skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody has any right to expect labor from an unpaid person. I get feature requests from people who make money with my OSS work (which I don’t begrudge), but unless I find the work inherently interesting to prioritize then I respectfully ask them to compensate me, make a PR, or file a GitHub feature request so that someone else can. I fix legitimate bug reports for free ASAP because I care about the quality of my work. Nobody has ever offered my compensation, despite the fact that my work has been used by millions of people. That’s fine with me though, OSS is just a hobby for me. :)

Anyone can choose this strategy, and I don’t quite understand why more OSS maintainers don’t.
France mostly lost money with colonisation. Sure, there were some people getting rich from it.
This is was more for the prestige than money.
I can't say the same for the UK, not having read much on the economic of colonisation for them.
Depends. The continuous northbound party crowd sometimes stays up later than other folks might like. If you're in a shelter with somebody who snores loudly it can be iffy (earplugs weigh nothing. My favorites are the Howard Leight MAX with a cord. If you're a back sleeper, you can probably be less picky and go with a more rigid option). Occasionally the ground is so wretched that it'll screw up your sleeping (hammockers have different problems, but I tented, so I can't speak to that personally). Some people report shelter mice keeping them up. I've not had that experience. The foul weather rule for shelters is "there's always room for one more". That sometimes means everybody is crammed in and if one person moves, it turns into a Newton's cradle situation.

Also, I don't know how old you are, but I've found the shelter floors have gotten a lot harder as I've gotten older. What I slept well enough, but not quite comfortably on on a Z-rest at 20 is now something I need a NeoAir (or equivalent) to get a good night of sleep and not wake up with lumps on my hips from the hard floor. The ground is much softer unless it's hard-packed mineral soil.

Apart from those things and the occasional storm, etc, you can pretty much count on sleeping like you're dead.
So we're not actually seeing the image of a star but only its Fourier transform?

I presume that only happens if the star is far enough away, as there are plenty of images of our Sun (which is much closer) that don't look like this.
Colonization requires advanced fleets, weaponry, and economy. Colonization is a result of Europe's explosive economic growth, not a cause.
You never heard of geohot before? He’s a very well known figure in the broader hacker and open source world since he’s a teenager. He will always be remembered for his work on iOS and the PS3 jailbreak, and his public stance against Sony (and his infamous rap songs). He has a really impressive public track record of technical achievements and reaching goals he boasted publicly about. And more than demonstrated his technical abilities and moral stance over the years.
>So DDG is delisting Russian propaganda

I wonder what would be categorized as US propaganda, or do we not do that?
To OPs point though, the goal wasn’t to pull a profit it was to build links between the two countries.
I tried to leave a video chat channel open permanently, but they seem to go away after a bit over a day. Experiment with sneek, or one of the other "always on" solutions, maybe? They come with their own problems though.

They removed a button from hangouts a while back that let you send your location to the channel. I guess it wasn't used much, but it was useful to me. Made me miss protocols and RFCs.

The closed captioning in Chat is pretty amazing, though.
What are some of the things you'd like to see in industrial manufacturing and engineering?
I really love it, I'm fascinated by the quirky design and UI that a lot of music gear like this uses. You've really captured that in this!
Maybe you just haven’t interviewed for tech companies in Silicon Valley/the Bay Area or in Seattle before?
Isn't grinding just way worse? The same effect but at the expense of hours of boring gameplay?

I'm already using summons regularly in these games. Invasions sure are a "fun" trade for being able to use human summons.
Does any one know any helpful tool that can be used to make Postgres sharding easier?
Nowhere in this thread is there an argument or dispute over Stallman’s status.
What happens historically that if a government has a choice between destroying wealth in a minority neighborhood or destroying wealth in a non minority neighborhood, it’s usually the minority neighborhood.
Ask HN: Which dev bootcamps/online courses are good value for DevOps?
Hello,

I've been a devOps for more than 4 years, first at a small PAAS provider and now at $BIGBANK, and every month i find myself doing less and less development and more support, ops or administrative work. Each time some kind of administrative work is mostly automated, i'm asked to file another excel document. It gets boring, and i feel i'm a worst dev than i used to be.

I want to stop and take a real developper job, fullstack, backend or embeded, but i need to refresh my dev skills for that. Are bootcamp usefull when you already know how to code and how the network works, and have some experience with code distribution pipelines? Do you think some online courses and some books are enough?

Can you direct me to good ressources to improve before i seek greener pasture?
> - Uber Eats will deliver to your picnic tarp.

Really??? I live in the inaka, so obviously there is no Uber Eats here and I can't try for myself, but if what you say is true... my mind is blown beyond words.
Those big company interviews are still completely opaque, fraught with uncertainty.
Some context for those not in NYC:

* Illegal parking and idling are out of control throughout the city. This has been the case for years, but it’s reached new heights since the pandemic. Trucks and cars often idle because they’re parked illegally.

