skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can your mom upgrade windows 7 to windows 10 without you helping her?

i actually do know what's in the rom. and so does. anyone else who wants to check. and you have hundreds of 3rd party people who do. source code is available. you're literally arguing hardware and software should be tied together to the hardware manufacturer. the entire world of computers disagrees.

what's inside your ios rom?
Great to know you'd only hit 1/3 the level needed to cause the apocalypse.
Have you considered fail2ban?
The Palatino FAQ (1998)
Unfortunately it seems we can't fix it with legislation until we fix our democracy.

88% of democratic voters support Medicare For All, but the DNC just voted against including it as part of their platform.

The elected leaders in this country no longer serve their constituents, instead serving corporations.

I think the vast majority of people in technology understand the DMCA is a horrible law - but at least it doesn't kill people. But if we can't get politicians to recognize the immorality our our current state of "cancer will bankrupt your family, even if you're insured and it also kills you", I don't know what hope we have on fixing copyright.
Wow, that's all very Westworld.
> There wasn’t any big German military defeat

That’s because there wasn’t a Germany for at least half of that period. And while Germany may not have lost any nearby land wars, their colonial empire was a bit of a joke compared to the other European powers.
>>very little insight into how good the candidate is until after you've hired them.

The fact that one depends on a proxy measurement which has little correlation with actual results is the core of the problem here.
> How does LVT help poorer people live in cities? The competition for clustered housing continues, that's a fundamental cause.

It means there are better incentives to build denser housing (redeveloping doesn't increase your property taxes, but as your area gets more desirable your land value tax goes up whether you redevelop or not) and public transit (because the city can fund it off the land value increases). So there's a bigger supply of clustered housing.

> Poorer people don't have much luck buying housing in the first place, because of mortgage gatekeeping, even when the actual cost of purchase (mortgage payments) is significantly lower then renting. Even when they do, they pay more for the same level of housing in the end (mortgage interest).

LVT helps a lot with that as well: property becomes less good as an investment, and you don't get to pay lower property taxes just because your bought a while ago.
Sainsbury's bought it. One interesting consequence of that is, since newer Argos stores were now physically inside a Sainsbury's and Sainsbury's sells e.g. food that people need in order to live it was possible to purchase products from Argos (online obviously, they won't let you stand around looking at a catalogue like it's 1985 because there is a pandemic) and just collect them with your groceries, during the middle of lockdown.

You can only buy essential products like bread, eggs, chewing gum... and a Nintendo Switch.

I'm sure this didn't hurt the Argos side of the company compared to its competitors that were closed entirely.

The main supermarket chain obviously did very well, it was even allowed to do stuff that's normally prohibited by competition authorities, since "Not starving the population" beats "Not encouraging monopoly abuse". For example suppose a small town has two small grocery stores. Normally it's illegal for either store to agree that the other can just supply everything to them and save sending twice the trucks of goods, because obviously that's not going to result in actual competitive behaviour. But during the worst of COVID-19 the UK government said "Do whatever it takes, we won't enforce those rules" and so my Sainsbury's had own brand goods from other major supermarket chains on shelves for a week or so, because it was just easier to ship all the frozen potato products (for example) for my district in one truck, and not worry about ensuring the brand on the product matches the sign on the store because it's all food and nobody wants to starve to death.
Are there no flip-flops in this design? It looks small enough that you might be able to brute-force every possible input.
California Pizza Kitchen Now in Bankruptcy Because of Coronavirus
Open IDA Pro databases and run IDAPython scripts w/o IDA itself
>perhaps we could create artificial barriers that will re-enable competition

A fragmented market prevents competition, so I don't understand what you're trying to say. Like with your friendly local cable company.
One thing that stood out to me was each CEO declaring their unwaivering support for the police and US military when pressed by Republican members. It was presented as a false dichotomy of course, but none took a stand of hesitation towards that support.

This goes contradictory to what they've communicated to their employees as of late.

I understand they can be speaking in false promises but it was interesting to see them all tow the line when asked.

My question now is, how do the employees of these companies feel about the public position their CEOs took yesterday on that?
Thunk: Subroutine used to inject an additional code into another subroutine
linux is community supported. just like you can get linux from redhat, you can get your android rom from large companies. lineageos is a popular one.

i won't argue with the rest of that, as you are arguing open source is inferior. one you convince every enterprise out there not to use open source, you can revisit this with me.

you are also arguing all servers and consumer pcs should be made by microsoft, since they run windows.
There's a ton of organizational and management study around teh number of direct reports. Seven is certainly not an accident. As I recall most IT work has an effective range of 5-10, with optimal outcomes around 6-7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_of_control
(Congratulations on having been the only respondent here to actually have said anything worthwhile. Too late to be able to edit in another addendum to my comment, though.)
Spreadsheets is a really interesting one here. I'm extremely curious to see how No Code tools can be used in corporate environments to replace more advanced spreadsheet-driven workflows.

