skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, companies basically have no obligation to pay out for this kind of contribution since you basically gave it to them for free. You're kinda working for 'exposure bucks' in this regard.

If you somehow save the company (provably), do you get to own the company? Likely not, although most of the lower employees probably would vote for that if it meant they kept their job vs. the company dissolving.

But companies can do this too: "If we hire you and you make a simple mistake and leak our database or something, do we get to charge you millions in potential damages?" At some point it goes to a court.

Maybe you just have to get adversarial and say "I can save you tens of millions and you should give me a million dollar bonus if it works, but if the bonus is not in writing, I won't give it to you".
Not really. If you have to state your conclusions as axiomatic then your philosophy has no point, at all.

If you have to axiomatically state that private property is good and government is bad, then I don't really see why anyone would have to follow your arguments, because not only are such axioms ridiculous, as seen by the attempt to create a rationalization for it. If the argument according to which the state is illegitimate has as a consequence that so is private property, but you still axiomatically state that private property is legitimate, you've also invalidated the original argument that the state is illegitimate, and now your entire worldview is based on two absurd axioms, and not any logic.

A moral philosophy or political economy is only ever valid and worthwhile if it is based on axioms/values that the rest of society share. For example - negative freedom is good, positive freedom is good, prosperity is good, and so on, which you'll find that people tend to agree with inherently. I don't think that there's anyone for which "private property is good" and "the state is bad" is an axiom.
Found another example of bad RNG:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue#/medi...
"code is extremely fragile in a way human language is not"

Very well put. Change a single character in a working complex program and it may start doing something completely different, or, much worse, subtly different.
Lenovo 5 14“ with Ryzen 4700U (16GB RAM) now available in US
It also probably depends on your definition of "crisis", no? If republicans view the crisis as "government forcing businesses to close", maybeprobably we're past it. We're not even close to done with (unnecessary) death, but I kinda think that the US red party doesn't really care about that figure at all.
No. They could've just said something like "get a new abstract painting in one click" and used phrases like "never before seen". But as-is, their claim is just not true.
It's quite interesting to see those fleet being analyzed and claimed to be "more closely integrated", while the PLA is still trying to push their new "Military and civilian integration" (军民融合) concept by copying how US did it. Are they that fast at embracing and enhancing?
leading/teaching by example. Show, don't tell. I wonder though what selection pressure made for anger to be a non-beneficial trait in the Inuit society. In our typical society anger, while definitely not always, is a beneficial trait frequently and sufficiently enough to be practiced by many. It seems that in Inuit society anger is almost never a beneficial trait and thus is actively suppressed (so behavioral adaptation while curiously not fully selected out at biological level - probably the key here is "to control anger" in the sense of being in control, not eliminating completely, so that means an ability to deploy only when needed in a very controlled/measured/managed fashion. So may be by showing no anger while it is clearly supposed be there the Inuit parents teach not a "no anger" (which would be a lie as the other commenters pointed out), and instead they teach of how to be a master of your anger instead of a slave to it).
A company owned always on video and listening device in my home? How about not.
If you find yourself with significant free time but don't want to abandon the comfort of your current role, start a side project.
It's also possible that this one day of intense work is unsustainable for 5 days, and this is just their working style. There's nothing wrong with that as long as this isn't done out of laziness.
I'm curious how well this works over a LAN - over a WAN, my expectations are way lower because of actual limitations from going over the internet, so I'm fine with some latency / quality loss.
Ask HN: Spending time on VCs other bets
Our company was bought some time ago by a private equity firm which also has many other holdings than us.

Our company holds many excellent people in key roles. We are increasingly spending our time on helping the equity company run and increase the value of their other holdings and find ourselves with less and less time running our own business.

For example, our VP of marketing is being asked to "help out" running marketing campaigns for other ventures. Same with our VP of finance and biz dev.

We hold no equity in their other bets. Is this common?
Referencing your other comment, this claim really starts to fall apart.

* You're cherry-picking 2018Q3. So it's not exactly 2 years, it's actually 1.75 years (2018Q3 - 2020Q2).

* But now you're saying pre-covid too, so now it's actually 1.25 years (2018Q3 - 2019Q4).

That period in question is the time after Tesla finished ramping Model 3 production (using a tent!) at Fremont in 2018Q3, and before they finished building the factory in Shanghai in 2020Q1.

So... doesn't it seem reasonable that production gains would be a bit "lumpy"? They go up every time a new factory is finished, and they stay flat until the next one.
To me COL adjustments are a proxy for the underlying metric of replacement cost. Employers are not going to pay someone more than the cost to replace them. For a lot of professionals this is dictated by their local employment market and COL is an easy way to approximate this.

