skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Constitution clearly sets up a Republican Form of Government for the Federal Government. Clearly, the Republican Guarantee clause's only meaning would be to limit future Amendments' scope if it were only to apply to the Federal Government. But look at more of the Article:

| The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; ...

That makes it pretty clear that this is about the States.

The Republican Guarantee is a commitment of the Federal Government to the States about the States. It means that the Federal Government will tolerate no State monarchies.
Meta Meme, a photo/video meme maker with lots of templates to choose from. https://metameme.app/
I recommend getting a brass wool tip cleaner and using it often while soldering. Also some good quality flux will really help. I recommend Amtech for the flux, and the tip cleaner I use is Hakko branded. You can find both on Amazon and elsewhere.
If they strip it out you know the want to spam you so can block their domain and/or decline to sign up.
Free programming courses during quarantine
There are definitely markets which attract strong tech talent that have been largely ignored by the tech industry proper as a source for recruiting. A sibling mentions oil & gas, I have personally worked with two former Schlumberger engineers who had been employed in rural areas and were excellent software and systems talent. At least one I know only left the position because he wanted to move to a city due to family, Schlumberger had been paying him a rate that was hard to match in the city though. Subjectively, too, I think both people had a certain oil-field scrappiness, the tech industry might call it "bias to action," that is a great value in any environment.

I would add, though, the defense industry. My city has a huge talent pool of engineers, software and not, employed in the defense industry. Many have top academic qualifications and long experience. The tech industry struggles to recruit them mainly because the tech employers in the area offer more or less equivalent pay and significantly inferior benefits (leave, retirement, etc). On a cost-of-living basis, at least at entry level, I would say the FAANG companies offer inferior pay and benefits - coming from someone who left San Francisco to work in this area and make, cost of living adjusted, twice what I made in SF, with significantly more paid leave.

My point is that it feels like part of the tech industry's recruiting problem is that there is a tendency to look, for recruiting, only within the tech industry and within its established centers. I have had offers from Bay Area and NYC companies for remote work which I have declined because their pay was actually below what I can get from local companies here, I think because they viewed this area as advantageous primarily due to low cost of labor. The cost of labor actually isn't as low as they think, and I suspect in part because their salary analysis did not incorporate what I can make in 'adjacent' fields like cybersecurity R&D and fundamental CS R&D, which are major sectors here compared even to the bay area in terms of per capita employment.

Or let me put it this way: this city is considered to have a total dearth of the tech industry, defined as startups and explicitly software companies, and it is largely ignored by tech recruiting. Yet, the third largest employer in the city is a science and engineering R&D institution with extensive software divisions, the second largest employer has large software and engineering sections although their employment numbers also include general labor, and the second largest employing industry in the area after services is defense, and the primary defense work in the area is currently shifting from aerospace engineering to software and systems engineering.

I left that industry and have actually been working for various startups in the area. I am often asked for recommendations to fill openings, and I have plenty, but the startups generally do not offer sufficient pay and benefits to dislodge them from a very comfortable career with a level of benefits, not to mention job security, rarely seen in the tech industry.
I don't underestimate the complexity. But I do claim that the complexity can and should be hidden behind programming language constructs. I've worked both on the design of MIMD hardware, back when I was a graduate student, and on programming languages. These aren't easy problems, but they are solvable.

The reason for openness isn't abstract. I don't think NVidia will solve these problems alone. NVidia can make really good tools for a few specific domains, but generalizing to how we apply this to JavaScript, databases, or Python interpreters requires an open community approach. It requires a lot of people experimenting and dabbling.

It's kind of like Nokia and friends thinking they could solve the problem of building phone apps alone. When Apple launched the iPhone, and there was a community pushing things forward, we were in a whole new world of progress.

I would argue NVidia underestimates both the potential and the complexity if they think they can go it (relatively) alone, come up with the right programming constructs, and provide the right set of tools for programmers to consume.
The answer isn't always "a" or "b" its often shades of grey.
This article misses a crucial point: I do not want fact checked information. I do not want a ministry of Truth telling me what’s an acceptable set of statements to trust. I do not want a third party providing unsolicited opinions on how much I conform with the acceptable statements a ministry of Truth has blessed for public use.

I’ll provide three arguments. First, how will Facebook or any other entity that takes on the responsibility to fact check stand up to coordinated misinformation campaigns like “Iraq has WMDs” where an omniscient fact checker could have literally saved thousands of lives.

Second, how will Facebook or CNN or Snopes or any other entity fact check disagreeing experts on a subject - for example Sweden’s epidemiologists vs rest of the world taking opposing views on quarantine measures - is anybody at Facebook or any other place qualified to fact check Sweden’s top government advisers?

