skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to be referring to self-defense cases, which are something else altogether and not limited to law enforcement.

You're right, that particular situation is not limited to law enforcement. Really, I'm conflating a number of protections[0] to things like erroneously seized evidence, protection from civil liability, etc.

[0] - http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2007/06/the...
The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up
In this scenario a lot of people probably still have to commute to the city or nearby so moving to further and further rings out has real disadvantages
I usually say, if you have social media, follow people who create stuff and who create stuff just for the sole purpose of creating something. People who aren't interested in being richer. People who don't even have the slightest interest in their own ego. Why? One: Because they are capital-t true artists. And, if we are on social media, we should be interested in people who create for a living. People who, for heaven's sake, aren't spending their day consuming away. Two: Because we have a tendency to unconsciously consume things every day. What we unconsciously consume day in and day out has a significant impact on how we view the world and ourselves. And the way we think about ourselves and the world, that is what indicates and determines our fate. So steer away from the news, corporations, etc, and follow people, individuals or small companies, who create stuff. I.e. Vimeo is a cool platform of cool people creating stuff.
I think the parent maybe have been attempting a joke. I also could not find any languages where Hotz means thief.

Interestingly it means cold in Basque and hotspot in Estonian.
IF you have a 500k LOC software project... how the heck is an SRE/devops person going to figure out where in that code a specific configuration item is going to be used? They're not. This is why documentation is essential for projects. You could keep configuration documentation in a separate file... but that only helps for what the config does. It can't help you figure out why Bill (who left the company a while back) set ThreadMax to 650 when he changed the code 6 months ago. There cold be a commit message that references it, but that's more disconnected from the change that just slapping a comment on top that says why.

I agree that code review for configuration changes is necessary. That same code review process can ensure that the comments in the config file are also correct.
You know what hasn't been done? A blog post about how to make a service that fulfills the needs of most people most of the time.

All of the online and print material about such things focus on how to achieve massive scale correctly. Don't get me wrong; this is valuable and, generally, sound advice.

However, it also ignores the majority of use cases for software.

I would love to see a blog post here from someone who has solved a very specific problem for a very small audience, and gotten a very enthusiastic response. That would be meaningful on a larger scale for me.
Manhattan also has one of the world's largest concentrations of jobs and various cultural things to attract people. You will not see the same effect at work if you are comparing suburban apartment complexes to suburban single-family homes.
Do the therapist thing, exercise, eat right, etc...That is all important. Good pay, Good job, blah blah. None of that is really relevant, that is some externally defined bullshit. If you are burning out and waking up with anxiety you need to back up and figure out the root cause. I just suffered through 2 months of this for the 10th time in the last 20 years. This time it was a bit more intense.

I have been through enough shit in my life, fire arms in my face in foreign countries, losing loved ones, the list goes on like most folks. None of that shook me like this recent bout of corporate fuckery.

I think you need to dig deep and analyze all of the variables. Without knowing more about your personal life, age and financial position it is hard to say what the right thing to do is in a socially acceptable sense. If there are stress triggers you need to figure out how to manage those.

End of the day it is probably just a bad fit. It could simply be "toxic" for you. The pay/resume cred doesn't matter if it makes you miserable and degrades your mental/emotional/physical well being.

A bad fit is a bad fit. Chalk it up to life experience and apply what you learn as you continue on down the path. All the money, social acceptance, don't take it for granted, first world problems stuff isn't something to get hung up on. Dead that noise. Look at your life, who you were, how you have acted in the past, who you are today, there are always patterns and a root cause.

You need to focus on the self. What makes sense for YOU. If you are miserable just roll out. If you can take a week or three off, do that. Communicate with HR or your boss, keep it real. It takes some stones to be open and honest about this kind of thing but you might be surprised at what kind of support you can receive.

Worst case just go to the doc and then let HR know. I am willing to bet that you can take a month or more off via personal leave with no real consequence due to "job related" illness. When in doubt, review your handy dandy corporate handbook.

Start to take control of the situation. It is your life. Own it. Don't throw yourself under the bus for no reason. Make change, don't be a victim...especially not to your own sub-conscious acrobatics.
That TOML started out tongue-in-cheek makes it all that much better!

Just a curious thought:

Sometimes it’s handy to have a text file for small bits of numerical data. Would it be possible to extend TOML to have a “csv” section (array of arrays)?

