skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the spiritual part. Many people get wisdom, inspiration, etc. from the Bible. But people who use the Genesis timeline to calculate the age, composition, and shape of the earth, or the emergence of living species, are considered fringe in the U.S. In New Zealand, similar traditions coming from the Maori are considered unassailable dogma, and skeptics are regarded as heretics to be condemned.
I used it on windows and it had a chat feature. It's how I learned about the band Yellow Magic Orchestra from some random person that I'll never meet again.
I only posted it because I happen to hear it on a podcast and found it interesting. I don't really care about whether my thread "strikes gold". I have enough HN gold already.
How can that be seen at Tesla and SpaceX, two companies that he started (more or less), an neither of which is in a "solidly profitable state"?
I'm so tired of hearing this.

If your boss is a competent business person, you would be insane not to ask for counter offer. This way I got a 50% bump last year. No hard feelings, and nothing has changed.

I received an offer, and my employer has beat it. If they only matched I would probably still leave.

Your suggestion is a weird behavior. Just be direct. We are in tech and don't need to beat around the bush. I can quit my job tomorrow and start a new job next week.
They were Russian nukes. Yes, they were sited on Ukraine land, but Russia had the keys and controlled them. Ensuring they were disposed of was a decent option.

Later on, not deterring Putin, and actually encouraging him by showing massive weakness/ineptitude - that is inexcusable.
I don't know if things changed now but I was reading an article about when the the military funded the development of GPS and it was run on quite a tight budget with fierce competitions among competing groups. And it still funded some of the most brilliant engineers and scientists to work critical problems like how make a tiny atomic clock with low power to win in a satellite.
Or use vendoring:

https://go.dev/ref/mod#vendoring
Time off for illness! That's nice. I wonder if one of the HR scribes tracked the days every person took off in an analog ERP system. Scribes seemed important, maybe they outsourced the basics to contractors.
Is there a universal json normalizer (to csv for example) that doesn't require learning a terse language?
Got it. Now that you said, I did remember reading a few app notes. There was one written by TI regarding ALL their chip X (IIRC it's a RAM chip) that did speak about how to protect the Vcc by connecting a capacitor as a best practice.

Thanks! Yeah I probably should read more of those app notes. I'm mostly interested in digital though.
Powershell's object pipes are more inspectable than any of Bourne's text-based decendants. But the tool itself occupies a niche between "write shell, dealing with esoteria of grep/sed/awk/jq/etc" and "write python getting constructs than handle complexity better than pipes".

Looking at the popularity of VSCode, I don't think Microsoft hatred blocks its adoption.
Yep, same here. I mean maybe you don't do it again, but doing it once has a lot of benefits beyond money.
> the wokes will protest no matter what. even if he gives them 500k bonuses

I won't comment on your first sentence. But your second makes it seem like you believe that everyone is motivated primarily by money. A good amount of people just want to make the world a better place.
Some spies working at twitter was news
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

So wouldn't even surprise me much
Sadly, looks like no: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/issues/521

"Windows Hello uses the two IR emitters to generate a 3D image of your face, and is much more secure. To do this Hello lights up your face with the left emitter on even frames, and uses the right emitter on odd frames. This lights up your face in slightly different angles, which is not possible to be faked by simply printing a 2D photo.

Unfortunately Howdy does not have control over these IR emitters and can't use this process"
Don't just downvote for presenting contradictory evidence to the general sentiment.

Please provide proof to refute the argument and create constructive discourse & criticism to discover the truth.
I meant with services and philosophy not just and look and feel. You can make kde look like macos if you want as well for appearance.
But they could just as easily spend that money to create those jobs in repairing, maintaining and building infrastructure. Or education. Or health care. Or dozens of other things that would benefit Americans more than the ability to kill people in distant countries.
But it is easier, for them.

Easier, as a universal claim, is hard to establish - you'd need to do user studies. Easier in the author's opinion is normal usage, and their opinion is as good as anyone else's. They gave a reasonable justification.

I kind of think you'd need to use both tools to have an informed opinion about which you think is easier. But most of us aren't going to do that, which is fine.

I think having strong opinions about which is easier without trying them both is weird, though.
At time of writing, their status page now appears to be nonfunctional.
Wrap the opening to your shoes in socks. That let's them get air and keeps critters out.

