skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a brief list:

1. Non-competes. If you're an actor, the studio that you did your first film with doesn't own you for the rest of your life.

2. Getting paid for your time if you're called out for a shoot, and the shoot doesn't happen, because the director's dog ate the script, or some other non-sense that you have no control over.

3. Getting paid for your time if you're called out for a shoot, and told to hang around for 8 hours, so that you can do your 5-minute scene.

4. Getting paid if you're a theatrical understudy, have learned your part, and are sitting on-call, ready to step in if the main actor is sick/vacationing/etc.

5. Getting paid more for understudying more roles. Someone who understudies two principal roles has to be paid more than someone who understudies one other chorus role.

Prior to unionization, violations of these were incredibly prevalent across the industry. Studios who took advantage of actors were rewarded by the market, and anyone who tried to push back on these practices was black-balled from the industry.

Despite having to pay actors for their work, and not treating actors like chattel, the entertainment industry has not yet fallen apart.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/music/what-happens-to-google-p...
Agreed. I'd like to also add that having the most pristine audio quality is probably a moot point if either (a) you have some sort of hearing loss or (b) your speakers are not of the highest fidelity.

My personal collection is in MP3 format at 320kbps. I'm very happy with it's ability to be played on pretty much anything and given the (a) minor hearing loss I've accrued over the years and (b) the fact that none of my speakers are ultra-high fidelity, I consider the portability of MP3 an acceptable trade-off over the slight improvement in quality that another format might provide. I also keep all of my CDs tucked away if I ever need to re-rip them for that higher quality.
It’s not that bad, at least on Windows.

> contain complete compilers that munge your code with a focus on speed over correctness

If you’re a developer, the right tools are available. Set D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG when creating the device, also run debug builds of your HLSL shaders. You’ll get huge amount of error checking and diagnostics this way, including very detailed and specific messages about incorrect API use.

> GPU-focused debuggers are incredibly buggy and feature-poor

I indeed found and reported bugs in GPUs and their drivers (mostly Intel GPUs), but it only was a few times over my career. The majority of times they were bugs in my code, not in GPU drivers, and renderdoc.org helped a lot fixing them.

I generally agree GPU debugging is harder than CPU debugging, but I don’t see how open source driver gonna help. It’s an unfortunate combination of execution model (many thousands hardware threads running your code in parallel), external piece of hardware completely separate and asynchronous from the CPU, and very limited ways to interact or even output data (you can’t printf messages, nor allocate dynamic memory, from GPU code).
Did you know you can scroll through Ribbon tabs on most (every?) implementation with your scroll wheel? I've been surprised how often that seems to differentiate between people that think finding things in a ribbon is hard/slow versus easy/quick.

Beyond that, have you tried navigating a Ribbon via keyboard? It has also surprised me how many people that liked the old menus because of keyboard navigation don't realize a lot of the same tricks and navigations work exactly the same (Alt, arrow keys, Esc, letters, etc).
Software architecture has changed a lot with the advent of "the cloud" - which IMO, is just a marketing term for the hybrid of the pre-existing internet and distributed computing. This sort of highly distributed and complex architecture (i.e. microservices) has seemingly become a standard for or at least a mild-expectation of all new applications. In order to wrangle the complexity introduced by an architecture built for 99.9999% uptime and infinite scalability you'll need to learn some tools to help you along the way.

Now, do you need all those things for your app? I think you'll definitely need to know UNIX to a reasonable degree, but all the other stuff (Docker, Ansible, Terraform, CircleCI, Kubernetes, etc. etc.) are just specialized tools for helping alleviate some effort in deployment and infrastructure management.

Start small and use what you want / need.

devops is important because developers tend to know best the requirements / quirks of their application. If you have it running on your laptop it shouldn't be too hard to get it running on a remote server. I'd assert, much easier for the developer of the app than for an ops specialist with no knowledge of the app that they're deploying.

devops can be as simple as a bash script.
I think Gimp also allows control via MIDI input. Never tried it though.
I was going to suggest that the result was bad because of floating point error, but then I reread the value and, it doesn't seem like that amount of variance could be produced by errors introduced in the floating point calculations?
There's nothing at that link related to the title.
Precise gears are hard, as you need a metal that is good enough for your gears and tools to craft that metal. It's not just about time.
Static page e-commerce. Released the code for my failed MVP under the GPL
Marvin Miller is the man who created these. There are some good accounts of his life.

