skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's analogous to gittip where someone is attempting to send funds to a particular repository or organization, and, I assume, you don't know the status of your funds.

When subscribing to StackAid, you indicate that you'd like to support your dependencies. It's hopefully clear that their dependencies have to participate to receive their allocation. We're also upfront that not all OSS projects are interested or currently have a relationship with StackAid. As a result, allocation amongst dependencies will shift depending on the OSS project interested in participating, and that's an important feature that sets it apart from other funding models.

All of that said, we've tried to be clear in the messaging and setting expectations. We're very much open to feedback to improve what we communicate.
run minio locally
This guy has personally contributed to building the Hell he now inhabits. He yammered about crypto - an outright scam - for years and now he's sad that his feed is full of crypto scammers. There's a meme template for this!
I was very happy to see this feature announced! I turned it on immediately and so far it has had little negative impact on my life.

Some apps like Gmail will warn you that Lockdown mode is activated and that it will impact your experience but I have not encountered any drawbacks beyond iMessage links not opening the browser. This is easily worked around by copying them.

I hope this also blocks incoming calendar invites. Apple has as a feature the automatic addition of calendar invites... spammers soon noticed this and send out calendar invites with their favorite links that can clutter it up.
This will change once they have boosted the 50+ population, or that's at least how it usually works. The Omicron targeted vaccines should be ready by then, so we are not necessarily out of luck. I'm 49.
Starving people are not a feature of a successful system.

Capitalism does not reward hard work. Smart work, maybe, but not hard work.
Because we all agree that warrants do need to exist to catch bad guys...

I refuse to continue a discussion with someone who doesn't believe in the concept of a warrant.
https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/

> The Chouinard family will guide the Patagonia Purpose Trust, electing and overseeing its leadership. Family members will continue to sit on Patagonia’s board ... The family will also guide the philanthropic work performed by the Holdfast Collective.
Define infected.
Gensler reiterates that ‘most crypto are securities’ before US banking committee
Paradoxically, non-internal answers to this will take the freedom from you
> Overall it's very interesting to see Apple invest so significantly in something that will benefit relatively few users

Apple has been doing this for decades with heavy investment into assistive technology, far better than other platforms.
Are there any plans to implement key eviction to use it as a LRU cache?
Actually we can and do measure it and such linkages have been demonstrated. There are probably more succinct references, but here was one of the first I found:

http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20...
"...AWS still operates at a roughly 30% blended operating margin net of these discounts and an aggressive R&D budget — implying that potential company savings due to repatriation are larger"

to suggest individual companies can 'optimize' to a cloud corps utilization (via aggregation of demand) and hence reap the 'savings' is pretty dishonest.
Same for Tesla's Bioweapon Defense Mode. Nearly nobody ever needs it but it gets them some low cost marketing / viral clicks.
Gabor Mate Gives His Analysis on ADHD and Anxiety
there are so many store in china. we dont need new one.
Why do you suspect that Denmark is continuing to vaccinate, then?
> Try finding at least 6 places around you to stop in at, even if it's just for a coffee or lunch.

In my last 2 weeks off where I didn't travel I made the plan to visit a different place for breakfast/brunch each day. It was great! It found more nice places in the city I'm living in that I haven't visited before, and provided each day some structure which prevented my from just doing nothing.
No, but sometimes the Google logo itself is a distracting animation (I believe they call them "Doodle" or "Knoodle" or something).
Antitrust and the Fall of a Cheerleading Giant
The figure of 40% high risk is due to a very liberal application of the term "high risk". Half of all COVID in the US deaths are among people aged 65 or older. ~6% of deaths were among people under 50. The overwhelming majority of people were not, in fact, high risk in the sense that an infection would probably lead to death or hospitalization. 60-70% of the US population have gotten COVID, so chances are a large portion of "high risk" people have been infected.

Society wide isolation orders were widely ignored as people realized the actual risks became clear. You point out that Bhattacharya did not propose using force to isolate the elderly, yet you neglect to mention the fact that no force was used to enforce the society-wide isolation orders either. A targeted isolation order may have been more stringently adhered to, leading to lower infections among those at high risk (real high risk, not this idea that 40% of people were "high risk").
Seems interesting... But I wouldn't want to waste my donation to a multi-billion dollar company like stripe who should be paying for their own client library development, which is part of the value-proposition of their service.
"printing them out and keeping them in a drawer is a step away from having passwords written on post-it notes hanging off your monitor. Probably not the best idea."

