skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this on and off. I try to support OSS (currently via Patreon only) and am currently at about 55€ per month. It is really hard to pick the right projects, because I use a lot of OSS, and it's not like I have infinite money to spend.

So right now I mostly fund smaller projects because it feels they need it more, but at the same time I think I should also consider how important some piece of software is to me, or how much I depend on it, which gets really hard as soon as you don't just include "visible" software, but also libraries. I guess I'd have a really bad time without a jpeg library, for example. But that leads into your point about rewarding contributors. Ideally, every project that receives donations will fairly redistribute a share of it to every contributor and library they depend on, but that seems absolutely impractical to get right, especially for larger projects.

Also, should you take the complexity of a project into account? Not to diminish the work of the folks behind eg libjpeg-turbo, but a jpeg encoder/decoder isn't exactly rocket science, so should they receive less than for example libx264?

So yeah, I think this is a fairly deep topic that you can put a lot of thought into, and even get a bit philosophical about. Interested to hear other people's approach to this.
At some point I came across this quote which has been credited to Mark Twain:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

I recall taking it to heart and trying to imagine the kind of regrets I would have as a 40 year old me. Shortly after this I sold everything I owned and traveled the world for years. That experience gave me even more confidence to follow my gut and make the most out of my life. I've tried to keep this mentality still as I am about to turn 37. It keeps me moving forward and trying to achieve my goals.
“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” - she always called me Elwood - “In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.“
Yeah, blocking ads quickly became security improvement...
> With similar weather patterns? Where are you thinking specifically?

Outlying parts of Texas that are serviced by the main power grids rather than a Texas only power grid? https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/texas-power...

> HOUSTON — Some parts of Texas that were battered by the winter storm of 2021 had relatively few homes lose power.

> They are primarily in areas outside of those supported by ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the electric grid for 90% of the state and operates separately from federal oversight and regulation.

> El Paso County is one place to experience minimal power outages, despite getting battered by the historic winter storm.

> “We had about three thousand people that were out during this period, a thousand of them had outages that were less than five minutes,” said Eddie Gutierrez, vice president of strategic communications for El Paso Electric.

However, those power companies have connections that cross state lines and so are federally regulated and had to do winterization of their systems as mandated by the regulators... whereas ERCOT said "yea, well, maybe we'll do it - but you can't make us."
Remind me why Google even allows ads in rank 1 on brand terms? I remember when "don't be evil" Google would talk about how ads are in a different color on the right sidebar.
Yes. states the border texes have cheaper power without the grid failures and price gouging - an old map from before the unregulated utilities increased prices post storm https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-americans-pay-in-elect...

It’s not a great set of maps but I wasn’t willing to spend more then 60 seconds doing your research for you.
Huh that’s fascinating. In Canada there’s a small list of cases where paramedics can declare someone dead. Decapitation is one of them.
Low code tools can be a bit funny and this is the perfect example. A person who knows what a webhook is probably doesn’t need this tool. The people who need this tool’s functionality.. likely don’t know what a webhook is.

I just started use an app script called importJSON which lets you make api calls directly from gsheets, since I get a lot of value from apis but don’t know how to actually code. This post looks to be in a comparable area, but I don’t know if that’s accurate. The introduction needs improvement.

> In this article, we will talk about how to turn your Google Sheets into a webhook so that you can receive data from the endpoint and have the data inserted into your Google spreadsheet

What value does this provide, and can you give me an example use case? What is “the data” in this context? Ideally you don’t want a lowcode user to leave your blog post to google the answers to these questions.
> against Ad Words terms

Oh great, they'll get their account closed and need to make another one to continue scamming people.

How about Google fixes this by displaying the URL that the ad actually goes to?

Of course they don't want to do this because the URL with all of the tracking parameters looks ugly and it would hurt conversion rates. $$$ > user safety.
>My advice would be not to go or try raise from VCs until you know what you are doing if you can.

I'll second that motion. (I am also not a lawyer.)

Speaking as an American, the people I know who I'd hit up if I actually wanted to start a company who are Swiss work for companies in the Bay Area or a satellite office, I've not heard positive things about startups in Switzerland... nor California really.

Basically, high taxes paired with... social stuff? I've known more than one Swiss person but obviously this is the polar opposite of any kind of scientific poll, but I suspect there's something about specific places in Silicon Valley -- like that part of Mountain View with all the coffee shops, or the similar stretch in Palo Alto -- that serve to mix people together in a very analog way that stops happening once you get hired by one of the FAANGs then have to dine every day in the cafeteria.

El Camino Real actually has a similar vibe to the road I used to take to church -- the difference being they've built up all these apartment complexes and there's orders of magnitude more cars on that main drag.

