skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try turning the tables and offering them a buyout.
This is commonly referred to as a shotgun clause.
I wonder why West Point combines academics and military training at the same time. Why not doing them one after the other?
Electric kettles in the US typically are 1000W-1500W, while in Europe any kettle is 2000W-2800W. This is simply because houses are typically wired with outlets for 10A-16A everywhere, regardless of grid voltage.

That ofc makes electric kettles much less useful in countries with 110V grid. It also keeps stovetop kettles relevant in these counties, since stoves don't suffer power limitations.
Addendum: In the analogy, the two-minute video of the albatross is cut and edited from the rest of the holiday footage, in the same way that a released movie is cut and edited from many hours of unreleased footage.
To be fair, what would people expect from Pokemon besides redefining the core mechanics? The physical/special split was 13 years ago, arguably the biggest and best change in Pokemon. There are only so many ways one can improve a turn-based RPG without it becoming too complex for kids to enjoy (graphical improvements not withstanding).

It feels like they designed themselves into a corner here.
It's youtube-dl, and it is not a for-profit project/platform, so it should be fine.
No, not blurring, you can only "stretch" a barcode so far, before the spacing confuses the scanner.

The issue we faced was a bit stupid and a result of trying to save money. The type of barcode we used, and I forget the type, was actually a little to large for the labels we wanted to use, and the labels where very skinny. Trying to maximize the size of the barcode, so our cheap scanner would read the, meant pushing the barcode almost to the edge of the label. That involved fiddling with the size and margins on the Zebra printers, and if you don't get it right the scanner would either fail to read the barcode because the margin was to small (at least our cheap scanners require a margin of some minimal size to identify where the bars start) or the lines where to short and scanners can't read the bars if they're to short.
> 1). This group of modders was planning on profiting from their hack

That's wrong, or at least unsourced and unsupported by current facts.

> 2). Copyright exists and generally must be enforced lest the holder wishes to lose their rights.

That's also wrong.
What's weird is that the bill doesn't have an or conjunction between clause 1 and 2 lol.
Check out Gaff Tape as a replacement for the duct-tape at home use-case.

And for actual ducts you'll want to use foil-tape because temperature changes wreck the adhesion of duct-tape, then the moisture leaks into the walls/ceiling which is $$$$ bad.
> Sure stuff like firebase and similar works for CRUD apps but as soon as you want to do more specific stuff they usually are worthless.

Agreed again, but the fact that you have the option to use Firebase at your discretion is better than not having the option to use.

> I have never used any of these backend as a service but I would assume you would struggle a lot with all kinds of data processing that needs to happen on the server side?

It depends on the use case, and that is key. Too many engineers spend too much time arguing on a hacker news that their way is the One True Way (Trademark) - that is not always the case. Your business needs should drive your tech stack choice, and no one tool is perfect.

So if, like in your example, your use case involves a lot of data processing in the back end, then the choice is easy: favor building the custom server and associated data processing yourself, over using a BaaS or FaaS. However, if you are building a CRUD app where you have like less than 1,000 people using your app, you're time constrained, you don't have enough devs, then Baas/FaaS starts to become a more viable option.
Yes it is, and it's already felonious to distribute copyrighted materially willfully. Recall the FBI warning screen at the beginning of all VHS tapes in the US.
The Valley Manifesto – a hippocratic oath for digital times
i. I swear to fulfill, to the best of my knowledge, this premise:
ii. I swear that I will respect the hard-won technical foundation of those engineers in whose steps I tread,
iii. And gladly share knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
iv. I will apply, for the benefit of the users, all measures that are required, avoiding those shortcuts that improve my performance or my employees’ at the users’ cost.
v. I will remember that there is art to engineering, and that experience, design, and empathy may outweigh performance, cost, or time to deliver.
vi. I will not be ashamed to say ‘I know not’, nor will I fail to call in my fellow engineers when the skills of another are required for the task at hand.
vii. I will respect the privacy of the users, for their data is not disclosed to me for the world to know.
viii. I will respect the competence of the users, for their decisions are not handed to me for the artificial intelligence to take over.
ix. Most especially I must tread carefully in matters of life and death.
x. I will remember that I do not write a story, build a machine, or run a system, but handle the digital concerns of the user as a fellow human being.
xi. My responsibility includes the economic and personal safety, as well as the freedoms ensured to the user by his constitutional rights.
xii. I will remember to remain a member of society, with special obligations to my fellow human beings, as my actions affect not one but many at once.
xiii. Those matters include care for the mind and body, as well as the disabled.
xiv. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered well thereafter.
xv. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and my I long experience the joy of engineering technology that helps.
A company always does its best marketing to itself.
Presumably you and most of us here on HN have plenty of options regarding where we work, so I would say that if you work for a questionable company, then yes, you are, indeed, questionable. I wouldn't say evil exactly, but I certainly do question your ethics and morals a bit.

