skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of the signalling achieves anything

This is just false. Some signaling achieves nothing, but there's plenty of signaling that has caused individuals to change their behavior, politicians to pass laws, and corporations to change their products. The thing is it's basically impossible to tell which is the useful signaling and which is shouting into the void, even as the person signaling the signals. Which drop filled the bucket?

You seem to find it annoying because you think it's being done just to SEEM good, rather than to BE good... but when it comes to issues we don't have direct control of, there's not much difference. I can ACT on my belief that texting and driving is a terrible thing to do all I want, but it doesn't stop anyone else from doing it. The only small piece of influence I have over others is to signal that I believe it's wrong whenever it's appropriate. That and lobby for tougher fines (by signaling to politicians) and technological solutions (again, by signaling to corporations).

None of this is to say you can't criticize specific gestures as being empty - but to say signaling is always empty is just false.
I was one of the commenters criticizing him, though I did not post anything until his dismissive response video.

I made no personal attacks, but highlighted how dangerous it is to the audience to present 10+ kV supplies as no-big-deal toys. Everyone can acquire an HV supply and play with it. Many of them even should, but certainly not because of a video demonstrating ways to kill yourself with absolute no risk assessment.
PSVR 2 is playable at this year's Game Developers Conference
Does anyone have any thoughts about DBeaver?
That guy was edgy
This seems to be the same concept as “the market for lemons”

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

Parents of low-cost students can send their kids to the “high information market” (the schools that can reject high-cost students). Parents of high-cost students have to send their kids to the “low-information market” (the public school that can’t reject high-cost students). Any school that can reject high-cost students can make themselves more attractive to low-cost students, which then feeds on itself, as the “low-information” school ends up with more and more high-cost students.

In this case, both schools have the same information, it’s just that one school isn’t allowed to act on it.
What does the integration ecosystem look like for array-based languages? e.g. writing and consuming network services, database interoperability, C FFI, text encodings, etc.

Given this release of APL introduces support for shebang scripts I'm thinking the ecosystem of integration isn't great but I'm happy to be wrong.
I used to run Jira Server myself for a hobby project, I paid $10 for the 10 user version. I guess I might have been able to stretch to $50 out of my personal funds.

Guess what? They dropped support and the suggested replacement product costs thousands per year.

Am I entitled in that case too?

Small non-commercial projects get stepped on all the time despite contributing most of the important software in the world.

GitLab recently upped their pricing from $5/m to $20/m as well, so even paying members got a huge price increase.
nice, I like this. thanks for sharing (and the later quote further into the thread). it's such irony that the "miraculous" consciousness we experience is simultaneously a curse ensuring direct awareness of our mortality and [depending on opinion] triviality.
The lingering issue I have with that is that at first glance you see some cool routes, but then you get there and realize it was clearly a route for mountainbikers. I commute via track bike, which couldn't be any more ill-suited for the terrain. Given that my bike and style of riding is more suited for flat smooth pavement, I generally just ride with traffic as the routes are better maintained and it is easier to know when there is a pothole ahead.
Plenty of enterprise software as well. I used to work on this product, the windows desktop part of which is 3 million lines of delphi.

https://spacewell.com/brands/mcs-iwms/
Ignore commits in the blame view (Beta)
GDPR and engineering teams in South America
Hi,

I run a US company who controls and processes data of EU citizens.

My legal counselor advised me that my engineering team in South America (Chille, Brazil) cannot access my production database, as GDPR does not allow to export data to these countries (and if they access production database, the data will be streamed to their local machine).

I'm not looking for legal advice - just curious if anyone else has heard the same thing? If so, what do they do about it?
>Qt is not nearly as easy to use as Electron, especially if you're a small company and need to hire front end devs for cheap.

Sure it is.

>Also Qt GUIs look like garbage, but it's hard to quantify why.

No more garbage-like than you're getting with Electron and just as style-able (with arguable superior layout engines). Qt has a number of style palettes; perhaps you're used to using applications which chose to use non-native/standard palettes.
I miss SoftIce.
I thought this was going to be Find my iPhone for dumbphones.
There's also the 4chan classic of a guy starting a turf war between crows: https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/5mi9nu/anon_star...
yes! drop us a line at macupdater@corecode.io
It was not a $69k hospital bill. It was just $2500 for him.

But it sure does make a good headline.
Learning languages is awesome, and I highly advise it. But there's just no point in learning Pascal, as a first language, not any more.
While what you’re saying is factually correct, my biggest pet peeve is that Firefox is entirely owned and developed by the corporation. If I donate money to Mozilla, it ends up with the silly projects instead of the browser.

To me, this is a problem, and while it’s documented somewhere, it’s not nearly communicated well enough on their website when you’re actually making a donation. As a matter of fact, it’s sometimes even downright misleading.

