skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t say they were my hand picked references. You could contact lots of references for me, many of whom I haven’t kept in touch with for a long time.

My point is I have “nothing to hide” so to speak about my work experience or my resume - but despite this if I felt an employer was trying to use publicly shared personal network info to track this down, then that is a horrific employer to avoid.

That’s why I’m not on LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. It’s not just that the companies backing the platforms are corrupt, but that you cannot trust others to exercise basic human decency in how they consume and use the available data.

It’s a prisoner’s dilemma sort of problem. If companies & recruiters are going to instantly defect (eg bad faith usage of your data without affording you due process) then it leaves individuals no choice but to also defect (abandon shared data platforms).
That makes perfect sense, thank you. I love FastAPI just for the code clarity and ease of working with better type objects (the Pydantic classes) alone, though the speed benefit is nice to have too.
Ask HN: For those with money making apps, what legal structure?
There's tons of discussion(indie hackers) around getting an app up and getting some income rolling in, but I never see talk about how you set yourself up legally. Are you all just taking your payments to your personal checking account? Is LLC the more popular route? Are you incorporating and setting up a company structure? Which one lends itself to an easy acquisition?
The problem is that, as every investment firm reminds us, past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. This year is not going to look like last year, for just about anyone in business.
Basically anywhere that was the frontier of the roman empire benefited when it collapsed since the Roman empire intentionally spent a lot of effort limiting development of other states on its borders lest they become enemies.
Microwave oven baffled astronomers for decades (2015)
If you are ever in the Raleigh/Durham NC area, Roy has a school nearby where he actively teaches.

https://www.woodwrightschool.com/
If you are Developer or even a DevOps or Data Engineer, LinkedIn is a very handy tool in order to get connected with recruiters and also to apply for jobs that are posted there.

Sure, there are other great online job boards and even physical job agencies but I find (LinkedIn) by being marketed and promoted as a professional job seeking / networking tool, even the type of conversations you have with your contacts tend to be of a professional nature.

Yes, there are some fluff on LinkedIn especially when it comes to variety of videos or feel-good or motivational messages being posted but I take them in stride -- not everybody is same and if some people are social and have desire to share their social feelings with others, then so be it.
Congress seeks answers on Juniper Networks breach amid encryption fight
Tesla is by no means just a manufacturing company.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google, PayPal, Amazon, etc.
With bigtech treating customers and employees like crap, being involved in shady business practices, and whatnot, it's time to think about alternatives for their services.

Here are some alternatives I'm rather happy with:

Amazon (retail):
Independent ecommerce stores as well as local and regional ecommerce websites such as Lazada

Amazon AWS: DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.

Google: Yandex for mail, Matomo for analytics, DuckDuckGo for search, Zoho for Docs, OwnCloud for Drive

PayPal: TransferWise, Stripe, Payoneer

What are yours?
How we monitor JVM services on Kubernetes at TransferWise
From 10 USC 253:

“ The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

“(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

“(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

“In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.”

I don’t know. Without sufficient intel as to what is happening on the ground I wouldn’t know if civil rights are being denied. If they are and the local authorities are cooperating with the rebellious group then there might be a way to utilize the act. It is just too soon to tell.
Jenkins team avoids security disaster after partial user database loss
I haven't seen any recent (last 5 years or so) articles by him showing he's doing any work on it. There's a few recent articles where he talks about how humans should work with machine learning, but nothing specific.

When he recently came out of chess retirement he didn't talk about it at all in either 2017 or 2019:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/06/king-back-chess-...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/06/chess-leonard-...

There's nothing recent about him on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess
True; disclaimer I own a 3. When talking to coworkers if not friends when most of them state they want an EV they mean a Tesla.

Some of this is from the simple fact they are first and their offerings are very unlike traditional manufacturers. Most competing offerings are forever denoted with the asterisk of coming in 2022 or later. There should be more offerings this year to include Ford's Mach E but the real test here isn't that the public wants it, the real test is will Ford increase supply if demand is there. I don't feel like Chevrolet/GM has done that. VW is the real contender if they hold to their statements of how many cars they intend to push

Still Tesla needs to get their act together. Customer service is a sore spot and getting in contact with levels higher than local service centers is far too difficult. They also have reduced content in the 3 and Y instead of increasing it; no default homelink and remove auto dimming mirrors. They seem to was to pass off games and features while parked as more content instead of what improves QOL of living with a vehicle.

