skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man I hope you are wrong.. because I was literally planning to build an IDE for Algorand/Python/PyTEAL with this (I know, mentioning Algorand is an automatic downvote, oh well).

You might be right.. but I am not sure. Could Borland really sue you or something, many years they release the full source code "as is", "provided gratuitously", "no support", "no updates"? I mean it doesn't explicitly say "public domain", but if someone built software using this and then Borland tried to claim ownership of it or something, would that not be some kind of trap? It seems like any reasonable court would not allow that.. I would like to believe anyway.

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"All those situations that lead to bad outcomes" are situations where I blame the victim for relying on the fatalism of luck. If you come away from a crash and think "oh man, I was just really unlucky" then you're denying yourself the opportunity to learn from it.
Definitely that is the case.

I think this essay probably applies to the FSF's position on the Ethical Source movement even though it wasn't written by them:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/17/copyleft-ethical-...
Show HN: Zen Mode – Hide Everything. Mute Everything
My Macbook is a complete mess, and I’m often in strange situations when somone approaches my desk or during a meeting, because my desktop is unorganized with icons , there are constantly several windows open, and I was frequently chatting in the conference while on mute.

I needed a solution where I could tidy up the desktop icons by concealing them, or hide all windows except the one I was presently working on, or turn on or off the microphone with a single click without having to seek for it.

I've been searching through different tools to see if there's anything that could fix this problem. While I've found a few, many of them are pricey, so I figured why not build one myself.

Here is where Zen mode comes in, with a single click you can hide desktop icons, hide inactive windows, mute mic or speakers.

You can watch a quick intro to the tool here: https://youtu.be/wT2PdPg-RZo

You can download the mac app here: https://zen-mode.carrd.co/

Any feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you!
“ Might there be some space/time mechanism at play whereby we're actually seeing the same handful or so of galaxies? Like maybe some lensing thing.”

Good question. People have been wondering this and have studied whether it is possible a la periodic boundary conditions for example.

https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.13499?journalCo...
I noticed a big battery drain on my iPad though. Now it will lose a lot of power just because this option is switched on, even when I don’t use it.
The Standardization of Time (1982)
In the Copenhagen interpretation of QM did James Webb collapse these distant galaxies because they were finally measured? :)
Vendor sustainability is questionable at best. I hear this most of the time, that those companies will be there in 20 years when the world turns upside down and you can always hunt them for fixes, support etc.

In practice, however, at least in my country, it doesn't happen. Vendors of course gamed the system.
Ask HN: Software That Insults You?
Seems I'm not alone in believing that software is fun, and should be fun as well (while not getting in the way of getting work done) [from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30725843].

One example is the `Defaults insults` setting in `sudo` that will add a insult every time you get your password wrong. This has made me smile a couple of times when the insult is really good.

Is there other examples of software that insults you when you get something wrong/do something incorrect?

This list can serve a double-purpose: first as a recommendation list for us who like to get insulted for fun, and second as a list of software to avoid for the ones that don't like it.
Yeah, before X86 took the performance crown in the '90 most of EDA was done on mainframes or PowerPC workstations running UNIX, including SGI.
Those words are not some sort of magic spell. Licenses can't override law unless the law explicitly allows them to, and the law generally distinguishes or tries to distinguish between honest mistakes and malicious behaviour. IANAL and laws differ between countries so YMMV.
only marketing yadda yadda
The trolls are very visible and could eventually erode support for the ADA in the general public. This is true for any vulnerable population, actually. Asking people to ignore them never works well, there needs to be legislation work that specifically targets them so that the ADA doesn’t lose popularity.
Startup idea: Improving SEO ranking without an expert?
TLDR: Do you think it is useful if there is a tool that can simplify the concepts of SEO for everyone and also make it affordable?

After about 10 years of working in the field of SEO, I can see an opportunity of having a new SEO tool for people who can't afford
1) an expensive SEO software like SEMRush, Ahrefs, MOZ etc. (with the cheapest subscription plan at about $90/m) or
2) to have an SEO expert (very expensive solution for lots of SMBs or early stage startups)

I know that there are some WordPress plugins like YOAST or All in One SEO but they are mostly useful for on-site SEO. But this not sufficient. People also need proper Site Audit, Backlink analysis/gap, position tracking, keyword research and so on and so forth.

