skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my par--wait did you say $250,000?"

If your company were in the hands of incompetents, but still kept going in spite of the incompetents because it had gotten its foot wedged in the door or whatever, and then fell apart in ways you could only scorn, how would you view that sort of situation?
Glad to hear this. There's really no reason it for it not to do well on the server.
I wouldn't have noticed, good catch!
Not to completely disagree, but Einstein won the 1921 Nobel prize for photoelectric effect which demonstrates the quantum nature of light. I was using him as one of those pioneers which where faced with the universe acting strangely rather than anything to do with relativity.

So, yes some people will object long term, but it’s important to keep their objections in context. Plate tectonics is a slightly more recent revolutionary idea that actually converted most skeptics, but the early objections where reasonable and the actual conversion was quick once the idea approached it’s modern form.
The Haber process which you mentioned is really key here. It uses a lot of natural gas - more interesting than cow methane might be using nitrogen fixing bacteria or crop rotation (legumes) to reduce it's usage.
That talk looks really interesting. I'm all for a future that unbinds us from tiny 2d screens.

We're always going to need to do exercise though. There's no way knowledge work could ever e.g. raise your pulse, use your strength + agility etc. We are hunter gatherers removed from our original environment.

I can imagine software development becoming like something out of Minority Report and that's just about it.
Cursed Lightning devices exist, most notably internally.
I know that this opinion is controversial - but I think GPLv3 really hurt GNU a lot. And that license was 100% RMS's doing, as well as the decision to force it onto most/all GNU projects.

GPLv3 basically forced the embedded Linux community to dump the GNU userspace in favor of Busybox. That's a lot of active developers who stopped using and contributing to Bash, Coreutils, and a whole host of other projects.

RMS propelled free software forward in the early days, and should be remembered as a visionary. It's been downhill for GNU since 2008 though, and that's a trend I'd love to see changed.
As an empirical thinker...consider Ruby and Python (and I expect back end JavaScript will get in there soon enough)

https://charliereese.ca/article/top-50-y-combinator-tech-sta...
Extremely poor planning/lawyering on the companies part. When larger entities deal with smaller entities, it's common to have a source code escrow as part of the agreement which grants the purchasing company rights to the source code in the event of this exact situation.

Obviously we all know that source code alone isn't enough, but it is something to start from.

If the ERP solution was not SaaS and installed on site, the purchasing companies IT should have gotten credentials as part of the contract. Again, normal type stuff when buying software from smaller companies that have somewhat higher risk of going out of business.
IMHO some of it is climate change. TSMC is only running with trucked in water due to drought conditions in Taiwan, and multiple fabs in Texas had to go down with their power outages and fab restarts are not fast.
The same complexity problem of Scala is where I see Rust going
That argument always seemed weak to me. Keeping money out of the economy is a temporary effect as prices adjust. Once people have savings they would start looking for ways to employ that money. People are always going to do what will benefit them most. When people have savings they have more ability to risk loss by starting a business or investing. Having more people with the ability to risk loss is a very good thing for real growth.

Now if deflation is higher than any possible investment return, then people will only horde money. The goal of most people is to accumulate value, not a specific currency. Inflation destroys value, deflation creates value.
One thing is for sure: cars of today are not at all collectable and poor investments. No one will know how to or care to reverse engineer some long obsolete proprietary CAN/lin protocol 50 years from now. The myriad of bespoke modules, electromechanical bits, computers, and other frail plastic bits will be near impossible to repair without an engineering degree and dozens/hundreds of hours in reversing, designing, fabrication. Absurdity. The bottom line is these vehicles are environmentally irresponsible.

I bought a 1961 Mack B61 (year and model #'s coincidental) to restore (slowly) and its a 100% mechanical turbo diesel (ENDT673B). It so dumb that the "ignition" key is just a two position on-off switch which enables the electrics allowing the starter to run when the start button is pushed. To stop the engine, you pull a stop knob which operates a lever on the injection pump pushing the fuel rack to the full-off position. I once let it sit two years without touching it; started up with fresh batteries after checking oil and coolant. That truck will still run and be serviceable in the next 50 years. Maybe parts will be hard to find, but most can be fab'd in a simple machine shop by a single person.
"Were I the government, I would simply close all the loopholes"

"Were I the programmer, I would simply fix all the bugs"
exactly, just as they deny grainy videos today
From a quick google search it looks like ts/js doesn't let you define custom operators like Scala does. Scalas implicit stuff is messy too. The original article mostly talked about libraries though
The Epoch Times
Mostly learn about and play with lasers and lens design for those lasers.
Interestingly, Lamborghini have used supercapacitor's rather than batteries for their 'hybrid':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Si%C3%A1n_FKP_37
Show HN: haminet.fm – Easily listen to music with friends
Hey,

Our team always listened to music while working.
Since we're working from home for the last year, we had to get our groove on.

Also includes a voice chat (thanks Jitsi!)

Let me know what you think!
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Enjoy!

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In reality it's not really like that. Yes different shops are going to be using different C++ features in different ways but they usually share some common "core" of the language.
Despite being an 'easy problem' it has led to code execution on android/ios:

https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-f...

