skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to make decent amount (for my purposes) around $1000 a month. This was when the ads were based on the content. Then a few years ago they based ads on the user (as personalisation is all the rage) which for me was ridiculous as my site was about general social, political and environmental issues, so you'd end up seeing an add about shoes or something you were shopping for on another site which was completely unrelated to why people came to my site and completely out of context so the ad clicks and revenue dropped while site usage was growing. No way to reach a human to change it back. Some option on AdSense implies you can but has not worked.

Also at some point got banned for false clicks except the site they said that was violating their policy was not mine. Their automated responses of course did not help. Only a few months later a friend of a friend who luckily worked on the team was able to reinstate the account (but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site. Wonder how many others they caught out...

Have ended up sticking with them as don't have time to look for alternatives (tried Chiquita but not very good). (The site is a side project only.) Would like to build my own niche for maybe non profits only, though I'm sure someone has done that already so I probably need to just invest some more time to look into it more...
The first sentence of the article states "surveillance firm NSO Group".
A recommendation would be isolating frequency ranges and also selecting mono/left/right to isolate a single guitar/instrument.
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To learn something by ear is to simply remember the sound/song and then repeat it intuitively (as opposed to reading music or copying finger positions).
If I had to have an opinion on the matter, it would be strongly aligned with this one.

If we could work out a way to financially incentivise taking care of each other many of our problems would change swiftly and dramatically.
PG&E chose not to put lines under ground because they will likely break in case of an earthquake.
This entire thread could have been avoided by you simply reading the first sentence of the article. No Google searches or long discussion needed.
Light does have relativistic mass but it is insufficient to account for dark matter.
This is part of the standard toolkit at Telstra - otherwise nothing would get done.
Well then everyone has local solar with a powerwall for when PG&E shuts down. Maybe that's cheaper? Honestly I think PG&E could bury the lines cheaper than $750 a foot.
I've always been interested din how people monetize email lists. What's your plan? I see from the site at the moment it's just a sign up box. IS that what you intend on it being forever, or do you eventually plan to have other content like a blog on the site to pull organic traffic?
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We don't know much about Syracuse politics, but in that case, it is more likely this was done by soldiers. Syracuse garrison would have been at least a thousand troops and more probably several thousands. While waiting for the ships to land, it sounds like a good idea to try and sync them to try make the ships catch fire.
Because they don't have a Linux version of their client.
"by identifying abnormally heavy users and removing them" - That costs money, ergo, theft. It's like if someone had to hire a security guard for a vending machine.
PACER is free if you don't go over $15 in a quarter (occasionally interested nonlawyers won't) and cases in the news are often on RECAP (you can assist them by downloading their browser extension)
You're right, that's what it usually means. But gp was asking about it in the context of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377401

Here it's being used to contrast with both TL-ship and management.
This one is really truly excellent:

https://twitter.com/lluvia_deer/status/1177864395822530561?s...

(Based on the legendary vine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6gBu2Zd7Bc )
> That said, in React, if you were to mess up a 'token', the runtime would be very upset

The same is of course true for Vue. At runtime, it will spit an error if it doesn't know that token (variable, function, whatever it is).

My feeling is what you don't like are really the quotation marks because it looks weird. I had a similar feeling when I started with vue. However, it is really a matter of taste if you prefer the Vue @click="foo" or onClick={foo} syntax.
You wouldn't necessarily have to do the entire state but rather start doing this in high-risk places first.
> Then you end up with companies like Boeing who are the only players in the country and no one even tries to compete given the massive overhead and then people get surprised the one company who gets 99% of the oversight ends up having a say in the oversight.

Tangential, but I've read comments on HN saying that part of the reason is that Boeing, along with Lockheed, are strategic to the US and there are actually some regulations to keep them on life support with government money, so that when a serious war starts, they're still there to serve US military's needs.
In talking to people about this, I found a number of people who just can’t work from home. Whether its not being as productive as they’d like, or something else.

If you’re working from home in a team, you definitely need to be aware of those who don’t operate the same as you. With good communication and respect this is an easy hurdle to get over.
100% agreed. The increasing attacks on whistleblowers from government down to private industries like agriculture show that there's a lot of sickness being covered up and allowed to grow in the dark. Keeping people from speaking out against the abuses they see certainly won't make anything better.
For the case of accidentally closing a Viewer: The command System.Recall restores the most recently closed Viewer. Just find or type that command anywhere on the screen and then execute it by clicking it with the middle mouse button.
I'm very uncomfortable with the criminal aspects of cfaa (US government vs Joe Small Man) but I think I'm ok with civil cases as long as we agree that we are not into boats.
Not to dispute your later statement, but power outages aren’t a new thing in California.

