skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you be okay if large for profit companies didn’t have to abide by open source licenses?

Yes. I believe in the MIT licensing model.

> What’s the incentive to make movies or music just to be given away for free?

Firstly, almost all the money made from movies/music is not made by the artists who created. It goes to the shareholders of large corporations. Secondly, I believe in the hacker ethic of free information online. All media/information/etc online should be free. In the physical, making copies of anything costs time and money. Whereas copying digital items is a click of a mouse. Thirdly, artists can still make money via their fans. If fans like their stuff, those who can afford it will pay.

> Would you work for free?

Nobody is. But then again, why pay someone for something they didn't create. Licensing doesn't exist to protect artists. It exists to protect large corporations.
This was discussed a bit last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749497

I've worked part-time for the past 10+ years now, at Google, Makani, and Elemeno Health [60%, 80%, and 40% duty cycle respectively]. It's awesome for work-life balance if you can swing it, and a lot more productive than many people would think.
They reinvented the C-64 form factor?
A dissenting opinion does not infer it’s a valid opinion. Unprovoked military actions and war crimes don’t require debate over merit.
> (wars, pestilence, 
locusts
 and inflation notwithstanding)

I wouldn't be so quick to discount locusts. There was a big swarm of them not long ago. The world is growing crazier by the year.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/8760024...
The bullwhip effect, the wikipedia page on it is pretty good, has nothing to do with the economy per se. I don't think we have seen it at display as big, as long and as global in my life time. My professional opinion is that a lot can simply attributed to disrupted supply chains and an overall bullwhip effect.
My initial vitriol against academics was perhaps unnecessary. The research is clearly uninterested in the large body of serious research around this subject. It is perhaps unfair to say that low quality research is inherent to business school academics in general.
I think it would be interesting to package up ReactOS [1], which shares a lot of code with Wine, as a VM that could be shipped with an application along with something like QEMU. If I'm not mistaken, QEMU supports virtualization through the Windows Hypervisor Platform and macOS's Hypervisor.framework. Could be a good way for GOG to sell old Windows games.

[1]: https://reactos.org/
Yeah, I appreciate a lot of digital distribution but there’s something nice about the packaging of old non-game software
Wordlexpr – compile-time Wordle in C++20
20 years is disposable for furniture. Well made furniture can easily last 100 years.
India’s ‘Neutrality’ on the Ukraine Conflict Could Hurt It in the Long Run
But gravity is subjective.
What I don't understand is how anyone can believe that there is any future where we can defeat death. If we could increase human longevity to the point of living for a thousand, a million, a billion years, death is still sitting there at the end of the road, waiting for you.

Whether you live for a year or a million, our fates are sealed.

There are different theories about the end of the universe such as a heat death or a big collapse. We'll never know with certainty what that end state will be, but that is not something we can escape. (Also, the time frame of these types of cosmic events is incomprehensible to the human mind)

We can and should try to cure all diseases and ailments to ensure everyone has the chance to live as long and healthy as possible. But death is inevitable.
> three rounds may be enough to predict the bias

That is an even more absurd claim.
Um, You have a certain point, but I don't think Google's customer service is the issue here...
That's fair enough. But I've come to appreciate the consistency of Ikea's furniture. I can go to Ikea and know what a Kallax is. And they actually support and improve their product lines.

If you go to a boutique furniture store, you never know if you will see that table ever again. If you like something, you have to panic buy it right there. And you never know if that product line is a one off, with no interest in long term sales.
Yes, I think that is basically correct.

It reminds me of some one person efforts that we used to stumble across in the 90s in its design and self promoting. The ads are fairly restrained by today's web standards ; the overall effect is nostalgic, at least for me. There are embedded ads, but the author is upfront about it and the efforts to raise their web hosting revenue.. They did put it on a .com suffix after all.

Personally, I hope the site attracts others to contribute to the effort, and that it can aggregate more open source information relating to US military Defcon decisions for the rest of us outside of the classified information sources, which is why I posted it.
Transluscent Car from 1940
If anyone can find a video of this amazing thing please post a link.
Ukraine is a worthy underdog with a dog at it's throat.
Putin, well he is the dog...
Here is a list of losses for which there is video evidence https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum...

I would assume the number without publicly available video to be 5–10x higher.
I guess, like you, that it happens, but I haven’t seen it in the smallest startups to very large enterprises. They all say, like everyone on HN, that they do all of this, but it is more a wish than reality as far as I have ever seen (30+ years, tech consulting in 100s of companies, for 1 person shop to 100000+ employee enterprise). The stories are always of similarly ‘utopia’ style coming in but when actually in there, nothing of that happens.
Done.

But then again, I am in a mild mood today because of that ugly Ukraine thing.
The whole thing is wild speculation.
I should say "use civilian drones NOW" not in 2006.

