skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, if you put aside your emotions for a second and just think on why you're having a existential crisis you will probably come up with some reasons.

For me, the reason was that I wasn't sure if I was heading in the right direction, spending money and time on education. But I realized that is is kind of unnecessary and as long as I enjoy what I do and can continue to do it without any damage to my future possibilities I should probably continue. You can always switch tracks later in life, no harm done.

Emotions are rarely logical, they are often very irrational and sudden. If you put aside the emotions for a while and ask yourself if it's really worth it to be upset, the answer is probably going to be no.
Well, Morris Worm is now 30 years old and C CVEs due to memory corruption bugs have kept a stendy growth since then.
Curiously, in the Soviet Union the Volga - the Soviet copy of the Ford Falcon - was the most desired car of all. An ordinary citizen had nearly no chance of acquiring one because most went to party functionaries, government organizations, and, for some reason, taxicabs.
This is a cute idea, but every part of it sounds impractical.

The sea brings with it storms and waves (as mentioned in the article) but it also brings: saltwater corrosion, barnacles and other sea life trying to live on your equipment, serviceability issues (harder to get to and work on), and more.

There's also the energy needed to extract the CO2 from the water. If you want CO2, we generate concentrated amounts of it on land (like from coal power plants). Why not get that at the source?

We have plenty of flat land in the deserts around the world, and solar farms there are easier to maintain than out on the ocean.
That's a pretty disgusting comment to be honest.
It's very disingenuous too, being a bully is a personality issue and shouldn't have any place in a professional setting.

It makes others uncomfortable and leads to unnecessary confrontations and distraction. It's a very obvious personality flaw too, it's always aimed at someone in a lower position of power than yourself. Go try and bully your manager or department head, see how that works out.
Perhaps pressure from record labels? I hope artists can flock to somewhere like Bandcamp, or alternatives.
They have a phone number
That's OK, they don't pay the small artists more than a pittance anyway. I canceled my subscription a while ago and started pirating music again. When I want to support a small artist, I buy their music on Bandcamp.
> Bullies on the team are useful.

Describe to me the special utility of a bully, which cannot be provided by someone employing non-bullying methods.

To avoid confusion, let's use a dictionary definition of bully

Oxford: A person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.

Dictionary.com: a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
There is background radiation, but natural nuclear fission reactor can exist too...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
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These companies are not against independent artists. The big rights holders are.

Allowing artists to upload directly is a legal clusterfuck of minefields and business risks (pardon the language):

- what happens when an artist who is signed with Warner Music starts uploading their music directly?

- what happens when the Big Three start viewing Spotify (or Google, or anyone, really) as their competitor in music distribution?

Somehow almost literally no one focuses on how Warner, Sony, and Universal have a death grip on both artists and distribution companies. But everyone is willing to vilify Spotify.
When programs grovel into undocumented structures (2003)
How Google Pagespeed works
I don’t remember the details of the BIOS case. A BIOS responds kind of like hardware. You put values in a register, trigger an interrupt, and look at the result in another register. As I recall, the clean room implementation replicated the same behavior, which is permitted. But documenting the actual structure of the code, including variable names, and copying that is not clean room reverse engineering from the point of view of copyright law.
There are still several services that "automagically" publish your music to several platforms at once.

Some are pretty affordable, like DITTOMUSIC

https://www.dittomusic.com/pricing
Not the experience I've had with Hetzner (been with them for 5+ years), basically all responses have been within a day, 2 at most. Although their servers have been pretty reliable so I haven't had to contact them much.
Man wakes up just before his own funeral
Record labels are like bad unions and want a closed shop.
If you are their co-worker and believe he shared some info that shouldn’t be public, wouldn’t it be a simple curtesy to email them and get some clarity? That seems like a reasonable thing to do.

On the other hand, to anonymously submit a complaint feels, to me, like a personal attack. Someone who simply doesn’t like them in for whatever reason. To me, that action seem petty.
Ah, and another one, but with the added BS of “OMG! You’re hurting society!”

Mkay...
Do you have examples of these sorts of cartoons? I've never seen one so I can't imagine what they're like.
Brilliant point of view. I too, am slowly coming to the realization that a mixed mode of paradigms is actually better and _simpler_ to attack composite problems. Attacking everything with code (OOP gravitates to that approach IMO) has its strengths but I see people over engineer there trying to solve problems where just a different way of thinking would produce a simpler, more robust and easier to maintain solution.
This is pretty much the default answer to all such questions, unless directly proven to be otherwise.