This State of affairs in particular is because PG&E has been held liable for fires caused by their equipment, to which they flipped off the courts and filed for bankruptcy. Should they be held liable? I don’t know, but effectively an entire town was wiped off the map and we experienced a couple weeks of continuous smog as far south as Santa Cruz from what I heard, San Francisco was just filled with smoke and pollution and face masks became part of the uniform around here along with Apple Watches, AirPods and messenger bags or backpacks.

Long term, power generation will become more decentralized anyway, because if there’s one thing we have in abundance it is sunshine. Most houses even with solar panels could not disconnect themselves from the grid and not lose their power, but this will likely incentivize people to look into being able to run their homes off-the-grid for at least a few days at a time.

As for tech companies? For any datacenter, or company running enough equipment to qualify as more or less a datacenter, power outages are a risk factor that you plan for and you try to mitigate. Doesn’t matter where in the world you are or what the capriciousness of the local electrical utility is like, even if you’re running your own source of power.
I'm guessing it's carry over from the typewriter days. Lower case x would double as the multiply symbol, and over-striking dash and colon would approximate the divide symbol.
Or `unlink`.
> It's pretty neat

And very very misleading. Those video frames are strobe-like snapshots, very carefully cherrypicked and arranged to spin a very bogus tale.

Those smoothly and carefully walking legs? They're really a cross between Monty Python and Cirque du Soleil, insanely flailing all around. Including backwards. The not-quite-random walking only makes net progress.

And those stately-moving barge-like things being towed as if by a donkey? Picture instead a helium balloon, held by its string. By a crazed drunk mouse clinging to rope. In a cat 5 hurricane. And that's still not flailing violently enough. Between one step and the next, that "stately barge" explores the entire parameter space it can reach given its tether. Even in politics, we'd not call that spin, but more of a bald- and boldface lie. But "pretty".
But does a language with Python-like syntax really have to try to be so "beginner-friendly" that it enables inconsistent casing?

The language itself can't enforce better variable names, at least not this way - Nim doesn't stop me from using "abcd" or "a0, a1, ... a100" as variable names even though it's usually a very bad idea.

No, I think a language should help keeping the code consistent in the long term - and having this strange case insensitivity doesn't help there in my opinion.
Paying 20% of income in taxes (for example) is a much heavier burden to bear if you're making 20k a year than it is if you're making 200 000. Which is why progressive taxation exists.
I learned about privacy.com here on HN and it has been very helpful for me. You can create virtual cards for single-use or recurring payments. Each card can only be used by one vendor. You also set a max amount.
Totally understand that the 6,000+ SaaS businesses are out of control and unsustainable. And unnecessary in many cases.

However, there is something odd about the GNU argument here. They have been riding a (small) wave for a long time and fear irrelevance. They get cranky if you don’t call it GNU/Linux. They basically copied Unix tools and thinking from other people, then inserted themselves into the O/S and software world, and want to be champions of “freedoms”. Fine, fine, and fine.

But it’s also fine that people don’t care. Most don’t. Most people use Gmail (and previously Yahoo Mail) and don’t want to set up their own email via Emacs, etc.

WordPress and Ubuntu are non-SaaS software (well, mostly) and are polished and easy to use. But there are for-profit aspects of those tools, too, which is partially how and why they remain sustainable.

I know searching with AWK and other tools are amazing. Supposedly. But sorry if I own a Mac and don’t go to the command line and use RegEx in AWK (or whatever GNU tool some freedom fighter says we should always use to “own” our software). I just use the very proprietary Finder or Spotlight tools that Apple built for my operating system. And some Mac owners also use software like Alfred.

This is blatantly obvious when you look at the marketplace objectively: people want simple. People do not want to spend more time learning systems and tools, but less.

If GNU wants to stay relevant, and I think that is still possible, even as their tools are rewritten and replaced in the next decade or so, they could stand to focus on attracting customers, rather than browbeating people with their philosophies. Build a better mousetrap, and all that jazz.
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Apple Pay generates a token that can only be used by the merchant for the authorized amount. More details: https://squareup.com/us/en/townsquare/what-does-tokenization...
> Something has gone seriously wrong when we're seeing near-daily stories about power outages in the tech capital of the world.

Welcome to the climate crisis.
No doubt the folk who sat around cooking up this are well paid, well employed, enjoying good benefits. All that schooling, training, experience and cognitive energy focussed on the problem of not being able to treat people like robot cattle.
No, it merges a copy-on-write clone of the debuggee into yourself. That's quite different and, indeed, you can do similar things with it that a debugger could.

