skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fine pitch for the merit of donating to ESLint, but if that pitch isn't working for the developer then he should either make peace with doing the work for free, or stop doing the work.
car batteries aren't great for storing and retrieving energy for grid usage. to expensive for too few cycles.
With most items it's blatant propaganda (env friendly clothes when you already have clothes, throwing away plastic bags to use reusable ones, etc), but with cars while there's also propaganda it heavily depends on usage.

Replacing commercial fleets that are involved in shipping, deliveries, mass transporation etc will be net positive for the environment very fast.

Buying an electric car if you have an existing car and don't drive a huge amount per year might never pay off as a private person though. Again it really depends on how much you drive and what the difference is between old and new. I'd bet for most regular people it doesn't make sense to replace a car before it's useful life is up, while for companies it probably makes sense to replace ASAP.

Probably not hard to create a calculator with car models and miles driven per year and establish which models make sense to replace and how soon.
Let there be some ants. Let each individual ant act according to local rules.

None of the individual ant’s rules say “build an anthill,” yet after a few days there is an anthill.

I predict there are many anthills that have never been observed. So we have a fact of nature (anthill exists) that “emerges” from local interactions of ants — without an observer.

Where does the above go wrong in your view?

Edit: fixed grammar.
My work around for this is to take a walk without headphones. For me, it means that the only thing I can do is think (can't read, can't watch video, etc). And by the time I've finished a 30 mins walk, I've usually got a bunch of things that I'm enthused about working on.
> One of the problems I found with this is that actually taking donations is hard work.

As many problems as there are with GitHub (social lock-in, Copilot laundering Open Source license violations), GitHub Sponsors is incredibly valuable and substantially reduces the friction for getting support for an Open Source project.
I still think that the manipulation check would reveal failures of blinding, but yeah it is doable (but we needed a while to come up with a reasonable design).

And more generally, my philosophy (as someone with a PhD in the placebo effect) is that harnessing any expectancy/placebo effects in one's personal life is totally reasonable, and if it works for people and there's low risk of harm then more power to them.

We shouldn't gatekeep potentially useful personal treatments based on the gold standard. It's kinda the medical equivalent of YAGNI, I suppose.
I mean.. getting politicians to start taking the tech seriously and investing in solar/hydro/wind/nuclear is a HUGE challenge. It looks pretty grim in fact.
Hi, you are right, I need to add a FAQ section to the page!

- It weights about 400g including the wooden stand.

- It draws very little power. I am not sure how much, but you can run it on a battery pack for quite a while. (The power draw is so low that some external battery packs think that nothing is connected and go into standby, which is annoying.)

- Yes it uses WiFI. Not sure about WPA3 to be honest.

- Private iCloud calendars should work if you get the secret iCalendar URL as described in the article you linked.

- There is very little processing on-device, it needs an API backend that runs on the internet. Code that runs on an embedded device and updates only via Over-The-Air updates is always a liability in terms of maintenance and security, which I tried to minimise.

- The device polls for updates a few times a minute. But depending on the calendar integration, there may be caching going on in the backend. (For example, iCalendar data is cached for 10 minutes. The cache is encrypted.)

- Yes, you can combine calendars from multiple sources and accounts.

- You can replace the frame if you are willing to tinker a bit, re-solder a connection, and are you're careful.
The entire type system needs to be parameterized by the inertial frame of reference, too.
There are cute little things like the Citroen Ami: https://www.citroen.co.uk/ami

They're nearly compelling enough for me to learn to drive. Nearly..!
I've developed an experimental ESP32 project that simulates a heartbeat pattern.
But I don't have a heart rate sensor, I used my normal resting heart rate as a basis for the simulation.
The project utilizes an ESP32 to create a LED blink pattern that represents a heartbeat, starting at a faster rate and gradually slowing down to a resting rate.

Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/Qiaogun/ADHD_Blink
Didn't they fix the English (World) trick at some point?

Regardless of that, supposedly for this you just need to set your region to somewhere in the EU during initial installation; Though that can't be changed post-install.
We've had that twenty years ago, in Internet Explorer no less [1]. It just never gained traction, likely because it was quite convoluted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
>> I can't explain why an engineer, though well paid, is making .01% of the CEO's salary, nor can I explain why an engineer doing the same work but in the Philippines is making 40% of the salary of the one in the USA.

That's economics 101 and not the problem of a particular profession
Possibility of data compression was known since 1977, video codecs exist since 1984.
I'm waiting for diagnosis of me/cfs or long covid, although it could be some kind of allergy fatigue as my symptoms are much more severe during april to late october.

Been looking at pushing the button to buy some niacinamide for a while now and I may have to go for it to try.

