skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi phasedout,

I was once early employee at a startup, I helped build half of it and founder, a certain P. A. had said to me that my role has been extremely important in the growth.

We had numerous successes, such as selling software for 8 bit microcomputers and a major operating system deal for the IBM PC that secured our place in history.

Then I started to feel like I was phased out by later hired employees; I was no longer getting to tinker around with BASIC interpreters.

Other people got to have all the fun making a windowing system that was bolted on to DOS.

Sigh.

That's just how it goes.

Yours Truly, Bill.

edit: I'm in my 60s.
iRobot actually makes a dev platform that would work great for this: https://store.irobot.com/default/create-programmable-program...

Its not much more at $200 and gets you all the sensors on a roomba (bump, cliff, etc), return to dock, charging, virtual walls, etc.
Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's not a hug turnoff to potential customers. I'll pass and stick with other alternatives. I'd be happy to pay a large sum for the traditional "buy it, get free updates for a while, pay again for new updates after x months" but this "we own your software and you will pay forever", no thanks.
gotta love that repo name tho
Wow. A little flourish on a GH repo front page (which is also a README, because it’s been both for years) is Black Mirror-esque?
Put a microphone in/close to it. Either a contact microphone or a regular one. Strike the thorns (spines?), bow it with a violin bow, drag your fingers on it. Apply electronic effects to taste.

Here's an Unplugged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVjwEmzxy_w
Building a markov-chain IRC bot with Python and Redis
the most HN comment I've read all day
how can you tell what people care about?

The vast majority of unix/linux "media" are sponsored by a handful of industries that all "sell" systemd based distros. Who makes a living writing for a linux media outfit who will turn against the interests of those who pay his salary?

How do you know there is a choice for people if you don't know the amount of bias there is in media what to project as "mainstream" and "popular". When Distrowatch a little while ago, run a poll, about init systems, systemd DID NOT come 1st, and its 3-4 top adversaries got 60% of the votes. Based on this I'd say systemd is a little second class adversary that can only get newbs fooled to use it because that is what mass media tells them they should try.

Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora. This is what media is pushing down peoples' throats.
Big game or fowl play?
In 2017 Forgotify[0] had playlists with songs that had 0 plays on Spotify. It was 4 millions songs or about 10% of Spotify's 2017 catalogue.

[0] https://www.zmonline.com/the-latest/spotify-releases-playlis...
Shipwell | Full-time | Austin, Chicago, or Remote USA | multiple roles | https://shipwell.com/careers

* DevOps Engineer - AWS / Terraform / Ubuntu

* Solutions Engineer - Informatica, MuleSoft, etc

* Android Engineer

* QA Engineer

Shipwell is a SaaS shipping solution that cuts out the middleman and saves our customers millions in shipping costs. We have had incredible growth with our transportation management system (TMS) and were recently named a Forbes 2020 Next Billion-Dollar Startup. We are planning to double the size of our Engineering and Product teams by the end of the year, so this is a great opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of a high growth startup in a huge market.

We are a Remote Forward company. You can work in our office location cities (Austin and Chicago) or you can choose to be 100% remote within the USA. Positions that don't explicitly say remote are actually remote. All roles are anywhere in the USA.

Stack: Backend = Monolith built in Python/Django/Django Rest Framework, Microservices in Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, Django, Fast API, and Flask; Frontend = React/Redux/SASS, Other = AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ
The work I love is closely related to the company. Yes, there are other ones out there but it's a leader in it's niche and thus most innovative for now
> dark traits ... leads to limited success in work or politics

I definitely wouldn't say so. Instead, such people control most large countries, as presidents or dictators, incl the US until recently
Laughing can be as much a sign that they got it and are trying to diffuse the inner tension it created in them as it is a sign that the unpleasant truth was actually taken as a joke. Frankly, depending on the tone of the laughter I sometimes take it as a direct statement that I was understood.
Gee, I wonder why there are HN-like comments in HN
Is CentOS Stream totally unacceptable for traditional CentOS users who don't need compatibility for RHEL?
Everyday I keep expecting the bottom to drop out of these money losing companies. Etsy, Uber, even Tesla. What ever happened to the value proposition of investing? When did having a value producing product fall by the wayside?

Its been the better part of 10 years, since QE1, that I've been proselytizing the end of nonsense P/E ratios but the train keeps chugging.

I guess when the dollar itself has a nonsense valuation its no surprise that vaporware companies like Apple, Google and Tesla can out-compete "real" companies like Berkshire Hathaway and Boeing.
There are orders of magnitude more consumer devices than cars.
Me either. Any time my partner and I search for anything on Etsy it becomes very quickly evident that many (if not most) of the products are coming from factories in China. Nearly any time we've bought something, the tracking is usually strange, the shipping process takes several weeks, and sometimes reveals Chinese import/export intermediaries. Occasionally there is Chinese branding on the box or contents. Some sellers are much more careful to conceal the products origins than others.