When he started, MLB players hated hearing him out because they thought he was a communist. Talk about a situation where people cut off their nose to spite their faces!
I saw the bug on Ubuntu 18 this morning, on FF 72.0.2 on Nvidia 435.21-0ubuntu0.18.04.2. Can't reproduce. Assumed it was because I have 2x 4K screens plus another 1080p one and I often get weird graphics issues with this setup.
How much time do developers spend on side by side buffers?

I get the difficult to scan point (although I find it subjective) but the side-by-side argument is optimizing for a comparatively small use case.
I struggled with setting up static website hosting on S3, CloudFront, Route53 and ACM, so I created https://github.com/tobilg/serverless-aws-static-websites to automate this via the Serverless framework
WordPress is a nightmare as soon as you have to go beneath the surface. The community around it definitely has value, but the tradeoff is a bloated monolith that you have to become an expert in if you want to do any customization beyond drop-in plugins.
Cloud Run just pauses the CPU, the container is still fully loaded and resumes very quickly. You can also cache the pages with a CDN.
Well, there are the fake registrars, such as DropCatch 345, DropCatch 346, DropCatch 347, ... DropCatch 1545. Those are all ICANN-accredited registrars.[1] ICANN parcels out dropped domains among all the registrars who want them at random. Having a thousand dummy registrars improves the odds. That's definitely "structuring" to hog Internet assets.

This is possible only because, while ICANN charges each registry when they acquire a domain, ICANN refunds that if they give the domain back within some time period.

[1] https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualif...
Amazon will delete your review if you mention that the product is fake/counterfeit; they don't give a shit because $$$$$.
For parts of the site where you need to boot somebody instantly... just hit up the authentication server on every request to validate the session. For parts of the site where it doesn’t matter so much, wait for the token to expire....

It isn’t all or nothing.
I had a relative that many suspected was murdered way back in the day when my city was having one of its bridges built. Basically there was a strike going on and he was a scab.
This strikes me as a) not very well written, and b) not presenting all the relevant information. For example, if the study was designed to gather data for three years after each procedure, then taking into account data beyond that period would possibly taint the analysis. (Of course, if people were dying in year four, there could/should be another study.)

I had to read the article twice to understand the main point. Sentences like this make me scratch my head: "The data suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years."
With ever-lengthening PhDs, it's getting hard to see many grad programs as not exploitative.
> But doesn't the "not your job" thing exist in order to protect actual jobs worked by actual people from being arbitrarily "rationalized" out of existence, because hey someone else can do that? Potentially your job as well?

I'm not concerned about any specific job, including my own.

I will learn, adapt, and excel at whatever I need to do to survive.
That is the reasoning, and it's exactly why it concerns me. I'm imagining a world where the national SRE union comes by, and tells me I should never write any monitoring code or change any configuration flags because that's an SRE's job I'm taking.
Things like this is why I'm wary of looking too deeply into "data infographics", especially if they're related to economic statistics. The numbers alone rarely tell the whole story. They're still good for getting the "MBA-level" 30k ft view.
I feel the sadness: The last Windows NT shutdown
> And so on. Is this really the absolute pinnacle of all possible UI designs?

No, it's just a good UI design. It's easy to pick and choose nonsensical examples like that from any design philosophy. No software perfectly accomplishes every task for every user.
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> It is easy to create another website.

You can't get all the same benefits of having it all on reddit. Things like being on the same mobile app, and having the same user account.

> Yes you can just create a new website or use a different. You don't "own" the users of reddit.com, there is no reason why one should be entitled to the infrastructure or the users.

This is called a barrier to entry. regardless of who "owns" all of these benefits, it is still something that a person does not get, if they simply create a different website.

The missing benefits, would make "creating another website", significantly less useful, and are the ones that I mentioned before. You would not be on the same mobile app, would not have the same follower list, would not have the same user account, ect.

These are huge benefits that one would not get if they simply created a different website. Who "owns" it, does not change the true fact that these benefits are large, and you would not get them if you merely created a new website.

> There is no distinction from a moderation perspective

Yes there is. The difference is that if you create a new website, you don't get all those significant benefits that I talked about. That is the distinction that I am talking about.
Huh? The entire article is related to the title.
> Weirdly, this kind of "freedom" is often freedom that's of zero or negative value to me.

As you said, _to you_.

> Take the "freedom" lost by switching to single payer healthcare or similar: oh, no, I don't get to rely on private insurance and deal directly with private medical provider billing departments anymore, and spend tens of hours fixing their mistakes and attempts to screw me every time I use medical care, plus all the time trying to understand their deliberately-complicated policies to make any kind of mostly-useless attempt at comparison shopping, all while paying a premium for it, and instead I just pay taxes and get medical care when I need it.

