skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to that all that, I once caught Windows Defender submitting places.sqlite out of my Firefox profile directory so I'd recommend you turn off "automatic sample submission" in Windows Defender if WPD doesn't already do that.
Money will not solve the EU's pervasive problem with corruption and grift. I'm thinking of huge investments like the 1bn euro flagship fund for graphene that have done nothing except prop up existing institutions of well-connected academics
As a new salesman, your main issue is getting over rejection. If you don't learn how to do this properly, you'll end up not explaining your product properly, hesitating to present to marginal prospects, and changing your product too readily from criticism.

So just go about doing the usual sales thing of describing your product, finding prospects, and talking to them. A lot. I think density of rejection is actually key to thickening your skin.
and that means desktop devices, not servers, embedded or smartphones: not overall shares.
common error is picking one slice of the share and claiming it as something else.
Why would you think it failed? I'm a heavy Haxe user myself since I'm developing https://rpgplayground.com in it.

Since the years I see more and more people using Haxe, including recently Pokemon Sword and Shield (for scripting) and Spellbreak (on top of Unreal Engine)
Ask HN: Is Twitter purposely ignoring some of my actions (Favs/RT)?
It's been a while since I noticed it, since it's totally silent and the UI works properly, but looks like Twitter is ignoring all my actions that don't result in a new tweet.

I fav and/or RT a tweet, visit the tweet or reload the page and my fav and RT are gone.

If I Quote RT it works ok.

If I try to update my trending topic preferences, like Location and Personalization, it shows the changes and reloads the component, but nothing really changes and when I do open the preferences again, changes have gone back.

I disabled uBlock but didn't affect it.

I'm using a VPN to connect so wherever my exit node is I get the Trending Topics.

Has it happened to you?
The newer generation of the SE came out this year (2020) and works great too
This is sort of already happening. As fa as I remember, all the startups I've ever worked for received grants from EU.

It's really a common thing.
I've also written a controller for those slave clocks. Instead of an ESP32 I used an ESP8266.
[1] and [2]

An even earlier version used an atmega and was powered from batteries [3]

Those slave-clocks are pretty loud.
Both versions have a way to pause the clock.

https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr
https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr_hardware
https://github.com/close2/nebenuhr
Cuvier’s beaked whale sets a new record for the longest dive
I think that you’re overreacting a tiny bit. One area that the OPs solution allows is rapid onboarding, quick/automatable generation for machine to machine roles and the ability to actually do some RBAC(if that matters to you). To make their system fail safe, they do the exact same thing you are except only making sure to synchronize the block-list.

I don’t know about you, but at least at my org, waiting for tens of thousands of machines to sync an authorized keys file when doing a ton of onboarding or a very very selective off-boarding... I’d rather minimize the amount of machines I touch and doing that via an authorized_keys push via ansible is untenable at scale or volume.
The one time in my career that I worked with management consultants, I wasn't all that impressed. The partner and one of the associates were sharp enough. The other associate was not.

That said, they created a big fancy spreadsheet that kept the business planning people happy and basically validated what we had been telling senior management.

I'm not sure that's bad though. Having been, at a later time, an IT industry analyst myself, there's certainly some value to someone coming in with a fresh set of eyes, without the biases and mindset of people within the company, and (as you say) without the motivations to push a project that may not make sense.
I hear that said a lot about Windows 2000 but my experience was that it was only really true of legacy DOS games that didn't work right. Anything written for OpenGL or DirectX worked fine. In some cases even better (for example Quake 3 ran so much smoother on my BP6 board running Windows 2000).
> There's very little private VC money because of all the grants.

That's wrong. There are four real reasons:

1) our pension systems are mostly government run and on a rolling scheme (i.e. payments from current workers fund current pensioners, in exchange for future-redeemable points). That means that there is a lot less of "dumb cash" lying around in pension funds that screams to be invested for decades... historically that cash used to be put into "safe bets" such as government bonds but their returns are at below-inflation rates, and the only thing that is "profitable" is spreading out the cash over either the big tech companies or small startups.

2) networking. Just look who's in the "angel investor" rounds: people, both founders and early employees who got lots of money in the dotcom era or in the IPOs of the last years - they are all concentrated in the SV area, and enjoy the benefits of close personal contact, and then of course there is YC and a couple of less known clones which come in later. We simply do not have such networks in Europe.

3) risk aversity. Europeans do not like risk, the most obvious example being us Germans who are notorious for being risk averse, so risk averse that our car companies, 12 years after Tesla hit the market, still believe they can make "clean ICE" cars (by investing in synth-fuel tech). A side effect of that is the infamous Wirecard scandal - they were hyped so hard by everyone including our Chancellor who went lobbying in China simply because they were the only company other than dinosaur SAP who were German, were in digital business, and had (on the paper...) good business numbers.

