skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is, let experimenters tinker with it and help you develop your idea, while at the same time exclude companies, institutions, organizations and corporations. If the software is interesting for them they can contact the copyright holder to buy a different license.

Instead of giving away for free our work to entities that may work against our own interests, we give it away for free only to people like us.
> Will its devastation come to Kyiv

I didn't see any probabilities in the article.

If you want to know how likely an event is, most of the probabilities are here: https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/ukraine-conflict/
Babel should get however much of the donations as people want to donate to it. If other projects want more donations, they should be looking to users of their project, not to users of babel.

If babel users become unhappy, the pace of donations will decrease naturally. That’s a good thing, IMO.
But why were tiny countries like the Netherlands able to conquer distant lands? Portugal was sailing around Asia trading goods from other Asian countries! Why is Brazil speaking their language and not the other way around? Ditto India and English, or Niger and French.
Nope. Usually people take it and take it until they can't take it anymore and go berserk.
watchexec is a lot better at watching directories. entr deals with (existing files) best.
> So the question remains: How did Europe quickly go from inferior to their neighbors in the ~1200s to colonizing the world by the 1700s?

Colonization started more than 200 years earlier. I'm deeply suspicious of these theories seeking to unify an explanation of the development of centuries, even more so if the ideology used to explain an era is coincidentally the dominating one today. Just to point out two hugely important factors that have nothing to do with free market competition:

- Europe is geographically close to the Americas compared to the Middle East and East Asia.

- The introduction of New World crops like potato massively increased agricultural yields.
As I understood, this is how apache httpd started. NCSA had publicly released httpd, and people wrote all kinds of patches for it. After a while, someone made the effort to combine and organize all these patches, creating what he called a patchy httpd, hence the name apache httpd.
To be honest, it's just a little sad that reading this article it seems that Hotz hasn't grown up much, and that attitude isn't great to see from a person working on a safety critical application. If you want to put your hands in the life of George Hotz fine, but keep the hell away from the public roads.
It's my opinion privacy is a practice variously conducted by individuals. When someone says, "I don't have anything to hide", they are indicating they are OK with others knowing what they are doing (or they are ignorant of what can be done with that info). They choose to expose any data they input while online because they believe they are "above" judgment for those activities.

On the other hand, those of us who do know what can be done with that info choose another path which is not about self judgement of our online actions. We are aware that data can be used in various ways to analyze our behaviors or the things we are searching and finding. Depending on the services that we use, we may be "targeted" with relevant ads, emails, or other changes in behavior by the sites we visit.

Preserving privacy on an individual level is about using services or applications which we understand AND can control. Trust is lost when we don't understand applications properly or control how they react later on.

Any service or application, which is not self hosted, should allow users to configure or DELETE information which has been sent or gathered by the user. That site or application should also have a clear revenue model and privacy policy that indicates the site or application owner will not change the model or behaviors unless the user has been contacted properly.

Personally, I am 100% OK using an application that allows me to modify or delete the information it collects while I'm using it. It's when applications aren't set up to do this that I become worried and lose trust.

It's my opinion that privacy is NOT a practice conducted by public concensus, because each individual (whose privacy is in question) retains the right to feel however they like about privacy.
Sweden did try some colonialism, when it was in vogue. Not on a large scale though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_overseas_colonies

You also kind of have to count Norway as part of the larger Dano-Norwegian colonization effort with a sprinkle of the Swedish one.

- Kalmar Union (1397 - 1523)

- Dano-Norwegian Realm (1524-1814)

- United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (1814 - 1905)

- Independent Norway (1905 - )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_overseas_colonies
The experience you are talking about sounds like Lyft and Uber.
Land and fertile farmland are very different things.
Moved to renewables. Wanted to try and help with climate change and needed new challenges.

Solar is a fantastic industry. Lots of room for improvement feels like internet did in thr mid 90s. Just a ton of enthusiasm and a sense you're part of something big and important.
I could imagine woodworking in the future!
The core EU countries?
I think about this question a lot. I’m from a third world country (my dad was born in a village in Bangladesh). I think it’s tremendously important for academia to study what factors have allowed certain countries to develop stable, prosperous democracies.

