skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in truth, what I'm hearing is

"You should have noticed in 2017 when we started this process to begin with" (would that have helped, complaining at the time?)

"We're confident we're not at a competitive disadvantage by doing this"

"We developed our product " (to remain competitive) " and had to add a bunch of stuff that people expect card processing services to do " (more than one currency) " and some stuff many customers won't care about being delivered by a card processing service " (things other than cards) " and rather than charge the appropriate fees to the appropriate customers at point of use we are instead funding this progress by penalising customers who are already in the loss-making situation of having to make a refund"
Gets cold in winter
Huh, I guess I already do this in a small way: I'm "Dan" socially and "Daniel" for anything that requires my signature. I don't think I'd be brave enough to take it further though. Most systems/companies/govt agencies are flexible enough that it doesn't matter if I put the wrong one down, but making a mistake with two completely different names could be problematic.
It's not four, but eleven letters and two spaces was sufficient for Universal to win against Kamar in the "ET phone home" copyright lawsuit
> without having gone through any licensing?

You actually need an AM license, which is a 1 day training.
It's striking how something that's mundane in many parts of the world -- I'm talking Europe here, not just in stereotypically civilized Japan -- is considered by many to be a laughably bad idea in NYC. Maybe you should consider getting to the root causes that prevent you from having such extravagant luxuries...
Volcanoes where they shouldn’t be? Maybe it’s a mantle sponge
It's not mandatory but it's quite common because it's been so heavily subsidized for the previous century. Fire up street view and look through residential neighborhoods: notice how many street parking spots and driveways there are?

Here in DC, the figure is something like 40% of residents not owning cars in a city with well above average transit options by U.S. standards. That leaves a lot of people driving and if you follow the local news there are perennially tons of complaints about any change which removes even a handful of parking spaces because so many people are used to driving being the only mode of transportation which is taken seriously.
> Is it risky "centralizing" this data? Sure, but I don't see it any more risky as using a cloud-based password manager.

Using a cloud-based password manager is a huge risk though. And if you've put both your passwords and your 2FA generators in the cloud, you now have single-factor authentication.
> I can’t see enterprise vendors selling them and I doubt the support is great.

Hosting companies don't end with enterprise cloud stuff. The availability of consumer grade hardware chips has always been much better than server ones for anybody, but tier 1 vendors.

Just before there was little incentive to chase that market for anything as even the best consumer grade CPUs still were not contenders on core count, ECC, IPMI support, and cache size to compete with Xeons.

But now, even very cheap 3rd gen Ryzens can easily beat mid-tier Xeons: more cores, more cache, ECC support, support for Aspeed remote management. And they are way more power efficient, so making a twin or even a quad system in U1 is possible.
T-Mobile conducts layoffs as it prepares to complete Sprint merger
Low code is around 50% CAGR. MVP is more involved than other markets though
> Copyright depends on copying

This is a response to the Flame v Katy Perry lawsuit, where a youtube video with 100,000 views was deemed sufficient popularity for the court to assume copying without proof.

The element that Katy Perry was found to have illegally copied is a 4-note descending line with equal spacing between the notes. In both "Joyful Noise" and "Dark Horse" the pattern was probably generated by a producer pressing the "arp" button on a minor chord in a DAW. Neither of them actually plotted out each of the notes with particular purpose. But the Court still said that the 4-note descending pattern is original and creative enough, the fact that it was composed by software notwithstanding, and illegal to reproduce.
Want to read this but the article is pay-walled- does someone have an archive link?
>he was reckless in how he addressed authority

I think that might border on victim blaming. The Church had the power to persecute intellectuals who they felt were running too far, but that doesn't mean they had any rightful authority. If an illegitimate power is running around your society trying to get people to cow down to it, anyone who stands up to them by failing to cow down appropriately should be described as "heroic" moreso than "reckless." If nobody had ever stood up to the illegitimate authority, they would still be running things and imprisoning people for insulting them today. We are in great debt to everyone who was reckless in 1610.
These are forbidden on bike lanes (just like mopeds).
Coronavirus Fears Drive Stocks Down for 6th Day and into Correction
This is being mounted on an RV, which is explicitly off-grid, and would only be intermittently connected at best. In my municipality they only do power buy-back from larger generators.

Also most of it isn't going through an inverter, I'm using direct DC-DC, which is much more power efficient for what I'm doing. So that means more cost for inverters, which I'd consider paying even if at the scale I'm working at it would take years for the equipment to pay for itself, but...

You can't simply tie an inverter into the grid and sell back to the power company, as that could mean that during repairs lines they thought had no power were energized by some residential customer. You need special hardware that the power company can shut down remotely, and that's only available for larger customers.