As such, I don’t believe the corporate structure is a healthy one, and the organization(s) are not properly aligned in where the profit comes from, where they make the biggest impact in the world, and where the donations go to.
When you say "Mitchell Baker owns it all", you aren't claiming that Mitchell owns Mozilla Corp, are you? Mozilla Corp is owned by Mozilla Foundation, as described in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

Most Mozilla employees draw their salary from Mozilla Corp.
That is what it boils down to.

I will say, if I had property with a little creek running year round on it, I'd be hard pressed not to install a waterwheel to get a little something out of it.
This is heart breaking of course, but is it wrong to say it's also beautiful? That her last act before death was to create and nurture new life. There's something amazing about that
Please don't do this here. Your profile shows a single submission. It is a Show HN for the website you linked above.
Why gas is $6 a gallon in California, even as prices fall elsewhere
Does it support migrations that affect more than one table?
A big pile of previous discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Have you read Swarm by Norman Spinrad? It's a short-story which illustrates some of the points you have made by bringing an alien species that are less individually intelligent but more hive-oriented than human beings into the mix.
I thought they are very pro-office according to this article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/facebook-meta-...
Note that guy said he had personal connections to an "dental mechanic" (mecanico dental, don't know what it's called in English). Basically someone professional and licensed to verify his molds and steps were correct.
Awesome, does the sender need to sign up?
Is that even legal? It seems similar to the "warranty void" stickers which are nothing more than an illegal scare tactic that many individuals are conned into believing.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/11748/warranty-stickers-are-ille...

https://www.ifixit.com/News/15464/warranty-voiding-stickers-...
If you define "work", for a magnetic-confinement fusion device, as producing sustained fusion, no, they did not work. We aren't even talking about useful output; they reliably failed to confine hot plasma. Before you can even start talking about fusion as a technology to produce energy, you need to achieve confinement of (1) a useful mass of plasma at (2) a useful temperature for (3) a useful period. Without, you have at best a physics experiment.

After you get all of 1, 2, and 3, you are ready to begin actual work on turning emitted neutrons into electrical power in an economically viable way. We have not had occasion to begin such work. If begun, it will predictably fail, for relentlessly practical economic reasons.
You and I are here discussing it, right now.
Uhh what? So the price people are willing to pay dictates the worth, what exactly is your point here then? That scalpers are bad people because they make a profit?
The SDK basically gives remote shutter control and file transfer. There is nothing in it that could plausibly damage anything.
Out of curiosity, how do dyslexic friendly fonts work? Are they easier for everyone, or is it a case of compensating dyslexia related deficits specifically?
Why is the reaction "stop making videos?" You can serve videos from Cloudflare and sell your own ad placements to pay the paltry fees...with no one hanging over you. These content creators could easily use YouTube to promote their own site and pivot away.
To further your point about trust a little: Strava-using cyclists are a very specific group of cyclists IME.

Back when I used it my commute had tens of segments with 40km/hr medallists, and a sprint segment with weekly new records in excess of 50km/hr. And, you can even catch snipers rolling on to and off a road near me to protect effort for a two kilometre junction-free sprint most weekends.
Very nice. What constitutes a micro-startup?
The conversation is about desktop apps.

Indeed, for mobile, there are different scenarios : if your mobile app is the core driver of your service, than your problem is having them on play store and app store.

The "cross platform mobile" APIs are less than stellar,but maybe you can get by with one codebase. Otherwise two is just a requirement.

On the other hand, if mobile is just an afterthought, than a WebApps with a few media query is the reasonable choice.

"Most companies" are not FANG.
There is no pearl clutching in science.
This.

Native Instruments straight up told me on facebook that they will not even test their plugins on any betas when they're available.
This is a fair point. I am a supporter of OGS (online-go.com) and I get the same sense of convenience benefits as perks which I could get anyway with only some minimum effort. However I do like this go server and I use it a lot, they deserve my money, and getting some perks back for my donations just feels nice. It is a way for them to say: “Hey, we appreciate your donations, have some perks”.
Also, by the way, I am building a switchblade 300 clone and the charge will be nitrocellulose!!!
> I suspect that all but one or two of those civilizations ended disaster within about 100 years

All sorts of biological / ecological factors would come into play like average lifespan, the size of life in relation to the size of the planet, resource scarcity, reproduction rates, mobility, avg. number of offspring, mutation rates, weather patterns, geography, etc.

Then you get into social and technological factors.

We have a sample size of 1, so it’s hard to extrapolate or understand where we are on the probability curve.

The best data point we might have for a self-inflicted civilization ending event would be looking at it from a smaller point view. How many times in history has one group attacked another such that both groups ceased to exist?