Third, how will Facebook or any single entity fact check unqualified experts on subjects? When Albert Einstein submitted his paper on the Photoelectric effect (which eventually won him a Nobel Prize) he didn’t have a Ph.D nor was he enrolled as a student - he was just an anonymous clerk at a patent office. Today’s reddit would brand him an “armchair physicist” conducting thought experiments. How on earth will Facebook or any Ministry of Truth attempt to fact check anything like this?

So, if you rule out Facebook’s ability to fact check coordinated government propaganda, government policy advisors that are literally balancing lives and the economy and fundamental advances in science, what else is there to fact check?

A fact checker can only end up becoming a re-enforcement mechanism for popularly held beliefs. Let’s ask Galelio how that worked out for him.
Wow, simply wow! Great work!
Time_it: A Case Study in Rust Macros
> Of course, barely anything supports this.

Yahoo! Mail always has supported a space in the local part because David Filo wanted to ensure it was supported. His @yahoo.com email address had a space in it to ensure that he’d know if it was ever broken.
webmaster@$whateverdomainyouresurfing is the right thing to do. Stomping on other people's domains is rude.
Even with a paid off mortgage you are still going to owe property tax. Not paying that ends in the same way as not paying the mortgage. So I wouldn’t say home owners with a paid off mortgage are in a zero risk situation.
Then let that be a presenter's view. Don't make everyone suffer through it. When I'm in a room with people in a meeting, I'm focused on the presenter. I'm not looking at everyone in the room at the same time.
Plenty of people are dumb. Including the ones who decide to join terrorist organization.

Actual terrorists were found because of using cell phones or internet.
The efficacy of such scripts is questionable considering there are sites that archive comments within seconds/minutes of them being posted.
Historically society has not greatly benefited by coupling governance power to wealth, but sure, it’ll work this time...
v8 has the ability to snapshot a program just after it loads, but before it executes. If you snapshot after doing some kind of warmup, to trigger the right optimisations, you get something that should fire up ready to go, which is probably the main problem - the compiler being repeatedly invoked and parsed from javascript and compiled on the fly.
> Best job currently seems to be delivery driver at $16/hr. There is absolutely no way I will avoid homelessness unless things change significantly, and soon.

Take the delivery job and rent an apartment when the bank forecloses. You won't be homeless. $16/hr is good money.

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Judging by the tenor of the responses you've received already this comment will not get a lot of positive attention. But here goes...

You should have six months expenses saved. Period. You own a home and "have an engineering degree from a good school".

Saving is both an intentional act and a privilege. It sounds to me you had the privilege (you have a house and a good degree) but lacked the intention.

I say this as a person who has not always had the privilege of saving money. And who knows how fragile life feels when you are on the edge.
> You have to take into account that Europe is much more densely and uniformly populated than the United States, and had outbreaks start earlier than the US.

Now take into account that these countries have supposedly superior healthcare systems, a healthier population, and leaders not named Trump. I’d say that negates those factors.
I've been trying to get into deep learning and natural language procession. The cold start problem is real and there is lots of material out there with varying quality.

End goal: I'm based in the US now but come from a small ethnic group in Ghana (Konkomba) and recently came to the sand realization that our language will die over time. I want to build enough tools for translating to and from English and in the process perhaps learn things about language that fit with the models of the most popular languages today.

Unrelated, going to finally setup a personal website to host pictures and 99% chance it'll be WordPress-based.
Yeah, I'm not really advocating the use of GVFS specifically, but what I am saying is that once you've lived in a world where all your dependencies are in your repo you won't want to go back, and that Git should improve their support for large repos (in addition to checking in all our dependencies, we should be able to check in all our static assets).
Investors need companies but often don’t act like it.

I go to LP meetings from time to time and it’s fun to see the inversion.
This glorious hunk of junk

https://oldcomputers.net/compucolor-8001.html

had a keyboard that was optical, it ran beams of light through masks attached to the keys, and looked at the beam interruptions as keys were pressed.

The keyboarding experience was absolutely miserable; you had to COMPLETELY release a key before pressing another. Ghosting and mangled keystrokes were almost impossible to avoid. I'd rather type on a card punch than one of those . . . well, no. But it's darned close.
Does anyone have thoughts on why they included r/Fortnite in the initial beta?

My best guess is that it sees such high traffic & is populated with non-crypto focused Reddit users. Let's the company get a big dataset with a group of consumers who aren't predisposed to Crypto.

