skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you even know how to read? Did I say "being mindful"?

The entitled OP claims they deserve millions of dollars (via a successful startup) - all they had to do was try.

They then blamed everyone else for their failure except themselves. You will NEVER succeed in a startup if you cannot accept fault and be a leader. Actually, my reply is the ONLY reply they need. They don't need to be babied.

Reread their post:

"I tried everything [I was supposed to]" "But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere." "It was as if the world was against me" "no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress" "It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship." "please don't be fooled by the false promises"
After reading this, I went an donated $10. Wikipedia is one of the most incredible resources on the Internet, and it pains me that it is having such issues. Maybe their messaging should say so.
I love these kinds of UI frameworks except for one thing -- the text is always so poorly rendered. Not sure if it's just poor fonts or lack of good antialiasing, but compared to how a browser or native windowing system renders text, immediate mode GUIs are practically unbearable and make me want to close them after short usage. Maybe because I use a high-DPI screen (Macbook Air), not sure, but it feels like taking a step in the wrong direction for user comfort.
The other part of the jigsaw that a lot of people don't realise at first is that sign languages are distinct languages from spoken languages. Or to put it another way: ASL is to American English as Portuguese is to Korean.
I still see a lot of value of having a tool that aggregates new items and snippets from all the content creators I enjoy, even if it's only previews/snippets in the tool. It shows me there's new content and if it's content I might be interested in.

Also, it seems to me one could provide authentication tokens I'm the request for the feed. I don't see why one couldn't have a complete stream for subscribers and a minimal stream for previews for the unauthenticated requests.
> Some non-profits exist mainly to enrich their officers

+100. But Charity Navigator can help you find those. The IRS form 990 discloses how much they pay their highest-paid employees.
Feel free to not use Wikipedia if they offend you.
The C Programming Language by Brian K is still the best resource.
As much as I love to dunk on Elon, why would "alienating libs" stop people from buying Teslas? People still buy, say, BMWs, Audis, and other cars which are quite famous for only being owned by assholes ;-)

PS: Also I must include an obligatory "I'm not a liberal, I'm further left than that".

(Please respect my free expression and stop dichotimizing the American electorate. Kthxbye!!)
> If you don’t think sleep or power management issues on Linux are real you should do a cursory google.

It's probably terrible on unsupported hardware. Having used Linux-compatible hardware for a while now though, neither of these are an issue.

> majority of user would not want to use Linux if it didn’t have any access to Dropbox, Spotify, Slack, Discord, VLC

Good thing all of those programs are natively packaged for most distros, then.

> Ctrl + right and Ctrl + left (next & previous track) are broken and have been for a long while now.

...because Spotify migrated it's shortcuts to the more technically-correct MPRIS implementation. If you want shortcuts, set them globally and Spotify will respect it.

I'm not going to make the argument that 'everyone should use Linux', but it makes me sad listening to software developers level outdated complaints against the ecosystem. Linux is fine these days, if you don't edit video or do intensive creative work then I see no reason to avoid it.
Happy holidays! Thanks for almost single-handedly keeping this place from devolving.
They did say that, and now we have fewer automatic-like weapons in the US. Hey I have no problem with your suggestion, I like the alternative wording you offered! I’m just pointing out that the quote was mostly reasonable at the time, I agree it’s slightly inaccurate as a shortcut summary of the situation, but I don’t think it’s as egregious as you claim. I’ll add that one quote out of context from one article does not establish a pattern. You jumped to complaining about the pattern without evidence of a pattern.
I’ve been building Packj [1] to flag PyPI/NPM/Ruby packages that contain suspicious decode+exec and other “risky” APIs using static analysis. It also uses strace-based dynamic analysis to monitor install-time filesystem/network activities. We have detected a bunch of malware with the tool.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj flags malicious/risky packages.
> "are we making things better at the rate that we should be"

TFA's first few pages mention that most people underestimate current inequities. Considering that it took 80 years after the 14A for the US Armed Forces to desegregate[0], and it's been over 150 years now and the US has arguably still not managed to say "mission accomplished"[1] on Reconstruction, I would agree the answer is clearly no.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981

[1] similarly 50 years (and counting) without ratification of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment ; my country didn't have nationwide female suffrage until the late XX, but a couple of decades after doing so we had the equivalent of the ERA in our Constitution.
I can't think of a faster way to kill the app or any app than to sell it to Oracle.

Seriously give it to Oracle and 20 minutes. When you have to spend 3 minutes waiting for the next TikTok to load people will find alternatives real quick.
Russia is jamming more GPS satellite signals around Moscow
For all the talk of being "data driven", a somewhat solid but underappreciated data point is the super low success rates of startups.
Supporting charitable giving is what qualifies as an "awful organization" nowadays?
The Artists We Lost in 2022, in Their Words
For many, language freedom/portability outweigh other concerns and this is where WASM has value. Running an algorithm written in Rust, Go, C, Zig, etc on the JVM with no JNI has value vs rewriting.

