skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love to see this kind of leadership from stewards of open source. I hope more companies will follow their lead in general. (Not necessarily saying this approach is the most effective, but the messaging is in the right direction!)

Netted about $25 from their funding round, which is very nice. I can imagine if 1000 companies did this, then on average, many open source maintainers would have their living expenses covered in most parts of the world.

That said, in my case, $25k/yr isn't enough to survive on where I live without aid. Not all open source maintainers need to make a living from their open source work, but it will almost certainly increase the quality of our open source libraries if the developers both choose to do that and are able to sustain their living.

I wrote about the open source funding problem a while ago with my thoughts on solutions here: https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source

I don't actually go into these "payments-scaled-by-dependency" solutions because the one big problem I see is that it doesn't distinguish between projects and developers who want/need to make a living from their work, versus those who just want a coffee for motivation to keep going. Surely companies should want an active relationship with the developers of their most important and fundamental projects as well. This is why I typically advocate for sponsorships. Maintainers extend their reach for sustainability, and companies "reach the reach" of those they rely on and establish a business relationship to satisfy what open source licenses leave lacking.

Granted, their approach is certainly easier than developing relationships with all the developers, but I am curious to see if they will reap the results they are hoping for in a few more years.
I had eight Bitcoin when they were worth about $400. I'd check the price every day and read the speculations on the subreddits. It became a bit nerve-wracking for me thinking that BTC could potentially plunge in price to nothing, so I sold at $400. About six months later the price went moon. Oh well.
The entire reason Romania had a communist government was because of the Soviet Union. The fact that they later distanced themselves from the USSR doesn't change this fact. That seems like a pretty major Russian cultural influence to me.

Unless you're suggesting that Romanian culture under communism arose independently and had no connection whatsoever to the USSR at any level? It just appeared from the ether, and Romania's presence in an Eastern Europe dominated by the Russian Empire and then USSR made no difference whatsoever, that it's at the same level as Russian influence on Zimbabwe or on Indonesia?

Here's the actual reality: all states are influenced by larger powers in their neighborhood, even the unpopular ones. Especially in Eastern Europe with regards to Russia. It may be unpopular, especially these days and especially in places like Romania, Poland, and Lithuania, but to pretend that somehow these cultures evolved on separate planets is not an intellectually honest position.
I don't want you to determine where my programs on my computer run though. I want my operating system, which has much more context about the hardware available, a very smart scheduler in place, and honors my user preferences for how to operate on AC or battery power, and takes into account my scheduling overrides I want via AppTamer or similar. You as the developer of the application I'm running shouldn't mess with what cores it runs on, you should just make sure your program is able to be used across all of them, and that's where your reach should end. That's where my reach should end if I am writing a program you will run. The execution of the process is up to the user running the process and the OS, not the person who wrote the program. Maybe that's not an opinion may people share with me though
The abdication of parenteral responsibility is another element here.
An RSS feed would be sweet!
What you describe already exists in multiple ereaders and eink tablets. Check out Bigme or Onyx Boox tablets or displays, they come in all sizes, some with color some bw, and their tablets run pretty much standard Android. Great for studying, etc.
Fantastic. Now we're going to see more of those toxic aerosol air freshener machines everywhere. They use petroleum solvents as a carrier and sensitize people toward becoming allergic.

Those fan-propelled oil droplets of air wick are also bad. They are toxic, but due to their oily nature, they soak into every single porous surface. You know how cat piss is impossible to get out? It is the same with these too.

We are also not allowed to know what the ingredients are either. It is a trade secret labelled as "fragrance". Could be leftover chemicals from deepwater horizon for all you know.
Well, everybody seems to recommend "Crafting Interpreters". And that's what I'm following now.
> We know the downsides already

In the sense that the downsides are documented in the relevant scientific literature, sure. But popular perception of those downsides is very different. A whole lot of people think those downsides are a pack of lies: that cannabis isn't habit forming, that it doesn't make the average user lazy and complacent, that it doesn't increase the risk of schizophrenia, that driving under the influence of it isn't unsafe and is probably even safer, etc. The downsides are all "DARE lies" according to many of the people who think legalizing cannabis is worth it, who weighed the harms of criminalization against 'cannabis is literally harmless.'

(FWIW I voted to legalize it in Washington in 2012.)
My appendix exploded while inside of me bc the doctors dismissed my severe abdominal pain as "bad diet". I then had severe infection and had an agonising week in hospital. This was when I was about 16, so more than a decade ago, it was the NHS in the UK.
The title says 'HH-like forum' so I came here to understand what 'HH' stands for. Seems a typo?
> This is not accurate.