I don't think they're going away either, but I think there's a lot of value to be unlocked by teaching non-developers how to build basic applications to support their business processes.
I lusted for a video toaster - though I was like 7yrs old at the time.

I had an amiga 1000 my dad got and the preemptive multi-tasking is what really set the amiga apart. The engineering was next level: 512K with double-sided, double density disks was enough for anyone.
At occasional intervals (usually every year at this point) they do pushes upward on income and set a new baseline that the market can expect. Then they'll make some big investments, divert some income growth for a while, and then make their next push to the next income tier to satisfy investors wanting to see income growth.
QAnon Has Gone Global
not yet, but that's a great idea :)
You can do that with multireddits IE: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit+funny+pics/
SingleFile has a cli version which I use and like.
Just subscribe to /r/news and read top comments
By buying used, and spending $5 for content that you've used for 20 years, I wouldn't suggest you're providing better income to that professor than YouTubers get from Ads or Patreon
Back when I was lurking Futaba Channel, the standard protocol to share a stale post(they don’t archive posts) was to take MHT files through “Save As...” and uploading it. I think even some mobile apps for browsing Futaba had dedicated save/load features. Saves everything, even some ads.
Y’all need to stop meta-modding.
Sure, but they never\* have to travel the full coast-to-coast, which is presumably where the worst of its effects, if any, would be realized.
Have you actually experienced this though?

That's common with some stores, like large department stores and mattresses being a common example. But the manufacturer has to be part of it.

And it's simply not common or widespread in electronics. Apple isn't doing it. Logitech isn't doing it. Etc.

There might be a few brands or product categories which do... but it's also not generally to avoid price-matching, but rather to sell a lower-quality product that Best Buy pays less for. They're not just slapping a different model number on it -- it also has less memory, or cheaper packaging, or a lower-quality screen, or whatever.
It's at version 0.3.5 currently and their latest blog post is about how their main goal is to reach 1.0 which will be stable.
You could always fork the process and send SIGKILL to the child after a timeout.
Remove foxnews, and I would use this.
>$12,400 per megabyte

I believe the first hard drive cost about $100K/MB in today's money.
> Why are you doing this?

No offence but if you ask such questions you probably wont become a billionaire. These guys have a different drive and ambition, you dont just lose it when you become old (and still be healthy)
At scale it comes from crops on farmland that was previously the Amazon (palm oil), or causes competition with food consumers (soybeans). Ethanol is just as bad, it’s a handout to the ag lobby.

Works fine if it’s recycled vegetable oil, but that doesn’t scale. I love a truck that emits a French fry smell.
Good idea, like vlogging or instagram stories for work.

The only problem is getting people to do them and watch them. Also, one of the important things about synchronous meetings is discussion and conversation, this doesn't look like it can replace that.

Pretty cool though
AT high school breadboards were one of the most hateful pieces of equipment i ever had to use. The problem was that there was almost always a non zero number of defective tracks... depending on the kind of circuit sometimes track resistance could be significant too.

Sometimes the time saved by using a breadboard was heavily offset by the time required to double check each connection with a multi-meter.

Hopefully breadboards these days are higher quality... (or perhaps my school just had very old and crappy ones :-)
A peter drucker quote comes to mind from his book "the executive" circa 1960 paraphrasing from memory: the number one complaint from CEOs is that I can't get ahead for tomorrow because of all the problems of today. The complaint was so pervasive it was almost boring to hear it. This sets up three issues: management, quality (often boils down to stopping opportunity defects and being customer driven) , and organizational behavior which is getting it to agree and execute. All three play into cutting down the chaos including being customer driven which gets tons of corporate lip service but not the real deal like what we've seen Alan bezos/amazon in other hn posts. Not being customer driven is a broad spectrum problem with many many structural downsides including loss of competitiveness which takes years to get back, wasted resources. Fixing this often requires strong, top down changes. And obviously lack of customers means lack of profit which stresses capex.
Thank you. The advice about explaining your need to scale is great. I've made them aware that we currently don't service accounts of their scale but we can scale up. If talks proceed I'll be sure to expand on this.

Thanks very much for the email offer, I will take you up on that (putting out a fire right now though).
> So...what next? How do creators get paid?

I think we're in a "creator" bubble and a crash is coming. There are simply too many people expecting to be able to live off their hobbies and not enough actual value being created. Many, perhaps even most, of these creators are going to have to go get a job. It may not be a popular opinion, but I don't even think that's such a bad thing; there is way too much "content" out there, we don't actually need anywhere near as much as we're currently creating.
OK I need to hear more about that one. I’m guessing it’s all command line development?
Wanna try it? https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macbasic-10
> Almost nobody is going to want to keep up this horrid lifestyle after the virus is over.

