skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard about the usage going up from a PM at Alibaba.
> at least in my country, there are lots of free job openings in IT, and switching jobs is very easy.

Subtract all the companies that you can't work for due to ethical reasons and you might be surprised by how bad the job market in your country looks like.
Hey, thanks for the shout :-)
> non-competes are illegal, stuff you do at home is yours

For “stuff you do at home” is there any limit to that?

Like if I’m on my own time and my own computer/internet, and I worked at say, a search engine company, and I made my own search engine in my free time (a huge project, but we’re talking in hypotheticals here)

Would my current employer in this scenario be able to sue me?

What if it’s “my own time” during the day, but I’m working from home and I switch from my company’s work to my own for 20 minutes before going back to my employers?

What if the project is only tangentially related?
amazing product! I'll definitely try it out.
Yes I saw, but they still need definitions. I shouldn’t have to read the paper to know what the comment is trying to explain.
Some variation on this sounds like a good compromise. Both parties need to have some skin in the game but currently that's not true. At the moment terminating an account is a fast and nearly cost-free solution to many thorny account policing issues and therefore a great option for customer service drones.

It's only the occasional "I managed to raise a storm on Twitter so the CEO noticed" that has any cost to the company and thus any chance of getting a resolution.
>I'm well read

The band Counting Crows has a song, Murder of One. It's how I came across this "trivia".
Amazon.co.uk and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at their sole discretion. - Amazon

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." - Orwell
Software development is a craft. We tend to call it “engineering”, but most of the time, it feels more like plumbing or carpentry.

Just like engineering and it's the reason why bridges don't fall, planes fly and engines work.

There are only so many ways one can design e.g. a DC/DC inverter.

My cousin is a graduate student in electrical engineering doing commercial projects on behalf of the university and half of his work seems to be picking, testing and combining various pieces of off-the-shelf hardware so that they eventually do the thing that's required.

The other day he showed me a ridiculously precise and stable sine wave generator which he ordered specifically for some kind of sensor project.
Me too. The most infuriating bit is the settings that require a login. That should never be needed.
> According to US Department of Justice figures, you are more than twice as likely to be arrested if you are Black than if you are white.

Why is black being capitalised and not white? Reads very strangely
Show HN: Elo based rating for MMA fighters
Hello everyone,

I've built a small project in my spare time, an elo based rating system for MMA fighters. I looked for a bit and haven't find anything of a sort.

Data is sourced from Sherdog.

Any feedback, feature requests or bug reports are appreciated! :)
Google Delays 30% Play Store Cut in India After Startups Complain
Prove to whom? The arbitration judge?
Please go and check this Ferrari season. You are in for a s🅱️in
They’re not electrifying their fleet by 2030 because they want to make the world a better place through technology. They’re doing it because in 2035 they lose access to the world’s 4th largest economy - California. No manufacturer can take that kind of hit. All manufacturers see the writing on the wall - they need to invest in EVs or perish. In 10 years if it looks like a majority of manufacturers are successfully making the transition, every jurisdiction will enact a rule similar to California’s. The remaining laggards will be dearly departed.
>Natural language, for example, is inefficient

Natural language may be inefficient for information transmission (a la information theory) but it can be more efficient for (human) understanding transmission, and humans are who(m?) it is meant for :)
FreeNAS is great but last time I checked it didn't support the Opteron based microservers from HP. I don't know if this has changed in the past few years but it's why I went Linux on mine.
> Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them.