One positive sign is that even with all our destruction and violence, someone usually wins or backs down with the ability to continue on living.

Of course there are always long-tail events like mutually assured destruction, but I don’t know if 100 years is the correct timetable for ~100% certainty.

There was an interesting HN discussion about it a few weeks ago here with folks chiming in on the best ways to assess the odds of a long-tail event like MAD:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545558
Regardless of their written policy or silly warranty void stickers, the law dictates the warranty still covers all components not modified or damaged by the consumer. You might have to fight in court, but thats the law.
The tooling around Go and Rust is just as good or better? Really? That's a claim you're making?

Walk me through which AAA games are developed in Go and Rust, just as a conversation starter.
... it genuinely pains you to read "he/she"?
Russia is open to selling natural gas for Bitcoin
Who first started the conversation? I wonder if the hormones swirling through her system made her more likely to feel ready for a child. Or perhaps the pregnancy induced change in her pheromones suddenly made you feel more nurturing of her. Probably not, but it's funny how sometimes things work out like that
One of the earliest UNIX legend stories I remember being told was this one about a Korn-like shell being announced in Windows, with Korn himself asking some pointed questions about compatibility: https://wiki.c2.com/?KornShellStory

(Remember those crazy days of MS Windows claiming POSIX compatibility so it could win some government bid?)
Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid subscription streaming
Speaking of listening to sped up speech, I wonder if there's any tricks like BR possible for speech. Hm.
US Justice Dept. Charges Ethereum NFT Project Creators over 'Rug Pull'
Guide to the Best Blender Add-Ons
I'm sure there's room for "Youtuber William Osman Builds His Own X-Ray Machine"
I do not do business with them where I can help it
I don’t understand the connection between the cost of hospitalization and a DIY 2d x-ray machine. Where exactly do you go with that? The article states that he underwent an abdominal CT, but of course that’s not what he built. Probably a good thing, too, as whatever radiation he’s emitting would have been substantially higher. I’m just confused about the motivation. There are lots of costs embedded in procedure pricing - some legitimate, some less so. Heaven forbid he goes into hospital and has to have an MRI. I can’t imagine the monstrosity that would result from that DIY project.
It seemed like the person you're responding to was asking a rhetorical question that responded to the original statement ("here's your chance to put your money where your mouth is"), not directing a question at Mozilla itself.

As a response to that prompt, it's a completely legitimate question to ask: would my money actually be going where I want it to go?

Anyway, I think people do ask themselves where the money they spend goes. They do that all the time. It's the basis boycotting different businesses. They don't ask it in every case, such as when the question has been answered already, or where there isn't ongoing controversy about how money is being spent.
Normally, no, obviously!

But this is a special case IMO -- Firefox is something people care very deeply as they view it as a crucial bastion of the free and open internet.
How do you decide which letters to highlight? Is it the first half in every case? Did you conduct any trials to see whether this yields the fastest reading speeds?
Was that the problem statement? Come up with an algorithm to swap two numbers?
It has been on my wish list for a while now, but in any case I would still like something I can read on my laptop.
The main game state machine is a neat read.

https://github.com/mgerdes/Open-Golf/blob/master/src/golf/ga...
It wasn't 69k either. That's the troll number the hospitals and insurance companies use to shock people and justify the actual high prices.
How do you distinguish between the case where these people are actually less self aware vs being roughly just as self aware but having different values from your own? In other words, they are aware of much of what everyone around them is aware, they just act on it differently?

In any case, the vast majority of healthy humans are probably more self aware than the vast majority of healthy crows, no?
Maybe one day we’ll start accepting we’re not the only “intelligent” things on this planet and start treating all animals a little better/stop eating them.
No doubt there’s a reason that so many SA choose to work overseas. My point was more that $15usd an hour just doesn’t go that far in the states, even though it sounds like a very livable wage outside of the US.

Even within the states there are massive discrepancies. $15/hr in San Francisco probably means you are on the edge of homelessness. Meanwhile that same pay in the southeast might be enough for a modest life.
Will the Digital Markets Act help Europe breed digital giants?
I think HN folks are commenting because:

