skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are family" is only meaningful if everyone has a meaningful share of equity, and that does not scale very well. An actual family shares resources. I personally know that I will inherit some property from my parents. My parents took care of me when I was young, I have helped them in recent years. That is family. Among commercial relationships, the only thing that comes close is a partnership where everyone has some significant amount of equity. And that doesn't scale. A partnership of ten people is often like an actual family, in the economic aspects, and maybe you could stretch that to a hundred people. But you could you stretch that to 1,000 people? Or 10,000 people? At some point it is just not possible.

Also, many workers enjoy working from home, but in terms of approaching the feeling of true alliance that is implied by "We are family" the only places (that I've been at) that have come close have been small startups where everyone had equity and everyone was working in one office.

Mind you, when I say equity, I mean actual equity, not stock options. And to get actual equity, typically a worker needs to bring something to the table, other than a willingness to commit future hours. Typically they need to invest their own money, and become a true partner, or invest something else of value (one of my partners had inherited an old farmhouse and donated that, which became our office).
> I now have Thunderbird exactly how I wanted it, but it took a few hours to set it up and it required some technical knowledge: calendar, tasks, Gmail like smart search, multi language corrections.

If you haven't already, check out how profiles and the profile manager work, and maybe put your Thunderbird profile in a location you backup, or even sync with other devices if needed [0]. The ability to install Thunderbird on a new machine, point it to the profile directory and have it exactly as you set it up is just wonderful. I guess by installing plugins and configuring it, but not adding email accounts, you could even make a profile for less technically savy people to use and add their email acount to.

[0] One pitfall is that a profile can only get opened by versions as new or newer than the last Thunderbird installation that used it -- for this purpose I made an empty profile I can switch to just to update Thunderbird before I use my actual profile. There's probably a dozen better ways of doing this, but even this duct-tape method works fine for me.
Agree with that, however this is a case with very little precedent - there needed to be an investigation to get to the conclusion nothing was wrong as it obviously did concern a lot of people.

For me, that's part of the role of these bodies, ensure that something that looks sketchy actually (or potentially in this case) isn't. It's unchartered territory for people to have random flying things buzzing over the skies at night (and feel it's an entirely valid thing to be concerned about), whereas an annoying neighbour with some tools is well established.
Ah, now I understand what you meant with "effort", i.e. that the disposable income after taxes normalized for purchasing power would be lower in Portugal than e.g. in Sweden, right?

Hm...that's a good point actually - net PPP-adjusted household displosable income is definitely lower in Portugal:
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/income/
Thanks, froggy was on front page of HN so I knew it for sure, grid garden is new one for me.
It's always interesting to see the dunning kruger effect in hn comments.
Thanks for that. I wasn't familiar with that work, despite being a big fan of Sowell. I'm definitely adding that to my reading list.
The Internet is turning us into sleepy, anxious, dumb narcissists
Simple enough: you likely use proprietary drivers, which you shouldn't if you want a hassle-free experience.

Proprietary drivers are like getting an a third-party accessory like a new set of rearview mirrors for your car. However, you get your cars for free from the manufacturer, and complain when the mirror you bought doesn't fit the new car frame.

The ideal answer here is working with the manufacturer to get those issues fixed upstream. Where the comparison with car accesories stop, is that software drivers isn't the core product you are being sold, so there is no real reason for not upstreaming it.

Now, onto the real point the comment you are replying to made: the TUI interface has been very stable and good at backwards compatibility for multiple decades. New extensions exist for displaying images, getting mouse coordinates, more colors, etc. But the basic mechanisms have stayed the same, hence stability. Drop a greybeard UNIX tech strakight from the 80s inside a WSL2 environment, and they will be able to do their business as usual.

I'm getting better at working with MAC GUIs. Last time I used one (6 years ago), I was able to open a terminal myself to fix the issue the person had with their storage device. Unsure if the GUI changed much since, but I can likely still manage to do so from the CLI.
Well, see:

- https://paperswithcode.com/ if you care for state of the art results

- https://pytorch.org/hub/ if you care for direct import into PyTorch code

A list of models, without performance metrics, is not nearly as useful.
> The only absurdist remark here is your comparison of Yacht Builders to Murderers

Yes, that is exactly what I said. I made an absurdist remark ...

But your point is merely valid in a very narrow window of your own morality. I wanted you to reevaluate your perspective and think that perhaps yacht builders, or vulture capitalists, or any number of things that are considered legal, might not be good.

I'm not even trying to say that Yacht building is bad, but a system/society which has yacht builders in it could use a look.
local radar should have picked up the origin of the flights
Schools: To Open or Not to Open? That Is Not the Question
You should read the article. In short, she didn't actually ignore the court's order to meet her academic obligations.