It seems to be taken as a given that arrest data is “biased”. I don’t think there’s solid evidence for this. What if this data isn’t biased?
I don't see the interest in buying DVDs. Books and Music are two medium one is likely to revisit. Movies/Drama on the other hand? Once it is viewed, are they really that many people that will try to view it again? Do they get the same thrill as for a very good story/music piece?
On the other hand it's France, and the French are notorious for not wanting to speak English, while at the same time not many people from Europe speak French. Hard to build a truly European zone that way.
I'm quite comfortable with my NAS running debian and using btrfs-based RAID to manage the disks. Setting it up has been quite straightforward and it's been running for the last 8 years without breaking a sweat. For SOHO applications is more than enough.
The fuel consumption of the engines is 0.7% of the carbon footprint of F1 races (250k tons of CO2). Just by the virtue of not having to travel around the world all the time Indy has a much lower carbon footprint

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/50382898#:~:text=It calculated the sport's total,Factories and facilities 19.3%25
Not targetting versions beyond XP is what ReactOS does, and pretty much always has to my knowledge. It's explicitly mentioned in its doco that it targets Windows NT 5.2. Indeed, this is the first thing dealt with in the ReactOS FAQ on its wiki.

* https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ

I found this disappointing at the time that ReactOS was announced, as I recall, because there were a few things that were architected better in Windows NT 6.
i've always tought that Sleep(n) means Sleep at least n... not Sleep around, or Sleep exactly n, what i'm missing here?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyman-Gordon_50,000_ton_forg...

World's biggest press:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150210155349/http://www.chinat...
I'm sure that in certain contexts you might even throw in a totally bogus, invented term and a human would be perfectly able to match this with the assumption that you're referring to "a group" just from context. Tell someone you saw a "rowlow of ravens all flying in unison" and they'll just assume you used a neologism, perhaps with some doubt or uncertainly in the back of the mind.

The weird thing about the "murder of crows" or a "parliament of rooks" is the use of such common words, especially slightly shocking ones like "murder". This raises more eyebrows and feels more like a joke for the unaware.

A "wisdom of wombats", a "lamentation of swans"... An "ambush of tigers" would certainly be interpreted as the act of ambushing.

Look at the list here [0] and you'll find it very random.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names
A Mediterranean climate is actually pretty rare in the world. The only large areas with a Mediterranean climate are the actual Mediterranean, the US West Coast, and some parts of Australia. Apart from that there are only a few scattered spots with a Mediterranean climate.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Mediterr...
Deep dive into the new zenith-watches.com
In Germany, the consumer demand for UHT is low as well. Fresh milk is prefered over that, UHT tastes weird for most. No idea where the article gets the idea from that Europeans care less about UHT.
> There is no such thing as at-will employment.

And that is a good thing.
Why not also have a look at btrfs?
I bookmarked a ZFS-inspired storage system for preserving data integrity, and dm-integrity has a role there:

https://insanity.industries/post/preserving-data-integrity/

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24372662
~15 years ago, I was tasked with implementing FastCGI support for a webserver I was writing in C++, so that it could proxy some downstream crud stuff written in Python. After mulling over it for a couple of days, I ended up implementing SCGI[1] support instead. SCGI is like FastCGI, but a lot simpler to parse, IIRC.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Common_Gateway_Interfac...
Trade secrets are a thing, and enforceable in California.

> Would my current employer in this scenario be able to sue me?

They can always sue you even if it unlikely they would win.

> What if it’s “my own time” during the day, but I’m working from home and I switch from my company’s work to my own for 20 minutes before going back to my employers?

> What if the project is only tangentially related?

You should speak to a lawyer. It will depend on the details and your exact employment contract.
A NAS seems like a nice way to consolidate my photoalbums and have redundancy in terms of physical storage. But that whole cloud thingy is something I don't need, heck, I don't want!

I would say that a good router is the way to go and I think I should replace the one my ISP has given me. Can anyone point me in the direction for a guide to a hardware router and appropriate firmware, so I can be sure to control what the NAS (or any other device within the network) can connect to on "the internet"?
L.A.'S Metro Flirts with Fare-Free Public Transit
> The background theory that there is an objective reality governed by laws that are invariant with time and space is not an axiom, it is a hypothesis

No, those are the axioms that we use to construct a theory.

> best current explanation

what is "best" is judged according to our fundamental axioms. given different axioms, another theory would be seen as best.