And not only that, many people still don't know how to use GMB, Google Search Console or Analytics, or even don't know what SEO mean at all :D

I'm thinking of creating a tool that guide users step-by-step how to improve their site's ranking (like a virtual assistant) and offer them on-demand modules based on their needs.

I would love to know your feeling about this startup idea, thanks.
Sometimes I think about governments paying for proprietary software. I wonder why not FLOSS? The answer I estimate: "There's no FLOSS replacement". Then I think: "Why not pay for the development of a replacement?", the answer I estimate: "Because it would be even more expensive than using proprietary software. Which takes me to the next question: "Why don't many government unity to pay for FLOSS development?"

For the last question I never got a reasonable answer. Probably the answer is just lack of coordination. If FLOSS became a need thing in even a small group of governments, I'm sure dependency on proprietary software in the public sector would diminish and that is a very good thing.
A lot of people would conclude that the owner should be able to decide whether to do anything about it.
That is the exact problem that the AGPL solves.
As of this month, the quarantine conditions are virtually gone if you’re vaccinated except for arriva from a few countries. But no tourist visas yet, and business visas need a compelling reason. Also note that the 7,000 cap includes returnees (both citizens and residents).
This is hilarious. This is exact idea of my parents had for an app.
Yes but so is everything else, AI is eating the world. No profession will be spared, even the oldest is getting AI'fied.
I’m afraid I don’t know either - it came up on a google image search for the terms “software war” and was marked Creative Commons…
Private Jets Leave Russia for Dubai as Putin Threatens to Purge Russian Traitors
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What do you do in the cases of high coupling between components (parent child) or between a base and a component? You just let the couplings happen or they themselves turns into an individual component/base? How do you decide whether or not the resulting highly coupled component + base is a component or a base?

Say in your Real world app you have a SQL for getting articles by user in store.clj. How do you decide if that SQL lives in article component or user component?
> a whole new level of the entire world trying to game their search

I think their #1 problem is their product managers trying to do "something" to add said something to their resume and making the product horrible to use in the process

Examples include:
- Grid view tab switcher in Chrome Android
- Removing dislike count on YouTube
You can observe the difference between a military largely focused on PGMs and a military focused on 152mm artillery and unguided MLRS right now in this very war.
VLC and 7zip are among the projects sponsored, so you're just spouting nonsense which you could have easily verified.

And again, various EU countries open source software they've created, or data they have for that matter ( open data). Your contemptuous pessimism is fully unwarranted.
RF propaganda claims West is an enemy and most of the population is brainwashed. 70% of RF population supports "special operation". RF rectors supports war. RF military can't even defeat Ukraine, it specifically bombs civilians causing terror, thousands dead, millions displaced already. It is threatening to nuke. Extraordinary cases requires extraordinary solutions.
No, we can't.
We can't agree on your stance, because other people have different stances. You may have some reason why you want the blink tag disabled, but many people don't. The blink tag has been a part of the internet for as long as I've been alive. Sure, it's being used different and sometimes needlessly as with the blog you noted, but it's here and it's not going anywhere.
If you want the web to be blink tag-less, you can disable it. But the web is not blink tag-less. You get the experience you want. You can't expect everyone to want that experience. /S
A long time ago I got an account on an old Unix machine (Irix? HP?), my first, I'd heard that you could get help by typing "man", so did so. The response was

Apropos what?

which I thought so snooty that I laughed out-loud, and everyone in the room looked at me as if I were some kind of nut.
Gas pumps happen to be about as insecure as your typical router
What is the range on these?

In rural area, yellow busses need to travel for two hours morning and night. And for extra-curricular activities, like transportation to away games, drives can last five hours or more.
Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
> Somewhat ironically, the only way to avoid this is to query via Google (site:youtube.com [term]) where you will get a much larger set of results.

Even more ironically and many here would have experienced this themselves: the best way to find something on YouTube is to use Bing
I am not really sure whether you are suggesting people should move closer to their jobs, or to find jobs closer to where they live, but there are all sorts of externalities and life is rarely that simple.
> Open contribution? What is that?

For example SQLite is open source but not open contribution. It would not accept a pull request from someone outside the team.
Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices.

I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc.

Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could. I originally used map tiles from OpenStreetMap but they were discontinued so it uses Mapbox and Maptiler now.