Also I'm not sure if the price I'd be getting for that power would actually offset the monthly connection fee, making connecting to the grid and selling back extra power very likely cost more than just wasting the power, which is unfortunate.

So unfortunately grid-buyback that isn't really an option for me.

Which is why I'm looking at other options. I like the wood pellet one, in an ideal world I'd be able to do some kind of carbon capture or something, but I'm not seeing any good power-to-gas tech right now.
It's not like this absurdity was unknown to the framers of copyright. Thomas Jefferson, writing regarding patents, wrote "other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrassment than advantage to society..." And yet, they persist (and in the modern era, proliferate) because it's generally agreed society derives benefit from paying people for their purely-idea creative work.

... but that doesn't mean copyright and patent aren't a perpetual battle against the "natural" arrangement of idea, and absurdities are extremely possible when the law is misinterpreted or mis-structured.
Gryff: Unifying Consensus and Shared Registers [pdf]
Like church.
The more I hear about Crash Bandicoot, the more I wish someone like Fabien Sanglard wrote a book about it. It seems like there are so many cool solutions implemented in it. It was also made at what seems like such a pivotal time for games, forcing so many innovations, such as those mentioned in the video.

Like the custom LISP-like scripting language called GOOL[0] which in its evolved form is still in use in some games for at Naughty Dog even today.

[0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/JoakimRi/status/11019084263540572...
Note that this story has been told and retold for years. Whatever difference in pay he paid has more than paid for itself in press attention and marketing.
My initial thought was to suggest jumping right into freelance tech work, but after reading this comment I’ve changed my position.

Get whatever help you can from the government (and possibly a church as someone else suggested), then get a job - any job that gives your life some stability and structure, as well as some income. When you are back on your feet a little bit and have taken care of the necessities, namely food and shelter, start looking into doing some freelance work with whatever technical skills you have. I would focus on remote work - there are plenty of sites where you can sign up to do work for $50 or $100. A few hours of work maybe. That can help you build up some experience and you can use that to get more business (at higher rates) or help you land a job in technology.

I suggest remote freelance work because your appearance and clothing aren’t going to be an issue, and it should be easier to work around the schedule of your other job.

I’d also advise you seek out some mental health services. I’m not assuming anything about you or attempting to diagnose you, but at the very least being able to talk to someone about your situation and the circumstances that led to it will help you prevent it from happening again and help you move forward. If you are suffering from depression or substance abuse problems then by all means get help with that as well. I’m not sure about the Netherlands, but in the US there are some non-profit organizations that are specifically focused on helping the former homeless get back into the working world, even going as far as conducting mock interviews to improve your skills, and providing professional clothes to wear. You may be able to find something similar where you live.

Most importantly, know that there’s a community here that is in your corner and wants to see you improve your situation. Make sure you come back and give us an update when things improve.
In that price range, I'd far rather get an Udoo bolt V3 for $330. Dual Ryzen cores (4 threads, 3.2GHz) and way better IO along with the option for way more RAM. Case and charger add another $45, but total performance is way higher. The quad core (8 thread, 3.6GHz) version with an 8CU GPU runs about $420.

Going from $300 to $380 or $500 with a similar form factor and many times more performance seems like a good deal for a lot of tasks.
If I'm not the center of the universe, how can scientists explain why my nose never moves?
Note that my post isn't limited to credit card inputs, nor do I say that the request for clarity is mandatory in all fields.

What I'm advocating is a focus on ensuring the user's explicit intent rather than attempting to infer intent or making hidden assumptions that either could be wrong or exist to make things easier for the developer.

Too many times I've had to deal with data that someone optimistically sanitized or filtered client-side and then stored, only to discover the sanitizing/filtering rules were wrong and the original data provided by the user was lost because the only thing stored was the result of those rules.
Small businesses embrace wellness to help retain staffers
Setting Up a Brand New Mac for Development
Server-rendered HTML: the once and future king

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENnKCr2U8AAw4Bf?format=jpg&name=...
There’s a paywall on this article, is there an alternative source?
I believe his point is that this is kind of non-news. Yes they picked a good place to do this because it's kind of obvious that there wouldn't be an impact, but that also makes it not really news-worthy because it does nothing to support the idea that "getting rid of cars on streets is a good thing everywhere".
Do a google news search for peter piot to access the ft.com site.
Do a google news search for peter piot
Assuming we accept their premise: how does this prevent lawsuits? Wouldn't the melody-set they've created be subject to a copyright infringement claim from every melody produced before their experiment that is still under copyright?
Drop your CV here, somebody might call you
Bitwarden is a pretty good solution for this! It's not the smoothest since the browser extensions don't know how to fill in your codes like they do your password but it's leaps and bounds above the UX for Google Authenticator.

Being able to access my codes from any device with a web browser is very nice.