> It is open to question, but if you want to question it you'd better have some damned good evidence.

certainly, but given different fundamental axioms the same evidence leads to a different theory.
Interesting. Why does Washington DC have almost triple the gdp/capita then California?
What do they do that California don’t?
Through the wonderful glasses of hindsight, of course.
I’ve bought 100 books on Kindle. You’re saying I could do something that would cause Amazon to decide to break the contract, and I’d get a refund of all 100 books with interest? Seems like a sweet deal to me, since I’m not reading the old books very often.
> People find joy in discovering weird facts.

People also find joy in going "Well, actually..." and so on. This is balance of nature.
It’s not about the employees being stuck there. The employee can quit for a new job and then just gets sued before they can start work. So then the employee either has to wait out the non-compete period (sometimes these are paid out), losing valuable work time, or they have to get a job in a demonstrably different sector/area, where skill transfer may not be as advantageous.

You’re right that this does create a toxic, unmotivated workforce. That said, it can also instill fear in employees from looking for other positions and helps keep wages depressed, since people can’t be persuaded to leave for competitors with higher salaries.

It’s about control.
Github actions also chatges more for mac. Mac minutes count as 10 minutes each! But Azure Pipelines does not.
Windows 7 (and 8?) had an activation procedure that would be blocked if the hardware changed since the last one (I can’t remember the exact hw they hashed). They have since went back on the restriction and windows 10 has more forgiving activation rules.
They surely are defined by ISO C++ standard.

Like any ISO standard, certain details are expected to be implementation dependent in any ISO C++20 compliant compiler, not missing like on Rust's case.
n is any arbitrary number? Oh. Also I just realized I was reading this previously as x and s being fixed values and saying “if x % s is 0, (n * s) has n values”. Hence the confusion.
Years back, there was a very good book called something like The Data Compression Book by, IIRC, a Mark Nelson. Explained many compression schemes including *zip, with working code in C. I had it, read it early in my career, could understand parts of it. A testimonial to the book, not me.
Short answer what does your employment contract say?

I live in the southern U.S. Non compete clause are 100% enforceable here, and have a ton of case law backing them. I generally won't take a job if it requires me signing it.

I have more than 20 years of experience, and I personally feel I am far more likely to bring knowledge to them rather than then providing it to me.
Absolutely agree. My first job out of college was working for a company that was a minor sponsor of the Tyrell P34. We briefly had one of the cars in reception.
It's always a bit alienating to me when people suddenly wake up with their stuff taken away and are all like "how could this happen to me? why did noone warn me about this? how could amazon _do this to me_?" and then go off on their ways and "buy" the next movie from them (in addition to the amazon prime membership they already pay for that for some reason only includes the 480p version of the movie). It's not like they haven't been warned that this would happen. At some point, most people experienced some kind of abuse based on subsciption or otherwise questionable licensed service models. yet, they continue to not change a single thing about their behaviour.

I really like ebooks. I like my newfound ability to carry around the novel I'm reading in the form of a pocketbook sized tablet with a matte screen that can be lit with warm orange light if I want it. But I buy all my books directly from the publisher, drm-free. That gives me the right to create as many copies as I want for personal use, makes it legal to integrate it into calibre, make a backup and store it on my ereader all at the same time. Buying from publishers is not hard. It's the second entry on ddg when I search for the book I'm currently reading. They even accept giropay without the need to create an account.

With movies and music I can partially understand the streaming model because the average joe wants much of it, he wants it pre-curated to his taste and he wants it fast, without hassle. This is easy to accomplish with streaming in the drm-hell landscape it has become. But books? He buys a book maybe once every two weeks and the convenience is en par with the garbage dump amazon has set up and much less abusive than that.