Source: kept camel spiders, scorpions, and mice out of my boots.
The Twitter management receiving a $40M payout if terminated for a poor job? Aka, Parag Agrawal.
If you're going to that level you should also consider your phone always compromised and unsuitable for running a banking app. Humans got by without them for a long time.
I am glad I did not join them last year when I had the chance. Went for a FAANG instead. I see pure chaos for the foreseeable future.
This diatribe is meaningless without a comparison to an alternative and its trade offs.
Here's where I'm at in my musical endeavors:

- I have world-class equipment (a Nord Stage 3 among other things) that has radically changed my perception of sound, which is both a good and a bad thing. The positive is I'm becoming much more precise and subtle, and the negative is I'm often distracted by the new depth of sound and technology

- I'm aware of when I feel inclined to practice, when I feel inclined to compose, and when I feel inclined to improv and have fun

- I crave novelty and variety more than consistency

As a result, my current strategy is to build a library of simple patterns, like a chord progression, a melody, a beat, a specific sound.

When I feel inclined to practice, I'll choose a key and find a pattern to repeat and explore. Maybe I'll change the sound or the tempo, and explore that pattern. Maybe I add a layer, which branches into its own pattern. I also do this with lyrics.

Over time, I expect that many of these patterns will converge into actual tracks. It's happening already - I'll combine some lyrics with a melody and a beat and suddenly I'm inspired to create more layers.

I'm in no rush to produce or publish anything; I have only a handful of hours a week set aside for music. But I know those hours are well spent, and in the future, I know I will continue to grow and develop as a musician and a writer. At that point I'll certainly experience the inevitable loop of "is this good enough to publish?"

And once I reach that point I suppose I'll release a Christmas song and probably call it "my antithesis."
Yes. This matches to what was thought (at the time? I'm not sure if research has changed the thinking on this) to be the size of human working memory.

7 ± 2 was believed to be about how much a human could understand with zero layers of abstraction, i.e. "in parallel" (you can imagine your brain has 7 ± 2 registers, though that's a highly inaccurate model). Any larger, and your brain has to build abstractions to reference the item (i.e. item 10 becomes "the last item in the second half of that honkin' huge menu").
Hi Chris

Do you see by the end of 2022, Rails being able to run on TruffleRuby?
I had a call with a recruiter a few months back who said that the highest commissions were for Rails devs.
Legal, maybe. Ethical? Not to me. Think of it this way: would you tell your employer you were planning to work two jobs, and put in the minimum effort into them? Would you be above-board and transparent about your conflicting responsibilities and schedules? If not, you're committing fraud: "intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value." (The value, in this case, is the fruits of your labor.) And fraud is most certainly unethical, even if not illegal in this case.

Employees trade their hours for the company's money. If you want to trade deliverables for money, you have to be a contractor on a deliverable-based contract. It's a lot riskier, which is why it pays more... sometimes. If you are in a full-time job, and not putting in full-time hours, you're defrauding your employer.
This is unrelated to the argument but using references that aren't references made that really confusing to read.

In any case, what I meant by the "economics" of it is that in general a person can only afford to work for free for so long before they need to pay bills, eat, have and/or acquire a standard of living that isn't poverty. If they have a day job where they are writing this software in their free time, how long can they do this before burning out?
To re-iterate, for me its not really about the potential for abuse, its more about expectations. You can abuse anything (though I'd also argue that signed packages from companies like RedHat and Canonical are usually up to a higher standard than the random Shell script plucked from the internet.)

If someone places a shoe box on your doorstep you might expect shoes to be inside. Of course, there's a non zero chance its full of bees. But shoes are a reasonable guess.

If someone places a cardboard box on your doorstep with no writing on it whatsoever, there's no expectation about whats in the box. (Unless you hear the bees buzzing from a distance.)
The original comment I responded to was complaining about how the Google/Apple duopoly leads to a "pick your poison" situation and the user hostility. My recommendation was to into Google-free Android distros that can be used and do not require big compromises in terms of usability.

Your interjection came off as one that could provide the same level of usability and no compromises on the freedom aspect. It's only now that you are backing off on the claim by adding the caveat that you can use it as a daily driver.

> Adoption of Free Software without using it on the phones will not help anyone.

AOSP is free-software. F-Droid only distributes free-software. So why did you feel the need to interject about

> I also don't see how one is a "radical shift" while the other is "gradual steps".

The amount of people that could be interested in using /e/OS with F-Droid is orders of magnitude higher than the amount of people interested in tinkering with "Pure FOSS, GNU/Linux".

"Google Android -> AOSP + closed apps + f-droid" is a much easier adoption curve than "Google Android -> GNU/Linux"
I'm having trouble imaging an "ineffective behemoth", but you seem like the person that puts the d in dictionary, so I'll defer to your wisdom.
On the surface Musk's preferences would appear to be that way, but appearances can be deceiving. Would you be surprised if Musk introduced mandatory digital ID to use Twitter? A sugar-coated limited handout of freedom, combined with the digital ID medicine the globalists have been demanding wouldn't be surprising.