Now, its important to note that I do not know your personal circumstances, so I wouldn't go out of my way to tell you that you made bad choices or anything like that, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't silently (ok not so silently now, but you did ask) question your choices at least a little bit. At the end of the day, only you can know how moral you are as a person, but if writing drivers helps evil company maintain its evil, then...

> Is this worthy of social outcast?

Of course not, we're all humans and unless you directly do evil acts, I wouldn't say you should be socially outcast for it. But people will form opinions based on who you work for.
I thought it was a joke. and completely ignored it when i first saw the headline. only later someone else referred to DHH's hotwire. it clicked me that it is the New Magic thing.

I am still wondering if there is any benchmark presenting some objective facts
In the first class of a film elective I took in college, the professor read a list of movies and their directors we would be watching. When he got to Roman Polanski, he paused and glared around the room, as though daring anybody to voice an objection.
Thank you for your kind words! You are right that documentation visibility is something missing, it is something we are working on.

Cheers!
Back in 2015 FinCEN (US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) issued guidance that an administrator of a digital virtual currency had to be a Money Services Business and file Suspicious Activity Reports, perform Know Your Customer and comply with Anti-Money Laundering regulations.

So Ripple filed and became an MSB in the 50 US States. So far so good.

But Crypto is more than a payment method. Obviously it is purchased in hopes of capital appreciation and that makes it a Security.

Accordingly, Ripple should have filed a S-1 security disclosure application with the SEC BEFORE issuing XRP.

Failure to register XRP as a security should lead to big fines.

So why does the US SEC leave Bitcoin and Ethereum alone?

Because there is no central administrator that issues and redeems the tokens.

Ideally, crypto tokens should file with the US SEC and their exchanges should be MSBs.
Alphabet and Google is not really a split in the sense people are talking about.

Typically when people say Google should be split up they mean different parts of Google should split. Google has search, ads, Youtube, Gmail, cloud, Android, etc. These parts would be split into different companies. Some parts "go together" like search and ads so they may be allowed to be one company, but YouTube and Search don't go together so they would be separate companies.
Huh? How does SPA help here? JSON payloads don't go faster over the wire than html.
I’ll look up that Wikipedia page. Thanks.
Practical Applications for Custom Kubernetes Schedulers
Then perhaps "patriarchy" is a misleading name.
> Methods to flash the firmware on the Librem 5 are outside of my area of expertise.

That's CSO code for "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I'm just giving you a canned response about our principles with no technical details and hoping you don't pry further and prove me wrong".

He never explicitly addressed the RAM blob. If he knew it was flashable he would've outright said it to answer the question. But he did not.

> Concerning the RAM, I do not see any problem with that, since there is no proprietary code running after the booting. As FSF says, it can simply be considered as a part of "hardware" which is necessary for the start of the system.

Incorrect. The code is loaded in the DDR PHY. It then runs continuously. It is required for normal operation. This is because LPDDR requires continuous runtime re-training at its higher performance modes. What only runs on boot is the (dumb as hell) code they wrote to run on the Cortex-M4 as a workaround, because the FSF's ridiculous requirements forbid you not just from running proprietary code on the main CPU, but from touching proprietary code on the main CPU.

So Purism built code that runs on cpu A to run code they built that runs on cpu B to load a blob from external read-only memory C into cpu D, just so they could claim cpu A never got digital cooties from touching the blob.

Please appreciate the stupidity of this entire ordeal.

cpu B code: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/Cortex_M4/-/blob/master/ddr_l...

> read only

Means it can't be modified without the user knowing, and it also can't be modified with the user knowing.

Unless the Librem 5 literally has a DIP switch for "enable flashing RAM code", read only means read only, period. It means the write protect pin is tied to protected, or a set-only protect bit in the SPI flash config was flipped.
It's common parlance to use "running on bare metal" as the opposite of "running in a virtual machine", i.e. a synonym of "running your OS without a hypervisor".

This usage has been commonplace for a long time, probably two decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
Most of the illicit streaming services are run from abroad anyway, so it's not like this will change anything. Perhaps it will allow easier extradition since its now a felony, but they didn't seem to have a problem doing that already.
I see what you're getting at, but I don't think this is a great way to show your point. a chef's knife is primarily a kitchen tool, but it makes for a much more effective weapon than a car. the thing that makes cars somewhat unique is their potential for unintentional damage.