However not every skillset is tied to local markets. My own job is fairly niche and the hiring pool is on a national level. If I moved to a low COL area my employer would have no leverage to reduce my compensation because they couldn't replace my skillset at that price. But that means the converse is also true. If I moved to a high COL area I would be laughed out of the room if I asked for more money. They could easily replace me for the current price regardless of where I chose to live.
I'm generally OK with the scene, but I know what you mean. For me it's the scene after, when Korben takes the stones out of the Diva, and the illusion breaks down: https://i.gifer.com/1ObZ.gif I consider that one the very rare imperfect shots in an otherwise perfectly crafted movie (I don't even remember off the top of my head which are the others).
Does this mean Closure will continue to become more and more server/web focused?

I could have the wrong impression, but from all the dead libraries I've come across it feels like it used to be all over the place with people doing math, visualizations/art, music, people trying to run on Android (seemingly the only JVM language that has no Android ecosystem/workflow.. crazy) etc.. Now a lot of that has atrophied and looks like it's mostly all about web. Though there are still interesting nonweb things going on - it just feels like a shrinking fraction

Either way, a big congrats to the people involved. Happy for you guys. That you for all your hard work, the beautiful language that has made me enjoy programming more than ever, and all for free :)
Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine:

https://searx.me/
When I was doing AI lyrics, I just ensured that the same seed generates the same text. So server just pregenerated several thousand texts into a queue, which you drain from instantly upon a click to get random.

The generated texts are then cached, and if not visited for a while - expire. But thanks to the ability to regenerate the same text from seed are still accessible from URL.

https://github.com/losttech/BillionSongs
It doesn't have to be that high. Tell a small business that in exchange for small percentage of their customers going elsewhere they can sell their IPv4 address for $ and some will take it.
Many a player was killed over Violet and Seth the Bard.
If it is up.
To summarize the answer in a single line:
"We added it to the specification, thinking we could always improve it later"

CSS is not the only victim of this approach, just particularly bad case.
Absolute bunk. As numerous people have tried to explain in this thread (along with its frequent predecessors), anything that moves across frames is by definition unimportant when stacking images. It's literally the difference between integration and differentiation.

Satellites move fast. Not only that, but you know exactly where and when they will cross your field of view, and for how long they'll remain within it. If the astronomy community can't muster the rudimentary image processing technology needed to reject satellites and other transient objects, I'm not exactly confident in their ability to finally figure out the whole origin-of-the-Universe thing.
> AKA, please work harder for your corporate masters because poor people are suffering.

Not at all. Simply please stop complaining about how easy and well compensated your job is.
> ...their collection is of little value except as a whole.

I agree that citation adds value to a collection. That’s why we pay curators, after all! But, I would also claim that the benefit of curation to the value of the collection as a whole probably scales with the size of the collection, if we’re talking about art or history museums. For instance, having an entire, working 1960s mainframe that’s used routinely for demonstrations at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View is extremely valuable, beyond the monetary cost it would take to acquire and set up the physical hardware. The same system, non working, and with “do not touch” signs all around, is significantly less valuable.

Likewise, a museum with the resources to pull off an exhibit like the Warhol retrospective that was at SFMOMA recently can a full picture of how an artist grows and develops throughout a career in a way that a single work, or handful of works, cannot.
oddly, you are completely incorrect
If you feel like you're not doing enough, bring it up to your manager and ask for more. Don't get complacent, you might be told you're doing great, but secretly people think bad of you and it might come back to hunt you later.

Take a good look at your team within the org. Is it a sinking ship? Do people sing its praises or lament it? Would it be considered a success or a mess? You don't want to be on a sinking ship, it's only a matter of time before it attracts higher ups attention and people start to investigate what's wrong, if you're caught in that fire you will be blamed as part of the problem. So either become the ship's captain, or switch team.

Finally, it might be because you are too low down the chain and not seeing the bigger picture. A lot of the hard work at FAANGS isn't coding related. It's about decision making. Choosing what task to do next, what component to rewrite or replace, what business goal to meet, which project to invest in next, etc. Sometimes this takes a while and in the meantime, there's little change to do on existing live systems. What you should do is get engaged with that decision making. Learn who your stakeholders are, get involved in the planning process for your team, understand what business you serve and what their problems are, figure out the goals leadership has set out for your org and your team, etc.

In other words, at FAANGS you don't get work handed to you, you're expected to come up with the work yourself, be your own leader and advance the team and company forward independently with minimum hand holding. Don't wait for people to tell you what to do, figure out what needs to be done, what should be done, influence others to agree and support you, and get it done.
Hey OP, I was reading your linked HomeLab article and you mentioned you'd rather have gotten a mobo with integrated GPUs next time.

