skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar thought as OP, except I didnt just "move" the repos and delete on github.

Instead, the github mirrors now contain informative readmes with a helpful link to the sourcehut repos.

Why? Because unfortunately github is still considered as some sort of industry standard, and this is important for discoverability, voting/favouriting (stars) etc. It also allows someone to star the project on github to show their support.
Huh? You’re telling me you think they can travel light years to get here but don’t have the tech to land without us detecting them? That’s an assumption.
The ideal conditions to stimulate daydreaming seems pretty obvious to me - sit me down in any class lecture.

Imagine that my mind like a glider. Glider is connected to a Cessna by a tether, but it's a magical tether that can disappear. In fact, it takes me active work to keep it connected, like I'm holding on to the end of the rope with my hands. The plane takes off and I'm following in lockstep about the main subject matter... looking down at the landscape below, to the left, to the right. After a quick climb, and at velocity, I've forgotten about keeping tethered, holy crud, I'm in the air! I want to bank, dive, maybe loop! What's over here? I can catch a thermal and go on forever depending on the landscape, but still often see more appealing currents and need to switch over. Oh wait, where did the plane go?
They took the handle @x from him and moved all of his stuff to @x12345678998765

I’m not sure what would be more angering, losing @x or the fact that they gave him a 16 character handle 15 of which is nonsense.

It’s also just a weird new handle, it’s not even like they tried to replace it with something good, just a jira ticket that says “give him something new, it can start with x but should be clear it’s not associated with us” and someone just rolled over the number keys.
Fair point. I try to reach outside my bubble when I can, and do know and speak with tech workers who live outside SV (and outside the US), but my biases certainly show sometimes.

But I do believe that, even for an employer who might by sympathetic to some of this person's views, many will not want to take a chance dealing with someone who might be a liability in the workplace in various ways due to those views. Certainly writings on one's blog aren't a perfect indication, but I think most hiring managers would prefer people who keep their more extreme views under their hat. Whether or not this is fair is besides the point; I do believe this is the reality.

For the record, I think many companies would have the same reaction to someone who posts angry-sounding leftist rhetoric on their website. But I do expect many are more tolerant of that than angry-sounding right-wing rhetoric.

Beyond that, even without all the social and political views, I think things like "I'll only work in C" and "I'm bad at understanding other people's code" alone would disqualify a candidate for most jobs.
They could have run that same test at like 5-10 mph and accomplished the same thing without possibly causing an accident.

This entirely feels like a manufactured scenario since they simply did not act like a informed driver, and decided to freak out.
Im not ruling out these UFO hearings are a conspiracy. Some sort of intelligence misdirection. But I recognize this is pure speculation.

But cover for not banning congress from stock trading? Really? What is your basis?
> It's never about languages, but it is about concepts.

Increasingly, it's about current paradigms and frameworks. Concepts are potentially buried in these.
> At that point, it will be up to websites that rely on AdSense revenue to decide what to do with customers they aren't monetizing.

Isn’t this a no brainer? Ad funded websites have zero incentive to serve pages to ad blocker users. Not only they don’t make any money from them, they cost them money.
Not true. This is very obviously a red light for that lane.
I read that response in the inverse (that is, hiring product managers is a way to avoid building a toxic software team). Why? Because I'm on a team with no product manager, and we are expected to all service in that role, at least tangentially. Not ideal.
Ars Staff comment:

> Just a random bit of trivia, Gene has a photo credit on Ars. We're casual friends who know each other through pinball. We'd run into each other at shows where he was always shooting photographs. He kindly let me use some of his photos when I wrote up my piece on the Museum of Pinball.

> Very nice guy, very chill, it's super lame that he had the name he's used for so long just outright stolen over a billionaire's ego. I had at least hoped he'd get paid off
There are a number of flagged comments which don't deserve it. And as long as there is no outlet for objecting to poor flagging decisions, I'll use the comments section to call attention to it.

If we are going to have a discussion about a performer unafraid of controversy and who struggled with mental and spiritual concerns publicly, a robust conversation should be allowed.
I'm sorry, what? Supporting taxation? Believing rehab is necessary for curbing addiction instead of simple willpower? The state enforcing its laws? Equity?

These are lefty positions if I've ever heard them
He leaked documents from British and Australian intelligence according to his wiki page, so he obviously had broad access. I’m paraphrasing, but he’s specifically talked in interviews that he had access to almost everything.
Maybe merge the three video links and keep the news stories separate?
The world needs an academic fraud Jubilee. We could probably design a cryptographic protocol where you can submit a paper for retraction if and only if all other papers above a threshold are also retracted. A kind of pre-commitment hash for a multi party prisoners dilemma.