(I'm from Pennsylvania -- I keep running into tech bros who have this aggressively right libertarian attitude in the extreme short term, which really sucks, since from the perspective of a well I can't call myself a tech savvy at risk youth if I'm in my 30s now guy, we just had everything set up perfect: we scared the ever living shit out of the boomers about what would happen if they stopped having elections, had one, and the new president seems to be actually doing his job, though like most elderly white men, he keeps slow walking things to go try to touch people, and thanks to the magic of federalism, even if social security goes bust they can just raise the taxes on DuckDuckGo.)

Anyways sorry to ramble a bit, but the parent's advice of "don't try to raise from VCs until you know what you are doing" tracks with everything I've every heard, and you'd be surprised what the rich, white neoliberals say when they think it's "just us fellas".
And that would be a problem... why? We've been working with those for over a decade, they already are.
You want a citation for corruption at the Texas Railroad Commission? Just Google it or start here:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlins...
I mean we’re all guessing here on motivation.

But I think he did want to buy it and realized pretty quick that he had overbid.
Do you consider anything moral that doesn't violate the law?
Time is a gift. Free time doubly so. We are wired as humans to find something productive to do with our time. There's only so much margaritas on the beach and Netflix-and-chill we can do. There has to be some higher goal, otherwise, what's the point?
I wrote an article about one possibility awhile ago. Basically, pattern off of ASCAP and learn from their mistakes.

https://www.petekeen.net/ascap-for-open-source-software
I can only afford one. What’s you best bet?
Some queries return like 75% ads
Of course it is, they live off ads.
I go to a pretty large festival. My partner and I talk about a plan to exit for every set we go to and we generally go to the same location in each crowd.
Of course it’s bribery. Everyone involved knows it’s bribery. The money is given with expectation of reward. If the bribing entity didn’t expect a direct reward, they wouldn’t give the money.

Now, everyone tries to hide behind levels of abstraction — “It’s just lobbying!” — but those are just fig leaves and reasonable people should see through them. E.g., “Exxon gave the money to my campaign committee, and I’m not involved with the finance end; my vote in favor of Exxon was just a coincidence.” That’s pure bullshit and everyone knows it.

So yes it’s bribery. Calling it something else is disingenuous.
Supply and demand isn't monotonic across all categories, so treating demand for basic necessities like food and energy the same as demand for luxury items (gaming consoles say) makes little sense. Furthermore, if you look at that data, there's never been greater than full employment (and again, unemployment stats undercount the long-term unemployed).

Clearly, when energy prices spike, everything else follows (including food, which relies on energy for transport and production). Currently, fossil fuel interests are reaping record profits and share values have jumped over 50% since Dec 2021, an even bigger windfall than the defense contractors are pulling in. Ignoring this reality is hard to justify.
"They" clearly refers to the Twitter board, since they're the ones selling.

Which only leaves "it", hence my comment.
BBC R&D's series on Python Asyncio
Dogecoin has soared 44% in the past week as Musk's Twitter takeover lifts hopes
https://atomicinsights.com/south-texas-project-unit-1-trippe...

Failure of feedwater supply attributed to cold-related failure of sensors.
If a fast ship leaves earth and comes back. From earth point of view, when it comes back the passenger gonna have outlived us all whereas for the passenger, it only left for an hour.

Mind boggling really.
With Apple standing at the corner waiting for any of the social media companies making money from the app (in this case selling boosts) I wont be surprised if Musk come up with some solution that wont need him paying Apple a substantial cut from a feature like boost.
Had to look capex up : business, finance CAPitalEXpense or CAPitalEXpenditure; A financial term for the initial costs of a business, in contrast to operational expenditure.
Why would they switch?

What benefits do you think switching would offer these groups of people?

What downsides would switching bring?
Don't sell yourself just as a "bug-fixer". Sell yourself as a lifesaver when a company has a terrible problem so severe that it emdangers millions in revenue, or even the whole company.
Thank you greatly for sharing and updating with examples and context, though I would like to gently suggest an alternative to one piece of wisdom.

> “17. Self praise stinks!
From my mother when I did my touchdown dance after building something. Great advice (although I still dance once in a while when something works the first time. Sometimes I just can't help myself.)”

In contrast, in the book Tiny Habits by Stanford psychology professor BJ Fogg, self-praise is actually described as critical for making new habits and behaviour change stick, as it allows for positive reinforcement [1]. Anecdotally, I’ve observed friends who never celebrate major positive improvements in their life, and they seem to have depressive symptoms.

