skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our descendants will look back with dismissive sympathy and say, "the poor things still believed in randomness and chance."
My side project when I was a teacher was https://officesnapshots.com and it has been my full-time work for 7-8 years.

A place I’ve found to be good for idea hunting is the website for the city I live in which has all sorts of interesting and useful information that is often organized horribly or hard to find.

One example was that they published crime statistics organized in a table by the types of crime and district. On a separate page in a pdf was a map that showed the boundaries for each district.

My idea and project was to create a map where you could see where in town particular types of crime happened most.

Based on that idea, my office mate came up with the idea (though not implemented) to find data about bike accidents and map them to streets to see if there were any hotspots that might be particularly dangerous for cycling.

Ideas seem kind of iterative so once I have one idea and expertise in that area, I can’t help but think about other similar problems to solve with my new knowledge.

An example is that because my main job is based around organizing architecture projects and photos, I noticed that during the process of planning my wedding it could be interesting to have a website filled with bouquets organized by the flowers that are in them.

While not a successful business, I learned some new things and ended up implementing concepts to my main business.
http://www.einkmonitor.com/
TBH, it won't be any different under socialism. In fact it will probably be the same a-holes.
Amazon to face antitrust charges in EU over its treatment of third-party sellers
Tesla is close to becoming the most valuable car company
why is this thread flagged?
>Google is not and will never be complicit to Chinese censorship in America

Uhh that's a strong stand for something you don't know...especially the 'never' part of it.
Lessons from building 5400 newsletter subscribers
Smaller embedded targets don't have modern C++ compilers. Also many engineers want to solve domain problems instead of dealing with C++ related problems.

In domain of C, passing by reference means passing pointer. If you chuck everything into single struct and pass by pointer, it has same problems as global scope.

Not that I'm advocating for global variables. Even tiny projects tend to grow with time, and localizing scope across the code base is not fun at all. In context of Lua, I've just trained myself to prefix variables with 'local' and I don't give it much thought.
Revenue is not assets.
Sadly, as much as, I too would like to pin every bad thing on communism, I have to agree with you. If anything the economic realities of communism created a mindset of creating things as simple and reliable as possible. The AK 47 probably being the prime example of this mentality and the Mig being another.

DRM is a purely capitalistic endeavor and does show the dark side of unfettered capitalism.
Are these SoC devices often used to act as serial-over-BLE bridges? I have a barbecue controller from ThermoWorks that I have been trying to reverse engineer. Sniffing BLE has been pretty useless for this thing because it appears to be using BLE as a mechanism to do basic serial comms. I would like to understand more how these serial implementations work and to find some resources that I could use to capture the protocol.
Yes, in the UK we have a similar "baseline" contract and there is such a thing as an unenforceable contract due to stricter labour laws and the potential for a contract to be unenforceable due to this.
If by "it's far from a solved problem" you mean that chess isn't a solved game that's true.

But Kasparov and others have given up on the idea that a human provides any unique insight into chess anymore. Computers are just better.
I can't believe I actually watched all of that. No regrets.
I don't read it any more :)
I used to go through the feed in search of quality content. Tried configuring it, but the signal to noise ratio is too low.
All these mechanisms are not 100%. They are averaged around "an average" person as all these things are. I would argue that anybody that realizes the true intention poses enough intuition to stay away from it.
Its a tool. Use parts of it you need and dont pay attention to the rest. Its not hard.
If it is hard - be thankful it revealed something about you that you want to work on overcoming.
A Trust and Moderation System for the Decentralized Web
Ban on Covid-19 survivors joining military lifted but some could still be denied
Just wanted to show my appreciation to the team supporting Graphviz. It's an instrumental capability of a library[0] we developed to turn Java DSL code into a diagram.

Thank you, keep it as it is, it's just great!

[0] https://github.com/ing-bank/baker
As I understand it the ISO you get without an MSDN subscription is missing a bunch of updates.
i love graohviz. thank you for all the hard work over the years.
When people talk about "overwhelming force" in military context, it's always lethal force.
I think it's the people and the nature of the "hacker" topics. You need a certain amount of attention span to read plain text comments, enjoy a front page with no images, you need patience to learn programming and tech stuff. You need some explicit thinking and less knee jerk reactions. There is some actual object level to discuss, some objective technical things, not only who stands for what and who likes who political games.

Of course this could be reproduced in other similar communities as well.
This is largely the case in the US as well. Most lumber yards principally sell building materials (dimensional lumber, plywood, and other "engineered wood products"). Finding lumber other than dimensional SPF for one of a small handful of species already milled (but poorly) usually requires a trip to a specialist vendor.

For example: Home Depot (which is a national chain of home improvement stores) generally stocks pine, red oak, some yellow poplar (which is not actually a poplar, but I digress), and sometimes something they'll call mahogany (which almost certainly isn't Swietenia anything) . That is about as good as you'll find unless you go somewhere that specializes in hardwood lumber. Unfortunately, some of those don't do retail sales.