All the best for you!
Seems like you chose a weird thing to learn.
Time for another color, blue for iMessages, green for SMS, light brown for RCS.
firefox always copies chrome so they will drop it eventually. Telemetry will say "few people use it" so some asshole(s) will remove it.
You mean you would write your own leftpad function instead of pulling in a $1 npm dependency

That is crazy. /s
The many startups built around OSS projects such as Mongo, Kafka, Spark, and Linux seem to have found a way.
That won't work for ads and content being served from the same domain.

Isn't the ultimate answer in this arms race a web proxy?

I'm wondering about a two-part architecture. One part in the browser that can inspect the rendered page, and another part between the browser and the outside world, that can block individual elements. Basically re-implement the Web Request API as a web proxy.

For locked-down environments where you can't run a local proxy, the proxy could be an external service.
I think an open source compensation system could work similar to how artists are payed when their song is played on the radio.

Radio stations in Sweden pay a fee to an organisation which distributes the money to artists in proportion to the amount of playtime.

Imagine a new type of open source license that mandated paying a membership fee to a global foundation to use the code commercially. Non-commersial use would still be free.

Companies would have to pay royalty to this organisation in proportion to their size or some other metric. The organisation would distribute the money to projects according to some usage criteria such a download count or similar.

For it to work there would have to be one or very few such organizations to that it is easy for the companies to handle. It should also not be very expensive for the companies. But even if it gets every company to contribute just a few thousands to open source it would still inject a lot more money into the system.
Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?
I'm curious: Do people have good solutions for replacing now-deprecated incandescent bulbs for indoor lighting?

Even when I get an LED lamp with a warmer color temperature, it just doesn't look anything like an old-school light bulb. (I think it's because LED lamps are so much less full spectrum, no matter their frequency.) And I miss the older experience of lighting quite a bit - it just made a house seem like a warmer place.

Sometimes I set up rooms to be lit by only candlelight, which is beautiful, but very dim and obviously very impractical.

Anyone here have solutions for warmer lighting in a post-tungsten-filament world?
You can’t “fix” a leak, you have to revoke the involved secrets. Editing / deleting the answer is irrelevant.
> I think people are a bit blind to Apple's defaults.

I think there is some truth to this. But the reason people are blind to it is that, even if Apple and Microsoft are doing the same thing philosophically to a degree, Apple’s implementation of it feels less aggressive, less cheap, and more easily turned off than MS’s approach (two taps to permanently remove the news widget).

For what it’s worth, Apple News, even the free version, is actually a half decent news app if you’re in a supported area for local news.

> comes with an ever-growing pile of Apple default apps loaded in the Dock and set as defaults

Realistically, this is the direction consumer workstations are heading, and it’s the right direction. The average user is nontechnical, and less interested in customization than functionality. They want apps preloaded and preset as defaults. For those who don’t, there’s always Linux. But I think it would be a misrepresentation to suggest this is somehow a bad thing or that the masses don’t want or wouldn’t benefit from this.
100% agreed. I've had my response to this sitting in my drafts folder for years now. Finally published it now after reading this thing.

https://kodare.net/2023/11/17/open_source_could_be_better.ht... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38302122)
The main benefit of using open source in a corporate environment is that there is usually zero paperwork involved. As long as the licence is approved, have at it! As soon as you pay money for something, either a fee or a donation, you've got to email someone. Almost certainly someone outside your team.

Companies don't make decisions on individual OSS dependencies. Individual engineers and engineering teams do. That's if anyone actually spares a thought at all (eek)!
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How should a developer who learned on & is happy with Pijul or Mercurial … or Codeberg, or whatever feel otherwise? There’s an implicit bias in supporting a much narrow band of tools, especially a proprietary one, that gets codified when not starting at something more generic. And if your projects aims to be long-lived it’d be equally myopic to assume Git will remain the most popular tool til the end of time. As noted in a sibling comment, had the project accepted a tarball, then almost any platform—past, preset, & future (assuming filesystems with files & folders are still used)—would be supported. A good example of this is what happens in Nix where the base is a tarball, and all shorthands merely a convenience DSLs that map down to the tarball.
Cheers and thank you! I had read the article in an earlier stage and thought you had copied that trick only here (where I would still think it would be nice to cite or link the person directly here on HN).
Ah, the Australian pronunciation is throwing me off, TIL :)
Something built like any other internet protocol with staying power.

A federated network with multiple strong client and server implementations that are able to be built, reproduced, and distributed by multiple independent parties. Like Matrix.

