skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I tore one down recently. It was a gift for my nephew but didn't work out of the box. Well, it did "work", as in, it identified as genuine controller; had all "real stuff" look, but buttons skipped, lagged, or just didn't work.

The insides revealed a mix of genuine components (probably off of scrap?) and an assembly-line quality bodge-work. (I didn't take any pictures, but I still have it -- so I can post some pictures if anyone's interested.)
That totally depends on the RSS client. Many, maybe most clients will poll the RSS feed periodically and cache items for you.
BuzzFeed Lays Off 50 After Pandemic Hurts Lucrative Ad Deals
The Long-Tail Problem in AI, and How Autonomous Markets Can Solve It
I got a paperlike screen protector from Amazon warehouse. When it arrived it had obviously been ripped off another iPad Pro and set on the floor. There was a pubic/pet/?? Hair under it and it was obviously unusable. Of course it still had the factory inspected seal though bc amazon drones dgaf.

Amazon did refund, but made me resend the item rather than throwing in the trash. Proof: https://photos.app.goo.gl/f1jxjvooWAPVuh4DA
A comment explaining why rabies is scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/81rr6f/he_fed_the_cute...
The government prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant for rent non-payment amounts to a taking of his or her property, and I doubt it is constitutional. If politicians believe that evictions must be suspended during a crisis, they should make available loans and grants to tenants who cannot pay rent because of reduced income.
Not the first time it has happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster (1184)
Yes, and Mick West made more on that and similar topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
Th G4 Cube wasn't weaker than the standard G4 and stood to all the tasks. (It even had faster graphics, but this became a bit of a problem, when the dedicated OpenGL drivers were discontinued and eventually stripped from further OS releases, which showed at least in OS X.) It missed the expandability, but provided a smaller package, low noise and really good sound in exchange. However, you were stuck with the dedicated displays.
Fashions always changing. Give it a few years and we'll be back to color, whilst Windows laptops will all by silver/grey/white.
> I don't mean to make sweeping assumptions etc. This post is based on around 15 years experience working with outsourced devs in Indian, across multiple companies. Plainly a country the size of India has plenty of excellent developers.

People are fine. India has produced some very great intellectuals (see Ramanujan).

But the culture is rather rigid and stratified, with narrowly defined "walks of life", and the boundaries are strict. Everyone knows their place in the system, and there are disincentives to change, or challenge authority. Truth and wisdom always flow from top to bottom, never the other way around. That's cultural. Of course all that stuff would reflect upon the organizations.

TLDR: Let go of the rigid rules, and India would experience a MAJOR renaissance.
They'd also accept returns of software if you gave a plausible excuse. My friend would usually say one of the floppies had a read/write error, and he changed his mind.

Too bad they went broke! In the 90's, CompUSA was one of the only local places that had a large selection of computer parts.
I am interested to know details but I am in Pakistan. I work (Ed) on multiple technologies but mostly python these days for ETL and automation. Learning Go too. Check out http://adnansiddiqi.me
Yes, they are like that. However, it is mandatory for the LP to check any thing that an employee has bought. They also check lunch bags, boxes. One time, LP caught an employee who stuffed his lunch bag with lots of DVDs.

Other time, the LP manager and the customer service manager (who manages the front checkouts and cash) got colluded, and switched the direction of the camera near the cash counting area; then $10K cash was gone. Both managers got fired.

Another incident. One LP associate and another guy at the return counter ran a scam together by issuing store credit for things that are NOT returned. For every return there, LP associate has to sign off.
If you like this stuff check https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag they most informative and dryly hilarious historian I know is Drachinifel.

His stuff is beautifully researched and you can tell it's his passion.

I posted that one on HN a while back but it didn't go anywhere.

I've listened to it several times entirely because it reminds me of dysfunctional companies so much.
Broken too. Interesting.
A white cop with de-escalation training responded to an armed black woman
This is increasingly common across numerous fields. Certainly in academia, but also in corporate R&D, investing, venture capital, military procurement, etc.

Novel trials are big risks, are institutional (or worse, multi-institutional), and searcch spaces are large, well-picked-over, and huge gains improbabble. Though aversion to novelty is a long-standing behaviour, see "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations", by Bernhard J. Stern (1937):

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

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> Well as a POC

stopped reading
I use logrocket for this.
http://archive.vn/jFj5r
Not to mention the most difficult issue that even mainstream libraries (like libgcrypt which is used by gpg) get wrong: implementing rsa in constant time as to avoid timing side channel attacks. I would argue that understanding and implementing elliptic curves (the modern ones especically) correctly is much easier.
I've flown in planes a handful of times, looked down at the ocean on plenty of opportunities, and never observed any whales. I'd say the analogy is perfectly great.
What a terrible problem! What's the pan?
SpaceX in Talks to Raise Funds at $44B Valuation
Because the NeXT Cube was an undeniable work of art...
Why remove telegram but keep signal? Just curious.
You could always go for pescoveganism.
Netscape Navigator and Communicator, Mozilla (the original one), and Opera all existed at the time and were trivially easy to obtain.
The problem is that the vendor is technically Amazon; they are the one who provide the technical, financial and logistical services as well as profit from it (if the scam went in the seller's favor). The seller itself is likely abroad.