4) "rags to riches" mentality: us Europeans have generally decent social security networks, stable government funded education - basically, you don't have that mentality, starting with young people, to "always hustle" to survive. We live mostly generally comfortable lives, but we're not driven to exploit whatever and wherever we can, simply because we don't need to.

The end result: we don't have venture capital simply because there has been no need for it for decades, it's only a recent trend here.
I think you need a refresher on the philosophy of mathematics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics.
> Twenty years ago Rainbow Tables didn't exist.

Maybe they weren’t called rainbow tables back then, but lookup tables of pre-computed hashes for password cracking existed. I was there. However, I may be off by a year... I cannot recall the exact date I first became aware of them. I am fairly certain it was in the 90s.
I've not seen any rationale why sites haven't done something sensible. Sensible, like allowing automation without storing your password to use sshpass, for instance; then if you insist on MFA, that can be done when issuing an ephemeral certificate. "Certificate" might bring back bad memories of Globus et al, but that was different, and I haven't seen it articulated.

The general response to those compromises has been a disaster area. Especially as (in the absence of any post mortem, as far as I know) the attack presumably involved the general password-spraying that was happening around then. Users were made to look responsible and suffer because systems had local privilege escalations due to poor management -- which, to be fair, might be due to relying on cluster vendors who "take security very seriously", as they say. That has been around the top of the threat list for decades too, it's just that it's now much larger scale. Then you got private keys purged that might be used to access systems on other sites with less risk than typing passwords on insecure systems -- arbitrarily deleting users' data.
the difference between europe salaries and usa salaries are multiple of any student loan or healthcare that you can get.
How does ansible solve this?
The President was asked about Q: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNI553Np__k
Abstract: "If an industrial civilization had existed on Earth many millions of years prior to our own era, what traces would it have left and would they be detectable today? We summarize the likely geological fingerprint of the Anthropocene, and demonstrate that while clear, it will not differ greatly in many respects from other known events in the geological record. We then propose tests that could plausibly distinguish an industrial cause from an otherwise naturally occurring climate event."
Did you forget to add the link to the blog entry?
I think you’re correct when you say that most “innovation” grants are going to companies that are anything but, but to say that most startups are nothing but grant chasers is absolutely not true.

I don’t know where you’re located, but at least here in The Netherlands we seem to have a fairly healthy startup ecosystem, where grants seem to be more of an afterthought because there’s a fair amount of VC money or bootstrapped startups.
I don’t think it’s that Europeans don’t want to work weekends. If that were the case you would see South Korea and Japan run circles around silicon valley.

In Germany at least it’s conservatism and a failure of imagination.

The average German Engineering student doesn’t dream of flying to Mars, he dreams of buying an expensive BMW.
How about with css grid?
This was posted [9 days ago](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24514001)
> He's made his billions on the backs of builders, the musicians who can record music all day long but will be lucky to receive pennies for a million listens.

Ah, you surely mean recording companies and copyright holders that take up to 70% of Spotify's revenue and pay out pennies to artists. Why don't you ask those companies where all the money is going?

> Why can't he share his largesse with the builders who make it possible for his service to exist?

Well, he is sharing it. At IPO Spotify disclosed that had paid "$9.7 billion in royalties to artists, music labels and publishers since it launched in 2006." [1] The thing is, Spotify doesn't have direct contracts with artists (and can't afford to for fear that the Big Four[2] will pull their content). So the question is: where did those billions go?

Let's read the article you're commenting on (emphasis mine):

--- start quote ---

Spotify pays the major record companies a 52% share of all net receipts attributable to streams of their artists. This was a figure the parties agreed to during negotiations in 2017, and it’s believed to have remained unchanged since.

According to Spotify’s Q2 results, the firm generated €1.89 billion ($2.05 billion) in the three months to end of June. We can therefore broadly assume that 52% of this money, or $1.07 billion, is being paid in recorded music royalties to labels and distributors, who will carry a portion of that over to their artists.

--- end quote ---

The article then continues being disingenuous pretending that 100% of the money that Spotify pays out goes to artists and that Spotify is solely responsible for that money.

So what is that "portion that labels and distributors carry over to their artists"?

Oh, look, only 12% of music revenue goes to artists [3] But obviously, it's the sole responsibility of Spotify (and Amazon, and Apple), and not of the Big Four that hold the music world hostage.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/how-spotify-licenses-and-pay...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180819/00051140461/only-...
Mail is 55c because it's a simple amortized cost of a unique government service with some margin. The value varies widely.

