skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely well written and maintained and high quality as of now and having a plan to make sure that can continue in the future are sometimes entirely different things with needs that oppose each other.

A single person can develop and release extremely high quality software, and as long as it meets the needs of the users (it's not missing a lot of features that a taking a long time to deliver), a single person in absolute control and writing all the code is probably a benefit in keeping it high quality and with less bugs.

It may not follow that the same can be said a few years from now, or even a few months from now, since the bus factor of that project is one, and if "bus events" includes "I don't want to work on that anymore but nobody else knows it well at all" then for some users that's a problem (and for others not so much).

On situation isn't necessarily better or worse than the other (and it's probably something in-between anyway), it really just depends on the project and the audience it's intended for. That audience might be somewhat self-selected by the style of development though.
Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share
Hey, would you be open to an interview? I've been moonlighting an generative AI channel - I've also been playing around with some schemes using stable diffusion in similar ways ;)
All of the projects listed are clearly outside the scope of what would potentially be merged into sqlite even if it accepted contributions.

That said there is probably room for someone to maintain a sqlite extension distribution with standard build settings for use across different languages or something.
So you're saying that the economy was worse in 2016 than it is now? That is the only possible direct conclusion I can read from your research.
The problem is people are lazy and ignore boring safety instructions and videos.
Ew.

If you want to say something, say it. "I don't like that my contributions aren't accepted, so I'm forking the codebase". That's going to generate some discussion, but it's fine. Public domain and all.

However,

"look what happened to qemu, same thing will happen to sqlite (and I'm contributing to the problem and forking it)". One can't say "no contributions led to fragmentation" while _at the same time_ contributing to fragmentation by making a hard fork!

Also,

> "However, edge computing also means that your code will be running in many geographical locations, as close as possible to the user for the better possible latency. Which means that the data that hits a single SQLite instance now needs to be replicated to all the others."

Then replicate away. Leave that stuff out of SQLite. If that's a really important use-case, go use couchdb or something similar.
> definition of inconspicuous: not clearly visible or attracting attention; not conspicuous.

It is a link probably millimeters away from the Buy button on the screen to read before even clicking Buy, and then Buy asks you if you did read it before it charges your card. I don't know how that's "not clearly visible". If there wasn't a link on the page, or was tiny and at the very bottom of the page, sure I might agree but that's not what's going on here.

I guess its "fine print" when you don't want to read it but I'm just overly reductive when I don't want to read it. That must be the distinction.

> If you have to read 20 paragraphs of text for every digital movie purchase

I mean, you don't have to every time. This argument seems to be coming from an emotional rather than logical argument. These terms don't change very often and they're very similar for every digital movie platform. Once you've skimmed it on Amazon there's not really a point to reading it again. I'll look over the ingredients list on a food product once but it's not like every time I eat a Snickers I re-examine the ingredients label.

Do you really not bother reading contracts when you agree to them?

Your main point is essentially that consumers shouldn't have to actually pay attention in the slightest to what it is they're buying. That they have practically no mental capacity to glance over the terms of a service they're agreeing to when they click "agree".

> I don't want to live in a dystopia where companies start foisting time wasting tasks on me until I give in and accept their unfavorable terms on everything.

Cool. Nobody is forcing you to buy these movies. I haven't bought a digital movie in decades precisely for these reasons. But I don't act like it is this massive undue burden for me to read about the thing I'm buying. It took one minute for me to scan that document and understand what buying a movie on Amazon is like.
From what I understand the iOS App Store doesn't support that model. I've heard complaints from developers who have used that model with success on the Mac, and are frustrated that they can't do so on iOS.
Climate change is far from the only environmental problem have. Sure, it's the biggest but also the biggest to solve.

And the EU has had a consistent push to solve it, unlike the US, which for instance during the Trump era pulled out of the Paris accord.
Just looking through the libsql repository on GitHub, turns out they've changed literally zero actual code. All they've done is added a README, some long-winded 'code of conduct' document, and a configuration file for CI builds. That's it.

What is even the point of announcing this? There's nothing new, nothing different. Just empty promises and hot air.
> The West of Europe has a historical bias towards freedom of expression, democracy, religious freedom (arguable) etc, and that got extended to include America when it got big enough to join the party

You're going to have to be more precise with the epoch you think that happened, but it doesn't sound true. Whenever you consider the US "got big enough to join the party" (the absolute latest I would accept is WWI), democracy was a rare thing. Name one "Western" country that was democratic, really, for more than 40 years during WWI. The closest you can get to are a few constitutional monarchies with at least lots of de jure, usually also de facto monarch power, Switzerland and San Marino.
The last part is obviously nonsensical, sorry about that, I can’t edit it now.