Long term we need Tesla so that manufacturers don't try to force us into settling for ranges of 250miles/400km which a lot of future offerings are. Just like they would not make EVs over 100/160 until Tesla forced their hand they won't be pushing 300/500 unless pushed.
I can't take any credit for it! That's an old Jeff Atwood term:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/
Is it trendy to change to main? Really why? Is it within the context of eliminating the racial discrimination?
Pandemics and Political Development: Legacy of the Black Death in Germany
1. I don't think the system "righting itself" for all parties was ever a possibility. The capital to both pay the mortgages AND let the borrowers continue to own their houses simply did not exist.

2. You're looking at this from a perspective of blame. I recently took out a fairly large loan for a purchase myself, and even as a smart, educated person, it was difficult for me to find insight into what a reasonable monthly payment might be. Lenders have far more information than borrowers do. I think if we're going to place blame for the financial crisis, that blame has to be shared, but I think simply based on the information available to the parties involved, we have to place the blame primarily on the lenders, who have far more information and context than the borrowers do.

3. However, I think blame is fundamentally the wrong way to look at this. To me, the entire point of having an economy is to provide people with a better standard of living. If the economy ceases to perform that function, any intervention by the government should be geared toward causing it to perform that function again. Instead, the bailouts were aimed at improving a few myopic metrics, metrics which only benefitted the already wealthy. The problem isn't that the bailout didn't punish the right people: I'm not interested in punishment. The problem is that the bailout made America a worse place for almost everyone.
Congress asks Juniper for the results of its 2015 NSA backdoor investigation
I think the Seattle Police are thinking, "these are a bunch of kids who want to play-act La Revolución. If we just ignore them for a week, they'll get bored or disillusioned and go home."

So the police aren't going to storm the barricades -- they figure they won't have to.
We, as in the developer? Or we as in a potential user?

I’m a potential user, and I’d certainly like to hear more from somebody who has tried it.
WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic spread of Covid-19
My experience last year was the opposite- I used Linkedin, as well as my university board and competitors, but LinkedIn landed me 3/4 offers
When Babylon started they had explicit exclusions for certain types of patients: pregnant women, people with severe and enduring mental illness, and a few others.

They had to drop those because that's not how general practice works in England.

But it's reasonable for people to remember this and to hold Babylon to account for it.
Effective team collaboration – benefits, strategies and tools
I just don't see how no-knock warrants like this are supposed to work.

This IS how they work. The police kick down your door, sometimes lob in a few stun grenades, then charge in like they're Rambo. Violence is a feature, not a bug, of this system.

The reason no-knocks are used in drug cases is, ostensibly, to prevent destruction of evidence. But, police have come to rely on them (along with armored SWAT teams) for damn near ALL warrants, not just know violent drug offenders.

It's high time we banned no-knocks. It's high time we introduced a higher bar to arrest-via-home-invasion. It's high time we held judges accountable for signing warrants. And, probably biggest of all, high time to end the war on drugs as it currently exists.
I want to love Tesla, but between messing with car setup OTA, issues with getting parts and basically treating car like a software release, it is difficult for me to consider it for purchase ( and I do want an EV ). Eh, I really hope other manufacturers deliver.
I can't really remember the case, but there was a standoff where a (white) person returned fire against law enforcement after they shot his dog. In the end I think one law enforcement officer was killed on one side, and that guys wife, child and dog was on the other side.

There was no punishment for the killing of the LEO.
Abstract:

Do pandemics have lasting consequences for political behavior? We address this question by examining the consequences of the most deadly pandemic of the last millennium: the Black Death (1347-1351). Our claim is that pandemics can influence politics in the long run if they impose sufficient loss of life so as to augment the price of labor relative to other factors of production. When this occurs, labor repressive regimes (such as serfdom) become untenable, which ultimately leads to the development of proto-democratic institutions and associated political cultures that shape modalities of political engagement for generations. We test our theory by tracing out the local consequences of the Black Death in German-speaking Central Europe. We find that areas hit hardest by the pandemic were more likely to: (1) adopt inclusive political institutions and equitable land ownership patterns; (2)exhibit electoral behavior indicating independence from landed elite influence during the transition to mass politics.
FireEye Australia cautions organisations about public cloud access
Besides they weren't "normal" spears, the Romans cleverly designed a particular weapon, the pilum, with a long soft iron stem and a hardened point, which was "one use only", i.e. upon hitting a shield (or when attempting to remove it from the shield) the point would bend so that it couldn't be thrown back.
A nice reminder of how things have changed and not changed in almost 20 years. My favorite quote:

> Microsoft released Windows XP on Oct. 25, 2001. That same day, in what may be a record, the company posted 18 megabytes of patches on its Web site
Well I have not done any android development, and I know Java has some specific quirks around classes, so maybe this isn't very helpful.