[x,y,z]
1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9

Or perhaps it’d have to be:

[data: x,y,z]
1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9
Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer when counting physical stores, has yet to really hit the right note in e-commerce...

This is online sales only. Apple sells a slightly higher value of goods online that Walmart does. Apple's products are generally much more expensive than Walmart's products.

Extrapolating from Amazon's numbers, every percent of total online sales is approximately $5.26 billion. That means
Apple has online sales of about $20.5 billion, and Walmart has about $19.5 billion in online sales.

Walmart revenue was $318.5 billion in 2018 in the U.S alone (and not including Sam's Club)[1]. Walmart is still selling significantly more than Amazon overall.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269403/net-sales-of-walm...
I'm not sure why, but open/libreoffice is almost unusable for heavy duty office work.

What do you define as "heavy duty office work"? What would make OpenOffice more suitable to you needs? Asking as an AOO contributor. I'm genuinely curious to know what you think the project is lacking or how it needs to be improved.
You'd like this then: https://medium.com/webmr/n64-vr-with-javascript-e188de42ced5

N64 games in VR with JS.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
> Why would anyone want environment variables when you can have config files or explicit options instead?

If you have an underlying .so used by an application that hasn't implemented optioning at init of said library it can then let you control things in something that has no runtime configuration source. I've written several such libraries. Also good for controlling things you override with LD_PRELOAD
Reminds me of a story where PayPal froze some person’s account because they were not eighteen when they created the account. I read it here on hon. Maybe someone can find a link to the comment...
My guess is that the useful intended consequence was that companies specifically targeting young people for exploitation would think twice. Everyone knows the young will sneak onto porn sites. But an enterprise that constructs an app to exploit kids in particular is going to feel a big target on it's back and rightfully so.

Edit: My guess you'd have to be millennial to think other generations didn't learn to lie to adults in a multitude of ways.
Obligatory Penn is a fundamentalist libertarian hack who irrationally doesn't believe in climate science.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!#Rec...
My understanding is that the study looked at change over time, so it's not as badly designed a study as a simple correlation, though it is still not ideal.
I meant waymo because they have a less commercial approach compared to Tesla (which might taint this engineer view [or not])

I believe the only way out of the security pit is to double down on rigorous physics and not rapid ML
I have the same feeling. It is a very powerful and interesting language from my anecdotal experience, but I also feel it gives too much options to use
Running My Anger: The Legacy of the CEDU Cult
> Articles with a (YEAR)

Why do you consider content from the past to be clickbait?
It has given me peace of mind at work a couple times when I thought or said to management: “just bring the cluster down to 1 node, you can still support X users, and your server bill will be $500/year”

Still probably designed more system than needed (cluster). But scarier than that was seeing some DC/OS apps with $5,000/month in server costs even without user load.
This is correct. A news outlet isn't partisan if it treats evolution and climate change as real things without "teaching the controversy," despite what fair and balanced Fox or unreasonable Reason would have you believe.
> Anything that's crawling with cp-grey types.

Is this like CGP Grey?
> And when do people not get to choose where they eat? And when they do, why would it be a place that serves zero vegetarian options?

When entertaining clients. Which are also the majority of my T&E reimbursements. If I invite a client to a lunch or dinner meeting, there's absolutely no way I'm going to dictate what they can and can't order. But if they order meat, is my expense report going to get rejected?

I'm not in sales, so I don't have outrageous meal expenses. But I do a fair bit of client servicing and I'd raise hell if my company created a policy that introduces ambiguity and risk around whether or not I'll have to eat the cost every time I'm expected to have a meal with a client.
Seconding and thirding the point on getting good sleep:
"Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew P. Walker" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
"An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity."
Wow, way to belittle an interesting article. And if you mean not performing well, as being able to run 4 apps, I guess you have a point.
Sorry if this is a stupid question but what does California do with these numbers? If Wayne has 10 engagements per mile driven with 10M miles driven and Tesla has 2 per mile with 500k miles driven and Uber has 1 per mile with 1M miles driven (all made up numbers), will there be some sort of penalty for below average scorers? Is it possible to categorically say who is the best? How does this work?
I'm sorry, but that reads like gibberish. I think I remember Zcash from my Keybase account, but now I'm going to associate it with these other experiments irrespective of how legitimate it might otherwise be.
Easy, stay away from that company.
It just makes the data public.
I disagree. It’s an anti-pattern. For example, if you’re writing an application that loads a default config file to populate parameters at run time, then the software module that loads from the default file is the correct place to document it, because the meaning of defaults is relevant to that source code, not at all to someone reading the parameter file itself. A parameter file is just some blob of stuff.