My point stands that the goalposts were moved in a doubling down on trump. His personality cult is impressive.
As CPM goes down, the immediate reaction is to add more ad units. Whether that's splitting articles into multiple pages, increasing the amount of the page that's ads, full page interstitials, running more distracting ads, etc.

For sites and services that had a successful business being ad supported, when that becomes unsuccessful, there's likely to be a lot of consolidation: if the consolidated entity is large enough to run their own ad network, they may be able to make the economics work a bit better.

You'll also see some of them try directly charging users or soliciting voluntary payments.
Most Blu Rays I have are MPEG-2. AVC compresses to about half the size for the same quality and HEVC does that again on top.
But no, this is not true. The iphone charger is already USB. I use them with my Android phone all the time, and iphone users charge with my pixel charger. Those already interoperate.

I understand the e-waste and consumer protection argument for the charger (power converter), but why the cable?
I'm in a similar age bracket. Started my company a little earlier. Pivoted and did all the fancy startup stuff but while having a family with multiple kids and several other commitments that many of the younger founders are not encumbered with.

The OPs advice is excellent. You can't find out what you're good at without first going wide. Mistakes will abound but you need to pin some meta skills

1. Avoiding things that are high probability dead ends. They might not be but you should have instinct for not pulling back on a path when it doesn't seem to be worthwhile.

2. Ability to make tough calls and execute - Abandoning things that you "always wanted to do but never had the time for", fixing personality problems that you know are holding you back but you always just ignore (e.g. false pride, procrastination etc.)

3. Develop skill stacks rather than deep specialisation. My brother writes and my sister draws. I do calligraphy and I tell people that I draw better than my brother and write better than my sister. In a similar vein, if you've got experience in a certain area, learning a useful skill that others in the area don't have will make you super valuable in that area.

4. Be resilient. If you're ambitious (as I gather you are), you're going to nurture that and while the process is worthwhile, it's blood unpleasant. There's a constant feeling of dissatisfaction that sometimes borders on an almost pathologically inability to celebrate a victory. You're going to have to make these calls as you figure out what you want to do and where.

Finally, once you do figure out something that you're good at and can make a living out of, dive deep and constantly get better at it. Start saying no to other stuff and become a narrow expert. Don't let all your exploratory experience and outlook become a handicap. It served you well to find your destiny but there is a time when you have to discard it. That's easier said than done but it's a must.

Good luck!
Sadly, I don't think that will change any opinions, particularly of people suspicious of "the man". May ironically make it worse.
> Both songs are about going to "The Bay".

But in the English song, "the Bay" is an actual place in which the singer and a particular addressee have vacationed in the past, and in the French song, "the Bay" is an imaginary place which the singer invites a generic audience to indulge in.

Speaking of which, the English song is notionally sung to someone known to the singer, and the audience is conceptually overhearing it, while the French song is sung to the audience.

The two songs don't have anything in common. They both compare their bay to Berlin, London, and Paris, in the sense of saying that the Bay is not any of those places. Mount St. Helens is also not Berlin, London, or Paris. Have I just made a second translation of The Bay into English? Does it make any difference that Mount St. Helens is a volcano?
I hate the part of my brain that has allowed the name to interfere with my interest in even looking at it.
> they have do not work with modern tools like git

Isn't fossil younger than git?
Star Wars is a particularly salient example because the original cuts that made the films such cultural icons are completely unavailable from anyone other than third‐party sellers, due to the wishes of the (former) rights holder. After the Special Editions were released, the theatrical editions made it onto DVD one time, and never did again. J.J. Abrams has indicated that there are difficulties behind the scenes (perhaps some clause in the Disney purchase) that prevent the originals from being made available for sale. So people who want to avoid the CGI and bad redubs of the Special Editions are stuck scrounging eBay, or more likely, grabbing an “unofficial” scan of the theatrical editions.
You are right, I was thinking about this earlier and that I think the government forced Xerox to release laser printer patents in the mid 1980's but as an unpaid internet commenter I ended up at an article from a decade before then.
Both could have worked just as hard, but a college education means a lot less than it did in the past, and even can come with negative connotations. In terms of computer "science", I would consider a degree mostly irrelevant to whether someone is qualified, though for junior developers I would have to consider the amount of unlearning that will need to be done in contrast to self-taught developers who didn't experience 2-4 years of indoctrination.
My old T420 has had an ExpressCard adapter to add USB 3.0 for ages. At the time I added it the laptop was already old and had been purchased used from this software engineer Russian kid in SF. He sold it to me for 250$ cash and had already upgraded it to 12GB of RAM and an SSD internally (which were cutting edge for the time). I believe he was maybe running OSX on it because part of the reason it was cheap was that it had a permanent imprint of a giant apple sticker on the cover (since removed). He had bought it in Russia (so Russian hybrid printed keyboard which always made it a cool party trick but still easy to type english on). It still works to this day. I was able to easily take it apart years later, redo the cooling paste, upgrade the wifi card, and add that USB 3.0 adapter. It also has an eSata port which means it works great for quickly reading bare drives (with an external adapter you plug a HDD into like a damn SNES Cartridge). Dedicated GPU and i7 means it easily even runs a lot of games as well and run up to 3 plus displays. Still my favourite laptop keyboard ever and I used it for about 8 years and multiple jobs. Now it occasionally plays totally completely legal content to my TV or is an emulator machine with a few bluetooth adapters to DS4 controllers.