For US readers in the northeast, Highland Hardwoods and Northland Forest Products both do retail sales. Northland is more focused on North American wood, though they stock FSC certified mahogany. They're about 10 minutes from each other about an hour and 15 minutes from Boston (usual traffic caveats apply), where I suspect a lot of people from HN at this time are located.
Tyrants? Is there even any developed country where if you have archaeological remains in your property you're allowed to destroy them?
The roof part of Tesla solar roof should presumably last a long time. It also avoids drilling holes in your shingles, combined that could represent a significant competitive advantage.

The solar part on the hand is overpriced and may limit how long the roofing lasts. Which means it’s only really competitive if you’re already constructing/replacing the roof and don’t yet have solar.

Aka best case is after ~25 years the roof reverts to a normal roof and then goes on to last another 25+ years. The worst case on the other hand is if the roof needs to be replace as soon as the solar panels reach end of life.
How can your statement be largely true (90%) with all large companies having _dedicated_ HR departments with staff whose sole responsibility is to find the _best_ employees?
That's some real ingenuity right there!
>But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology, i would suggest that they are not, in fact, a good candidate. In my experience, magpieism is associated with weaker programmers; not the very worst, but second quartile, say - people who get very engaged with superficial details, but don't think about deeper things.

You want engineers who love to grow, learn and solve problems. Startups in general have rather boring problems to solve compared to large companies. Learning and mastering a new technology however is a problem space that startups can provide their engineers.
Ask HN: $5 MySQL / PostgreSQL Instances [Idea]?
Would you use shared mysql/postgres instances to lower the cost of your side hustle database costs?

How it would work:

- pool 5-10 people together to share a DB instance
- only allow access to the IPs those 5-10 people need
- each person can only see their tables
- instances would be hosted on GCP (Google)

Why:

- Hosted mysql instances can get damn expensive
There is nothing superficial about being attracted to a company - especially a startup - that uses near technologies. When your startup fails - and statistically likely it will, the only thing I would have to show for it is a bullet point on my resume when I apply for my next job.

There are a lot more companies that want you to have experience with their technology stack than those that just want “smart people” (tm) and that will take the time to train you.

On the other hand, salary compression and inversion are real. Your market value will go up by $some_big_number but HR policies will only allow raises of $some_small_number. So you have to keep your eye on the market and be prepared to jump ship.

Anecdotally, I was once hired for a company that wanted to build a new product in .Net. The new product didn’t find a market, but their legacy product written in PHP did. None of us wanted to spend a year doing PHP development. All 14 of us left within six months.
earlier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17699017

and, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11478061
> Is the bad guy a couple of cops who we hold to the impossible standard of not returning fire?

Yes? I mean, no, they're not the only bad guy. There are other problems to address too and other ways to solve the abstract problem. But abstract solutions aren't the same thing as "justice", and these officers made the decision to engage in violence that killed an innocent woman. That's culpability, period.

Look: the whole reason we put guns into the hands of special people is that we trust them to keep us safe. And that trust should come with responsibility when they don't. The officer's judgement needs to be applied in circumstances like this, they aren't robots. If they felt, like you do, that the warrant was impossibly unsafe to serve, they should not have served the warrant. That's what the trust we place in them is supposed to be for.

And they didn't. Clearly they were wrong about the safety, but they thought it was safe, because they did it. And Breonna died. And that lapse in judgement needs to be addressed with justice.
According to a June 10 article by City Journal, hip hop artist Raz Simone acts as "co-leader and enforcer" of the Zone, while former mayoral candidate Nikkita Oliver formulates the commune's political aims.[24] However, according to Simone, the Zone has no central leadership, with all residents serving as leaders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone
Based on the scanned catalog page from 1911 and an inflation calculator, it looks like those fans set you back anywhere from the equivalent of $800-1000 in today's money. Is my math correct?
Y’all flagmods that took CHAZ off the front page repeatedly are boring and should read the guidelines, please.
You might be undercalling just how bad mines were 100 years ago. The pollution they caused would be total non-starter in modern Australia. Wouldn't even be an option on the table.
I think people's job patterns varying is part of it. For me, I've mostly stayed at my relatively few jobs for a long time (10 years or more) and every job after the one immediately after grad school have been through people I knew. Others are hopping around a lot more and are more often through recruiters looking for some particular keyword skill.

