skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used GitHub intensively for 13 years. I've never looked at the front page or "feed". Why would you? GitHub is for working with git repositories, it's not a social website.
It's been a while since I read it to know if the specifics you're after are in there, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a directionally-correct reading from https://www.withouthotair.com/. Provisos obviously include changes in costs since it was published, but it would give you a starting point.
Clearly these three rules are a fact about human pyschology rather than an invention and should be ineligible for patents. I understand that New Zealand law for example classifies pure software inovation as categorically not being invention. I'm unsure of what hoops you'd have to jump through to take advantage of this fact to release a browser extension for example, but it seems like it should be possible, though code signing and stuff might cause problems.
'In the real world' it isn't just Apple switching to ARM. I've been moving AWS workloads to Graviton for the cost savings. More and more default containers have both x86 and ARM available.
I like VueScan just fine, but as far as I can tell you can't do this: https://i.imgur.com/mjt6ruf.png - of course, correct me if I'm wrong.

Being able to freely rotate the section you're scanning is an absolute killer feature if you're scanning things that you can't easily line up perfectly, like anything smaller than A4. Most of my scanning is for archival purposes, and I need them to be as high quality as possible, and I definitely couldn't do without this feature.
After I've built a server for a purpose, the one thing I want most is a script that does it again. Spending another identical hour on a similar server just makes me sad.
Also interesting that MS owns both of those networks. Both pretty smart investments.
Oh no. I hope I'm not helping the start of a new addiction..

But have a quick look here:

https://www.openttd.org/
While I cannot trust algorithmic feeds anymore and I expect this to become an issue in the future, I have to say that based on what I've seen in my own "For you" tab, GitHub is doing a good job on showing updates from repositories that I starred and then forgot about, and I actually find that feature nice.
> there is still room for my ilk in the tech world.

Yes, there is. AWS/GCP/Azure are incredibly complex beasts, and people who know how to properly set them up (anything from proper user management and rights to correct ingress points and resource allocation) are as rare as 100-carat diamonds. It's a different kind of SysAdmin job, but it is that.

Don't believe people who are saying "you can just hire junior admins or infra-knowledgable programmers" are talking out of their asses (or until a kubernetes cluster upgrade or a lapsed IAM role brings the company down for 24 hours).
It's kinda sad that something like yunohost is still the best "just working"-solution we have at the moment. I tested it some weeks ago for a homelab-server, and holy crap was this a poor experience.

But the general problem with those projects is, they all are packaging their own apps, and most of those have a very low number available. Some of thise apps are outdated, or are not well tested. It's quite strange that we have dozens of linux-distributions, each with thousand of packages, yet we have no good solution that actually works well enough.

You either have solutions which are hiding everything in a tanglement which is hard to understand, or you must do all the work yourself, or you live with the in-betweens which offer only a handful of apps. Maybe in another 20 years we have something workable on all levels...
> Wow, this thread is a shitshow.

Mozilla gets criticism because they do things that deserve criticism. That there are others who are worse is irrelevant. If anything, not having a better alternative makes is more important to keep Mozilla from getting even less user-focused.

This notion that they should not be criticized for the shit they pull because hey they are the good guys* is ridiculous.

* relatively, conditions apply

> You are free to donate, instead.

You CANNOT donate to Firefox browser development. Mozilla corp does not accept donations. Mozilla org does not do any browser development. Even if Mozilla corp did accept donations it would be ridiculous for anyone to donate to an organization that pays thear leadership an amonout that is ridiculously high compared to even the US average income.

> People mouth off about privacy and security but will not follow through with $5/yr if they aren't forced to.

I donate to plenty of organizations. I would't donate to Mozilla corp even if I could because they don't want to be a non-profit organization that exists to serve a mission but rather a SV for profit corporation that focuses on competitive executive compensation complete with all the bullshit that comes with that like ignoring user feedback and replacing it with telemetry.
There are reasons not to like DNS over HTTP, but it's not there to let Mozilla track you. We have had ample evidence for years that ISPs have been using your unencrypted DNS traffic to track and profile you. Providing DNS over HTTP out of the box makes it easier for users to configure the browser based on their own threat model (Cloudflare is the default DoH target, but you can also provide your own).
>Imagine putting in that many hours of practice on the classical masters to end up with a low paying job playing Frosty the Snowman and Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me".

The vast majority of work in any given profession is lower tier work like this.

The electrician you paid to install a dimmer could be doing much more advanced work but he does what pays the bills.
I agree entirely. My point of reference is a laptop that was, in hindsight, a total disappointment. I'm bought into the Apple ecosystem though and it was the best Apple laptop that money could buy 3 years back.