If I understand this right,the process being unforked into you won't notice a thing and will happily chime on.
Am I the only one who thought about eXistenZ while reading this headline?
userfaultfd is an extremely intriguing hammer :)
Ha I've been trying to find one for forever. Can't even find cheap non-fda approved clones from alibaba/aliexpress. Would love to hear if anyone has made some headwind on this. It seems odd that only diabetics are allowed access to the tools that enable CGM. Blood glucose is an important marker of health, diabetic or not.
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This is not transactional. What happens when a host reboots randomly in the middle of execution? Or the network drops? You're stuck looking through the logs to see the failure along the way. No thanks. I want something that forces me to be idempotent and retries automatically on failures.
> No, it merges a copy-on-write clone of the debugger into yourself.

But you are the debugger…

> If I understand this right,the process being unforked into you won't notice a thing and will happily chime on.

Right, whereas when running an actual debugger you need to deal with signals and making sure you don't touch memory.
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> inb4 a Nim linter is written to force a consistent naming style throughout a codebase.

Already done:

https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nimfmt

> Detect inconsistent variable/function naming
> cloudflare is doing something similar on 1.1.1.1 with wireguard.

The primary maintainer of Wireguard had some misgivings about that: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-March/00404...
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ununlink would be pretty useful. Then again, this kind of exists; I have fond memories of a panicky younger me struggling with undelete in DOS.
Can I ask how you got started on embedded and on which MCU? I assume you mean bare metal.
Maybe, but I think CEQA will pretty much guarantee that it will end up being a bit more expensive than even that.
A joke, of course!
People working for NSO believe they are doing good for mankind and helping stop terrorism. I am not buying the shitty nerative but still love her :)
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She claims they are more regulated then other companies with the tech and like all weapons mistakes can happen. Also that they did not do a lot of the stuff they are blamed for.

I personally don't believe them but she does :)
It's an accidental success and the game took 3 years to make. Unless they can turn around viral marketing campaigns in significantly less time, with a clear strategy for success then it's unlikely that they'll be able (or even want) to switch markets from game design to marketing consultancy.

Additionally the whole meme is pretty far from commercialisable. It's the simplicity and wholesomeness of the goose that gives it strength. It would be difficult to attach the image to a brand without killing the feel.
And there’s this case about a nature photographer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
I haven't thought about eXistenZ in at least a decade.
If it doesn't personally affect you or anyone you know, it's not worth getting outraged.

Although if you feel like you care about the issue, then try and look at all sides to the story and you'll notice the outrage diminish as you reflect on all perspectives/motivations and circumstances of the people in the issue... you'll become objective and calm towards the issue, much like a supreme court judge.
I've been working remote exclusively for 5 years now with several years prior working remote on occasion. I live half way across the country from my job and I remotely operate a consulting business that my day job is fully aware. I also have two kiddos which is the primary reason I work remote and a good motivation for healthy work/life balance.

I definitely find that routine helps, but over time, with discipline, you can adapt to different environments. The most important thing for me is my work system... not so much my work space.

I work on everything from full stack web, low level hardware and electronics, VR/AR, cloud infrastructure and database administration, video games, iOS/Android native, etc. I need something that is portable, powerful, and easily cross platform.

My latest system is a macbook pro with 32GB Ram and an external eGPU graphics card for VR development. I run Parallels as my primary VM allowing me to run a Bootcamp Windows partition as a VM. It is also the only solution that currently supports Metal for graphics intensive applications. I rarely need to hookup the headset, but when I do I can boot to Windows natively for that. I can do native iOS and Android easily from the mac OSX partition. I even run Ubuntu on the VM for testing server setups locally.

When I am home I work from just about any room with my laptop stand, however, in order to ZONE I do need to find a quite spot while the kids are around (or use headphones). I also often work in coffee shops, book stores, libraries, and grocery stores (those with a food court).

I typically spend the day on my day job and evenings when the kids are down I work on contract work, but for me it just seems like a hobby most of the time anyway.

I have slack and google meet installed on my phone and have my calendar and emails synced with my work accounts.

I LOVE GIT! I use git for all of my consulting and side projects and even when a client or day job uses perforce I can use git-p4 to create a much better offline flow.

I know this isn't for everyone and I have deviated in many cases from the points in the article, but it definitely has been working well for my life style thus far.
My savings account doesn't come from me getting in between a citizen, and a vital-for-life service... Intuit's does, and they lobby aggressively to make everyone's lives harder, so that they can keep making millions from selling a glammed-up spreadsheet for $30/taxpayer.
That sounds like and excuse. I'm Italian and back at home we also have heartquakes and wildfires problems. And yet a lot of our distribution lines are underground (apart from the high and ultra high voltage ones).
A year+ ago I switched to FF, DDG and Fastmail after briefly evaluating Protonmail. It was surprisingly easy. Fastmail works nicely on Lineage as well.