A law could be harsh, but fair, sure. However, an excessively harsh law is not fair, nor is an inconsistently-enforced one. This situation ticks both of those boxes.

> Being ordered to do her homework was a weak sanction, she ignored it, so she needs a stronger stimulus.

This simple-minded, old-fashioned line of thinking is out of touch with contemporary scholarship and a major contributor to the US criminal justice system's inefficacy.
Losing your job just doesn't even register as an actual consequence when it comes to high level corruption though. Like maybe we should take their lollipops too? No TV before dinner?
I have to disagree. You sound like the person in the video linked in one comment. She called the drones creepy. Why are they creepy? You don’t say creepy but you call them “unidentified flying objects” the article clearly states they are drones. We just don’t know who flew them and that bothers you. Also you think it is a good use of public resources to drive around and identify people not committing crimes flying drones after the fact. Why do you fear drones so much? I mean if they were flying into your yard hovering by a window I could see being upset but some guy flying drones in formation way in the sky and people freak out, why? It could be as simple as a drone enthusiast taking it to the next level.
As I type this I feel my tone will come across as negative but I honestly hope you can bring some discussion to my questions. I have only ever played with cheap drones my kids own. Awesome fun. But slowly the drone world is being chipped away with more regulation some good but some implemented by people out of fear. If you are in my area and you see a drone in the sky it’s just me having fun and probably if you watch long enough I will put it in a tree. I don’t want the police searching around and bothering me especially after it was confirmed by the FAA that no crime was committed. Otherwise it sounds like harassment for something they don’t like.
I personally prefer personalized and explicit ads over vague and hidden inside content ads, the latter seems very manipulative to me.
From what I recall reading on previous threads here, their production prices are that low but the country itself requires much higher prices to balance the books.
Create impeccable MIME email from markdown
> We can, can't we? "We" as in professional software developers. I always thought of this word-hyping of a management thing and a buzzword pool for non-techies. I know this influences our work, but that doesn't keep us concentrate on what's really up... or am i wrong?

Its just tiresome because it is tiring to refute BS or to explain why a certain approach is not viable.

> So a bit of mathematical education could not hurt

definitely but the word "PhD" is often welded as if you'd have to have secret knowledge that is otherwise not accessible to you, which isn't true.
That makes sense, but I am worried about the path from where many Middle East oil producers are right now, and a future where they have a robust economy based on diversified production.
A bunch of samples:

Main:

https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/RecordRTC/

Canvas Recording

https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/RecordRTC/Canvas-Recording...

Simple Demos

https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/RecordRTC/simple-demos/

Github

https://github.com/muaz-khan/RecordRTC

Nice library and shows nearly all uses of WebRTC with samples for most platforms js/node, .NET, php, etc

More experiments from the author

https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/
Great, I've been anxious to watch this! I literally just checked the web site yesterday to see if it was streaming anywhere yet. (And it looks like the web site still doesn't mention the Amazon streaming today.)

There are probably business considerations I don't understand since I'm not in the industry, but I've often been perplexed that indie films seem to spend years making the rounds in the film festivals, when they could be making money for the filmmaker from people like me who are eager to stream them.
You're claiming CPI is off as well as Transparency International. So what exactly are you basing your claim on that Germany has a "very high amount" of corruption? Just your personal impression? Seems very prone to be biased for many reasons.
"fresh" in the vein of "cool" was definitely already in the list of "dad phrases" when I was in school. I think the usage as shorthand for "breath of fresh air" such as used in product reviews is distinct. "Sweet" is getting there faster than "cool" is. "Dope" as cool never took off here due to a local meaning of "dope" as "idiot".
The cost of production and the price level required to balance the government's budget are two different things.
Twitter Employees Hacked in ‘Coordinated Social Engineering Attack’
China's Luxshare buys iPhone plant to strengthen Apple ties
Which is totally reasonable. I can do X work for 1 million but if you throw Y into the mix then I obviously need to charge more.

Want your oil changing? 100$ no worries - oh you didn't realise you also needed new tyres and we only found out when looking at them? That's extra.
It looks like Riot.im accounts got forcible password change - at least I cannot login with my saved riot.im password to element.io

There is nothing of note there in my case, but resetting/changing password supposedly means loosing conversation history. Not good!
I'd love access to the Twitter API for research purposes for my writing, but I'm priced out for that purpose.

I can't prove it, but it feels like they only want big businesses researching their markets, and not people like me asking questions about Twitter itself - even though letting people do that would result in negligible additional traffic.