I don't know that I agree. Something printed out and in your home, is more difficult for a scammer on the other side of the planet to get to. Having one key that is hard to steal physically because it's electronic, and another which is hard to steal electronically because it's physical, is not the worst idea.
I am not a lawyer. ;-) But I am reasonable. I don't like poker; but I have a good poker face. Something the barefoot lawyer drilled into my head was: stay out of court! I look at contracts that way. A hohum contract which has indisputable clarity is preferable to one which seems like it might go your way in court. In general, most employment contracts seem to lack that clarity.

It's difficult if not impossible to separate open source from consulting. Then there's this notion of "fiduciary duty" which mostly gets ignored. A lot of companies don't seem to be able to define what it is they do in a way that it seems to me would stand up in court. Even if you try really hard, there aren't that many ways to compare the contents of two arrays. How many companies are really "devops companies"? How many hire or contract devops engineers? How is that distinction drawn?

Seems to me that clear practices for compartmentalizing and handling open source and identifying potential open source candidates are lacking. I've been told that my contract doesn't allow me to report bugs upstream: do I want to test that in court? Is it reasonable for me, as a professional who damned well knows better to claim that a string compare is an original work? [0] Does that impugn my integrity, in court? Does "open source" augur professional standards which should be upheld, in court? If someone hires me, knowing that I profess to hold to certain professional standards, demonstrated by involvement with open source, and the contract suggests otherwise, which way will that fall in court?

"Tools of the trade" addressed a somewhat different concern: clients and employers who would prefer that the code wasn't openly published, even if it was acknowledged to embody such a tool. (This was actually a big one.) I'm not convinced that that concern doesn't still have some validity (although not submitting bugs upstream "because opsec" my ass).

Suppose a contract says that any open source I am involved with and I use in conjunction with performance of services therefore grants to them some "rights"? What if I'm not the only contributor? What about the ironclad limitation of liability which is part of the open source license?

[0] I wrote the Zen InterSLIP Dialing Script. Some time later received communications from a publisher in a lather because it had been included on some CD included with some book. I stated numerous times, in numerous ways, that in my opinion it didn't reach the level of originality which imbued it with intellectual property protections.

You're welcome to stalk me and reach out if you want to continue this convo. rgds...
>is there anything of value worth preserving there?

Not really in term of audio itself, just easier to do bitwise comparison with the original file, in term of file integrity.
But, as I understand it, does not affect how contagious the person is.

Given that, reducing the severity of the illness is arguably counterproductive, as it reduces the odds that the person will go out and about as opposed to staying at home away from others.
Er, are you both under threat by nation-state attackers and also posting about your device security decisions on a public web forum? If so, you may wish to reconsider!
The crumbling buildings with horrid management are all classic symptoms of the effect of price controls, exacerbated by other anti-development factors in SF. Put it this way: when demand far outstrips supply due to the supply being effectively made illegal, prices rise. When said prices are forced down by rent control, quality deteriorates as landlords must make up the difference somewhere.
Show HN: Bar Breaker – Web Extension that saves your screen space
You are making many moral claims. Your standard for what is moral are all over the place but you just made one:

> "...our societal precedent for freedom overrides whatever personal harm it might cause"

You've just appealed to a relativistic moral standard. Essentially, because we have a precedent for "freedom" in regards to possession of certain substances or items we as a society are justified in ignoring the detrimental effects of the mentioned items.

By that same train of logic, societal reform of any kind is actually a bad thing because you are overturning the existing precedent 0f that society. Its absurd.
Anyone look at the new guys (Dagster, Airflow) compared to htcondor?
- I'm in a large community where discussions primarily happen on Twitter.

- There's a lot of really funny posts

- Anything notable that happens on other platforms will make its way there pretty quickly
Roger that! We're hearing the desire for hydronic / air-to-water systems and support for Europe / elsewhere from a few different places, so this is helpful. Note for those in Europe, we're using local energy prices and local grid emissions in addition to local weather, so we'd need to expand those to cover additional geos as well.

And thanks for catching the issue on mobile, we'll get that fixed asap.
Branding. Discord had references to games, gamers and gaming both in their client UI and official website. Placeholder images, Easter eggs and so on. All of that was scrubbed or replaced. Above all, it was a change in whom they consider their real target audience.
China's just rolled out an inhaled vaccine, and having vaccines that target the nasal passages specifically seem very promising for preventing infection. If I could, I'd get that vaccine.
This is the wrong question.

The right question is why did git need github in the first place (while svn didn't)
No, we should have billionaires like in my comment above but it shouldn’t be easy to pass all of that to the next generation. Inheritance should be reasonably taxed and if the next generation has the chops to become a billionaire again then they are worthy of it and will actually probably contribute to rapid progress.
Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda and the Coming Catastrophe
The narrative around the vaccine flip-flopped so often that it is pretty unclear what it is actually doing. Our health minister (Karl Lauterbach/Germany) actually said that it accelerates symptoms, so they stay at home earlier than those without. It's just so versatile it does everything and the opposite at this point.
This article made no references to showing that it's not needed for that group.