Value pricing is when different customers pay different prices for substantially the same service, like first class vs economy airline tickets, and app store fees.
> You could use this to do little stunts like adding an "unless x:" statement equivalent to "if not x:"

You say that like it's a good thing. Python is a language empowered by its constraints. You have indeed always been able to pull stunts like this but it's strongly frowned upon - python is not ruby, lambdas intentionally do not have statements, and terseness is not a virtue.
It seems attempts to censor Q out of the mainstream social networks are fueling it in a Streissand effect. Facebook, Twitter, etc. are tweaking its algorithms against QAnon. Even 8chan, the original QAnon board, is the only site ever to be banned by Cloudflare. It's the ideal environment for it to thrive.
Tiny Tiny RSS vs. Miniflux
The problem is: why is treason against the US bad, but for others, it’s ok? As in: why are we extraditing Assange to the US, but not US citizens elsewhere when they commit treason against them?
I'm probably missing something here, but is there a reason these toolkits don't require the dev to specify a stable, unique ID for each node? Feels like there's strong precedent with HTML's id attribute and CSS.
I think he did say - it's one thing to do it once. It gets really annoying when apps do it over and over again.
Your bog standard old AC clock is synchronously timed from the input AC.

So one just need synthesize a perfect 60Hz ~115vac input and the clock will keep perfect time. (In theory the grid tries to keep somewhat accurate time, but in practice at least on the west coast the departures can be pretty substantial.)

I have a wall clock here that keeps coordinated Mars time, driven off a local atomic clock.
Hey, this is a really good question.

Any tax lawyers here?

Has anyone tried to bring this to court?
>Yes, a distro implies GNU/Linux

Or BSD ;)
2/3 of staff being competent is a great batting average for a business.

3rd party validation of a biased party's proposal is a valuable product.

Less good is when the "validation" is just for show, like hiring Ivy League grad consulting just because of the aura of the name.
It's the one I submitted: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ss...
This is interesting. Is there some way to filter by part-time, full-time, hourly?
The Sales Acceleration Formula by Hubspot Sales leader Mark Roberge is a good book for this. He was an engineer by training.
Google's behavior on iOS is incredibly petty, and I'm of the opinion that it damages the brand.

All of their apps are 'google flavored', they staunchly refuse to design iOS apps which behave like iOS apps.

As a result, I have the strong impression that Android must just be awful stuff that you couldn't pay me to use.

A false impression, I'm quite sure. If someone jumped through numerous hoops to make an Android app behave like a fake iOS app, I'm sure that would be at least as off-putting.

I don't know whether it's arrogance (Google thinks that Material is just the bees knees and everyone should use it) or a deliberate attempt to show off the wonderful world of Google Services on Android, but either way, it leaves a bad taste.
Now, back to the merits of the article:

> One of the biggest challenges in making EVs cheaper is the battery, which currently represents about one-quarter of a car’s cost because of the expensive metals used, such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese.

No, it's such a big, massive misconception the misconception that the echo chamber keeps repeating.

The raw material cost of metals used even in the biggest batteries around is at maximum $1k-$1.5k, and usually just few hundred bucks.

What makes it expensive is the big chem, and it's stranglehold on processing them into cathode, and anode materials.

Plain graphite, while also being dominated by an oligopoly, still only costs $1 per kg, but the moment it becomes an industrial chemical, its price shoots n-fold.

Lithium is by far not the cost factor at all, with the amount used, and no scarcity prospect is in sight, despite speculations of the stock market lemmings, but the moment it is put into some chemical relevant to battery making, it too shoots up in price n-fold.

Cobalt was one of few things which really used to be pricey, but not much now. The cost was approaching $200 per kg at the top of the Cobalt bubble, but then it felt to $20, and below. And again, the moment it becomes a cathode material, it costs 10*n-times as much.

The cost advantage of LFP batteries which a lot of Chinese companies prefer to cobalt based ones is not much in the material cost, but because the chemical's supply chain is much simpler, stable, and has much, much, more domestic competition.

The cobalt based cathode materials are still a domain of LG Chem, and few much smaller Japanese companies.
The CA is not a single point of failure in the traditional sense where a single machine going down has a large impact.
Thanks, this seems actionable.

What if a company set aside a day each month and told everyone to do this -- maybe could give insight into what everyone does, ppl learn from each other, and invisible work gets noticed?

> write ... reports ... on what you're doing and why it's important

Almost like content marketing for a startup, but instead for oneself inside a company
Exactly! And that's what both the corporate executives and your parents are thinking!

