skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed I do. Bought a copy at my university and used it for Economics assignments.

It was a fair amount on work - I certainly could have hand-written answers more quickly. But I think I got a bump because profs liked not having to decipher my ChiWriter output, which was probably welcome after marking 100 handwritten submissions.

[edit: fixed a typo]
It's not too late to change that, you are young. Social life can take effort to get rolling, but once it does things can change pretty quickly and it becomes fun to look forward to hanging out with friends. There are a lot of people at meetups who mainly just want to meet other people. Most people have some area where they have something interesting to say about, just try to find that. Find a meetup that interests you. Talk a bit, find out someone likes to do something you enjoy or think would be fun (sports, museum, music event, etc) and ask them to do that activity with you sometime. Being positive and friendly helps people want to be around you.
I have worked as a compiler engineer for 10+ years. Maintaining a high performance JIT compiler for a Haskell inspired language used in production by large corporations around the world. And I have never had a need to use attribute grammars. I am sorry to say this but almost all compiler PhD work I have seen or read about is not useful for writing real production compilers.
your second sentence seems entirely unrelated to your first
Yes, don't spend time on books you don't feel like. That is a good rule.. don't be afraid to.give up a book early and find a better one.
Ruby Under a Microscope - https://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
Interestingly, this list mostly covers desktop applications and social media. There's a couple of outliers, like Linux, the Siri and Google translate alternatives, but I noticed many missing categories. Relational databases, accounting & tax preparation, CRM, document management, and so on.
Also somewhere must still have a folder of scripts to bulk register ICQ accounts and send free SMS
If you’ve listened to Tyler Cowen, he seems to have a deep erudition about a broad range of topics. Maybe most people can’t pull it off, but he can.
Nice, a server written in Elixir with Go frontend.

Somehow I suddenly trust bima a whole lot.
> I think space colonization will be similar to European Colonialism but only for the Solar System.

I think not. European Colonialism for the Solar System will be the first phase of becoming a race of people in tin cans.

When travel takes more time than building a working economy at the destination, it makes more sense to learn how to live a traveler's life then how to terraform planets to replicate Earth.

Just think about it. Space ship traveled for tenths of thousands of years and has reached it's destination. Who are the people on the ship? They are for many generations lived on a space ship. When they were kids they heard stories about living under an open sky on an outside of a spherical surface in a gravity well, but it is all like fairy tales. Not because they are false, but it is a shadow of an ancient memory. No one experienced this first hand, and no one talked with people experienced it. It is like Bible's stories, but even further in time.

So the question is: will these people think it is a good idea to leave space ship to try to build a fairy tale? They were content with living in a tin can not just for generations, but for whole epochs. Why they suddenly change their mind and decide that living under an open sky would be better than in a tin can?

I think that there will be different opinions, so some people will jump to building a fairy tale, while others just chill a little here near the star, and then move away from it, to a life free from all this solar wind wearing down the outer shell of their ship.

If humanity wants space colonization, then it needs to think about space ships where hundreds of thousands or millions of people can live. And these people pretty much will be space-ship people, believing that it is the true way to spend a life.
> Can you please point to the exact time in the video where he mentions multiple tries?

I was referring to what you wrote. You said that there's no reason that there weren't multiple tries to get the universe just right to support life. I'm saying that's a metaphysical claim you just made, which is outside the realm of science, which is the point the presenter was making.
Technically it's not difficult (with some research) - buy transit DIAs from local providers, get some IP resources, peer, and lay fiber or build out fixed wireless.

I suspect the hardest part is regulatory, and doing customer service.
In many cases I use opensource. In a few instances I want a company that supports their products, makes bug-fixes, and is responsive to the concerns and needs of my company. In yet other cases, I need to prove the utility and deterministic longevity of software without philosophical arguments. Yes, much software that is opensource is not as good as for-profit software.
I have thought this for a while. Open Source/Free software is like the Jason Voorhees in those old Friday the 13th movies (although with more positive effects). Sure you can outrun him for a while, but he is unstoppable and while you tire, he never will.

The economic factors that can undermine a closed-source project, and that seemingly inevitably will undermine most closed-source projects one day, have little to no effect on an open source one. An open source project just needs developer mind share and users, and it can go on indefinitely. And it doesn't need a lot. Maybe just 5-10 developers and a 100 users or so and it will keep progressing. And with a global developer and userbase to draw from, that is not a hard number to achieve.

Just look at Haiku OS.

https://www.haiku-os.org/

That project by all rights should be dead. But 20 years have passed and it is still very much alive. And it keeps getting better. And one day who knows.
Absolutely it is
I was kind of hoping this would talk about sharpening the chunky rectangular carpenter/construction pencils.

