skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather they didn't. I don't know which videos you watch, but the ones I watch have lots of very helpful and interesting comments.

I've actually been quite impressed at how much improvement there has been compared to a few years ago.

For example in an electrical videos people will call out code violations, exemplary work to be copied, mistakes, tips and ideas, and other things like that.

In superhero clips from movies I've seen people comment with background info from the comics that adds "flavor" to the scenes.

Maybe it's the more "social" videos (family vlogs, personalities, etc) that have bad comments? I don't know, I don't watch too many of those.

I would not be happy without the comments - they help me rate the usefulness and reliability of the info I'm getting from the video, in particular from videos that are outside my expertise.
100%. (Also involved on the proposing / applying side of grant writing here).
Karpov vs. Kasparov: The Soviet Chess Rivalry of the USSR
I noticed that too. I try to go full digital and abstract.. and now I often go back to the usual vintage material/physical habits. Something about moving/touching/seeing/filing changes how your brain notices the event.
Writing the types of whitepapers you're describing is an art, and not a holy one.
The OP release notes announced "As we value safety, these new features come with their own moderation tools–nothing will show up in trends unless reviewed by one of the server’s moderators first."

Just a week later, here is a pull request adding an option to allow trends without reviews: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/17977
No there isn't much of a civil society but neither is every facet of live in Russia controlled by anyone. If you're an average Russian right now you work in the private sector in a job of your choosing, you have a faith of your choosing and go about your day, there's no party or state to be seen. (what 'party' even, as Russia isn't communist any more).

Oligarchy and totalitarianism are opposed concepts. Russia is indeed pretty corrupt, oligarchic and mafia like, but that means there isn't that much state capacity left as private and public interests are divided and self-interested. Actual totalitarians first annihilate the oligarchs which siphon from the state. Stalin was totalitarian. Mao's red guards were totalitarian. No comparable force exists in modern Russia.
It lived on for quite a while with a strong position in the networking market later on.

But then instead of focusing on networking/infrastructure hardware like they could have, they went on a wild goose chase... to try to gain a place in phones.
Same goes for all software. Unless there's a significant change or upgrade in the release, why post? The Emacs post today made sense, because it introduced native compilation. That's a huge speed increase. Not merely bug fixes.
Why not go crazy? Negative values.
From grief to paw prints, people share Ireland census ‘time capsule’ messages
There are some web apps still in production that I wrote almost a decade ago in Node+Express in the simplest, dumbest style imaginable. The only dependencies are Express and some third-party API connectors. The database is an append-only file of JSON objects separated by newlines. When the app restarts, it reads the file and rebuilds its memory image. All data is in RAM.

I figured these toys would be replaced pretty quickly, but turns out they do the job for these small businesses and need very little maintenance. Moving the app to a new server instance is dead simple because there's basically just the script and the data file to copy over, so you can do OS updates and RAM increases that way. Nobody cares about a few minutes of downtime once a year when that happens.

There are good reasons why we have containers and orchestration and stuff, but it's interesting to see how well this dumb single-process style works for apps that are genuinely simple.
> Emeralds from a mine in Zambia, a country that had similar apartheid laws

Notice that I said similar here, because Zambia did have laws that were similar to apartheid laws in South Africa.
Define the "best interests of the organization".

Otherwise your take is meaningless.

Is it in the best interests to lose interested and engaged engineers but to save 10% on cloud computing fees?

Is it simply making the most money?

Is it picking a tool you're comfortable with, but is hard to hire for?

Is it accomplishing the "stated objectives" even when those objectives are wrong, or immoral, or illegal?

Basically - unless I have equity (and more than .01 of a %) then the "organization I work for" is ME. I'm managing my time, and renting it out to the current highest bidder. I will absolutely work to ensure that bidder is happy and satisfied with the results of hiring me - but I WILL NOT devalue future earning to do so.
What Is Kaya’s Equation?
I could add them, never used them too.
My fellowship email said 34k/yr plus 10k in tuition. This was for UT.

In terms of expenses? Maybe about 2k/month. Depending on what standard of living you want 600-1400 for rent.

Separately, I was also a TA. This ıs ın the ballpark of 25/hour wıth a 80% tuıtıon rebate. Beıng an undergrad TA only paıd 10/hr wıth no rebate though.

[1] “ monthly fellowship stipend ($2,222) paid to you for nine months during fall and spring ($20,000 value)
· full tuition paid for classes required for your degree for the fall and spring semesters ($10,554 value)
· two payments to you in the amount equal to the premium for student health insurance ($4,000 current value)
· plus, an additional $9,000 engineering fellowship, renewable for three additional years ($36,000 total value)”
Clouds & Sheep 2 on Steam
Format the drive and install Linux.