To be fair it isn't always low quality or terrible, but it's clearly not all made by some lone artisan chiselling away in their workshop either.

Anyway Etsy appears to have a much worse problem with this than even Amazon. The cynic in me suspects that given how much revenue these factories generate for Etsy, they probably aren't too interested in cracking down on it anytime soon.
Neat, thanks for that info. I really appreciated Pieter and his work; it's nice to hear his community and project are still well.
But for how much longer will new versions be released? Since they own all copyrights to the software, it's relatively easy to drop LGPL at any point on newer releases.
Must be parody, surely.
US Energy History Visualization 1800-2019
Ironically, the fact that the reader is even POSSIBLE is because of the neutral format of the source RFC. You sorta shot yourself in the foot there.
iOS 14.3 to be released to the general public Monday, December 14
Don't forget that decades ago none of the local courthouses and Federal buildings had metal detectors and cops scanning you, but the separation of the high priests of justice and the "enforcers" from the regular citizenry has become so pronounced and citizens are becoming so enraged at how badly they feel they are getting screwed over it is no wonder we have come to this. It will only get worse if we continue down this path as a nation.
I think it just blows my mind because no part of his reason for buying it is "I want a pair of over ear headphones". Instead it's just "they make great quality stuff".
A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
The author does not say 'conflict', he uses 'contrast' instead which is perfectly justified. Your subtly offensive (a)-(g) list seems to imply that the reasons for this contrast are rooted solely in the emotions of those who use LaTeX. I am fine with that but I am not sure I would agree with your (a): for me it is more like 10 min with a keyboard vs 2 hrs with a mouse.
This user lives in one arm of K-Shaped Recovery.
I'm pretty sure future generations that look back on the health foibles of our modern era will not conclude that the solution to the health problems caused by sitting and working on a computer all day was lying down and working on a computer all day.

Sleep is restorative. Lying down all day is not. Just ask literally any nurse.
When you say you "prefer" what other system did you try and what was the issue that was solved by systemd?
The reason people confuse it is because early work on GPLv3 was going to include similar clauses but they were later abandoned.
> I am not Swiss so my opinion might not matter to you but I would say that there are many skills that are taught with military service that help out in other circumstances.

Being Swiss, and having served in the army, I have a less optimistic view of its value. In particular, the professional officers it attracted tended to be mediocre at best.

> Organization, mindfulness

Armies in general have poor cost control, and an army at perpetual peace has even fewer repercussions to fear, so there is virtually no accountability. Your workforce can't quit because it's drafted, parliament sometimes gives you a higher budget than you asked for, because reasons, and you perennially plan for fictional wars that thankfully you never have to fight.

> and the ability to give and receive orders.

It's easy to give orders if your workforce can't quit and goes to prison if they don't follow the orders.

> What is wrong with having something that is common across generations and backgrounds that allows people to connect with each other?

This aspect, that (mostly) men of all backgrounds served together, was maybe the one positive thing about the army. But nowadays, a smaller part of each generation serves, so that seems to go away as well. And it should be possible to implement a common service for other purposes than an army.
I have issues with wax covering my eustachian tube and so I do exactly this - it loosens up the wax and allows whatever process moves it to the outer ear to work better.

would certainly try this before anything else. I use 1/4 3% peroxide, 1/4 70% isopropyl, and 1/2 water - if its too strong it will be uncomfortable.
Does anyone use this product? Unikernels seem like they should really be the Next Big Thing - the container ecosystem has gotten too crazy, too many layers, too much cruft between what you want to run and where it's running. This seems like a really amazing alternative that brings things back to where server hardware had been evolving to go, in terms of features for virtualization and isolation.

Can I run Ruby in a unikernel yet?
Education in third-world countries is taking a particularly hard hit, particularly for young girls.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/18/the-risks-of-ke...
$200 less than $600 is $400 not $200.
Basic Income Now, with an immutable tenet that the basic income cannot be restricted or reduced, or contain compliance dependencies. Its time to empower individuals.
Eating out more often to stimulate small businesses but leaving little to no tip also sounds counter-intuitive.
They'll allow themselves to use encryption in any case I think. Just like prioritizing protecting themselves (but not protecting everyone's PII).

(I think Daniels law is good and that it should be for everyone)
A lot of those commits are related to features some people might not care about. For example, I imagine a lot of work has been done on the JavaScript compiler for QML - but if only use QWidgets, that's irrelevant to me.
This is not the same case.
* We do have paying customers yes.

