skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The distance itself appears to be somewhat arbitrary, and varies from 1 meter in parts of Europe, to six feet in the US, which makes me doubt the scientific basis"

This seems quite a black and white way to look at things. Would you agree that it you are more likely to catch the virus from an infectious person if your face is 6 inches from theirs, vs. being a mile away from them?

A reasonable conclusion about the difference between Europe and US recommendations is not that their science is different, but that they are simply setting the threshold for acceptable risk at a different level, and that the risk increases with proximity. They are trying to give meaningful advice while keeping it somewhat simple.

6 feet away is safer than one meter away. If you come close to someone, it is safer if it is for 5 seconds rather than for 20 seconds. If you can hold your breath during that period, all the safer. It is safer if you are facing away from one another. It is safer if neither person is talking, coughing or sneezing. Whether there is a breeze and which way it is blowing is significant. And so on.

There is never going to be a hard cutoff for things like this.

Sometimes there is a place for common sense, reasonable inferences, and balancing of priorities and risks.
This will probably turn out to be capex made as effectively as when Apple bought Beats.
I've collected over 600 pitch decks
You can use ninjam, reaper and audio hijack for audio syncing but video syncing seems problematic.
I want every distribution service to have every piece of content. Just like how Blockbuster and Hollywood Video both got all the VHS tapes so you could pretty much always find the same things at each. I don't want Netflix to have one set of content, Amazon to have another, Disney to have a third, etc, and need to pay for all the services. I want multiple competing distributors.
https://github-help-wanted.com/

https://what-to-code.com/

Have your pick
Would a modern C compiler even permit that?

The article does say " At the time of the device's invention this was the first edition of The C Programming Language which requires only that the body of the switch be a syntactically valid (compound) statement..." which implies it isn't valid now.

Any correct parser based on any sane grammar should instantly choke on that.
There is likely to be even more scrutiny placed on any changes to domain names that employees of Verisign immediately recognize, such as "google.com". I imagine that would have to go through a very high level person at Verisign. It's in everyone's vested best interests here to not screw up something so visible as that.
I pay for Spotify, reluctantly. But it does have almost all the music I want. I also buy games on Gog, if they are not on Gog I use Steam (reluctantly).

I rarely pay for a movie bar a few cinema trips and blu-rays for something I really wanted to support . The reasons:

I want a well encoded DRM free file.

I don't want to be ripped off, or at least the "Steam Sale" model should be there so you can get it at a reasonable price a few months later.

I absolutely want the high quality download option. Steaming is fine for music. I'm confident I could find my Spotify playlists fairly easily elsewhere if I needed too (legally or otherwise). Maybe they are 500GB max.

I wouldn't be confident I could replace terabytes of my favorite movies quickly. I want those archived for myself without DRM.

I will pay when the product is better than a torrent site, it is possible when the lawyers and execs allow it to happen.
Well written apology but despite that I'd still be very concerned that a company entrusted with so much sensitive personal data can get this so wildly wrong and then also get the initial responses to the very predictable negative reaction so wrong.

Did nobody in the room speak up? Is this a culture problem too?

To have a chance at winning back trust these guys need to make deleting accounts instantly their next feature and make confidentiality the first priority in everything they do - and that means doing it not just marketing it.

They probably also need to hire someone to tell the CEO "No!" the next time if nobody else is prepared to. It seems likely there will be a next time if this one didn't set off alarm bells.
> I'd argue it's not really DRM, it's more like device identification.

I suppose the key question is: Does it identify the device and then decide not to work with non-Dell devices? It's fine to read required information, but unnecessarily constraining what happens based on that information brings it back to DRM.
'irriducible'?
Simulation has its benefits. My advice to all newbies at the robot club is: "Your first robot should be low enough mass that a missing semi-colon does not punch a hole in your living room wall."
Yup, thankfully!

Thank you! :)

It has its ups and downs. I guess the other big factor is that I try to limit the projects I take on, to the more interesting stuff, to try to reduce any fatigue/burnout.
You must not have to put up with corporate cyber security professionals using tanium and HIPS to hump your hard drive for hours like a monkey on a football.

I use TM multiple times a day.
Yeah, I don't recommend buying domains with trademarks in them, even for research (or similar) purposes.

I registered a domain name with a client's trademarked name in it as part of an authorized penetration test of that client a few years ago. At the end of the test, I asked if they wanted me to transfer it to them, and they didn't. A year later, when it expired and the domain privacy stuff went away, all of that automated enforcement machinery started running, and suddenly I was being threatened with all sorts of arbitration/court appearances if I didn't transfer the domain (which I no longer owned) to them. Took weeks to sort out, and that was with documentation that I'd bought the domain as part of a pen test the client had specifically agreed to.
> 2. the board caught wind of the bad feedback and forced this response.

