skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. One interesting aspect of multi-national interactions is the differences in high & low context cultures. There are some nationalities where I know I won't ever get a straight answer, so have to do a lot of inference. For others the answer is short and clear, to the point that it would be considered rude in the UK. I much prefer that approach.
RSUs are working just fine. I got them from Amazon, I was able to get largely discounted shares from EADS back the day. Tax wise Amazon RSUs were treated like part of my salary, covering taxes when they vested ranged from selling all and selling parts of the RSU or covering taxes cash and keeping all of the RSUs. The discount at EADS was treated as part of my salary. No problem whatsoever. INAL, but all these instnces had in common was the legal entity being stock based (AGs in German parlance). Most companies in Germany end to be GmbHs, in that case ownership is harder to change but accounting is a lot easier.

That being said, Berlin start-ups have a tendency to complain a lot. If they wanted, they could make a lot of things work.
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I think that the noise is one of the better safety features of motorcycles. Without the noise you would be invisible and I think even more accidents would happen.
The title here is slightly wrong. This repo is "Playwright-for-Python", not simply "Playwright". Playwright is a browser automation tool that works with lots of languages.
Paraphrasing something I heard a while back: "Without preconceived ideas I wouldn't be able to find my way in the bedroom at night".

Reconsidering everything you think you know in every situation is clearly impossible and can only lead to inaction and indecision.

I've worked a few years on spam filtering. There is no way you can achieve zero false positives and negatives. You can only make it easy to appeal mistakes and processes to minimize their impact. The same is true for the legal system.
An important piece of context for the renaissance, which is often lost in modern discussions, is that it was not a movement which was attempting to be "innovative" or conceptualised itself as such. Rather, it was fundamentally backwards-looking: an attempt to recapture the glory of antiquity. People were digging up the ruins of a conspicuously more advanced civilisation -- which could do mind-bending things like draw in perspective, pour stone like liquid, and build vast spanning domes that lasted for millennia -- and wanted to reverse-engineer how those things were done. That was the genesis of the renaissance: reverse-engineering. Part of the reason Italy was the centre of this was because it had more tech to dig out of the ground.

Even the Enlightenment saw itself as largely backwards-loooking, again inspired by antiquity, this time in more philosophical terms. It's only since the industrial revolution that the framing has started to be more about "innovation towards the future" than "reclamation of past glory".
I totally agree (no, I actually don't)... IF the money comes from the cops own pocket.
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I’ll also add the pitiful condition of the judiciary.

“Well then, sue me” is as middle-finger as it gets when quarreling with underhanded competitors or non compliant parties.

Getting justice - whatever that is, in Italy laws constantly change to favor whatever is the current favorite in power - is an such an excruciatingly long process that most will just give up and take the loss.
Last week there was a post that reached the front page urging people to obtain "industrial literacy". (1)

I would consider both this and another current front page topic (2) to be much better examples of industrial literacy -- understanding where our modern lifestyle comes from -- than were in that post!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24646136

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683158
Gog also forces me to use their stupid launcher now, and tries to trick me into "connecting all my accounts".

I don't see any compelling reason for me to prefer them over Steam, anymore.
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As am I!

I'm also perplexed by the parent's reference to a "parliament" of ravens. Not only have I personally ever only seen it in context of owls, the article actually uses "a parliament of owls" as an example itself.
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> Law enforcement officers are charged with preventing crime.

Some people think the current system it's not preventing crime well. What with the bias and all that. This is underscored by the police brutality in the media.

> You want totally unbiased policing

I don't think anyone has suggested that's even possible. People have claimed there are gradations somewhere between "totally unbiased" and the current state. And some of us would to try out "somewhat less biased" for a while. Just to see if that's better.
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This is just redlining, but with "Computer Says NO"[1], which allows the user to pass the responsibility buck onto the mysterious "algorithms".

The best part is that they don't even have to run the algorithm, they can just claim they did so[2] to justify their biases.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJQ3TM-p2QI

[2]https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/30/black-us-d...
They are frequently enforceable for some period of time, TBD via expensive court action, via the blue pencil rule, a la:

"The employee non-compete clause shall hold for the greater of:

1- 6 months

2- 12 months

3- 18 months

4- 10 years

5- Until son of the son shall climb Mt Doom and steal the emerald eye from the statue of Xxyctl."