We have a regulatory problem here where you think you deal with a local company abiding by local laws, you get charged by a local company that's supposed to be abiding by local laws (Amazon charges customers and they pays out the sellers later), but when things go wrong they can suddenly pull the "we are a platform" get-out-of-jail-free card. This should not be possible.
Well, at least people are used to downloading Mb of junk when they browse the internet these days anyway...
I once ordered a rail of Atmel Microcontrollers from Digikey. Got four 74HC00's. Called them, sent them back. And then Digikey sent the $28 bill to collections. I complained and they politely told me to fuck off.
I see there are already a ton of replies about push vs pull but the other (non-technical) aspect of a newsletter is the expected cadence of publishing. Some blogs have long gaps between posts and others have multiple posts per day. Newsletters typically define a daily or weekly schedule and stick to it. Sure, a blog could do the same thing, but they generally don’t. It sometimes feels like the difference between Last Week Tonight and a constant feed of breaking news clips.
Androids based on the MTK platform are preferred by many in the modding scene because they are relatively easy to recover -- they have no boot loader lock by default, and plugging into USB while holding down a button will enter a recovery mode whose code is in actual ROM in the SoC.
Paul Graham continues to re-invent what others have pointed out in more succinct and clever ways.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/

You can almost guess what Paul is going to write about - just see what cliche is being discussed on Twitter and come up with the laziest thought that an average programmer will find 'insightful' - that's Paul Graham's next 'essay' :)
This interview with Kirshner is a good read as well: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral... And a reminder that science is not generally moved forward by strokes of brilliance, but by a whole bunch of people grinding at the fuzzy edge until the picture becomes a little more clear.
Thanks. I am in US and don't have any travel plans now.

Was wondering if I'll have to leave and come back to get valid I-94, which will be tricky due to the Executive Order on visas.
Article linked has many, many examples unrelated to voter ID.

I also reject your framing. Unlike some other countries, the United States has a constitutional prohibition on poll taxes, called the 24th Amendment. Regardless of what sophistry SCOTUS might hold, it is empirically self-evident that requiring only forms of ID that cost money is equivalent in outcome to having a poll tax.
I wonder who would be suitable to decide what is reasonable.
Is it:

a) a country with a record of mismanagement and debt it cannot pay back

b) a set of countries that do not have a record of mismanagement and have the ability to help out a country that is in debt

If we take your metaphor we could say the choice is:

a) do not accept the terms and starve to death

b) cut off your arm and live with rules to live by to prevent the scenario from repeating
So the question then becomes "can I acquire and serve customers for less than I am charging?".
I wholeheartedly 100% agree with this.

As soon as I entered the workforce @ 21 I cut out 2 things from my diet, sugar and news.

This habit has compounded so much, not saying its been 100% perfect because I still read reddit, twitter (very selective following and blocking all outlets that end up on my TL) and HN (this place is a total bubble of smart, high IQ people, I enjoy the comments here, I don't get to interact with such smart people on a day to day).

Any interesting developments will filter through my social circle, someone will bring it up.

I stopped watching TV altogether, I stream the occasional show though.
This isn't my experience. There's a difference between signalling admiration and actual respect.

Of course there are plenty of good people out there, but in my experience the plurality, and probably the majority of FAANG peeps will be made uncomfortable by the implicit challenge to the morality of their choices. Even though they might signal support for your actions; privately dealing with the cognitive dissonance does often result in eroded respect. A common defense mechanism is to see themselves as better than you because you just couldn't take the pressure to work at a "world leader" company, after all if they aren't the best people making the best choices, why would they be paid so much? You just burned out because you couldn't make Level 5.
You might be thinking of the Princeton study which determined that policy is mainly influenced by wealthy interest groups[1]. The conclusions rang true with how a lot of people see the system operate in the past century. Interestingly enough, this was ranking higher in search results, when I was looking for a link to the study itself[2]: "Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it's wrong." Worth noting that the VOX article finds high agreement between the rich and middle class, while the lower class appears to get their policies enacted in less than one fifth of the cases.

[1]: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

[2]: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...
Maybe he or she thinks it’s a shithole?
Out of curiosity, how recently were you at these schools?

