skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that a double-joke? Or whatever it is being called. Like seemingly a blow against Mainz but what do you see across the Rhine from Kastel? Mainz. there's your superior view ... maybe I'm overthinking it.
This seems like a bad idea for site owners. It's likely to flag them up as generating suspicious and invalid clicks which could lead to them getting banned from the ad networks. If you don't want ads, block them. But plenty of smaller sites rely on the ad income
Zoom is also in the habit of censoring content it doesn't approve of politically:
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/10/27/zoom-fa...

so, drop Zoom, use a Free and Open-Source alternative. Example: Jitsi (jitsi.org) . It has more rough edges, but it works.
Yeah, I get the impression that if some guy frauds a bunch of rich guys, he goes to jail, but if a corporation frauds millions of users, they're just politely asked to behave.
I can't explain people like yourself. I can't even explain myself why I lack vitamins and minerals. All I can do is congratulate your excellent health and keep taking supplements to maintain my desired levels.
Since this is not an agreement in restraint of trade, just a unilateral action, then antitrust law would only have something to say if HP had a monopoly on printers, which no one can seriously argue.
You might have to PXE boot to launch the installation with non-default parameters but you should have little problem doing so (and both PXELINUX and iPXE support serial console).
History is certainly a better example, but dates DO matter - You can't talk about cause and effect if you don't know when things happened. Now perhaps the minutiae isn't quite as important - but what better way to learn the chronology than knowing the dates? It's fundamental to it.

> to see that most people can’t do it because it’s taught and tested poorly.

Or they just don't want to learn it. Some people don't like math. Or maybe people are lazy - they like it but can't overcome procrastination to really learn it. Or they are more focused on something else, like I was as an adolescent (computers.) There are certainly people who got sick, or went on vacation during that week of school, etc.

My point is, we always like to blame things that aren't actionable, i.e. "the system." It was just "taught poorly." There are certainly cases of that being the truth, but if you look at the time constraints and all other details, it's hard to just blame the system. How do you actually fix the system?
Because it's jointly owned by the 2 companies. It's not about subjective nationalism, it's a technicality of this partnership.

DW (German government news) refers to both companies in communication.
So:

1. We like cheap gas

2. We're scared of China because China bad

Yeah that sums up the US war tactics since ww2 I guess
I'm qualified to audit loads of software I don't have the time to write myself.
Well, your personal information are facts too. Would you like them posted? As long as the crimes are only alleged, not proven, there is no question to me that the interest of the people at large is second to the privacy protection of the suspects.
I have a Brother printer with wifi. The day it upgrades and block me from using reasonably priced toner, I'll set up to a Raspberry Pi as a print server and hook it up via USB.

I'm wondering how much of a market there's going to be for this and if cheaper devices could be used.
Yep, someone can always build an edge device that interacts with the mainstream hardware. Similar to how phreaks previously used [color] boxes to send tones over old phone lines for free calls, long distance, etc.
> Avoiding repetition with contextual parameters

This is the type of stuff that made me go away from Scala.

Why implement a feature that optimises for code writing? How does my editor let me know that function receives that parameter without me going "???" and having to go into its definition?

Implicit conversions fall into the same category, of making code pretty to look at, quick to write, and a nightmare to understand when you're new to a codebase.

Shame, really. The good parts of Scala are wonderful.
Great, thanks for clarifying.
Revenue Churn vs. Customer Churn
You're completely ignoring the Amazon being the marketplace.
> You can't both have your cake and eat it, too.

Actually you can have your cake and eat it. What you can't do is eat your cake and have it :-P
Pithy, but most people would agree torture prior to death is morally wrong.
Are we arguing about what the etymology of the command is, or what it should stand for?

TFA seems to be confused about this too.

Yes, if we had to create a backronym for this, then Pathname of Working Directory makes the most sense (to me anyway).

But, as others have said, that doesn't appear to be what it originally stood for.
And having brought movable type printing to the western hemisphere - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
That said: I checked, and the size is mostly the sound files (which are 312 MB total). I don't mind storing a decent set of high quality ambient sound files.
Ah I see, interestingly some of the posh (expensive) areas in London campaigned against high speed roll out as the CABS where to big and unsightly.

I assume they worded the motion obscurely to avoid people voting against giving the "poors" access to faster BB
Sven Yrvind on provisioning for a sea voyage
Idk about that
Two things come to mind.