LinkedIn is pretty useless for the former--except as a Rolodex--but anecdotally can be very useful for the latter.
Thanks for the list

Paska Makes
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNyGbxoEo6CQvaRVEvItxkA

Woodshop Junkies
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzHueSosfT92NUVmhrz7Hjw

Paoson Woodworking
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PI8VEr1ZaKn4TBcXoy3qg

JSK-koubou
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCez62GvvsH05IunJJsRuvuQ

Laura Kampf
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRix1GJvSBNDpEFY561eSzw

Crimson Guitars
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdD1Cqxr8aINzWs1agg3tEQ

Dekay's Crafts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVugiFOe-aoh7FXtAuiGxw

Get Hands Dirty
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETeXD_3awsQv-9rSdCYXQQ

Resin Timber
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCZ2m-mgto7R-4uEgROP2pQ
Genuine question: how? For me, LinkedIn is the only platform where recruiter can discover my profile and contact me. I've got one job from it.

Other than that it only left me with jobsdb and jobsteet, both need for me to actively looking for a job.
I can't legally give you something copyrighted even if you can't use it without a valid license code. It's still copyrighted.

But that's not what Microsoft is asserting here: the headline (which arguably conveys the main point) says it's about the anti-circumvention clauses of USA's DMCA law.
Lol...

These companies do realize that these numbers are incredibly not locked in right? Like Grubhub's business could be taken in a week by any other app because they don't own the endpoint, just the middleman. Sure they have some exclusive deals but this is an incredibly inflated value for what is effectively a API connection and little actual market ownership.
44 million items in the Internet Archive are available as torrents. It's pretty straightforward to enumerate them, download them, and serve them up in a swarm.
Linux Mint 20 Gets Approved for ‘Beta’ Release, ISO to Arrive Soon
The archive is a valuable resource, but what they did here was very short sighted. I'm certainly know copyright monger and broadly believe in the free exchange of information, but what they did here is pretty clear cut stealing of IP from others. They don't have to 'make money' from it to cause significant damage in the process.

For better or worse the revenue streams associated with that IP generation is a large driver for the IP to be created in the first place.
That's what I thought, until I got a Samsung with integrated Netflix, youtube etc. No more hassle with separate boxes and multiple remotes etc, I can use the Samsung minimalist remote
(which is both beautiful and really usable - the aluminium one) and jsut switch from one app to another to TV etc

There's even a feature where you can directly access a channel's "smart" features from that channel (so if I'm watching Arte I press the red button and get replay episodes etc)

And then they force ads down my throat :(
NTLite comes from a trusted company, in the business of the administration of Windows installations. Still much more trustworthy than some random website allowing ISO downloads.
I'd make a big distinction between entirely new languages, tool and frameworks and simply keeping up with the changes in a reasonably mature environment. For something that is still actively developed, and not in maintenance mode, it is a bad sign if it is on a very old version of that environment. There are a lot of nuances here depending on how disruptive, but also how useful the changes in new versions are.

If you're far enough behind, you get problems with tools and dependencies that stopped supporting the old stuff. That can get very painful and annoying. I'd be generally careful about chasing all the shiny and new stuff, but there is also risk in lagging behind too far once it seems like most people jumped ship.
I also closed my account recently because they wouldn't let me update my profile without providing a location.

I've been a nomad most of the last 5 years and everything I do professionally is over the internet.
Microsoft's new programming language “Bosque” for AI in the cloud
> One book may be borrowed hundreds, if not thousands of times.

Except requiring the physical book (or single book digital equivalent) controls the pace. If a standard checkout is 2 weeks, and if the book is always checked out, it will still take 4 years to hit 100 lends. And a thousand lends? Close to 40 years.
I dislike the news feed but have gotten four of my last six jobs from being discovered on LinkedIn. I’d love to close my LinkedIn but I never know when I’ll be job searching again.

I kind of wish there was an HN like job site that was widely used in corporate America but didn’t have all the ‘content’. Just an online resume.
The way I read the complaint[1] there are two separate claims made. The first, distributing the modified ISO, appears to be the core DMCA claim:

> BSA has determined that GitHub.com (specifically, content made available on GitHub through the link listed below) is providing access to copyrighted, nonpublic, proprietary information of our member Microsoft. The link leads to copyrighted material pertaining to Microsoft. Specifically, the copyrighted material in question can be found at the following link:

The second claim, concerning technical restrictions, is advanced as an EULA violation:

> Moreover[2], the link provides a work around technical restrictions of the software, which violates Microsoft’s Software License Terms. Please see lines 22 to 30 from the following link: https://github.com/ninjutsu-project/ninjutsu-project.github....

I'm sure MS and the BSA would love to have any EULA violation classified as a DMCA violation, but I don't know if this second claim would hold up. I'm not an IP (or any sort of) lawyer, and my ability to parse legalese is limited, but I think MS/BSA have a much weaker case for this if the complaint did not have claim 1. That is, distributing the tools may "not make microsoft happy", but their legal foundation to take those down is much shakier.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/e6911fbf79c67c6f9e834c...

[2] Use of this interjection is what leads me to separate the two quoted sections into two claims.