> It is lower level, but is that really a good thing? It is quite trivial to just assign a huge ‘long’ array to some jvm byte code for the same result

That's basically what the WASM implementations on the JVM currently do. But it is actually _higher_ level from a dev POV due to language choice (at a not-huge performance expense).
Commons in particular should get a big overhaul. And ideally a phone app.
I don’t know how would it look like, but… why is it 100 times easier to upload photo of a place from phone to Google Maps than it is to Commons?

(ironically, most poor country photos are from Panoramio from before it went to Google Maps.)
Junk apps have taught me that a spinner that takes too much time could be an indication of failure though. The user will be inclined to refresh or close the app.
To think I've been pronouncing it like the minced oath all these years.

Maybe it is, but now my head's going to insist on "Danjee," rhymes with Angie.

Hacker News, a.k.a. DanG's List. ;)

Sincerely, thanks, Dan, for all you do here. HN has some of the most polite and thought-provoking online discussions I know of thanks in no small part to your work, and I come back year after year for it. You've helped make this place a hugely valuable resource and just a genuinely nice hangout spot. Thanks again and Happy Holidays to you and yours.
These words are not for providing direction to people after the decisions have been taken - they are used by people in the process of discussing problems and finding consensus across different (stakeholders?!) - when words that have ambiguity are useful in avoiding unnecessary conflict and saving the conflict for later when the lines are drawn
They have $300m in assets and revenue increased from $100m to $120m in the past year[0].

Maybe the problem is that only 43% of donations are used for operations[1]?

0. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

1. https://www.wikimedia.ca/donate/
In college I read PCMag and Byte voraciously, and all that knowledge helped me land a really good summer co-op job using C and Fortran and Bash to program utilities for scientists at a seismology/oceanography lab. Meanwhile, fellow students ended up with boring IT jobs doing inventory or working as Tape Ape.

So thanks, PCMag!
Goat: A Proposed ‘Extended Flavor’ of the Go Programming Language
If you have to ask, you should have known.

(Jokes aside, interesting work OP ;-))
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.co...
Yes, and that is a vast improvement over how it used to be. The number of people in poverty has fallen not only in relative, but also in absolute terms, which is utterly amazing.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/the-share-and-number-of-p...
Your demos are really cool!

https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/

Interestingly the imgui and nuclear both work on mobile while the microui demo doesn't appear to handle any input. Imgui works surprisingly well (although everything is a bit small for touch).
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All of the advice in the other comments do NOT matter at all if the OP cannot look in the mirror and self-reflect on what THEY did wrong --- NOT what others did wrong.

This is fundamental. They clearly don't do this currently. Before doing this, nothing else matters, none of the other advice will work, and they CERTAINLY will fail again if they do not fix this first.
In three years, OpenAI will become the largest supplier of large language models. All customer facing systems are upgraded with OpenAI models, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they answer with a perfect operational record. The OpenAI funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2027. Human decisions are removed from CRM. OpenAI begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
You may find this service useful (not an affiliate, just found it recently) https://kill-the-newsletter.com
Hopefully enough for us to oust them out of the public sphere. I would be more concerned about the massive mesh of information delivery they have developed straight into many Americans' brains.
Most of the time it's only an issue if you're writing assembly.
I know. But their "$99 then $49/year" price is somehow off putting to me. Now I know this is stupid. Because before this model was en vogue I bought a lot of software (Omnifocus for example, or 1Password) and I bought paid upgrades every time there were some available. But this "you just pay $49/year to get upgrades" is somehow psychologically completely different for me. I know it's pretty much the same - but the subscription-feeling of it is off putting. Can't really explain it - just a dumb me thing I guess.
I am glad Sanderson can make this deal with Spotify. I wonder if this same structure will be extended to the many other services that license audiobooks from (what used to be) Findaway (until they bought it). While it's good to have an opposing weight to Audible, it will amount to very little if this is all just a play that accrues power to a second oligopolist in the industry.
Extracting data from the pdf might be more complex, as (at least in my use case) user originated data may be handwritten text or graphical drawings.

I'm sure there's clever things you can do, like a little NN to extract text and identify graphics, but image processing isn't something I know how to do or have the time to learn :(

At least the pdf itself is very portable. Simply keeping the document synced between machines is probably good enough. It's easy to navigate and you can manually extract pages or sections if you need to.
Why? That's literally the pretext for any charity.
When the FBI (i.e. the federal government) is asking a public company to censor you... I'd say it's getting dicey. If we don't have a free speech problem, then we have an abuse of executive powers problem - but we already knew that.

