skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a reply to an argument for abolishing BitTorrent, and not on-topic. What the Archive did is obviate the need to even pirate: everyone could get content “for free” from a legal entity operating under US laws and subsuming all liabilities.

Suddenly you can get your book for free without even the legal or ethical hazards.
Fortune 500 multinational, based in the South.

Call it maybe 30-35% XX vs ~70% XY, with most of the XX concentrated mostly in QA, Finance, and Project Mgmt roles. Actual Infrastructure, Ops, and Dev roles are mostly men, and are mostly offshore'd at this point.

In fact, all of the women on the "technical side" (Dev/Ops/whatever) are entirely offshore resources, with 2-3 notable exceptions. None of the exceptions are American, either, for that matter (Indian/Russian/German).
Generally, older is better and if you can put a phase converter in (to use 3 phase motors on residential single phase power) you will find better deals.

Reason being, industrial businesses will sell off used machines way cheap when they upgrade or replace. Their stuff is a cut above the home use stuff like what I listed above.

5 horsepower is the upper end of what you can get from a single phase 220v motor. 3 phase motors can well exceed that limit.

Otherwise, these machines are really very simple. Most of their mass is cast parts which don’t wear or break. The wear items are just bearings and belts which can be replaced. The only thing to be careful of is bent derive shafts on the motors. Take a dial indicator and measure the run out of the motor shaft on a used machine. If it doesn’t wobble and the motor runs ok you’re fine, buy it and polish it up.
It’s great to be powerful, you can completely fuck some shit up and walk away with a shrug. Pepsi should have been held to pay the $32 billion and if they didn’t have it, go bankrupt and become the property of the creditors.
This critique is unnecessarily pedantic. If I issue you a $200 check and (through whatever error) it ends up being written for $200,000,000, we would fairly call it a "$200MM typo" despite the fact that it would bounce.

The headline delivered exactly the story it promised. I was surprised I had never heard about it before.
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> they are perfectly capable of managing a set of self-contradictory rules. It is actually an amazing power.

Not amazing. Rules are for the ruled. The executive is not bound by them.
I deliver for Doordash and Grubhub. I don’t accept every offer that comes to me, I keep both apps open and I wait for an offer that I know I can profit from. If I were an employee, I’d likely be obligated to take every job offer and get my guaranteed minimum of say, $12 an hour. But as independent contractor, I can make $20 an hour. Isn’t the best, but I make more than McDonalds and I don’t want to chain myself down somewhere while I look for an actual internship/job in my field (halfway through a computer engineering degree). It gets me through college and I take more ownership in the job than if I was just some employee at chumbawumba cheap labor Corp. Only benefit I would wish for in my case is some sort of car insurance offer given a minimum delivery quota and discounted maintenance plan (oil changes, etc.) as it’s directly relevant to the type of work.
Check out "Anarchist's Tool Chest" from Lost Art Press. It's basically an intro to hand tool woodworking through building a tool chest and what you need to fill it.

Not that hand tools can't get just about as expensive as power tools.
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To me, "systems accrue debt" is a consequence of three things: entropy, change, and learning.

Entropy is pretty obvious. Change is about the divergence between the system and the world it's reacting to. E.g., a payroll system that was fine in 1960 would not be fine today; our concepts of work and employment have changed significantly.

Learning is the most subtle thing for me. Knowledge is basically a ratchet: this year we know more than last year, and so on back. A software architecture that was brilliant in 1970 was outdated by 1980, and so on for every decade. As years go on, we learn more about good ways to build things, revealing previously unseen flaws in old systems.

One could argue that this concept of debt is unfair, that it's a moving target. That's true in some sense. But systems are things we create to improve the world, and the world was never going to sit still.
I would start with frameworks. You'll learn how a well structured app looks while also having the reward of building something cool.

There needs to be more books on concrete software development principle that fill the gap between basic software dev 101 and software design patterns.

Like practical books on building an app.
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The question is why would you want to have non-nixos servers in that case. If the goal is to have super-fast automation, you still need to unify your setup around something common. I see more benefits in unifying around NixOS than in unifying around Ansible/Pyinfra, as the latter require me to specify my infra in terms of low-level OS- and distro-specific package managers, that would eventually define the same lack of "OS agnostic portability".
Most Linux-based home routers (which means most routers) have raw access to flash. If you ever just wanted to play with it you can just find some old router out of a local thrift shop, check if it can handle a DD-WRT or OpenWRT, then experiment.