This decision only attempts to address the worst off on average and completely ignores the rest of the population despite what harm it will cause or the new variants that now have a larger group to evolve through.
There is for older people and those who are immuno-compromised.

And there is still the issue of long COVID which may affect young people in the future.

Especially as there are active discussions in the insurance industry about its implication for future coverage.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-covid-may-be-long-tail-of-...
I used to know guys from Microsoft Germany. One day they were debugging some obscure issue in the memory management of Windows 2000. Gates came into their office and asked what they were doing. They explained the situation and they were surprised that Gates had a solid understanding of the issue and could discuss it on a deep technical level. They also said that Gates (and Ballmer too) has an incredible memory. He supposedly can recall who attended meetings years ago and what was said.

His brain seems to operate on a much higher level from most other people.
I’m sorry, but present racism is not absolved by last racism. There is no “historical context” that excuses a society from promoting race based discrimination. Period.
> UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms, changes the zero width joiner (ZWJ) and zero width non-joiner (ZWNJ) characters from Identifier_Status=Allowed to Identifier_Status=Restricted; they are therefore no longer allowed by the General Security Profile by default.

Good, I guess, but I wonder how much will break.
> I am a licensed civil engineer in California. The rules and procedures for little shit like a solar array foundation can be followed by almost anyone who can do simple arithmetic by using the CBC, you do not need a license to do it correctly. You need the licensed engineer’s stamp so that there is someone (insurance) to sue if things go wrong.

Thanks for posting this (and the rest of your analysis). I'll repeat what my wife says all the time to her patients: "Your Google search is not equivalent to my medical degree".

This kind of thing comes-up all the time online. People think they understand something and don't seem to bother to make sure they actually do.

I am not a Civil Engineer. I am an EE, with enough of a physics background and multidisciplinary experience to work my way through a project like this without any issues. I have done a lot of construction work. I did all of the design work because (a) I enjoy this and (b) I could save some money this way. I knew full well that a licensed Civil Engineer would have to come into the fold eventually.

The more work I did in order to ensure all was structurally sound, to code, etc., the less design iterations we would require while paying a Civil Engineer. As it turned out, I got most of it right. We had to make some adjustments based on the wind loading the county wanted (my house would be shredded at those speed, but my solar structure will stay put).

Here are a few renderings from Solidworks:

https://i.imgur.com/xhbpxBe.png

https://i.imgur.com/gO91PaO.png

https://i.imgur.com/JUao20F.png

The civil engineering firm was able to use the ACAD drawings I produced from Solidworks, that saved me a bunch of money.

As a point of interest, I installed fans under each section to help cool the panels and improve output. I don't have data on how well this works yet (it's been four years, I should have it!).

It was quite an experience to start with a pile of lumber on the driveway to personally cutting and milling every single component and then assembling the thing. The best part, my kids learned a ton in the process.
> But we don't have border closing or "show your papers" or all the rest for influenza

Now wait a second … that's not a bad idea!
Arguably, Wikipedia is the loser, because you are rewarding a management mindset that thinks manipulating the public for financial gain is okay.

Wikipedia is the most widely read reference source on the planet. Wouldn't you rather it was stewarded by an organisation that was honest with the public?

There are other losers. This man, guilt-tripped into donating to Wikipedia when all he has is $18 to his name is a loser:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/Archive_6#S...

Actually, that sounds wrong. He is a wonderful man, but one that really should not have been put in this invidious position.

What about her?

https://twitter.com/tizzie/status/1570095249044967424

There are other losers still. People in India and South Africa are scared into donating to Wikipedia by emails that raise the spectre of a subscription fee, or of Wikipedia blinking out of existence for lack of funds.

There are other charitable causes they could have donated to in their own country, rather than sending money to the US, money that might have saved lives in their own country, rather than added another treat to a US employee's benefits package.

Those are some of the "losers".
Why don't websites offer a “low power mode”?
In the age of energy-scarcity and environmental concerns, why don't websites offer a "low power mode" version? Most consumer technologies are regulated to use low power, why not the most used technology in the world?

For instance, reddit.com is an energy monster, using considerable CPU and bandwidth resources to load a page. However the old.reddit.com domain uses much less power. Multiply that by billions of pageloads per day, and the global energy savings would be significant.
I just uploaded a picture of my dog (Bichon Frise) and it showed me a bazillion nearly exact similar dogs.

Why isn't this immediately being used as a missing persons (or pet) database service?
I certainly think it's reasonable to donate money without a breakdown of where it's going to go. I also think that the things that Wikipedia is doing are perfectly reasonable.