* Yes you can run ruby. Looks like we have packages for 2.3, 2.5 and 2.7 currently - it'd be trivial to add more runtimes.
I've been online for 25 years. There were always trolls, devil's advocates, provocateurs, apologists... But something has changed in the last 5 years. It's like all those roles have been rolled up into a uniformed propaganda department.
Glorius. One of the government's biggest contractors got pwned. And a security firm, no less.
I've spoken to 1,500 people about remote work
35 EGGS PER DAY IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE BURNS (1975)

https://www.jprasurg.com/article/0007-1226(75)90127-7/pdf

Great read. Note if you're not going to read it that you yourself should not eat 35 eggs per day because these patients had calorie requirements of a little under 7000.
I don't think an actual evil community would last long, at least if the members were 'evil' to themselves to the point social cohesion dissolves.
Yeah, I didn't have the "it just works" experience. The last iPhone I owned was an iPhone 3s, and an update nearly bricked it by slowing everything down on the phone.

I guess "it just works" as long as you keep upgrading to their latest. That's true with deprecations in every product line, but it's not something I'd pay a premium for, especially when it doesn't exist.
The rationale behind decisions in a BigCorp with very large Other Revenue Sources is entirely different from that of a small company that could be crushed by market forces on a moments notice.

As others have pointed out, the ROI can be something entirely different than $$ in the accounting ledger.

9 years into my BigCorp career and I still find it flabbergasting.
> As I understand the isolation check, it is a compile time check

You're right that if your language has an affine type system (that statically identifies some references as being unique), then you can use static type analysis to skip the runtime analysis at some call sites (those where the transferred subgraph contains only unique references).
These do seem interesting, thanks for sharing.

Also, what do you mean by "participatory" in the context of machine learning? Is there a seminal paper that defines it?

I ask as in HCI and other fields, participatory had a VERY defined meaning that in short, I'd about equal power, democracy, and inclusivity. I can't understand how that applies to ML and would like to learn more, hence asking you.
There are probably more people supporting themselves from creative endeavors than ever before. (Proportionally and absolutely.)

Think about all the tiktok'ers, OnlyFans, youtubers, instagram influencers, etc., who might have been otherwise dismissed as “the pretty face in the office”.

This is not to say any significant proportion will end up “rich”—no different than the rest of us—but there have never been more “exit ramps”.
> If Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al are not allowed to operate in China

Isn't that because they refuse to ( or are not allowed to ) follow the rules/laws in china?

> I see no reason why we should allow chinese social media companies to operate here

But doesn't tik tok abide by our rules here?

> It would give Chinese companies a huge competitive advantage if they were the only ones allowed to operate in both markets.

They already have a huge advantage as their market is much larger than ours and will only continue to grow.

> It's roughly equivalent to China enacting a 100% tariff on American goods, and the US continuing to buy Chinese goods with no tariff at all.

No. It would be like facebook not having to abide by chinese laws while tik tok has to abide by american laws.

Essentially what you are saying is our companies should be able to do whatever they want, wherever they want. Don't think that's going to work out too well over the long run.
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While the source looks like JSON, the page is still sent by the server as text/html. Browsers are so resilient to malformed markup that actually parse the content inside the <html> tag at the end of the document (firing the JS script that render the actual page), ignoring all the (pseudo) JSON around.

The page is rendered in QUIRKSMODE because the source is missing the <!DOCTYPE html> at the beginning of the document, to resemble valid JSON.

Well, at least that's clever!
The new iPhone is the 12, just fyi.

Even though they were not as recent, I believe your argument would be more compelling if you used Apple's more similar products, e.g. AirPods Pro, or perhaps the latest watch.
The cops didn't barge in in this instance. They showed up and (claimed) to have waited at the door for 20 minutes to be let in.

Still doesn't excuse pointing a firearm at her and her family.
> Doing groceries at Costo so money is not leaving the circle of big corps.

Costco's net margin is ~2.6%, so the other 97.4% is leaving Costco for labor (notably well-paid for grocery stores) and whoever their suppliers are. Are they substantially different from your normal grocery store's suppliers? For that matter, is your normal grocery store itself different from Costco in some structural way that is meaningful to you? Perhaps you were previously shopping at a coop like San Francisco's Rainbow Groceries or New York's Park Slope Food Coop?
I had the opposite experience. Before Amazon delivery, UPS and FedEx dropped packages in my mailroom (which is, by bad design, publicly visible). Then Amazon started delivering to my door, and UPS and FedEx later started doing so too although not as reliably.
So you’re getting more for less by eating out more often and not tipping? And you’re also saving more than ever? I mean, that’s cool, but I hope you don’t think you’re being altruistic.
>spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device, compares the motion data, then remaps the sound field so it stays anchored to the device, even as the user’s head moves.