The last thing they would want is for Spotify, or anyone else, to effectively become a record label in their own right.
I'm not sure if people in Venezuela would use Bitcoin if their economy wasn't so bad

Crypto volatility is high as well
but because their own economy is even worse,
crypto is a good solution (only till things get solved)
Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to China
It's not available until you have a certain amount of karma. I think it's 500 or thereabouts.
The experience came from the days when I wasn't able to debug yet, and when full disks were frequent for similar reasons.
As far as I could research, I only found articles about Windows XP. Close enough. https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pirated-software-used-to-crea...
The EULA is attached up the drivers. Newer versions of CUDA often require newer drivers, so you bump into the issue regardless of when you buy the GPU.
Because historians work on different time scales. Stuff from only a few decades ago is still politics, not history.
The truth about NYC's iconic hot dog
On a language level, I miss how many statements became expressions in Rust. For example, I would really love to `if` be an expression in JavaScript. This makes a language so much more expressive.

And no, I don't think that `do expressions` proposal is really great solution.
I'm not planning to stop you from acting. Do as you wish.
Apple finds issue with logic board in some 2018 MacBook Airs, offers free repair
>Is saving a few minutes worth handing over your most sensitive biometric information?

The problem is that you've already handed this biometric information over; say, when you get a passport. There is no "opt-out" for that context. This is also why RealId was so vehemently opposed[0].

At the end of the day, they're getting your data - one way or another and there is no opt-out for that.

So, to make an appeal on the argument of privacy of data is being woefully ignorant of the fact that this encroachment has been happening for years and it didn't seem to matter very much then.

[0] - https://iapp.org/news/a/why-some-states-wont-comply-with-rea...
Now being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342750 (which I happened to see first).

Might be worth combining threads.
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scaleway has GPUs now: https://www.scaleway.com/en/gpu-instances/
Folks at CleverCloud launched CleverGrid today https://www.clevergrid.io/

I know a few of their engineers personally, really experienced and trustworthy engineers. They are based in France.
He doesn’t do that in interviews. And he’s just being pedantic prick about it.
"Naked" is a real stretch. It's basically a black and white, lumpy x-ray viewed from a remote control room.
Cute idea indeed. Pass me the crack pipe will you please?
> Bullies on the team are useful.

> You don't want Bullies in an org, you have to be better than them and more useful than them.

Doing absolutely nothing (no work done) is better than bullying (negative work done).

Your "fact of life" is not only unethical but if proven it can be grounds for constructive discharge.
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> contrary to standard accounts of the history of money, debt is probably the oldest means of trade, with cash and barter transactions being later developments.

In fact, this is the standard history of money. It's been a long time historians are aware of this and im the 1920s Allyn Young was already complaining about economists talking about barter as the historical foundation of economy.

Sadly, the story about barter is still being taught today in curriculum of economics because it's part of the classical narrative.
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I just spent about a week trying to get a raidz pool going for a home server under Ubuntu. It was about one of the most frustrating experiences in recent memory. My goal was to run the root system off an SSD with the heavily used folders offloaded onto a ZFS raidz pool.

I followed the Ubuntu Root on ZFS guide with changes I thought would be appropriate.

I gave up eventually and came to a disgruntled conclusion is that it works for beginner users tho follow guides to the T and advanced users that know the changes that need to be made from institutional knowledge, but not for people in between.
These apps are not installed by themselves, someone with physical access to the phone is installing them (if we include remote installs then anything that autoupdates - including iPhone - can also install software).

And it isn't a matter of flexibility, it is a matter of utility: others not being able to take your phone from you and install apps also means you not being able to do it either.
> I increasingly prefer life inside the wall.

We can have both: live inside the wall and have the freedom to do with our devices what we want;

For example, in macOS i can disable 'System Integrity Protection' (SIP), make whatever modifications i want to make, and then re-enable SIP.
The same thing could be done with iOS.

The real issue is that Apple wants to have control over our devices for economic/financial reasons.
Because this is an excerpt from a smart person just a bit out of touch with his times (it would be a majoritarian opinion among smart people a few years earlier) claiming that computers are inherently linked to the military, to the point that new CS undergrads would certainly work in military projects after graduation.
> what's more environmentally friendly than buses

subway, tramway, bikes, you can event visit a lot of things walking the city, there's no need to have a bus only to go to the city
How to make a full time income working at home, using done for you business?
In large parts of the publicly-funded science ecosystem in the STEM fields, I have a very strong impression that the pendulum has swung so far that women are now at a significant advantage over men as a result of affirmative action policies. They should really not be complaining about discrimination.