Reality is, the way bureaucracies work is the only way to survive in it is to become compromised so that all the other compromised people in it can trust you. From what I can tell from government, there's an informal initiation stage, where you are pressured to commit a fraud, where it shows you can "play ball," and then you are in the fold. An academic fraud jubilee would free a lot of people to do real work. It sounds crazy, but not nearly as crazy as what would have had to occur to create the replication crisis.
So the laws were misguided. Why should someone be granted a monopoly on excluding others from using an idea (patent) or content (copyright)? To prop up a business model that cannot be sustained except if based on threats of violence?
As usual, a thousand word essay on Google's WEI without ever mentioning that Apple sailed that ship silently a while ago, therefore not attracting any attention or backlash.

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...

https://toot.cafe/@pimterry/110775130465014555

The sorry state of tech news / blogs. Regurgitating the same drama without ever looking at the greater picture.
I think we ran an effective process to cover the RCA area of our operations. Importantly (IMO), we did go to lengths to understand and ascribe actions/activities that resulted in/contributed to an outage to a specific individual; we were just careful to not assign individual consequences to them. I think it's critically important to understand as precisely as possible what happened, who did it, what they were looking at that caused them to take that action, and which parts of that [if any] we'd change with the benefit of hindsight. I ran the Ops team at the time and it was easy for me to enforce the lack of consequences for anything short of an intentionally destructive act.

If "blameless post-mortem" means "we want to make sure that no one has any idea who was responsible", you can achieve that but you probably won't like the results.

If it instead means "we want to know why it happened, who contributed, and why, so that we can not repeat it", you have a fighting chance.

I've written and published multiple RCAs that explain in detail why /u/sokoloff caused an outage, when it started, when it was contained, and how to avoid that mistake in the future. I think that trying to obscure who did something is not only not worth the effort, but is actively destructive to the learning and trust.

If I can't trust that my name can appear next to an honest mistake, what else must I be distrustful of? If instead, I see respected, senior staff readily taking responsibility and sharing their mistakes without fear of consequences, I trust my company's leaders more, not less.
Amusingly the driver also mistook it for green initially. Indeed a confusing intersection
Water is basically free. The cost is basically the cost to transport, stock, and process your sale. You can get water for $1 at a gas station, which means they are charging you basically zero markup for the fact that it is a life saving high value product.

I have tons of friends that tell me to price my saas through the roof because "look at the value!!!" ignoring that there are alternatives to it that are basically free, like a piece of paper.
Then the driver of that car should be fined and/or have their licence taken away.
The issue that the OP pointed out and that your comment completely failed to address is that the way the system is set up is that the pressure to produce either pushes academics either towards dishonesty or pushes them out.
It will be a factor in the gubernatorial race.

Queue videos of crying mothers not being able to drive the truck to the store and feed their children.
> Agreed. Eventually the attestor will be measuring “proof of life” with the camera, for example.

Ultimately, it's all just instructions being sent to your computer to be executed, and "your computer" is whatever you say it is. Everything (e.g. Intel SGX et al) can be emulated in a sandbox. That's how modern DRM is defeated.
So what kinds of cool stuff could be built with a room temperature superconductor? Better levitating trains?
I need to play around with mold:

15:55 $ du -Hs --si target/
11G target/
> SaaS from established firms seems to be more durable & maintained.

Google is infamous for shutting down services. And the same thing regularly happens even to large companies when they get acquired by even larger companies who then shut down their existing services and try to force migrate everyone to the parent's offering.

Conversely, stalwarts like Oracle and IBM will often continue providing a service indefinitely. For a price. Because once you're locked in they're happy to keep taking your money. All of your money. Forever. This is... differently terrible?

> the old model was - PS pay $600 once, then $200 for updates every 2 years or so.

But many people would just keep using the original version indefinitely. Paying $800 once is a lot less than paying $150/year until you die. It also lets you choose whether you want to pay more for the new features or save money because you don't need them.

And you can't use the Consumer Price Index for software because software inflation is negative. As more people get computers over time the size of the market increases but the fixed cost of developing the software is the same, so the amortized unit cost goes down and in a competitive market that gets passed on to the customer. In the 90s people paid money for Unix and zip utilities and web browsers and now they're all free because they have such a big market that the unit cost is effectively zero.

SaaS things remain not because they don't follow the same cost structure but because lock-in through proprietary formats and training costs and migration costs keep people stuck on the thing they started with, which in turn keeps competitors from achieving the scale needed to get prices down.
They most likely haven't been able to reverse engineer much, if anything. But I suspect a profit motive was part of keeping it secret. If everyone knows, then other companies will compete to look at the materials and the contractors could lose out on a lot of money.
So, just to be clear, your "good first step to solving much of society's problems" is... ending most forms of entertainment?
If you have the equipment, some $100s on consumables, some 10 hours of labor, and some 60 hours of waiting.
Recent and related:

Zenbleed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848680 - July 2023 (355 comments)

OpenBSD on Zenbleed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36852300 - July 2023 (59 comments)
Be willing to pay for them.