We are modifying our lifestyle in response to COVID-19. I don’t plan to spend significant time in an office going forward.

Do you think there will be long-term changes in travel patterns l? I’m curious if there will be, as we have made some changes like this (postponing international travel for several years, buying a travel trailer to focus on travel to parks, etc).
Garbage-in garbage-out. Does this mean that we should be refining content for AI to be most useful for specific goals?
This brings back childhood memories of flipping through Service Merchandise [0] catalogs. Never heard of Argos, but it appears to be the same kind of thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise
How to Build a Live Broadcasting Web App
Here's an example, right on Google's Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loan.cash....

Translating their "example" scenario:
> For example, for a loan of $1,000 to pay in 91 days, you will have to pay only $82 of interest, a commission of $180 and VAT (16%). The total amount to be paid would be $1,384.
CAT: 151.1%, annual interest rate: 21.9%.

You get $1000, then three months later you pay it back plus 38%. Sounds legit /s

Hiring post linking Okredito to Opera:
https://www.simplyhired.mx/search?q=cobranza+preventiva&l=be...
Absolutely yes.
These days if I see an interesting content on my phone, I share to Google Keep. Periodically I look in keep and take another pass at what I saved.
Interactive Notebooks – Pluto.jl [video]
"15% of total retail sales in Grocery, Home furnishings, Electronics, Apparel, Sporting goods, General merchandise and Office supplies"

That's not all of retail. It's certain categories in retail. It's significant, but Amazon has a much broader selection of products and competes in far more sectors of the retail industry than Walmart does. Also, looking forward, over the next 10-20 years and given the changes in the marketplace, who do you think is best poised to dominate retail for the foreseeable future: Walmart or Amazon?

https://blog.pipecandy.com/walmart-market-share-story/

As Peter Thiel said in Zero to One, monopolies seek to define their sectors in the broadest terms possible in order to avoid being classified as such.
Is this a good thing? Why should I care about the skin color of the owner of a restaurant or business I'm thinking of going to?
After quite some time reading up on silicon chip design and manufacturing and a lot of attempts I managed to come up with a schematic for this that makes sense.

For those who are interested in REading IC layouts from pictures, Ken Shirriff (kens, righto.com) has a lot of great articles on his site about the process as applied to other vintage ICs:

http://www.righto.com/search/label/reverse-engineering

I don't read ICs much in my line of work, but the basics are very easy to understand and much of the effort involved is "mental floodfilling", whose speed varies between individuals --- even after lots of practice it takes me a bit of time to find all the edges, but I know someone who can read a die photo faster than she can draw a schematic of the area.
> systemd-boot (AKA, gummiboot) is leaner, for sure- much in the same way a bicycle is leaner than a truck.

I think this is the perfect analogy why systemd-boot is better: you don't want to use a truck to get to your local bakery, it is going to be either a walk (ESP boot directly with kernel anyone?) or with a bicycle.
Yup. My understanding was the US was financially supporting Germany so the reparations wouldn’t crush the entire economy.

From what I’ve gathered, Germany’s “we’re not paying any more reparations” was more a political move that got Germans on the side of the govt than anything else.
Absolutely. I went to the local library every Saturday for a month or two and did practice problems without distractions. Total prep time was probably ~40 hours.

My compensation increased by at least $150,000 a year.

Best ROI I've gotten on anything I've done in my life.

I tell that stories to people considering doing it all the time, you'd be amazed how many people hear my experience and say, yeah, naw I'm not going to spend that time.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like the app. One thing that did not work well for me was the requirement to enter a topic. I want to quickly bookmark a page and move on. Why is topic required?
I’d buy digital knock knacks that I could use. Like stickers (that hopefully come in a nice png or svg format so I can spread the word and put it things)
Wasn't sure which were the apples and oranges to even begin comparing it seems. I was thinking of train trips locally like commuter trains for about 30 - 40 miles v. short flights a state away because for a train trip to be made a route needs to exist, and those tend to be commuter trains. I wouldn't suggest a train to be an aggregately shorter time period for a long distance trip.

Another factor to consider is that total time for air travel for the covid context should include sitting on a tarmac and loading / unloading.
I think perhaps what's more upsetting is that GPT-3 flips the traditional notions of what machines are good at and what humans are good at on their respective heads.

GPT-3 seems to indicate there's a chance that "creative" domains such as poetry, literature, music, etc. will be taken over by AI (i.e. AIs will have superhuman performance) before "logical" domains such as logic, mathematics, and the sciences.

