skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought google's estimates at least came from tracking android phones and ios users of their ecosystem apps, not from the carrier?

I doubt LA at least is advanced enough to have these RF meters in every parcel. Plenty of houses are literally sitting unanchored on a pile of stones/dirt/random 80 year old rotting wood scraps as a foundation and would blow over in the wind or any earthquake. LA metro's timelines for rail projects are regularly dragged out, not by the usual blame of graft and bureaucratic inefficiency, but by the fact that there are so many undisclosed utilities buried under the city in a half-assed, cheap as possible, attempt to fool the building inspector manner for 100 years straight. You hit a 100 year old wooden water main that wasn't on any map while boring and you need to replace the entire pipe as it is due to rot away yesterday. San Diego seems much more like a first world country, though.
Please edit this to be less disparaging. I agree with your complaint, it's just presented in a mean spirited way. From the guidelines,

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
Reading it, it seemed that the prior city attorney (Briggs) was pushing this narrative while tooting their own horn.
Maybe a software delay where it only starts seeding 5 minutes later, or an opt-out button where you can avoid re-seeding if you don't like what you see.
Have you tried crystal?
OP is using Google to search Reddit.

He is either a troll or a child, either way, just ignore him.
What's their expressiveness? I always thought the nesting could be "flattened", so it wouldn't really make a difference?
OllyDbg is dead too though, I recommend to use x32dbg/x64dbg[1]. It's open source and actively developed by a team of maintenances. And it's extendable with plugins and scripting.

[1] https://x64dbg.com/
The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo. You're welcome.
Modern history seems more "give law enforcement none of surveillance, and they'll take it all anyway." If the surveillance exists they will (ab)use it.
Had the same problem. Not just me, all sw engineers, but it was more of a problem for the ones that actually were working on bigger projects involving a lot of coding.

A coworker tried using an availability light but.. good luck trying to get people to respect it. Either people will miss it, forget it, or ignore it (specially if they are above you on the org chart).

I tried mufflers a few times, but it didn't work that well. Same issue as availability light, plus the fact that everyone looks weirdly at you and initiate conversations when you have the mufflers on..

So what I did was push working from home more and more until I went to working 1-2 days from the office per week. Now I have a much better productivity, ability to focus throughout the day, etc, besides all the advantages of not having to commute 5 days per week.
The point of that story isn't "two wrongs make a right", but that the left wing still accepts CNN just as the right wing still accepts PV.

"Gotchas" and "gaffes" are taken out of context all the time. And when reporters lie to go undercover and obtain a story, they're usually hailed as heroes.

These objections are only used to "discredit" opposing viewpoints. People don't object when sources they agree with use the same tactics.
I’m reminded of the old comic where it shows that Facebook’s users are the product. The advertisers are the only customers. Why should they care to deal with one billionth of their product if it is accidentally marked bad?
Opening a Subway franchise is a great way to ensure you'll always be employed -- at a 50+ hour per week job earning about $40k per year. The business model and royalty rate generally require the owner to be an unpaid, full-time employee for the store to turn a profit.
Running free trials in the past in other projects ( either as an employee or owner ) with no credit card has proven this audience of people hardly upgrades to a paid user. There is a %, but it's so slim and small that it is almost not worth it. There are a lot of reasons why for this that I have surveys and first hand data on. It was just not the right fit in my mind right now.

A lot of these users sign up and stay free forever, or sign up multiple times to bypass the time gate ( free for 7 days ), or sign up and hardly use the product and stay inactive. All bad things for a developer or owner to stack against metrics. When this happens, it's hard to compare the "do we have a bad product, or are the users just freeloaders" questions to improve the product. At least at the very beginning of a launch.

Nothing against these users, but as a MVP type product where I am trying to gauge demand and fit, it just was not in the cards.

People signing up for free is one thing. People pulling out their wallets is another.

I totally get people want to validate before they purchase though, but I need "wallet" data to see if I am going in the right direction for several metrics and thoughts I have in my head atm.

I will keep this in mind once I am able to see demand and fit better as it is a valid concern you bring up.
Well the user is the product. Considering it human would interfere with the bottom line.
And don't miss Fabian Sanglard's review of the code. He was featured on HN recently for the reviews of the engine behind Another World/Out of this World and how it was ported to different platforms.

http://fabiensanglard.net/second_reality/index.php
Yes, except the article said the legitimate "rights holder" was unclear. In order to sue, the party doing the suing has to prove "standing" (which is the legal term for the party being harmed) and to prove that they have to prove they are the rights holder.