In my general development experience the amount of files/classes/functions/modules/whatever you use is really just about organizing your code in a way that makes it easier for you to work on one part of the code at a time. The idea being that once you know you have part of your code working the way you want it to, then you can forget about that part and focus on the next bit.

As far as when and where to do those splits, it's not always obvious, but it comes with experience in the language, and a greater understanding of what you want your application to be. When in doubt, just get it to work as best you can. Then when you find yourself digging through a giant method to debug 4 lines that could stand on their own, or copy/pasting a blob of code that could be a function, or just wishing to yourself that there was a library that did exactly what you needed, then take a step back and think about how to make it better.

Sometimes the solution won't present itself until you have to go back and make changes years later. In that case, fight the urge to throw it all away and start over, but remember the pain for your next project.
but then, if one needs to use low-level primitives representing specific package managers, it's hardly aligned with a claim of "super fast infrastructure automation". With Nix I have exactly one package manager for any target platform.
Fair enough. If the position is actually relevant (i.e. not obviously scattershot spam--which I do generally just ignore), I'll at least politely decline. And I have had a couple followup phone calls but there wasn't really mutual interest for various reasons.

But, TBH, I'm far enough along in my career in this point and have a sufficiently specialized role (my current job had the description written for me after I started talking to the company) that random recruiting is unlikely to be a fit.
Burnoutindex.org Hit And100k Users
Unfortunately, I'm not sure I deleted it. You may be right.

My main goal was to harm Facebook's ad business, so I still accomplished that. As far as privacy, I've mostly given up on escaping from Facebook's databases.
Making 800,000 extra bottle caps and removing them later seems like a plan that wouldn't have left the drawing board. Especially with the risk of fraud from these particular caps.
A software company (where they are lightyears ahead of everyone else), an AI company (they've got far more real world training data than everyone else) and a battery management tech company (again, they have the most experience). The fusion of these three strong parts and their car knowledge (where their advantage over the competition is not the experience but the agility) is what drives the valuation.

Tesla only has to solve scale (which they're beginning to do) and spare parts availability (which is going to solve itself but it needs time to build out a network) to utterly dominate the car market of the future.
I don't get any of these. Can you unfollow these people or are they some kind of sponsored/injected content?

The only wannabe thought leaders I see are all people I actually know who are taking other people's thoughts and passing them off as their own. Thankfully, I rarely scroll the feed -- I only use linkedin to receive unsolicited messages from people who just want to be my friend so they can sell me their services. I should really delete my linkedin profile.
Moral of the story - if you are a big multinational company you can literally get away with murder and even increase market even with the most botched marketing campaign selling sugar water
On which dataset did you perform this ?
Most of all it’s important to understand the headline is totally false. The “value” of a company is not represented in its equity market cap.

Other car companies finance their operations through debt instead of equity. It directly effects their market cap. It doesn’t directly effect their “value”.
Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
If you publish content for a professional niche, then LinkedIn may be your best choice to reach your audience.

I'm a hydraulic modelling engineer, and people in my field don't hang out on the internet together like software developers.

So when I write articles or develop some FOSS, I'll go to LinkedIn because I can reach thousands of other engineers doing the same type of work.

I don't believe I could get the same reach or engagement on any other platform.
Their core business is manufacturing. The vast majority of their RnD and capex goes into manufacturing. They don't sell software, they sell cars.
Yes, and of course that is bad, but it is not as bad as a rogue app having access to infinite life credentials.
For me the answer is debuggability. Debugging Ansible can be incredibly painful at times.
Volcanic activity and changes in Earth's mantle were key to rise of atmospher O2
A former coworker mastered this by basically unfollowing everyone so they don't show up on her feed, then whitelisting specific things.

I couldn't be bothered... I shut it down.
Last i checked rosa parks did something illegal too.

Not all laws need to be followed.

And just because some people will beleive anything doesnt make this belief any less relevant or important.
Respectfully disagree.

This is a story of a personal laptop of mine. Upgrading from Win 7 to win 8 with paid upgrade sometime after win 8 was 'stable'

The upgrade tool works fine until it doesn't.

When it chooses not to work, it will have you DL the upgrade files, as well as updates to OS, this can take forever and is a major point of failure for techs. (random hangs, reboots, loops, you name it)

But the really evil bullshit actually happens on successful upgrade. Oh that tool that said your laptop could 'upgrade fine' now can't, so sick of the BS revert to old installation.

