skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed that a few times with people pretending to care about open source but in reality they care mostly about the free as in free beer part.

Not that long ago there was an announcement by GitHub where they talked about adding a feature for developers to monetize their projects. I don't remember what it was exactly but I think it was that you could make the releases only available to people who paid and some people were outraged. This isn't even a new thing, people were selling copies of OSS for decades.

And it's not only about money. There's too much shitting on OSS devs for minor problems. Some project doesn't get updated every day and people just start blasting the dev even though they got the software for free with no strings attached.

I'm not saying you can't criticize but personally I'm a lot more lenient on something I got completely for free, no limits, no contracts.
Well, personally, I keep a lot of windows open on my screen because I work well that way. It's similar to the "cluttered desk" method—it may look messy, but I've got everything available to me and even if you don't know where anything is, I do.

But I recognize that's more of a personal style than general usage.

I've been a Mac user since before the system even had proper multitasking, and the general answer to your question is that we would keep open the applications and windows that were useful to us, sometimes hiding an application that we're not actively using and don't need to have cluttering up the screen. Once Mac OS X came along, we would also minimize individual windows we weren't using—and if you minimize a window, then hide the application that it belongs to, that also hides its minimized windows in the Dock.

Also note that for every application up until a few years ago, and for some applications even now (and dependent on a System Preference setting), you can keep an application open on the Mac without any windows open.
In the US whenever I traveled during the past decade it felt like consumer goods were much more expensive, CAD, AUD, EUR, purchases all felt more expensive. I wonder if part of this is just the weakening of the dollar as the result of US economic policy over the last twenty years.
You really nailed it with that last sentence.
Saw the Prodigy on the tour for "Invaders Must Die", when I thought they were over already, and I was surprised how much I enjoyed the show. Not sure though whether it can still be great with Keith Flint missing.
How ironic considering today that...

>Apple CEO Tim Cook today delivered the keynote speech at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington D.C. The conference, hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, is focused on international privacy and data protection.
You may enjoy this loop of Prelude although the artist didn’t do the whole score
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWFX9D4px8
Yes. Carter got the blame for chemotherapy, Reagan got credit for the recovery.

This time around, who wants to be Carter? Somehow I suspect we will be short of volunteers. Neoliberal propaganda shot itself in the foot. Oops.
These pilots expand the candidate pool.
Russian spies launch cyber attack on Ukraine's electrical grid
Pittsburgh, PA. Every big company here - PNC, UPMC, Highmark, Fedex, Norfolk Southern, Duquesne Light - will pay you $65-70k/year at most. I met an IT director at one of these companies who told me that open source is a communist movement and so he's banned it. The dress code is very relaxed - if you stay late all week you can earn jeans Fridays!

At all of these companies you will be forced to use Internet Explorer 11 and you'll program in a remote desktop Notepad.exe on Windows Server 2012. Doing anything else is explicitly banned. The programming language is a proprietary version of Visual Basic with all the functions renamed and changed slightly so the vendor can control access to the $5k/year documentation, which is still horribly written. You will sign an agreement not to ever ask or answer questions about the language on Stack Overflow too. The vendor of these languages doesn't really exist beyond an email address like "sales@enterprisereadypython.com" - they will gaslight you that this is the real Python and python.org is a scam, "if you're not paying you're the product!". None of your coworkers will know what you're talking about when you mention Git or Linux.
Why does it matter to actual people what the cause is? If you’re poor and gas costs $7 you’re fucked, regardless of whose fault it is.
Maybe you are under the flight path?

My point was that train lines are millions of miles/km and run through the center of settlements, by design. Almost everywhere in the world, unless you live in a suburb or village, you have a high chance that you will hear trains multiple times a day.

I think there are less people under flight plaths than near trains.

I guess it depends on luck how noisy they can be. I used to get woken every night at 2am by one fucker.
Midway through the article I was just thinking, "they should add something to the standard that lets you control which native keyboard is used for a field without all this other semantic baggage"

Lo and behold!

Probably going to use this at work today :)
Do you have any stats on this? As I have read (casually) trucking has been 60-80% of consumer goods delivery (end-to-end), and only in the last 3-5 years has rail started picking up long haul freight, as shipping dry goods like coal has become less lucrative.
i don't have apple watch ect but I do feel my cardio has gone down post omicron.

Curious what metrics from those apps did you use to confirm your hypothesis.
ICE has been accused of performing large numbers of forced sterilizations within camps in US borders.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/immigration-customs-...
journalist's thread: https://twitter.com/GazTheJourno/status/1513840303798636548
This also ties in to the cybernetic concept of the law of requisite variety, where adaptable entities need to be able to compress their sense-data about their environment into an internal model that corresponds in complexity to their need to act - this necessarily involves compression as the totality of reality is effectively infinite and can't fit between your ears.