So Microsoft has always had to work hard to convince people to upgrade. New features were the natural way of doing that. But not maintaining backward compatibility, in a world where almost all software was an one-time purchase, would be a deal breaker. Why upgrade if it's going to cost $20M to make our ERP suite compatible with the new Windows? Why upgrade if all the software I spent $1000 on over the past few years will no longer work? Hence backwards compatibility with existing software was a top priority (to the point that Windows has a lot of fixes to badly coded third-party software built in).
The heroes here are the police department for taking this seriously.

The article also hints of a Bay Area police department where insurers were willing to falsify evidence to help eBay. I wish they named that department. I know they're mostly in San Jose, but I’d love to confirm my suspicions about the Sunnyvale police department.
If you know about abstract interpretation, here are the relevant papers:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~tdillig/cs395/octagon.pdf

https://www-apr.lip6.fr/~mine/publi/article-mine-HOSC06.pdf

If you don't know about abstract interpretation, start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-flow_analysis and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_interpretation
Curious about the downvotes. If you remove compute and code, what remains is data that isn't owned by a single entity in the case of gpt3. You can sell both compute and code which is what you own but should you be able to sell data?

You can't translate a commerical book without paying the copyright holder. You own the copyright for the translation but everything else still remains that of the original author. Why wouldn't this apply in case of a machine learning model trained on my images, messages, intents, likeness, etc?
WebXR Depth API – Explainer
> XP was a pretty damn good OS that came out of a time when there wasn't a lot of options.

That's more true of Windows 2000 though. By the time XP was released Apple had released a few iterations of OS X and it was looking pretty decent. Not to mention desktop Linux becoming stable. Neither of which were true in 2000.

In fact with Windows 2000, I used to dual boot Win 95, Linux Slackware and BeOS 5 but I always came back to Windows 2k for day to day work. Then when Windows XP was released I gave it a try and got so fed up with it that rather than installing Win2k again I just switched to Linux full time instead (sadly BeOS had ceased development by that point).
There is a term for what you need to do. Autodidacticism.
You obviously have grown into the job you have and now you administer the works of others who are at the cutting edge of the assorted tasks your company needs. Many senior engineers 'rust' out and would no longer qualify as a new hire. How often do you find yourself out of your depth on a project? This happens nall the time. There are huge chances for online learning that have been expanded by this pandemic.
What to study? That is the question. You do not want to make yourself into a new hire. You need to identify what aspects of your current degree of education you need - and your company needs, to grow you into your role. Obviously this sort of self teaching is what you need. The problem is to find just what you need and in a disciplined manner get about learning this. There are huge numbers of free online courses. The MIT academy is one. There are also a large number of fee based institutions that offer the courses for free as long as you do not want the diploma that you can market. You are in your mid 30's from your timeline. I do not know if you have the free time, as you may be married with kids etc by this time. Hopefully your significant other will be completely behind you.
Modern computer tech, thousands of youtube/Vimeo/etc instructionals are there to assist you while you do this in a stealthy way as you keep your regular job properly done.
You will need to avoid game playing, consumer TV, etc., except as a limited relief from your future studies.
Tens of thousands of people have done this with success, and you can as well - with discipline.
Avoid scams and schemes, multi-level marketing etc = traps. Some other good ideas may emerge from others.
Good luck.
It would be hilariously ironic if this turned out to be /u/Nextgrid's most highly upvoted post
Oh god, I love that Look Around You (What are...) skit so much. It's just so incredibly silly.
> I'm already the third person to pull this quote out of your post. I think you need to stop and look at this. You are saying "I am living beyond my means."

I think that's right.

I took a significant pay cut a few years ago in an (unsuccessful) effort to safeguard my team from downsizing. Almost immediately following this change in financial situation my father became extremely ill and was either in hospital or at home requiring extensive care arrangements up until his death ten months ago. For a period of at least 12 months my income was considerably lower than the amount I had committed to family, and I was stupid enough to not ask for support.

I have since relocated my immediate family to a cheaper city and my salary has returned to its past peak but repayments for loans I had irresponsibly taken out during the aforementioned period have put me in a situation where it has taken one year to put aside two months worth of fixed cost expenses in the event I am without employment.
Microsoft internal shade. Juicy!
My guess is that the chip was manufactured in the 1970s or 1980s but was re-labeled recently.
You can get a sense for what this API will allow (once it hits browsers) by looking at this ARCore Depth API demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQJ864LNWI
So, why can't we sell a car like this in the US at a similar price? Do we think there's no market?