If you read his comments carefully, this interpretation isn't far-fetched.
Same. I had a OnePlus 5T and now I am on a Moto Edge.
In this case though the "other sides" definition still is ephemeral. In the context of gender, what is a woman? It's easy to say "woman is a gender identity" but thats a categorization, not a definition. There's no official or formal definition (that I can find) which defines the "other sides" usage of woman.

Side note:
I dislike using "other side" or making it too partisan an issue. I know 99% of people make it a political issue but I'm really hoping that here on hackernews we can discuss this civilly from a more neutral position.
This is the critical distinction. I can process most of the anti-vax stuff going on, etc., by thinking about how people in my dad's village in Bangladesh would react to things. At the end of the day, folks in rural Georgia who think the government wants to tag you with an Obama chip have a lot less power than the professors at Ivy League universities that mint almost all of our economic and political elites.
A fact I have always found baffling about most tech companies.

You read on here: it is just tales of giga, 10x programmers...I only work at companies with sufficient technological prowess, 7 figures, I expect my workplace to be staffed with those of similar intelligence to myself, Ivy League PHds only, send me full resumes of everyone who will be on my team, I only deal with problems that are world-changing...on and on.

You read financial statements: inept management, no controls, massive staff expenses, development budget is usually totally out of whack with revenue, growth in staff faster than revenue, struggle to develop new features (despite a relatively simple product), over-engineered, bloated maintenance...on and on.

Financial statements don't lie (the consistency between these two stories is: most engineers are massively overpaid, they aren't good at doing useful things, many tech companies have monopoly products, they then hire lots of engineers who do nothing but bloviate about how influential they are).

In the case of TWTR, comically mismanaged company. I don't know where the bloat is but Dorsey isn't someone who should be running a listed company (and has crashed and burned several times at Twitter alone). The guy who he appointed was an obvious stooge who was clearly not up to it. If nothing else, hopefully Musk will put them back on an even keel (I don't Musk is a good exec either, but this job is far simpler than Tesla so hopefully he will bring them back to an even keel).
I feel a connection to the guy who missed work "absent with the scribe". I know it was probably something important, but a scribe writing "that guy is excused, he was with me" makes me think of those times my boss took me for lunch and paid with the corporate card.

(Of course, I'm assuming the scribe wrote this)
What a wild time to be a Twitter employee. If I was there right now I'd consider it a 6 month vacation (while fully paid and vesting) then either quit or wait for the inevitable layoff.
I'm sure I'm not the only person that got fed up with occasionally needing to do something more advanced and just finding the JQ incantations inscrutable.

Also prob not the first to create a project for personal use that just wraps evals in another language haha: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsling
Thanks for this link, exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. The lineageOS site is kind of impossible to use for that purpose - it uses random names that don't have anything clearly to do with the device
Yes, I don't like either party and I think they are corrupt, what do you suggest?
Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html

There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/
Sony have a long way to go to convince people they care about game preservation. But this could be a good small first step
Tesla made 5B in profit last year and is on track to double that number this year.
>LineageOS's first priority isn't security - it's freedom.

But, importantly, they also care about security, and you'll get security updates faster and more often than with the vendor's stock ROM.
I wouldn't have wanted to work at Twitter as it previously existed, but I'm curious now. I think Musk could be a better leader of the company. And I might like to be part of the changes that are coming even if I disagree with some of them. Any idea how someone could get in the queue to be hired at the new Twitter?
NES controllers have 4 buttons. SMS controllers have 2 buttons each, but some games, like Alex Kidd & Wonder Boy required you to also use the pause button on the console itself.

I agree you don't need a slew of buttons for a good game, but a lot of that design space has been explored already. I've seen some clips of the games in action, and it doesn't look like anyone is really using the crank or accelerometer in fun enough ways (after all, accelerometers have been on AAA console controllers for a while now and are relatively underutilized). I know this is subjective though :)
> you’d pick a clown over someone who literally revolutionized physics?

Seriously? Clowns in your town start revolutions in manufacturing, energy, space travel, worldwide comms, etc.? Well if you consider how many things he's juggling at a time, he may actually be a circus performer. A darn good one - the best perhaps, given that he has also created jobs for 100K+ people in the world.
Reminds me - why was Twitter never considered a FAANG? FATNAG, etc.
Bolt FINANCIAL, not Bolt the Uber clone from Estonia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)
A few developers of the original Napster for Mac client usually hung out on FORTYoz’s (RIP) Badmoon Hotline server (e.g. catalyst). My teenage self always had fun watching them work through some problem they were facing.