> #2 i don't believe for a second. it beggars belief that the board is following day-to-day activity and further, at the start of a holiday weekend? no. way.

I don't think it's so implausible. Remember that Triplebyte is a YCombinator company (so someone from YC probably sits on the board), and the uproar about its actions occurred on HN, YCombinator's site. I wouldn't be surprised someone who read this on HN was either (1) a partner or employee of YCombinator or (2) knew someone at YCombinator and alerted them.
I own 인스타그램.닷컴, and (actually!) use it to share photos with my Korean friends.

But, uhh, I would certainly not decline if Facebook were to try to purchase it to make it reroute to Instagram.
Have you seen it work
well WITH a shared clock? Could you share details of the setup? Ty
It's weird and forced. "Blink, Think, Choose, Voice" would be much more consistent, but I'm guessing someone really wanted it to rhyme.
Glad to hear it is working out for you! I'll relay the request re: old data. But please also feel free to email me directly at ajay (at) timescale.com (or email support (at) timescale.com) if you have any follow up questions / requests.
Its only the only economical solution currently. Orders of magnitude cheaper than other solutions.
What to know to get promoted quickly in Big Tech
Nice idea, but it feels like this itself should produce an RSS feed so that others can benefit from your collection - for the same reason you yourself use RSS.
By the Bluebook implementation of Smalltalk-80
Can you elaborate? Provide some examples of other communities that do better? (Honest question.)
Almost every top-level comment is someone shilling another project, usually in Golang as if that's even related.

Let's have some Show HN etiquette.
Unfortunately this only works if the load device is compatible with the full voltage supplied. This is not the case for USB devices, for instance.
Definitely worth a comparison to the audio streaming market...

My Spotify subscription is £9.99 and gives me access to unlimited music from all artists (within reason - it’s very unlikely I find something not on there).

I’m willing to pay more for a video subscription that gives me access to unlimited tv and movies.

But to get everything on streaming I have to buy:
- Amazon Subscription
- Netflix Subscription
- Apple TV subscription
- Disney+ Subscription
- Now TV
- TV licence (iPlayer)

And after I have subscribed to all of these, there are still loads of movies and TV shows not covered.

I would pay for one subscription that had the content mixed in. It would be better to have a single £25 contract and get everything rather than this crazy fragmentation where you pay for 80% of the content 4 times and have to get an additional subscription if there is one series you want to watch on a different service.
I don't do much lisping or scheming these days, but my experience of Guile has be nothing but exemplary. I'm a VIM user, but I would definitely give emacs another shot if scripting it in scheme was an option (with evil-mode definitely; no way am I giving up modal editing).

> It’s best to call it “GuileEmacs” or “Guile/Emacs” or such to make it clear that it’s still GNU Emacs.

No love for Guile+Emacs?
1. the source of the “US DoD slams...” lede is Sputnik News, so this is clearly chaff. Don’t feed the troll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

2. yes, it makes zero sense to name forts after the traitorous losing side.
I moved from SF to Zurich, so just to add another data point to corroborate this, you can live relatively cheaply here while I really couldn't in SF because housing doesn't really have a cheap (and adequately safe) alternative. Meanwhile, here the "everything else" is actually not very high if you limit or more carefully plan eating out, buy groceries with some consideration of cost (budget variants are often less than half the price of "standard" ones), etc.

Health insurance can be expensive while for many of the people on HN it would be included in employer benefits in SF, but it's still not that bad. Last time I checked, the average payment in Switzerland for adults was $250 USD or so.
Comparison of 14 popular named dietary programmes
Another way to look at this may be something like:

Odds of an adult knowing what's best for another adult: Low to Medium

Odds of an adult knowing what's best for a child: Medium to High
Have you heard of eBay?
macOS has quite a few built-in antivirus features:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-security-overvi...

IMO, you have to pick a security vendor to trust (only as far as you can throw them). Apple is incentivized to provide better end-user experiences as a matter of having end to end authority for their products. They’ve built a robust (albeit prescriptive) security/sandboxing ecosystem to avoid just pointing at software vendors if a customer is unhappy.

I like these features, but the fact that they’re not always optional is frustrating. Note also that soon macOS will be running on Apple ARM SoCs; similar trade off.