Though on the other hand, it’s quite possible that people view self-congratulatory celebratory gestures as negative. Perhaps it’s good to celebrate your achievements, but mostly in private or just with close friends to avoid attracting competition or challenge from others (I wish it was less risky to celebrate in public or among coworkers, but in practice, not everyone is celebratory of others’ success).

[1] More context from Fogg about why he thinks celebrating minor successes is important: https://ideas.ted.com/how-you-can-use-the-power-of-celebrati...
#2 assumes we won't develop life extension to the point that they aren't generation starships. I find this an unlikely assumption.
I regularly delete my tweets. When I've reached 3000 tweets it's time for another purge. I keep saying 'I'll never have to do this again if I just remain civil', but there /will/ be cuss words and angry tweets or badly taken selfies, or hot takes, no matter what I tell myself. So a regular purge is a healthy online hygiene practice we should all do.
No, WASM applications aren't a built-in universal web API, they are a huge payload that needs to be sent, anew (thanks to per-site caching in modern browsers), that solves the problem I don't understand exists in the first place.

It's great that you went "what if we compile to WASM?" but this is something that's not on you: this is something that should have been on browser vendors to just _expose_ because every browser ships with sqlite baked in already. Every user already has it, they just can't use it.
A long time ago I was in a fairly desperate technical situation, that to my and my lead’s minds required a stop the world, must fix or all’s lost approach.

Product wasn’t having it, and I couldn’t negotiate my way through. In the end we ignored them for the ~4 months needed to get back to systems health. We produced a retro of our findings, before and after states, etc. and consensus, from clients and even from product leadership, was that we did the right thing.

My PM ended up quitting and I permanently broke that relationship.

The best advice I ever received was: you were right. Was it worth it?
Fair point, edited to be less vague. These statements are based on my own observations. Would love to see a poll in 'the state of X' style regarding who contributes to OSS or not.
...and?

Like the internet will collapse without left-pad?
"altering" made me laugh a bit. I think you mean "alerting"! :)
Good to know! FWIW, this is a very beta demo version of a product I'm working on (Modsurfer). It's made to capture snapshot/moment-in-time details about a module (maybe you're running untrusted code in your system and want to track what you're actually running). However, in the future, it will likely be able to automatically import and track modules from cloud storage or URLs.
The left-pad one too I guess.

Some of them could've been caused by underfunding, if a maintainer would have preferred to spend more time and care on their project but had to some other work to make ends meet, and got sloppy with their OSS project.
That's a Samsung and sometimes iPhone choice. The Pixels have the best computational photography and they look very natural.
> This halloween is going to be the largest distributed super spreader event in history.

What's different about this Halloween than any other global or regional holiday with its associated festivals?
You can also increase efficiency by using waste heat.
OpenPGP signing keys have similar problems. Web of Trust is useless if you don't know any developers to begin with, dates on public keys can be forged, and false signatures can be forged by creating a large number of other false keys. False keys can be made more misleading using 32-bit short Key ID collision (and don't blame OpenPGP for this, OpenPGP is notorious for its complexity but at least it tried, meanwhile alternative tools like OpenBSD's signify does not attempt to address this problem - these tools of course are simpler).

Surprisingly, I think no attacker has ever forged a OpenPGP signature in a real-world security incident, likely because there's a lack of overlap between crypto nerds and crackers.

Though, public keys do not change often and leave somewhat of an "audit trail". I usually search the key fingerprint on the web to see if it has been mentioned elsewhere as a quick check. Some projects store signing keys in an official upstream git repository. It's somewhat of a higher guarantee, but one can still creates a false upstream page for phishing... But I guess it's too much of an effort so nobody has tried to do this, yet.

Thankfully, for distro users, it's only something for packagers to worry about, end users always receive verified packaged via the distro package manager.
New nuclear plants don't make sense in western Europe either. Ask the French about Flamanville 3, or the British about the subsidies for those new plants they're trying to build.

Maybe it's closest to competitive in eastern Europe? Except the cheapest nuclear plants from Russia aren't going to be a thing now.
> If you want to say things on their platform, you have to follow their rules.

This implies that rules set up by social media sihes are sacred and shôldn't be questioned.
It's not really self-correcting. When a consumer spends their money at inflated prices, it doesn't disappear. It goes to the business owner, who just received inflated prices for their goods. They, in turn, usually need to pay their suppliers, who can charge them inflated prices and make all their windfall profits disappear.

In my view, the main problems with inflation are:

1. It introduces a transaction cost tax. Every time a business raises prices, they need to spend time re-printing menus, marketing materials, websites, etc. They need to spend time renegotiating contracts. They need to re-figure their cost structure, and see if it still makes sense to use the same suppliers.