I did look at Windows alternatives at the time but ultimately decided that I wanted to remain on Mac.
Hard to say without knowing their complaints. Not sure how I’d manage to be productive when collaborating with some of my team members if they were not there during Norma working hours but were there during the middle of the night.

Offsets all requests and fixes from them by a day.
Any selfhosting distro on which you enable unattended-upgrades will do the trick: libreserver.org, yunohost.org, freedombox.org are good examples.

Of course, it's even better if you setup the backups before you forget :)
Going to these lengths of rationalizing not drinking seems a bit absurd.

Especially the one about taste.

Someone says they enjoy the taste and the rationalization is essentially "you're wrong, it tastes bad, you just think it tastes good". Okay well if I think it tastes good, then it tastes good. What's the point here?

I suppose if I wanted to avoid drinking, I could seek out something like this to help give me a framework for thinking about it in a different way. It might help. A program like AA might help as well, and I might seek that out if I wanted to stop drinking. But just as going to AA if you're not trying to stop drinking would be pretty unusual and maybe even silly, these attempts at rationalization seem pretty silly, over complicated, faulty, and unnecessary to me.
Nonsense. GitHub is for working with git repositories. It might have some weird social feed stuff tacked on, but I've never used it in 13 years and to say it's not the main point is an understatement. OTOH social interactions is very obviously the main point of LinkedIn?
Seeing all the people arguing straight up for dictatorship in these comments is really making me reconsider the "intelligent" reputation of HN.
Well, the quote is attributed to you!

I've been seeing this more and more as people and whole organizations feel compelled to learn everything that comes their way.
> immutable functions

That doesn't sound right.
There is a cliff in speed reading (at least in my experience) where you're reading speed for a particular reading exceeds your ability to process and/or enjoy the words you are reading.

Similar to audio books ... some podcasts/audiobooks I can listen to at 2.5x or higher and others I need to reduce to 1.25 or 1.5x. Some readers are already fast enough and I listen a 1x; Mary Robinette Kowal for instance.
Firefox provides, by far, more options for customizing the UI then any other browser. Don’t like the redesign? Then download Sidebery and have tree-style tab navigation, or change userChrome.css to remove tabs completely. Don’t act like Firefox has personally assaulted you just because you don’t like their redesign.
Art -- as demonstrated by classical orchestras -- really isn't subjective at all. Talk to a professional musician, and it's all technique. Somewhere, deep down there at the bottom of it all, is a squishy place where an artist's passion and poetry is burning bright to fuel everything else...but by the time you get to an orchestral hall, everything you -- specifically as a non-professional musician -- will hear is objective technique you might expect an AI to be able to grade.

It's a very different beast from popular art that holds up Selene Gomez, and even then you'd be remiss to try to explain her success as the result of subjective judgements.
It's not a conscious design effort in the sense that the blueprints were designed and implemented this way. It's more that gradually with every political decision that is based on greed, we sink deeper in a world that is defined by it.
Show HN: git-crecord: TUI to interactively select lines to commit
Why would MS want to kill github? It's huge, it serves a vital need, and if MS does manage to strangle it in some way, someone else will fork a similar service and everyone will flock to that, similarly to how everyone left Sourceforge for Github, as I understand it.
Chili peppers too. All of these initially-offputting tastes are strategies by the plant to make animals not want to eat them. However as humans we've decided they're tasty and that it's worth learning to like them.

The key difference between these and alcohol is that we know none of them are actually harmful (yes I know that coffee is harmful in large quantities).

This is quite different to drinking ethanol, a literal poison that sends the liver into panic stations the instant it detects it.
I had not quite thought about it in this way, thank you!
`about:config` on the Android version.
I don't think the world has ever not been multi-polar, although the poles change; while America had "top nation" power from the 1990s, it was never entirely hegemonic.
That’s only one limited side of it. The very limited tax contribution you’re making towards their education pays off in spades for you. When you’re old, they’re fully funding your social security, providing you with healthcare, keeping you alive militarily for a long time after you have any practical value to society (well, it’s true). If they were not, and only people with children only could take advantage of the resources of the young and healthy, you wouldn’t make it to old age. Parents end up putting up the bulk of the capital to produce these highly profitable resources, and let’s face it, you’re reaping the disproportionate benefits, especially as you get older. Also, I don’t have any data, but I would wager the safe majority of childless adults are not due to infertility. I’m not saying people should be forced to have children or anything- but it’s hard to take seriously the argument that childless people are victimized by slightly excess taxes.
>I once worked at a place where someone was fired because his number of commits was lower than the other developers. He was a brilliant developer and always got his work done. But apparently his commits were too small (he liked to lump a lot of things into commits, instead of several smaller ones).