1. These political threads always bring out the most ideologically strident folk

2. Developer time/experience is impacted by these changes.

While I personally think these banners are fine and good to raise awareness, I do agree that there's a moral grandstanding element as well. I'm often puzzled why it's so controversial a belief to have. I don't see why folks are so annoyed at these banners though because I've been annoyed for years and years at crappy ASCII/figlet drawings that libraries/apps output that are garbled in my terminal's width/encoding and yet people still add those.
Switched to Mushroom networks, while the speed was good with pepwave, the latency was unbearable for me.
These actions can be classed as slacktivism and as impotent virtue-signaling, sure, but I believe that the actors of these methods of protest are trying to do what the left calls "creating safe spaces" and genuinely feel that they are "showing their support" and therefore somehow...helping.
The thing is, they may be achieving that first part - creating a safe space, perhaps unwittingly marginalising, demonising, and isolating the very people who can affect the most change (i.e. politicians, policemen, russian people, going by the examples of causes in OP's post alone), at a further cost of inconveniencing absolutely everyone - testing the resolve of existing allies, and likely creating new opponents out of those who were on the fence or apathetic.
Which is a non existent phenomenon. You don't help people by not giving birth, or do nothing in general, you do that by actually donating/adopting etc
"This paper reports my memories of being a beginning graduate student in physics at
Caltech and working on the team producing The Feynman Lectures on Physics" : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05210.pdf
> It reuses the available system browser view and doesn’t bundle Node, so it’s very light.

It's 'light' in terms of download size, it's not far off from Electron in terms of resource usage. Most complaints about Electron are about resource usage, not really download size (though there are some).
You know, I found a refurb Pro 13" with 16GB RAM and 512GB of storage for the equivalent price of a new Air with that same config. I realise it's basically the same machine with a fan, extra graphics core and touch bar... but in combination with your comment and my own doubts I figured I'd go for that as it seems like the best compromise I've come across. Hey, at least it has 'pro' in the name.
Sure... Who is the hospital billing $69k to, the insurance? Also $2,500 is still a lot.
Broadly speaking, there are 3 main copyrights that apply to a given piece of music: the recording, the overall composition, and the melody. The first two are pretty uncontroversial [1]. You can't distribute my recording without my permission, and you can't make money off of a cover version without compensating me.

The melody copyright is where things get really hazy. It's hard to determine when a melody infringes on another melody. What if the notes are the same, but the timing is different? What if the notes aren't exactly the same, but are pretty similar? What if the main melodic ideas are really common in a given genre or style? How do you determine if there was actual copying, or if two musicians just came up with the same idea independently? What if the melody just isn't an important part of the style of a given work? What if the melody is almost the same, but used in a completely different musical context?

There isn't an objective set of criteria that can determine if a melody infringes on another melody, without being too narrow or too broad. And since there's no good criteria, the only way to litigate this is to have better lawyers then the other guy, which rarely works out well for independent artists.

[1] At least, uncontroversial at a high level. The details get messy really quickly.
“Frosties” Promoters Charged in NFT Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme
I agree though that its hard to find use cases for forks in a typical business- however Unreal Engine would be a great example of it where the private repository is shared by multiple development teams. If you have access to it (because you've agreed to the Source License), you can make a private fork and send in a PR to the main repository.

Epic probably won't merge it though unless you represent a big studio.
How so? Are you picturing that alternative as regular records in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, or something else?
But Mozilla's revenue and market share went down since the drastic increase in execs' pay. Would that be acceptable in a for-profit company?

The usual counter argument in this type of discussions is that it's Google's fault, because they changed their sponsorship, and there's nothing the execs could do. And then the counter to that is why pay big salaries if there's nothing they can do about revenues. Back to square 0.

I wish Mozilla setup funds for each project like it was done for Thunderbird. Then the execs can be paid from sponsorships etc.. but I personally have stopped to give to Mozilla any money since that change happened.
Just sharing, there's also a few providers selling "Hosted Gitlab" solutions

so you may find a better deal than "pay-per-seat gitlab.com" without the inconvenience of self hosting

Example

https://gitlabhost.com/pricing/single-tenant-gitlab-hosting/
Pentagon Kills Russian Nuclear Strike Plan (2008)
What next? Is refusing doing business with Russia a war crime, too? After all, some civilians might lose their livelihoods and starve to death, right?
In fact, the Magnusson-Moss act makes it illegal to void a warranty even for 3rd party, aftermarket modifications to a product, unless it can be shown that the aftermarket modification is the cause of or contributed to the warranty claim.

So even if you had some random black box that you plugged into your cameras USB port, and it would send all sorts of wild commands to the camera, that would not void your warranty unless the black box was actually responsible for the damage to the camera.
So how much should it cost? And how do you arrive at that number?
very cool! some similar themes to LotR. Did you intentionally make the crows names use mainly phonemes from the word "crow"? That's a cool technique
big deal about pebble bed reactors

1) Much more efficient:
Allow for continuous refuelling (just load up on pebbles into the hopper, used ones drop out the other side) rather than have to cease operations to replace spent fuel

2) Much safer:
No phase transitions in the coolant, no possibility of meltdown.
https://youtu.be/-0G4-JicCIw

Diy xray tubes are doable, but I don't fault them for the store chili or the reused tube. It's not always important that parts be as authentically diy as the whole, in my view.