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And probably add logic to allow the web server to restart the process if it should fail/crash and maybe recycle it ever Nth hour. Bad C++ code could easily make your process crash.
Same for me. I will only buy a paper copy of a book, which cannot be removed from my account when it is on my bookshelf. Same for CDs and DVDs. Amazon seems to offer an instant download of mp3s after buying a CD, so often I never even open the CD after receiving it. But having it means I will own it forever.

Anything that is not available in a format I can own in perpetuity, I will not buy. Voting with your wallet is the only way to pressure these companies.
> but did we think of looking intra-cell?

Yes, a lot of science has "thought of" at looking intra-cell. In fact, the explanation of "don't shake their cells enough" must be very fringe because I haven't heard it any one time before from any serious scientist or a health book etc. The human body is much more complicated, and the way we understand many of the functions of it, including healthy functions, are based on biochemistry, both intra-cell and throughout the body.

Also "shaking the cells" can't even be that important physically, when you compare the speeds at which the limbs move during running to the base speeds of molecules inside the cell due to basic heat-based brownian motion.
> Curing an extremely rare disease is valuable, we all value human life.

I think this is incorrect.

I think economic (and political) behaviour suggests rather strongly that we don't much value most other human life, nor value curing most extremely rare diseases.

> Then let's say there is a finite number of people capable of working on them, how do you decide which cure we're going to target. The tradeoffs are a consequence of limited resources, not the system.

That comes next, after there's a collective commitment to resource that finite number of people to work on uncured diseases of some kind.

At the moment, I think we're showing that the collective commitment is not in that direction.

We're doing other things instead, that you can certainly argue are of value, but given the large proportion of "earned income" most people and businesses have to spend on somebody else's "unearned income", I have to wonder if money flow is a good indicator of value.
Chowbus user data breach (email, name, phone, address) with 800k rows
Email sent to all users via Chowbus Sendgrid. Link to anonymousfiles.io. Two CSVs, restaurants and users.

$ head -n 1 users_y1KGkRi.csv
"email","first_name","last_name","phone_number","address_1","address_2","city","state","zip_code"
$ wc -l users_y1KGkRi.csv
803354 users_y1KGkRi.csv
$ cat users_y1KGkRi.csv | cut -d "," -f 1 | sort | uniq | wc -l
444218

$ head -n 1 restaurants_KmHZSPi.csv
"name","foreign_name","phone_number","commission_rate","address_1","address_2","city","state","zip_code"
$ wc -l restaurants_KmHZSPi.csv
4301 restaurants_KmHZSPi.csv
Lisbon maybe getting there
The European Union is definitely not a political union. Full stop.
EDIT: Of course my whole calculation was wrong.

Well, it first seemed low to me as well.

But 0.01% of one million is ten thousand, which doesn't sound that bad. One million also seems low for a successful company. The same offer would give you ten billion at apple.

Disclaimer: I am not good at math and I don't understand stocks, equity etc. So maybe I am completely wrong.
“obtaining” a program is not a license to use it.
That is so weird. If they don't share the same codebase then why Canonical would want to use "Anbox" trademark?
The Underestimated Value of Open-Source
Can you elaborate on the carbon hitting the atmosphere part?

It is being converted to power for the onsite computers instead of being flared away. How is that not better than the immediate flaring
Well it's funny to see that after years of working and hiring best in industry, the ads is still the main income source for google. Dropping price will help google in long run. If google drops, eventually apple will also be pressurised to drop percentage.
The End of Google?
Huh? You can't make a VLAN or use a firewall?
TIL there is a name for what I speak with my girlfriend. We use many of these phrases/words in our daily conversation.
Not books, but Racecar Engineering magazine [0] is a fantastic source, as is Craig Scarborough [1] for little nuggets of current developments.

[0] https://www.racecar-engineering.com/
[1] https://twitter.com/ScarbsTech
Been building DIY NAS servers for 15 years for my personal use. ZFS with initially OpenSolaris, then FreeBSD. Typically 5 to 7 drives in raidz2.