Unfortunately, I think we will see no progress in this area for political reasons. I was browsing the “racial literacy” curriculum used by my daughter’s school. Most of it is fluff, but the fourth grade unit is a doozy: https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/b51.f3f.myftpupload.... It chalks up the differences in development between countries to “geography” giving some countries a “head start.” This is absurd to anyone who has studied a little history. Countries like Bangladesh had a huge head start. In Bangladesh, food just jumps into your basket. Meanwhile Europeans were hacking away at soil that freezes for large parts of the year. And that doesn’t explain why certain countries became rich in the 20th century. How about a unit on how Singapore went from poor to rich in a single generation? The effect of colonialism, etc., can’t be ignored. But Bangladesh had been rich relative to Britain in the past. Yet by the time the British East India company came to India, Britain was more than twice as rich per capita as India, and the Netherlands more than four times as rich. I want to know how that happened. The British will never write a $42 trillion check for what they allegedly siphoned off from India. But understanding how the British (themselves the victims of repeated invasions) came to have the economic and military advantage that allowed them to do that would be valuable.

Unfortunately, there is no politically correct answer to this question that allows study of what Bangladeshis could have done or could do differently. We’re raising an entire generation of kids who will be socialized to believe that the challenges facing the third world are due to factors outside the control of those people, and that the only route to development is paternalistic aid from the first world.
Their business model, which has resulted in a profitable business with actual customers who love their product, is built of kerosene and straw?? As opposed to every other self-driving company, of which none are profitable or have customers and all rely on crazy amounts of VC funding.
N8n – Workflow Automation Tool
Yes. Similarly I hear a lot about iMessage, but in my country (Ireland) no one I know uses it. Whatsapp pretty much supplanted SMS, FB Messenger, Viber (which had a good early start here) and was dominant enough that it basically left iMessage, Signal and Telegram with no way to gain ground here.
How do you draw the line between companies and individuals? Is a one man consulting 'company' allowed to experiement with the software?

Personally, I feel the way to "save" the open source movement would be simply have maintainers start valuing their time more properly.

Something along the lines of
"This is my project, you can use it if you want. If you want a patch added, pay me. If you want support, pay me."
could you please describe how you did the switch?
> of course medical professionals weren't used - those were busy giving medical care

I have no expertiese myself, but all the literature I have read on contact tracing was very clear that you should not use random people on minimum wage, it recommended retired medical proffeshionals, or people who worked in a related industry, so that they have a basic understading of the subject matter and the questions they are asking.

Also private eye reports that there was a wide gap between the skills and wages government thought they were buying, and what was provided at the other end.
The West has more than paid back the people of those nations with the amount we've given them via social programs (immigrants and the races that were formerly slaves are the largest consumers of these by quite a margin) and foreign aid (without which many of those nations would probably cease to exist.)
My own European country has had its shares of booms and busts over the last 500 years. In fact if you read history books the blissful decadence and degeneracy we enjoy now must not be taken for granted.
As mentioned below, its the monetary incentive that bothers me. I wasn't very clear, my bad.
I use fzf to open files in vim. And I use ripgrep's file listing to feed into fzf, so I use both daily together :)
That sumo wrestler is quite something. I miss Easter Eggs in Apple's software -- there are a few in modern versions (e.g. "cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr") but I think that picture highlights their sense of humour back in "the day".
Someone is helping enforcing laws and they don't have a qualified immunity. Seems like a step in the right direction. Of course, based on what happened in GA, there's a limit to what regular citizens can be entrusted with.
Hobby clubs? Nonprofit organizations?

It's a difficult space and there's reasons there's so many options already. Not that it isn't worth further effort, and more options are often useful.
Big Oil rakes in Billions as Prices Soar – Lawmakers want them to pay Us back
I am wondering if after changing career, would they still read this site, or is it part of what they wanted to get away from?
Switched to remodeling houses and landscaping.

I switched because this is better. Healthier. Saner. Happier. More in line with my long-term goals and general growth.
I think it's appropriate to wonder why the article uses that picture - Dam Square with the New Town Hall under Construction (1656) by Johannes Lingelbach - to illustrate European wealth, without mentioning where the money used to build the town hall came from.

That scene was during the Dutch Golden Age, in the era of the Dutch East India Company ("The prosperity gained from this was accompanied by horrors against the local population. For example, in 1621, Jan Pieterszoon Coen had almost all the inhabitants of the Banda Islands massacred." quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age), and Dutch involvement in the slave trade ("It is estimated that more than 550,000 people were brought to America in slavery by Dutch ships" and "Asian slaves were also traded extensively. The slave was indispensable in the economy of the Dutch colonial empire in the Golden Age as a labor force; in the second half of the seventeenth century, half of the inhabitants of Batavia were unfree", ibid).

Certainly a good fraction of Dutch power came from "exploiting and pillaging colonies" and slavery.

I therefore find it odd that the text doesn't mention those components of European wealth. Don't you?