I was thinking that the cost of filing a motion to dismiss unless the plaintiff could prove they had standing would be relatively inexpensive. (say $50K - $100K in legal fees). Seems like one way to clear up the rights issue.
Yeah, he comes across as a super unassuming dude in the webcasts, but he has definitely "been there, done that" when it comes to putting stuff in space.
Leopold Kohr, especially "The Breakdown of Nations"
Hi,

I think we are wired to create social stories about things that happen.
Find new ways of being social, feeling connection, getting praise. To overrule your current mindset.

Also, have you checked out EMDR?
Best of luck!
Yes, that sounds like that same thing.

I've encountered Google ReCaptcha as well a few times when searching from a logged out browser.
> What if Charles Ponzi himself would have personally invented a (real) cure for cancer or something before he died?

This is a pretty strained argument. The much more likely scenario would have been Ponzi claiming that he had invented a cure for cancer and, given his history of gross fraudulent behaviour, would rightfully be ignored as a sensational claim being made by a known huckster.
The iOS 13 upgrade was very telling. Suddenly every app is requesting blutooth access. Why does the reddit app need access to the blutooth radio? Because not doing so is leaving money on the table, and shareholders know it. I'll stick with the mobile website for now.
I agree with your statement up until you point your finger at tax cuts. Tax Revenues are at an all-time high BECAUSE of the tax cuts. Look it up before making erroneous statements.
I do have some blog ideas in the works.

One of which is "what promotion strategy works best" for a SaaS launch as well as one that covers how we do, what we do.

I've invested in a few services that submit your SaaS to directories and also been featured in those "producthunt" alternatives.

What works and what doesn't is pretty surprising.
Far easier to throw a rock.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. If this holds it would imply a lot for a wide variety of fields.
You clearly haven't.

ERPs that allow editing maintain a transaction log of edits.

What users like about editing is they can run reporting for LOB's, then edit based on feedback / coding / miscoding, then rerun reports that are clean from a detail perspective without 100's of in/out offsetting entries you get when folks have to post reversing entries to back out errors. It's actually easier to review for correctness if you don't have to wade through 100's of junk entries that are reversed out.

Different systems allow edits in different ways. Some are journals under the hood with the initial and reversing entry marked to hide visibility for non audit situations. Others maintain a log of edits, the date and time and items edited.

All of this can be turned off at a permission level. Generally no line staff can edit, and closing a period to all edits is up at the top. And even when users can edit, they are always locked out as periods close.

Yes - auditors do flip out if you edit into a closed period (understandably because they have to re-audit it). Users have gotten that confused with auditors not liking changes in periods that are not closed - actually - auditors want users to prepare the most accurate financials possible to submit in as simple a format as possible. Editing often allows that.

Anyways, netsuite allows users to delete reversing journals from the original entry, oracle allows editing GL distributions on a posted entry (and uses an audit log for this) because if you had to deal only with reversing entries to fix stuff or had to reverse reversing entries to fix stuff it would drive everyone crazy.
The morale thing was just an example to help illustrate the principle...
How do Elixir or Rust help you with front-end/UI? It seems you would need at least Javascript and maybe more if you're going to produce mobile apps.
> I’m curious about which type of products you have been working on and what type of product decisions the engineers you have been working with have done.

IME: technically-trained PMs are worth their weight in gold. PMs without a technical background are extremely dangerous liabilities.

Context: Mostly b2b products where careful judgement on technical feasibility is the difference between "useless" and "game-changer".

> Engineers who understand anything to business and product management are extremely rare. And people who are good at it and genuinely interested in it usually move to this role

It depends. Only if they don't take a huge paycut by moving into the PM role, and only if the org is willing to let them move into the PM role.

Many business are not willing to lose highly productive engineers with niche skillsets and are not willing to pay PMs as much as they pay their senior engineers.

IME, senior engineer -> executive/founder is a lot more common than senior engineer -> PM. But it's not because engineers can't be product people... sorta the opposite.

> a lot of PMs are actually just projects managers instead of being product managers.

No true Scotsman, right?
> Toastmasters, on the other hand, forces you to speak to others. Toastmasters explicitly trains members to be supportive and forgiving and to approach you to interact. Toastmasters is like a newbie environment that lets you build your confident.

I agree with this, with just one caveat: many people join Toastmasters with the intention of getting better at public speaking -- and this intention needs to be put in perspective.

How much you truly improve depends very much on the peers you have in your local Toastmasters chapter. The reason for this is because in the Toastmaster's setup, there's very little solid, bespoke instruction on technique (at least at the chapter I attended), and most of the feedback you get are from peers (who are themselves on a journey and have not received any instruction) workshopping your pieces.