My hardest remaining FAAMG property to kick is Youtube, followed by maps.
Is the speedlimit where children get off school busses 100mph?

I’m sure you can work out the answer yourself.
That's straight from a Black Mirror episode...
Unsurprisingly no one here cares, because NSO bad.
Why is it the default that everyone files their taxes? How long does that take, on average?

Here's how it could work, based on a real-world example from another country:

Before each tax season begins, the IRS sends each taxpayer an estimate of how much they are expected to earn that year, based on previous years. They are assigned a tax bracket based on this estimate. If they think the estimate is wrong, they send back a new number and their tax bracket is adjusted accordingly. The taxpayer can also give estimates of their deductions at this point, for a more accurate estimate of the tax bracket.

Employees withhold taxes from wages before payment, based on the tax bracket each employee is in. They report the wages paid and pay the IRS the withheld amount.

Investment funds etc. are required to report gains and losses for each of their clients to the IRS.

At the end of the year, the IRS sums up the income they know about from these reports, compare the sum due to the sum already paid from withheld taxes and send the taxpayer a summary. If the taxpayer has no other income to report, and has no complaints about the data the IRS already has, they don't need to file anything further. The report comes with a bill for taxes remaining, or if too much has been paid, a summary of how much will be returned.

For the majority of taxpayers, that is, those whose source of income is wages from employment or government benefits, all this takes maybe 10 minutes a year to handle. Some people still need to file, but they're a minority.
I'm not from the USA, is my understanding of this correct?

The power utility is liable for fires caused if a branch blows into its power lines during high winds. So the power utility has chosen to turn off the power in high winds?
Good point. Is it also true that high risk places (forest/rural) are probably cheaper and easier to install underground than low risk places (urban)?
The big exception to this is inside containers where it is often disabled by default.
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This is how mafia operates. They come to you and offer protection in exchange for a recurring "protection fee". If you refuse, they are the ones who commit crimes against you until you fork out a "protection fee".
ununlink is link() on a /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd> entry. Assuming some process still has the file open, that is.
> The Vue implementation seems to ultimately lack this core understanding, and comes off almost a bit cargo-cultish in comparison. React has hooks, so we must have something similar.

Aren't hooks only needed because React and Vue still use a virtual DOM?
Not everyone wants tracking, even if that means sacrificing software quality. Making it mandatory is never excusable.
Interesting results but they really only use toy examples (Tic-Tac-Toe and Connect Four). It would be kind of surprising if it didn't work.
Yes!! Bots are so fun to make and just have run. Like forever running rube Goldberg's machines :)

For over a year I had a Pi with a camera in a window at my Parents' house that took a photo every 15mins and uploaded to a server of mine. Then I had a mechanism to play back as a video. It was nice to watch the seasons go by while on the other side of the continent. They weren't very good at keeping it plugged in though.... Backend was in Play2/Scala since it was hip at the time and client in Python.

I worked on software for devices mounted on powerlines and had to build that functionality. That inspired me to have my own.

Have a Screeps bot in the top 20. About 40k lines of JS...

Working on a bot that can quickly connect you to a real person at https://watch.ly

Definitely want to build more. Following this thread for ideas. :)
It's no secret that many people on Hacker News would like stronger privacy regulation.
> Developing more accessible apps would result in an increased userbase leading to greater revenue

Only if the marginal cost of developing them is less than the revenue attained by developing them, which is also limited by the amount of funds that disabled people have.

Disabled people existed before ADA, and the reason ADA was popular was because it didn’t make business sense to serve the disabled population. There’s no way construction costs of ADA accessible features of a building will ever be recouped by sales to disabled people needing it.

A free market solution would require the government to give sufficient cash to disabled people, enough to make businesses want to compete for them. But that is also wrought with possibilities for corruption.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Even if you don't use a bot, you could just buy like, 5 things you need.
Hm, last time I checked I thought the sensors were individual diodes but it looks like you're right, and 'flash LIDAR' cameras do use some funky kind of CCD. Still relatively low resolution but good to know, thanks!
Whitequark is better than Sammy in SW. He's also the maintainer of SolveSpace. https://m-labs.hk/software/solvespace/
Yeah, but that's an embarassingly parallel task, so you can recreate it with sufficient resources. If there's a sufficiently lucrative application, businesses will happily pay that.
LinkedIn is a big source of career opportunities for me, many recruiters send me messages and some had very interesting offers.