On a side note, the https://hx.fortyoz.org link still works (although it points to a mostly outdated clone of ror’s original hxd).
There are several YouTube mirrors around. Clipmega and Tubidy come to mind
friendly reminder: do not use facial authentication (or biometrics), ever.

in a US court of law, things like blood and biometrics are NOT protected by the fifth amendment. law enforcement can (and have) compelled submission of fingerprints and faces to unlock devices. this includes immigration and customs officers demanding credentials from foreign nationals.

complex passphrases however are protected under the fifth amendment, and are much more secure overall.
Here is a list of open source projects that should update their git.io URLs, ranked in order of popularity: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+https://git....
Wouldn’t call the typical SW career “little or no reward”
Thanks for the comments and questions. I'll do my best to answer them.

> Are things hosted on some other cloud provider, if so where? What region?

Our core platform is currently hosted on DigitalOcean in the London region. That will expand to multiple regions and multiple providers over time. We did start that way many years ago but with a small team it's hard to manage.

> What about uptime? If I end up building an application with all of these APIs, I do need a bit more confidence that things will be stable.

We want to be able to provide uptime guarantees in the near future. Right now I'll say based on our experience running it in the past 9-12 months it's feeling like four 9s verging on 5 but I don't want to jinx us. We are dependent on our providers but we're also people who have managed platforms for many years.

> the crypto endpoint looks interesting, but for me, it would be quite crucial to know where the data is from? How often is it updated?

Our crypto APIs are currently powered Finage.co.uk. We do some level of caching on our side but only for 5-10 mins. I'll try add some details around that in the overview. You can see the source at https://github.com/micro/services

> For the "Google" endpoint, I'm missing the option to select mobile or desktop results, and also what's the default region? Is this done via a headless chrome instance running somewhere, or just curling results? Do I have to worry that your IPs will be blacklisted by Google if there are too many queries?

This is using Google's custom JSON query API. It's pretty limited but we also started with a very simple usecase. You're the first to ask for anything more advanced and that's how we'd look into it. So happy to dig in more and see if we can work on it.

> And a random idea for the "Comments" API it would be great to combine it with the "Spam" endpoint that's available for emails.

Thanks will look into it!
> I feel like we’re a long ways from escaping this vulnerability.

I both agree and disagree with this in some ways. I think the potential to escape is better than ever before. The concern is more about the culture and the people for me.

We have a very minimal vendor footprint with our B2B banking product (out of regulatory & market necessity). The only 3rd party software we depend upon aside from Microsoft's .NET framework stack is currently sqlite.

For web-facing properties, we mostly just roll vanilla javascript. The latest web standards are incredible and you are really doing yourself a disservice by hiding from what is sitting out on MDN right now. We don't even need to use crap like jquery anymore.

You are right about the "Eternal September of Bootcampers". Even guiding some curious friends down the path I was unable to keep them away from the dark alley peddlers of quick fixes and other ready-made software.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. If housing is both a safe and high-returning investment, why wouldn't corporations literally buy up as much as possible? Nobody expects retail stock investors to beat professional stock investment corporations at their own game, why is housing different?
Every company has some skeletons in the closet. But what would incentivize any new owner to reveal them?
Yeah but to where?
They’re omitting mentioning that this practice is often accompanied by “smuggling” / tariff evasion. Pretty key omission.
Not just the Vietnam war, but a lot of political questions aren't really scientific. We can of course use science as (often good) argumentation, but fundamentally many political topics aren't scientific questions.

A simple example would be to say that extra policing of certain ethnic groups would reduce crime rates. Purely empirically this might be correct, but there is a broad consensus that this is also morally wrong.
How is that questionable? Isolating to one relevant treatment per group is a standard procedure.
Not necessarily; I fired up some old devices last month, and the way their bitmap icons and apps and screens appeared, can only be defined as "Crips" and "Sharp". I'm not saying prettily or beneficially so! But they were definitely very stark and constrasty (let alone colourful and "stand-out-ish"!) holding them next to my modern phone or PC.

I don't think "Vector vs bitmap" is necessarily the cause - more of design sensibility. When I look at the lineup of google apps on my phone which all look EXACTLY the same (3 primary colours in random rotation; I can only effectively use / distinguish them if I memorize location of icon), and then the same as slack and my son's daycare app which also use swirls of same 3 primary colours; and when I compare my Windows desktop and icons and browsers to old apps - there's a definite brutal sharpness to old stuff.
I believe it should be "woken" not "wokes".
Tesla is profitable: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/20/23031976/tesla-q1-earning...

As SpaceX is privately held we don’t really know.
Wow. Thanks for the headsup! I’ll have to look into this.
jq is a great tool, but my favorite alternative, by far, is jello and the libraries the author has created around it https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Hotline was full of warez and such, but it was also home to a number of vibrant, welcoming communities. I was a little bit late to the BBS heyday, but Hotline served that purpose for me and for many others. There was one called REALbasic Cafė centered around a commercial cross-platform programming language that I spent a lot of time it. I even attended conferences with other members, flying across the country alone as a high school kid. I have nothing but fond memories of Hotline.