Like you say, most Toastmasters communities are often very supportive and encouraging, so if you have latent public speaking skills that just need to be unlocked by means of external validation, Toastmasters will do that for you.

In my case however, I had no baseline skills at all, so I benefited much more from actual instruction and tough love critique (which I got from a place like Second City in Chicago). I was not only taught technique but also fundamental skills on how to structure a story for emotional connection. My confidence grew from my own perception of improved competence rather than from encouragement from others. I personally believe the confidence one gains from competence to be more valuable than mere encouragement, because it obviates the need for one to seek external validation. YMMV.
Fascinating. Couldn't help but think that the result looks a lot like some recent game shaders, for grass and landscape, like seen in the witness. Maybe Jonathan can chime in.
Clamshell plastic packaging is a recycling nightmare
I think they're finding some good PR and passive positive lobbying (where fans write their congressperson about all the cool stuff we can do in space) is coming from their publicity. They're also putting pressure on their competitors (Boeing, Northrop Grumman, etc) by constantly being in the news.

Where is ULA's reusable rocket stage? Where is Arianespace's Starship competitor? Why is NASA building a disposable rocket?
I'm so glad I'm not dependent.
Are you citing the non-binding "protect and serve" motto, or something else? Enforcing the law isn't necessarily about keeping people safe - whether that's true depends on what the laws are.
There is no escape from the adaptive universe
>> That’s not the type of thing many franchisees at other companies have the cash (or willingness) to do.

I'd point out McDonald's as a major exception to this. In the past decade, MCD has completely razed and rebuilt from dirt a huge number of its freestanding stores. Yes the franchisees have complained and not all are down with the program but the new stores are generally far more comfortable and pleasant than the old-style, (yet iconic) red-roofs. I imagine far more profitable as well.
I just didn't like the tooling,it's quite messy. Python is similar enough, I would hate to do things in both.
can we also leak and resurrect opera 3.62, please?
Oxfam: Men own more wealth than Africa's 326M women
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. There’s an 8 week mindfulness program - free! - that you can do at home and will help with your feelings.
Would it be possible to allow the ability to download one's backups or snapshots?

There are no shortage of requests for this feature and as owner of my data and VM, I'm simply trying to keep an offline backup. Linode has had this feature for a very long time.
> In order to sue, the party doing the suing has to prove "standing" (which is the legal term for the party being harmed) and to prove that they have to prove they are the rights holder.

No that's not what standing is. They have to establish a legally cognizable claim to harm to establish standing; actual harm is what an actual trial exists to establish. A dispute of fact over who holds rights at issue would be a perfectly normal issue for trial.

> I was thinking that the cost of filing a motion to dismiss unless the plaintiff could prove they had standing would be relatively inexpensive

A defense motion to dismiss necessarily must state that the plaintiff has no legally cognizable claim as a matter of law; if there is anything relevant that might potentially be proven, it is automatically viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. You can't make a motion to dismiss unless the plaintiff proves something, the very idea of that acknowledges that there is a disputes issue of fact necessary to resolve the case, calling for a trial.
Steal this book, by Abbie Hoffman [0]. Certainly not unknown, but not exactly something you find by accident. It's a book detailing 60s counterculture activities, and took a lot of work to find a publisher. Really interesting look back on history at general creative problem solving, and very entertaining. The most common theme in the book is "how to do x, for free".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
I'm not questioning whether their gaming-adjacent journalism is good (see all the links in the response, for instance). They do cover lots of topics which are otherwise not well covered about the gross morass which is the business of making games.

I'm saying that their gaming journalism, specifically their reviews of games, is generally low quality. They regularly plagiarize Twitter and Reddit without crediting them. They regularly recommend avoiding otherwise excellent games because they don't like optional and avoidable pieces of them. There have been reviews I have read by them where I wonder if they actually played the same game as me.

Tl;Dr - Read their editorials if that's your thing, but if you want to know if a game is worth your dollars, you'll need another source.

Edit: you referred to your "gamer friends", I think this is where the issue lies. Gamers mostly want to know what game they should spend their free time on, and that's where Kotaku struggles.
IPFS really needs onion routing built-in. When I was reading this, I thought about running an IPFS node on my desktop but remembered it doesn't have onion routing built-in. So I'd have to run a proxy like torsocks and torify the IPFS server. Then I have to worry about all the ways that IP can leak from this. Then I have to figure out how to connect to other IPFS nodes through TOR. So forget it, I'll do it when I have time, which is the same thing I said the last time I thought about running an IPFS node.
Elixir has LiveView, which can eliminate 90% of your JS by simply offloading frontend computations to the backend and utilising WebSockets streams to do it. It's pretty neat.