My point was not that your assessment is wrong. It's that you're giving other people in this thread way too much credit here:

> I would describe those as statements as more about economics, and which tradeoffs people are willing to make in their clothes buying decisions.
> this particular case is about testifying to congress. It's not a criminal trial in a court of law.

But it's still testimony given under oath. AFAIK perjury is still applicable under those circumstances.
Not according to Google Ngrams for "fried calamari":

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+calamari...

Apparently "fried squid" had risen in the couple of decades prior -- maybe this was the non-breaded version?

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried+squid&ye...

Of course, I'd have to assume it had been breaded and fried somewhere previously. But wherever it had been, doesn't seem to have been the origin for its rise in America.
People are giving a lot of reasons. But what one should really pay attention to is batteries. GM has had a catastrophic time with their battery factory. Their Ultium factory has been far, far worse then they claimed a few years ago.

I believe, quite simply, they wouldn't have the battery packs available even if they built the factory.
Take me back to the glory days of UX
We tend to presume innocence until proven otherwise.
I understand what you're saying, but that's actually in support of my point. This is still extremely trivial code to implement and, from what I can tell, doesn't warrant downloading an NPM package. Have we already forgotten the left-pad fiasco?

This isn't meant as a personal attack on anyone, but we really need to frown upon needless dependencies, especially given the growing number of malicious NPM packages.
The ridiculous truth is that we got zealous COVID absolutists as an counteraction to Donald Trump. It was purely a political phenomena.
Thompson's Satan rules our computers
A gun at rest, which this case was, is also extremely unlikely to have any life threatening downsides. What is your point?
You’re replying to the guy who likes that it became •legally• wrong, with the full weight of the state behind it.

Is this a good position?

Why or why not?
For better or worse, Urban dwellers are the majority in the US - the "Fuck Cars" blanket statements get a bit frustrating to see as someone in a rural environment.

> Maintaining a huge road network with relatively low utilization is massively expensive and western rural life is currently among the most carbon intensive lifestyles.

Yet it's necessary, and cheaper than the alternative when you have industry which must exist in a rural setting (such as farming). Attempting to mandate public transport for rural settings would cost more, and may even be more carbon intensive.

So as much as people who live in rural areas shouldn't dictate how public transport is instituted in dense urban areas, neither should urbanites dictate how transport in rural areas is managed.
Yeah, just imagine the shape is a piece of a pie.
Would you care to share more on how you do this? Do you just fly out and pay out of pocket? How do you find specialists? Curious about this for my mother.
I ended up with pulmonary embolism as a young (early 30s), healthy guy. Still not sure what caused it, but the doctor thought it may be COVID. The strange thing is that I never tested positive or had symptoms, though my spouse had it just before that happened. I have noticed an uptick in people having all sorts of "out of the blue" health problems shortly after COVID. It's hard to know what's related and what's not, because, while I'm sure there are many lasting effects we don't understand yet, it's always easy to just chalk up the bad things to being due to COVID.
wow!

in Europe, this request

1. From address
2. To address
3. bcc addresses
4. cc addresses
5. Time
6. Date

correlates person-related information (who was in contact with whom at which date and time). storing it, let alone processing it is only admissible on a need to know basis. even if you jump through the hoop of an officer acting on behalf of Seattle is not a person any more, which is a stretch already, even then all email addresses outside the Seattle gov domain are completely taboo without a court order and a cause (and being criminal investigator)

oh privacy ...
Yes: censorship is prohibited, at least outside of specific narrow circumstances. Advertising regulations specifically regulate advertising products. Neither of these translate into regulating what can and cannot be said on social media, outside of narrow cases like promotional or sponsored content.
I don't see what the fuss is about. They made rather minor changes overall and gave the app a bit of a facelift. I personally like the changes (for example putting the keyboard shortcuts in the search bars... I don't recall them being there so prominently, but I like the reminder when I forget, and it doesn't get in the way when I don't.) Regardless, we cannot let stagnation be the answer.
A fact that gets glossed over too often on HN. It's not just company leadership making these harmful applications: Everyone in the org chart down to the individual engineer is actively doing this--maybe even you, reader of this comment. Did your last "git push" contribute to the problem or help solve it? Will you be proud to tell your teenage grandchildren about what you're creating? You can't just hide behind "boss told me to do it" and wash your hands of the ethics.
You can run the original Palm version in a browser with CloudpilotEmu. Works great on my phone when I just have to scratch the itch. https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/
No member of the Sackler family nor Purdue's executives ever faced prison time.
Making an example up that I don't know to be true, but please just go with it:

Google likely has a dedicated team who do nothing but tweak the front page of www.google.com

I bet there's a Kanban-like board somewhere within that team with tickets like "change the button for image search to new branding icon" and "move the "About" button to the left-most upper corner from the right-most upper corner." "Make the corners on the search box more round" or whatever.