2. It disincentivizes long-term investment or planning over short-term consumption. If money's going to be worth less later, spend it now, regardless of whether you need what you're spending it on. Any long-range plans or savings will likely be invalidated by changing cost structures anyway.

As a concrete example, in times of high inflation the rational thing for an employee to do is to completely ignore their actual work and spend all their time focusing on getting a new job. Existing employees usually fall behind inflation, because they aren't actively negotiating their labor contracts and usually have no negotiating leverage anyway. The folks who make it up are those who job-hop. There is some employer out there willing to pay more than your current one; go find them, ask for 20% more than your current salary, and reap the windfall.

But if everybody does this, no actual work gets done, exacerbating any supply shortages. People become so incentivized to chase higher dollar values that they don't pay any attention to what those dollars represent.
Hahaha this is very, very rich. Almost too rich to even digest. Hearty LOL!
AI / GPT3 / sentiment analysis is probably roughly at the point where they could just _not_ show you posts you're likely to strongly disagree with. I know there's other issues around echo chambers, though, I just think if someone thought about this for a long time, they may be able to figure something out. Back when Google+ was being planned, they took it as a given that not everything should be said to everyone.
Can't wait till this Supreme Court revisits the remaining creatures of the New Deal, alongside its interstate commerce interpretations, and Congress' ability to delegate

Would I watch the world burn just to strip apart a few aspects of the SEC? It's not a no.
>Yes, insurrectionists typically see their actions as justified, and will frame them as such. What happened was an insurrection though, and the 1/6 committee and DOJ have done much to prove that.

I have no skin in this game, just curious what you think.

Why do you think trump said, "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"

Kind of a pretty terrible insurrection as well, a bunch of unarmed idiots in costumes ransacked a few offices. Normally an insurrection is more of a 'round up the politicians and execute them' type thing.

Or was it perhaps not an insurrection and it was instead a riot, not unlike the 2 years of racial riots, that got out of hand?
My server is 20.04 and it’s 1.1.1f. I would think most people aren’t on 22.04 yet as that’s still pretty fresh for a server.
That's kind of what this whole article was about, so in this specific case, yes?
Not only do they allow it, they actively encourage it. They tell businesses that it's really important to buy ad space on searches for your own brand name so that a competitor doesn't.

The way they say it really comes off like a protection racket. "Nice number one spot for searches for your brand name you have there, would be a shame if anything were to happen to it."

They make people feel better about it by giving a steep discount over normal ads, but that doesn't make it less of a racket.
If other people are making money off of your hard work... stop rewarding them with free work.

But it's nauseatingly entitled to just expect people to pay a person for their hobby. Pick a different hobby if it upsets you? There are other things a person can do with their time.
Yes, but people don't come to Google for ads, so they need to balance the benefits and harm to the users to avoid losing the traffic.
Very interesting. Thank you. I agree. Bing should do better.
If they think keeping the API closed down or closing it down even more, is an effective defence against the bots… They need a quick refresher course in why the Analog Hole makes perfect DRM impossible outside of completely controlled circumstances.

Even if you required a dedicated twitter device per account, and no api at all… no more twitter website even or read only website … then you would get people building robots to touch the screen as fast as possible to “physically automate “ the devices… if you limit that device to only having one account associated with it, you would need a way to deauthorise a device for when you sell it or upgrade to a new one, so they would just automate the deauthorise workflows and “load balance” across any necessary size pool of devices.

Any efforts like this will drastically increase user friction and drive away customers/users. Simultaneously as far as they go down this path there will be (as long as twitter is still considered relevant, at least) … be state funded propaganda organisations who’s interests align with funding such a device farm, and simultaneously they would want deniability so the operators of such twitter device farms would wind up in the sort of ethically dubious zone as companies like Pegasus group (examples because its after midnight and I don’t feel like looking up exact details, consider these hypothetical examples unless they are correct) selling their hardware to “legitimate governments” to perform a once off inspection of the phone data of someone crossing the border into the USA at JFK airport in New York, and also to counties like Saudi Arabia to hack and monitor dissidents round the clock by installing root kits/exploits.

Effectively there’s no point, they should open up the api and monitor it better.
Really cool idea, this seems like a fun project!

Would be great if it could be resized on mobile. In it's current form it's pretty much unusable.
If you've ever watched BBC in 1980s, the contrast couldn't be more stark. An amazing institution destroyed by modern journos.
It seems unlikely to me that the maintainers are that careless.
Isn't it grand? I come to HN just to read this kind of crap, too!
Judging from the article, most of these problems seem to have manifested on NPM. Is there a reason for that?
1 euro in France.