I reached out to Reddit for comment but they just gave me a classic canned response.
What is the name of the extension that you use to see your tab history as a big tree?
Started as a simple python script to scratch my own itch to track USCIS Visa Bulletins and my Green Card progress. Due to demand by friends and co-workers who had the same need, I used it as a learning opportunity and created a website powered by Django and Beautiful Soup:
https://www.seekingvisa.com/
I'm pretty sure it's the same thing as Chrome's profiles functionality. I tried it out for a week, but it's not quite as robust as Firefox container tabs.

When I need Chromium, I use Brave.
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Committing the initial capital to form a FEC recognized national political party "The Privacy Party" to begin direct opposition to this and related activities.

If you are interested in collaborating or learning more:

https://theprivacyparty.org/
TLA+ on OpenBSD
I've been working on e-commerce and consumer mobile products for the last 6 years. It's been a great experience, but I've always wanted to work full-time on a SaaS developer tool. More specifically, one that I want/need in my day-to-day job as a software developer.

Watching Cronitor grow the past few years, and seeing all the ways that people rely on it today, has been extremely rewarding. Working on it full-time means I can finally tackle some of the bigger projects that I've wanted to do, but haven't been able to due to time constraints. In other words, I get to make it even more useful now!
Committing the initial capital to form a FEC recognized national political party The Privacy Party to begin direct opposition to this and related activities.

If you are interested in collaborating or learning more:

https://theprivacyparty.org/
One of the great features in Chrome is that you can open your recently closed tabs with CTRL+SHIFT+T. This will bring back an entire window full of tabs and even works between reboots. I usually have a dozen tabs open and when I reboot, I simply open up Chrome again, CTRL+SHIFT+T, and I am right back where I was.
That's one possible outcome. It's a small experiment and doesn't seem like a fully formed product yet. It could introduce accountability if tweaked differently. Maybe they'll try things like Bitcoin with the lightning network. Maybe a competing platform has a clever implementation of a similar idea and people migrate to it.
What is your alternative of choice? As someone who has to fill out forms all the time, theirs is still the most reliable in my experience.
Nicole Prause did no myth busting, and your blaming of "right-wing elements" on disagreements with her is downright disingeneous.

See https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...

I think that the recent scientific articles cited on https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/ and the countless of self-reports by men in various "NoFap" communities make a pretty good case the porn-addiction is not a myth.

Also, see: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articl...
I've started several over the years, but not actively working on any. Having a hard time with motivation right now.

- A Funko POP! collection tracker.

- A Disc Golf auction/news site.

- A qeepsake competitor.
Aye, you’re very welcome to sell your time and labour for something you get out of it. It’s just... be careful to know what you’re trading it for.
Privacy and due process by default. New federal political party platform
> To that point, even high-profile black and brown mass shooters tend not to be gangbangers or whatever, but men with military or law enforcement backgrounds.

Inst that simply because men with military or law enforcement backgrounds are more violent in general?
I wonder why Mac OS continue to allow this. They should have learned from zoom to disallow this kind of updating altogether. I suppose they are reluctant to drop the hammer on Chrome.
It can be turned off (although I think under the hood they just send zeros).

But it’s on by default.

https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/does-apple-care-about-your-...

EDIT also https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
The legislature passed a bill that granted this power to the executive in past decades.

Partisan judges felt the need to overturn that bill - despite the legislature retaining the power to override the executive, and to repeal that bill - if they could get 66% of the assembly behind it.

This is the opposite of a democratic process. The democratic process has checks and balances for dealing with a rogue executive - but it requires an overwhelming support of the legislature. Instead, this ended up being decided by unelected career bureaucrats.
This seems to be just a way to generate a wildcard cert with a custom CA with many layers of subdomain? At first I thought it was an exploit that meant it was accepted out of the box on all browsers, which would have been concerning.
Fair enough. I failed to apply Hanlon's razor.
Any link/source you can share on that?
> If the goal is to prevent piracy

I don't think that's their goal.

I suspect that it's all about "brand reinforcement."

Apple is (arguably) the world's most valuable brand. Those don't come in Cracker Jack boxes.

They don't want some knucklehead running around, showing some crapplet that makes the brand look bad, and they certainly don't want them installing said crapplet on their friends' phones, so there's a bunch of folks running around, making them look bad.

This makes that a lot less likely. If they restrict it to paid accounts, then they have an assumption that the people writing the apps are "serious" about developing decent software.

I suspect that a big part of them buying up TestFlight was because they didn't want a company out there, making it easy to install un-vetted crapplets into a wide range of devices (which the old TestFlight allowed).

I have some experience with this. I used to work for a world-renowned corporation that made photographic equipment. Their brand is right up there, with Apple.

They would go nuts about sample photos getting out of the company. It was really difficult to report bugs, or even share test results, because the sample photos couldn't make our cameras look bad.

