skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling I could make some kind of comment here about an aristocracy of labour, especially given that it's motherjones
Not surprising. Corporate entities will tolerate employee 'activism' so long as it doesn't interfere with day-to-day business. Once that line is crossed, the business is going to start providing guidelines that focus attention where it needs to be.

This is how it should be. Activism is fine and belongs in personal lives and organizations dedicated to the cause. It does not belong in companies with a diverse workforce.
I will sometimes try to locate a pdf of a technical book I am interested in. If I find it, I’ll scan through it and if I think it’s something I would like to read I’ll buy a physical copy. If not, I delete the pdf and don’t read it. If I don’t want to buy it, it isn’t worth my time to read it free.

It’s my equivalent to walking into a book store and thumbing through books until I find one I want to buy.
Abstaining from topics where you have conflicts of interests IS integrity.
The CIA doesn't operate domestically, or at least doesn't make it their day to day. Domestic crime is the FBI.

And the quote you cited is a joke. A decent one at that, imho.
Important: at this point the examples are intended for desktop browsers. Mobile support is on my todo list, but will take some time.
Listen to this person. The people telling you to talk to your employer are giving you terrible advice. You can still do that after spending 30 minutes with a lawyer, but you can't take back anything you say before you talk to a lawyer.
It's possibly a factor of how selective they can be by reputation. If the number of candidates is a few times higher than your college (which to be clear I have no idea about), then it's possible their selection criteria also selects for those likely to graduate, whether on purpose or as a side-effect of other things they attempt to select for.
Smaller, safer, and just as friendly to centralized top-down control by governments, utilities, and mega corporations. Unlike solar which can be controlled by yourself on your own property.
NPV is more sensitive to major than college. A Berkeley liberal arts degree has lower lifetime earnings than a Cal State nursing degree.
For a less comprehensive, but also less complex and opaque, analysis, I looked at the cash on cash returns from seed, series a and series b investments in some of the top performing companies in recent years: Uber, lyft, twitter, Dropbox, Pinterest, snap and zoom [0]

I did this as a way to compare tech and biotech seed investing (I work in biotech). Outlier returns in biotech are lower than in tech, so managing risk across a portfolio is more important than just getting in on big winners (i.e. Consistent base hits and home runs, not just going for one or two grand slams)

Interestingly, biotech VC has outperformed tech VC over the last decade. This is despite lower returns on an individual- investment basis. This suggests that concentrated portfolios with low loss rates can perform better than portfolios than power law portfolios [1]

So if you are a biotech investor, you probably shouldn't follow the tech investing playbook

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/anatomy_of_a_decacorn.html

[1] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/anatomy_of_a_top_vc.html
For the future, I would totally read Social Architecture. It's available here for free (libre and gratis), and is not long, 100 pages or so printed. https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/

A huge part of that is how to structure an open source project so that it can't be taken from the community. Basically a combo of GPL and taking community contributions without having them assign copyright to you is the most full proof way to keep something open source.

To answer your question, if they own everything they can relicense it any way they see fit. Only by having your code mixed with others' that you don't own can you practically protect it from forced relicensing.
What drew you to mjs?
A Society Dies
they're hyper-selective, but there's no particular reason to arbitrarily fail 1/3 of their students. you could just make the classes harder until this happens, but employers/grad schools seem to be pretty happy the way things are, so why do it? Yale students even mostly get As in most classes and it works out fine for everyone.
It’s not the lookup that is the cost but the network call.
New postmarketOS build infrastructure is powered by sourcehut builds
What state were you in?
Exactly this.