Users don't pay for reddit. People staying don't pay for Airbnb (it is just a cut of the booking). Advertisers pay for YouTube. Conferences, influencers, and rich people seeking reach pay for LinkedIn.

If you want something pure and ad free and aligned with your interests, you and the platform need to share interests. As things stand, they do not, as your version of a great platform is losing money hand over fist for them.
> It is. UFO reports come out of all of those countries. India has a religious tradition with very clear UFO references, and videos come out of China all the time (although they tend to be purposely faked 100% of the times I've seen).

I have lived/ been a citizen/ married to someone from each of these listed places. UFO reference in Hinduism is zero. I am practicing Hindu - I can vouch with 100% certainty. My wife is devout Buddhist/ formerly Christian & she confirms there is nothing in their scripture. I cannot engage any of these answers in good faith of critical thinking, as whenever there is a question of evidence, it is either trust-me-bro or it-is-classified
You can’t opt of it, your friends will make decisions that affect you, bother you with political opinions, share your photos etc.
Totally disagree.

There was so much "non-revealance" announced.

Every question that must be closed/scif based confirms the darkest thoughts.

We have been in contact with them from the 1930s in the current extant of global governments....

They interfere with sensors, weapons arming and are concerned about nukes.

There have been "very disturbing" incidents with malevolent entities.

Wait till we get to the biologics part...

They DIDNT ask if DNA was recovered or other medical/tissue samples... that should be the fundamental question ; what does their DNA look like, if we had recovored "biologics" and then what was done with that information? Were hybrids being made from them?

They also never ask about breakaway civs.
Isn't the majority of what Snowden leaked still being privately held from the public?
The Farage and Coutts case shows that low decouplers threaten liberal democracy
I think the real complaint is over who has the power to "cancel" someone, and being upset at how that has shifted.
The reason to call of a strike is actually to be able to pass a _bad_ deal. You see, the workers are not very likely to accept a bad deal if they've just come out on strike - even if their leadership has made excessive concessions in the negotiations and is putting it up to a vote. If, however, the leadership has "taken the wind out of the sails" of the struggle, the demobilized workers have the gotten the message that their struggle is over and there's nothing to be done, and are much more likely to accept it. This is usually accompanied by union leadership publishing glowing descriptions of all of the wonderful gains, usually in vague and confusing terms; never listing the set of original goals; and not mentioning what concessions were made.

An uncorrupted union would never calls off a strike because of an employer proposition: If the proposition/proposed contract is offered enough time before the strike was decided, then it is brought up for discussion - with the negotiations team presenting both the benefits and the detriments: What they got and what they conceded; and the result of the discussion decides the fate of the planned strike. But when an offer is made just before a strike, naturally - the strike proceeds, and the offer is discussed in parallel with the strike. If the offer is accepted, the strike ends up being a short one; and if it is rejected - the struggle continues with the "wind in their sails".
> it wasn't worth the hassle

If selling licenses is a hassle, then that indicates a problem with the open source ecosystem as GitHub and other code hosting websites should offer monetization tools for selling closed-source licenses directly from their web interface. I'm talking legal forms, templates, payment processors, and product tracking. Selling licenses should be easy, not a hassle.

[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.0.0
In the 2010’s, cheating was commonplace and socially accepted.

People were still being caught and harshly punished, but nobody would snitch if they saw you up to something. Snitching carried much more social stigma than cheating on an exam or whatever.

What didn’t help was these stupid false positive prone plagiarism detectors like turnitin which would assign an arbitrary “score” that would get you dinged for copying - even if it was original work.
That's fascinating, are you able to share anything about that system, or what those 6 Z80s are doing within it?
I am entirely fine with that, yes. It might make room for better business models to return.
Hi hackers and debuggers, In my recent video on the series, 'Bug fix and Chill' on my youtube channel, this week we dig into Debugging with some of Chrome dev tool's latest features.

It's a step by step guide to some of my favourite tools in devtools which I use daily.

I am a new youtuber and would mean a lot if you check out my videos and learn something useful.
The article doesn't say that "blogs are all good". It says:

> Start a blog. Post an interesting technical article to it once or twice a year—something you’ve learned, or a bug you’ve fixed, or a problem you’ve solved. After a few years stop bothering entirely, but leave the blog online somewhere.