> Insisting that drivers are careful in any areas where pedestrians might be and being strict about that isn't unreasonable.

sure, but this is a vague statement that has no real teeth. everyone agrees that drivers ought to try not to hit pedestrians. what gets fiercely debated is how civil (and possibly criminal) liability ought to be apportioned.
Silicon Valley exiles are seizing on Miami. Local techies holding their breath
It's somewhat tepid to write a manifesto without a call to action. Here's what I think of when I read stuff like this: https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/privacydoom.mp4
There isn't an argument. We know for a fact that polygraphs are not accurate at detecting lies.

They cannot effectively prohibit something they cannot detect. The polygraph being inaccurate pseudoscience means that they can't exercise the control that they pretend and purport to, as they simply cannot reliably determine if someone is being truthful or not.

Additionally, due to its inaccuracy, it makes the whole process wickedly unfair.

Who would want to work for an employer that gates your success as a team member on pseudoscientific nonsense?
If something is so problematic as to be worth lying about in the first place, why tell your friends? People generally don’t go around bragging about how much porn they’ve pirated.

I suppose I’m just reinforcing the “don’t get caught” mantra, but that’s really not a trait I like to see in people who are supposed to be cracking down on fraud.
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools
first of all with k3s keeping a production cluster running is still pretty easy.

second you should always be ready to start from scratch, which is also pretty simple, because of terraform.

a lot of people are scared of k8s but they did not even try. they prefer to maintain their scary ansible/puppet whatever script that works only half as good as k8s.
Nope, just two or three. Most lives in ~/ao (easy to type on dvorak), some is in ~/rd (random), some is in ~/tmp. I don't really work on enough variety of projects to deal with collisions.
Trump has set a precedent for what is acceptable behavior of public servants and the lasting damage will take decades to undo. He pardoned someone convicted of war crimes. He's convinced hundreds of sitting governors, represetnatives, and senators to openly object to and instill distrust in the integrity of elections. He's publicly questioned and disparaged the integrity of nearly every government institution from the military to intelligence agencies to the IRS.

So, yes, we're viewing this in Trumpian terms because there's a very clear link to eroding trust in government institutions.
> What are my options here?

Maybe you should be asking, what are their options? They can't force you to give away something you own.
Who on this thread was saying what's old is new? 100% of what you said has also been lobbed at PHP recently and I've heard similar complaint about PERL and MS-SQL (that I remember well) and I'm sure others (one of those Delphi product too)
are you there ?
Buy a Canon M50 and use it as a web cam. You can use this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISFCeuiCik

What we need in high technology is a website to manifest our needs and let companies know about underserved use cases. Yes, it's pathetic that Logitech and Apple don't have compelling products in this field but, sadly, it is what it is.
Never worked with Nix, though it looks interesting.
Please explain mobile apps then. That's all remote debugging, even if using the device simulator.
You're conflating copyright with trademarks, they're not the same thing.
> If people are not interested, they don't buy

if people don't want to be abused, they won't stay near abusers? I think we are beyond the point where we need to recognize that psycology is a weapon and even knowing how it works won't make you immune to it
Robots Have Buddha-Nature: The Ideas of Mori Masahiro, Uncanny Valley Inventor
A bit OT, but my favorite use-it-or-lose-it trademark example: the Standard Oil gas station on Van Ness in SF (it looks almost exactly like a Chevron station).
Not sure what schools you're referring to but that wasn't a thing when I was in school 15 years ago..
I believe (but could be wrong) that liveview degrades to http long poll.
Let me put it this way. Young people see their elders espouse these views. They associate conservative ideas with being patronizing. This actively pushes them away from conservative ideology. This occurs whether or not the views themselves are correct. Change people's minds by being less patronizing not more.
No mention that Tesla is betting against lidar.
i don't get it. isn't this just traditional SPAs but worse and more limited in basically every way?
> Wages have surpassed inflation in just about every income bracket for the past 100 years. And when you factor in total remuneration, returns to workers are even higher. Here's 50+ years of data [1]

> [1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44705.pdf

This document is 47 pages long. Can you cite the page or section you're referring to?
it's just money. we need trees for carbon sequestration.
A lot of people use iPads or phones for this which have better cameras. If you are using a computer or laptop you can just install an app and use your phone as a webcam.
s/CS//

In my university experience, the first day of every class starts with administrivia, which includes the grading policy, homework policy, and what degree of cooperation actually constitutes cheating. In CS, the usual threshold for cheating is whether or not you actually wrote the code yourself--you can (and are encouraged to!) work with other people to discuss how to solve the problem, but you have to sit down and actually write the code up yourself.

That said, as a TA, I found that I really didn't want to put any effort to identify if students were cheating. I did catch a few cheaters, but largely because they inadvertently broke my grading setup in ways that made me suspicious that they were getting their code from something other than the homework assignment.
Great job. This looks very nice.
Indeed it feels very clunky at first due to the complete absence of an input buffer; you must only input commands once they become possible. The learning curve is brutal.