> Im surprised there hasn’t been more news of drone usage similar to the Armenian Azerbajian war.

There was but no idea if this is reliable footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTk4tasLvE
https://9gag.com/gag/a8173Le
The Y2K problem was a nothingburger because legions of people worked to make it one. Still, critical systems failed - for example the system managing the emergency call lines for the Firefighters in Berlin https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Computer-GAU-Das-Sil...
Windows is in Moscow’s crosshairs too
Bitcoin as Black Market Money
Is there any hypothesis on why Russia has taken over Chernobyl so early in the war?
You can also use Twitter:

https://twitter.com/oilshellblog

Reddit and twitter both have some non-blog content, but extremely little.

This isn't likely to be fixed because

1) I need to fix other things about the blog infrastructure first

2) I view it as a feature because I publish the posts first, then view them on a few devices, edit them, and then publish to reddit, twitter, etc.

i.e. I don't want people to view it the second it's published

In other words, it's surprisingly difficult to have a productive workflow for writing such articles, and I've mostly settled into it :)
Is Supabase Production Ready?
Here are the two other options I'm considering for app, but I want to understand if Supabase is a more efficient alternative. Thanks for help!

First way: (low cost)
VPS server on DigitalOcean
Setup node server and nginx
API and frontend managed by pm2 and serve through nginx as proxy
Setup managed PostgreSQL at DigitalOcean

Second Way:
React app on AWS Amplify/Heroku
Lambda/Serverless node API in aws
PostgreSQL at aws
Guix let's you create "inferior" channels that are pinned to older channel commit(s) and build packages from them into your system, so if you have a particular package that's broken beyond a point, you can still pin it and roll everything else forward. I do wish there was a branch that was pinned to eg. the latest commit with a successful CI build of the Guix installer, but CI load is currently it's own issue, so I'd be as happy to see a mechanism for creating your own CI that merges master like weekly and runs custom tests (a la "guix system test"'s VM-based test suite).
Focusing more on growth and product market fit.

Charging people money increases support costs (people get more upset if things don't work right). Getting paid 'beer money' to deal with additional support load isn't worth it to me.

Getting users IMHO is more important than bringing in minimal revenue (that an early state company would).
Perhaps, but my guess is they don't need to operate at high frequencies, which lowers the bar for complexity.
Unless you depend on a central service like X11 where only one version runs on the whole system and newer implementations/replacements may intentionally break things.

Last time I had to run some ancient software on Linux I just spun up a Virtual Box image with the Linux version it was released for (of course all the mirrors for that where offline by then too).
Not really, that's an assumption based on a misunderstanding about how NN actually work.

While the training (e.g. the part necessary in order to even have a product) is incredibly resource intensive, and will yield a model that's typically hundreds of megabytes, actually applying the resultant model to new data takes milliseconds at most for plain text analysis.
For what it's worth, I'm definitely in the "want to get rich" camp, but I've seen enough hard work and good stuff from people which has nonetheless managed to not enrich them (either because the purpose was not that or because of just how the market operated).
The credibility of these sources on these topics are no more. Weak claims that no one really contests (the market being an amplifier) being presented in a way that supposedly addresses the core concern (being the epicenter), is not going to cut it. Future events can only be prevented if there is a culture of truthfully addressing concerns and the water has been muddied too much by politics to trust anything here.
Not Kuhn's fault, but this book started a different kind of revolution:

> Postmodernists interpreted Thomas Kuhn's ideas about scientific paradigms to mean that scientific theories are social constructs, and philosophers like Paul Feyerabend argued that other, non-realist forms of knowledge production were better suited to serve people's personal and spiritual needs.

> Kuhn described the development of scientific knowledge not as a linear increase in truth and understanding, but as a series of periodic revolutions which overturned the old scientific order and replaced it with new orders (what he called "paradigms"). Kuhn attributed much of this process to the interactions and strategies of the human participants in science rather than its own innate logical structure.

> Some interpreted Kuhn's ideas to mean that scientific theories were, either wholly or in part, social constructs, which many interpreted as diminishing the claim of science to representing objective reality

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars]
I went to Yahoo Finance and looked at the Jan 1 2022 vs Jan 1 2021 market prices, then plugged them into Google calculator to get a percentage gain. BRK-B = 313.2 / 227.87 = 37.88%, AAPL = 174.78 / 131.96 = 32.82%, S&P 500 = 4515 / 3714 = 21.56%. Not really sure how the table at the beginning of Berkshire's annual report is figured. Perhaps they're only marking the public equity portion of their portfolio to market and holding the private equity portion at the price they paid for it minus depreciation, as a sibling comment here suggested. This'll undercount things significantly since, as the annual report notes, they're the largest owner of private infrastructure in the U.S. Plus they bought many of those private assets in the 70s and 80s when price levels were a lot lower.
You can’t downvote posts - only flag them. “Taken down” happens automatically with enough flags, I believe.