Actually, motherboards do not include integrated graphics, it's all in the CPU/APU. The mobo you linked would not provide graphics either.

AMD unfortunately does not have a high end APU released to consumers right now (there are some 4000 series, but only to OEMs I believe). However, for a HomeLab setup, you might find a cheap GPU to be useful for many things (including hardware video transcoding).
Naglfar: Toy web browser implemented in Rust
Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture
Very cool, was the training entirely on quantum hardware? How did you overcome the noise?
>If you are not cool with it, then figure out a way to change it

>So either start putting in your best work, or switch teams or company and see if it suits you better.

You and the OP are essentially saying the same thing, except they are adding that an honest days wage deserves an honest days work
This seems like good advice, but is presented poorly.

You're meeting expectations, which is great, but don't stop there. You recognize that you (and your teammates) could be doing more, so make it happen. You're entirely capable and empowered to do so:

- Fix that technical debt.
- Identify better tooling and demonstrate it's value to your teammates.
- Proactively find things your software could do better and write about them. Don't be discouraged if people don't bite on the first few, you'll find one eventually that's too good to not pursue.

Sure, you could accept the status quo and coast like some of your teammates, but you'll be unhappy (and bored). Do what makes you happy -- identify, evangelize, prototype and build.

All of this doesn't mean you're lazy for having posted this -- just that you need encouragement to make the things happen that'll make you happier and more fulfilled at the end of the day.
Harsh enough environment that people who couldn't keep their cool probably left, or died, was my guess.
I watched (literally in Cleveland) getting RIP into Searchlight with LaRosa and Rossiter. TeleGrafix had near-zero footprint in the BBS world. There was no other BBS that used RIP until Searchlight, yet the article does not mention this.

How come BBS + RIP article not mention Searchlight?
We're still really early on, so we're also trying to figure out what that missing "something" is. We're totally in the same boat.

From interviews, our theory is that it's because most of the time, the Hangouts all day solution decays because people have too many experiences being alone in the room.

Again still really early, so we're also figuring it out but thanks for the data point!
The question you need to consider is: why didn't those private collections sell the objects themselves? No one forced them to donate to a museum.

Selling donated items is a direct violation of the concept of the donation. The whole point of donating to a museum is that it is one-directional. Anyone who wants to sell their stuff can do so themselves.

> And yet many serious museums have never offered their artifacts up to researchers for study, either because the researchers don’t exist, or because they have 1000 examples of a piece, 900 are in long-term storage, and are never planned to be used.

The offer is there, even if it has not yet been taken up.

You can't plan for what you don't know yet. Museums are exercises in long-term thinking. For example a fruitful path for finding new species today is to go back through museum collections that have been carefully kept in storage for future researchers.
Blackbaud Ransomware Hack
Did you do a trademark search yet? T-Mobile US had a Sidekick device not long ago and may not have abandoned their registration.
Work the other 5 days on a side project - open source, personal project, satisfy your passion there.
Or, leave and work for a startup. You will have plenty of problems to solve, but no stability.
Garmin Connect app won't even show you data sync'd from a watch unless its online and connected. Simple things like hours slept, or miles walked will not show. Right now it just has a "server maintenance" message, and won't show anything that uses a graph, or historical data...nothing is stored locally.

On my recent hiking trip, the watch had no problem recording and sync'ing tracks, but the connect app refused to render any of that data until mobile data was connected again.
Not sure if they are still easily available but look into https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/userspace-usb-drivers.
It's gotta be something simpler than that. Perhaps there's a database rollback and now they have mismatched ID somewhere. Or perhaps the caching scheme wasn't thought out thoroughly and the caches got delivered to the wrong person. There's literally a million ways things could go wrong, and hash collision is the last thing I'll suspect.
> This is an interesting concept, but I think the researcher put too much personal bias in their choice of songs. For example, there are some very conspicuous omissions from the list: no Nirvana, no Foo Fighters, no Linkin Park, no Jay Z, no No Doubt. These are some of the most iconic musicians from the 90s.

It's garbage in, garbage out. They should have sanity tested their song selections before they started collecting data.

And even if they wanted to stick with an "unbiased" criteria like peak chart position, with 2,925,295 data points, they could have probably broadened the criteria to account for some of the problems.
Come on, Amazon is not a rent seeker. It's quite the opposite.
previous discussions https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22earn%20it%20act%22
I got a cheap Lantronix Spider KVM from eBay, it works quite well. Mine was an older VGA model but you can use it with a DP or HDMI to VGA adapter.
Where in NJ is this? That's gotta be at least semi-rural. The NJ suburbs near NYC have Verizon Fios 200mbps for $40/m.
> Do the mental problems and drug addiction of a brilliant musician detract from his or her music? Do you yell "madman" at a painting by van Gogh?