Well, this is a whole other can of worms, but here goes nothing. As a brief aside, possibly the only system more complicated than American medicine is the American tax code; both are horribly byzantine and have entire industries dedicated to wrangling the bureaucracy. Government involvement is what led to both being so messy. That aside, I oppose single-payer medicine for reasons out side of "which one costs more". I don't trust the government, and think it ought to stick to keeping the peace and enforcing property rights and contracts. There are a few other important things that can be done at the state and local level, and most things ought to be left up to the individual. I don't trust other people to run my life, be they union bureaucrats or federal ones, or even my fellow citizens. Leaving aside my concerns about the growth of federal government, why do you want everyone to use your government system instead of just offering it as an option? What business of yours is it if others choose to stay private?
I'd definitely throw Ireland in there. Possibly also Spain, Portgual (though they're quite Southern), Iceland, and Greenland (though they're quite Northern).
Should only need to tow it to Turkey (I know for a fact there are marine salvage yards there) or maybe Libya (they probably have a few as well). There's no lack of more local (than the far east) places to scrap a ship, probably environmentally cleaner to do it locally too.
I honestly don't know about unions in the anglophone world, but here in continental Europe they did a rather splendid job. I think it might be a mix of propaganda by corporate media and lack of transparency that led to the downfall of unions in NA and Britain, but it really doesn't need to stay that way. Build up the system again, and this time better.

I also don't see why there shouldn't be an international union of IT workers. We are an extremely flexible workforce, generally sharing similar concerns, and usually with a strong urge to cooperate on a number of issues. We could even band together to crowdfund certain open source projects we really want but never get around to.
You are forgotting that the emission cheating SW came from Bosch and was implemented and distributed by Bosch.

No, really, VW sees itself as mainly SW company. Told directly from one of its outsourced development houses.
Nothing is inevitable. We're not slaves to the market. If the market means small farmers can never be as efficient as factory farms and finance, and may not have any place in the economy at all without contracting out all aspects of their farms and losing their standards of living - then F the market.

Sometimes we need to step back from these abstract principles and ask ourselves if we want to live in that kind of world. I'd rather have a country where normal people can farm, animals can live good lives, and we have values other than prostrating ourselves before the altar of GDP.
If that's what they would rather, they should have scuttled it before now...
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Duplicate of earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360300
You should ask the people having the issue to switch graphics cards, PSU and RAM since this >90% smells like a memory/power issue. I think you've just gotten unlucky and collected a few similar reports of people having memory corruptions. I am guessing you cache renderings and that is why the issue sticks around until you re-render.

If you want to reproduce it yourselves then perhaps try pointing a hairdryer from a distance at the various components until they start to create trouble, or alternatively just overclock them towards the breaking points.
My personal experience has been surprisingly good even with cheap TDK CDRs I burned in the 90s still reading just fine decades later.

For especially valuable data you want to preserve for 100+ years, there are "archival quality" discs [0] [1].

[0] http://mam-a-store.com/goldcdr.html

[1] https://www.mediasupply.com/mamgold.html
There's a lot of things that California gets right. It's too bad housing isn't one of them.
It's a pain-and-a-half. I'm not sure any system ever recovers fully, but you basically run chmod -R's on most of the important directories and then fix the many services that will surely fail once you can get a shell.

More specifically, I used a bunch of these links until I could get a shell, then manually-fixed the rest.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/308939/how-to-reset-default-...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/508359/restore-default-syste...
So Kickstarter will be hiring more contractors then?
I don't think it's due to OCR because although the Home Office's app does take a picture of the passport's ID page it then actually scans the passport's chip.

So I don't really understand how it can misinterpret the birth date unless someone really stupidly coded the system to keep only the last 2 digits of year and then try to guess what it really was later...
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I love the simplicity of adding the files. It is neat. I dislike that landing page does not work without Javascript.

My real question is, however, who owns the servers? Landing page stattes it uses blockchain, which wakes up my internal BS detector. Could the author elaborate? added missing verb
Thank you for your thoughts! Yeah, technology is making everything more distant and impersonal. We're trying to figure out how we can make business to customer interactions feel like you're actually cared for by a real person instead of a nameless entity. We definitely have a lot of work to do to figure out the right way to scale that while keeping it authentic. This is the first step
Don't you need more to propose an edit?
I don't see anything that backs up the claim you made in that paper. The closest thing I see:

"Stimulant drugs do improve the ability (even without ADHD) to focus and pay attention. One function, which is reliably improved by stimulant medications, is sustained attention, or vigilance. Stimulants improve sustained, focused attention, but “selective attention” and “distractibility” may be worsened, possibly because of a drug induced increase in impulsivity."