Looking at the page now, somebody definitely had to generate work, and some poor front-end developer definitely had to perform the work to put the "Our third decade of climate action: join us".

Every couple of years the team will take on some kind of task like moving the front-page to a new internal framework, or connecting it to some new search/advertising API. Remember when google would show real-time search results as you typed?

"Let's put a Pacman game as the logo!"

Here's Google's front page from 10 years ago https://web.archive.org/web/20130101000532/http://www.google...

Somebody is making those changes, they exist. The decision to CD that page keeps them around.

However, there is effectively almost no perceptible difference in the program performance, features, capabilities, or really even the aesthetics of that page in that time period to the user.

It should be on maintenance mode with checking in on it being a part-time job for a single person. I bet that there's more than a dozen people who's sole job it is to keep that page "fresh".

That's how CD results in inflated team sizes -- it's the "C". CI/CD never makes it over the wall into CM (continuous maintenance) and as a result becomes it.
The 95% is out of all _fundable_ dependencies. I'll update the blog post to make that clearer. Not sure about authors of lines of code, sounds like way more detail than GitHub is ever likely to provide. :-/
ICE cars make plenty sense if you care more about personal convenience than the environment. Even if gas stations eventually become impossible to find, that's many years off in the future. By the time that comes to pass you'll probably be looking for your next car again anyway.
Scammer pose as customer service agents for companies who are still on twitter as well.
Nike says employees must return to the office four days each week
Auto-generating unit tests with GenAI will come clutch [video]
This was just outside of Atlanta in the residential real estate sector. Avg. home prices were $300k around this time. I could see it as a sign of outward success, but I had been an agent for less than a year and had 2 sales (was a part-time agent/full-time transaction coordinator).
it might not have been clear - I very much want to find/identify it again
When I was working at Bloomberg, one of the problems I faced is that JavaScript doesn't have a decimal numeric datatype. This is a drawback which even Douglas Crawford has pointed out.

Every time you want to display a price on the terminal, you really should spend time thinking about whether that price would be displayed correctly.

The particular rounding rules even vary from currency to currency. Some are even enforced by law, so bugs could leave you exposed to regulatory risks. And people tend to get touchy when you are dorking with their money.

What happened in practice was that everybody just ignored it--but sooner or later, some obscure but urgent bug would pop up. Inevitably, it was hard to trace and hard to fix, because there's no support there for the arithmetic which people actually use for money.
Personally I wouldn't trust someone who has never done them before. I mean I don't know what a "professional" babysitter's training entails, but in my experience people who have never done psychedelics tend to accidentally do arbitrary things that set off a bad trip at a much higher rate than those who have done psychedelics. People who have done them before tend to be able to see how things might lead to a bad trip.

I solved a bad trip one time by turning the TV off in the other room. It was almost inaudible to me, but it was playing WWE and it was just... negative. Turned it off and everything was fine, but the other babysitter (someone who'd never done psychedelics) couldn't be convinced that the TV was the issue because they couldn't see how negativity could cause a bad trip.

This is all probably just bias on my part. No reason a professional psychologist couldn't make these connections too.
they are not lying, apple was quite literally sued successfully in France and are currently settling class action lawsuits over the exact thing.

apple can say otherwise but that doesn't mean you need to regurgitate their lies. Apple only slowed the phones after a software update, not as a natural response to battery degradation. if that were the case it wouldn't be unique to that specific phone anyways.

God, apple makes good hardware but the people who just makes things up to stand in the fire of criticism are the strangest
Some time ago there was this other game where you have to construct geometrically various points, lines, etc. Does anyone remember the name?
That looks cute, it's too bad they don't show some of the pages. I think I'll buy something in the same vein, thanks for the idea.
I'm not so negative about online discourse. Participating in online arguments, and writing tons of comments has immensely improved my writing skills and my ability to translate my ideas into text in a clear and concise manner.

Sure, it's not the peak of literary achievement, but hey, you gotta walk before you can run.
Neat idea!

If I recall correctly, this was the same frustration that Lobsters[1] was created. In the case of Lobsters, moderation decision have carefully been considered and implemented.

My two cents is that it's when it comes to comments - and moderation - that things get challenging. It's also where both HN and Lobsters managed to find a (hopefully) sustainable model. Good luck with this!

[1] https://lobste.rs
> that said insurgents do not really count as an armed opponent

Insurgents are people who are fighting their own government (with guns) so they are armed, but they're not fighting Hamas, they're fighting Israel, so they're not insurgents.