Yes. Completely ignore the degenerates. There are many sober people who have made art and science. You should not allow mentally ill lunatics to define art, music, religion, maths or politics anymore than you will allow them to be your cab driver or spouse.

Clearly science is about sobriety and not schizophrenia. I guess mathematics was hijacked by schizophrenics, music and art by depressed losers. No wonder you are out of touch with reality, practicality and are defending symbols which you think have magical "powers" beyond mere convention.

You can also see this in physics with the string theory garbage, however unlike "pure" mathematics ... in physics people need to test experimentally.

> Yes, and in a sub-thread of the post you've made it clear that you doubt the usefulness of mathematics.

No, I said proofs were tautological and pointless and notation is useless. Formal mathematics is bullshit.

> On several occasions have I and others invited you to comment on very concrete mathematical constructions.

Your sock puppets ?

1. You were asking about fundamental theorem of calculus

This has a very geometric proof. Why would I have a problem with that ? I am all for geometry, visualization, simulation , testing ....

2. A number puzzle

I don't care for number puzzles. I will try to solve that number puzzle if you can write vietnamese jokes.
Every museum has its own deaccession process. I would expect that small or partial liquidations would follow that process. More significant liquidations might have a different process due to the volume of pieces. I would expect most of these liquidations to be via public auction.
What in the farm-to-table, gluten free, non-GMO, freshly chopped silicon valley hell is this?!?

Why would anyone WANT to be on an always on video chat?

If an employer ever sent me one of these, they would get it back (with my resignation) immediately.
Here's a more recent article too: https://www.itwire.com/security/new-york-times-says-krebs-wr...
What an amazing, nostalgic site! Flash was definitely ahead of its time. I recall the pure excitement of the early Flash days in 1999. It was a perfect storm of a having simple to use tool with easy distribution, combined with being on the cusp of major increases in Internet usage and bandwidth. The Internet was ripe for a change and Flash offered a perfect combination of vector drawing, animation, development and distribution tools.

I vividly remember my first experience with Flash: watching an artist use a Wacom tablet to draw and animate a cartoon using vector brushes, the timeline, onion-skinning and then adding sound and publishing all from his laptop. As a web developer pushing out HTML pages with single-pixel gifs and tables, this was eye-opening. I worked heavily with Flash over the next few years and it really opened my eyes to the power of animation and motion graphics on the web.
I do think "do what you love" and its cousin "shoot for the stars" get a lot of people in trouble.

Personally, "doing" in all its myriad forms isn't something I'm really capable of "loving." Similarly, "dreams" are more of a crushing anxiety-burden than a source of joy.

I think about this a lot because my younger sister, whose personality was similar to mine, but with more conscientiousness thrown in, took her own life in 2014, while enrolled in a top-14 law school and after graduating from Stanford. I get a lot of the mental-illness platitudes re: that, amounting to the idea that if only society had done a better job of ensuring that she got herself to the brain-mechanic and providing better brain-mechanics she'd be a high-achieving lawyer, passionate about the causes she's representing, today.

I wonder, though. She was not ambitious as a kid, and maybe if people had treated this as her personality and not a pathology, she'd have gone to a worse school, taken an easier path, and been happy and alive today.

Me, I have like, some ambitions, and I enjoy my job at times, but it's all in service of the comfort and security of my family and self. And honestly I think this "slacker" personality is on balance an asset for fatherhood.
The term FANG (and FAANG) was coined and popularized by stock market investors, not tech workers/job hunters. So it's about the highest growth large-cap tech stocks, not the absolute largest market caps or most well-paid/prestigious jobs.

It was coined in the Ballmer days, when MSFT's stock price had been stagnant for about a decade, so no surprise that it got left out. Things are different today though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FAANG
Seriously? I don't know anyone in this field who derives immense satisfaction from their job. Maybe if they're less than 5 years out of school and reality still hasn't hit yet...
Corollary, toilet cleaners in America are underpaid as a group. I don't want to get into a heated political debate, I just want to suggest an alternative view point that I find compelling when discussing American vs. European software salaries. Don't toilet cleaners in Germany have better lives than toiler cleaners in Kentucky?
Twitter hackers employing ‘peel chains’ to launder the Bitcoin bounty
FWIW Clojurescript can also be used in ESP32: https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-n...

Mike Fikes and the team at Vouch.io are doing some interesting work there, using cljs for IOT.
I only disagree in the aspect that fragile isn't a strong enough word to describe what you're talking about.

Plus, correct me if I'm wrong, AI still isn't at a problem solving capacity yet. It's still just a fast acting statistical machine that fits "round enough" square pegs into round holes.