Matrix is far from perfect yet but it is miles beyond Signal in being a sustainable solution that can survive any single point of failure.
Firefox has had this since Sep 26 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/
The astonishing behavior of recursive sequences
A weird thing that worked for me was, after seeing The King's Speech, I experimented with putting chewing gum under my tongue and speaking. To my surprise, could notice a pretty significant improvement.
This! Its always the same. When volunteers start to complain they aren't compensated for their work, things start to smell fishy. And this kind of behaviour seems to have increased lately. Rather sad. Either I do something for the love of it, or I am going for a paying job. Sometimes people are lucky and these two are the same, but that is very much the exception.
I had a good friend who studied industrial design, and they told me that these kind of improvements are the most impressive. Fixing things we all use and didn’t realize needed fixing.
Indeed; it was one of the significant changes in Mavericks (10.9):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mavericks

It's an option in Linux; put `zswap.enable=1` in the kernel parameters. I do this routinely now, because I like old Thinkpads and a few of mine only have 8GB RAM. It's not transformational but the difference in performance is really noticeable: open a few big fat bloated memory-hungry apps, like anything using Electron, and wow, suddenly your machine stays responsive under load.
In addition, one of the largest limitations of CloudWatch is it doesn't work well with a many-aws-account strategy.

Some part of the value of Datadog etc is having a single pane of glass over many aws accounts.
I found this interesting. On both the Chrome blog and this EFF post, there is a quote from AdGuard CTO Andrey Meshkov. One of the quotes is favorable/neutral toward Google, while the other is more negative. It sounds like Meshkov may have changed his opinion.

Google blog ( https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to... )

"As always, migrating to a new platform is a large undertaking, but we're very hopeful..."

EFF blog ( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma... ) - sourced from AdGuard blog ( https://adguard.com/en/blog/manifestv3-timeline.html )

"Nearly all browser extensions as you know them today will be affected in some way..."
as long as you'll pay for it
> ...nuclear power, it's not "renewable" per se, but it's very low on carbon...

Sorry, but no. The whole life carbon emissions (WLCE) of nuclear are deeply contested and estimates from academic studies tend to be much higher than those of governmental bodies like the UK's committee on climate change and the IPCC's estimates.

For more information that can dispel this myth, see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...
How is it faster than Firefox in a meaningful way? Is this even still true for the people who insist on keeping hundreds of tabs open at a time?
oh my god you solved the problem, quick make a yt and kickstarter
On by default in Windows 10.

Not enabled by default in any Linux I have ever seen, and for context, in the last two years I've reviewed about 50 different distros.

And I do mean entire distros, not just desktops.
Every time I go to that site I think the signup popup is a 404 error page.
Stackoverflow has less that 50% of the traffic now than it used to a few years ago.
YouTube Vanced/Revanced Options
Since Google's take down of downloading YouTube Vanced/Revanced recently I've been looking for a new downloading method. Should I try using Tor and/or a dark web browsers to locate newest edition (I'm sure has been made) to download?
If fusion is nuclear than solar is too ;-)
> Quick, name all the dependencies of Kubernetes. You can’t, and I can’t either. There’s just too many. It shouldn’t be only end user facing products that get appropriate compensation. It should be these products that send a portion of their contributions (money and developer time) down to these dependencies in a big happy tree of contributions.

Thought this was a good quote to pull.
> Windows has memory compression for years too.

You're right.

> Doesn't make low memory hardware usable.

You're wrong. It _really_ helps.
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No more ads on Elon's X, EU Commission tells staff
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linguist-tran...

Includes offline translation. I very rarely need this, so I can’t speak about the quality, though.
> No, the bar is very high as Ireland is one of the top tier countries in the world to live by almost any measure

Like healthcare? Lol. What a disingenuous piece of manure.

> "lack of political change due to an entrenched political class", which is patently untrue in Ireland

You just claim it's untrue but offer no actual arguments. Your rabid offended defense of the country speaks volumes.

> work in the medical field and am constantly frustrated at the medical and social services.

DING DING DING. there it is. That's why you're offended. You're a crook who is part of the problem and has no perspective.

> However, I've also worked around the world and know that while Ireland is in fact an outlier, it's a positive outlier compared to even the developed world.

I like how you don't even say where.

> he irony is palpable. Luckily those of us working to improve the country aren't discouraged by those on the sidelines offering only empty critiques

My critiques weren't empty. They were poignant and your defenses were "no, lie". Kid level stuff and clearly very entrenched in maintain your current thing going.

You're part of the problem. I'm not surprised you'd defend it as such. It's very easy for people who benefit from the corruption and bureocracy to want to keep it going. Healthcare in Ireland is one of the biggest and worst scams in the country and the only way to paint in a good light is to compare it to the US, which is the go to tactic.