Windows users complaining about how much they dislike Windows must be a meme by now.

Microsoft will put more effort into Windows when they finally have to compete for market share.
Postgres supports sharding out of the box. The documentation tells you how to do it, using foreign data wrapper and table partitioning.
Thanks for the feedback - I'm the founder at Warp.

There was a ton of discussion on this yesterday with our ShowHN [0] and we are considering what changes to make based on the feedback (some of which are inline with your suggestions).

We do publish all the telemetry we collect here:

https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy#exhaustive-tel...

And we are committed to making telemetry optional when we leave beta.

And it's definitely the case that command input / output are never sent to the server.

Login is a bit trickier as it's hard to build an app that leverages the internet and facilitates teamwork without understanding user identity. But point taken.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231
I've seen this happen on multiple occasions but of course it won't happen for most people.

I suspect that these smaller companies don't really care if copying the industry leaders means they might lose a few of their people to them.
If the actual bid is not going to go your way no matter what, and if possible, just advertise subsidiary products which might be bolt-ons to other projects that the customer may want. That way, you give the sham process a veneer of respectability (which will no doubt be appreciated by both competitors and customer) and still get to raise the customer's awareness of some things that they might actually want to buy from you.
There is a good talk by one of the authors of the X windows system as to why MIT for them was a mistake and how he'd wish they'd used the GPL. One could argue that a copycenter license is really just doing you doing the work of corporations for free, and when it comes time for them to contribute back to the hard work you've done, or to avoid fracturing the community by creating non-free addons, etc.

I agree that there is a lot of open source software, but there is also a pattern of corporations taking what they can and then building their own proprietary walled gardens around it. Most normal people still interact with the world through non-free software, a lot of which spends time spying on them, which is one of the main points RMS makes about why source code should be a right.
ROI of RFPs... It is so depressing for me to spend time on an RFP that I won't do it unless I am 100% convinced the RFP was written for me, because I know the account/people.

It's not just the time spent on it, it's the feeling of powerlessness and wasting time you could be spending on something much more fulfilling.

So much more fun to say "no, I won't bid" after a few emails, with little work behind it.
Nice to hear, thanks for the reply :)
I understand the concept, I'm just asking if anyone has ever actually done it. DynamoDB has various guarantees, features, edge cases etc that you have to be aware of in your app code, and any DB that you want to switch to will have a different set of guarantees, features, edge cases etc that you will have to support throughout your app. So it's more than just an interface.
I think you're stretching it to say the only definition of democracy is one where the people have selected some specific situation. This is problematic on two fronts. One is scale. The other is definitional and presupposes that democracy's only definition stems from the fact that people choose.

Democracy doesn't scale. You need representation. Which makes the question of "what do the people want" very challenging because you go through layers of representation. Definitionally it's a problem which surfaces obviously at the extreme - "if the people want an authoritarian government and they get it, does that mean that that's democracy?". You may think that's absurd yet humanity tends to favor authoritarianism in groups, particularly in moments of crisis and/or being swayed via propaganda (see Julias Ceaser).

I think the nuance that's missing is that you can have objective definitions and measures of democracy which you have dismissed as ""everything I like and want is good and proceeds in a way I'll call democracy" when it's more nuanced.
I have a couple private forks of software that I maintain for one reason or another. I've got a fork of a Discord theme with minor CSS changes I keep around and update once every few months, as well as the GTK app Password Safe with all of it's UI/UX changes pinned the way they were before GNOME took it over. The experience is pretty fine all things considered. I rarely ever need to hop in to change stuff around unless an update is pushed that I really want to ingest, and when it does happen it rarely takes more than an hour to get things sorted out and working again. It's not half as scary as it sounds, really.
They are talking about asymmetric encryption, which is what you always need when communicated with someone else. Symmetric encryptions like AES also work without one-way functions.
On the meta level, we are now at the point where the dubious comments downplaying the AI starts arguing on the plane of art criticism
Proprietary software is a societal ill, like spyware is. Getting people to understand that will be similar to when societies have figured out other things are wrong, like child labor is wrong. While proprietary software runs rampant, certain parts of our overall freedom and privacy has regressed in comparison to before computers, and in comparison to how they should be. It is not a lost cause to think that the software we depend on to live our lives should act in our interests, and having the 4 freedoms on that software is simply an essential part of it acting in our interest.
> 3 pages .... 74 unique services

Just, wat.