Questions / feedback welcome. I also wrote a blog post with more information: https://adamlynch.com/back-of-your-hand. The code: https://github.com/adam-lynch/back-of-your-hand

Warning: it’s pretty difficult, unless your streets are numbered :)
Is it this ?

https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173014
> If you prefer to start from the beginning, and take things at your own pace, then you're already in exactly the right place - just keep reading.

If you don't mind a drive-by suggestion as I keep reading, this should be the first bullet in the list. It's a tiny speed bump in the funnel, but I could feel my attention dwindle until I got to "oh, there's more to read if I click the large, friendly button".
>We barely develop any software here anymore. So even very European companies like like Nokia and Ericsson, that are now trying to tell us that they are building our European telecommunication infrastructure. They’re actually not, they’re getting that built by other people in other countries far away. Anything having to do with server and PC development and manufacturing, there’s nothing left of that in Europe anymore.

Preach it! Outside of FOSS contributions, commercial EU software industry is in a sorry state, unless you count the crypto trading and fintech platforms getting millenials and zoomers to gamble their little money they have on stonks and crypto coins because they can't afford to invest in decent real estate, which I don't think is a healthy industry to promote as far as SW innovation goes.

All great EU innovation comes out universities and research and institutes funded mostly by EU taxpayer money, and the good innovations get immediately bought up by US or Chinese big tech, with the duds and left overs being bought by clueless European dinosaurs like Siemens, Daimler, T-Systems, etc. So basically our tax money is funding US and Chinese tech dominance because EU old money and EU governments are too cheap and clueless to invest in local tech and instead are focused on offshoring everything and investing only in perpetuating the real estate bubble and living off rent seeking while taxing the skin off your back, and most people suffering from rampant inflation and now rampant energy costs because EU leadership didn't bother investing in energy self-sufficiency.

Not exactly a healthy environment to breed good competitors for AWS, Google, Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft, despite the social safety nets, when you're being financially squeezed from all directions.
30 years out it will be probably viewed as 'absurd' that anybody would ever operate a democracy on proprietary software.
mmm that is pretty cool but I feel like that's cheating if I can't do it personally from my computer.
> Tangentially related, I talked to a friend who works on geospatial data for one of the big vacation rental companies, and he was remarking how many homes in many desirable areas are now rentals. It's not that uncommon to see nearly entire neighborhoods converted to short term rentals now in some areas where they're still legal. Hearing that really depressed me.

Adding to your data points: this is happening in some CA beach communities. Many beachfront homes in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach have been turned into AirBnBs that seem to cater to social media influencers desperate for instagram-able pics.

Some more anecdotal data: I know a couple of people who are professional AirBnB hosts and they're constantly in the market buying real estate to turn them into rentals. They buy cash in the cities I mentioned above, as well as San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC, Brooklyn, Nashville, Austin, and others. This is a lucrative business, at least for the time being.
BS jobs must be automated or deprecated. you may find a short term security in being a doorman for someone but for both of our sake I hope soon we will be freed from such toil.
What people, entrepreneurial subculture, and professionals don’t understand is that Google is in the business of delivering a crappy product because of how it relates to advertising psychology. It’s that simple. An example can be observed in SEO which doubles as a product framework in the context of performing a job for Google by altering content in the hopes of producing behavioral modification. This is almost always misunderstood by their best and brightest for lack of self awareness or actual intelligence. No one has ever been able to compete because quite frankly no one has any idea what the hell they’re doing. I do, however
> it's hard to imagine who decided that "NTP, but machine learning" is a $21M idea

Bless you. Are you younger than 40? :-)

Tech people who are over about 40 have, alas, no trouble imagining this at all!
Why would I build my own OS from scratch if I could embed Linux in my project? Why write my own C compiler and stdlib if I can use GNU’s? It seems strange to me to want people to start from scratch; I see the value of open source as avoiding that pointless toil and am happy to see build their companies on top of open source (so long as they’re in compliance with the license).
My favorite Hanami is at Meguro river in Tokyo[1]. You’re not allowed to picnic, you walk up and down the river (it’s one way on the pedestrian-only walkway in each direction), take pictures from the bridges, and get street-food and drinks from all of the restaurants, shops and street vendors. It’s most busy at night when it’s illuminated.
>I'd love to hear what your DevOps issues are.

Same. I've been using m1's since they came out and early on Terraform didn't work (had to wait on Go to support apple silicon), but that was over a year ago at this point. Now, everything works great...