It's still super awkward whenever I find myself sharpening one with a utility knife. I seem to waste a lot of the pencil.
I'm more surprised this is a question in 2022
Why would i go away, it's warm over here, i can feel the heat, it's building up, the end is near, everything will be okay
There's a reliable test for predicting the success of failure of open source software: "Does it directly interact with users?"

If the answer is yes, OSS has mostly been an alternative option but not the first choice. (With all due respect and deference to the work put in by OSS GUI teams!)

If the answer is no, and especially if it's a shared need but not the primary product (e.g. kernel, web server, intermediate processing step), then OSS has taken over the world.
> Two things become clear with this chart... Second, the trend is downward

Um... No. The "trend" is due to the fact we don't know the future.

Seriously, it takes about 7-10 years for a OS project to take off, so you won't be seeing the 10 year replacements for proprietary software from 5 years ago.

The "trend" looks like more of a random distribution which narrows as it gets closer to the present.
Apple M1 is great performance per watt and great marketing on the internets, but that's it. MacOS limits what a computing enthusiast can do. Virtualization and docker do not work great on M1.

PC is a little worse in perf/watt, but you can install any OS you want and tweak anything you want. And get much more RAM and disk space for the same buck. For serious computing professional, PC wins big time.
The principal question, is whether or not there are any Google or Amazon equivalents. Nearly all of the late 90's internet startups went bust, in many cases after spending a lot of startup money and accomplishing little. However, there were a few that had viable business models. The question of whether or not any of the cryptocurrency companies today actually have a viable business model, is still open. One could perhaps imagine Block (formerly Square) finding a way to survive, and making crypto some part of that.

So, if a couple of crypto companies manage to survive: there is no difference. If not, the difference is that it was an "emptier" bubble than the .com one.
Well, until you want to run Photoshop or Ableton.
What you really miss is social aspects of school or work environment where you could form meaningful connections with others without being stunted by corporate politics or ever growing list of sensitivities in society that gatekeep discussions of anything people actually care about. Otherwise similar functionality still exists in corporate tools. You can certainly chat with your workgroup or individual members, and corporate directory usually has a place to type in what you are working on. Plus others don't cause your processes to slow to a crawl by running CPU or I/O intensive workloads. Technology is not what needs fixing in this picture.
> If you accept the idea of the "war on drugs"

I don’t think it’s a right way of framing it. It’s not about acceptance. If you look at the statistics on consumption, harm suffered from abuse or how the illegal trade is doing between highly repressive countries and countries which have legalised drugs or don’t jail consumers but try to help them kick their addiction, you can factually say that the “war on drugs” is an abject failure leading to more harm than good like prohibition before it.

The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is probably the most harmful thing the USA ever did to the world.
And so is any other argument to attempt to explain what was before the universe. Those are outside the realms of science. And furthermore, just because something is not falsifiable does not make it untrue. We exist in this world after all, so something had to have happened at the start.

I posted that lecture as an intro to broaden people's perspectives. It is then a proof by induction to reach the correct religion that explains our world. Some signs are summarized on www.provingislam.com. There are lots of great scholars who have presented many proofs on the matter.
What's the problem you're trying to solve?

It's perfectly fine as an outsider to try to break into an unfamiliar industry, even a mature one. But what is it exactly you want to accomplish?

Electrical power generation is a mature industry. So what's the problem with the industry you think you can fix? What's your idea for something that isn't already being done?
GIMP is a good alternative to Photoshop for someone like me, who is not a professional designer, just someone who needs to touch up an occasional picture. So what GIMP has done is removing my "need" to run an illegal copy of Photoshop (a practice I really hated and stopped with a long time ago). If I'm a professional user of anything, I should be ready to pay for it. Else hard to claim I'm a professional.

What the article should acknowledge is the difference between an alternative and the shift of which tool is... the gold standard.
Bro YouTube comments have never had any value other than maybe financial value for the content creators
If you are in the US, read FERC Order 2222. Seriously.

https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/E-1_0.pdf
From TFA:

> People feel compelled to finish books they’ve started – that’s just a tax on your reading. Why would you do that to yourself?

He clearly doesn't finish "five or ten books a day". It also sounds like he doesn't read a single book until it's done. He hops from book to book, even if they're good books. I've heard a lot of people do that. On an episode of Would I Lie To You, Victoria Coren Mitchell said she's in various states of completion on 7-8 books at a time.

If you want a laugh, here's the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbSBjuoVE4
I meant a modern GUI oriented OS that's stable (see glibc 2.36 breaking EAC and other apps*) and nice to develop for.

Compatibility with Windows or POSIX would be amazing but not required.