I found it very strange the guy is happy with & measured 100 Mbps throughput over the
network. Any 2+ drive NAS from the last 5 years should be able to saturate a 1Gbps link.
UK Coronavirus tests not reported due to “max file size”
A very cute article to read. Did the author just describe the 'actions' of Antifa and Black Lives Matter?

It looks to me that the writer maybe should explain the 'peaceful' destruction of small businesses, courthouses, arsons of buildings, deliberate police provocation, 'peaceful' confrontations towards passers-by, committing murder in cold-blood (with no sign of any aggressors), assaults against those who disagree with them and attacking anyone who records their 'peaceful' protests? The irony here is that they are becoming like fascists themselves.

I'm sorry but the authors use of the word 'fascism' is now overused and trivialised to the point where it loses its meaning and is used to create a slippery slope spooky bedtime story.

The correct word the author is looking for is 'authoritarianism'. Not 20 uses of the word 'fascism' which isn't the case today in America and also the childish remote comparisons with Trump and Hitler.
Thanks :)
I worked a lot on this and tried to craft a good product. More cool things are coming, mainly a CLI (in the coming months)
iTerm2 is markedly different to the terminal emulators available for Linux. There's a whole bunch of stuff in it, that amongst other things tries to couple it to the operation of a shell. MacOS users asking how to do what they do with iTerm2 in other terminal emulators is a fairly common thing.

One example out of many: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/313865/5132
I was reading a book on early computing and I believe folks working on some of the original computers at MIT (?) would add their own instructions. They would just wire them in.
Has to run on privileged mode tho
Anybody know what they’re using? Presumably something with a small default max file size (assuming each result is not megabytes of XML)? Kafka?
Interesting.. how often can you find the publisher offering a drm free copy? I buy _a lot_ of books (usually one or two per week), and I have a feeling I’d only find 1 in 5 from a publisher but haven’t checked. Also, I always do the “try a sample” first which has saved me a lot of money from buying books that weren’t what I expected. Wish there was an equivalent to that!
Wyler makes inclinometers that are accurate enough to measure the change in angle of a surface plate directly. It's amazing technology. Here is a YouTube video from 2011 that talks about how they were developed. I remember that I was watching videos about surface plate calibration, and this came up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doCHgJa3Ps
the coercive function in society is prone to abuse but that does not imply that all personnel engaged in the coercive function are complicit in what amounts to a criminal conspiracy.

> Cop!=Programmer, cops integrate into one social function while programmers integrate onto many. The correct mapping would be public employee <=> programmer, or Raytheon weapons engineer <=> Soldier, for example. It really is the social function that is core to this argument.

The social function that cops represent is the enforcement of laws and many of these laws are of a net benefit to society. it is an error to reduce the law enforcement function to brutality and expropriation when there are plenty of violent, malevolent, and larcenous individuals who are not police and still engage in socially undesirable behaviors.
That being said, the attraction to manufacturers coming into FE is large and it'll only take a few more generations before I'm sure there'll be differentiation in some parts.

I'm bullish on FE, especially when they can run on "proper" circuits at a consistently decent pace (that being said, smaller city-centre tracks might very well be the future of the sport in any case).
Well, but that's like saying that you can download cracks for video games, so it's all fine. There are ways to make steam games work without steam, yet I wouldn't consider that to be a solution.
If by "most jurisdictions" you mean pretty much just US, then sure.
They generate money which people can spend, so if that's the only criterion for wealth (it isn't), then mindlessly printing money is also useful to society (it isn't).
I agree 100% - the use of the word “selling” here makes me very uncomfortable - they are employees and they are not company property that is owned.

The “finders fee” response from Apple was the best they could expect.

And yeah then I read about firing the CTO and the lawsuit and I started to get a picture of what this company was like.

I hope they lose, and good luck to the employees at Apple
When I find a movie I really like, I tend to want to either rewatch it with different people who haven't seen it, or lend it to those people.