skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, granted, an enlightened boss might accept that kind of estimate, I suppose. And without the higher-ups breathing down his/her neck.
You can look for second-hand components and machines at surplus industrial suppliers and auction houses. When an old product is deprecated, it's often cheaper for a big manufacturer to get rid of the equipment and buy new for the new product line, find out where obsolete equipment is going. It's not worth paying $100/hr for an integrator to repurpose with no warranty, but at hobbyist $100/week budgets that scrapyard is full of treasure. Some manufacturers and integrators will have "boneyards" of old equipment that they'll purge on occasion.

The article said that Teknik Clearpath servos are considered a great value, and they are, but even their smallest fractional HP 24V motors cost more than some name brand Allen Bradley (unofficial slogan "you can get better but you can't pay more!") 3-phase servos at my local supplier: https://www.surplusindustrialsupply.com/motors-mot.html

These places are like a garage sale for industrial lego.
VLC now runs natively on M1 Macs
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The recent actions of Silicon Valley companies will turn out to be the single biggest threat to global free communication on the Internet. Every two bit dictator will now wave them around to justify locking down the Internet and restrict the sharing of information.

Such a shortsighted move, and yet even on HN we have people thinking it was justified. Frankly, I am very disappointed. We need a revival of late 90s “information should be free” values, and fast.
Since nobody had an idea, I started with creating one.

https://github.com/rurban/optdata/blob/master/optdata
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Despite your feelings on the issue, the difference is quite stark. Relying on allocations in yearly budgets, subject to the political whims of lawmakers, is clearly a different animal altogether.
Fullstack Webdev or DevOps? (3rd-world citizen here)
Hello everyone, I'm a uni student from Egypt, a country where society is toxic, backwards, and corrupt. Living conditions are terrible. My mental state has been at an all-time low ever since I returned here. I really need a lifeline. My goal is to live in any developed country where I can get by in English.
I'm currently a senior enrolled in an MIS degree. My GPA is 3.4. I am proficient in C++, frontend webdev essentials (JS, html/css), and some python. Most of this I learnt on my own.

I'm currently at a road-block and don't know what to learn anymore. - I'm having a hard time evaluating what career/skillset would most likely help me land a job abroad as a 3rd-world citizen. - I keep procrastinating on whether I should focus on fullstack webdev or just devops. Heck sometimes I wonder if I should focus on business analysis/intelligence.

I've got around a year to learn something before i do my mandatory military service, so I need some direction. I'd like to know what you guys think gives me the best chance of getting out of here (i.e what career would be best to pursue given my situation)

P.S. Yes, I realize that I’ll definitely need years of experience in some sort of job. But my question is essentially which set of skills can reduce the amount of time needed for me to get the fuck out of here, or at least land a remote position for the time being.
But how, exactly, databases use mmap?
No reason to believe it couldn't work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)#Public_rese...
Eh... I'm not convinced on the argument of offset != index, because the reality beneath arrays and lists is that it is offset based.

Arrays are the obvious one: assuming no associated metadata they are an address to the first (zeroth?) element.

Even things like linked lists are essentially offset based: It's an address of the first (zeroth) node. The next node is 1 node away from that.

In general I don't think it is a good idea to abstract too far away from how things actually work. And in that sense, 1-based indexing in LUA does make sense since LUA is table based and '1' here is an arbitrary identifier.
Yeah, this is the same as how it worked in UK (still works? I dunno). I didn't have a TV growing up, bought one when I was about 14 thinking I was being sneaky about it, address was taken when I was buying it and obviously some box got checked on some system somewhere and my parents got bombarded with letters.
I remember those days. I think they intercept dns packages these days or block ip addresses.

They also had something called url blocking which was intercepting http packages. Not used anymore because of wide adoption of ssl.
You'd need a human editor to do all that. Automatically fixing run-on sentences and removing repeated words is possible. Activating passive sentences is challenging; Grammarly gets it wrong all the time, in my experience. Replacing cliches and fixing wordiness would be very challenging without deep linguistic and cultural knowledge.
I guess the keyword is "used to". How long ago?

This is what 400 EUR get you now:
https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche?category=10&text=bordeaux...

Rooms and studios from 10 to 24 sqm (~100-250 sq feet), half of them unfurnished. So cheaper than here, but still the absolute worst. Well, you can get something for even cheaper but then you start having last floors without elevator and extremely low ceilings, which my back won't ever consider again after the experience.
Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?
I'm no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.

Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?
In my experience, the sort of people who believe in negotiating estimates are also the sort of people who only believe there's one dimension that can be traded off: how much unpaid overtime will the developer work?
Just like big- vs. little endian issue, the differences matter less than everyone adopting one. When you program having two code sets with different base of indexing is several times worse than either alone.