This means that it is becoming more and more conceivable to more and more people that sometime in the foreseeable future an AI will be better than any human along any dimension you choose to measure, even when it comes to the ability to elicit emotions and reactions in other humans.
subreddit rules for /r/news:

>Your post will be removed if it:

>[...]

>is an opinion/analysis or advocacy piece.

>The title must be the actual title or the lead.

Can you explain how links to articles from major news outlets, with titles unchanged can be "radical left propaganda"? Just for posterity I took a picture of the current submissions on /r/news: https://i.imgur.com/rsTm7Rj.png. Can you point out where the "radical left propaganda" are?
I don't think you need to look for a "should." The article says:

> Google said it has seen “a surge in online searches for Black-owned businesses” in recent months

So it seems like a feature Google decided is useful for its visitors in the same way that a business' address, operating hours, and reviews are useful for its visitors.
I wonder how much carbon was released for that trip
It could have a downside, too, if (even unaware) racists use the information to choose a competitor.
I think selling boston dynamics was a mistake, as was spinning off motorola. Instead of merging these with AI initiatives, these were sold off because they weren't "cultural fits" whatever that means. Business units need to have their own cultures because their customers have different cultures as well.
I don't know, but if someone is interested, they can try. Note that I do not use GitHub; I use Fossil. Which newsgroups might I try? I did post on HN too (and got no responses), and on IRC, but I don't know which IRC channels to try. I tried to ask them but they don't know either.
This also rubbed me the wrong way. As an individual I think that shows selfish and opportunistic behaviour and it raises a red flag about that organisation in my mind.

However, for profit companies are not here to do what’s “correct” they’re here to make money for its investors. If I had decision making abilities at Nginx I’d be conducting a comprehensive review of the free OSS offering and redacting the features and overall value with extreme prejudice.

Dropbox never paid because it COULD not pay. If you have an enterprise, paid version of your OSS product it has to be impossible for an enterprise to use it for free.
No, like the violent suppression of any thought that doesn't fit the narrative. Mutually exclusive ideologies never end well.
Bot that attends your online classes for you and participates on your behalf
now there is an interesting philosophical stance.

hmmm. I wonder if businesses are allowed to de-list "attributes".
But it's not owned by a Chinese company. Opera is and that makes me question how trustworthy it is. There hasn't been evidence to suggest it's not, but I'm not comfortable running it on my machines.
If you've ever wondered how a startup founder mulls a giant acquisition offer
We have a mix of static and dynamic configuration.
We started with almost everything defined in the configuration and implemented our control plane only for endpoint discovery service. Over the time we implemented more and more features there (certificates, tls tickets, route and vhost configuration, etc).
We decided to write own implementation on control plane - actually the core part is pretty simple and easily expandable.
Yup. The Signetics 68070 that was used in CD-i was like a 68000, but slower because it didn't have that second ALU.
Hey, look! It’s my hero Damon! Made my day seeing this on HN just now, you definitely deserve the exposure. Keep it up mate, you’re doing great work.
Here's a quick video on the Argos catalogue for our overseas readers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOa9aSG-Ow
Upgraded accounts gain access to a global filter that can filter unwanted sources from search results.

Non-upgraded accounts can include one exclusion source in searches as well by adding ..

-@domain.com
One thing I see some artists do is sell commission slots and then post the finished artwork for everyone. Some commissions are kept private, of course, but for many of them it's win-win-win to share:

- The artists get paid and still get to display stuff publicly, attracting more fans and more commissions.

- The fans get a chance to have their favorite artists draw their favorite things.

- The vast majority of silent passersby get more reasons to keep coming back and maybe turn into paying fans too.

Dealing with fans and managing expectations becomes even more of a can of worms when money gets involved, of course, and people tend to under-value creative work in general, but I've seen some people make that work for 10+ years now even before the era of Patreon and Gumroad and friends.
Don't you think that requiring candidates to spend a month studying makes it so that only candidates that can afford to do so are hired? Some people have other responsibilities outside of work that mean they simply cannot spend time memorizing a book. It adds insult to injury that for the vast majority of the time, you won't use anything from that book. And the interview doesn't test for skills that you actually do use at your job.
I bought a laptop from Best Buy recently, and the limited amount of contact was great. Just pressed a button on my phone when I arrived, confirmed with the employee that the order was in-fact mine, and he put in my trunk without even getting close to me!
Why wouldn't they be able to remove an attribute they have added themselves?
How is it interesting?
One nuance here is someone making $31,200 is barely getting by. It might only be .77% of their salary, but 50% of their annual savings. The difference between saving $500 and $750 is substantial. E.g. if you’re trying to put together 20k for a down payment, that could be a > 10 year difference in time it takes to get a house.