And that seems to contradict your point.
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Presumably one reason to use this is latency: materialize is built on differential and timely dataflow, some innovative frameworks (by Frank McSherry, who was at Microsoft Silicon Valley Research back in the day and is elsewhere on this HN discussion) that are intended to reduce the amount of computation in certain kinds of calculations. Materialized views are particularly ripe for those advances.

It's also written in rust instead of Java, so there's no JVM RAM penalty or GC to contend with.
AIS transmits much more frequently usually between 3 minutes and 2 seconds depending on speed. [0] AIS is also supplemental and basically every large vessel will have radar available that will spot these kinds of dead drifting ships.

[0] Large 300 ton+ ships are type A: https://help.marinetraffic.com/hc/en-us/articles/217631867-H...
Unless you left all shopping on partner or parents, it is like 5 seconds to grab stuff for office too while in store.

And even if your partner does it all, "honey would you buy also some crackers" is quick.
> but it’s worth it

Is it, though? I chose to focus on finding the next gig and luckily got one in a couple weeks. The emotional toll of subjecting yourself to the legal system against an entity with a team of lawyers sounds absolutely horrible.
yes... but thats often very subjective. In fact history has shown (for
me) that what others praise as an improvement of usability and user
experience is very often just a degradation of those.

See reddit, gnome, Windows 10, ... there is a long list of redesign-fails.
To add a bit more context to Frank's answer: adding a column to a table will work just fine today, but the data in that column won't propagate through to Materialize. You'll continue to see the latest inserts, updates, and deletes, though. The new column can be incorporated by re-creating the source, though this does require re-reading the entire table from the beginning at the moment.

Removing a nullable column will also work fine along the same lines: that column will simply be filled in with NULL in Materialize for all new data. Removing a non-nullable column is backwards-incompatible, of course, and so Materialize will be unable to process any additional events for that topic, and so you'd have to recreate the source and restart from the beginning.
Tangentially, back in the early-2000s, we used something called FlashFXP which was just a fine GUI over FTP's "feature" that the control and data channels were separate.

With that, you could, from a thin pipe, connect to 2 FTP servers that had a fat pipe between them, and transfer files between those two.

This was popular for file-sharing, especially since you'd never actually end up with the files on your computer, so, plausible deniability.
What's up with the satanic jacket in the picture?

https://teespring.com/shop/satanic-no-masters?pid=2&cid=2397
Thanks for pointing those companies out! Really appreciate it. I actually know two of the TalkBin founders
Good question! The full announcement should answer your question: https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34
Meanwhile a man from the Westerdam cruise ship, where one passenger already tested positive, escapes quarantine, books ubers, and multiple flights, is arriving back in Seattle:

https://komonews.com/news/local/man-stranded-on-coronavirus-...

Some people can't get more selfish. Also, what a colossal failure on the part of customs and immigration.
Yeah, we're actively trying to figure out group texting. Right now it looks like the individuals in the group are texting you
On the bright side the situation is at least better on Windows - D3D11 and D3D9 both have well-specified behavior and full software rasterizers that can be used to render a reference version of a given frame and then debug it at a pixel level. Wish I had something like that for OpenGL... console game developers have had toys like this for ages.

It's 2020 and I still sometimes swap my renderer from OpenGL to D3D9 when I need to debug a graphics issue because the D3D9 graphics debugging tools are that much better than cutting-edge GL debuggers. (I'd use the D3D11 debugging tools but my 11 backend doesn't work right)
They only need to be hard if you intend them to last a long time under high loads. Plenty of watches and clocks managed to keep time with gears that are butter compared to tool steels.
The chip in the passport usually only contains the last 2 digits of the year or birth.
If you haven't been in a position where workplace tyranny and abuse of power don't seem so high stakes, you are fortunate, but your experience is not universal or necessarily typical.
If There Is Time to Be Afraid of CBDCs, It Is Better to Spend It on Preparation
AI delivers a battery boost to electric vehicles, slashing testing times 98%
A lot of things can be done, the problem is getting countries to be responsible about it and implement sane laws. This is not a technological problem.
I would also say that I've had "conflict between what a designer wants and what the user/business wants", which is a pain.
It’s already illegal for them to do that. The solution to collusion by firms is not collusion by workers.
I think you're underestimating the harsh nature of the ocean. Few things last for a decade on the ocean without frequent maintenance, high up-front costs, or both - and often not even then.

There's very little intersection between hardware that would last in those conditions and would be cheap enough that coast guards would be willing to just leave it on a ship. Or maybe I'm underestimating the budget of the Coast Guard, but leaving this thing adrift in the first place seems to indicate otherwise...
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