skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crosvm project which powers crostini is both open source ( https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm... ) and on many people's machine (most Chromebooks) which might fit some definition of not controlled and not uniform.
I agree, looks pretty cool, I was hoping for somewhere around $500 price point.
I needed a hashmap in FreePascal

I probably spend almost 2 months evaluating hashmaps.

There are a dozen separate maps in FreePascal standard library. But they all have some issues. Like a max key length of 255 chars, only working with orderable keys, not rehashing itself, treemap instead of a hashmap, or actually not working...

In the end I used a map from another library and modified it heavily. It also has a big issue of not really deleting items, only keeping a tombstone that is not removed until rehashing, but the advantage is that it keeps insertion order
You claimed the law has not changed. This claim was false; the law has changed.

If you had wanted to discuss workers rights, you should have led with that.
(The statistic you're citing did not separate by language, it was "70% of security bugs are memory safety bugs" only, no language break-out.)
> Okay, but how does that money get from MoFo to MoCo?

It is their problem, not my. They want money. It is restricted. Money is fungible. If they figure out how to use the money that is restricted then they need to spend less unrestricted money.
As far as the article puts it, raising too much money could be seen as built-in sunk cost and avoiding that is sound, but other comments have raised valid justifications for extending runway.

I feel inclined to agree with the article. If I ever have the fortune of raising money for a startup I created, I would be very unlikely to ask for money explicitly just to extend the time waiting for it to take off.

PS: Off-topic but I remember that a similar point was raised in Silicon Valley (the series).
Uber has generally seemed like a net benefit and I've taken a lot of rides (hundreds to low thousand) and have generally conversed with most of the drivers I've had and the gig work has been beneficial to them, they make a decent standard of living for a HCOL area enough for a family and get to set their own hours. Hard pass on regulation like this and good to see Uber push back with the levers they have.

I will add that some regulation would probably be beneficial but not this one in particular.
This is great feedback, and definitely something we'll need to think about. I had a similar issue at a previous startup I worked at, where we were basically building SaaS tools for logistics departments at commodity trading companies, and everyone had different edge cases/integrations they wanted from us. It's definitely a rabbit hole I want to avoid...

You mentioned Gitlab, and we're trying to figure out how we can borrow from the playbooks of companies like them (e.g. Mattermost, PostHog, etc.)

For now, we're just focused on getting users to figure out what the most common feedback and feature requests are, but longer term we plan on carving out a smaller niche and figuring out what our "target persona" is.

Curious, do you have any advice on how to avoid these pitfalls?
Firebug was pretty buggy, especially the JS debugger. Lot of upgrade-and-break and downloading different versions. Dev Tools just worked.
Founder of Sudowrite here!

The app is in an early phase and we want to make sure we get it right before opening widely. That being said, we encourage writers of any kind of narrative fiction to sign up, and we'll be releasing access over the next few weeks.

We're two tech folks who are also fiction writers, and we've been using Sudowrite in our creative workflow and have found it super helpful in the early drafting phase. Think of it like a 24/7 brainstorming partner.

We'll be sharing more thoughts soon!
>> Suffice to say CA has some of the highest taxes of any state, yet it also has some of the worst social problems - poverty, homelessness, etc.

I was under the impression that much of the homelessness problem is because CA is a nice place to live (with or without a home) and because the climate is temperate and thus safer to live than most other places (where a homeless person could literally freeze to death.)

Sorry if this sounds insensitive -- I really want to understand this: I concede that cost of housing could lead to homelessness, but I dont understand this -- isnt the housing cost really a problem just in the two major metro areas? Is housing exorbitant once you leave those areas? For someone who is homeless, is there any gravity anymore to -- say -- being close to SF/SV/Hollywood?
For further clarification, Anarcho-Capitalists advocate for a society that is stateless, but not lawless.

The basic premise of their philosophy is that the government does a poor job of growing and distributing food; creating and enforcing law is not an easier task than growing potatoes, therefore, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to assume that the government would do a great job at that. And indeed if you look at modern society, the most glaring examples of inequality are in policing, the justice system, and in k-12 education, all of which are government-controlled.
In addressing this at a political/regulatory level it became clear to me that while it is convenient to beat up on Comcast (however deserving they may be of such treatment), the real problem on the east coast corridor are the trade unions. They have raised the cost of doing business by at least an order of magnitude. It is a heartbreak for me personally - my grandfather was highly involved in the labor movement back in his day and today he would roll over in his grave at the rampant corruption.
Selling a kidney is totally the same as part-time driving.
Both sides are "customers." This is something Uber emphasizes (or at least used to) within as well.
Maybe their market research showed that women were wanting a tablet-size device that could fit into a small purse?
It's a hard problem, because the alternative to algorithmic solutions is human solutions, which people are quite unhappy with as well. Facebook for example has gotten a ton of negative press over the years for their human content moderators.
Since this is the result of a court case, where they should have been complying with the law already, no, there is no transition period.