If you put some work into differentiating yourself from the average internet troll, perhaps you’d have more success here.
It's almost as if you can tweak mixes or something.

Seriously, you want to change pancake mix? Use some buttermilk instead of milk. Mix in a bit of sourdough starter. Add some fruit. Cook down a can of fruit with some sugar and lemon juice and make your own syrup. There are tons of things you can do.

If I go to a fancy restaurant that specializes in pancakes, THEN I expect them to do their own thing. But waking up at morning and getting pancakes that someone has prepared for me is better than waking up in the morning and eating a bowl of cereal or a pre-wrapped muffin. MOST people don't have a go-to pancake recipe... they'd just look up and use the first thing they found online that they had ingredients for.
BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion
https://web.archive.org/web/20220226125640/https://thediplom...
Because it's right on the border, and it's wide defensible flat area covered in asphalt in the middle of woods.

Under "defensible" I mean there are concrete building in the areas, which is the reactor block.
Come see The Netherlands, you'd be surprised by the difference in culture :)

4 day work weeks (32 hour weeks) are normal and part-timers are on many teams. 5 day work weeks are normal as well. 3 day work weeks, I haven't seen those around me.
EU to Ban RT and Sputnik
Don't see this working in USA.

I've never been to Europe, but work with many who are from there. You get socialized healthcare, cities with easy transit, and for the most part things are close.

In the US, we don't have health insurance unless we buy it ourselves ($$$$) or our company provides it ($). We don't have easy transit in most cities, and also people do live far away from the business centers.

That's why in the USA, most people want full time work. Unfortunately, the mega corporations that some of y'all work for ensure that this becomes harder and harder. Hope your RSUs are worth it!
Boosting Immunity to Omicron
So what other books should we read right now so we can form our own opinion?
I know it's an interesting problem and you probably learned a lot along your way but dont you feel like it was a hard problem to tackle and the ROI is rather low?
Or the Raspberry Pi 400?
What's to stop Russia doing influ-ops or sybil attacks[0] on various social platforms, including Hackernews?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
No problem.

It's how it goes. Any system that can be gamed will be - it's just a matter of time. I do have a short list of search engines at https://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/ , some of those may help on occasion as well.
I wish more people saw the world not as a win/destroy or lose game, but an environment where people simply cooperate in peace.

For as long as the former view is dominant, it seems destruction and pain won't stop.
Unfortunately, I don't have any sources to back this up, only this anecdote from attending US elementary school during late 90s and middle school during the early 2000s. Teachers told us that during the age of muskets at least there were often crowds of civilian spectators on the sidelines during various western-European and American battles up until WW1. I suppose the emergence of chemical weapons and other 20th century WMDs had a big role in curbing that. If it's true, then it's a small parallel to what we have now.
Liberation into a kleptocracy ruled by dictatorship. Gosh darn I wonder why your “contribution” to HN is rejected, it’s a mystery to be sure.
No the best is when you sweat for weeks or months delivering something you have to shoehorn into the product design, only to discover that what they really wanted was something that would take three days, but they thought would be harder to do so they didn't ask.
I think folks are misunderstanding the slight sarcasm in this article. The way writing a language will change your brain is a good thing.
I’ve noticed this too. I think it’s a mix of age and no good games.

There’s more games than ever coming out but it feels like the number of really good titles is still low. Kinda like movies and TV too. I guess the market is so large now it’s a lot easier to succeed with mediocre content.
> Part time work for developers would also help women who don’t want to work full time when they have small children.

And men with the same wish.
I personally see it as, at best, an effort to impose finlandization on Ukraine. At worst, it’s a major step to reconstitute the ussr. Potato, potahto, eh?
Do you find you have to do a lot of outbound "sales" to push the concept of hourly devs or are you more likely to see this attachment after a company is already exploring working with you? That is, so companies get cold feet after they learn more about the hourly dev concept you provide?
They ended up founding the Prediction Company and got pretty rich anyway...
Not just that, but I don't understand why users would be so eager to kill type safety in their applications. If i'm understanding, these injection methods are totally type-unsafe and construction errors are deferred until runtime?

https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/fx#Provide
>> Calling it a war of aggression is a subjective opinion. I personally see it as a war of liberation from globalistic western tyranny.

It would seem that most Ukrainians disagree with your subjective opinion.
You are probably correct. Again people will bet on current system not being in use 15 years from now and it is not a problem until it is a problem.

On a better note Y2K brought us the movie "Office Space", so perhaps Y2K38 will give us another equally awesome movie.
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> I agree that sometimes it's better to loose a war. Just not this one.

If Ukraine can stand up (which I'd hope, but don't really believe) and Putin thinks the same way you think he will use nuclear weapons. And he has said clearly that he thinks the current Ukraine is a threat to the survial of Russia. Which is of course nonsense, but that doesn't matter.