* Yeah, I get it. Changing from `DT_HASH` to `DT_GNU_HASH` had to happen at some point. Backwards compatibility is a real chore, and not what glibc maintainers bound themselves to.
> If such proof existed then that would be the biggest scientific breakthrough i

You still continue to conflate science with God who exists outside the realms and is not bound by the laws of our world. He created logic, it does not apply to him. When He revealed to us his attributes, we are not ones to question whether they make sense to us or not.
Google has its own API that you can ping for individual URLs too. For WordPress sites with Yoast this happens automatically when publishing or updating posts
Similar, the original MS Ergo Keyboard. In my nostalgic mind with no way to confirm, I think was the best of all.
It's a joke, but I do have questions in general about "Certified Non-GMO" versus "Modern day bananas, corn and tomatoes look nothing like they did 400 years ago". There are some types of genetic modifications that are considered "natural" and "OK" and somehow there are others that are "artificial" and "scary", but damned if I know which are which.
> For a lot of us, it makes our skin crawl, our face burn and our heart do weird things.

> EVERY DAMN TIME I DRIVE BY THE YOGA STUDIO ON SUNSET THAT SAYS NAMASTE L.A. IT DRIVES ME BATTY.

These are not normal reactions. These people would probably benefit from professional help. And for their own mental health, they should avoid travelling to India because signs saying Namste, complete with a Anjali mudra icon are very common here.

> Today, among Hindi speakers throughout the world, namaste is a simple greeting to say hello.

Most Hindi speakers say Namaskar not Namaste. And that is ignoring more rustic greetings like Ram Ram.

> In South Asia, namaste is mostly heard in Hindi-speaking areas.

Namaste and Namaskar are used by Bengalis, Marathis, Telugus and Kannadigas with small variations in pronunciation. If you're going to whine about inaccurate generalisations, at the very least, don't make inaccurate generalisations yourself.
Interesting, a distinction I’ve not thought too much about - I appreciate the extra explanation
I also call BS. If he only did two of the three, he'd be far more interesting than he is.
> So your argument stems from illogic?

No. I as mentioned in another post, God exists outside the realms of this reality, and is not bound by our laws. He created our laws, and he created logic, and they do not apply to him.

We don't deny logic. If you study Islam, logic is one of the 3 methods to arrive at truth. The other two are observations (not dissimilar from experimental science) and the final is truthfully relayed news (الخبر الصادق). We take all of those into consideration when studying our reality.

> When I was religious

Were you Muslim though? Not all religions have these rigors.
I loved caviar in NYC. Cost a bit more, but in general higher quality restaurants (that did not list on other platforms). After they sold out it became DD with more bugs.
As opposed to what? White rule and most people eating shit and dying. I’d rather eat shit and die while not being a slave.

That being said, I think it’s going to take a few decades but Africa is going to be alright. There are plenty of success stories there and Asia and South America have managed to gradually pull themselves out of the muck that colonialism put them in, Africa will get there too.
Not totally, not till Oracle has been tipped into the dustbin of history. (Come the day!)

I think Cisco still uses proprietary software too.
The chart is interesting because it misses the important part - it covers time, but not adoption.

For example, adoption of GIMP has not likely materially increased over time (as a relative percent of total addressable market)

IMHO, what the author gets wrong what so many people who claim this (they are not the first, or the last) get wrong - open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure.
(and pretty good at infrastructure products).

If you go look at areas where an open source thing is a de-facto market-leader, they are mostly infrastructure. Not all, but the ones that aren't have clear product management of some sort.

That is - the good open source products are often built/driven either by extremely product focused people (This is rare), or by companies driving them with PMs.

Not that the engineering doesn't matter - of course it does, but if you want a good and successful product, engineering is just a part of what is needed. Sometimes not even the main part!

Open source focuses mainly on the engineering part, often creating technical meritocracies that focus on making "The technically best software".

This is totally cool, but also totally orthogonal to building "a good product that people want to use".

Secondarily, you have the issue of survival in marketplace (IE There are a rash of OSS companies achieving near 100% of total addressable market share, and still going bankrupt due to inability to monetize). This, however, is not as big an issue as the first (as people can always still pick it all up when that happens)

Open source could always get better at products, but its historical development models were geared towards exactly the above (IE it does what it says on the tin)
There's a graph further down about this point. Both the minimum and the maximum appear to be dropping. Though especially with the minimum there might be recency bias at play here. It's not exactly a random sample of software we're looking at.
The cynic is me would say that this is a MS attempt to take ownership and mindshare over a piece of “commodity” tooling so that devs in the ecosystem become more familiar with that than the original system, add MS/dotnet specific features and push their own system.