Sounds like the architect was doing some resume driven development cause damn.
I use Emacs with Nix, which parses my config for use-package declarations and installs them for me. Emacs packages are pinned the same way as anything else in Nix and, as a bonus, it can also manage non-Emacs dependencies.

I wouldn't recommend Nix just for a reproducible Emacs config, but if you end up considering Nix for broader reasons, being able to use it for Emacs could be a nice bonus :)
OpenSea ‘Sitting on Ticking Bomb’ as Lawsuits Pile Up over Stolen Apes
I don't know where to start with people like you. The west very obviously encouraged ukranian nationalism, which does threaten russian people, and very obviously encouraged Kiev not ro implement the Minsk accords, which provoked the war (together with other factors). Your country indeed did everything it could to prevent Russia from developing: it is called "containing Russia" by the american newspeak.
I don't have the time to deal with the rest of your "views" - it is just an arrogant and mean caricature.
I wrote a general comment in response to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930012
Why? Just so you can tell another developer that there's a compiler transpiling non-standard syntax into function calls that concatenate strings at runtime? While the output HTML that the user sees is exactly the same? That's exactly why I'm calling out to be library vanity. My example is SSR, that's literally the default baseline. It doesn't make a very strong argument to imply my 5 min thing will somehow be worse if only you get to decide what random garbage to add to it to make the alternative look better. E.g. Make hegel types work in the original and then let's talk loss of productivity from arbitrary decisions.

Deployment for a vanilla node.js thing is as simple as adding `node index` as the entry point in your favorite provider (because they all have node.js images these days), I've had such a thing humming along for years. Again, it's really not rocket science.
When I go to the dentist, I'm upfront and tell
them that I get anxious, and I ask them to play
music to distract me.

This works for me too!

In my case, it's not music that helps. I let them know that I'm afraid of the unexpected in a medical setting. I ask them to tell me what they're going to do, before they do it.

Telling them exactly what we need is so good. If we just say "I get anxious" they may be sympathetic but how would they know what to do for us? I feel like a lot of people just state the problem and not their needs.

Even if a dentist is not particularly compassionate, 99.99% of the time human beings just want to get through their work day. And so they're more than happy to make an accommodation (music, whatever) if it helps everybody get through their day more easily. Anxious patients aren't fun for them, either...
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring staff and engineers to digitize the parking industry
In my experience SPAs bring a lot of headaches that you just don't really need to think about with traditional HTML. Browser navigation, form handling, a lot of accessibility stuff comes out of the box for free, and there's one source of truth about what makes a particular object valid or how business logic works (which is solvable in the SPA world but brings a lot of complexity when you need to share logic between the client and the server, especially when they're in different languages).

Frankly out of all the things that make our architecture simple and efficient, I would say server rendered HTML is by far the biggest one.
Tips should be optional. The US assumption of "everyone tips so we can pay waiters $2.13 an hour [0]" is a disgrace.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage
Intent is very important in the law
Do we know if it's being lost at all?
Yeah, given their level of success without marketing expenditure (ie, its likely to be a good product) you have to wonder if they would have been able to multiply that success with some marketing effort.

On the other hand, putting (apparently) 100% of their effort into product is maybe the reason it worked.

I personally think a great product is table stakes for success, but I’m repeatedly shown to be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you still don’t?

Whataboutism tries to argue two unrelated things.

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

> Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument.

“Tommy stole my lunch money.” “What about that time you stole Sally’s pencil?”

That would be whataboutism. It avoids debating the act of stealing someone's lunch money, by instead charging hypocrisy.

Just using the words “what about” doesn’t make it whataboutism.

I used the words “what about” to ask about a subsection of speech: NDAs, National security, illegal content, etc., that is covered by OC's definition of what it means to censor speech. I'm not charging hypocrisy or avoiding disproving the argument, I'm examining OC's claim. In this case "What about" is used to examine pertinent edge cases, and isn't whataboutism.

For example, in a scenario where Bob (US government) has nuclear launch codes he wants to talk about and Sally (domestic terrorist) wants to hear what he has to say, should someone intervene and restrict Bob's speech? By OC's definition, if they do, that is censorship. OC's only conditions are two consenting parties.

> Face it: if you interfere between Sally who writes something she wants Bob to read, and Bob who wants to read what Sally wrote, that's censorship.

Others, like the Supreme Court prefer to say that free speech has limitations that are not covered by the 1st amendment.