I would think with big tech companies would be rolling out the red carpet to CS students at HBCUs at this point.
Hmm, designed for 500 people, modified several times to up the passengers to 2000+, modified again to add lifeboats and vests. Sounds a bit like the 737-Max.
Right. It's excessive and unaccountable power that's dangerous --- no matter what form that power takes. Limiting your worries to abuses of state power and ignoring abuses of private power is like worrying only about being shot with a gun and so ignoring someone pointing a crossbow at you. Both will injure you.
> -Remotely mounting images (ISO/FS/IMG/etc) on the host for bare-metal installs or any other purpose

For what it's worth, that stuff has always been incredibly unreliable for me. Enough so that old school PXE booting was the only way to maintain a server pool, couldn't get them to consistently reimage through the proprietary stuff.

The remote power control is very nice, and I didn't see anything on this page about that. (Though now I'm just imagining the "useless PC" [1] that just tells a smart power plug to turn itself off.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
Used to work at Computer City in the mid 90s. It was not always that easy to verify if you had the right product in the box even when opening a returned item, especially if you were not familiar with the product being returned. Looking things up on the internet was not always possible / slow.

Every store did have a shrink wrap machine which were used nightly. Hard to say how many improperly returned products were resold back then, or even how many goods may have been repackaged in the back warehouse on reception before ever hitting the floor.
AFAIR in France nobody sent out paramilitary units to quell the protests - read: instigate violence and save his/her election. And that makes for a huge difference.
But if you prefer to ignore the facts not supporting your interpretation, well then...
I doubt this will do much. They would still need to actually investigate the issues which they already don't do.

Online banks nowadays do ID verification with passports, etc and yet very basic fraud committed intentionally by the account holder is still happening because the truth is even though the information to identify the perpetrator is there nobody can be bothered enough to act on it.
The Sisyphean State of Multiplayer Game Development
> The truth of the matter is for most organizations, IT is a cost center along with legal and finance. It is not their money maker. They have no interest in innovative IT/software "technology" until their competitor in the same industry as them has it. Price matters. Laying off people easily matter.

Accurate and poignant. Having lived in the banks for a while, this will always be the case in industries. They don't give a shit if you have a passion or about your career. They want you to be a "xyz developer with 50 years of experience". Sometimes I think we forget how the real world works when we are enamored with the cool things computers can do.
Status Report on the Second Round of NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardiza [pdf]
But this isn't about the development of Starship. Colonizing Mars entails far more than that. I simply believe that developing some tech that can successfully and efficiently "colonize" and explore other planets for us would have a far bigger impact at home. This doesn't imply in any way that Starship development should or would not continue anyway. It is not predicated on colonizing Mars but simply "going to space".
Makes sense. Mars' ecology is closer to the Moon's than it is to the Earth's. (And a rescue mission would be less impossible.)
From my measurements, geolocation is probably the least important factor, unless you live in that one town in Chile or there's a wildfire burning.

However if you're studying a population, geolocation is going to be the easily quantifiable common denominator shared by large numbers of people.
People spend so much time on the "meta-conversation" about the ecosystem of ideas, and so little time talking about the actual ideas themselves.

What are these repressed debates people are so anxious about? Is it just race stuff?
The reason behind is that Ikarus/Raba are relics of the past?
Look at the Raba Aquadux 4000 fire truck for example, that was developed in the last decade, and here are a couple of reports on how great it is:
https://www.langlovagok.hu/7639/az-uj-magyar-narancs/
https://totalcar.hu/magazin/kozelet/2019/09/28/milyen_tuzolt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir0mydDaPx8 (this is not a driver fault, there are no wave breaks in the truck, other firetrucks can do slaloms at way higher speeds)
https://index.hu/belfold/2019/09/19/tipushibak_miatt_borulha...
https://24.hu/belfold/2017/11/07/sulyos-problemak-vannak-a-k...

Firefighters avoid it like the plague...

And this is also a great example on why independent press is important, as none of the origo reports on this truck mention the issues with the firetruck:
https://www.origo.hu/auto/20150224-ujra-gyartanak-tuzoltoaut...
https://www.origo.hu/auto/20170921-uj-tuzoltoautokat-kaptak-...
https://www.origo.hu/auto/20170926-tuzoltok-a-tanpalyan.html

I don't understand why you'd want to keep these dead companies on life support from taxpayer money. Would you be willing to buy a Lada for the same price as a Skoda or Kia?
And you could have stuffed something quite expensive inside the rice cooker
I have found a lot of wortwhile projects on HN.

Also great insights on comments.

