincial call that was unrelated to the war measures act.
Same question, with Celsius.