* The city DOT, for a variety of reasons, is reluctant to redesign streets to prevent this behavior (e.g. by adding loading zones)

* The police are reluctant to ticket for this behavior, and frequently idle in their police cars throughout the city.

If a bounty system feels desperate/problematic, it is. Our city agencies have failed to deal with this problem and people are pissed about it. My hope is that this program is a bandaid until larger structural issues with the DOT and NYPD are addressed. We’ll see.
Since the James Webb telescope primarily operates in the infrared, does that mean we can't expect magnificently colored images from it of the kind we got from the Hubble telescope?
interesting. previous Interviews at Canonical were reportedly normal. new hiring manager then
Depends on how large your app/org/process is. I have worked in places where it would be expected (6 people org), and absolutely laughable (10k+), not least of which is that any release takes at least two months in the first place.
Allowing people to sell their labor, and allowing other people to buy that labor, is inherently exploitive /s
I summoned on most of my attempts. It still took me days and consumed most of my Humanity. Had I run out, I simply would have ended the game.
I'm a long time bedroom producer and I find this tool an interesting concept, but I couldn't get through the initial step to create a 4/4 kick loop. There's too much internal state going on with no indicators about what's active or what mode I'm in that it feels more like a memory game than a fun music toy. Maybe it's not a coincidence I'm not a vim/emacs fan? :D

What I'd add is a few tutorial videos to explain the basic concepts from scratch.
Why do landlords have the power to raise rents 10% per year? Because there's not enough housing being built. Every unbuilt unit leads to displacement and rising prices.

When you say "This results in a transient population," I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "this" but perhaps it's renting at all? If so, the only reason renting leads to "transient" population is the rising rents and displacement caused by lack of building.
You can buy PBA cards on eBay, as the article suggests, but when you use it you have to explain to the officer how you got it.

The barrier for these cards is low in NY, but get out of jail free cards can be found everywhere.

In CA a minimum annual donation of $25k will get you a special license plate (for one car) that effectively serves the same purpose with one exception. It’s multi use.

Cops typically confiscate your PBA card when you use it.
So you feel the tone is too harsh. I'll grant that it is harsh. But I chose it because it's proportional to how misguided the celebration of anti-social tech geniuses really is. The era of uncritically celebrating these personalities is well and truly over for most of us.
Which means the author has managed to look past the most superficial and simplistic answers and current political fads.
Passwords are a near perfect form of security for a relatively small
group of people who have good cognitive function, discipline and
intrinsic motive to remain secure. For those who need real security
and elect to make things difficult by using 30+ character
pass-phrases, and never using password managers, "something you know"
will be around for a long, long time.

The "something you have" and "something you are" (biometrics) peddlers
are selling to a different market. They are selling to those who
enforce security upon other people (domesticated users who need
convenience) and want a cheap low maintenance solution.
If this is about how we factorize our categories then we can argue endlessly about what is what.
All I know on the subject is my college reading of guns germs and steel. Has there been any changes in common knowledge since I read that in 20 years. I think they really explained this fairly well without the usual racism.
Maybe HN could no-code it. Find some NYC public camera feeds, pipe it to an ML algo to detect cars with vapour coming out of the exhaust, record and send off for $$.
That's because gear isn't the multiplier people think it is. What sets endurance travellers apart isn't their superior gear, but their ability to handle the tedium.
Intersting article.
I would criticise the premise of the Laffer Curve even more harshly.
The assumption that no one would work at a 100% tax rate is simply ludicrous.
Billions of people do some form of unpaid work or volunteer.
> If the risk is too high to compared to the return, these rental units are simply removed from the market. Are you convinced that less available units make renters better off?

Yes. We'll need an LVT too. Adjust the market so selling is the rational choice, not hoarding.

Markets are just tools, and right now the market for property isn't serving the needs of society. So we stick our collective thumb on the scales until it does.
> you can not enjoy that right unless you have a car

Most of the people were born with a pair of legs, which they can use to enjoy their natural freedom. A car is still a privilege for those, even if economics “require” them to own one.
For anyone interested in topics like this, I have a couple of books recommendations:

A classic: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Dimond (1997)

A more modern take: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)
Ask HN: Have you used NewSQL Databases in Production in 2022?
Hey HN,

Just doing some database window shopping for a financial application and curious if anyone has used the NewSQL databases such as (FaunaDB, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, ArangoDB, SingleStoreDB, VoltDB and others I haven't mentioned) in production?

Bonus if you have any learnings or findings after using them in production.