The transition period was the ~2 months between AB5 being signed and it coming into effect (+ the year leading up to it, which they could've also used to prepare).
> Who is thinking of getting a second internet provider subscription?

One of the reasons I have an unlimited mobile plan with uomited hotspot is that it is also the home internet fallback.
While I am somewhat (and really, only somewhat) in support of the grad students lobbying for better benefits, I am discouraged by UCSC essentially walking back any penalties for violating their no-strike clause. They agreed to terms, and actively chose to violate them.

All this does is incentivize other similar groups to do the same, and learn that the longer and harder you go, the more likely you are to get what you want. And that public institutions can be held hostage.

Add to that a frustration with a definite viewpoint-based forgiveness of the approach. If students had been violating their contract for other kinds of less popular speech, I highly doubt they would be forgiven like this. I'm not glad to have public universities making those kinds of tacit judgement calls.
The last mile is an outdated notion. Many people would have mobile internet these days and not really need a separate connection at home. Where I live (Berlin, Germany), 5G connections are actually faster than anything I can get to my house at the moment. And I can only get it from the same provider responsible for deploying fiber optic as well (just not to my house). Which of course would be the local state backed monopolist Deutsche Telekom; better known as t-mobile in the US.

Many developing nations never had any last mile to begin with and probably will never have any. There are more phones than people in this world. Multiple companies are bootstrapping satellite networks to serve internet all over the planet. Going forward, the only reason to have a wired connection into your house would be monopolist telcos hogging the locally available radio-spectrum backed by lots of government protection.

So, instead of governing the status quo of 15 years ago, governments should focus on ensuring there are no infrastructure monopolies on mobile internet. That means ensuring multiple providers are active and that no barriers exist for customers to switch provider. This drives them to compete on quality rather than luring in customers to years long contracts and lots of hurdles to get out of those; which sadly is the status quo in many countries.

The only reason sim cards still exist is because they are a key control mechanism. Soft sims were proposed early this century already and the only reason for sim cards to continue to exist is that it 'solidifies' your relation ship to your local telco monopolist. It's the same reason they make you obsess over owning a phone number, which is an ancient relic from the last century.
I have no experience in this field at all and they note on the video that the sequence shown was not realtime but I wonder how far we're from having something like this running in realtime or how "realtime" it could be given fancy hardware to be used in the wild?
yeah, that's fine IF the drivers have the option to choose, but the judgement says that the drivers MUST be classified as employees.
The CEO with an Empty Calendar
Yes, I can use a programmatic ad exchange such a Google’s to push ads on a site that would result in a negative experience for visitors. The creative review process is pretty lax. I haven’t heard of a documented attack, but it would be easy to grief a small site in such a way.
I recommend checking @nexta_live in Telegram to understand the scale of protests and the scale of violence there. It’s in Russian and Belarusian language, but there are plenty of videos of what’s happening now.
I'd suggest having a look at IoT, chances are you already have the skill set to work with IoT and the demand will only grow in the following years.
Were the rides more expensive because they weren’t using unsustainable VC money to subsidize fares?
> Proposing a solution to that is more interesting that just saying "switch to Rust!".

The firefox way would be more interesting, start by introducing Rust to the codebase, than write first components in it and switch it over time.
How to Upgrade MongoDB Versions Without Downtime
I actually think this is a false comparison. With TimescaleDB you get higher inserts, 1000x faster queries (depending on your query, of course), 95% storage savings from native compression, etc., than with vanilla Postgres.

You also get really useful features like continuous aggregates, data retention policies, interpolation, etc.

So the comparison isn't really 1-to-1. Depending on your workload, you could easily get better performance out of 1 vCPU on Timescale Cloud than 4 vCPU on any vanilla Postgres service (not to mention the 95% cost savings on storage).

(I work at Timescale.)
Yes. Let's make things less accessible to everyone. People with less resources have had it too good for the last decade or so, and our double digit core, double digit gigabyte memory computers no longer make us feel special, so let's move software to something even bigger and more bloated than anything we've ever seen before.
Isn't every law specifically intended to put a group of people in noncompliance with it? What's the point of making a law if everyone was going to comply regardless?
If you like Percy, check out Chromatic which is similar and actually built by the same people who maintain Storybook.
You should read about skin in the game by nassim taleb.