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

> The Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment and has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech

> Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment include obscenity (as determined by the Miller test), fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising

So, in the case of two consenting parties discussing nuclear launch codes, OC calls that "censorship", but the Supreme Court says that the speech wasn't protected in the first place.
https://mxuribe.com

There's my personal site. I used to host some blog posts/content, but removed most of them and in earnest stopped posting around 2017...Nowadays really i only keep this around as a sort of page about me. So when people ask me the different ways to contact me, instead of giving them a list of usernames on social media, email address, etc...i just tell them to go to mxuribe.com - which shows the places where i live online, and how to reach me. I would call the site minimal/basic...but really because i lack the energy/desire to enhance the design of the site.
Here at croit.io our devs solve real problems and can not just glue together parts. Of course we do use a lot of them, but the major part is R&D. In fact, we have crazy hard topics to solve where most devs come to their limits. If you are looking for a interesting job and have the right skills, send us your CV.
Scaling for Big Events at Whatnot, with Elixir and Phoenix
> - /bin/python3 is a symlink to /usr/bin/python3

You don't symlink everything in /usr/bin to /bin, just "all regular files that have traditionally been in /bin" (per the article).

python3 has not traditionally been in /bin, so /bin/python3 would not be linked.
The NLE video editor function of Blender also gets good reviews. It can be used independently of the 3D modeling & rendering features.

[0] https://www.blendernation.com/2020/08/30/video-editing-with-...
Make sure you're counting all the sub-processes it spawns (at least on Mac, don't know about linux)
I was about to start writing the exact same thing (you wrote it better than how I would have hehe), but I then saw your post => thank you :)
Anonymous claims Kremlin CCTV hacked
The nazis tried it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn?wprov=sfla1
It's refreshing to read that. There is this whole lot of widely accepted, undeniable truths among entrepreneurs, investors and many others in the ecosystem, and it's really good to meet successful companies which dared to do what they thought they had to, no matter all the buzz around. I wonder how many companies fail for getting too distracted with this truckload of bullcrap. Maybe that's not the main reason, but I believe it's a contributing factor in many failures.
https://hw-ax.github.io/hw.ax/

https://hw.ax by tonight.

Currently Buggy, one single html file (tiddlywiki). Very unfinished and unexplained.

If you have a foss related non profit or project and want to try to raise funds/awareness by having a solo guy hike 300km across Portugal this July, leave a note and I’ll reach out. Forgot to add contact info to the site other than mastodon!

V.0.0.1, shame this didn’t pop up tomorrow when it is much edited and filled in.
Wow, that's quite inspirational, and a testament to having perseverance! Congrats!
Per https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-Rec..., Intel actually contributes (slightly) more to LLVM than AMD does.
Tons of big websites use something quite similar to this for their maintenance pages - pop a page of HTML in a JS function, upload it to a Cloudflare worker, and attach that worker to a wildcard route to catch everything on your domain temporarily when you want users to see your maintenance page. It's a common strategy that works well.
Some people don't even realise how much traffic a simple web app with server side rendering (decently written), hosted on an average dedicated server can hold... They dont need cloud, autoscaling, microservices, kafka, event driven architectures, etc.

We've lost our way in the masked marketing the cloud providers are creating to help us solve problems we will never encounter, unless we are building the next Netflix or Facebook.
It is misleading to call Exor the owner of Ferrari, they hold a 22.9% economic interest [0].

[0] https://www.exor.com/pages/companies-investments/companies/f...
>So even if Russian gas COULD be replaced by LNG tomorrow, in terms of pure volume, it would still not possible to Germany to consume it

Why? Given that Germany has unused North Stream 2 connection to Germany infra they should just build an LNG terminal right where NS2 beaches. An LNG receiving terminal is pretty easy and fast to build.
Sales taxes are city dependent. Even the county can get in on the fun
You are an engineer and not a public health researcher. You are not qualified to give advice on whether consulting a doctor is the right course of action.
On the contrary, I think they've been very effective in avoiding being corrupted and destroyed from within (as is the norm).

It takes a super strong moral foundation to stand firm against the onslaught of corporate commoditization, and the FSF has managed to do it. I know RMS rubs some folks the wrong way, but he's been not only extremely prescient and decades ahead of his time, but THE main reason that the FSF has endured where so many others have failed.

It's a common saying that the FSF is old or promotes an aging philosophy that's not current with the times, usually meant as a stepping stone to some sort of modernization not only in procedures but principles, which is exactly how other projects have been destroyed. Popular appeal may wax or wane, but there can be absolutely no concession in the core philosophy of the FSF. Keep broadcasting an uncorrupted message, and let people tune in [1].

RMS fully understands this and it'll be a sad day when/if he's replaced by someone who doesn't.

[1] A look at the -healthy and invigorated by newcomers- Emacs community is testament that the state of affairs is not dire.
Like toxoplasmosis?