Rust, AFAIK, doesn't.

But you are right of course, if you want to cover the full-stack then JS is mandatory.
Why do they even have this process? Who cares if someone in prison uses Facebook? This is pretty absurd.
Yes, they have (before the snowden leaks),but that isn't what I meant. The Tor project's faqs clearly state Tor can't protect against a global adversary, it is out of the scope of their threat model. If someone can see almost all internet traffic, Tor is useless against them.
I've got to shake my head at these segments where the interviewer asks a philosophical question without seeming to have the conceptual maturity and framing to reliably go beyond delineating semantics. Luckily, Sanderson goes above and beyond.

10:31 – Is math discovered or invented?

The way it was posed sounds like it was asking for a dogmatic judgment on the nature of doing math, but I like Sanderson's take on how it looks to him, that certain mathematical problems seem discovered, and the mathematical tools developed to solve them and the frameworks they become seem invented.

14:30 – Difference between physics and math

Rather than tackling the philosophical question directly, Sanderson talks about the motivations mathematicians and physicists have when they do math / do physics, and that different people will give different answers.

17:24 – Why is reality compressible into simple equations?

Again, Sanderson provides a saner view: this feeling comes from that once you analyze out all your irrelevant details that you don't care about, or that you give up about (chaotic systems), what's left is what you can focus on by describing in simple equations.
The comparison here is to a transit system that uses vehicles which can be serviced by car mechanics. This will be cheaper.

And rail has otherwise struggled in the US.

The amtrak story is not great. I've tried to use them repeatedly, and outside of northeast corridor it is cheaper to fly then to take them anywhere. Let that sink in, the cost to get you up in air, and FLY is cheaper than rolling along on low friction rails. When you say why is it hard to understand that rail is cheapest it's because folks KNOW that things like buses are MUCH MUCH cheaper.

This is ignoring the absolutely stupid cost to build one mile of rail tunnel.
The note on Timeless at the end is very exciting.

https://repeatr.io/welcome/what-is-timeless/ explains timeless as a set of tooling for reproducible builds with a broader and more hash-based mandate than what's out there currently. While early, it seems like it's a reasonable path towards getting a reproducible system that won't fall apart as fast over time, by vendoring the dependency system in the same way modern language-specific package managers do, but at a language-agnostic/distribution level.
Absolutely. I must have fused Saturn V with Falcon 9 in my brain. It's F9.
Any basic budget advice says to cut starbucks out of your life and make your $5 latte at home, but why stop there?

Caffeine pills work out to $0.05/cup-equivalent, aren't going to make you take bathroom trips, aren't going to give you bad breath, and aren't going to stain your teeth. I usually keep a few in my pocket in case I get randomly drowsy in a meeting or if I'm driving far. I haven't looked back, and I used to pull my own espresso and roast my beans.
Everything that you're looking for is (fortunately) still in the HTML source code. When Google started messing with the URLs I wrote a filter for my MITM proxy to put them back. Then it recently changed the format so I had to change the filter again. It's annoying for sure.
I think the syntax is very important. It is the aesthetics of a wood floor versus a vinyl floor. Sure, both may get it done, but clean and beautiful syntax that resonants with your brain makes the job more delightful.
Back then people also did a study checking the licenses in Debian and got the opposite result.

The general conclusion back then was that large and long lived projects tend to favor GPL, while smaller and short lived projects tend to favor permissive. The media number of files per project on github is 1, the median number of authors is also 1. In comparison, Debian packages has significant higher median numbers.

So far I have seen nothing to contradict that finding.
Hubble Legacy Field: a 672MB PNG image containing 265,000 galaxies
If you can do it separately from any systems conversion you will be much happier. Either before or after.

And see if you can keep some of the key minimum editing in or your users will hate you forever. I've heard comments 5 YEARS later about this issue.
Does anyone else no longer see the date at all in their google search results?

Drives me mad, Especially when I only want results from a certain year/month.
A really nice tool for debugging Windows drivers. God knows you needed all the help you could get :-)
Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500k servers, routers, and IoT devices
I'm not going to claim I understand the complexity class discussion here, but what I find most surprising is the claim that this would make the halting problem solvable. There's a fairly straightforward proof by contradiction that it's not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Proof_concept

So how would the new finding override this? Or is it just <wiggles fingers> quantum magic that's running the proof in parallel in infinite entangled multiverses or something?
I drink coffee for the taste, not the buzz!