Maybe the OP relies on Docker?
Meanwhile, in Real Life in Spain

https://www.euribor.com.es/2019/05/21/el-congreso-se-gasta-5...

(500.000Eu for ipad pros for the members of parliament)…

How do you mix that with open source software?
> Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then

Has anyone considered the possibility that all this Machine learning and AI models is what made Google and YouTube searches worse?
I never knew it was actually possible to boil broccoli and carrots for so long they start to lose their colour. Then I moved to the UK and had dinner with my girlfriends' parents and discovered you can!
Weaponisation ?

I guess you are victimizes yourself. It is fair for free software developers to express themselves in the software they build.

If you don't want them to, or if you want a specific idea to be promoted, just pay for that.
I noticed YouGov data is wrong in at least 1 area, the percentage of Native Americans is much higher than 1%, they seem to have wrongly excluded a large % of the black population that is native to America but were part of a systematic paper genocide carried out by the US government.

If there is one obvious mistake, I wonder what else they got wrong or used the wrong criteria for.
I feel like Wikipedia kind of glosses over how you might use the Zone System. The idea is that you sample a part of a scene with a spot meter, then use exposure compensation to "place" that part of the scene in a particular zone. I do a lot of B&W film photography, and my go to technique for landscapes is to find the darkest shadow, dial down the compensation to -3 (thus placing the darkest part of the image in Zone II), and then expose the image at that setting.

Digital sensors have different physical properties than film, namely that they clip to pure white rather than clip to pure black. (An overexposed digital picture may have no recoverable detail, while an underexposed film picture may have no recoverable detail. So for digital you want to err on the side of underexposing to capture all the highlight detail, whereas on film you want to err on the side of overexposure to capture shadow detail. Film is somewhat non-linear, too, further favoring overexposure. See also, "reciprocity failure".) So for digital, you aim towards making the brightest object in the scene pure white. You can also skip the zone system and just tune the exposure compensation until the histogram touches the right side. With a spot meter you can practically sample only a few points in the scene; with a digital camera's histogram, you can sample every pixel. Ansel Adams would have enjoyed that.
Green. Outstanding quality.
> You cannot use any of these crypto tokens as a form of fast payment

Compared to what? Sending funds to residents of some parts of the world might be frustrating as hell if using not crypto.

> without scams

Consider to learn something about an idea of trustless.

> without damaging the planet

Consider to find a good use of extra heat if you are mining.

> without the huge volatility

Let me guess - your country is not being invaded by enemy soldiers and its currency is not being in free fall.

> and speculation

Thanks Satoshi I do not need to ask some authorities about what to buy and when to sell it.

> without it also being used on the dark net.

You have chosen a wrong goal to follow, dark net does not mean dark ages.

> There is no real world legal use-case and it is a complete scam.

So, maybe you're living not in real world? In a world where everybody from governments is always fair? And evil Satoshi Nakamoto steals your money/coins/soberness?
> 0 fee

Every time I look at a no fee platform in the cryptocurrency world, it turns out that it's subsidized somehow. If you want to make a fair comparison with e.g. SEPA transfers, you have to assess where this comes from. For a lot of these networks, it's just a way to gain adoption and it doesn't reflect whether it's sustainable for them in the longer-term.

The compromise I have to make as a user is to use their cryptocurrency with all the drawbacks it has. But it doesn't matter if it takes me no time to send $CRYPTO if I need to wait hours before I can convert it back to fiat money and actually use it. That will remain the case as long as these cryptocurrencies remain niche, it's a bootstrapping problem.
And then they went up to the ISS in yellow and blue outfits. That tells us everything we need to know about the head of roscosmos. He is verging on the point of irrelevance, with ESA pulling out, the US using Dragon to launch, and the sanctions that are in place, Russia's opportunity to be in space is rapidly dwindling and will soon be a footnote in space exploration.
‘Give Peace A Chance’, Serbian fans mock US military interventions
Yeah, sorry! I don't control pricing and they recently upped it by 50% (used to be around $30, now around $45).

My only advice would be to look for a coupon code. They run a lot of them. Here's one they sent me for 40% off before Mar 22: SXSW22

Cheers!
The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s rich
But now with the benefit of hindsight, we do know how it turned out for c++. right?
Chelsea: Multiple bids lodged to buy Premier League club – BBC Sport