Thanks.
Most companies are just free-riding because they can and because it makes financial sense, at least superficially. I don't see why this would change. Sometimes they get hit by the occasional security vulnerability in a badly supported dependency, but if it's commonly used in the industry the fallout will be negligible anyway, so why would they reevaluate their stance?

Companies that heavily rely on one specific FOSS project and have well-defined requests naturally get more invested in them one way or another. But even for these, which tend to be bigger tech companies with more cash, "just pay the maintainer" is a tough sell when they can just either come up with their own project (even FOSS and recoup the "losses" in proprietary IP with hiring marketing) or fork it if PRs from employees are not well-received by the maintainer.
That's a big oversight. I guess the best way to understand why Europe is rich is to know the history of the Dutch East India company and their tactics in securing their wealth.
I wonder if there are more tasteful ways to do it.
Your summary/points looks as if the things listed are the authors view when hr is rather ascribing those views to Putin. E.g. whether Crimea is Russian, Ukrainian or something else will get you the same diverse answer as the questions what Tibet or Kashmir belong to. It depends on whether you ask a nationalist/revisionist Russian, a Ukrainian, a Crimean Tartar, a French politician, etc.
Thanks a bunch! I wonder which gear brands you had in mind when commenting. Teenage Engineering had a big influence on how I make music, and I like to think some of their charm shines through in Typebeat.
This is a take I have seen and don't hear often.

I depended on a FOSS project once that was mostly done by one maintainer, and would sometimes send feature or fix patches upstream. Once I sent an e-mail that I could give him hundreds of dollars for some bug bounties - his program would improve and he would make some money out of it. He said thanks but no, he made enough in his day job and only had limited time to maintain the program.
We translate novels, despite knowing that translation fundamentally damages the text in major ways. And it is rarely the case where the mechanics of reading a novel are intended to be difficult. Chaucer didn't write with the intention of confusing readers 700 years later. But because of the changing nature of language his writing has larger barriers today than in the past (modulo basic literacy).
In what ways is fish faster than zsh?

I can be believe it’s faster than a poorly configured zsh (which unfortunately is quite common), but would be curious to see actual test results, with things like “input lag”, “time to first prompt”, “command lag”, etc. like is measured with the excellent zsh-bench (https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench#what-it-measures)
With freight, if you consider all factors, road is much more efficient for all but bulk loads or edge cases.

You can make more economical runs per month with trucks than with trains, meaning you get to have less stock on hand as a buffer on both ends.

This has many knock-on efficiencies - fewer resources tied up in goods, lower insurance expense, lower warehousing cost, and above all: a more flexible and responsive supply chain.
There's also no mention of trade, which includes slavery.
"They all would/would have defended me with their lives."

This can be seen as an instance of manipulation and deprivation of free will on a species level, as dogs have been deliberately bred by humans to have these traits.

Though, then again one could question whether animals (or humans, for that matter) have free will to begin with, even if they're not bred to have traits that are desirable to humans.
Explaining differences between "North" and "South" through colonial exploitation is a traditional "coping mechanism" of those with inferiority complex.

The "South" benefited massively from transfers of technology from the North. The North benefited with ....?
Skimming the article, this appears very much like TidalCycles: http://tidalcycles.org/
I specifically avoided it because the whole "no authentication" thing smelled funny to me. Still don't feel using MSISDN is right.

Everyone around me loved it, though, so the joke was, once again, on me. How come almost nothing I like is popular. And vice versa
I don't think that the Mongols are proof of the opposite, as evidenced by the fact that they, like "world conquerors" before them like Alexander the Great, failed to colonize the places they conquered, and those places largely returned to their former political systems within a generation or two with very little evidence of Mongol rule. The Mongol state extracted little in the way of wealth and power that didn't come directly from conquest.

Colonization as we know it is more than just conquest and pillaging and setting up a loyalist government (did Napoleon colonize all of Europe? Was Hitler a colonizer?), its a reorganization of the state into an economic tool of the Colonizer country.

There was no colonization or exploitations by the Mongol state that lasted after the figurehead died, while the European colonization not only lasted for centuries, it was reinforced generation after generation with continuing military force and by economic systems designed to basically transform the entire colony and all its people into an economic machine for the host state.

Also, the idea that Europe was constantly at war and other places weren't is very Euro-centric, and I don't blame you because our schools teach ridiculous minutiae of centuries old European politics while not even touching a single iota of say Chinese history or Indian history or African history, so to us, we literally don't know about those regions' and civilizations' millennia's of wars.
Sounds like a lot of that could be done over email TBH.