INB4:

"But this reduces your security."

* Yes, but I'm already using a password manager with 64 char generated passwords on every site.

* If you're able to compromise my Bitwarden password you likely have enough to remove the 2FA on all of my accounts anyway.

"Why even have 2FA at that point then?"

* Because some things in my life require it.
Yes Nhost is built on the same stack you get with a new Nhost project.
The problem is that no matter how far back you go it's alway "in the next 30 years". I remember finding articles from 1930s, 40s, 50s all arguing robots and AI were on the verge of becoming common. 80+ years later and computers are still glorified abacus.
In all fairness, you may be operating under an industrial exemption if you are doing legitimate engineering work and not even realize it.

What you cant do is profess capital ‘E’ engineering work without running afoul of the law. That’s akin to practicing medicine without aboard certification, even if you claim to be a doctor because that’s what your degree says.

Degrees and licensed are related, but different in terms of the profession.
and chrome doesn't trust it
Honestly if you are not long on AMD by now, you are missing out. AMD will defeat Intel. It's just a matter of time.
Update: They have actually received all of the 7000 series cars, and it's 60% of the fleet.

https://wamu.org/story/20/02/27/metro-just-received-the-last...
Doing this for Market St. is basically free. There are no real risks or tradeoffs. Of course it’s a good call.

But to frame this as a triumph against critics predicting doom is just weird. No one was seriously predicting doom on this one. The only people driving on Market are confused tourists. But then it’s going to be held up as an example for other streets that actually do have risks and tradeoffs.
JS files served by IndieHackers do have caching headers. But there's 4MB of JS.

Compare to HN, a single 2KB script for submitting votes without page reload, and that's it.
I’m very impressed by the generosity of this business owner- I don’t know if I would have that kind of moral compass in his position.

However- it still needs to be said that we really ought to fight to create an economic system in which everyone has the means to have a comfortable life, even if individuals that make it up are not virtuous. Because this kind of story is a rarity, and the market will certainly punish him for his generosity.
Programming Languages Personified
I'm sure this has already been remarked upon in comments, but.... Not every possible melody!

A significant portion of melodies likely to be generated by people, or put another way these are the more trivial melodies. The range of complexity is vast, so just like cracking passwords might use a dictionary attack, or use English alphabet, or similar limited scopes, so it goes here.....
'If you want to provide Google with that information (and have links classified for your own reference), feel free to do so. Whether you do or don’t won’t impact your site.'

My cynical guess is that few people will bother to make the distinction and soon enough '...won't impact your site' will become '.. a slight boost if you do'.
Yep. From the looks of it some brokerage firms are getting slammed.

https://twitter.com/Vanguard_Group/status/123203630516237926...
Yeah, Fedora doesn't have a Pi 4 build yet. The funny thing about that is that Centos does have one.
I cut my teeth on the Atari 8-bits, where we used vblank and hblank interrupts for all kinds of tricks like you described. The inspiration for this solution came directly from that experience.

Side note: I was always jealous of the way better sound hardware on the C64. It's also crazy to me to think that I paid probably around $1000 in 1981 dollars (equivalent of $3500 today) to buy an 8-bit computer with 48K of RAM.
No copyright law applies to the copying of a work, not its distribution. If they made any copies of the work (which they would have to if they were loading them into memory for processing) then they need to comply with copyright law.

> "The court determined that a copy of a program made from a hard drive into RAM for purpose of executing the program was, in fact, a copy under the Copyright Act."

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp...
> And yet, they persist (and in the modern era, proliferate) because it's generally agreed society derives benefit from paying people for their purely-idea creative work.

Who "generally agree"s on this? The existence of laws doesn't indicate the mood of society.
They wouldn't have needed to know what to look for if they had noticed that the "width" they ascribed to the stars changed with every measurement. Every single telescope size would have led them to a different figure, and if they had cared about pursuing quantitative inconsistencies they would have not only realized that they weren't measuring the width of the star, but also that the determining factor was the telescope's aperture.
Yes, I use it for personal projects. I also use a company-hosted version at work. The built in CI is great. I can't think of a reason, other than price for companies, why to use GitHub over gitlab. Both are great, but gitlab's built-in CI I think is easier to use and better integrated.
Unions push FTC to investigate Amazon for 'anti-competitive practices'
It's an RV, so good luck.
I think many of us wish for and have considered developing an open source, local archive of the websites we visit. We want full text search, full page screenshots, good privacy (dont archive sensitive sites). We might wish for p2p encrypted syncing between devices.

Since we wish for this, I presume its been attempted many times.