This might be controversial and I know people will say that they're a private company and can do what they want, but Twitter has positioned itself as society's de-facto official communication channel and I think the data on it should be a matter of public record at this point.

edit: Does anyone have experience with scraping tools and Twitter? Presumably it's hard to do.
It's really not terrible. I'm having trouble finding the controversy here. The article makes it sound like it kind of was a family atmosphere before the pandemic hit.

So the complaint is that a travel and hospitality company was not able to weather the storm long enough to keep everyone employed as if it wasn't happening?
Yeah, or you land and see the dreaded bus awaiting which means an extra 30 minutes to arrive at the airport itself. Or worse, you're departing and get through security and walk for ages to get to your gate, go through another security thing without thinking, and then realize

a) you're in some weird bus terminal and 60 minutes before the flight the bus is starting to board to take passengers to the plane which is not close
b) you're a 15 minute walk and 15 minutes security line away from that cluster of restaurants you decided not to stop at
I wrote a TCP port forwarder with Duo integration. For it limited purpose, it works well.

https://github.com/jftuga/gofwd
How much did AirBnB have to pay for this PR piece?

>it built a reputation as the polar opposite of its sharing economy peers such as Uber, which prized ruthless competition, and WeWork, which collapsed under a partying culture and its founder’s self-dealing.

>instead, Airbnb stood for earnest idealism.

As I recall, just like Uber, Airbnb created a platform that facilitated breaking laws and regulations in many jurisdictions...and ultimately caused damages to many owners whose property values went down as a result of their neighbors running illegal short term rentals.
Yes, the severance package is decent, but that’s not what this is about.

Startups have been creating these cultures of “family” for years in order to have a closer relationship to their employees than ever before. This closeness, as many other dynamics of the current labor system in the US, benefit the companies far more than the employees.

The culture of “startup family” made it possible for companies like Theranos to lie to investors for so long while keeping their employees quiet.

The “startup family” culture made it possible for companies like Uber to devolve into a misogynistic, harassment-driven behemoth coming from the top.

The “startup family” culture convinced millions of employees to take lower salaries with the hope that their dead-last-liquidation-preference common shares would turn into a nest egg someday, while 99% of them never did. Most people never even ask or understand the terms of these agreements. That doesn’t sound like family to me.
Thanks! No direct plans but I'll follow wherever piques my interest.

css-media-vars only happened because I recently began work on the new site/staticlandingpage for augmented-ui (v2 is my primary project right now) and was actively procrastinating because I didn't want to copy paste @media statements everywhere lol
High-profile Twitter accounts hijacked in crypto scam
Great point but what I meant, and should have made clearer, is the "aesthetic" aspect of each photograph. This context is independent of the emotional narrative. Each photograph has a technical explanation contributing to the aesthetic that is easily taught and applied. The OP covers the narrative, as your selected quotes nicely demonstrate.
The Beyond Compare guys recently finished a big overhaul converting the code to 64-bit. It's an amazingly useful tool that keeps getting better. I love that I can use it on both Mac and Windows and the UI and feature set are identical.
> But there's also a problem: I now have Thunderbird exactly how I wanted it, but it took a few hours to set it up and it required some technical knowledge: calendar, tasks, Gmail like smart search, multi language corrections. For a normal user, that might be off-putting. However, I think Thunderbird is gaining momentum again

Thunderbird's problem is and always has been a lack of resources. Mozilla infamously bungled, underfunded, and then abandoned it (as a result of narrowing their focus from "the Internet" from their original charter and trying to redefine "Internet" to mean "the Web"). But even after the spin-off and independence, Thunderbird's lack of resources isn't helped by Thunderbird development being more difficult than it needs to be (read: seemingly unapproachable for many potential contributors).

"How to keep contributors when they are not even contributors yet" by Soledad Penades is incredibly relevant (moreso for its title than the actual specifics of the post content, but there are good lessons there, too):

https://soledadpenades.com/posts/2015/how-to-keep-contributo...

Ten years ago, you could get folks who were willing to get dirty with XPCOM/XBL/XUL because they already existed in the wider Mozilla community, and the biggest problem was Thunderbird's build process and compile times. Nowadays, you have the same barrier wrt annoying build processes, but the pool of knowledgeable people is smaller since the XUL add-ons ecosystem has been decimated. Ultimately, Thunderbird will need to address its legacy use of XUL, but they already know that and seem to be working on it.