There's also the Hutter prize that ties data compression directly to intelligence through Kolmagorov complexity.

Information and cybernetic theories cut pretty close to a general theory of intelligence in my opinion!
With many political matters, though, people inherently have to hold positions by virtue of the fact that the issues affect their material interests. You need to remain open in spite of that, but there are also limits to how open one can be when someone else is arguing that you should lose your job or that your health insurance should be able to deny you coverage for care, or maybe that you are culturally or genetically inherently stupid or incapable of self-governance.
>Something you can't really do anymore.

People seem to do this sort of thing pretty often in the Arctic. There's a lot more empty space than some people think.
Not a big component. For example for the retail price of food 4% is for transportation costs. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/44825/7758_err...
In video cat is also falling with same acceleration towards the earth (just surrounding airplane does so as well)
My proposal:

* a type=count which is used for specifying a "count of things". This is the only type that should display arrow up/down as the current type=number does. The arrows must be easy to remove because sometimes add/remove 1 does not make sense. To avoid problems with rounding, browsers must restrict min/max to be +/- 1e15 so the value always fits safely into a double (due to javascript numbers). Some people will have an objection to this, but how many times do you specify a count that is bigger than 1e15? Browsers could present an optimized UI (e.g. a dropdown) when e.g. min=0 and max=10.

* a type=digits which as default allows for digits, dashes, spaces. Useful for creditcard numbers. Having this as distinct type makes it easier to get good keypad on mobile.

* a type=price which is optimized for input for money as the general type might not be good at giving good error responses for "too many decimals". Could have currency as attribute for display on mobile input for countries which use multiple currencies and therefore having this displayed is important.

* a type=int which is used for integers to make it easy to make sure the number is an integer. Current html requires too many attributes for this common task.

* a type=number which is used for any other kind of number.
Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start
America was born out of trauma denial. Denying there's something going on has been a common pattern in our history.
I also am fascinated by the idea of Nemesis [1] — an infrequent event that causes mass-impact throughout our solar system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)
The allied victory was paid in soviet blood. The axis had lost before the first US soldier stepped foot on European soil.

Fuck off with your US white liberal savior complex.
I think this is not an age thing. Tech really did become less cool and the dangers more apparent. For an example from my own life, VR is amazing and every bit as exciting as my first discovery of tech when I was a kid. AI is still making incredibly interesting steps forward. Much of the rest of the industry has calcified. That does not make the colossus of what we have built over the past 80 year less incredible, it's just old news and there is not much novelty to keep up on. Society as a whole has sensed this and has largely moved on from geek is chic.

The drought is going to to be over when a new fundamental shift in platform occurs which will kick off a new generation of startups, frameworks, applications, wonders and terrors.
A nice definition of intelligence I've heard is exactly the ability to form models of the world with predictive power. And a model is essentially a compression of real-world data. Physical laws are a great example of this.
Even better, the six foot rule itself was always a rough approximation of a best guess to reduce really dumb behavior (like getting within inches of each other at a bar and yelling all night type stuff, or huddling around each other), not based off any rigorous analysis of any kind I could find.

Risk decreases significantly with distance, but I’ve found zero scientific evidence that 6 feet is somehow better or fits some set of trade offs better than other numbers (10? 4? 30?).

There has been a lot of cargo cultish behavior, and just dumbness too - like how we got stuck on cloth masks when we could all just be sent properly rated respirators at this point for less (that would be more comfortable AND actually work!) is beyond my ability to comprehend.
This is amazing. Just the other day, I was thinking about how the AOL progs scene set my career in motion before I even knew what software engineer was.

Your archive just gave me my nostalgia fix for the next month. Thanks.
Thanks, it's so reassuring to hear this.
It’s easy to argue that all cross platform C++ GUI libraries suck, but Qt definitely sucks the least.

Yes, sometimes it can be awkward to use, and yes, there are longstanding bugs in Qt itself that remain unfixed. In my opinion, it is still the best C++ GUI library out there. For basic to intermediate GUI apps, it just works, and for advanced use cases, with some effort you can make it do whatever you need.

I write Qt software now and I’d be happy to keep doing so.
2022 HAI Spring Conference on Key Advances in Artificial Intelligence
> Even very poor people have very high standards of material living.

True, but their standard of living is still worse than that of their parents which is what I believe OP is trying to convey.

It's no longer possible for an assembly line worker to own a modest home; care for a stay-at-home-spouse; raise two children; go on a modest vacation once per year; save a little bit to deal with unexpected costs; and retire with a modest pension.