A court then crosses out the single lines that it finds offensive.

What is known to be unenforceable is restrictions on use of general professional skills. The particular IP of the non-compete must be identifiable and recorded (on an ongoing basis as part of a process), rather than vague knowledge of business secrets.
Direct link to benchmark: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4006878
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Most routers don't even support keeping logs. Where these laws come from?
Presumably they mean GDP per capita, which slots Germany[0] just under Alabama[1].

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/gdp-per-ca...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...
How does it force you?
> Law enforcement officers are charged with preventing crime.

This is your fundamental attribution error.

Making crime prevention a fundamental job of police officers places them directly at odds with the community by putting police officers in too many situations where they are "judge, jury, and executioner."

That's a very fundamental problem that all the current protests about the police are trying to drive home.

The only "prevention" that a police officer should be doing is simply being present. Anything else (checkpoints, traffic pullovers without actual violation, etc.) is just asking for abuse.
> Teachers don’t get paid more when they leave teaching for other jobs.

This is untrue for teachers who left teaching job I know. They all get paid more.

In all seriousness, if teaching is such a great job, why does average teacher leave so quickly instead of staying for long years?
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All my favorites are Linux-native. And yes, I have used Mac full-time for >3 years.
What parent commenter was wondering - if prokaryotes didn’t die off when eukaryotes appeared, a question is why non-cellular life disappeared when cellular life appeared.

Even if cellular life has a huge evolutionary advantage we should still find pockets of original life somewhere.
In my mind it is now QTPy until the end of time
wow. looks neat!
The whole point of the exercise is to have a device completely under your control. Closed source need not apply for security / trust reasons.

Otherwise, e.g. Synology produces excellent devices, etc.
I was going to throw in https://www.humblebundle.com/store, but then I realized that the myriad of various "bundles" that they keep launching nowadays (at least as far as games are concerned) and also their store only sells Steam keys. I think the games in the "Humble Indie Bundles" which come out once or twice a year are still mostly DRM free, but that's about it. You can't even search their store for "DRM free", so I guess that's not a thing there...
Please tag this as 2012. It would be interesting to see a summary of this issue since then -- has Amazon made this into a regular problem for their customers?
Milkman has come back into fashion recently. I’ve a guy delivering milk to my door three days a week now along with some other goodies. Super handy.
I am also in the Willamette Valley and was just thinking today about the thick fog and warmish temps we’ve been having.

Fog is definitely a part of life in fall and winter where I’m at, but having so much when the daytime temps hit 65-75deg is weird.
I think people left out one important thing: market. Silicon valley can readily sell to the rest of the North American market which is easily the biggest in terms of size and purchasing power. China has found similar success in Shenzhen because the market allowed the ecosystem to flourish in the first place.
If I were to start my business, that's what I'd set out to do though. I'd want to start a company that could grow from just me, to maybe 10 people in 10 years. Doing round the clock coding and VC pitches hoping to be sold to Google to me seems like a nightmare compared to trying to make a cereal store on the web with products I really enjoy.

This isn't just risk aversion, it's really that the tiny changce of being a billionaire doesn't really appeal to me more than a solid chance of just building a business and having a healthy work/life balance the whole way.

Nothing to be about "startups" means you have to have things that "scale" or hope for exponential growth or being able to sell the company, or even some new or impressive tech. To me it literally means "a young company bootstrapped with a small amount of cash, hoping to grow".
Beware. A friend signed a ludicrous non-compete as a consultant which disallowed him from working with any company the company had approached. Was layed off, got legal advice: his lawyer told him not to fight it :(

He changed industries.
This seems deliberate... It's trying to prevent one application 'randomly breaking' when another application is running.

Seems like a good move to me - just a bit of a shame a few applications might break.
Input streams are configured once on the server. You can group clients together and assign a stream to a group.
This can be done either with Snapdroid https://github.com/badaix/snapdroid or with Snapweb (is shipped with the Snapcast server since version 0.21) https://github.com/badaix/snapweb or with any other control client from the community
Dark patterns most likely. They hide the downloads as much as possible. But to play some games multiplayer you need the gog launcher.
A throwaway declaring a rhetological fallacy - how LOL
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The post makes a huge leap which doesn't make sense to me. They claim that it makes sense to not test the use of security privileges in CI, and instead route "reports" to a separate security team, who will then somehow know whether this app should or should not be using the key. And then even block access when the app isn't known to use the privileges. Shouldn't this just be a declarative configuration alongside the app, and then allow the security team to audit which apps are given what privileges? That seems like an actual "least privilege" implementation. This seems more aligned with the first two Ways.
agreed, I received the mail too.. seems to be hacked.
> By my count, this is the fifth time that the Japanese automaker has quit F1

Makes you wonder how serious one should take this announcement.