Emperors clothes. The audio is already anchored to the device, since the device emits the audio. And the device is (presumably) anchored to the wearers head by friction. so...
JS is usually what kills performance on lower end devices. If websites were only html and css, my smartphone from 2015 would still be a functional device. I have yet to have a page crash due to too poorly written html and css.
Actually what might be better is sheet functions. So like pages where you can define input and output cells. Then you top level sheet can invoke the "function" as like "=mypage(A1, A2).N8". That way you get local scope, etc, and even excel noobs could figure it out because it's very visual instead of being a mathematical function.
I thought it was more like:

Set a team of experts to find bugs independently for some specified amount of time. Then look at how many of the same bugs were found by multiple experts.

If most of the bugs were found by multiple experts, then there are probably not that many more bugs than the total number that they found. If most of the bugs were found by only one expert, then there are probably a lot more than the total that they found.

With some math you can pin down the 'probablies' to numeric ranges.
An aggregator of stories on a given topic can make anything seem to happen frequently. This would, by design, ignore any stories that don't fit the narrative. It may be a good source for stories on that exact topic, but is by no means an accurate indicator of frequency, especially as a sole source.
If those two are following Sun Tzu's advice, they'd probably be attempting to appear strong where they are weak.
I haven't looked at the AGPL in a long time; it is more viral than the normal GPL? My recollection was that the key difference is that "distribution" that triggers the requirement to share changes is expanded to include running it in a SaaS environment, but that's not really the part of the GPL that's "viral." Is there another difference, or what?
Lightning port is the biggest disappointment so far, but I’m sure there will be more.

Does it work without Apple Music subscription?
How long now until GitHub is the MySpace of source code?
High-volume shippers have contracts with carriers, often more than one year in length. Some of them are referenced to the retail rate. Many though are defined price (including surcharges) with annual escalations. Parcel carriers have been disrupted to some extent by Amazon building out their own logistics capability both line-haul and last-mile and have been signing contracts with non-Amazon shippers to ensure they could cover their costs and make a profit.

Now, pandemic hits and drives a lot of unexpected, probably just this year, traffic into parcel shipping that would have otherwise been freight to stores and passenger car to homes and there's not enough capacity.

There's not as much price shaping they can do without being in violation of their contract. In a lot of cases, they know they need these big shippers next year as well, so they can't entirely burn them this year even if they were willing to litigate the contract.
Of course it makes sense – if all of the OP's 10 pounds per month went to the bands he's listening to, they would get his 10 pounds every month.

Right now they get almost nothing, because the current model redirects his money to the major labels' biggest artists. Understand?
Again, this is another thing where Apple improve for an “already solved problem”.

You don’t need to press any buttons. Just interact with your devices as normal and your audio connection switches automatically as if sound were playing through the device’s respective speakers.

In fact there may be a downside because sometimes I actually need to take my AirPods out to verify that audio is still playing through them since the audio just transferred so fast.
That's more excuse than argument, to me.

I think that's basically an admission to packaging and marketing a new franchise under the Bond brand.

Anyway, all the Bond movies were campy or felt B-movie-ish to some extent. Each actor did it in a different way, but they all did it. And don't forget that Moonraker exists. Which I love, but come on.

The self-parody wasn't always explicit or obvious, but it was always blatantly there. Running on alligators, breaking the 4th wall, an eyebrow wax as a (racist by today's standards) disguise.

It was always there.
Same story here with UPS. Ordered a computer recently. Original delivery estimate was last Thursday. Then they updated and said it'd arrive yesterday. Why does a one-time delay incur four days of lateness? In four days I could've driven to the origin and picked it up myself. To make matters worse it didn't even arrive yesterday. Apparently it's at a facility less than three miles away yet they couldn't get it to me in the 13 hours it stayed on the truck before going back to the facility. Finally arrived today - after four delivery delays and five days past the original maximum estimate. The worst part is I paid the merchant to ship it expedited and received nothing like expedited service but since I'm not the one who made the contract with UPS I can't get a refund.
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3D sucks. I have to remember some other damn password. It happens rarely enough that it's even worse than if everyone did it because I have to go check what the password is first. You can basically check whether someone hacked me. The hacker would not take 2 minutes to answer the 3D challenge...
The device is eg an iPad or iPhone.
> painting their objectives in moral, altruistic terms.

Makes me think of hamburger companies removing plastic straws, but not promoting vegan burgers. instead, continuing in effect chopping down the rain forest to grow farm animal food -- meaning, they've sensed what people want to hear (saving the world from plastics) but don't actually care
Sure we lay down for 8 hours but what is the marginal utility of another hour? Or 8 more hours? Is 16 hours restorative?
How does using Kafka come into play when implementing Actor model?

Anyone successfully implemented actor model framework over kafka?

interested in learning others' experience
USPS is already swamped (and fedex/ups are dumping tons of load on them). Yes they are required to accept and deliver, but it might take a few months.
These days the overwhelming majority of doctors work for managed care and are salaried. There are are some specialities that feature private practice (notably derms and plastic surgeons) but for ears, in particular, you’re seeing an internist or GP or ER doc who is in almost every case is purely salaried.
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