This, more than anything else, is the fundamental cause of division in the US. It's what Michael Moore is highlighting in Roger & Me. It's the—now broken—social contract Gen X and Millennials were raised to trust.

The ideological division we see today existed before the social contract was broken, but most people were too busy living their lives to care.

I haven't looked too closely into this, but I'd bet that the total KKK membership count tracks pretty closely to the amount of economic stress experienced by the median American.
> That's a strange take on Socrates, it makes him sound like he died (intended to die?) for our sins like some kind of Jesus figure. I doubt he'd agree with it.

Much of the Christian narrative about Jesus and the nature of divinity is influenced by Neo-Platonist thought, and Plato did kind of frame Socrates' story in those terms. So it's not that Socrates was a Jesus figure, Jesus was a Socrates figure.
My wife remembers what clothes people wear and the colors of their cars, their houses, and even the shutters on their houses.

I remember what computers people own, what the bread-winners of the family do for a living, and an insane amount of TV and movie trivia.

It's all about what captures your interest.
Energy and food based inflation was already a huge problem before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

There is no monetary phenomenon. It's clear as day on the Fed's balance sheet the reason for inflation. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

If one can't understand why the value of their money goes down as the government buys trillions of dollars of their own debt with non-existent money, I'm not sure how to help.
No? Not even remotely. Even besides buying the parts (which were more expensive and, literally, exponentially less capable), the knowhow and training needed wasn't something you could find on the Internet. Drones didn't exist then, that was a fantasy in 2002. The Internet of 2002 was far, far different from what we have now.
I have spent a considerable amount of time using various apps. I wanted to build better habits and procrastinate less.

The app that helped me was free. It was Google Family link. Using this app, I was able to disable chrome and youtube from my android phone. This did cut down on my procrastinating hours.
I mean this is a forum on the internet, it's not a peer reviewed medical journal. People come here to talk about stuff. Sure, there are guidelines that encourage thoughtful, well written comments to foster an actual discussion, but there's no requirement of being an expert in anything.

I don't think you should be "exhausted" by people making claims on the internet. Just insert the words "I think" in front of any comment that does not already include that, because that is what every comment already means.
Add CRISPR to it.
I saw paper menus disappearing before inflation started going up. I took it as a Covid measure - no physical menus that needed to be disinfected after each customer used them.
Yeesh I feel that way working at a FAANG (or MAGMA or whatever it’s called this week). I’m an expert at our internal systems and platforms, but that’s not a skill that’s transferable anywhere else.
Ask HN: Team member who specializes at updating dependencies in large team/org?
Out of curiosity, in large software teams or organizations, are there developers who specialize in updating dependencies? (The developer can contribute actual code and whatnot, but their top priority would be in keeping dependencies up to date.)

My hypothesis is that, given a large enough team or organization, a large enough number of projects, and a large enough number of dependencies, there may be some benefit in having somebody who specializes in keeping (3rd-party) dependencies up-to-date, in terms of economy of scale and correctness in applying updates.

If you have 10 projects that use the same dependency (let's say django-rest-framework), would it be better to have one person who spends time really grokking the release notes and adapting the codebase for breaking changes? If you know how to update django-rest-framework for one project, you probably know how to do it for another project, right?
Automatic indemnification of children is the tool that oppressors worldwide use to transfer wealth. It is limited but useful.

For instance, I can’t steal a million dollars and give it to my son and have him get away with it.

However, I could put Japanese Americans in internment camps, getting their homes when they don’t really want to sell and go live in a camp, and then if sufficient time passes and my kids have now inherited the home, they can keep it! Indemnity!

Personally, at some particular age, I intend to use this tool to juice my grandkids chances at life. When I’m old enough I should commit some crime that can be exploited in this manner. The problem is it isn’t scalable. I don’t want one house. I want many. But I have 40 years to figure it out.
Every technology that was once revolutionary and exciting, eventually becomes mainstream and standard. The first cars and planes were cobbled together by some geeks in their garage, but now it's a pretty boring industry. Every new technology goes through that same pattern, but if there's one technology that has the potential to keep itself constantly renewing, it's software. Because it's much more flexible than hardware. The trick is finding the new revolutionary ideas to keep it exciting, and that's not what most of the Big Tech companies are doing; they figured out what makes money for them, and that's advertising. But there's probably a lot more that we can do with this tech, we just haven't figured it out yet. But figuring that out is definitely getting harder; all the low-hanging fruit has already been taken care of.
If you use gmail you can attach + to your mail address.
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
This ignores the rest, you can program, cancel, block your emails based on that pattern. Works well enough.
I agree. To see the process of prices deflating happen on a small timeline, look to Japan. After Japan realized their cost of doing business was going to rise due to aging, their markets crashed in the 90s. In response they poured epic levels of investment into mobilizing offshore workers and completely recovered. The lesson the world took away was "money isn't real, maybe we should take on more debt".