I've never worked somewhere where there isn't a desk for me in the last 23 years and never had to do an onboarding process like this before getting started (plenty of stuff to do at the desk for sure, and it can take a while before you are setup on everything - but it's usually time you can use to familiarise yourself with everything).
The "magnificently colored images" are false colored unfortunately - the colors are derived by assigning colors to wavelengths which are faint or invisible to the human eye: purple to ultraviolet, reds to infrared, etc. I learned this in a presentation by a Hubble scientist at an astronomical imaging conference. While their work was brillant, there was a tiny part of me that was scandalized by the whole thing.

So, for the James Webb, I'm sure they will be able to do the same thing to help improve and bring out details in it's images - it's just that the scale will be shifted to the red a bit.

Article: https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/blueshift/index.php/2016/09/13/hub...
There has always been a substantial doubt about that book, not that it is entirely wrong but a bit… stretched to fit.
Pillaging what? What part of the welfare of Europeans can be explained by colonial pillaging?
I already have an extension that's allow me to block, or highlights results on Google or Bing
But the parents are humans and he didn’t get informed consent from them:

> The scientist forged documents from an ethics review panel to recruit couples for the research
A lot of this synchronous process can be avoided - especially for techies - if there is good documentation. If your new tech hire cannot figure out the documentation: a) fix the docs, preferably by the new hires themselves after they figure it out, b) Chances are they're not a great hire. Most of jobs involve reading docs, after all.
1. You're victim blaming.

2. This was literally a selling point of this.

3. During circumstances like a fucking war happening, if you're making decisions as a company you need to ask the hard questions and create the environment to ask those questions.

Let's stop giving excuses for companies. This is entirely on Google for not communicating and not thinking 5 miles beyond their HQ of the impacts of their shit.

This isn't to say they can't make mistakes. Just that if they do they should learn from them.
That the distribution and honouring of these are not treated as serious organised crime is the really disturbing part.
Someone else in the comments linked to a follow-up article. They did forget to assign her a desk:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30739156
Militarily, the mongols were FAR more advanced. The best analogy is, imo, modern US air supremacy in the middle east. They were simply untouchable until the advent of long range gunpowder. It was their political structure that prevented them from conquering the entire world. Dan Carlin has a good podcast series called Wrath of the Khans that goes into this in depth, in a very entertaining way.
Require domain teams' code to communicate (with other domain teams and with the outside world) using the same pathways, schemas, and contracts that are used when extracting a domain team's data into a data lake.

Whether or not that data lake is semi-operated by the team (as proposed in the article) or operated centrally, requiring the lake's ETL process to use at least some of the APIs and tools used for transactional interaction goes a long way towards making data architecture tend towards sanity.

Resist the temptation of things like RDBMS-level CDC/log stream capture or database snapshots for populating data lakes (RDS Aurora's snapshot export/restore is like methamphetamine in this area: incredibly fast and powerful, has a very severe long term cost for data lake uniformity and usability).

I'm not saying "every row in the data lake must be extracted by making the exact same API hit that an internet user would make, with all of the overhead incurred by that". You can tap into the stack at a lower level than that (e.g. use the same DAOs that user APIs use when populating the data lake, but skip the whole web layer). Just don't tap into the lowest possible layer of the stack for data lake ETL--even though that lowest layer is probably the quickest to get working and most performant, it results in poor data hygiene over the medium and long term.
I think biology played a bigger part than just colonization itself. Europe went to the Americas and brought back potatos and a substantial boost in calorie production compared to wheat. Alongside corn, tomatoes, sweet potato. The Americas got smallpox, chickenpox, malaria, typhoid, and a host of other diseases. Europe was much better placed to benefit from this exchange of organisms because of better disease resistance. Northern European farms could grow potato and free up labour to work in factories.
The clickbait title is poorly worded. The actual title should be "How Europe became the most scientifically advanced part of the world" as that's what's discussed.
Europe was a backwater of global affairs for millennia, with essentially all wealth moving through different steps further east to China. Then advances in weaponry and shipbuilding enabled it to subject others and extract vast amounts of wealth for ca 150 years (colonialism/imperialism/slavery and mercantilism), which ended about 80-100 years ago. Nothing has managed to fully destroy the advantage since then as technology builds cumulatively, but the traditional superpower china is on the way back up.
In Search of Lost Time (Proust) -- the definitive portrait of life, memory and experience

Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) -- groundbreaking analysis of "the thickness of things" implicit within perception

Labyrinths (Borges) -- masterful explorations of time, thought, infinity... certain passages of this collection surface in my mind on a weekly basis

Civilization and Capitalism (Braudel) -- telescopes seamlessly from the microscale to the macroscale, granting a synoptic view of the modern world
Also cold winters, so farming was difficult in northern europe during winter.

People had to store food for winter. Wintertime could be spend on other things than farming, e.g. science.
Or slavery in the Americas, which was also instituted and implemented by Europeans
I've gotten the same 50 mpg in my 04 Prius.