And when you sit down with the lawyer, make sure to bring your employment contract and IP agreement. They'll need those to give you any informed opinions.
How about a UDP endpoint?
UI Expands Lab with Anechoic Chambers
>developed it on my own time but the product directly relates to what my employer does

As much as I hate to say it, that doesn't sound like a side project. That just sounds like overtime.
Lead has some nice benefits:

Provides shielding or reflection (depends on the reactor spectrum)

High boiling point

Doesn't have the same chemical reactivity as other liquid metals like sodium or NaK

But, it needs to be balanced with the drawbacks:

High density. Liquid sodium is less than a tenth of the density of liquid lead. This becomes more of a problem the larger the reactor gets due to seismic loading.

Poorer heat transfer qualities than sodium (which is why liquid metals have mostly stuck to sodium)

Must be designed to flow with low velocities due to corrosion/erosion*

*This can drastically affect the size of the piping or flow passages required for cooling. Flowing above a certain velocity will erode and destroy pumps, piping, etc.

A low performance reactor won't be as highly impacted as a high performance reactor that needs to flow as much coolant as fast as possible. The Russians have done a lot of work in this area.
The means of mass communication is the new means of mass production.
Boris Johnson's self-serve efforts are pretty interesting: https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1169719026060320768
Right sorry. I meant for a significant amount of time that took down production or caused serious issues. I've taken down prod in other ways though :p

At one company I built API middleware that calculated time spent in the event loop vs waiting on dependencies (other apis, Redis, etc) by managing a couple counters per request. It was very helpful.
Yes. In general it’s better to either stay or come back. Otherwise we are concentrating more and more into “good” countries and leave other countries behind. I understand it from an individual perspective but in the big picture I don’t think it’s a good thing. In the US it’s the same. Tech people and companies concentrate in a few centers. It’s probably better for companies and employees but not very good for the whole country.
Stock splits seem to be something that for some reason reasonably smart engineers view as some type of financial scam. A split is simply a way of re-arranging the equity - a split in itself neither creates, nor destroys value.

I've tried over the years to come up with a decent analogy and this is the best I can do. Imagine your options are cartons of eggs, and you have 5 cartons. A carton of eggs is worth $2. You have $10 worth of eggs. However the people that decide how eggs are sold determine that eggs should be sold in bundles of 6 for $1 each. You cut the cartons in half. You now have 10 cartons of eggs, still worth $10.

This was not in done in secret in some kind of way to scam you. Unless there are different stock classes, this will impact every investor. You should probably contact the company holding the options, Merrill, Fidelity, etc, and confirm that it will be updated.
4-digit PIN with probably lots of protection/detection against bruteforcing (e.g. you only get 3 tries before you're locked out, then you have to go physically verify your identity and change the PIN again) and it's a bank so naturally everything is already being monitored.
"But the site started to show signs of struggle earlier this year when the Atlantic laid off CityLab’s dedicated business staff. “The writing’s been on the wall for a long time,” one of the staffers said about CityLab’s future with the Atlantic."

So CityLab was going to get axed, but in the end half of them get to keep their jobs, yet the article's slant is Bloomberg is a bad guy because of it.
I think killing yourself for insurance fraud is definitely near murder. But that's just me.
.. and? How many of those have caused serious damage to anyone? Or damage at all to people or even things other than themselves?
If they have even a debatable claim on the code (probably not but are you 100% sure?), then deleting it is destroying their property.

That's a quick way to have a miserable life (getting fired, sued, blacklisted among peers, etc).
That's interesting. Google certainly did pick up a number of world class engineers from Microsoft and Bell Labs (Ken Thompson!). I wonder though if it was a conscious strategy to get these top-level engineers in order to retain a vast pool of average-level engineers by inflating their egos with the positive association.
I have the opposite knee jerk reaction and see people openly talking about their biases and dubious incentives to be an indication of honesty and forthrightness. It's when people make a big song and dance about how pro-independance they are and make a whole song and dance about it that I get suspicious. It reflects not just a lack of honesty towards others but even a lack of honesty towards oneself and an inflated view of their own ethics.