> our current goal of "electrifying two-thirds of our global automobile unit sales in 2030"

Sounds ambitious, but we know by now that nobody - no company, no government - has ever met any of their climate pledges.
Why do people find these retouched images attractive?

I'm a good looking guy (in shape, did modelling, etc.) and I just can't understand it. It's like makeup to me... wrinkles, freckles, scars, and everything else have never affected my perception of beauty because I tend to like an exotic, atypical appearance. Health and physical fitness have a much larger impact on attractiveness for me and all this stuff just seems like a poor imitation of what it actually is to look healthy.
I don't know whether such things can or can't be made anymore, but it sure is fascinating to see how certain giant machines are almost strategic national assets, and compare when they were built. NIST deadweight machine seems like another thing in this class:

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/06/million-pound-...
You don't have to use a different app, actually. The standard Camera app lets you lock white balance. To capture orange skies, you just long-tap while pointing at a white source (another iPhone or iPad, for example) to lock the white balance. Then turn your camera to what you want to shoot, and it will keep the WB locked.
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I'm currently working for a big Coud company and a lot of small and startup business lacks a cloud architect expertise to design reliable and cost-beneficial in the long term architecture.

Lately, I've supported and design for 4 of those companies in their architecture which includes deployable scripts for their infra, one high-level arch diagram and 6 pages explaining it. I’ve made USD$2k and took me 2 days worth of work.
I would need some market validation and nothing better than here. Do you think is worth converting this on a business?
> The FIA has made a rule now that any new/innovative finding on a car gets banned the next season.

Or in some rare cases, it becomes compulsory instead...
> and don't take negative reviews personally

I didn't as it it's obvious the reviewer didn't read the paper :)
A14 in new iPad air compared to top Qualcomm chip (Snapdragon 865): https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4016142?baselin...
I think this is mostly to give teams with smaller budgets a fighting chance against teams like say Mercedes who have an astronomical budget and could finance R&D all year long.
This feels like a false dichotomy. To use a hypothetical, there's a world of difference between stopping someone because they have anti-theft ink all over their hands a block from a recent bank robbery and doing so because they're purple skinned and statistically, so are most bank robbers. Trying to avoid the latter doesn't mean preventing the police from putting 2 and 2 together on the former and making that case in court.
Apple has a refurbishing program where customers get a certified refurbished produce with a warranty. What happened in this (YouTuber reading of an) article is theft.

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished
Honestly?

I'm okay with this business model. I know it's not a popular opinion here - but as there's no reasonable way to prevent people from unrestrictedly distributing copies, the business model of licensing books sounds reasonable to me.

What's not reasonable is the lack of transparency when you're suspected of abuse. I understand that there are many bad actors, but these companies are judge, jury and executioner when it comes to handling what they think are abuse cases - and honest people who get caught in the crossfire have no recourse.

Regulation needs to be put in place saying that if you paid a company any significant sum for services, you have the right to contest any claims of abuse and must be provided with all reasoning they have on that abuse within 24 hours. And you have a right to take them to court without needing to show damages when they're being unreasonable.
Yes, the first life forms which also used phosphate and derivates like the phospholipids must have been already too complex to be believable as being the very first systems able of self replications.

The role of phosphate anhydride derivatives (like ATP nowadays) in performing condensation reactions must have been initially fulfilled by sulfur compounds (thioesters & disulfides, probably just pyrite at the earliest time).

The role of phospholipids in membranes must have been fulfilled by some simpler molecules combining hydrophobic with hydrophilic parts, maybe just free fatty acids in the beginning. The first membranes must have been much more permeable than the membranes used by the last common ancestor so either shorter free fatty acids or some simpler ester or ether of shorter fatty acids should have been enough for them.
What is the point to run RAID6 on 4 drives, instead of RAID10? With both, half the space is usable, but with RAID10 read speed is twice as high, and resilvering is twice as fast.