Where I have an issue (and I suspect many others do) is when Wikipedia phrases donation requests as "keeping the lights on" or something to that effect. I suspect there would be a lot less hate if the requests were phrased like "help Wikipedia grow" or something like that.

It's more of a framing issue than an issue with where money is being spent. If Slack was claiming that they needed my fee to "keep the lights on," I think most people would have issues with that language/framing.
Same. I’ve been into Vaporwave recently. Started listening to some Vaporwave playlist and Youtube algorithm will suggest some artists. Then I go over to Spotify to see if their music is available there. Add it to my Spotify playlist for commuting and road trips.
I've noticed that now the language selector is a two seemingly random places depending on ?? (the classical places is on the left, an exhaustive list ordered alphabetically; the new place that is sometimes there is on the top right, in a drop down list, ordered by some obscure relevance metric).
I am really confused. Could you provide some data to back up your position that basically nothing is a big problem unless you are “drug addled”? How does one become “drug addled” if nothing is a problem?

I would be more convinced if you could also link to studies showing how early family life and local history have no impact on developmental brain processes and don’t create culture traps.
Some of this is extremely basic physics. Like, white ice reflects solar energy and dark ocean absorbs it. If you don't have faith in science to get that right, you really shouldn't use any tech at all for fear it's too complex for humans to understand.
This is a great point. A lot of ideas pushed by managers (like one person train crews) have been of the "sounds good on paper" variety. Adding and adding to the length of trains. Replacing (human) wheel inspectors with automation. Replacing (human) schedulers with software. Cutting the crew size on trains as you point out.

In practice, the increased train length seems to have increased the frequency and magnitude of accidents. And increasing the number of cars in a train is not guaranteed to increase efficiency.

About inspection of wheels, automation might sound like a good idea, but it doesn't seem to be working. Stand next to a moving freight train today, and odds are very good that you will hear a BOOM-BOOM-BOOM from a surprising number of cars as they go by. These are flat spots on wheels. I do not think this is good for the freight, the cars, or the rails. My personal observation is that this is new. Even a decade ago, I do not remember routinely noticing this. But today, it seems a significant percentage of cars roll by with big flat spots on their wheels. This is out of my area of expertise, so I may be way off on this "flat spot" story.

The software for scheduling seems to be chaotic at best. The railroads have responded by pretty much putting all employees on call all the time. This seems to be one of the workers' biggest complaints: they are pretty much 24x7x365 on call, and it is not surprising that they are angry. When I say they're angry: in July the BLET (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainment) voted over 99% in favor of a strike.

Cutting crew size too is kicking peoples' butts. For example to pick up a car alone would require a massive amount of running back and forth from the front to the back of the train. From a safety standpoint: a single person crew has to remain at the engine in the case of an accident or derailment, and someone has to drive to the scene to assess the scene. If there is a two person crew, the second person can walk down the line and report (for example) that there may be a chlorine car leaking[0].

I know a few people second hand on both sides of the who work in industries that ship freight via rail, and people who work on the railroads. Both sides have been describing chaos and mismanagement for years (predating pandemic). Pay on the railroad is fairly good, but the lifestyle is extremely demanding. Policies over the last decade have made it a worse and worse industry to work in. Strike or not, the railroads are getting deeper and deeper into a worker shortage. I think they need a better (for workers) contract just as much as the workers do.

[0] https://inthesetimes.com/episodes/jay - 100% worth a listen
This article is an appendix for the online book Beautiful Racket, and most of the book is about how useful macros can be. It's a very accessible book - not at all advanced.

A number of folks have listed the book as one of their best all time programming books. I finally read it last year, and I agree with that characterization. It's a very well written book.
I took the BA.5 variant vaccine just two days ago (Pfizer, if anyone is interested)

BA.5 is targeted and ready. The only question left is one of policy and distribution.
China is certainly trustworthy on this topic.
> a million different people each having a $1000 stake or 1 family having a $1B stake

Money is power. Do you see no difference in a million people have a little power vs one family having enormous power?
Nobody is ever concerned about privacy until it's too late to be. It's just a question of when you learn this lesson, and how damaging it is. If you're very lucky you only suffer embarrassment.
2018 was an exceptionally bad year for influenza. Typically influenza deaths in the U.S. are between 20-30k.

COVID deaths in the U.S. over a two year period amounted to over 1 million.
In the desert, you typically have to build expensive transmission lines out to the site to get the power to where you actually want it.

So, (1) you have to acquire single-use land, (2) the panels produce half as much power as they could because of heat and dust, (4) the panels' life is curtailed by the high temperature, and (4) you have to build a long transmission line back to someplace populated.

There is no question but that panels in the desert can work. But it is a poor use of a panel that could produce much more power, more cheaply, longer.