0-based indexing is here. 1-based has no benefit. New languages should use 0-based indexing.
Never Been Seen
Makes me think of boot camp. Once you realize Parris Island is as much a mental exercise as physical, it completely changes. Yeah an hour in the sand pit doing mountain-climbers after you just humped 10 miles is a bit tiring, but you just have to keep doing it. You just have to keep telling your limbs to go. The point is to teach you your limit is far, far beyond what you think it is.
Yeah, as an American I think Europe got this one right.
What Anime CLI?
Find the anime scene by image using your terminal
This application is basically a wrapper around trace.moe
6-9 months to find people to hire, hire them, and get them onboarded enough to contribute meaningfully? That isn’t much time at all. Definitely wouldn’t rely on that if I was leaking something, but if they didn’t have it implemented well before the pandemic I doubt they would be there yet.
Does the "ambassador of Twitter" has diplomatic immunity, or they can send the ambassador to hail if Twitter breaks a local law?
Most people never look into the settings.
I just found typora[0] and Emacs "M-x markdown-toggle-markup-hiding" :)

[0] https://typora.io/
Oh also 7 years ago Turkey 'accidentally' created a SSL certificate for google.com
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/turki...

TURKTRUST (The company that did this) is still a trust authority.
Scrivener is the novelist standard now isn't it?
> Lobbies basically work in favour of the super rich.

One of the most widely respected lobbies in America is the Fraternal Order of Police. And I don't think anyone would consider them super-rich, or even "rich".
I wrote a tool that makes writing regex easier
And then every time you change a view option at run-time, your `.htoprc` gets modified.....
Are You Putting Too Much Trust in Your Security Vendor?
Many thru-hikers choose trainers (or really "trail runners") over traditional hiking boots. Even without aggressive ultralight gram-shedding, a contemporary pack weighs a fraction of what it once did and you don't need to up-armor your feet anymore.
Silicon Valley cannot ban someone from the Internet, this is blatantly false.

And no, a ban from Twitter does not prevent a person from expressing themselves on the Internet, even if it changes how one attracts an audience. The Internet does not exist independent of physical space -- if you want to get a message out, you absolutely can, even if all of Silicon Valley tries to stop you.

This is lazy thinking, and I'm honestly getting tired of reading it, so please forgive my frustration.
"Less regresssive"?

LMFTFY. A flat-rate tax is regressive, because poor people pay the same as rich people. A sales tax (such as VAT) is regressive, because poor people buy more stuff as a proportion of their income.

An income tax is progressive, because you pay more if you earn more.

Several people have claimed that the Beeb is some kind of "public good". I don't happen to agree; but if it's true, then clearly it should be paid for out of general taxation.
Companies go bankrupt all the time, in fact, they tend to always do that. You're promoting survivorship bias.

Also, establishing policies are nothing like business, as incentives are orthogonal.
>Quarterly results for a publicly traded company before they are published. If those are leaked before the official time / date, whoever gets it first has an unfair advantage. They may get charged with insider trading, and the leaker as well.

If this kind of thing is now done on a Zoom call, how is it any different than prior to Zoom being in the meeting, hearing the information and passing it on via another means, like a phone call? What value would leaking the call as in your example have?

I'm struggling a bit to think of any examples of private information being leaked that have really changed because of Zoom. Trusted employees are able to leak private corporate information, always have been.
Pay for placement is common in the USA and in films also why you don't often see baddies using apple products.
Outside of the more technically inclined; Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use markdown? Outside of blogging, which it was invented for and makes total sense for syntax conversion of free formed text to html is there any real use for it?

Obviously you don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it sort of feels odd to me that all these developers making writing/notes apps that neglect rich text editing entirely in favor of markdown simply because it's easy to implement. I am definitely tired of seeing my writing littered with a detritus of special characters when it's never going to get exported to anything other than text.
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I would not call these last ones dream jobs. More like dream-crushing jobs...
Intel Problems
My argument for 0 based indexing is working with multidimensional indices.

If I have a 3 row and 2 column matrix stored as a single array of 6 elements, I might want to index it using the row,col index.

With 0 based indices, this is fairly simple.
`m[r, c] = m[2r+c]`

With 1 based
`m[r, c] = m[2r+c-2]`

This is similar to the offset based argument but I think it is more related to the actual index rather than the offset.
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Not to mention all the 3rd parties that put facebook trackers on their websites.
Life rarely fails to astound.
F2 -> Display options -> [x] Display threads in a different color
I can't run now due to a knee injury ( I cycle, hike etc ) but 20 years ago when I did go running after 5-10 mins my body would say it didn't want to do that. If I played squash for 2 hours (running almost non-stop) my body would be fine with it. What I'm saying is, it's 90% mental and you can endure it if you want to...see Goggins.
Welcome to Hacker News!