My questions is my humble hacker news readers? Can any one provide a run down of the existing open source solutions and their features/pros/cons or simply which they prefer?
Again, how are these two statements even remotely correlated? Asking for a Bünzli.
Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson
I believe these Ryzen APUs will run much faster than a Raspberry Pi, and they run x86 software as is commonly used by Windows. Glancing at the ~4,000 Passmark score I think these Ryzen APUs could even keep up with a single 1080p software video transcode, which I doubt is possible on a Raspberry Pi.

Disclaimer: I only have an RPi 2 running a home server at the moment and have not tried these new. Ryzen chips.
nice, this would be very useful in enterprise/internal facing apps, where the users are 'power users' who already know and know the app on a day-to-day basis.
It’s possible PCI-DSS didn’t exist back then. DSS has only been around since 2004.
I cannot promise anything but I’m in the Utrecht area and would be more than happy to give you some advice face to face or potentially help you somehow with projects if there is a fit.

Do you have an email address to reach you?
Which city are you currently in?
Orangutans seem like the most lucid of the zoo animals, aware of their surroundings and situation. Here's an orangutan that escaped and just wanted to enjoy the sights of the zoo, which is something we'd offer to any dog, who is certainly less intelligent and curious than the orangutan.

Obviously the logistics would be complicated, but it seems like the humane thing to do.
With your current state of mind you should take a break from coding.
Try to find a easy job, just to have a place to stay, eat and sleep and after 6-8 months, or when you feel better, you can attempt to seek it opportunities.
Letters to Phone Numbers and feature phone keypad button press calculator
Sorry, missed this initially. It's not a code requirement. However, it makes cleaning concrete floors dead simple (hose + squeegee), so it's incredibly common in rental spaces where the finished floor is sealed concrete.
Step up to Epyc processors if you need memory, which is the competitor to the Xeon. Threadripper is for enthusiasts, not specifically for servers.
> According to Snyk, apps built on the Spring Boot Java framework are also vulnerable since they come with a pre-included Tomcat server. Per Red Hat, Tomcat also ships with other Java-based frameworks and servers, such as JBossWeb and JBoss EAP.
Often cited, Dropbox solved a problem that many thought was simple and didn't see as saleable.

Besides being there at the right time, marketing and clicking, the key thing was that it provided an easy way to take the pain away from setting up a system for backup and sync in the cloud, specially for non-technical users.

There is no sure shot way of finding such problems. If you look around, most problems not only appear simple but are in-fact simple to solve. It's the way you solve those 'simple' problems will put food on the table.

You have to try and fail fast to find the one.

That said, there are no shortcuts. The start-up road is long and hard; and it will try to sap the energy out of you. Be prepared for the long haul.
It's arguably the perfect time for them to... go viral.
Very nice write up. I liked the point that Result and Option types would fit nicely into Go and totally agree. Now that I've used rust, languages without Result / Option / match expressions feel weak and dangerous.
I'm in Washington state and I'm not sure what latitude you live at, but for my house, my low, without snow on the panels, is about 8 kWh for an overcast day in December or January and my high is 107 kWh for a day in the middle of summer. For me to average out my needs I need a dam... like on the Columbia. In WA state, you don't sell the power, your extra power is future credit to your power needs. I'm on a heat pump and my highest demand is in the winter where lows dip to 15F or 25F. For me to save up enough energy on my own land would require more of a pond pumping scheme and it would be a massive undertaking. On the order of being able to store huge portions of energy for a quarter to a third of the year to get through winter. FYI, my system is Goldilocks's just right. I pay about $25/ year for extra power once my credits run out at the end of winter.

I've bought two different solar systems in two different states and the devil is in the details for your hypothetical situation. You need to understand average overcast days, ~90 percentile run of overcast days in your lowest intensity sun month, intensity of sun, angle of the sun, et c. Also, if you optimize for the worst days of the year, you could be reducing total energy output because your panels would be optimized for a lower sun angle.
Something to keep in mind if you use it, VMware just changed their licensing for CPUs over 32 cores require an additional ESXi license. So that 64 core processor now requires 2 licenses instead of one!
If you don't mind self-hosting, everything you asked for is already implemented in PhotoStructure. I'm offering access to the beta for free in exchange for feedback.

Tags (even hierarchical) are extracted from filenames, metadata, or sidecars, and editing will be available in the next major version.

Asset deduping is best-of-class, not just using SHA, but detecting JPG/RAW pairs, rotations, and even lossy downsampling and metadata stripping (like what happens from uploading to some cloud services).

There's a SPA to view libraries that scales to very large (1mm+) libraries.

There's a simple REST API bound to localhost. Auth is coming in a future release. https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

It runs on desktops, headless servers, and docker.

You can sign up for beta access on the front page and wait for the next batch of invites that I'll send out with the next stable release. You can also send me an email if you want to try out the current version.

Disclaimer: I'm the author.