You just have to be careful because the bootloader and NVRAM partitions are crucial to the device booting. Serious experimenters would find the serial port header pins and have a working serial port.
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Yes. This example is supposedly a common starting point for this type of application: https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sdk_nrf5_v16.0.0/ble...
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I only got anecdotal evidence. Sometimes i just google the name of a restaurant i want to order.

Most of the times the results are:

- ad: order X on thuisbezorgd

- google widget about X

- 1) squated domain with thuisbezorgd order page for X

- 2) real domain of restaurant X
Just as long as, being Zappos, if you sell through Amazon, expect Amazon branded shoes a couple months to years down the road.
For the first few weeks after high school, I delivered fast food--pizza and chicken mostly. This was probably ten years before the pizza outlets noticed that you could get a kid to use the family car to deliver pizza. I am very grateful that the thought hadn't occurred to them yet. I am also confident that if I had come home and told the folks that I found this summer job, I just need one of the cars, they would have said, Keep looking.
And they will be again!

I predict that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will fall within a decade, maybe sooner.

Only recently the U.S. Trump Administration was contemplating restarting nuclear testing after accusing China and Russia of holding covert nuclear tests.

I predicted long ago that once a new nuclear weapon was developed there would be an unstoppable political pressure to test it.
I think there is a documentary out now about how that whole thing was gang controlled haha. Havent watched, not sure if i believe, but wouldnt be that far fetched.
I can, do, and will. There has to be room in the charity ecosystem for organizations that take risks.

It remains to be seen whether this blunder will actually destroy the Internet Archive.

In general, I think the idea that good things have to last forever is overrated. Organizations willing to compromise their values eventually drift away from those values completely, which is worse than simply ceasing to exist--such organizations can linger on and do more harm than good.
The cheapest one is $20,000!
What strikes me as food for thought is the stupidity and wickedness of the riots. I understand the rage if you own one of the few winning tickets of a lottery and the organization doesn't want to pay out. But in this case they knew that it had to be a mistake, as they all had the winning ticket. Were they really thinking that Pepsi should pay $40k to each and all of them because they all possessed the same identical plastic cap? Would they not realize that receiving all almost $20 was a larger collective gain?

And more in general, how do you govern a country where the population exhibits this kind of inability to see the larger picture and the point of view of the opponents in a dispute?
ansible's declarative manifests got pretty complicated and even (potentially, not sure if it actually happened) achieved accidental turing completeness.

if your DSL gets to that point sometimes it's better to rewrite as a library.
On the other hand - imagine you are a director at Pepsi managing this promotion. Imagine you personally sit down and send an email(or a courier-delivered letter I suppose) to the head of whatever factory is bottling your product, saying "under no circumstances print the number X on the bottle caps". Then the factory prints number X on 800k bottles.

Why is or should Pepsi be responsible for this? If I send an email to someone explicitly telling them not to do something, and they do it anyway - why should I be responsible for it? Unless the bottling factory is their own, but the article doesn't specify.
What I also read is an insane amount of comment on every SpaceX and Tesla post here about how bad it is to have touchscreens in cars or spacecraft, and how huge swathes of HN commenters are absolutely convinced touchscreens are dangerous, regressive, etc.

https://trl.co.uk/reports/interacting-android-auto-and-apple...

Even when professional pilots chime in about how they're used in aircraft.

Flying an aircraft is a very different experience to driving a car. The procedures, instruments and control systems are so different that I'm not sure there's really any meaningful comparison at all.
That's a difference in scale, but it doesn't make libraries right at the spot they sit. Do libraries pay 100x price for their books?

Be careful to avoid reasoning from an axiom that the way things worked when you grew up was the correct way. It's a pernicious psychological bias we all suffer from.
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SDD controllers have grown much more complex since 2012, especially with the deployment of QLC flash cells.
That's what I do. If I want to say something obvious, I Google for the first citation which says that thing in a way which is readable, understandable, and correct.

Honestly, the problem isn't with whom I cite, so much as:

1) Academia deciding to use metrics inappropriately (as well as expecting citations on well-known obvious things). I'm not going to adjust my work style because academics decided to adopt dumb metrics and build massive, dumb incentive structures around those metrics.

2) Reviewers expecting citations for everything, and not caring about quality of those citations. "The sky is blue" doesn't work. "The sky is blue (Blitzerman, Tinkledorf 2012)" works fine, even if Blitzerman, Tinkledorf 2012 is complete nonsense.
A long time ago, I once had a deployment rejected by a change management team because I used the wrong form - the right form was identical to the form I had used apart from the title. They insisted I resubmit the whole thing and wait until the next time they reviewed changes.....