edit: Based on reading more about these adapters this is definitely super cool but also (functionally) not that amazing for these thinkpads specifically. One of the big downsides of ExpressCard is that it is easily removed (you basically just press in on the adapter and it clicks and then pops out a bit) which means I regularly used to accidentality just barely detach the connection between my USB 3.0 card and the laptop. Obviously for a HDD this is not good. The other thing is that since it is limited to a single PCI-E lane (basically the equivalent speed of a fast SATA SSD) you might as well just use one of the SATA ports in the laptop in the first place. You can of course replace the default drive with a nice SSD and probably get something of similar speed or simply remove the CD drive and put an SSD in its place (there are adapters made for this). And if you are willing to forego internal WiFi and use a USB WiFi adapter there is also another mSATA slot internally that can house yet another (small) SSD. On my T420 at least this means that the laptop can house 3 HDD's without using this adapter. That being said the idea of having 4 separate SSD's in a laptop from 2011 that never even came with ONE is pretty damn cool!
Although a lot of it probably isn't classic programming in isolation. I happened to be looking at my undergrad's course catalog a few months back for some reason. I was really struck by the number of non-CS engineering and science degrees that are basically something like Chemistry + Computers. This has long been true to some limited degree; I took a FORTRAN course as part of my mechanical engineering degree (though that was pretty much the only time I touched a computer undergrad). But it's certainly much more pronounced today.
Good question, by what measure is Ancient Greece "Western"?
So that appears to be a fun edge case with that quick SQL query!

The spike was in March which was the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States/shelter-in-place, which was a time of odd behavior and so a spike wouldn't be too weird.

It turns out that dang posted a special whoishiring soon after which was massively popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398

I thought I filtered out nonstandard threads in the query:

WITH whoishiring_threads AS (
SELECT id FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE `by` = "whoishiring"
AND REGEXP_CONTAINS(title, "Ask HN: Who is hiring?")
)

...but that filter is a regex, and in a regex the `?` is a modifier character and not a literal. So the query will combine the counts of both the top-level comments of that thread and the original one.

Data science is fun like that, and surprisingly not the first time I've made that particular query mistake.
Especially given how great Bing is
Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter at His Original Price
Seems like a reasonable compromise
That sounds accurate. Plants do have tons of chemicals, some of them may have very potent effects on the body chemistry. Unlike homeopathy where the proposed effect model defies physics, there's nothing implausible here, the problem with herbal remedies may be that ingesting a very complex cocktail of chemicals and thinking "it's fine because it's natural" is not always the best approach. It's usually not easy to properly understand what happens when ingesting such mixtures. Evolutionary, things that are very likely to seriously hurt you have been probably excluded by now, but it's still pretty poorly understood what exactly is going on when you use some "natural herbal mix". So, anybody who makes bold claims about what exactly is the action of this or that herbal remedy, usually is not painting the whole picture.
Thanks for taking a look. I agree, I'll add that to the comparison stuff soon.

Are there any others you'd like to see/think would be helpful?
A First Look at the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Bill
That's the way it looks to me. All of the SQLite code is already given away for free. What more is there to give? The trademark (owned by Hwaci according to the SQLite Consortium Agreement.) He wants to use politically charged shame tactics to get his hands on not just the SQLite code but the SQLite brand as well.

Why does he want the trademark? Because he knows that his complaints are fringe and few people will give a damn about his fork, unless he has the trademark and can call his fork the official SQLite.
the total idiocy of adopting usb-c for a shaver charger... what a waste that would be.
Go: Redefining for Loop Variable Semantics
> The experiences I've gathered are assets which build on each other, leading to more and more valuable experiences.

Thank you for this. I’m closer to your age and looking back I missed the train of ultra specialization.

There is however alchemy to experience and sometimes completely unrelated experiences catalyze awareness and abilities in unimagined ways.
Sourcegraph's licensing is open core (similar to GitLab): https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/departments/engineering/pro....