Many of them don't even wear military uniforms in combat, that makes them unlawful combatants under the Geneva Conventions and don't have rights. They almost always attack civilians, so they're terrorists.
Weird! Not somewhere where I can give it more juice, but in the meantime try this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230129193630/https://mchap.io/...
I'm not sure there's much of a reason to distinguish these cases from caching.

You're still designing the system the same way... your main considerations are still, "why/how is it OK if this thing is reset/cleared/rolled-back at any moment?" and "why/how is the data here up-to-date/recent enough for my cases?"
This makes me think of that passage in Cryptonomicon where an estate being divided among relatives was likened to the Knapsack Problem.
Now do it for the food and candy companies
And many people complained about the UI feeling dated before the change.

The new UI has a compact mode, I think you can get an even more compact UI than before. I've used thunderbird forever and I'm not lost at all. I think they did a really good job not breaking us.

I guess they can't please everyone but I don't know how they could have done better in this respect honestly.
Euclidea?
The phone itself looks like junk from 2011. The ghosting on the screen is apparent in the video demonstrating its "speed". The apps they are demoing look very poorly designed, but all of this to be forgiven because "they aren't collecting your data".

Disappointing but I didn't really expect much from them.
coffeescript was an obvious deadend at the time it was created.

The only thing that could have saved (maybe) is better tooling but the community had no interest in it (who knows why). Rust feels like this too.
> But somebody ran the numbers and decided the way forward to increased profitability was to move everyone's data to the cloud and charge a subscription.

And, you know, the huge increase in convenience for all those people not savvy enough to do it themselves.

Also as far as we know, how is it different to have your vault in Dropbox? Dropbox could be hacked and that data is famously not encrypted. We don't know of anyone's 1PAss vault actually being breached yet, do we?
Apologies, my intent wasn’t to have a go at people who CBT genuinely helps, I’m sure it’s very effective in many cases otherwise it wouldn’t be such a big thing. I’m projecting my general frustration at the world onto it to an excessive degree.
"Airplane mechanic decides service manual incorrect, custom fix leads to 200 dead"

And yes, what you state is exactly what the doctor should do. Otherwise you're taking all the testing and experience of all the other doctors that have already worked on this issue and tossed it out the window. When an individual patient shows anonymous behavior your document everything you can for future investigation. You don't get to play research laboratory on your patients.
On the other hand, I'm allergic to most fragrances (itchy eyes, running nose, stuffed up sinus). I have to hold my breath while almost running through the perfume department on the ground floor of a department store. I cannot walk down certain aisles of my grocery store (cleaning supplies, detergents, soaps). I dread staying at higher-end hotels because they spray their perfume everywhere. The smell of laundry detergents and fabric softeners makes me sick. Same with most dishwashing soaps. The deodorizers in Uber/Lyft cars can be terrible. The fragrance at the Denver airport bathrooms is so overpowering, I have to hold my breath while I'm in there, and then gasp through my mouth before running out.

I don't remember fragrances being so terrible when I was younger. But maybe it's another case of "it was better in the old days".
FWIW I paid for (and even gifted) no-ads because I don't like ads but enjoy Tumblr and I'm fine with the folks who blaze as long they don't get my data. I perceived Blue as a simple gimmick, no use for that. I wonder how much overlap there is between blue and no-ads... but anyway, people should slowly get used to pay again for services important to them, like we had once the shareware model.
> how's abstinence only sex education going, for example?

Id say that access to Instagram isn't a biological function and normalizing it will lead to it ever entrenched in our lives. Make 18 the age requirement. I don't care about privacy concerns because you have no privacy if you participate with these companies.
On one hand, if you know what you're doing, Sentinel, KQL, MSTIC[0] are incredibly useful tools that show Microsoft's investment in security for the operations slanted folk. On the other hand, this is being billed as helping operationalize junior analysts navigate incidents better. I'm all for that, but the step from junior -> mid -> senior in SecOps/DnR/ThreatOps space generally comes from either annoyance at a friction in the processes faced, or genuine curiosity in something that's more of a SWE slant.

What I would like to see in this case is significant effort to expose decision context and learning points in the investigation so that when your incident goes for review or you grab a more senior analyst, they can have contest on how to grow the responder.

As a final note: i feel like we are hitting the marginal gains phase of what endpoint security tooling can look like. This tool probably gains significantly more traction if your org is a MS/Windows workstation shop. It may even play nice in Azure land. However, I would much rather see tooling shaped like this that are centered in production for detecting threats where we make money.

If you're hiring your first security engineer/head of security for your startup, it's much easier to reason about hiring someone with an AppSec or CloudSec background than it is detection. Perhaps shunting tooling that way will help the DNR people level up there and be valuable assets earlier.

Edit: forgot the MSTIC Link

https://github.com/microsoft/msticpy
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