There's a great deal of controversy about Apple's iron-fisted control issues, but I do understand. I'm not always happy about it, but you can't argue with the results.
I guess it depends on the invidual. Personally if I only had to do it once a week I would be fine with a 2 hour commute. Small price to pay for actually being able to own my own home.
Since I can't play basketball with people, I built an app that helps me play basketball with myself. It uses object detection to identify me shooting and the ball going in or not and then creates a heatmap in real-time. Sort of like fitbit for basketball. I had to do some labelling myself, but it didn't take too long and it's working! I try to beat my shooting percentage from the day before. I put it on the Apple App Store to start and I'll build an android version next.

You can see a live demo here: https://www.myshotcount.com/
Why does a PDF reader need a non-sandboxed daemon to escalate privileges?
I already think of Auth0 as being the stripe of the auth world. What frustrations did you run into with them, and what are your goals to differentiate with feather?
Ask HN: What are some great insights on the psychology of debt collection?
A lot of people have been defaulting on credit card payments.

How can card issuers try to get their money back, while being as humane as possible? How do you try to convince stressed folks into paying without threatening them?
I don’t understand where the money is coming from? Are VCs providing the initial pot of ETH that will be (re)distributed to power posters?
Ask HN: How do you “pre-code”?
I've started writing more pseudocode before tackling problems and it's helped a lot in sussing out the general control flow / structure of what I intend to write, basically helping with the programming equivalent of writer's block.

It got me to wondering - what else do people do before ever putting hands to keyboard?

Obviously there's documentation, meetings with stakeholders, project prep as this whole thing, but I was thinking more for narrower concerns - you're adding a small feature on a mature product or writing a one-off script - what do you try and do beforehand?
Suggestion to parent from someone that agree: find some evidence to counter claim or support another story.

Share this evidence and direction to better path, and then each individual will choose if they want to put together the evidence to form their own opinion.

“Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.” 1 John 2:6

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” Buddha

“If he comes to me walking, I come to him running” the Hadith

“Human beings should walk the right path humbly” rig Veda

Show a direction to a path and whom will walk walks. Where each individual will walk is not for us to choose.

As shown on my first parent in this thread you will still risk being downvoted with no argument in the virtual or real sense, but that doesn’t matter as those are at any rate not useful opponents in truth seeking so ignore them.

Don’t argue with anything but a person as you would then throw pearls to swine. The loving father did not join his son in the pig pen after his fall, he waited until the son walked away from the pig pen and welcomed him with open arms.
I wouldn't be surprised if citizens sue governments for loss of housing. I am not saying it was unwanted but if people are forced to shut down their businesses, it is obvious that many of them will eventually default.
And this is why when AWS gave me the PCI AOC in a format that only works with adobe acrobat reader, I created a VM and installed it there.
Well, the "due consideration" needs to duly consider the actual costs and benefits of the off-the-shelf software, not make the kind of unsupported blanket claims about its obvious superiority, like you just did. Every off-the-shelf program has maintenance costs, flaws, and weak fitness for purpose. You just made a sweeping and italicized claim that all off-the-shelf software is both less risky and faster to develop than house-made software. That's a dangerous philosophy and probably isn't true for every organization and application.
> AMD could release a 2x powerful GPGPU tomorrow for half the price and most current NVIDIA users wouldn't care because what good is that if you can't program it?.

Correction: Nobody will be able to use the AMD hardware (outside of computer graphics) because everybody has been locked-in with CUDA on Nvidia. They can not even change even if they want to: it is pure madness to reprogram an entire GPGPU software stack every 2 years just to change your hardware provider.

And I think it will remain like that until NVidia get sued for anti-trust.

> ARM and Intel make great software [..] doesn't open-source any of that either for the same reasons as NVIDIA.

That's propaganda and it's wrong.

Intel and ARM contribute a lot to OSS. Most of the software they release nowadays is Open Source. This includes compiler support, drivers, libraries and entire dev environment: mkl-dnn, TBB, BLIS, ISPC, "One", mbedTLS.... ARM has even an entire foundation only to contribute to OSS (https://www.linaro.org/) .

Near to that, NVidia does close to nothing.

There is no justification to NVidia's attitude related to OSS. It reminds me the one of Microsoft at its darkest days.

The only excuse I can see to this attitude is greed.

I hope at least they do not contaminate Mellanox with their toxic policies. Mellanox was an example of successful Open Source contributor/company (up to now) with OFabric (https://www.openfabrics.org/).
It would be dramatic if this disappear.
That’s absolutely right, but I think it illustrates one of the problems with inventing your own tech stack, is that it might make perfect sense when you start the project, but several years down the road it might just be an inferior version of an open-source project.

My personal sense is that this even applies to stuff like Borg, but who knows?