We need more artisans in the world.
Game of Birds and Wolves! Great book
belly_joe asks: "Is there a way to check local insect levels without harming their populations?"

Hire a Buddhist to go camping and keep a log of bites/hour.
Got it, thanks for responding. So my takeaway is that today the pitch for the recurring is that you'll continue to add new styles, and users can pay a monthly to access those as they come out. Just one potential customer's opinion, but I'd be much more likely to purchase styles and +PLUS features if they were one-time purchases.
> Anarcho-Capitalists advocate for a society that is stateless, but not lawless.

Whatever aggregate enforces law is, ipso facto, the State.
I believe they also like clover lawns, and gardens... really anything besides the sterile grass and concrete structures that have been marketed to be idolized.
Malaysia is working on a smart city from the ground up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFG-PIJ0GUE
I mean, technically those small businesses using child labor weren't "doing anything wrong" before the law was passed either.
Ask HN: Learning Spring Without XML
I started learning spring recently, and I've been completely ignoring the xml based configuration until now, and using java config everywhere. But I think it might be an issue if I ever have to work with legacy codebases, since they might be using xml config. I also noticed that java based config is mostly similar to the xml counterpart.

Should I continue using only java based config or should I learn xml config as well?
Would you be interested in giving them your phone number? how about your contacts as well? maybe your own voice? apps have you've installed? and when you're not using the app, keep them posted on your location while you're at it too.

> Them selling my data to others without telling me is unethical.

Don't you think Google does this to you already?
Woah, look at Mr. Fancypants with a state that cares about renters and provides a sample form.
So how to donate to (or buy products from?) the Mozilla corporation that develops Firefox?
> There must have been something compelling about it.

One of those compelling things is that it seems like a better deal. Uber relies on you not doing the expenses math on things like vehicle depreciation, car insurance, unpaid time spent waiting for fares, etc.
Back in 2014...when they were using billions of VC funding to undercut taxi rates.

Uber hasn't been that cheap in years. Uber is now roughly the same or more than using a taxi in LA, and that doesn't even include Uber's original and more expensive black car service.
We all know news outlets profit from fear, outrage, and general negative emotions. We get it. But that doesn't mean you get to just chalk up any bad news as "Well, that's just the media for you!".

If you didn't find the article I posted above compelling, I'd love to hear why. Here's another [1] BBC article suggesting approximately 50% of covid cases result in brain damage. Why should we not take this seriously?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-ef...
Right, and removing upfront pricing removes that.
On cheaper keyboards (I have one) the lettering wears off. And it’s IBM branded with M-style switches!
The advantage is that it's a tablet in (roughly) a phone form factor. My Nexus tablet (7 inches) BARELY fits in my pants, and is a bit uncomfortable to carry around.

I'm less interested in the productivity side of things, but this looks great for entertainment. I don't like reading ebooks on a phone-sized screen, which wouldn't be an issue. This could also be pretty neat for light gaming with Steam Link/Xbox Gamepass/Moonlight. I'm currently in a situation where I'm able to work remotely for a while, but I'm not going to bring my desktop with me if I spend a week at a cabin in the wilderness.

At this price it's not quite worth it for me, but hopefully the Surface Duo does well and dual screen devices get a bit cheaper and add in features I care about like wireless charging
You’ve got the wrong side of the analogy. You hiring the plumber makes you the rider in this analogy. The plumbing company is Uber. AB5 says that the plumbing company can’t just hire the plumber as an independent contractor every time your toilet breaks and send them to you to avoid giving them employee benefits.
No. Coverity scans QEMU regularly but it is not sound.

The challenge with static analyzers is that false positives make people not want to deal with the analyzer reports.

I will check out IKOS, thanks!
Yes, but after that Uber and Lyft aggressively drove those local alternatives out of business by giving effectively-free rides for the next couple of months. The majority of my rides around the downtown area during that time cost me _maybe_ a few dollars out of pocket. That is if I even paid at all, vs using "credit" which seemed to be arbitrarily added to my account.

It is illogical to start up a new business when it is more than likely that the previous incumbent will just come back in X number of months and operate at a loss until you're gone.
Is Arecibo doing 1st rate astronomy still? Is it likely that there will be a huge call (or justification) for funding to repair this quickly? Versus spending the $ on other students/research programs? I wonder how much the $ bill is -- maybe on the order of <$5M?
"I Am the C.E.O. of Uber. Gig Workers Deserve Better."

what an absolute coward.
Civic safety nets should be the responsibility of duly elected governments. Pushing health care, sick leave, etc., onto businesses is so backwards.