Vertically EVERYBODY with a conflict of interest will put their finger on the scale given enough opportunity.
Runner's mittens
> "all lives matter"-type arguments that can look like they're trying set the two sides up as equally dangerous or equally responsible

And the failure of the “black lives matter” campaign should be evidence of how little general support you build by starting out needlessly dividing.
India’s Social E-Commerce
Was expecting to see Georgia Tech. $12k/year tuition for in-state, but typically top 10 rated for their BSCS degree program.
Okay, what I'm getting from this is that pharmacists make lots of money, and it's a really good bang-for-your-buck proposition.
See if "Der Kommissar" is taken. :)
What kind of outcome do you want?

Most of the responses here concentrate on trying to get some kind of financial return for your work.

That's important, but for you it might not be the most important thing (you were giving it away and working on it in your spare time, right?)

Consider asking to make it your full time job, or something like that. You clearly know the field well, and you've managed to build community. Having the company resources behind you and the responsibility to run the project like you want might be an outcome that interests you.
According to this tweet, the entire staff was laid off by the Atlantic before the deal. So saving half the jobs is exactly the situation.

https://twitter.com/kristoncapps/status/1205602897733521410?...
Yes, Safari is a good deal...they also have a nice trial period which requires a simple signup/no payment.
It's been a while since I was at a company that had that clause in it, but if I was in that situation in the future then at the minimum I'd want to ensure that I could still work on open source projects on my own. I was wondering what is the best way to phrase this with a potential employer (esp. if you are out of work, and desperately need that job)?

I was thinking along the lines of "Hey, I periodically do volunteer work for various charities, and I think this clause could hurt them. Could we add in that work not directly assigned to me and is related to a non-profit / charity is excluded from this clause?"

That way, if anything comes up, you could turn over copyright to the FSF or similar organization and you would be covered.
MIT graduate here. It’s a hard school to get into. It’s not especially hard to graduate from (given that you were admitted), as long as you’re willing to grind out the work.
Amazon delivering nearly half its packages instead of UPS, FedEx
If you believe in a higher power, look for a thriving local church.

The opportunities to volunteer will be frequent and diverse. You might try digging wells one month, then feeding the hungry the next. You can be part of "A Night to Shine" or help clean up dirty ditches. All sorts of stuff, offered frequently and vetted for quality of projects.
> I got burned by this years ago, developing side project that was completely unrelated to the sort of work my employer did, and was not developed using any company resources. But my employment contract specified that my employer had first rights to anything I developed at all during the term of my employment.

Seriously? Did you not read the contract?

Most contracts specifically say that the work has to be RELATED to whatever you're doing at your day job. Blanket "we own everything" statements should never be accepted, ever.
Good chance the dual "furniture" is because "sitting in furniture" triggers a separate animation cycle. Then through root-motion animation the NPCs are climbing. Getting on switches NPCs to the climb animation set. Getting off the later swaps NPCs back to regular animation set.

Altogether an elegant solution for managing what is otherwise a special case.
I would have really preferred a table of contents, either at the top or in a sidebar. It would have made it easier to skip over all the background materials that essentially rehashes an undergrad complier course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol
I wonder how often this condition is tested for in the design of circuit boards, especially mission critical items like automobile computers or medical equipment.
I have had AT&T Gigabit Ethernet for 3 years. It’s $70 a month, no extra fees, no caps, and I consistently get 900+ u/d.

Compared to cable companies it’s a dream. Comcast has a maximum upload of 35Mbps on their highest plan, it’s more expensive, less reliable, heavily over-provisioned and the bills are full of junk fees.

Even at the new price of $60/month, AT&T Now was still a better deal than Comcast’s cable offerings - again with junk fees, hard to cancel service and cable box rentals.

I’m using Hulu Live Tv now though.
The normal chain is app > server.

Mitmproxy acts as a middleman. Typically you’ll run it on another device on the same network.
app > proxy > server

Which means every time the app makes a GET request (for example) the proxy can log the url/ip as well as the parameters passed to the server.