That's all it says about starting a blog. It doesn't say blogging about any topic is good. It very much doesn't say posting about social and political issues is good. It just says that posting a couple times a year about technical topics is good.
I recommend tracking actual policies instead of asinine culture war nonsense on social media. Never mind liking or disliking politicians on a personal level, look at what policy objectives a politician is trying to achieve. Don't take democracy for granted.
Sounds like Patreon with extra steps. May or may not be a good idea.
No, this is how industries work. The slaughterhouse industry body does not ask the cows for their opinion.
If those people seriously switched to Chrome just cause of Pocket, which I doubt, then sure. Otherwise, we're allowed to complain about a bad feature in the browser we use. Maybe the problem is people treating Firefox like a religion instead of just a better alternative to Chrome.
Building a Hot Dog/Not Hot Dog Image Classifier in JavaScript
OSM is predominantly human-made. This is predominantly machine-made.
Founder meetup, hosted by Stripe, in Chi on 8/15
When you look at historic examples of cancel culture its almost absurd at how tame their offenses were. Dixie Chicks are another example that come to mind where critical but not controversial statements are made and it ruined people's careers.
In 2023 I don't think the TLD matters at all. As long as you don't have an offensive term in your domain I doubt anyone would blink twice.
For a parallel effort to save heirloom beans, see Rancho Gordo. They sell online and in stores; their bean club sometimes has an 11,000 place waitlist.

https://www.ranchogordo.com/

Yes, Masienda rocks, and making one's own masa from homemade nixtamal is extraordinary. Many of us learned the idea of using an Indian wet grinder from "Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico", where Bricia Lopez recommends the Premier Small Wonder Table Top Wet Grinder that I have used for years. It takes 40 minutes of scraping every now and then, adding water to yield a too-wet masa one dries with a bit of masa harina.

A dramatic improvement comes by instead using a chocolate refiner based on the same unit, with custom hardware. My favorite hardware store puzzle: Who else has my problem? Home chocolate makers are famously particular.

https://www.melangers.com/products/premier-chocolate-refiner...

Masienda sells a tabletop "Molinito" masa grinder. I've eaten tortillas at a restaurant that uses this grinder, and I was not impressed. It could be that they chose a coarser texture to impress on their customers that this was artisan food! However, the original method of hand grinding masa took time. An Indian wet grinder more closely replicates this process than any "one and done" mill.
> SaaS from established firms seems to be more durable & maintained.

coughPantonecough
That sounds so weird, it took me a minute to understand.
Go to nitter.net which has no login requirement and no ads, but all the same content that X (tmsfkat) has.
My question is: why isn't there yet a thing (or is there?) that works like AWS, but has the UX experience of a smartphone: you can install "apps" on it -- which you pay for hosting / bandwidth -- and it handles integration with all your devices, while leaving you in charge of how they're configured and what happens with the data?

Sorta like expanding the mobile phone experience to encompass your whole internet experience, so you can choose what services you use, and where they're hosted, and those two things are fundamentally decoupled.

One such app could be a sort of 'charge card' for websites, which would pay them pennies, or larger tips if you like, instead of having to see ads.

Another might be a connection to a search engine which allows you to tailor _your_ search experience instead of it being optimized in e.g. Google's interests with all the commercial stuff at the top.
That's like saying lying about the Iraq war or any other policy of national security or deep state priorities "puts their reputation and career on the line".

It is trivial to see that pushing a potentially desired position of the state/intel agencies could very well raise one's reputation and career prospects with these institutions.

The primary critique of this whole issue is that it is lies. So, why would lying in the interest of the state be bad for one's status within those circles?

Framed in this manner these people are risking absolutely nothing.
In general I agree, but yesterday I saw a car blow through a stop sign at an intersection and then honk at the cars going perpendicularly through the intersection (they had no stop signs) :/ people are pretty happy to be confidently wrong.
This sounds a bit like the Stage Manager thing in newer macOS versions. Except that they do this with groups which can have more than one window.
You're saying the driver decided to experiment with this rather than following the law?
> If it had instead spent that vast R&D budget on PRISM and MICA, it would have had what became NT to itself.

It’s not clear to me whether they would have gotten as much out of it as Microsoft did out of NT, though. The marketing of NT4 (at least) reached down to fairly small server setups (even if wasn’t particularly popular on the workstation side—hardware requirements?), what with the BackOffice branding and everything, and Microsoft wouldn’t have blown you off if you just wanted to give them $5k for a few licenses. As I’m reading it, DEC’s mindset couldn’t really support this kind of strategy.

Also, nearly nobody programs against the NT API as opposed to the Win32 API and things built on top of it. I can’t tell what the intention of MICA was—keep the nice native API essentially private and only expose the VMS “personality” running on top of it, like Microsoft did, or something else?
Is there glyphosate in our food? How does it get there?