For example, the DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences which funded my PhD was structured in such a way that the grant was split into two equal pots. One pot took applications ONLY from women. The other pot was enforcing 50% of the fellowships going to women. That means: The rules stipulated that there was 3x as much funding available for women as there was for men, despite the fact that there were much fewer female applicants, so chances for a female to get funding were, by design, at least an order of magnitude higher than for a man. -- This was the only publicly funded scholarship program in Austria that pays enough to study at, say, an ivy leage in the U.S. or something like that. -- On top of that they had great mentoring programmes and networking opportunities that were open ONLY to women, and nothing of the sort that men were welcome for.

Similar story told to me by my male cousin, working for a solar technology startup with close ties to an Austrian university and the Austrian science funding ecosystem: They had received public funding to hire some physicists, but some of the funding was earmarked so it could be used only for hiring women. Hiring a woman proved to be a thing of impossibility, since they couldn't find a single one that wanted to apply. They ended up having to give back the funding. An applicant could have had a job there, and all it would have taken was to (a) be vaguely a physicist (b) be female. She didn't need to be good or anything. She just needed to show up, and the job would have been guaranteed to her, since, from the company's POV, it was free money being left on the table to do anything else.

I know a lot of people working for research institutions being funded by the Austrian taxpayer. They tend to all have really shitty careers, with one exception. Guess what that exception was. You guessed right: The one woman I know that travels in those circles.

I don't know if things are as bad in Germany yet as they are in Austria, but women in the publicly-funded science ecosystem in the STEM fields complaining about discrimination at this point in history is simply outrageous. If anything, men should be the ones complaining.
> and often shout down people with better ideas.

Interesting. In my experience bullies tend to play politics rather than out-and-out shouting matches.
You mean create an organism we can then burn to produce electricity?
Idk I see the Moia shuttles all over the place, but have rarely seen a passenger in them, though I know someone who knows someone who's used them. I guess they're driving around algorithmically to reach every point in short time, while at the same time not having to use parking lots (which are non-existant anyway) and parking areas reserved and financed by proper taxies/cabs.
Why would Microsoft be liable?

Do you check if your butcher has illegally bought his knife? Should you be liable, if so?
Xiaomi Disputes Claims It Plagiarised Apple's Memoji for Mimoji
Problem is that something else might be actually performing a critical task.
Like i said, it's an oligopoly. There's only 2 choices which is not enough.

Imagine you could only buy 2 type of cars...
Former Google exec ran 'sex ring,' estranged wife claims in civil complaint
You can simply get a dev account and install what you want.

Or someone can get an enterprise account and allow you to install their apps.

Also... what exactly do you even want to run what is not possible on iOS?
Ridiculous.

As a taxpayer I would characterize my non-voluntary funding of such institutions in my country as a form of bullying.
To be honest, I don't remember exactly what feature it was. Just that I couldn't easily encapsulate a 2d grid of "replaceable" cells. This was like 4-5 months ago and the only documentation we had on C++ at the time was the official Stroustrup book, which was dense.
I'm not advocating for formal over relaxed. I find blog posts work best in a relaxed style from the first person singular. This sort of apology should come from an individual at the top, and make reference to the whole team. You're probably right about personal differences though.
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They don't install drivers into servers, you have to do it by yourself. EULA attached to drivers, not hardware
Replacing one disk at a time in a ZFS pool that's almost full is a bad idea, because all new writes will go to the sole new disk.
To be clear, this is not Spotify blocking small artists without a label getting on Spotify. This is about bands not being able to upload directly, requiring them to use any of the cheaply available distributors instead. This is mostly likely an anti-fraud / anti-copyright infringement / QA move.
Soundrop and Amuse.io are 2 free alternatives that distribute to a range of platforms. And this is a pretty comprehensive and objective overview of them all: https://aristake.com/post/cd-baby-tunecore-ditto-mondotunes-...
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And they probably scanned his face one way or another anyway.
I doubt that the average native English speaker would pass a C2 level exam (even if you only consider the US and UK, as there are many other countries that speak English (for example India). While they probably won't have any problems with the grammar, C2 uses a lot of vocabularity that you won't be familiar with if you don't read much.
I don't think I'll convince you to try the latest MM, so I've ordered the one you've mentioned (Logitech's MX Master 2). It should be delivered to me tomorrow. I'll be using it for at least 1-2 weeks just for the sake of this argument.

After that I'll contact you in this thread and share the results if you're interested. I don't expect your or mine opinion changed, but I guess it'll be stupid not to test.
Why delete something if there might be the slightest chance of it being useful in the future, and there is no downside (storage, reputation, legal)?

I assume storage of this data for them is nearly 0 cost, reputation is not an issue as most >99% of people seem to simply don't care about privacy and there is probably no legal limit.
The submitted article doesn't mention it but my guess at connecting the dots is that it's related to EU Article 13's stringent requirement of "upload filters"[0].