From your link:

> The more the product promises the customer, the more luxurious it is; the greater the extent to which these promises are fulfilled, the better the product’s quality.

While this is an interesting way of thinking about it, I find personally it to be both non-standard and not useful.

I'm generally not inclined to force or coin a definition of a concept that is intrinsically messy. Instead, I think it is better to take almost an anthropological view: unpack what different people and cultures mean by a word.

With this in mind, I recommend the following article from MIT's business school, because it embraces the vagueness and complexity of quality:

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-does-product-qualit...
Problems with security engineering can also be an issue of correctly managing priorities more than not having pure technical skill. Spending a ton of effort on watermarking instead of getting the basic security stuff working wouldn’t be that crazy a story in the industry.
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I don't think it's just English audiences. I thought this was normal overall. Where does it not work like that?
That doesn't contradict what he said.
Sorry for the delay!

Nope. The two companies I have since worked have mature products that aren't built on the JVM or Scala. But I'd absolutely consider it if I were to build a system with similar constraints again.

There was a big learning curve, but the end result was a system that was built largely correctly, on a tight timeline, solving some tricky technical and business challenges.
I think most authors don't write in richer text format than markdown.
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The docs are not technical. They are mostly about how to use the SaaS product and additional about how real-estate finance works.
This is a fantastic representation of how developers should present themselves and work to get their dream jobs. It's hard work up front, but the dividends yield. Kudos
Isn’t it possible your service was hosting malware and you just didn’t know? This same problem killed Firefox Send:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...
There is both good violence and bad violence. Blanket rules don't exist, despite our wish they did.
This is the reason why court fees and PACER fees exist in the US.
It would be harder to lobby in dozens of international jurisdictions, for example, they’d have a hard time imposing western values in Turkey or Iran, for example and vice versa, which I think we’d be better off with.
A lot of people say that but it is "not readily believable" to use a Civil Service Circumlocution.

In that case why are you and those others not using a monitor.
The idea is to make the poor and working classes pay for it, being regressive everyone pays the same, taxes are progressive, the more you earn the more you pay.

Government set the licence fee and legislation around it every 5 or 6 years. The last renewal put government appointed editors into the BBC in exchange for a change in Law from 'watch live BBC channels = you have to pay' to 'watch live non-BBC channels = you have to pay'. So now, even if you are just watching BBC competitors,you have to pay the BBC.. what a great business model.
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The BBC and developed the web based on-demand video platform that inspired Netflix back in 2005 and operates the world's most visited news website. They did this despite having fixed funding, charter obligations not to advertise around their content and royalty obligations to producers.
Ask HN: What blogging software do you use for your SaaS company?
Hey all,

A friend and myself are wondering what software should we use for blogging. We're thinking of WordPress.

But is there any other option we should look into?
> How is it a free speech issue in the other direction when Twitter is not saying anything?

Banning someone or something is them saying something. Endorsement of the debate between different political views doesn’t mean allowing every idea to be acceptable. Letting say the anti vaccination people on your site directly means more disease risk to the general population. However, realizing that doesn’t require you to act. You might decide that’s acceptable where allowing say militant groups planning an insurrection aren’t.

In other words, voluntarily not saying something doesn’t give up your right to free speech.
They don't trust the government
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This application downloads the official mail-in ballot data from https://data.pa.gov/Government-Efficiency-Citizen-Engagement/2020-General-Election-Mail-Ballot-Requests-Departm/mcba-yywm and analyzes it.

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most authors write in Word, and use only one or two font variation bigger size for chapter titles).
You're offering reasonable practical advice, I think. But imagine if this were about consulting an auto mechanic. It's like "You can't just question them, you have to suck up!" It reminds me of a small Apple developer's open letter to Apple a while back, clearly very carefully worded, full of protestations about what a big longtime fan they were of Apple.

The difference in both cases is the gatekeeping.
When your host, domain registrar, payment processor, credit card company, and every social media channel decides to ban you, it is more or less equal to being banned from the Internet.

We have a term for this already: the chilling effect.
Terrible app. If you paint solid blocks of color it ranks the picture extremely highly. Actual good art was thrown to the back of the pile.
I think you're assuming and probably wrong.
Any payment the government forces you to make is a tax, in my opinion. And I see no difference in the “government” forcing you to pay a TV license versus bundling it in tax revenue. As you wrote, the same government can just preclude that amount of tax revenue from being altered by the “executive branch”, if that is the goal.