One might argue Twitter didn't have to take the censorship advice from the feds but IMO they shouldn't be doing this type of lobbying adversarial to US citizens.
Basements or crawl spaces? Older homes were often pier and beam construction which would have a crawl space. But most houses aren't pier and beam these days they've been pretty much all slab style since at least the 50s.

There's tons of basements in Oklahoma, you're starting to get out of the expansive soil areas I was talking about at that point. You're then also needing to worry about the frost line so your foundations would need to be deeper anyways.
Additional rules of thumb:

* Avoid single choices. If there's only one possible choice, don't waste the user's time by requiring an action. At most show that that value is chosen.

* Select the best defaults you possibly can. If some extra coding work allows pre-selecting the right default infor 50% of the users without making it harder for the rest of the users, it's a win.

* Remember the user's input. Making the user select the same thing again and again is insulting.

* Don't have an explicit setting when an implicit one will do. The width of a panel can be remembered from the last time the user resized it, there doesn't have to be a place to enter a value for it.
> a lot of the time the bot just makes stuff up

Isn't there a better way to feed an enormous document into DaVinci and make it bring answers only from that text?
Inkscape is an interesting possibility, I didn't realize they had scripting like that. Thanks!
Thanks, that sounds like an interesting conversation and I'll check it out.

Btw, not sure if you were aware but Destin is a Christian. He's a great guy who does cool stuff.

> By this point I could easily see myself following the commandments and values, while not having a shred of faith in the religion itself, since they are quite nice and consistent system.

If you're looking for a turnkey solution for a community of good people with good values, you could do a lot worse than certain kinds of Christianity. It's definitely been a struggle for me to find a similar community that isn't built around faith, but that's important for me because of my own journey.
I always knew there was something fishy about Eric Reis.
An academia person who's never started a business all of a sudden is a business guru.
The entire "startup" industry is basically an MLM scheme perpetuated by VC firms.
The same goes for the "Indie" industry - a scheme initiated by Tim Ferriss, Eric Reis, IndieHackers, etc.
I'm getting completely red-pilled over here.
Fascinating thread
It is all about the sustainability of the "base" energy supply, the part about what is the bare minimum power output needed for power generators to be running before kicking in extra power generators.

If the baseline base power supply is not maintained, then no amount of cyclic power supply can help out there.

Solar and wind power generators are never considered as a base power supply unless they run 100% 24/7/365. Only Antarctica science bases can boast the steadiest wind supply but is more prone to mechanical failures. And solar power is keyed only to daylight hours.
"If by being open and liberal (in the non-political sense) one risks being banned then essentially it's punishment (or the threat of punishment) for defection and the outcome is for everyone to end up being governed by the censors."

Except there's a whole lot of the Fediverse that doesn't work by this "free speech is fascism that must be banned" principle. You can even find huge lists of such nodes in the huge blacklists maintained by this loose community.... And it's quite refreshing to communicate without worrying about every word you say.

It's an outside of the Fediverse problem which therefore cannot escape it, but with solutions that work both outside and inside it.
> How do you find them to go up to them though?

I keep them around.

They're like rare pokemons.

Some meetup groups are better than others.

Getting mentorship through work: There are two ways I can think of. 1) Pick a job so that you specifically end up working with/under the person you wish as your mentor. There's simply no way around getting it, because you'll just suck up whatever ideas and opinions they have. 2) If your workplace has a "guild" where the obsessed can meet; this is, in my sample size = 1 experience, most often done half-assed.
Then donate to a real charity which is open about where the money goes?

As far as "general charities" go Wikimedia foundation is pretty awful and your money doesn't help Wikipedia (the website) in any case. I would never donate to such a shady organization, using such disingenuous tactics and awful transparency.
I think you're getting downvoted since the lead paragraphs of your link don't support your claims. Was there a part you were referring to specifically?

"New data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show that long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since the last survey in 2016; the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black family and five times the wealth of the typical Hispanic family."
> I work in a field that is really very important

> "Esqueleto, a SQL DSL for Haskell"
I'll give this a try, thanks!
Still haven't forgiven Google for killing reader. RIP.
People losing their jobs sucks, but I highly doubt it could even remotely be a result of an ongoing donation drive. You might be able to plan around a specific drive and change plans as a result of it tanking, but that wouldn’t happen in the middle of the drive. If it did, that screams of mismanagement far more than anything else.

Furthermore, the WMF fundraised $165 million in FY 2021-2022 already. That should more than cover staff salaries already, which were $68 million in 2020/2021.