Then, to get the data yourself, you use a web client like Curl (or Requests in Python) and send the same headers/auth/parameters as the app did. But now instead of returning it to the app, it’s in a format you can store/manipulate.
Yup.

He needs someone who understands the law and the specifics, and who has his interests in mind.
Subnautica did it really well [short GDC talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urx7WQE6NY0 ].

I've been floating the idea of setting up some log shipper plugins for Unity/Unreal to make a turnkey solution you could drop in and self host.
You mean the file name extension .mjs?

If so:
https://medium.com/passpill-project/files-with-mjs-extension...

It got popular in nodejs first to name files containing JS modules .mjs, but it starting to get a standard inside browsers as well.

You can find a lot more references in case you google for it, e.g.: https://dev.to/saigowthamr/js-modules-are-now-supporting-in-...

Best regards
Tobias
It’s not an either / or. Nuclear makes a good backfill for the variable output of solar and wind.
You are wrong, but not downvote worthy wrong. Lets put a artificial cube around the ship, that teleports npcs back to a safe start location (lets call it there bunk).

Now you created a whole zoo of new troubles, including a whole set of troubles you cant even predict, because you didnt know about them when you made this giant default behaviour case.

if (specific case){

}
else (everything else that could ever happen, inlcuding all future edgcases){

// here be dragons

}

Examples? Leveldesigner adds elevator, that transports player and npc ocassionally outside of the teleport box.

Skybox entitys are npcs that live outside of the box- so space battle npcs, get telported to bunks..

etc. etc.

Handling the unknown - with any other paradigm then the fail early, fail loud - is the root of evil.
Sounds like we need this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELENA_reactor
It's a pain in the ass when you have colleagues who only know JS or HTML/CSS or whatever and they need to install the project to run it on their machines, and you have to explain "virtual envs" and other bullshit that doesn't exist in sane packaging ecosystems to get them up and running.
It's not about the nine people. It's about the perceived guileless neutering of a media outlet by a far more powerful entity with financial attachments to a financially formidable presidential candidate.

Of course, it's too early to know if the perceived outcome is the intended or actual outcome. Whatever the outcome, this is still an event remarkable far beyond the bounds of those nine journalist's social circles, regardless of where the actual cause falls on the continuum between incompetence and malice.
It sucks but it also seems no worse than 100 other startups that close up shop every month, or big company cloud services that get disscontinued. The user data in this case just happened to be stored on little plastic discs rather than AWS.

At least it sounds like everyone had a local copy of their bits.
Oh man, UniBasic and DataBasic. I did that for 20 years until it fell out of favor here. I really miss it.
Ask HN: Deprecating/Sunsetting Features?
I'm working on the deprecation and removal of website features used by a sizable number of users (lets say 10% of user base). It'd be to move users to a newer version of the product.

Does anybody have good examples of communication, UI patterns, and approaches to removing features?
Not sure about MIT, but Ivy League schools have always inflated grades.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I went to a state school that had bell curve grading. Brutal.
I’ve met someone who is constantly asking me “why haven’t you tried realsense?” and you just confirmed my suspicions. When the first realsense products came out, they only supported windows. This is madness for a robotics focused product. Finally my friend tells me now they support Linux. But for me the damage has already been done. They have proven that they don’t understand me as a robotics engineer. And you’ve just confirmed that for me. So I stick with trying to use high resolution cameras and structure from motion algorithms to understand the world. No need for a specific proprietary piece of hardware. Since I’m mostly doing research in to what is possible, I prefer this non proprietary approach.

This little lidar looks nice but the last thing I need is another weird kernel module and some closed source library to support my hardware. No thanks.
> the Lime API does not return a unique Scooter ID. For every request the returned scooter IDs are randomized

How did you figure this out?