The better support Ukraine gets the closer we are moving to a nuclear war. I'm not sure to say don't support them. But don't underestimate the danger of Putin.
A ground-source heat pump is technically not geothermal, because the bulk of the heat comes not from the earth but from the sun. You are basically using the soil as an enormous thermal battery which charges up in the summer and stays warm (relative to the air) through the winter. Real geothermal power plants are actually indirectly harvesting heat from the molten inner layers of the earth, which is mostly leftover from the the formation of the planet.
Myosin is a very cool protein because it’s a physical and direct link between the microscopic world of atoms and electrical charges and the macroscopic world of moving bodies.

How myosin and other protein machines work at the atomic level is actually pretty well-known! [1] Myosin and its partner actin use the same biophysical principles, such as hydrogen binding and protein conformational change, as other proteins. But whereas other proteins typically act on the scale of atoms (doing things we think of as “chemistry”, such as making or breaking chemical bonds), myosins and other molecular machines are directly and physically responsible for the macro-scale movements of beating wings, walking legs, and beating hearts.

On the subject of molecular machines: it’s sometimes asked why biology doesn’t use the wheel. Protein machines like ATP synthase [2] (which creates the ATP used by myosin to create movement) provide an answer

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6618170/

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7704582/
Probably needs a date in the title
All talk but can they actually enforce it?
Apple Al Maryah Island Now Open in Abu Dhabi
I think for something like this they could afford the bother to have someone sign the emails. World leaders make pronouncements all the time and there is no problem with provenance. Everyone knows the issues and existing proposals/demands. You only have to cover whatever has changed.

>From Russia's point of view how you make sure email with insane demands is not leaked?

Any insane demands will be leaked by the other party. Nations can't have secret discussions that mean anything.
I agree it’s more gratifying and IMO healthier. Just takes awhile and increases how much cleaning I needed to do.
I think remote might help - part time x2 or part time + degree feels likely unsustainable, but part time + more surfing? Seems like it might work.
More money per hour is a buffer for finding work after your project ends.
I see, the friction is in doing the reverse transaction. I guess you could find a buyer outside the traditional markets to complete the arbitrage transactions but that's going to be risky. Thanks for the clarification.
On, even better, you use a bash script or a little bit of Python.
If you have nuclear weapons, please press 9.

Before servicing your request, we'll need you to enter your stand down code, followed by the pound sign. LOOP
I agree this is a real problem for freelancers, but for part-time employees? It might be that someone needs to make a better system for remote work that gives some options for enforcement.
> You would never throw away an attachment object after 2 years.

When upgrading to a new device, even though all the data is copied over and the Home Screen looks identical, I still briefly feel a bit of empathy(?) for the old device as I’m packing it up getting ready to sell it. It’s been in my pocket or at my side pretty much 24x7 for the past 2-3 years, and if nothing else I feel a bit mindful and thankful for its service.

There’s definitely a level of attachment there, even if it doesn’t meet some clinical definition of “attachment object”.
they banned in Czechia already allegedly 8 misinformation sites, but they just changed DNS entries, IPs still work, so you just need to edit hosts

though anyway some of the sites already moved within less than 2 days to new non Czech domain to avoid this censorship
I did not find it to be. It feels pretty early-stage to me.

Go with your "second way" but consider just using free Heroku dynos with a real web server.
I would also be interested to know more about that.
Then it should only be Inuit since I'm assuming the Inuit outside of the arctic also have these ancient genes.

The title makes it seem like only the inuit who live in the arctic have these genes. But I doubt that's the case.
You could have a bare minimal Arch Linux system with only the components you need to run a server. The idea behind Arch is you only install components you need and have to manually build the OS to your liking. That, or BSD, as recommended by others.
If I were to charge money, the side project would become a business, and running a business takes a lot of work. Why would I bother? I don't need or want a second job.

If I am going to write code in my free time, for the sake of something I feel personally motivated to create, I would rather share the results back to the world under an open-source license.
How did you start that conversation? How was it received? What do you do in your not-work time?
When you discover they’re solving the wrong problem after they’ve invested in their non-solution, people can get pretty defensive, too.
Will you support Russia when they invade your country?
Pancake mix is my one and only bugaboo. The fact that you need your own eggs and milk mean the box is basically saving you from adding a bit of salt, sugar and baking soda to flour. Ingredients I always have on hand. And while I've never done a taste test for pancakes, I'm very loyal to King Arthur flour.
"One more" because, in your view, it's important to have 2+ or it's problematic to have Status as a/your-only sponsor? Just curious.
It’s true. “video/mp4” really means nothing. At most, it’s a mime type for the file container, but exposes no information on the video and audio codecs contained in it. A better approach would be using this API for querying whether the video, audio and subtitle elements are playable, in addition to the container.