Bloody hell, I can't imagine how dysfunctional other things must have been if this was allowed to happen without someone pointing out what a daft rationale for firing someone that is.
I've had a similar experience with Amazon. These days it's pretty much books or things I can't be concerned about if they are knockoff. Electronics? No way. Too high of chance for grey or black market quality stuff.
This reminds me of speed reading course that I took almost 30 years ago.
BBC: 'Shame on you': How President Zelensky uses speeches to get what he needs
I cannot blame them..
10 Image File Formats That Time Forgot
I think this is true for everyone? But not to the extent you describe I think.

Man, this topic is hard. First off, how do you figure out who you are. What shapes up that? Is it a constant? Maybe we delude ourselves with a wrong image, and then we have these emotions that drive our behaviour, our actions which don't align with that image.

I think simpler is, letting go of the rigid definition of "who you are", not even concern ourselves with defining it. Experiment with many things, and then do what you enjoy doing?

Of course, legal & moral constraints should hold :)
I am so glad I got married and had a kid. My wife doesn't drink - and honestly it's way less fun to drink - even have a glass of wine with a meal - when someone else isn't. Plus with my daughter I don't drink when my wife isn't around because I'm always worried something is going to come up and I'll have to drive her some place on short notice.

I think if it were just me on my own I might drink more ... and I always kind of worry that I'd get a taste for not the drink but just that mellow relaxed feel no pain that comes with 2 or 3 drinks. That's trouble for me I think.
Good explanation by them, maybe because politico is so adapt at propaganda? It is a good argument to evaluate ethical misbehavior but is not at all applicable in a geopolitical context. Credibility is an important currency in journalism or when would it stop being applied?
So the article mentions NuScale, which are planning to build a couple of test reactors in 2030, but fails to mention Rosatom modular reactors which are decades ahead and ready to go.

Well, it's that same thing the US did with 5G. When Europe, Australia and most of the world was ready to build their 5G infrastructure, the U.S. cooked up some lies about some subsidiary of Huawei having some business deal with some company related to North Korea and sanctioned Huawei.

How long until the world says enough is enough?
It's impossible to describe to non-parents how high maintenance toddlers and very young children are. There are no words.
From the Wikipedia article itself:

> While many sources suggest a more dramatic drop at around 35, this is unclear since few studies have been conducted since the nineteenth century. One 2004 study of European women found fertility of the 27–34 and the 35–39 groups had only a four-percent difference.
You can and should self-host about everything, apart from email.
The World of Dumb Terminals – PCMag
Now you can easily clean up the regular feed with uBlock Origin `github.com###dashboard [aria-labelledby="feed-original"] :is(.follow, .watch_started)` will remove "someone followed something" and "someone starred something" which can help you focus on the updates that are critical aspects of updated issues and releases, and can just click over to the social media feed "For You (Beta)" for that kind of stuff if you feel so inclined (or you can ignore it). I have `github.com##aside[aria-label="Explore"]` as well to not get distracted with the recommendations I didn't ask for on the index page either.
As a non native English speaker, this does not work.

Maybe because the part of the brain used to read/write/listen/speak a non native language is not the same as a native language. I really feel that I need to focus more while reading the example paragraph with the bionic stuff.

I tried the other examples, but I memorized enough of the text starting the 3rd example that I could not really infer anything. Putting the same text for all the examples is not really helpful in this case.
Subjectivity is certainly a part of it, like in any profession. But just being able to play that material requires years of training and practice. And the stuff that is subjective to the audience has to be worked out in objective terms by the members of the orchestra (most likely decided by the conductor) so that the performance sounds like it has a coherent style. Imagine variations on: "Let's play it this way instead of that way." And the musicians have to understand and physically implement those decisions instantly.

So the layer of subjectivity that the audience experiences is supported by a foundation of objective choices.

Now, if you hold an audition for a violinist, enough people will show up who can demonstrate those skills (the ultimate coding interview), that your final choice will be a toss-up, like in any profession.

And as in any profession, your self esteem has to come from within. I can't imagine basing my self esteem on what funds the IT industry. I know a lot of professional musicians. They tend to be fairly well adjusted people.