Edit: "did not have claim 1", not "did not have claim 2"
Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens have not.
^This. I've said it for years, but LinkedIn is my favorite social network right now. It gives me the dream of keeping up with all the people I've known (X moved to Y, started a new job, etc) but don't care to actually speak to, but doesn't force me to care about their politics or opinions about game of thrones. On top of that, the "office culture" feel keeps things a little more professional and/or shallow-- if you wouldn't say something at work, you probably wouldn't say it on LinkedIn, which gives just a bit of a sterile feel (vs Twitter or Facebook, which are everyone's soapboxes).
Many libraries changed the policies you're describing during the pandemic. As though they, too, were responding to changes on the ground.

NYPL, for instance, suspended address verification for issuing new e-library cards, with the caveat that it was restricted to borrowing ebooks.
They've been doing this kind of thing for decades and still have market share.
Internet is a US invention as much as lightbulbs are a US invention.
Don’t blame the devs - blame the market. Most companies insist on developers who don’t have to be trained on their stack. Most developers therefore do resume driven development. It’s as much of a “gravity problem” as being forced to “grind leetCode” to get into $BigTech.
I highly recommend more niche sources, like triplebyte, angel list/angel co, stack overflow, indeed, glassdoor, etc.
The City Journal article is interesting but has such a strange perspective and bias that I appreciate you not linking it here.
I agree in principle, but this might not always be realistic. bullets from a rifle can easily penetrate an unarmored vehicle or residential structure and kill people on the other side. frankly, I think the police should be expected to take a bit more personal risk to avoid killing civilians (even if they are in the wrong), but you have to consider that other people could be in danger. if it's a populated area, it might not be okay to just let the person keep shooting until the police figure out what's going on. of course, every shot the police fire also endangers bystanders, so they need to take that into consideration too.
There are four scenarios at a very high level. It an uber complex system and the amount of time and money wasted in optimizing and managing revenue cycles is almost incalculable. If you compare it to any complex large scale system it's sickening to look at the waste -- even the military looks like an efficient machine in comparison. (In some ways)

Medicare pays on a set scale for performance. If you have a heart attack, they pay a fee for the surgery and x days of hospitalization and x days of rehab. If the hospital gets you home in x-3 days, they make money. If the hospital fucks up and you get an infection and stay for x+10 days, they eat it.

Medicaid is a PPO that pays on a per procedure basis. Their rates suck, but they don't care about quality for the most part. There's a billing optimization process to maximize revenue for poor old people. (Some things are better billed to Medicare, others to Medicaid)

Private insurance pays for whatever they cover at a rate of y+z% over the Medicare rate. The patient gets the bill for whatever else happens.

Uninsured get whatever treatment is legally necessary. They patch you up, take a loss, kick you out and do it again when you come back.
Rural hospital closures increase mortality
Zero accountability -> zero regard.
AMD has excellent open source support. They embraced the Linux community a few years ago, and we now have a high quality AMD driver mainlined in the Linux kernel. Games run very well on AMD/Linux, including Steam/Proton.

It's NVIDIA that is completely Linux/OSS hostile, and still follows the broken proprietary driver approach they have been doing for years. On top of that they actively ignore the agreed community standards and build proprietary/inferior APIs because it's less work for them (like EGL).

I'm completely baffled by NVIDIA's approach to be honest. Especially with scientific workloads on Linux. It seems like investing in a small team to build high quality mainlined Linux drivers would be a net win for them for little cost.
> I don't buy that there is "good" GUI design in any absolute sense. "intuitive" is thrown around with too little thought in GUI discussion even though it is ambiguous.

Long ago, in the primitive time of the 1980s, people actually did studies to show what worked and what didn't in GUI design. Almost all the lessons learned from those studies have been thrown away and replaced by... I don't even know. Gut feeling? Ease of implementation? Prettiness? Certainly not usability studies.
Done and good enough is better than undone and perfect
I had not realized that the Internet Archive had 'expanded' into archiving & re-publishing books

While that endeavor certainly has value, the risks - exactly these risks - are so large & obvious that it really should have been done as a separate corporate organization. That is what the corporate structure is for - to separate liability.

Now, the entire, and very valuable, core mission is threatened by this one project.
I use LinkedIn as a Rolodex where the contact info is kept up to date by the people in it. Professional contacts only, and only people I’ve worked with or met through work.
List of Basic Dialects
CVPR: Deep learning has more gas in the tank
I'm not sure about very recent chess engines, but for a long time, it was better. The human suggests several moves that would advance their strategy, and the computer dedicates its search time to evaluating the strength of those potential moves, which cuts down the search space considerably. It's called "advanced chess" or "centaur chess". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess
15 years ago, a piece of software that downloaded user data and forced ads onto them was considered evil.

The pot with the frogs is boiling quite fiercely these days. Too bad they don't notice.