Jk to find its no longer a valid bootable os now. had to repair win 7 installation to make bootable and was asked for product key... what? entered mine, sticker still gleaming on my laptop... Microsoft says invalid key! No worries, must be an accident, call MS CS. Am told that upon upgrading even though incomplete, I had willingly surrendered my old product key and it could never be used again. Ok... ask MS CS rep to please issue a new one? He says happily, but they no longer sell keys for windows 7, I could either buy an enterprise edition from them for if I remember correctly $7-800. In shock I looked it up and found at bestbuy for i think was 120...was advised to purchase from bestbuy as MS couldn't offer me the same(
incidentally not long after this was when they extended the EOL timeline for win7).

Screw all that noise, I just ran a SLIC and never thought about it again, laptop's still chugging along today.

So personal anecdotes whatever, but I have worked on far more than my share of PCs, and upgrading became so convoluted early on it was invariably 100x faster and easier to backup and clean install. Even when everything 'just works' when upgrading, sometimes it doesn't. You will have errors everywhere, random hangs reboots etc.

It's infuriating and it has persisted as an issue from Win XP to 10.
Making one move requires 1600 MCTS playouts to explore the game tree, so it's a 1600-1 correspondence of "forward pass" and "move played".
CSS-Only Version of Apple iMessage
OKR Examples for Product Managers
Show HN: I made better emoji picker for macOS
'Fat burning' molecule has implications for treatment of obesity
If I were in your shoes, here's how I would approach it. You didn't mention a specific protest movement, so I will use BlackLivesMatter as an example.

I would first reach out to a local chapter of BLM to learn more about their short-term and long-term goals, and also probably try to attend as many events as I can.

The purpose of this would be to understand where the organization is going and what obstacles are currently stopping them. Then, maybe I can leverage my software skills to help.

But, it's important for me to first understand what the need is, because that's how you know you can have the most effect.

Maybe BLM needs AI facial recognition or maybe they just need a reliable CRUD app to reduce operational costs.
NodeJS == backend
It's a fairly common interest believe it or not; I was very interested in this era of fans while I was in grad school. In fact I was interested in an even more specific variety of pancake motor 6 bladed fan that pretty much every other fan-fan also wants. Since they're so bloody expensive I ended up collecting radios from the 1920s instead, which kind of scratches the same itch.

https://antiquefanparts.com/1893-meston-series-aa-12-desk-fa...

https://antiquefanparts.com/circa-1888-edison-x-motor-fan/

https://antiquefanparts.com/1890-riker-electric-motor-compan...

https://antiquefanparts.com/circa-1894-edison-sixth-hp-slow-...

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-1901-general-...

My grail fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZzkUC0TAhg
http://www.hudsonscustommachining.com/images/1904emerson/lar...

They cost so bloody much, it's probably easier to just build a reproduction.
Here's some explanation on a similar effect and the surprisingly short shader code: https://www.patreon.com/posts/18245226

It was referenced by Matthew here: https://twitter.com/skilful/status/1266494606847340544
Never knew!

Nowadays in the Philippines, Pepsi is the dominant brand, Mountain Dew is the #1 beverage in the Country and FEMSA, the bottler for Coke, which is the same as it's Mexican and South American bottler had to divest and sell it's assets back to Coke USA because it was so unprofitable because it didn't properly plan for Sugar futures.

So, Coke is #2 in the country and there was a while where it was unavailable in Metro Manila, even in BGC/Taguig..where it's corporate head quarters are.
I think it's incorrect to say that their revenues are declining, but in this past year Ford and GM sold 60-70x more cars than Tesla did, each. Tesla would have to monopolize car production on the entire planet to justify their valuation, at least as a car company.

If you were to price this company as a combination of auto (Ford/GM) + energy (Chevron) + ridesharing? (Uber/Lyft), then you could maybe justify this valuation in the long run, but Tesla is yet to really prove any real revenue in energy and ridesharing, at scale. The current value is pure hype and expectation, and remains to be seen who ends up being correct in the long run.
I guess I haven't used Ansible long enough to know such pain points. Would you elaborate with some examples?
Here's a thread that someone made to explain how they did a similar effect in Godot [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/guhtfm/my_wip_liquid...
I've stained wood (USA) for decades and never used a pre-stain conditioner. This is the first I've heard of it. One article says:

"A wood conditioner is basically a wood finish reduced to a very thin consistency."

Sounds like a money-making product to use on very porous wood that has water-damage (rotted?) or has been repeatedly treated with solvents, leaving only weak wood fibers. I usually replace such wood.

There are also products for "rejuvenating" rotted wood:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rejuvenate+rotted+wood&t=opera&ia=...

I suppose these have their place but I have been lucky enough to not need them.