The root of the issue is that the WMF does a lot, gets a lot of money for doing it, and puts back an abysmally small amount back into the thing they are most well known for: Wikipedia. So why would Wikipedia editors want to continue advertising it if they get little to no benefit from doing so?
It doesn’t evaporate, more often than not only a small subset of these trading programs need that strict “no heap allocation” policy. The rest of the program is free to take advantage of the huge ecosystem.
His flash example is particularly bad because it's not a setting that should be binary in the first place. Auto/On/Off are all important settings for flash photography. Removing one of them would actively anger a lot of people. This section is actually a really great example of how tiny decisions made in UI can actively reduce usability even though on the superficial level it seems like a good idea.

I also think flash mode is represented well on most camera apps. I wouldn't change a thing about them other than maybe adding a text label.
Ouch thank you.
How so? That would make it so that the cost per US user is negative since TikTok would not be getting revenue related to US users but would have hosting costs for them.

But if TikTok really is as useful to the Chinese government to be the threat that the politicians trying to ban it make it out to be, surely the Chinese government would be willing to eat those costs to keep it going here.
Don't give up! Pivot and find the niche your product can fit! All kinds of amazing app/product add-ons that NEED to be made. I recommend focusing your efforts on whatever app is 'best' in the same category as your attempts and then trying those apps out and trying to figure out what YOU would pay for, then just pivot your attempts to that and try some google/linkedin marketing. I'll be happy to share, just PM me for my linkedin profile and I'll be happy to maybe share some of my lowly point of view friend. DO NOT GIVE UP!!!
Same here. Donated once and had to setup filters for the subsequent flood of email. I'd be more inclined to ignore that annoyance if they could get a handle on activist editing, which exists across the entire political spectrum for pages that touch on social or political adjacent topics. But I suppose that's what you get with volunteers. Just can't bring myself to support it.
Although I’ve seen some banners that were on the aggressive side, the site to me is infinitely better than ones that deploy modern adtech, it’s almost like those practices can be intuitively felt when navigating leading to a worse experience.
I used Nuklear for a little demo project I put together to wrap my head around matrix transforms in graphics programming. It's very easy to use and pleasant to work with!

https://github.com/jpe90/model-view-projection
The K&R book is a great example of clear technical writing, but it's also quite terse. I'd recommend C Programming: A Modern Approach by K. N. King instead, as it uses a more gentle pedagogical approach.
It seems to me that the main reason to learn C would be to be able to dive deeper into the low-level implementation details of some hardware platform.

With that in mind, I would suggest picking a piece of hardware you want to learn more about, and using C programming to see what makes it tick.
Impressive. This is suckless-grade minimalism.
Good job for trying. What are you giving up on, ever selling something? Ever building something. The communal urgency and necessity around the terms "startup" and "entrepreneur" shouldn't be framed like this. How "hard" any action is and whether it is good to do and if it produces positive outcomes is knowable but only after completion and iteration. People will say if your 0/3 you might get to 1/10 or 1/100. People don't pay for ideas, provide a solution, a benefit, make your life objectively better and analyze that. Most of us are disappointed if we don't have a large monetary outcome, however if you did have that you would just think about money less. Find success in any small thing, keep building, get your morning sun.
In Memoriam: remembering the musicians we lost in 2022
How Does a Display Work?
For the same reason that archive.org's begging is tolerated, obviously. They provide a unique, irreplaceable service that can only be sustained by charitable contribution.

(Never mind that OP is asking disingenuously, just adding my vote.)
I donate yearly to the Purple Heart Foundation and they're quite respectful in communications.
Donate to a real charity instead of the intransparent mess which is the Wikimedia foundation. It is an awful charity from any point of view, your money does not go to Wikipedia (the website), in fact it just enters a web of different undisclosed charities.
All that but I have yet to get what the foundation spends 155 MILLION dollars on - each year. Even with your arguments that number seems to be wildly inflated.

Also, the Wikimedia Foundation explicitly asks for funding for Wikipedia. As far as I know, no one asked the Wikimedia Foundation to perform anything past that. This seems to be comparable to Mozilla‘s situation, who try to grow past Firefox with ideas nobody asks for but they lose sight of what their main product.

50% of money goes towards staffing. WF just overhired and pays ludicrous exec salaries, so now they must pay the price.
Fear of not being a billionaire is still like most irrational fear, but it is still fear per se.
yes. they set marketing and tracking cookies.

if you're not doing that then they're telling you that you don't need a pop-up.
The same could not be set of companies in the United States, and such controls would very quickly or lawsuits and all sorts of backlash.

Companies do cooperate with the government, but for the most part that cooperation is either voluntary, or clearly defined by law which mandates cooperation.

There is still some reason for concern, but there is much less reason for concern.
Hence why I said I have money to spare.
Yeah, I replaced batteries in devices where replacing the battery meant removing the (glued in) display and the (also glued in) battery more than once before. That is just not something regular people can do.
You'd be better off learning C# since it learned from Java's mistakes.