I think I almost cried - after that I simply ignored them and deployed stuff when I wanted... :-)
How is staying out of this altogether “compromising their principles?”
What do you see and feel during a bad trip?
This might seem like a cliché answer, at least because this is not what I typically listen to on a normal basis, but for an album I'd Pink Floyd's The Wall.

I think it has a certain degree of universal appeal. It has really aged extraordinarily well. If you are ever given the opportunity to listen to it on an any type of hifi system, do so. You'll find layers of eery texture and masterful use of stero dynamics. As a cherry on top, the album forms a perfect loop.

As for a song, Aphex Twin's Avril 14th. I love that you can hear the action of the piano in the track. It was recorded with a kind of player piano that makes it sound very mechanical, but it still has a somewhat organic feel to it. It's very quaint yet oddly contemporary.
No, they wrote to avoid eating. Then their writing suffered because they're hungry.
Just wanted to give a bit of praise for the blog post's illustration as a rather delightful little example of how lightweight and smooth SVG animation can be (and SMIL no less).

44KB for a scalable, looping blog graphic. Imagine if more of the web were like this.
...but it’s likely the officer didn’t know the guys race before pulling him over.

Okay. Why did this trooper then ask for reg and ID, do a background check, and issue an unexplained warning?

Back to your point: I just watched the linked video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmT-KDfkC0

How could the trooper NOT know the driver's race before pulling him over?
One aspect of systemic debt that tracks well with technical debt (and most forms of "debt") is that paying down that debt requires you to confront the risk-averse and fearful tendencies of your organization/nation.

The more fearful and risk-averse approach will lock things into a local optimization with tremendous support costs and will accrue debt very fast. The bold approach will break out of the local maximum, but probably upset the apple cart.
When the national guard is sent in there it’s there to maintain order.

Militaries are also trained for peacekeeping missions. It’s not all about trigger happy gun toters.

If it’s an all out rebellion that’s different. I don’t see a ruby ridge or Waco incident coming, but maybe you do.
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What did you have to put up with?

How do you pay people to "do work" instead of "done work"? What's that mean exactly?
Have you seen https://standardresume.co? You can import your LinkedIn profile, choose a template and publish it as a web resume in minutes.
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When I saw it on Craigslist I immediately drove out of state to get it. I can tell you that most of these rare birds gravitate to the owmm.org (old woodworking machinery) forum. They even have a surrogate system in place where they help each other buy machines local to another user and then settle up at scheduled meetups.

A guy on there bought mine when I eventually sold it.

I replaced a Delta RAS with it, that I never got aligned properly.

The problem with long arm RASs is they tend to have inaccuracy along the arm itself. The bigger it is the less likely that is, but throwing mass at it is a poor solution. Having a shorter movement footprint is without question the better design. All of the bearings that guide the movement of a unipoint are within inches of each other and fixed in space. The bearings on a long arm RAS have all of that movement distance to get out of alignment.

Good luck! There are a few floating around out there.
Some software I wrote got cited in a paper once. They had used it because it was readily available on the net. I didnt think anyone actually noticed.
The drives also include more software and more excess capacity to mitigate the problem (except for the cheap ones)
How do you prevent human error from breaking production?
Yeah, there's a reason that the articles of confederation were discarded. They didn't work.
I keep going back to this quote from The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald Weinberg:

> Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

It's a systems thing. You build a system that is resilient to changes in the environment, it is less efficient if the environment doesn't change versus a system that is optimized for that specific environment. But the counterpoint is that the optimized system can't handle changes in the environment.
> A religious view makes no difference - it just pushes the question back one step.

I disagree. You have well-known atheist figures that have expressed views similar to what I was describing. That rape isn't inherently bad, it's just something that exists in the world. That incest is ok if it's between "consenting adults". Or Dawkins defending pedophilia. There literally isn't a gauge to determine whether something is moral or not anymore. It may sound absurd or over-exaggerating, but that is the logical conclusion of a purely materialistic view. We've seen its effects throughout history.
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Are Zoom events like the one in the article public, such that any person who logs into Zoom can access as part of their interface, with out looking for it, the event in question?

Does the content of the event persist in a way that makes it easily sharable, with comments?

If the answer to both of these is “no,” I contend that the communications on these platforms is “private” and should be regulated by the US Government against censorship (though I have no hope that it will be). My reasoning is this:

(1) Zoom has no expectation that private communications will harm their business. In the same way Ma Bell never took responsibility for the zillions or drug deals and kidnappings that got coordinated over their system.