Disclosure: I'm at the next level down, a "semi professional" musician.
Sounds more like a problem with how stories/tasks are split.
Everything starts out as a buzzword but it's only because it's trying to distil down an entire category into a word. As much as you may dislike it, every industry is quite literally built and defined that way. Something has to be a hook, even if you can explain in detail what it is. Cloud is just this idea that everything goes to a remote place that appears as one thing, which you don't control or manage. In all these trend setting new categories you either play the game or lose out and get left behind as a relic aka like WD, IBM, Seagate and everyone else.
This is some fatalistic nonsense. There is a long way to go for an IT person to die of starvation. It would have to be intentional: wanting to die of starvation.
Certainly. It's being paid for by the universal basic health care that our government provides. One of the reasons we pay taxes.
And that is because you hate to think for yourself, or do you lack the attention span for long form interviews.

He got popular on YouTube BTW.
I don't think any social engineers have been quite so mask-off but I'm not sure.
What does this mean for employee salaries? Will it become harder to find new cheap talent? Will our technology evolution be as dynamic as it has been?
> You are under literally zero obligation to fix or update anything, just like it says in the text of the license you picked.

That's great for you, and the other commenter who said the same. I'm pleased you feel comfortable enough with that.

> Any social obligation that people imagine you have (or in your case perhaps more importantly that you imagine you have), is just that: imaginary. If you can't stand the idea of some stranger on the planet not liking you because you refuse to spend your time fixing their pet bugs, that would be a good topic to bring up with your therapist.

I mean, I'll ignore the elitism in this statement, and presume you meant this sarcastically. But the idea that you associate this kind of unassertiveness with mental dysfunction is probably not a million miles wrong.

However, it is not an unusual mental dysfunction, and one that many more software developers suffer from than the general populace. Assuming that your bravado is matched in your offline life, that would put you in a very small percentage of programmers.

And declaring that as a source of shame rather than an opportunity for support only serves to further entrench the stigma and impostor syndrome. Which then leads to further unassertiveness and self-worth issues. Which then leads to more people feeling they are not worth being paid for their time. Which leads to more people on the internet making them feel shame.

Which means I can agree with you wholeheartedly when you say:

> You are under literally zero obligation to fix or update anything

... and at the same time be pleased to see people attempting to improve the situation for those thousands of developers who, in their own heads, do not feel that zero obligation as a daily reality. I may not agree it's the right approach. I may not even agree that it will work. But I'm not going to dismiss the premise, just because it's not how I personally feel.

> And of course, just because something you did crosses some arbitrary line of popularity doesn't mean the universe suddenly decides you are entitled to compensation for it. If that's how you hoped things would go, then you should have started a business to sell it in the first place.

This on the other hand is just plain naivety. The idea that every small side project would even support the costs of a business is not just assertiveness, it's delusional. Would you buy a shell like fish? A json query language like jq? A context summerizer for your shell like starship? An ad blocker? A file manager? And would you pay more than a payment processor or business bank account would take in fees?

Something can be used by millions and make hundreds of dollarbucks in aggregate, and yet be practically worthless individually.

Which is, again, one of the stated goals of Tea. I'm pretty sure it won't be a through-the-roof success, but again, happy to see people trying new ways to tackle the problem. You know. Beyond telling people to go get therapy.
> It's up to you when you think a traditional server back-end is still warranted

All the cases outside of "oh, I dump my thoughts on the page once a year".

Even for a blog in the modern world I would like:

- automatic crossposting to Twitter and Facebook

- automatic retrieval and reformatting of external content (because, for example, twitter embeds are very cumbersome, heavy and slow)

- automatic retrieval of video and images from external sites (youtube, instagram, twitter etc.) because of link rot

- delayed publishing

- search

- and a plethora of other things

Yes, you can stitch togethe a bunch of "serverless" stuff for this, but you've just "replaced" the "traditional server backend" with a bunch of traditional server backends.
IANAM (though I have relatives that are). My experience ion the corporate world is that HR exists to protect the organization, not to help the employees. The notion that orchestras need an HR organization to address musician's issues should be taken with a big grain of salt.
Even with that, the overall population of the US increased by 0.1%.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/us-population...
I am in tears, also feeling happy for you!
Cool, here's a quick hack to try a similar technique with the comments in this thread (copy and paste into dev tools:

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Why can't a manager or employee at any of the stores I go into in a week, all of which probably have cameras these days, be potentially doing the same thing?

I mean, I get it -- we don't think they are likely to. Because that's not the purpose of the camera. Because we figure businesses are run by people "in charge" who have certain interests. We think we understand the purpose and intention of the cameras in the stores, and we don't understand the purpose or intention of the guy standing in the street, so imagine the worst. Plus the cameras in stores are often hidden so we avoid thinking about them entirely.

But... we're on so many cameras, which just random employees at random stores have access to... or random homeowners with cameras pointing out their windows... it seems reasonable to me to be more worried about that then most people are. And I'm not sure I've meaniningfully given any kind of consent to any of it.