Buy any other computer, and you now have Microsoft or Google, a CPU vendor, a consumer hardware vendor, and possibly also an antivirus company installing background services.
Let me guess task manager could have managed the tasks better, i would have let it slide but if you call your program "task manager" in for a penny in for a pound.
That's not really the same as you don't really spend CNH except use it to exchange currencies outside of China. That is, non of the locals or expats in China spend CNH - and their value is almost exactly the same because there is not an oversupply of either and both is anchored on the massive USD reserve China has.
DOS wasn't a very big program. Anyone with some time on their hands could go through the assembly dumps. And there were a lot of curious people with time on their hands.
I feel like this is a level of creepiness you can never go back from. If a potential future partner ever finds out that you used to have a giant woman doll as a companion, let alone an “intimate” one, they probably won’t consider you to be relationship material. Which is probably self-reinforcing because it leaves you with the doll as your only option.

The article made for a good ad though.
because what the fuck do two department stores have to do with state owned means of production? somehow anything that's the slightest bit off shows that sOcialISm iS eViL but the same kind of bad faith reading of any of the structures of capitalism is explicitly forbidden.
It seems the preference to work from home is pretty strong amongst software engineers. As a physician who was thrust into trying telemedicine, I couldn’t stand it. I would never voluntarily opt to do telemedicine. Besides delivering much worse care, I love being “in the office” with the camaraderie of being physically at work.
For my own curiosity, what are some of the Polish anti-government media outlets?
We started with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and it was all downhill from there!

One film blurred into the next; time stood still; I believe the final movie was Fight Club although our choices were cut back when the VHS Player overheated about 55 hours in.
It helped them build new long-range bombers, but the Soviets were already making a lot of planes before that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
Does the Nvidia acquisition of Cumulus make that even worse going forward?
I wasn't talking to the guy in the article, was I?
It would be... unfortunate... if the truth leads to downvotes. If it is really the case that people downvoted for that reason I would really like to know the reason why as it would indicate either a failure of their history teachers or an ideological stance.
Slight off-topic but: The author may not be aware that MVC (the classic Smalltalk look) is still supported in Squeak (and maybe Pharo, although I suspect not.) You just create a new MVC project. That said, since it isn't often used some bit-rot is almost inevitable.
> Northern Ontario would probably be akin to Tahoe; folks with permanent setups in the backyard of a second house.

Ya, this is me setting up a perch for a 2-3 weeks in my grandparents backyard. Far too much work for a park.
Environmental variables have scopes?
I curse the MS developer/s who wrote the peep show listboxes: those non-resizable scrolling list boxes that display long lists in a peep hole that is just a few items long so you have to scroll endlessly to find what you need. This UI element has remained in the OS since I had hair on my head.
There is a better one than that, one night two Me109’s got lost and landed at the same British airfield, they captured one of them in an armoured car when the pilot landed, realised his mistake they blocked the runway the other crashed.

Bet the sentries got a shock when an enemy fighter landed and then taxied to the hanger waiting for ground crew.

TP814 iirc, they called the branch that flew it (and other German planes) the Rafwaffe.

Another good one is when two British agents stole an entire Ju88 with the latest radar of the time by holding the third crew member at gunpoint and flying it to Scotland.

When it came to the spying the British had a ridiculous run of good results like that, we turned every single German agent in the UK and then had them do things like systematically lie about V1’s over shooting London by 60 miles, then faking craters so that when the Luftwaffe sent a reconnaissance plane over it looked legit, the Germans then altered the targeting such that the V1s landed short of their target.

For all that people vaunt the Nazi’s for their advanced technology it’s actually a much more mixed picture, the cavity magnetron was discovered and perfected in the UK then taken to the US because we didn’t have the resources to build them at scale, German radar output 40W with a klystron, the cavity magnetron could output 25KW.

It completely changed the picture for night interceptions.

Also lots of people don’t know that Britain built and put intro production a proper radar based ground scanning system for targeting during WWII, it was called H2S and allowed accurate navigation and targeting.

> Combined with intelligence gathered from the surviving crew, they learned it was a mapping system and were able to determine its method of operation. When they pieced one together from parts and saw the display of Berlin, near panic broke out in the Luftwaffe.
I think the reason why this seems more likely to be malice is because the CEO's initial reaction to the backlash was not to listen to and understand the feedback, but to repeatedly try and justify their actions. To go from commenting all over hacker news about how you aren't doing anything wrong, to sending out an email completely reversing your decision a couple days later, makes it seem like the apology was more motivated by trying to do damage control rather than genuinely thinking their actions were wrong.
I also deleted my account and encouraged others to do so. I'd love to see their account metrics and to know whether the reason for the decision reversal was primarily driven by individual email responses, HN/reddit outrage, or mass account deletion.
I'm like you, not actually a triplebyte customer, but have followed on hn.

> They listened and that's what counts for me.

The fact is that they didn't listen. The ceo ammon was here on hn clearly not listening and clearly not apologising.