RAID6 makes sense for 5-8 drives.
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I think there is some spread of the fans (case and power supply) used in the gen8. My gen8 is ok for an office or a large room, but too loud for a study room. Unfortunately the fan has a special pinout and cannot be replaced easily with a quieter piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn8tXP-ZjI
Being mostly written in C was key.

Though it was written for x86 initially, it was nearly all C, with GCC extensions and macros/inline functions containing a tiny bit of inline assembly where x86 instructions were needed.

That made it easy to port to other architectures as soon as someone was motivated, by replacing macro/inline definitions, the bootloader, entry/exit/interrupt paths, and simple architecture-specific device drivers such as keyboard and console.

If Linus had said no, it would have been difficult, as there were many changes that needed to be maintained for each new architecture, and internal APIs that needed changing to help them perform well.

Luckily Linus was happy to accommodate new architecture changes as people did the ports, and over many years the internal APIs gradually shed their x86-flavoured semantics to become more portable.
Ding ding, this is the right answer!

What people don't seem to mention in these discussions is that these algorithms give cops plausible deniability to harass anyone they wish.

"Sorry, ma'am, the computer told me to strip-search you. Yes, again."

This is the good old "the dog barked, I'm searching your car for weed" trick, except nobody can even see the dog.

You think this is far fetched? It's already happening[1]:

You have been selected for a random computer-generated inspection.

Yes, surely the computer randomly generates an inspection request for a black diplomat every other time she crossed the border. What are the chances, huh. What logs? There isn't a problem.

In a lengthy statement, CBP spokesman Matthew Dyman disputed Spears‘ account of her border crossings, saying that she was referred to secondary inspection during 12 of 43 crossings, and that “all referrals were system generated.“ The language of the statement did not make clear whether CBP keeps records of referrals to secondary inspection made for other reasons, such as an officer’s discretion.

[1]https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/30/black-us-d...
Gespensterwald – 3D animation with ambient drone in 64 bytes of x86 code
"...The submitted version (62 bytes) works as is in MS/FreeDos
it is very fast though. There is another version without
sound, synced to the timer, which is 44 bytes, also working
on all Dos Versions. A size way lower than 40 bytes can be
achieved with cutting alignment and color mapping..."
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Well then, how would it be dead in 5 years? That sounds every bit as hyperbolic.
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Here is the V2 with short rationales in quotes:

No program shall force a human into repetitive tasks.
"Computers are made for automating tasks, not enslaving humans."

A program must not require inputs from a user, that have no effect on the output.
"No deceptive programs."

A program must warn the user when its inputs are ignored.
"Split of responsibility."

A Program must never silently fail.

A program is provided to a user at a predetermined price. It cannot subsequently be removed from the user without its consent, made to produce invalid outputs, rendered useless or less valuable.
"Programs do not wear and cannot be used to extort money from users."

Programs must not ignore users inputs solely based on a probability of them being wrong.
"Unusual input is not necessarily invalid"

Users can always override program outputs that are based on probability or incomplete information.
"In autonomous vehicles, justice, profiling"

Documentation for the program must be provided to the user. It is written in good faith, describes all the features, the program inputs, and the valid outputs.

If the program output is based on probabilities, the documentation must explicit the probability for the program to give a valid output.

When program performance varies between users, a user can know the probability of a valid output in its case.

A human providing inputs to a program, voluntarily or involuntarily, is a user of said program.
"And as such has access to documentation".
My bad, misunderstood that! Thank you for clarifying this.
I have plenty of experience with Ubuntu and wanted to reuse that. Learning FreeNAS just for this one machine I am building seems like an overkill.
They mentioned astronomical expense. I’m guessing if one deep pocketed team did it and gained an advantage, the others would be forced to do the same. These teams would risk bankruptcy if they didn’t win. And not everyone can win.
This is why I steal everything I want using http://libgen.rs/ and so should you.

If I find value in what I have stolen I will try and buy a DRM free copy of the work if it's available.

I have 22k books in my curated calibre library, of those I have read a small fraction of 1% and I have paid for far fewer.

This more or less matches the existing public library pattern.

Authors cannot complain about 'lost income' as I simply would not consume their content anyway if I could not acquire it this way.
Seems to be happening in California, too. I was thinking it was a combination of less sunlight, more particles, and more water (from the combustion reaction), but that last one may be insignificant.