90% I go for the comments and skip the link. That's where te pearls are
I don't suppose it was a MiniScribe Disk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniScribe

> In July 1987, Jesse Parker, director of far east operations, told Wiles that something was amiss. In August, Wiles travelled to Hong Kong and Singapore where he found a complete loss of control. The inventory count from that fall showed that the numbers had grown to $15 million, mostly in Colorado. A report was prepared to consider various solutions, but Wiles suggested that they continue hiding the problem, ordering all copies of the report be destroyed. This led to the company's most infamous cover-up; the managers rented a second warehouse in Colorado, where they personally packed 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipped them to Singapore in order to shore up the inventory count. After the count was complete, they recalled those serial numbers as defective units, but instead of writing them off, they checked them into inventory, along with other failed drives that had been returned.[6]

Maybe one of the bricks made its way to a store :P
Ahh I hadn't thought of COVID related price changes. Thanks for the response!
I actually sent an email to the student newspaper but they didn't think the case was that strong.

Uber did attend the career fair for the CSE department however to recruit software engineers.
This ignores the fact that they had radar lock as well, as detailed by pilots and Radar operators. Radar data is always classified unfortunately.
You are thinking about cost like a middle manager. If you are using Shopify, that isn't a cost, it is an investment. It isn't like legal or finance, usually, because it is product-related and can be used to reduce prices/improve service.

Health care insurance (in the US) is, ironically although not surprisingly given your obvious ineptitude, one of the all-time best examples. US administration costs are larger than most countries public health budgets. Insurers in retail lines, although not in health care, picked this up very quickly because of distribution changes in the 90s. They invest heavily into tech, and the ones that have invested most heavily are seeing the fastest top-line.

It is great some people still think this way though. One of the great market inefficiencies of the last ten years was firms/investors being unable to distinguish between a cost and an investment.
The problem is that cases where you get lucky like this are in the minority. In the majority of cases, the inconvenience caused by a defective/counterfeit/missing product thwarts whatever compensation they give you after the fact.
> fell off the edge of the disc

What in the flat world... ? /s
This reminds me of the time I bought a high-end GTX video card at Best Buy... only to find a bottle of shampoo inside. These types of return scams happen all the time.
Success comes from merit, luck, and corruption in some proportion. In successful countries merit is a larger portion than in unsuccessful countries. When people say the entire concept of merit is %PEJORATIVE BUZZWORD% so we should stop striving for it what they are really saying is they want success to be allocated by luck and corruption and they think the corruption will benefit them.
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I think this holds true for anything where reviews are easily viewable and a common part of the buying process.

I would bet you find a similar problem with Amazon products that can get sunk by just a few negative reviews early on.
SF to Palo Alto by car in 35m is ummm, optimistic. It’s usually more like 2h.
You work from home, there is no one forcing you to live in a 400 sq ft apartment, and there is no one forcing you to share it with someone else. The fact that you relinquish that responsibility to your job is what is ridiculous - you choose where to live, and now that you WFH you can work from wherever you want, the fact your home is only 400 sq ft, and that you want to actually stay in an area where you have to pay upwards of $2k just for adequate space is not your workplace's responsibility to fix.

And the argument is not that these people getting 3 free meals arent adults, it's that they are actually unprepared for a world in which they themselves have to pay for their own breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yeah I've definitely thought about this and share the concern. I think there is a distinction between news that addresses immediate issues, like the ones you mentioned, vs unfocused news consumption, which amounts to a distracting form of entertainment that masquerades as productivity or civic responsibility.

The former is largely necessary, but probably far less frequent than we think on average. The latter is what we ought to reconsider; it's the addictive version of news that we should probably swap for slower/deeper versions of information.

I know Schwartz argues for a hardline "no news" position. I think that any amount of reflection and discipline to minimize mindless news consumption under the guise of "staying informed" and replacing that with deeper thought is a net benefit, and one that people from any walk of life are capable of.

I guess the question of how to filter out the noise and only pay attention to salient issues is the real challenge. When I've experimented with this, I've often still heard about issues important to my various identity/interest groups through group chats with friends, in-person conversations, even just passing by newstands and seeing headlines. This doesn't seem like a satisfyingly reliable solution, but like Schwartz mentions, it's kinda surprising how much current info we absorb even when not explicitly reading the news.
Gold vs. Salmon
No, that's completely beside the point. I don't know how to make it any clearer.

The technical distinction between the push and pull is about who initiates the connection to transfer content.

For further reference, I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology .
The main issue with review sites, in my experience, is that I end up being hesitant to try new restaurants which don’t have a large number of reviews or even one really bad review. They may be delicious but there is always a hesitation factor; “Do I want to spend $20 and risk the food being awful, or do I want to go with the safe option, the place I’ve been to a hundred times?” This problem didn’t really exist prior to review sites, but somehow I don’t remember being all that bothered by it.

It makes me think: new restaurants would benefit from a sort of insurance program. I would be willing to try far more new restaurants if I had a guaranteed way to receive my money back in the event of disappointment. Just like insurance, the less times I use my refund, the lower rate I pay per month.

/just a thought.