While your point might be valid, it's rather irrelevant to the author's thesis, which specifically concerns "The Great Enrichment" of the 18th century, with no mention of why Portugal, for example, was able to conquer Goa in 1510 and Malacca the next year.
Author here: I have tried to clarify this better in the update. The point is that I am talking about AArch32 and AArch64 in the article. Yes, everybody has been going away from conditional instructions, because they don't work well in Out-of-Order superscalar processors, and they are pointless when you got good branch predictors.

HOWEVER, an argument in the ARM camp is that they are very useful when dealing with smaller chips. Remember ARM and RISC-V compete in the low range as well as higher range. AArch32 is not obsolete. It still has uses. There has been ARM fans claiming that conditional instructions make ARM superior for simple chips. The argument here was that RISC-V has way of dealing with simple In-Order chips as well.
I think you have to really love the idea of creating an app/script or hot key for a work flow to really start to enjoy using 'fzf'. And for most, I get it, it's "Where to start? Ugh, looks like work."

For those that haven't tried yet, and want an entry point, I'd highly recommend you play around with the 'fzf' key bindings and completion scripts for zsh[0] to see what's possible. A little app of mine[1] also has an example of what one might call the minimal viable hot key script for you (note: for skim or 'sk', a 'fzf' Rust clone).

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/tree/master/shell
[1]: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm
How is it not open source? The very first download link is to download the source. And it’s GPLv2 licensed.
ARM has proven their place for real computing on Newton OS and Acorn Archimedes, no need to prove it again on crappy little iTrinkets and Androids.

Where is a RISC-V doing “real computing” on a Acorn Archimedes like personal computer?
Easy on its own but nonstandard, so it's annoying to manage every tool in its own way.
That's not unique to Europe though.
Beacons fire after navigation, so they mistakenly appear as part of the new page, despite being launched by the old page

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Beacon_API
SOLID is for long-term development and use software. Games are developed during a relatively short time, and then released, and then not changed very much. The next game is developed independently, as a separate project and effort. SOLID is meant to alleviate continous development where changes and new features are constantly needed. Game development does not easily fit in this mold.
Even with cotton being produced via slave labour in the Americas, textiles produced from it were still in stiff competition with textiles produced in India at the time. That competition led to the investment in labour saving machinery that continued to fuel the industrial revolution. Slave labour is not a magic ingredient that makes economies flourish, if anything it's probably a drag on those economies.

> Indian cotton textiles, mainly those from Bengal, continued to maintain a competitive advantage up until the 19th century. In order to compete with Indian goods, British merchants invested in labour-saving technical advancements, while the government implemented protectionist policies such as bans and tariffs to restrict Indian imports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacture_during_the...
Not sure if this is what you mean, but I 'switched' from an ML consultancy to entrepreneurship. I now build and market my own projects ([1], [2]) and try to gain enough ad revenue to replace my former salary.

Started 1.5 months ago, and enjoying every minute of it! No longer occupying my mind with corporate power dynamics saves a lot of cognitive bandwidth, but to my surprise it has been replaced. I thought I'd feel more 'free', but instead I now feel self-imposed pressure to make this one shot count. I know my runway is limited, so every day that didn't tangibly contribute to bottom-line growth feels wasted. I can rationalize it by reminding myself that I can always get a job and try again later, and that I should be spending most of my time on mid to long-term goals that have delayed effects. But that hardly changes how I _feel_. All in all, I'm really glad I made the jump, and I'm still super excited about what I do now.

[1] https://www.nslookup.io/

[2] https://www.whoismyisp.org/
I'm going to fix this! Any further info would be helpful
One more down the dev-to-woodworking pipeline [1].

[1]: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
Agnosticism does not mean you believe in a metaphysical intelligence that is involved with the creation of the universe. An agnostic believes the answer to the ultimate creation of the universe is unknowable due to the lack of data.

I would take it a bit further and say it is impossible to ever know. Even if a powerful being were to appear and perform miracles, I would claim that the evidence is still not sufficient. As Arthur C. Clarke says: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Porsche Hints at Ambitious Charging Network Plans
Yes, it is Eastern Europe, but was already in a steady decline well before the partitions.
This is pretty ridiculous and a manufactured scandal. I'm sure attempting to publicly shame a company into a job offer will turn out well.

I don't even see the problem, a help article says to install a browser? If I blog about how to install software, I have to give attribution to whomever packaged it?

This is just absurd.
One of my "retirement" daydreams is to have a garage where I'd spend my days doing woodwork. There's something about building things with your bare hands that is very appealing to me.
Tulsi Gabbard was being called a traitor as well a few days ago, by Mitt Romney, which is a crime punishable by death, for saying we should make an effort to keep war away from Ukraine's bio labs, so that unknown pathogens weren't released into the wild.
> Hopefully no extreme fanboy tricks a normal user to install his favorite bleeding edge distro that needs under the hood knowledge , heavy maintenance and troubleshooting skills.