Other than that the game is far more responsive than Ultimate, with only 3 total frames of input latency even online, unlike the 6 frames offline and at least ten online of Ultimate.

It would be nice for Ultimate to have better latency…
I recommend this great series on philosophy by Arthur Holmes. I watched them a few years ago. As someone who didn't do any philosophy courses in college, this helped me as a starting point to go explore in depth the philosophers that sounded interesting.
It’s a bold statement, if no longer what I would call a “hot-take” for anyone around here.

So that comment is illuminating uncomfortable truths?

Really?

The #1 uncomfortable truth in a year built of them? Are you sure?
That's interesting. My mechanic always provides an estimate, then I sign something authorizing up to that estimate and that requires them to separately approve any further funding.
We probably need to remove conflict of interest in the laws they want to be passed, but how we do that is anyone's guess. A good place to start will be to add regulations on the process of lobbying, but the whole thing can get pretty complicated pretty fast.
Power struggle has been the same since the dawn of human civilization, regardless of where you are. As you said, meat is all the same.
The goal is to have a productive set of patterns for the programmer to follow for dynamic updates.

Less boilerplate. More reuse. Consolidation of app state to the server.

Feel free to post your code from a decade ago so that we can do a bake-off and compare implementations side-by-side.
>a visibly hard worker commands respect irrespective of what that work is

In a good scenario. Many hard workers are just seen to be suckers and exhorted to work harder. In my experience only about 50% of companies promote or give raises primarily based on merit.
I lived in .be for 3 years. I believe it :-)

I think my favorite tidbit is that Rome and Boston are at the same latitude.
This is exciting! I am less convinced by the Stimulus part though. I currently prefer the Htmx (ex Intercooler) + AlpineJS combo, or VueJS components sprinkled into views for heavier stuff (setup is a bit tricky but then it’s very easy to enhance views with augmented html). Am I missing something?
Find two people to advise you, an attorney and someone with founder or angel experience. Gather up copies of all employment agreements etc + directly related correspondence for them to review. Don't sign anything, don't discuss this issue more with your cofounder until you get advice. Also don't read too much into anonymous internet commenters who don't know the details of your situation. You can be fired but you have some leverage because this kind of dispute is a red flag for any prospective investor. Feel free to e-mail me.
Not really. They'll just say a chemistry experiment isnt life.
Jest, Enzyme vs. Cypress.js
If you use it for drinking/eating, especially for acidic (or basic) food, or ingest/inhale its fragments/dust, then quite probably yes.
unfortunately free speech is losing support rapidly these days.
> > BTW, the term "organizational" usually refers to how you organize your people.

> Then what, in your opinion, is a better adjective for "technical debt" that best conveys my point?

"Structural", maybe? (Just off the top of my head; that word choice may also have flaws...)
"We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we."

-- Joseph Goebbels, 1928
Nachricht – A self-describing data interchange format
@fortydegrees, if you would make $5k/mo with Adsense, then you can make $10-40k/mo if you worked with my company instead.

I'm not sure if that helps your leverage with equity negotiations or raising external money, but it will definitely help your bank accounts.

My link's in profile.
It is.
But he also wrote this in a subsequent tweet:

> For a typically long running app like an email client, the obsession with shipping as little JavaScript as possible is actually detrimental to the end UX.
> incredibly simple simulations like mega man.

Ok, now I'm offended.
I mean China's move on US allies in the region, not Russia.

> China will have an effective blue water navy in a few years regardless

US having bases to at least blunt, and slow offensive staging by China in case of war will make all the difference vs. not having them at all.
Some additional context:

* Companies are querying thousands / tens of thousands of Parquet files stored in the cloud via Spark

* Parquet lakes can be partitioned which works well for queries that filter on the partitioned key (and slows down queries that don't filter on the partition key)

* Parquet files contain min/max metadata for all columns. When possible, entire files are skipped, but this is relatively rare. This is called predicate pushdown filtering.

* Parquet files allow for the addition of custom metadata, but Spark doesn't let users use the custom metadata when filtering

* Spark is generally bad at joining two big tables (it's good at broadcast joins, generally when one of the tables is 2GB or less)

* Companies like Snowflake & Memsql have Spark connectors that let certain parts of queries get pushed down.

There is a huge opportunity to build a massive company on data lakes optimized for Spark. The amount of wasted compute cycles filtering over files that don't have any data relevant to the query is staggering.
14 online communities for bootstrappers. Any I should add?
A misnomer repeated a thousand times by a thousand different people becomes a/the new meaning. It's how human languages work and evolve or change over time.

Today when most tech people talk about bare metal they refer to a server that is not virtual.
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