I’ve been playing with this scooter data for a while (Lime included) and I’ve always been able to correctly map scooter ID uniquely to a scooter at a location. Multiple requests will return the same scooter in the same location and I’ve always believed the same ID in a different place later meant the scooter actually moved.
From the article:

>> NuScale’s reactor is 65 feet tall and 9 feet in diameter, and is housed in a containment vessel only slightly larger. About the size of two school buses stacked end to end, you could fit around 100 of them in the containment chamber of a large conventional reactor. Yet this small reactor can crank out 60 megawatts of energy.

>> The review process is brutal—NuScale submitted a 12,000 page technical application—and will likely stretch on for at least another year. But the company has already secured permission to build its first 12-reactor plant at the Idaho National Laboratory, which may start supplying power to communities in Western states as soon as 2026.
That's the thing though, few people are willing to "grind out the work" over any extended period of time.
This, a million times this.

We can't even begin to think about the answers to this question with knowing what state the employer and/or poster are in. Nor can we begin to think about it without the specifics of the application and the field that the employer develops in. The ultimate conclusion of this will ultimately boil down to minutiae. Minutiae that we are neither privy to nor have the knowledge or experience to reasonably discuss.
one of my private slacks started a collab spreadsheet of products we have found and now swear by.
Yes the candid approach is great, similar to the Intercept, but read elsewhere in the article about the how they haven't followed through on not covering these things. That's very bad.
You work with Java devs? Have you actually tried using the Java or .NET web frameworks? They’ve come a long way.
A couple extra ideas for these beyond land-based power generation:

1) Put a couple of these on trans-Atlantic cruise ships, designed for speed, to make the journey in 3 days (at 50 MPH) carrying 2,000+ people.

2) Cargo ships that operate on the backbone long haul routes. If there are concerns about these getting too close to shoreline or population, just have them only operate 10 miles from land. Other cargo ships can then load and unload them in open water. (This would require some faster loading/unloading mechanism, maybe something where the front would open up and slide out the entire deck into the other ship.)

Thoughts?
I was going to say, that's a pretty nice looking spoon for $4.
> Sure enough, the page noted that after years of deprecation, “ext/mysql” had been removed from PHP.

“Years of deprecation” is putting it mildly. The original mysql library was long known to be a huge Achilles’ heel for PHP, missing lots of critical security features, such as prepared statements. mysqli was released as an improved alternative with PHP 4.1, which shipped in December 2001. The original mysql library was officially deprecated as of PHP 5.5; that one shipped in June 2013. By that point, all the literature on PHP best practices had been screaming at people to stop using the original library for more than a decade.

I’m struggling to think of any platform I’ve ever worked with that’s given people that much warning that some feature was going to go away.
To which the response is... So? Progressive social engineering is not the responsibility of advertisers or of Facebook. If I want to hire someone to do artwork for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign book I'm not going to place an ad in Guns 'N Ammo, despite how underrepresented that demographic is in the tabletop roleplaying industry.
Id be more inclined to believe you if this wasn't the first time you had commented in two years.
I helped with completely overhauling a UI once. We let people know via email, about the exact date. Then just did it. I voted to keep both the old version and new version out for a while, but was over ruled. Rip the bandaid off policy! It actually worked out well.10% will react, but at least you let them know.
This story fits into a larger context of wealthy investors buying up media properties and gutting their staff. It's extra relevant b/c Bloomberg is outrageously wealthy and running for president.
Let me introduce you to XDebug: https://xdebug.org

You can thank me later :-D
$70k at 6% is $350/mo -- if you only pay $350/mo, you're gonna have this story to tell I guess...
ASP.NET is rather different in that regard. Much better documented and supported.
Mercedes Delays Electric Debut After Jaguar and Audi SUVs Flop
> one would hope that various law enforcement agencies have set up fake sites and are harvesting erstwhile 'clients'

This is entrapment, and is therefore highly illegal and in my opinion immoral as well.
Strive for, yes.

Expect others to believe you are striving for integrity and journalistic independence?

I don’t reckon that’s going going to work.

Better off, in my opinion, to be honest about it.