Our code is public, regardless of whether it is open-source or enterprise licensed. The open source code includes most of the product features; the enterprise code includes things like enterprise AuthN, AuthZ, and admin capabilities that are needed for large companies to use Sourcegraph.

Sourcegraph.com/search indexes over 6 million open-source libraries, nearly every github.com repository with at least 5 stars and the most popular projects across NPM, PyPI, Maven Central, and many more independent projects and code hosts.
They don't use old tools, they use different tools.

Git development started in 2005, Fossil development started in 2006, they'ré equally modern, and largely do the same things, just in different ways.
I'm a big fan of Domain-Driven Design. But I think "before the coding starts" is a bad way to look at it. To be ready for a week's worth of coding, all we need is either a small amount of stuff we're sure about or something that we can learn about via shipping something. Delaying for perfect knowledge is a very dangerous habit to get into, so I'd rather avoid it entirely.
Seeking peace also lines up with what every sane person should want
Thank the website instead. They only have to ask you if they want to track you.

Hacker News does not show a cookie popup, for example, because they have no intention of tracking you.
If they thought they could sell it, I'm sure there would be.
Awesome. Let’s make that illegal. You on board? Will you still be on board when McConnell obstructs that or does it only bother you when democrats do this? Because I’m bothered by it when anyone does it.
I couldn’t do that. There are some amazing content creators on YouTube, and to deny them of ad revenue for their hard work would feel very wrong.
This comment made me check the history of the official TAOCP page [1] through the Wayback Machine. Volume 5 was estimated to be ready in 2009 at the very first snapshot (1997), in 2010 by 2003, in 2015 by 2007, in 2020 by 2010, in 2025 by 2015 which is the latest estimate today. At the first glance this looks like an eternal "10 years later", but note that that estimate didn't change since 2015 and the 2025 estimate is now only 3 years away. Does this mean that Knuth does plan to publish anything related to Volume 5 by that time?

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
I mean like how about using a cheaper book. Cookbooks are almost literally a dime a dozen at yard sales. Too bad phone books aren't what they used to be.
I paid for Spark once when I bought it, can't remember how much. It currently have every feature I need. Can you please explain why would I pay on a monthly basis for it, when I don't want new features, I don't want UI redesign just keep the app in a working state while we are going through the regular OS upgrade cycle.

My general experience with subscription based apps is that sooner or later they will introduce features I don't care at all, they remove features I use, they redesign the UI, in some cases they release a fully new version which does not even have feature parity with the previous version. (Looking at you 1password) and I simply cannot justify paying to a team who is obligated to do some feature work on a software I consider complete because I'm paying them money and ending up with something with a different look and feature set.

Charge me enough once to cover you development cost for the current state of the app, even charge me even for the upgrades needed to make your stuff working on a newer OS version.

It is sure a nice thing to get a continuous stream of money for a feature which had a one of cost, but on the consumer side, you will end up with an empty pocket very fast, if you are getting charged for every software/car/TV you use on a monthly basis.
My theory, YC software team has been building features like https://www.workatastartup.com/ and so YC companies are posting less on HN.
It's applied using 3d printers
This part also rung some alarm bells for me. It makes me think the author is unable to see outside his bubble, and that feeling is only reinforced by the comments about Rust and the CoC in the Readme.
I can't tell — did you interpret my comment as "not a single police officer, without exception, suffers any sort of legal punishment for their actions," or are you trying to tell me that it's common for cops to be held accountable when they break the law?
The only reason I use Spark over Apple Mail is that I get push notifications as I receive emails on my Gmail account.

Unless you’re a paying Gmail customer, you can’t get push, only pull email.

With Spark you now don’t get priority email, whatever that is, so why would I stay? Back to Apple mail it is
One of the things with physical culture is how easily it is to spot bullshit. You can either lift X or you can't. You can either fight a round with a boxer or you can't. None of the handwaving and smoke and mirrors which are effective in intellectual disciplines work when you're facing a physical challenge. Things become black and white and success and failure are easily visible to everyone. Conquering that gives one a certain kind of resilience and confidence that's hard to get in any other way.
funniest comment of the day.
Elon Musk proposes to buy Twitter at original $44B price to avoid trial: sources
Well, once you put a uniform on someone and a gun in their hand, they instantly become an angelic figure of pure virtue. /s
There's a simpler explanation than depression or ADHD. Elon wants his wealth to translate into national and international political power, as has been the case historically with figures like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Gates, Waltons, Kochs. He is finding out the hard way that a number in his bank account will not automatically get him that standing. He simply doesn't have the skills to work his way up in those circles.
This will be a flop.
driving a prius ?
And the worst outcome is that parody is no longer protected under the First Amendment unless it is explicitly disclaimed. I fear that we may see that ruling come through.