Shame on you for being willfully blind to the realities of people not well off because you're in on it.
I built a tool to help me teach react to junior developers
A few years back, I joined a team of educators at my company to instruct junior developers in React.js. Our toolkit comprised Google Sheets for tracking attendance, Google Docs for lesson plans, Telegram for communication, Google Slides for presentations, and GitHub for assignments. However, by the time we finished with our second group of students, the constant toggling between these various platforms, coupled with the need to address numerous questions from each student, left us all feeling exhausted. In search of a better solution, I reviewed multiple tools, among which Google Classroom emerged as a notable option.

While Google Classroom seemed promising, its lack of customization options, particularly for incorporating our company's branding, was a major drawback. Motivated to find a solution, I dedicated my evenings and weekends to creating this application. I'm thrilled to introduce its initial launch.

Features:

- Advanced Course Management: Offers capabilities to create and manage unlimited courses, lessons, student invitations, assignments, grading, and certificate generation.

- Multi-Teacher Management: Facilitates inviting and assigning courses to multiple teachers within an organization.

- AI Integration: Features OpenAI integration for efficient course and lesson planning, including automatic generation of content and assignments.

- Forum: Includes a dedicated space for student questions, fostering a community where both instructors and peers can provide answers.

- Kahoot-Like Quiz: Allows for the creation of interactive live quizzes to boost classroom engagement.

- Dedicated Student Dashboard: Provides a personalized dashboard for students to access their courses, assignments, and more.

I'm open to any questions and look forward to your feedback.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/classroomio

Github: https://github.com/rotimi-best/classroomio
Your post didn’t require the impolite sigh and reads much better without it.
It's still an uncredited effort by another person, copied and posted elsewhere as magic trick. I just think it is nice to publicly credit the people via whom one builds one's wisdom.

No Twitter hate at all here, on the contrary.
Given the current state of birth rates is that even a normal state for most developers how many developers have children or even desire children
at this point people use firefox to access to the full power of ublock origins, and that's not gonna change. trust me bro :)
So all Apple has to do is to change bubble color to indicate your messages, though no longer through SMS, is insecure.
> Thats not atomicity. Thats a blocking API.
> Blocking and atomicity are unrelated

It's the same in this context. fsync uses a blocking API to implement atomicity. That is, after an fsync() all previous writes should have been written.

> we already have an fsync that does that.

Did you actually read the article...? The whole thing is about the fact that disk controllers can eagerly notify that a write was flushed to disk while in fact it is still in the disk write cache, and could have been either partially, fully or partly written, thus tricking fsync().
Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
yes, but panels can be made cheap enough and there is plenty of surfaces you can plaster them on. To just put them on roofs was very much the right choice compared to say Desertec.

When you look into it then Desertec would have been a huge waste of resources. The issue at this point is not generation - its storage and to a lesser degree transport.
I mean the deal Microsoft has with yandex to have it as the default search engine.
That same argument has been wrong over and over again. So there's no reason to believe it's now suddenly a good argument unless given solid evidence.

Distortion was just another tool, and first rejected as highly undesirable. It's literally "just" putting an electric guitar through a tube amp and turning up the knob. And it revolutionized music. It sounds amazing in the right hands.

The more important point that I already made is the not all musicians are the same. Give a piano or a player piano to the vast majority of musicians and the output will be common and familiar. Give either to a musical genius like Hendrix and they'll manage to get something beautiful and new out of it. I'm looking forward to what the handful of geniuses out there will get out of AI. It's going to be fun.
> snap

> Ubuntu Pro

> driving […] subscription

Think I’ll stick LXC on proxmox
There's a longer list of companies that have been basically out-competed and strip mined by the hyperscalers. But presumably the poster here is referring more to a long tail of small to medium sized projects that are important to the community at large but harder to monetize then these big high gravity projects that you mentioned
Some economics thinking -

Is the good rival or non-rival?

Is it excludable or non-excludable?

What is the product? Is the product the code, or is it something more than that static, stateless piece of code?

And what is the need/want? Is the need/want the code, or is it something else?

Further -

Take a huge endevour, such as Linux. No company might have attempted this by themselves. The profit each one could have nabbed is less than the development cost. But by colluding, they can, and in doing so avoid their monopoly vendors.

Interesting points.

I feel a post addressing these might shed some light. And expect wildly different answers for different types of open source project.
I try very hard to always schedule at least one social interaction a day.

It doesn’t always work but it definitely helps avoid that reset that you are referring to.
What does this mean and how do you plan to entrench revenue streams where the barrier to cloning your products is next to zero?