I agree context is everything, and that’s why it’s a bad idea to embed usage info or instructions about the contents or meaning of a parameter file into that very file.

Somewhere else, something has to choose to load that file, and that is where the documentation belongs (in addition to readable, separate artifacts that are generated from the file).

For example, suppose you need to rewrite the parameter file from YAML to Toml, or you need to add a new layer of nesting and some post-processing logic at load time.

The meaning of these things has no context inside the parameter file itself. It only has meaning at the point some other system consumes it. Another system could consume the exact same file and choose to interpret all the parameters with different meanings in that program, regardless of what any comments says in the param file.
I did not know that, so thanks for the heads-up. That is totally worth watching again!
The Subtle Art is a great book that helps put things into perspective. At times you will open it to a chapter randomly, but it still has some application to a part of your life that you may be struggling with. I like to keep the audio book around so that I can have little reminders daily because of course the concepts are useless without application.
I check the comments for any link which looks vaguely interesting. If the top few comments aren't slamming it, I take a closer look.
Redesigned MacBook Pro keyboard uses new method for repelling dust, says iFixit
Can’t see how a company can do this and then meaningfully claim to care about “diversity.” Also worth noting that this decision falls wholly on employees and not at all on customers — best to abuse the people who will find it much harder to quit you.
Almost every Amazon thread on HN seems to devolve into stories of receiving counterfeit goods. I order around 10 items per week on Amazon and have never received anything counterfeit or suspect over a decade of shopping.

It takes very little effort to weed out bad actors imo. Perhaps this is a case of the negative experiences only being shared? Or...I'm better at online shopping. I'm guessing the former, but it gets tiring watching companies grow from loved to hated once they reach such a critical mass.

Nobody likes to root for the favorite I suppose.
I'm not entirely sold that it's entirely on purpose, but that's a high bar, and I don't doubt perverse incentives play a role in some way.

It feels like Amazon is missing the boat by not using their market position to institute some sort of manufacturer's vouching system, where sellers could try to achieve some verified status (for a specific item), and that could be used to good effect.

Reply-All just did another podcast on Amazon weirdness[1], where listing hijacking was explained. In short, since Amazon will collapse identical items into a group, and within that group show in some order (maybe by price), people can get knockoff items identified as real items (even if it's just one guy selling his own stuff he manufacturers), and their knockoffs will affect the impression people have of the product and be listed higher if it's cheaper.

1: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124#episode-player
You've already answered your question. Be someone that does non-f500 for a decade, then slowly introduce the f500 features and in a decade you'll be where you want to be.
Not clickbait, but a rabbit-hole like longform articles. Consuming information dumps can too easily become a form of procrastination.
Would you be so understanding of this rule if it was the other way around? If you were only able to expense meals including meat, and vegetarian options were carefully excluded at WeWork events?
TOML is a great format, but it can not universally replace JSON, because it's designed for small nested depth.

I've been trying to push RON as an alternative, and it works very well for WebRender, Amethyst, and other projects in Rust.
When I see stuff like this I do get about a 500 millisecond urge to vote for Trump in 2020 just to give a big middle finger to people like this CEO. Then I realize the cost of that middle finger and it’s too expensive for my tastes.
Computing normals for 3D Bézier curves
One example that I like to give is a downed power line. This is something that happens often. Try solving it with rigorous physics.
The question was about banning someone from making a reservation, not about removing a guest.
[Oops, just noticed your reply]

FWIW, I did see a weird black blob type thing on the LCD ribbon cable, but I don't think I got any photos of that. That is very probably the LCD controller you speak of.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the main CPU (and specifically EPOC) had a framebuffer of what was on the screen. (I'd be surprised if it didn't have any such (double-)buffering.)

Yeah, baseband processors have a fair bit of oomph to them. I've long been curious what sorts of specs they have.

In the iPhone, there's also the ARM core in things like NVMe storage as well. (http://ramtin-amin.fr/#nvmepcie)
This is because the people solving real world problems aren't writing books/tutorials/guides.