But otherwise, the “government” can always alter the tv license fee, or the tax. It’s always under their control, and changing its label doesn’t do anything.
>try to figure out how to reconfigure the snap client to use a different server by reading the source code, then write your own server end from scratch, and tell your users to do that.

You also need to

1) compile and distribute your own version of snapd, since it hardcodes the Canonical snap store.

2) Set the appropriate env variable to prevent snapd from auto-updating itself back to a Canonical version.
You don't think that most of any country know that, do you?

How many Turks, or people at all, do you know with an i.q. of 100?
This makes sense. It's hard to find the truth given extreme polarization. I don't trust individual posts on social media. My reasoning for trusting mainstream news outlets was that maybe they have more journalistic integrity than the newcomers who have a lot less to lose. I guess I must rethink.
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No it isn't, that is simply not true. There are more hosting providers, ISPs, payment processors, et al. than there are stars in the sky.

Stop lying, you know better.
I don't know if I am supposed to roll a 20 on a D20 or a 8 on a D8 to begin with.

Time estimation on a macro or micro level is just educated feelings.

The thing I notice with people that are forced to estimate time and have nagging managers is that they start to report time according to how much the task was estimated to, to make the burndown chart nice.

I.e. if one task is finished early a late running one gets the hours giving the illusion of getting better at estimating. I think Joel's estimation method for Frogbugz had the same fate linked in somewhere above.
If the reason people are leaving privacy, Microsoft doesn't fare much better.
Why can’t the law be written so that the allocation can’t be changed (as easily)?

Even right now, the politicians can choose to enact legislation to modify or remove the tv license fee.
Like the comment said, pearl clutching all of the sudden.
> Some software work cannot be reduced to a positive integer

I'd take that a step further: if software work can be reduced to a positive integer, you're doing it wrong.
You're confusing the socialist Kurds with islamists. No one disagrees that Gulenists are terrorists
Scrivener should integrate this.
Package go code by layers and not groups
It’s akin to having your restaurant banned from being within city limits. Sure, you can still set up a stall in the desert outside the city walls - no one is stopping you. But when 99.99% of the population is in the city center, is this a meaningful distinction?
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I've heard some stories and no doubt there are problems. My point is that Americans have a pretty poor understanding of what modern Russia is like. They either think it's still a grey communist dystopia or the crazy 1990s (Adidas track suits and mafia).
Half of Canadians are of below-average intelligence, too.

Lower your expectations, guys.
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In US many people will have no shame asking unrelated or uneducated questions. What I realized presenting in different communities sharing participants is that it is often the same persons that will do that. The worst in my opinion are the ones that use the questions to try to say that their way of doing is better, and the ones that ask many questions and repeatidly not letting space for others.
Again, you know this analogy is wrong because it implies a relevance to proximity that doesn't exist on the Internet, and yet you continue to put it forward.

You are being either disingenuous or fundamentally misunderstand what a right to speech is (namely, it is not a right to be heard, only a right to speak freely).

Additionally, you are forgetting that the Internet does not exist independent of physical reality. There are plenty of ways to get attention in physical reality that directly translate to traffic to your voice on the Internet.
I'm close to 60,000 words into my latest novel and I'm writing in Ulysses using Markdown.

Novels, in particular, rarely need more than headings and occasional italics or boldface.
The biggest issue to me concerns the will of people to distribute other existing methods. For example, establishing fiber, transoceanic as well as transcontinental around the globe. Proper fiber rollout would take longer, but should have started ten years ago. It would consume less energy per Tb of transmission, particularly over its lifetime.

The problem is the overcoming the will to do the work, plus the geopolitics. Vast sections of the rural US still lack usable broadband to this day. Right here in the USA, where large swaths of RF licenses are held by the large cellular carriers, but have never been rolled out.

SpaceX is going to address those communities, as well as communities in other nations, in ways that traditional telecom has completely ignored. I grew up and lived rural until I was nearly thirty. I still have family living rural with completely unmet internet wants. It is shameful that in this day and age, in the USA, we have such huge regions in need of basic internet access.

In addition, satellite service opens up internet in ways that bypasses local governmental control.

I am not saying it is the best solution, by any stretch, but the reality is, we as a nation, and we as a planet, could have short circuited satellite based internet service by properly funding and building out internet infrastructure over the last ten to fifteen years. The technology certainly already existed, but we lacked the commitment, we lacked the will.

And that left a technology void that had to be filled.

We have ourselves to blame.
Coming to America soon (for Trump supporters at least).