Our body politic wants all these protections but can't muster the will to do it "properly". I see this as "pass a law, and make it someone else's problem".
Because people can build private ISP from their garage now a days. Many small communities and in some cities have done that for like 20k
How does “Send all to voicemail” work, anyway?
With a decent (perhaps high speed?) camera and a trained computer vision model, couldn't a contactless study be performed of flying insects? It should be possible to count the common species in an area with reasonable accuracy and flag photographs of unknown species for human review. Definitely not as cheap as a trap, but perhaps with solar power could be just as easy to place. Unless someone with experience with these studies can make the case that the number of insects killed by these traps is negligible and all this effort isn't worth it of course.
Essentially. We build out a bunch of separate entry points(pages in @vue/cli language) in two separate groups; components and pages. Both serve the same purpose in that the entry point is responsible for wiring the Vue components into the legacy page. Components may be included on every page or a number of pages, "page" entry points are meant to be included on certain routes.

They are brought in via script tags in the legacy web framework.
> You wouldn't have the necessary democratic legitimization to implement it

That's kind of the point of this thread, that perhaps by offsetting externalities at a legislative level, we can help build democratic legitimization to problems that are widely recognized but lacking even incremental solutions.

Obviously you disagree we should even be trying to build more housing or transit, and that's great for you but not really relevant. My post is approaching the issue that there are very large factions of interest groups that collectively do believe we need more housing and transit, but individually cannot agree on where (or should i say, in whose backyard), by whom, and how, it gets built.
I strongly disagree with this push to abandon hard-wired internet. I have never found wireless internet to be fast or reliable. My parents had it for years, and then the trees became too tall, and it stopped working. I live in the middle of the city, and yet I don't get LTE service in the back of my house for some reason. Even when I do get it elsewhere, it's slow as shit 50% of the time. I'll keep my gigabit fiber, thanks.
I haven't done experiments to measure downtime on Azure myself. SLAs are tricky once you dig very closely into the details. If I recall correctly, years ago when Google Cloud came out that they defined "uptime" as "responding at least once within a 10 minute period", so that a service that's online for 1 minute, then is offline for the next 9 minutes...is still considered to have 100% availability from an SLA perspective.

Moreover, your actual costs from the cloud vendors is often tricky and muddled, given they have some many different ways to charge you. For managed databases, this often includes things like some backup storage costs, bandwidth costs for ingress/egress, etc. All of that is "included" in our flat pricing.

But the biggest thing: Timescale Cloud is not offering an undifferentiated Postgres offering. It's the only place to get the best version of TimescaleDB.

And in many cases, this will /save/ you money. For example, TimescaleDB's native compression typically gets 94% bandwidth reduction. So the 500GB on Timescale Cloud is equivalent to paying for 8TB on Azure or AWS. And without all the other TimescaleDB features, including performance improvements of executing queries against compressed data.
Is there anything that would prevent this approach working on 360 video?
Half the comments here are about FSF rather than about the article. Why is FSF such a sacred cow that mere observation that they have made a trade-off in freedoms, is somehow objectionable? I didn’t take anything that was in the original unedited article as an attack on FSF.
Imagine being plucked from college at 22 and getting payed 200k+ total compensation with an introduction telling you how you're now one of the best at your field working with the smartest people in the world... how you're changing the world before you've even been on-boarded.
To me, this isn't a discrimination thing as much as it is simply different prices for different products. Dating sites offer men and women wildly different products. Men (especially older men) are paying for volume--a steady supply of potential matches, since matches are extremely rare. Women are paying for a filter, since otherwise they would all be inundated with matches all the time. Totally different products. I'd imagine the product for men is likely a lot more difficult to provide, too, hence the higher price.
After incompetence and malice, there’s a third option, or maybe a blend of two: arrogance and laziness.

They’ve been sitting on top of the world for a while. The results sometimes speak for themselves.

As a case in point, for over a full decade they have been flagging their own emails, that they send, that they know I signed up for, as spam. For a decade. Possibly as long as two decades.
That's a weird take on SIM cards. I used to work in the wireless industry and the primary benefit was that you could easily swap carriers by swapping out your sim, but you could keep your phone. Software based SIMs sound like a security risk to me.
> IMO there's no good reason to omit possibilities for aesthetics.

My point is that it's not for aesthetics but comfort. For
aesthetics I wouldn't use vertical stagger or a split layout.

With a 40% keyboard you can enter everything without moving
hands or wrists at all and more important keys are moved right
below the thumbs so I can use Ctrl and Shift without twisting my
hand.

All said and done I still think that the standard keyboard
layout is actually not a bad choice either, and is sometimes underrated. I just think that
some more experimental boards manage to be just as productive
while removing some ergonomical weaknesses.