(2) Lack of viral potential means the possibility of inciting violence, cyber bullying, and other negative consequences of mass internet communication is diminished.

Both of these points have a correlating contention about censorship on Twitter, Facebook, etc: they (not the government) ought to censor content that has the potential for negative outcomes like those I mentioned. Is it difficult? Absolutely. Will there be disagreements? For sure. But, they can afford to figure it out, and our society can’t afford for them to not to.

NB: We need nuance and reasoning here. Falling back on first principles and calling it a day is not enough; those principles were articulated at a time where speech replication depended on industrial machines and were limited by how fast a pony could run. We’re talking the ability to beam information practically into every child’s brain 24/7 anywhere on the planet using psychological tricks to engage them.
Okay. You can semantically call it whatever you want!

I'm just trying to give some additional context to how this list of (demands|wishes) came about.

If you view it as a single list of (demands|wishes) it doesn't make as much sense. If you view it as the (demands|wishes) from a wide variety of people, that were made on an open mic at a protest that was transcribed, then categorized, then posted to the internet, it's easier to understand what it is.

There are organized protest leaders that have curated their list of demands and put it out. This very much isn't that! This is basically the raw list of demands from a wide variety of different speakers. The only editing was in the transcription and the categorization of those demands.
You can unfollow them if they are a connection by clicking the three dots on the top right of a post. You remain connected but you no longer see their updates in your feed.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy2zDJPIgwc

My favorite piece of all time. It encapsulates what I want to feel about life
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In Hong Kong, some people developed app showing "friendly" and "hostile" shops and restaurants.
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It's still a thing with Tim Hortons' "Roll up the rim to win" campaign, where you can win money, cars, barbecue grills, dougnnuts, or coffee when you buy a coffee.

Actually, it was cancelled this year, because millions of people handing pieces of coffee cup rims to workers isn't good when there's a global pandemic going on.
Well, despite the parasitic nature of the modern commercial journal world (and originally they did come from more benevolent aims, but got consumed by corporations) -- they do serve an important filtering and quality control mechanism.

A 100% open and free journal cannot achieve selectivity without having some judgement and bias applied. One that's hard for an intrepid band of volunteers to recreate without funding and full time commitment. Who will be the editors? There's also the problem of how to create a new journal that has the prestige of an old established one. Which new journal will we select to have the prestige?

But yes, they have become parasites, who prey on the free labor of eager young academics, take their work and sell access to it, enforce copyrights on knowledge created by taxpayer money, and bundle useless journals in with important ones so everyone has to pay more.

It's in the public interest for academic fields and the universities to come up with a reasonable alternative.
"Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."[1]

That is pretty unambiguous.

[1] https://archive.org/about/

EDIT: The previous version of this post was unnecessarily combative, in response to what may have been a good faith question. Sorry.
I understand your point. There's value in standardization. But there's also huge value in eating your own dog food. When IT prevents dogfooding entirely, it's gone too far.
For the low-tech version, see Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
You can get a decent monitor for $100 nowadays.
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I've been neck deep in Ansible for the past couple of months, and boy, I am not a fan.

Documentation is middling at best imo and it just feels hacked together.
> they are perfectly capable of managing a set of self-contradictory rules

This is caused by managers' and middle-managers' performance metrics being tied to the wrong outcomes.

The top layer of management's target is the desired outcome. The bottom layer's (the worker) target is also clear, it's to do whatever their manager says to do.

In the middle is where it often breaks down; their objectives are short-sighted and while it works out for their own career, it rarely benefits the top level target. At best, it introduces a large inefficiency, waste of resources and unnecessary busywork ("bullshit jobs" becomes relevant here) and at worst it goes completely against the target set at the top level.

Imagine it as an eventually-consistent system. If you don't change anything and give the system enough time it will eventually achieve its goal. The problem is that the "time" we're talking about is measured in years if not decades and during that period the system is stuck in a contradictory state. Endless restructurings and other external factors often reset this "timer" so the system is even more likely to stay in the contradictory state forever (some other "systems" depend on this system staying in the contradictory state), despite theoretically advancing towards the end-goal.
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That's a crazy viewpoint, I've never signed any license agreement with microsoft, but if I were to have a copy of a windows 10 ISO, or even just calc.exe, I wouldn't be allowed to share it
addressing #7, graphql queries are dynamic and not stored on the server
Not a IP lawyer here, but I speculate that when and if this lawsuit goes to higher courts, the fact that IA was acting in favour of the public in a national emergency would be in their favor.
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Is there a site with a list of hardware that uses DRM like this?