Yes, Spotify's direct uploading "gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent" -- but that same mechanism also made it too easy to upload copyright infringing content.

Since Spotify does not have a machine learning AI copyright filter like Youtube's ContentID[1], shutting down the direct upload was their best course of action. Restricting uploads to their distribution partners (record labels) is the human version of the "contentid" algorithm.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=eu+"article+13"

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+"contentid"
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First time coming across techcrunch's "extra crunch" paywall - It's a shame they give you half the article before mentioning it.
Are you in the US or Europe? I’ve heard the term mobbing used in Germany but never the US. In the US bullying would apply to both adults and children.
But you can say you're cool because you use ZFS...

Some people no doubt need it, most don't. It's probably cheaper to buy one large disk and regularly back up it's essential contents to S3.
Adobe indesign is a direct competitor to publisher. I still love publisher.
As someone who lost critical business functionality yesterday when my appengine instances returned only 502s for 5 hours, I find the idea it was "a ridiculous time to nitpick" hilarious.

My customers don't care that the network is down, the servers are down, or aliens have landed. The severity is the same and our infrastructure, regardless of the cause, was down.

During the impacted time period, we did a full DR failover to appengine instances we spun up in west2. This was not a minor hiccup.
Due to Apple sabotaging Vulkan support

Correct me if I'm wrong here: wasn't Vulkan one of Apple's major talking points at a WWDC or a keynote? What happened?
You forgot to mention lotus.
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.dittomusic.com
To be fair, they make it easy to review and delete past recordings here: https://www.amazon.com/alexaprivacysettings
I'm struggling to think what kind of control flow you're looking for when specifying a document consisting of a tree of components. If all you want is a way to render one nodeset over a different nodeset at runtime then you can easily do that by setting that behavior in the relevant component.
I used them to get to the airport and back once. Pricing was ok (probably around two thirds of a cab for a single person, but for more persons the ratio gets worse).

On the way back it took twice as long though since the driver went back to the airport to get another passenger when we were already half way home.

The software worked fine.
What philosophical topics were explored? Honest question. I got all the endings but, like the other commenter in this chain, I don’t remember much of anything except some anime archetypes. I never understood what it was that made many people so emotional over the game. Perhaps I am stupid.
I guess they were also very surprised, because most people would rather not be touched by a stranger.
>>My daughter is going to a rock strings camp next week where she will be playing Metallica, Zepplin, etc on cello.

Have she listened to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptica?
Fuel is just a name for matter that stores energy. Methanol ultimately produced by the sunlight is fully renewable: it's just recycling atoms from molecule to another and burning the produced methanol will eventually recycle them back to square one.

The same thing happens with oil too. It's just that the recycling period is so long that a massive portion of the carbon in the cycle effectively ends up stashed away underground, and the overground ecosystem has time to adapt to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. When we talk about carbon emissions we mean drilling oil and digging up coal increase the amount of carbon in the active cycle and decrease the amount stashed. Yet it's the same carbon the planet has always had, but just with different proportions of it in different phases of the cycle.
> The real issue is that Apple wants to have control over our devices for economic/financial reasons.

Maybe, maybe not. But I for one like this walled garden because it prevents a lot of stupid people from doing really stupid things. From a computer, infosec security angle.
> I've got great experience with Indians working in Europe, not so great with Indians working from India. My impression is that the best Indian developers tend to move here, because they'll be able to earn European/American rates.

as an Indian developer working in the US, I have to say that this is a bit of an unwarranted stereotype, despite being repeated often on HN and Reddit

There absolutely is a large contingent of good developers in India (as you'd probably expect from a country with over a billion people), but they are mostly working with locally-managed projects and teams. A lot of them wouldn't work for outsourcing companies because of the poor pay and hours.

There is a bit of confirmation bias going on here: since western companies will frequently outsource to the low-cost shops in India, they will mostly see poor quality work. I don't think its fair to generalize this to all Indian devs.
Break even point is used as a term to describe the point your gains are equal to your initial investment, hinting that after this point, you will start making net profit.
look if we can do big oil rigs on the shelf than in fact we can do solar panels like this with a submerged oil rig as the under-structure..not impossible.
Last years book "Never Lost Again" is a good account of the Keyhole/Google Earth/Google Maps story. (https://www.amazon.com/-/dp/0062673041/)
I guess that means we cant upload tool anymore under other names
A study on how trade relations changed among countries during 1750-1850
I have a lavender bush next to my front door. There are always a bunch of bees on it... makes leaving the house in the morning a little more enjoyable.
I guess my AdBlocker blocked whatever they were trying to use to show the paywall, so the story just abruptly ended in the middle.