1. At the end of the day, investors are people too. They may care that the team ends up whole.

2. 800k is non-trivial money, but it’s a small percentage of, say, a $100MM VC seed fund. The economics of VC are that some investments will net zero return. While they could have tried to claim back something here, letting go with grace gives them a lot of goodwill to be first to invest in the founder’s next project (assuming there is one).
In Android eco system just focusing on high end (flagship) phones may not take one very far.

Mid and mass market phones are where the action is; and to that point Xiaomi's success is because of that.
Tracking Customer Churn vs Revenue Churn can help reveal some important growth levers for early-stage recurring revenue startups.
Non-paying customers can mean either customers who are delinquent in paying their bills, or customers that are using the service for free with permission.
I've been in web development for over a decade and have never heard of this. All of the QA teams that I've worked with in the past have never showed any preference for one gender over the other.
One comment based on a discussion I was having yesterday on this subject, I’d be careful of the term seeding. I think of seed data as data required for the app to function properly. For example, I seed my application database with a system user account or other system specific data.

I’d contrast this with test data which is used to provide a consistent data set for reproducible actions (usually unit or integration tests).

Sorry if that’s a pedantic nuance
Products made by companies that are cutting costs.
I don't think I'd happily pay for Zoom, regardless of their encryption promises. I've personally struggled more with zoom call quality issues and hardware conflicts than I have with any other video conference provider.
I feel like this hits the real problem, figure out a better way to prevent cheating and a better cheat will be made.

It should instead be worked on making cheat resistant material

(unfortunately I don't know how to do it but I feel like the later is where the energy/brainstorming should be spent)
Which explains why UI's generally are about as pleasant as scoring a dime bag on a dark corner.
Indie Maker all the way. If you have an issues with a big corp product, just try to get help. With an independent maker you might get the founder or the lead developer on the phone to help you (or add a new feature just for you).

I also have a bias since I'm an indie maker and know the passion we put into our products.
I give it away completely free during the launch period to get meaningful feedback from early adopters.
>Multics history pretty clearly points at “print working directory.”

It does, but it made sense in the context of Multics, it doesn't in the context of Unix/Linux.

It only shows how unix was designed: "let's tweak a bit and see ... " not too impressive
Given how the EU recommends the use of Signal to its employees, I humbly suggest that this declaration be renamed:

"Council declaration on eating our cake and having it".
It's often the "all-in-one" nature that make these printers so attractive. Yes, master of none, but most consumer grade lasers tend not to have copiers/scanners or (shudder) fax capability. The (deceivingly) low entry price for "all that power!" seals the deal. It also avoids having multiple printers, which is tough in a small room. So most folks take the quality hit knowingly, even as they don't prepare for the companies to change the rules, on an already purchased product, midstream.
Stadia does have a number of open source repos oh GitHub. https://github.com/googlestadia

*I work at Google but not on anything related to Stadia.
I prefer the list at https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/supp... which shows which models do not need the blob.
I don't really want to watch those videos but I've thought about the mortar idea a lot before. It seems much more difficult to protect against versus a more traditional projectile or a bomb that you try and fly into an enemy position. What's happening with them? Are they common?
I needed this comment today. I am an avid stasher, despite knowing the downsides. It’s just so convenient (until it’s not...at which point I usually give up and trash it, and yell at myself for not settling into a partial commit sooner).

But this workflow (which seems so very obvious in retrospect), keeps my current workflow, with so many benefits. The only place where it even requires extra steps is when you want to apply the stash to a different branch, and even there, it just feels right:

“Oh yeah, I was working on that feature over there, let’s pop it off and go put it on this feature over here.”

Since this generally requires careful diffing anyway to make sure things end up in the right place, there’s not much lost here, and without the downsides of stash.
Data breach at Mashable leaks users’ emails, names, IP addresses etc. online
Enter git rerere: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rerere

This will "REuse REcorded REsolutions" of conflicted merges.

Once enabled, it will record how a merge conflict was resolved, and replay it back the next time it encounters it. Saves a lot of time in cases where you already solved the merge once before.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere
Why do you assume the US military is united against the people like that. If a tyrant takes over the US military you can expect a large number of the existing military will leave. They might have jets, but it doesn't do any good when whoever is flying them takes off and then uses the bombs on yet, then ejects over enemy territory thus ensuring that you cannot use that jet anymore while they survive as a hero.