More importantly, though, the problem Thunderbird needs work on is the same old problem from before: the headache of setting up a development environment that can actually perform a successful build, and how long it takes for that build to complete. The way that Zotero is built is currently pretty hacky, but nonetheless an example of how easy it should be to get a development environment set up. (In fact, it can and should be made easier than that, but just getting Thunderbird's build process to where Zotero is right now would be a huge boon to making Thunderbird something that potential contributors actually start considering as "approachable".)

https://github.com/zotero/zotero-standalone-build/blob/maste...
I'd care more if I could actually appeal my dev account being perma banned for real reason other than I failed to clearly express what I wanted to do with a app

> You cannot create additional apps because your developer account was rejected or suspended.
What other sources have written about how this will affect other oil producers with 'interesting' political situations, such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran? Looking for recommendations of similar articles.
All-Pairs Testing
Creative Thinking
Are you serious? Even in really bad examples the info is still there and readable even after closing several popups and muting videos. It should be punished to some extend, but giving you pages irrelevant info is a complete failure.
Tribe, by Sebastian Junger. It covers a journalist's experience in a war zone, and how it changed his model of society. Man was meant to live in tribes, where individuals are most fulfilled giving their last bit of food, rather than a society where people grab what they can for themselves.
https://archive.md/TTZ1H
My impression is that during the formative decades of West German power structures (let's say late Adenauer to early Kohl), the entire surrounding culture of media, regulators and of course politicians and business people themselves, failed to develop an awareness for corruption because everything was so nicely self-regulated by what basically boils down to modesty. In terms of anti-corruption measures it was like that nice village where nobody locks their front door. Now decades of neoliberal ideology have swept away that modesty, greed has slowly shifted from vice to virtue, but the trust is still there. Now working as a deceptive national brand that is quickly crumbling away, without a replacement (reliable countermeasures) in sight.
That makes sense, but omits the fact that transition from one state to the other can be very bloody.
SPACs as a Call Option on Hype
I have to join the other commenters. Vivado is maybe the worst IDE I have used.

We had new projects and interns stuck for weeks because they couldn't figure out how to make a hello world project in Vivado (blink a led for a FPGA dev kit). There was zero doc and zero help available online because it's too niche. This was only unstuck after a while when one senior guy showed how to use it and wrote an internal 50 pages docs on how to create a project and do anything at all. Every single step is an impossible to figure out wonder.

After the initial hiccups, the IDE and the SoC SDK were abysmal. Couldn't store the software in source control because Vivado had no source control support and it was autogenerating/overwriting garbage files all over the place.

To be fair the tool was functional for routing and HDL development. It's usable professionally if you have time to learn and get trained. This may even be good by some embedded development standards (embedded consistently has really shitty development tools that other developers would never tolerate).
I dont get why everyone thinks that searching for anything in a chat system is a good idea. This has nothing to do with how good the search engine is within the system. Because of Slack's inadequate design, they promoted searching, and now everyone thinks search is a MUST. If you really have to search in chat, I say you already have done something wrong. If searching in an email system, with its vastly more structured data, is itself inefficient, why would anyone think searching in chat is a good idea?
Right, I’ve been reading about machine learning for about 5 years, have read hundreds of articles about different techniques, and have often tried to explore ways it could be used.

However, I’ve never found a practical use in software engineering.

Every time I think I discover something that could use machine learning, I usually don’t have any data to work with or don’t have a clear definition of what the inputs and outputs would be.

In the end, I find a way to develop a solution that doesn’t need AI and often makes me realize that AI would not have been able to provide the required reliability.

I even participated in a self-driving RC car competition (running on raspi 3). I ended up scrapping the ML solution because it could only run at 10 hertz which was not even close to what was needed.

I ended up writing a custom algorithm in C that ran at 200fps and could do “advanced” moves like backing up and course correcting.

I’m not saying that ML doesn’t have its place. I’m saying that right now it’s all about images and nlp and has huge costs.

In any practical usage, the ML parts that I would need are already available as a service that I can use almost free (like azure cognitive services).
First, who's "we"? Do you work in national defense?

Second, how do you know they can't identify it, when there are several emails being withheld from the FOIA request?

To me, that's a dead giveaway it's a CIA project or something.

Third, if a foreign adversary has the capability to maliciously land and take off from rural airports in Nebraska then US national defense has bigger problems than some quadcopters doing formation flying.
Capture the world like a program sees it
And the end state is hard to predict
There's no date on the article, and this was the entry that made me wonder if it's 5+ years old, back when text zoom was more prevalent. When full zoom became the default, em/rem became less necessary, and at least to me appear to be falling out of favor as extra unnecessary complexity.

(Quick edit: Mentioned but not really given much focus is that em/rem can be used on, say, image width and margin, as well - making it adjustable in a text-zoom world. That's mainly what I have in mind here.)

(Even aside from affecting non-text, in the newly popular component-oriented design, you typically don't want relative font sizing to leak between components.)
250 million non-US users to 4.3 billion Internet users (excluding the US) is about 5.8%. Compared that to 23% in the US.

Twitter is very US-centric.