I would surmise that it's only due to a flood of account deletion requests that he started to notice... Add this proves one thing: on triplebyte you are the commodity and not the customer.

Although it's unlikely I'd have ever used them, because of this fiasco you can be sure I'll be warning people away from the platform entirely, heartfelt apology or no.

For my view to change he'll have to do a whole lot more than one email. He needs to change his way of thinking and one email is no way of proving that it's happened.
You could have the trackball on one thumb and the thumb cluster on the other... I have a couple of crooked fingers from breaks that didn't heal completely straight, and I think I'm getting arthritis. So I'm trying to maximize usage of my 'strong' fingers.

I should really try a kinesis sometime. Everyone that has one seems to love them...
That's what I was sort of going after, although the workstation setup is important too.

My desk is full of exposed boards, cat5 cables going in and out of them, rs232 cables going in and out of them, power supplies, switches, multimeter, oscilloscope, breadboard, jumper wires, sd cards, screwdrivers, pliers, random components, and yes a couple laptops. With a big external screen & keyboard and mouse :) (Oh and yes, papers & pencils too!)

I wouldn't want to read schematics too much on a laptop screen. In fact I'm thinking my 30" screen is kinda small for that.
Could anything worse than losing out on the registration fees ever actually happen?
Who is the stinking, log-of-shit editor at Forbes that thought this would be a good idea for an article?

Rot in hell, corporate media outlets.
I'm asking what we're referring to by "type erasure" here; one can use trait objects to erase a type in Rust, and size_of (which, yes, runs at compile-time (the debug macro is just for printing, not for const eval)) does indeed work on such type-erased objects, but it will always give you the size of the fat pointer to the trait object.
Another facet is that Jarosław Kaczyński pretends to be some kind of political hermit with no personal life caring only about the greater good. The song calls attention to his duplicity and double standards. What makes it especially dangerous - and what probably got it banned - is that Polish media are highly polarized and many people read only articles from one side. As a consequence, PiS supporters are highly unlikely to hear anything critical of the party. But a song spreads very differently and crosses borders. There was a similar situation where a documentary about pedophilia in Church was released. The ruling party and Church support each other. They didn't care the movie - which is freely available because it was crowdfunded - is available in the internet. But police cracked down on people who tried to show the film locally. Taking something like that "to the streets" would make it possible for PiS supporters - who are often less educated, older and internet-averse - to randomly run into the documentary movie.

Moral of the story: there's nothing spectacular about the song, it's even intentionally campy. The criticism is veiled and words polite. It was likely the fact that the message took the form of a song that made it intolerable. And the Trójka radio station folded not really because of a single song, rather it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
> visible from space on Google Maps.

Note that google maps imagery is generally taken from airplanes not satellites.
waves author here.

To be clear: I do this research in my free time. This is 100% independent of my $dayjob at Cloudflare.
> Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old

The point about the "ordained to rule" and choice to be "ruled over" reminded me of Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Yes, unless you turn it off or set telemetry collection to "basic".

Or if you build the tool yourself.
Can't our current economic system be described as rule by those who impose dog-eat-dog capitalism on others, but do not live in it themselves?

I think the common factor is that elites always find a way to insulate themselves from the problems of the plebs, including the ones that they have created.
.קום is just .com transliterated into Hebrew letters, right?

That actually seems quite useful, if people are typing not realizing the keyboard is set to Hebrew.
Supposedly you need a reserved space for work. The US has (had?) a similar home-office tax deduction (https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...).
And if no work was done that energy turned into heat?
Were they real reviews, or Indian review-bombs generated as part of a nationalistic campaign to get back at China?

Review sections were weaponized long ago, first by companies, and now, increasingly, by nations.
Fair enough. 6.832 is an advanced course.

Building simple kits is always a good way to get going. You learn by seeing how someone else solved the problem, and add that to your bag of tricks. The Pololu Romi chassis is not a terrible place to start. The wheels have (kinda coarse) encoders, so you can at least get some decent control going. Even simpler robots can be built by modifying hobby servos for continuous rotation. Pick a simple challenge, like "Drive around on a table without falling off.", that is a decent robot "Hello, World!". (And it isn't as easy as it sounds.)

If there is a robot club near by, check it out.
>What/who is the "establishment (and their friends)"?

Maybe he thinks of Linux Foundation Platinum Members ;)

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/

XFS is actually really good, but Linux definitely need's a check-summing COW Filesystem that's usable.
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It is all relative to you I guess, for a true idealogical communist any individual property right is as right as it gets, while people who generally are from western style capitalist economies, individual property right is probably centre or maybe even centre left and similar rights to corporate entities may be considered centre right .