Others have replied to the other points.
of course, he's being sarcastic. people tend to be patriotic about the good stuff and forget about the rest. that's his point.
Here's some: only having three different volume settings is bad. The train sample seems repetitive/has obvious cuts. The noise samples are super long and therefore also large in size and can probably be cut down.
Very cool application! I found that the swatch preview being so far away from where my mouse cursor was made it hard to pinpoint an exact location and preview the color at the same time
Sometimes I think "but won't this hurt them in the long term? After dealing with HP printers I get nautious when looking at an HP logo, I get this bracing defensive adversarial feeling, this can't be good for a brand".

But then I realize I'm not a typical consumer, and most of us aren't, here on HN.

Do typical consumers even have the vocabulary and mental concepts in place (the basics you learn in e.g. free software philosophy, right to repair movement, etc).

I think most people don't. They just see that "Hm, the machine says this ink is bad. Damn those guys who sold it to me! I guess I can only trust genuine HP products." I don't think normal people's reaction is to suspect malevolent marketing and updates. I think when people don't have a good mental model of what is going on they will just take it at face value and therefore the HP brand won't suffer much damage even in the long term.
cyclog – safely log standard input to status files and log directories
Exactly, priority on sound quality.
> The day it upgrades and block me from using reasonably priced toner, I'll set up to a Raspberry Pi as a print server and hook it up via USB.

By then it would be too late. Alas it seems Brother doesn't do these things. It's HP. People should stop buying their products.
Good faith decisions go a long way, if they believe in the founder that 800k becomes an investment to be front-of-line for his next company. The economics make sense insofar as that sum isn’t going to move the fund’s returns a whole lot.
Thank you, will check it.
"A small but reasonable exit is life-changing for me, and a nulled-out investment is expected for you in most of your investments."

Some investors are gonna be ruthless sharks. Others are not.
Looks cool, but why is it only available for iOS?
That’s saying “I want change but I don’t want to change”
> How does my editor let me know that function receives that parameter without me going "???" and having to go into its definition?

IntelliJ has been able to do that for a while now.

> Implicit conversions fall into the same category, of making code pretty to look at, quick to write, and a nightmare to understand when you're new to a codebase.

Don't do it, and don't allow it in your codebase.
HTML Forms: How (and Why) to Prevent Double Form Submissions
I will think about it
Be aware most printers come with "starter cartridges" which are much smaller.
The civil war in the US was different. The last war fought with the old swords tactics, but using modern rifles. After it was over everyone looked in horror and decided that new ways for fighting were needed before they went to war again.
$3.7 million sounds like a lot of money, but he could have earned more than that over 7 years if he just took a mid-level job at a FAMANG company.

EDIT: saw that the founder lives in Birmingham, Alabama. So yes, $3.7 million IS a lot of money.
This was course a 300-level test course compared to a 300-level test course from these other departments. The hope is that when they become "real" courses the pass rate is higher. I think this counts people who are re-taking the course or who dropped it as failing. We had ~50% of our class drop within the first month.

Part of it was related to their expectations of the course: "you mean I have to write code and the class is based off of that and not memorizing test answers? I'm out"
Software Freedom in Europe 2020
I guess we misunderstood each other then.

I got the impression from your post that you're willing to join the crowd that's never willing to turn on JS etc. If it's just about reading the newspaper, you can pick a less invasive data data source. But, say, for e-government, you really don't have a choice and given that all those things are already standard and can be used for good purposes, I guess we really have no option other than isolating those features the best we can.

If your bottom line is "features should only be available when there's a legitimate use case for them", perfect. The problem is when there's a major website and you don't know why it's working, but you turned off entire JS stack and it can't even tell you that.
I agree, but I also think its long overdue to reflect transportation costs to the consumers as well (airline prices and gasoline prices are artificially subsidized and do far more damage to the environment than meat production--target them first).
In the US, I believe the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act prevents HP from voiding your warranty for using third party cartridges.
What happens if you give them local WIFI but block them from reaching outbound?
How can you write a computer program if you don't understand how every library you're using works down to the smallest detail? Humans are fairly good at working with building blocks that they don't fully understand.
It is, but that is just synchronization being handled by openMP.

The indices for each chunk are given to the body of the loop automatically and waiting for all forks to finish is done automatically.
> Iraq has 10,000yr of cultural baggage that needs mopping up.