Flip a coin, heads Fedora, tails Ubuntu. Stick with it.
Highly underrated, and highly unknown feature. If someone emailed you a PDF, you can literally sign it and reply to the email all within Mail. Using you saved signature. Quite heavenly.

Also most people don’t know that when you Screenshot a webpage, there’s actually a tab at the top to capture the entire webpage (even if it’s way taller than your screen) as a pdf. Essentially “print to pdf”.
Personally, I don’t really sympathize with the “sabotage” stuff. To me, that’s just immature. Nobody can stop you from quitting out, archiving or deleting repos, etc. but choosing the route of trying to use your influence to try to cause harm is not helpful to anyone and only serves to mess up your reputation (and to a degree, the reputation of all of us maintaining open source projects.)

I am yet again still annoyed by how the “problem” here is portrayed. Open source doesn’t need to be “sustainable” for anything in particular. I like open source because I can work on anything I want, and other interested parties can join. I also work for money, and in that case, I don’t get to work on whatever I want to.

The problem of internet entitlement is also not unique to open source devs. I’m sure I am not the only one here who has ran internet communities of various sorts, and that, too, can be quite rough. Possibly even worse sometimes.

I do sympathize with people who can’t mentally deal with the stress, because after all, people are only human and I think they have only good intentions at heart. But if you are feeling overwhelmed by your successful projects, I think it may be necessary to step back and make sure you’re still in it for the right reasons.

Because big tech companies depend on open source, it is often seen as a problem that open source code is mostly unfunded… but frankly, that only matters if you care about the fate of the tech companies more than the open source communities. I say fuck it; Google can fork whatever project if it goes unmaintained. I wouldn’t really want my project to be controlled or influenced by Google, Facebook or Microsoft, but if they get no such influence, exactly what incentive do they have to support the original maintainers instead of forking it for themselves?
Ask HN: Notion? Google Docs? ms word? alternative
As the title says, Im looking for somewhere to keep documents.
I dont need full fledged ms word or g docs, and notion leaves way too much white space on the margins its ridiculous (yes, one setting but it doesn't make much difference), on a laptop its just wasting half the screen on margins.

Is there any alternative? that let you type freely all across the screen, and has auto save and possibly an android app?

Whmisical is close, but no android app and the web based version doesnt let you edit documents on mobile which is... ridiculous.

grateful for any suggestions!
Sweden? Their cruelty towards local populations during their "intervention" in Thirty Year's War is a stuff of legends.
“Wound up like some refugee in a communal space” — you really didn’t need to write that.
Slavery existed since the dawn of civilization. The Egyptians used slave labor as did essentially all other ancient empires. Slavery existed in Africa well before 'Europeans' came along offering a market.
If they are in the UK, the optimal strategy for dealing with a car that can only do 23MPG will soon be to rip out the entertainment system, take the tires and abandon the car by the roadside.

It could be costing the equivalent of $1/mile for fuel alone within a couple of months.
Hobby clubs could not use it because they are an organization, members of the club could use it because they are individuals playing with their hobby. Non-profit organizations could not use it.

I must say often non-profit organizations even if not producing money have strong conflicts of interest.
What is 'a real project'? What is the (or at least your) definition of that term?

Why is sharing code (as long as an OSS license is attached) not open source?

Under what circumstances am I allowed to call things I do open source, under what circumstances not?
I did something similar. Building is the easy part. Getting meaningful traction is difficult.

My own projects:

https://cxo.industries

https://tradecast.one
I think the "critical software industry" story is fascinating and if research does not already exist in these areas let's fund more of it:

1. Let's baseline the usage and spread first. What code is used, where and by whom. It ought to be possible to get complete pictures of this most large orgs scan their whole estate constantly - but publishing it academically?

1.a. A central "phone home" FOSS library that everyone "trusts" will just report the minimum might be a good idea here.

2. So if we know what codebase are critical we can then ask are they supported? Are the top five contributors paid in connection with the code base? Lots of ways of finding this about but email or bug requests is most likely winners.

3. A move I think is a good idea is to have some form of "Foss Tech Support Mesh"
Library X is really useful, so several ISVs announce they support it, understand it etc. Maybe if an ISV account gets a commit accepted they get a badge. This will start to bridge the gap between volunteers and paid positions.

while we are at it, what is the proprietary story? I am pretty sure Facebook has funds to keep its codebase updated, but there were MRI Scanner companies that cannot afford to move off windows XP, so there is bound to be a grey area of for profit companies producing code at not much more than subsistence level.