Ironically here in the US the party of "trash international trade to increase local workers' bargaining power" is also the party of "keep retirement age the same at all costs and maintain fixed income QOL".

As we see globalization unwind from international policy and as working populations age (China peaked @ ~1 billion workers, and is declining), we are guaranteed to see prices rise as workers can demand much, much more (to the dismay of those on fixed income).

I think it'll be interesting to see this unholy coupling tear apart.
Ex-Garmin engineer here. There are pockets of the company that use Android, and a bunch of the larger-scale systems have moved to using embedded Linux with Yocto.

The proprietary RTOS that runs on the watches is a super cool embedded system dating back to the earliest days of the company. It grew across all the product lines - watches, nav units, aviation equipment, marine chartplotters/sensors, etc. I remember once stumbling on some code written in the very early days by an engineer who went on to be the CEO while I was there.

It was a fun system to work on, and had an impressive amount of code sharing at the OS-level across platforms as tiny as Cortex M0 systems up to large multi-core ARM SoCs from TI and other vendors.
This is great news. Just made me realizer we are building the zapier for healthcare. Its a fairly new product, but this puts a label on the beast.
Yes, but we're not talking about IP and this misses the point.

Kubernetes, as a technology, has support tooling being built around every interface it has.

Just to install Kubernetes you've got Kubespray, Kops, kubeadm, minikube, or you can choose from a smattering of managed Kubernetes options.

For performance you've got cAdvisor, and you probably need to export those metrics somewhere like Prometheus/Grafana.

Then there's Helm, which is yet another abstraction over deployments to Kubernetes, which is SUPPOSED to be the thing Kubernetes simplifies.

And let's not forget about Rancher. Can't run one Kubernetes cluster, because security and other reasons. So let's simplify running ten of them.

I can't think of a single other technology that was built to ostensibly simplify things, only to be completely enshrouded by support tooling.
Working the line in a fine dining restaurant. I did it previously, and prefer it greatly, but the pay just can't compare.

I've also considered teaching software dev at a community college as an alternative/partial retirement job eventually.
In looking at the Founder Advisory board, I was surprised that all of these companies have dedicated roles/teams focused on climate/sustainability.

Very cool to see and hopefully a sign there will be more leadership on climate coming from the business community.
In the incredible story "Funes the Memorious" the eponymous Funes has an absolutely perfect memory, but is functionally mentally handicapped.

He can't even abstract to the existence of "trees" because he can recall and diff all of the details of every tree he's ever seen.

He can't even identify that he's seen a particular tree before, because he can diff how different it looked in a particular configuration of leaves and shadows because of different wind and cloud cover
uh, you got a careers page? :)
Are you kidding me? Now is like the most exciting time in tech.
1. You have Dall-E coming out that can draw pictures based on description. Just imagine a AI generated story then followed by AI generated pictures based off of the story aka AI generated movie.
2. You also got Co-pilot by Github with possibility of reducing bug in code and speeding up develop time.
3. AlphaFold for drug development.

Personally, I like where tech is headed. Hope I can be on the frontier of some of these new tech.
Well speaking about the last 15 years, so 2007 to today, for me it was the same as modern clouds - register, add a credit card, order a server, few minutes later the root password arrives in e-mail. And oldschool LAMP webhosting is basically serverless cloud.

Edit: Actually I remember using actual cloud provider back in 2008 - it was called Virtualmaster, one of the first cloud providers in central EU. They offered a free (!) VPS with 256 MB RAM and 1/4 CPU - I had a minimalist Debian image that allowed me to run full LAMP stack on it and an IRC client in tmux session.

Another cool central EU provider was 4smart. Their offering used to be that you only paid for resources you actually used - but for VMs. If you consumed only 10MB RAM, you only paid for that. I had servers cheaper than 1 EUR/month running continuosly with their own IPv4 there. They changed the pricing structure after few years.
It's a Business Where You Never Know
It might be a token problem but I think it's important to put this on the map for people to even realize it's a problem.

Also, trains (in large parts of Europe anyway) run on electricity only of which a significant chunk is from nuclear power, which doesn't emit anywhere near as much CO2 to move as many people as a plane would.

And the noise. trains are so quiet compared to planes.
Can you name a charity which doesn’t cover its costs and manages to keep operating?
Use https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ then...
Fig. A: everyone can see that collective guilt is wrong

Fig. B: In the past, most whites were racist.

Ah, I can see why you're a NYT bestseller.
This headline may be "wrong" in your eyes but this is the way that inflation is universally reported. Even finance centric news sites such as Bloomberg or WSJ report inflation in this way. It is universally understood to mean year ending.