Real world system design is dirty. Mostly this is due to constraints (time, cost, etc). And no one starts with zero architecture and 10 million users.

Guides like this serve no purpose other than to fatten vocabularies and promote the "brand" of people who aren't actually doing the work (speakers, educators, etc).
The question was very specifically about whether a hotel can refuse to rent you a room. It was not a general question about how they can treat you once you're staying there.
Now that it’s open source you can remove that part.
A small but significant update to the Primer: the section on how to get decent normals in 3D finally makes sense. Previous it only explained how to compute Frenet normals (based on simple, four line maths), but those do _really_ weird things and cause normals to twist violently or even flip from one side of a curve to another... which is pretty useless when you're doing any kind of 3D graphics works.

So I finally managed to get a better approach documented, based on a nice paper on Rotation Minimising Frames, with some textual explanation, some code for the programmers amongst us, and an interactive graphic to show how much better that is compared to Frenet normals.
Ask HN: How to be found as a technology co-founder?
There are tons of articles on the internet about how to find a technology co-founder. I believe, there is another problem that also exists. If you have strong technology skills, but no business connections or experience, it's virtually impossible to be found as a technology co-founder, even if you've got a desire and ambitions.
Can anyone suggest an approach, what should one do in such situation?
Perhaps there is some matching service (read specialty social network), which helps to address this issue.
So now we'll have weekend "hackers" downloading this open source software, tweaking it, and hurling their cars down the road at high speed. Great.

The system also seems to have a single front facing camera. How will this detect for example a cyclist riding along the car and prevent the car from turning into him?
"Well, what kind of life do you want to have, and how can you get there?"

You sound like someone who believes in the power of positive thinking. I think if you wouldn't use your concepts of feedback loops in thinking to sober a drunk up and shove them in a car, you shouldn't consider them appropriate therapy for any other mental state.
No, it's about rebranding existing military funding (mostly Air Force) to another type of military funding, the Space Force.
Yeah, it’s easy to forget how hard the Second Law works against you when someone else is taking care of it for you. It’s like how some developers today don’t realize what it was like to run a web service before AWS. I once lost a box and had to drive down to the data center and found that the fan bearing had blown. But it was an expensive hardware firewall from eBay and I couldn’t easily get another. So I had to go out and buy a new generic fan at Micro Center. Except it didn’t fit so I had to then go buy a file at ACE hardware and file down the fan until it fit. And I had to epoxy it down.

Of course back then a half day of unplanned downtime warranted a phone call to your big customers but wasn’t really a dealbreaker.
If it’s trending on the front page and I have no idea what it’s even remotely about, then I’m definitely clicking. Why else am I here if not to be exposed to things outside of my day to day?
This ... so many things about configuration decisions that make sense at a point in time but can change with versions of a library, OS, server etc.

In past lives I have had to hack around so many different things to make something work they way I intended that I knew there would likely be a better solution to at some point.

As we get closer to things like infrastructure as code and configuration as code being the norm I would like to take this comment to remind people there is no such thing as self commenting code!

Even if this configuration should be “obvious” given constraints today when someone comes back to this months or years from now it’s likely some of those constraints could have changed or been removed completely - ignoring this is how you end up not changing things out of fear that something will break without real understanding.

Comments are almost never a problem unless they’re not updated when significant changes are made
ZRX is the odd-ball for me -- and I was an early investor. It's a governance token and it's not even needed to use with a decentralized exchange. In fact, a lot of exchanges aren't using it for fees.

But it makes since ZRX is part of the list. Its been rumoured for a long time given Coinbase's relationship with members of the 0x team.
South Korea Approves All Crypto Exchanges
Blazer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Blazer

While its gravitational density may approach a black hole, it's not an astronomical phenomenon.
People in the USA tend to think that the
country has only one set of laws, but in addition to
49 states with generally similar civil and criminal law,
we also have Louisiana, with a system of law
which descends from the Napoleonic Code, and
arbitration agreements found in many contracts
and ToSes.

In addition, many religious organizations tend
to view their systems of canon law as having primacy
before state or federal law, and educational entities
which take the same view toward their codes of conduct,
preferring to act _in loco parentis_ rather than deferring
to state authorities.
So they're just financially penalizing people that do