I would disagree that it was cultural baggage and not massive mismanagement of the post invasion landscape by the US. After the invasion, that absolutely crucial mistake made was to not have any plan on how to provide security in the immediate aftermath of the complete toppling of a foreign government.

CENTCOM, the Army War College, and the Army Chief of Staff, among others, warned that we needed a robust plan for security. These were ignored by civilian leadership and the Pentagon, so there was no real “Phase 4” post invasion plan. Policing the streets, securing weapons depots, tracking down loyalists, etc. was just not planned for and as a result, the country slipped into chaos. It is estimated that there were no more than about 5,000 fanatical loyalists post invasion, with almost everyone else being undecided and just seeing what would happen. The mass unemployment of security and military forces pushed a lot of them into the insurgency out of anger and the need for a job. The widespread looting, crime waves, and resulting economic stagnation destroyed the goodwill the US could have had for freeing people from a blood thirsty dictator.

All these things allowed for an insurgency to grow, harden, and fill its ranks with military trained fighters that would fight for the next 5 years. The chaos and lack of security allowed for jihadists like Al Qaeda to move in and take advantage, eventually splitting off into Al Qaeda in Iraq and pushing the country to the brink of civil war. It wouldn’t have been easy, regardless of the plan, but the failure of Iraq was 100% foreseeable and avoidable.
How do I use a printer without an Internet connected computer either connected to or integrated into it?
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> if we ever rewrite Unix, we can just go with "wd"

Thus confusing anyone who uses the 'wd' hard disk driver.

https://man.openbsd.org/wd
Puppetaria: Accessibility-First Puppeteer Scripts
Ok, thanks, noted :)
November: Where We Are
I don't think the example vindicates you in the manner you believe. The damages would surely exceed the missing wheels if resolved in the courtroom.
"Should an air-defence radar lock on to it with malicious intent, though, the drone will follow the radar signal to its source and the warhead nestled in its bulbous nose will blow the drone, the radar and any radar operators in the vicinity to kingdom come."

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/01/19/autonomous-wea...

Autonomous weapons are hard to stop.
Heh, are you saying that Steam could have been (or is) the equivalent of Snap on Ubuntu?

https://snapcraft.io/about
It’s called having a good PR firm, I’m pretty sure the press just write up the press releases. Certainly worked when a ship owned by one shipping company sank and Maersk got the blame in the press even though they were only chartering it.
kudos for the transparency, a really interesting post
I know there's a trope about the naive founder getting screwed by shifty-eyed VC sharks, but it really sounds like Josh screwed his investors and employees here.

> I wanted them to at least get their money back, but ultimately, for the $4m purchase price to work, we’d need to ask them to walk on their [$800,000] investment.

He clearly didn't want it very badly, then. Nearly $3 million wasn't enough? That's about $420k per year for the time he put in, not counting anything he already took out. Keeping the extra money only increases that to about $530k/yr.

And it sounds like the early employees get nothing, other than not getting fired immediately.

I like the Baremetrics product but man this really leaves a bad taste in my mouth about Josh personally.
Kraftwerk song performed with 5 Arduinos
Designing tests for open book seems to be a good way to

a) make cheating in effective, (no need to sneak in a formula sheet when everyone has it)

b) More like the real world, I always have google at my fingertips, it is just how efficiently I can use google and my existing knowledge to solve a problem
don't the thermal labels fade (or turn black) over time?

Or do you mean toner i.e. heated plastic ink
Fair enough. Noise is hard to compress :)

PS. It is called an ambient noise _generator_ though.
So true. I could have also hated my life for those 7 years. I make a terrible employee. :)
That assumes he took no salary or dividends for 7 years, which seems highly unlikely given their ARR.
> The large nuclear powers are essentially unassailable by conventional means: Russia, France, China, Britain, the US, India, Pakistan, and probably North Korea

Also possibly Israel.
I usually do comment my stashes for this reason (git stash save “words to remind me what this is”). But I’ve also been convinced by comments here that I’m going to be happier with WIP commits.

I like making all my commits “canonical at all times,” but that’s just something I can see it’s time for me to evolve beyond.
Simple Search by the Markup
It helps when you own the business, no? Unless people you know are all founders who happen to like frequent time off.
Between others mentioned here there's also Google Duo, but it's not really a meeting tool but a FaceTime competitor.