A modern variation of “embrace, extend, extinguish”. I doubt MS has the power or desire to extinguish containers, but getting a foot in to the deployments space would be a win for them “use dotnet because it deploys better than other solutions”.
Oh wow, I didn't realize at all that the "10 cores" in this case were actually 6p 4 e.
It's amusing that, according to the article, there has been a "compelling open source alternative to" twitter since 2016. Yet, the ending of the article is a request for the reader to share the article on... twitter.
>No, because God is, like us, the descendant of something else, or else has infinite history.

God could have no beginning. This makes sense because God exists outside of our conception of spacetime. We have to have a beginning, because in the universe we live in the laws of time and nature say everything has to have a beginning.
I have good evidence to believe one of the PaaS we use at work uses K8s for deployments under the hood but it’s not like that provides any portability to us; and they certainly don’t advertise that. How is this any different? I guess my point is that at this level of abstraction k8s seems almost irrelevant.
According to the article Rado has sold every company he's founded (and presumably delivered on all of them too) so it would be a first if he didn't at least exit on this one.
To play devil's advocate to myself and possibly answer my own question: I imagine there are ecological effects of GMO (some of your corn SHOULD get killed by insects). Not to mention the fact that GMO seeds are probably mostly sold by god-awful Monsanto.
Honestly having .NET figure out what is needed for the image, the build context, etc. is a much better way to build and it doesn't require having the extra tooling.

Full disclosure: Engineer at Microsoft (and previously Docker) not at all involved in .NET.
I work on moby (aka docker project) and internal builds of docker and CNCF related projects.
bash(1) has a better UX than the original sh(1).
The virus will be around forever. I would rather take my chances with the virus than live in an authoritarian shithole like China. Remember Tiananmen Square?
"suffered the least from the deprivations of colonialism"

Economically speaking, colonialism was in many cases a major advantage to the colony, not universally a deprivation. The US, Canada, Australia, etc., all did quite well during or after a period as a colony.

(This is not intended as a moral statement, merely an economic one, which is the topic of the article.)
As I mentioned elsewhere, you cannot prove everything only by science. In Islam, we have logic and the honest news as two other sources we rely on to study and deduce facts about our reality.
How do you manage saved passwords between Safari and Chrome?
Acornfiles? I feel like when you introduce a new config format, a common expectation will be having a prominent "Why Acornfiles?" page where you explain why this new format is necessary. Without it, I personally groan and look away. With it, you are still wasting time explaining your config format, time that should be spent explaining the benefits of the larger system you're offering.
My point is that you could replace a couple words in your comment to get the following, and it would've been conceivable for a person to say a thousand years ago on their first day at the ocean. And yet it wouldn't have been accurate.

> The reason tides always rising is plausible if we see tides rising now is simply that's it's far more plausible nothing so special ever happened as to change the motion of the entire ocean.

> The ocean is not a little trickle of water down the wall in the bathroom you can easily redirect with your little finger, the ocean is really big, so you need something equally big to make it change behaviour.
In the realm of programmable keyboards, it doesn’t really matter which OS you will use it with…

My golden medium is Anne Pro II, even though I own new model F. But more and more I’m getting drawn to an idea of building 36 keys custom.

Watch something from a channel of this hugely underrated gent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_VuXVErD6E

Edit: typos (ipad screen kbd…)
It's not at all the same. The behavior you refer to can be checked and proved by anyone as long as they know what to look for. Whereas the FB "tweak to the algorithm" discussed here cannot. This is exactly what I was saying above, I don't see what's so hard to understand here. Maybe, since you admit to have worked on said algorithm, it's a case of Upton Sinclair's dictum "“It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it"?
The MacBook Air is maybe my favorite computer right now and I kind of don’t like MacOS either. If you can live with MacOS then I think it is worth it. I find 16 gb not to be an issue on MacOS. Even when it sometimes might be on a comparable Windows machine. I can’t say if this is just my perception or if it is something that Apple is doing differently with their memory management.
This quote changed my life when read it two days ago. Thank you.
You don’t even have to have that large of a regional disaster affecting hundreds of kilometers. 9/11 took down all telephony in the NYC area due to panicking people overwhelming things.

(9/11 was the worst terrorist disaster in the US, but until the towers started falling only the two towers and a few buildings that caught fire were directly impacted. If you were in, say, Brooklyn, you could see it happening but you were in the safe zone.)
They look like something you would get out of capsule vending machine for a quarter.
Socioeconomic geolocation bias of algos.
.net knows what version it is, it knows what deps your project has, etc.
Instead of declaring this effectively twice (once for .net and once for Docker), .net is handling everything.
"The UNIX system is full duplex: the characters you type on the keyboard are sent to the system, which sends them back to the terminal to be printed on the screen. Normally, this echo process copies the characters directly to the screen, so you can see what you are typing"

Ohhhh that is why it is called echo!
And music, I hilariously forgot to mention
It’s much, much cheaper when you take labor out of the equation.