> We established that simply querying a database may not be as safe as you expect. Using our innovative techniques of Query Hijacking and Query Oriented Programming, we proved that memory corruption issues in SQLite can now be reliably exploited. As our permissions hierarchies become more segmented than ever, it is clear that we must rethink the boundaries of trusted/untrusted SQL input. To demonstrate these concepts, we achieved remote code execution on a password stealer backend running PHP7 and gained persistency with higher privileges on iOS. We believe that these are just a couple of use cases in the endless landscape of SQLite.
Reverse engineering accuracy, sens. and spec. scores in computer vision
Reverse engineered accuracy, sensitivity and specificity scores prove that uncomparable performance figures are compared and ranked in almost all papers on retinal vessel segmentation.

Further details in the paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350236730_Numerical_identification_of_methodological_inconsistencies_affecting_the_evaluations_in_100_papers_on_retinal_vessel_segmentation_and_a_new_baseline_for_the_field
> A somewhat sedentary job with the option to take breaks to move around and exercise outside of that is still vastly preferable to any other combination. Non-sedentary jobs and manual labor will break and wear down your body in different ways, they aren't some ideal to aspire to.

It's a scale though. A job in construction is different to a job as a park ranger. Both are different to office work.
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag. Their methods are documented and the results exciting, so to a bad actor (especially state-sponsored) it's completely justified to spend millions attempting to replicate their results from what is publicly available.
He's definitely on the respectful side.
Well it seems synRM motors are not old so who knows what's left to discover ?
Yes, and if people make mistakes, it's most often (99.99%) not out of spite.

However, it can be profitable to not undo the mistake, and the workers have no say what is negotiated in the contract.
The best way to do it for cars IMHO is to add SUVs (etc) to the EPA fuel economy standards, double the minimum efficiency standard, and adjust the penalties for inflation from when it was first introduced. The EPA fuel economy standards actually poll really well (compared to gas taxes).

Then, like you say, require EVs as soon as possible.

In more detail, I’d say reinstate the EV credit, but make it per-mile range instead of per kWh (and make the benefits for the first 50 miles like 3-4x that for the next 200 miles... and make the latter credit only eligible if there’s 100kW charging capability... and make the total incentive up to $10,000, which is roughly the inflation adjusted original EV credit). Then after 4-5 years, require all new cars/trucks to at least have a plug, followed by all new cars/trucks having to be pure electric 5 years after that. Adjust the credits for inflation and simultaneously Phase out the credits for plugs once they’re required and then pure electric once that is required. Once most vehicles on the road have a plug, introduce higher carbon tax on fuel until it reaches at least $1-2/gallon (and then require all fuel to be synthesized for direct air capture CO2). After 15 years of the first mandate, start outlawing internal combustion engine vehicles on the road or requiring punitive registration fees. And transition road taxes to miles and weight-based about 5-10 years after the mandates start to bite. Keep electricity prices low by subsidizing clean electricity and then ratcheting up the CO2 taxes.

The aim should be to provide a strong carrot incentive well before a stick incentive. Carrots pill better than sticks. And the stick incentives don’t get enough political support until they only apply to a minority of people.
Yeah this article is mostly ranting disguised as something more
I believe that implies that the fires are indeed infinite, just countably so.
It's not that I don't want to, it's more I don't have the time to invest upon. I'd read all the national library books if I could, but I just don't have the time.

End of shift, I walk away from my screen and try to do something other than. I'm burnt out enough by the tech field as it is.
How to create a coding interview that developers won’t hate
But some languages make it easier to write bad code than others.
I just bought a Laird BLE temp sensor (BT510) and have complete control over it. I can scan-response it with a Raspberry Pi and get the temperature and display it on a small LCD screen. The pi is also my home automation gateway and it sends this (and other data) to my cloud so I can read it from my personal website (which is password protected).

The BT510 It has crazy range and has only dropped 10mV battery in 14 days.

It CAN be done, because sensor makers have no interest in reporting home: costs are too high!

We need more open source projects to enable people to automate their homes with a list of suppliers who provide "dumb" edge node sensors.
> Maybe in less hygiene aware countries like the US

What drove you to make such a spiteful, bigoted, nationalistic comment such as this?
I suspect he's doing fine. Millionaire? Well, of course not, but he is sort of niche.

But he also sells kits and I suspect that's been very useful to his paying for his ISP. I know I bought his 6502 kit. ;-)

I think the smart "content creators" figure out a way to sell plans, etc. in order to take in a little on the side. (Patreon, in my mind, is the worst way to do that.)
I’ve been keeping an eye on freetime (https://getfreetime.app/) for the first issue in your list. No O365 support yet though.
The recommended way to deal with use-after-free and double-free in the language is to do it in test. You can pretty trivially get "asan"-like behaviours out of the zig std library. A good demonstration is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVhByP-npU&t=3h12m

I kind of like this philosophy, because in a sly way it's a carrot to get you to write tests. Come for the memory safety, stay for the robustness.

As a bonus, the beginning 2 hours of the video is a fantastic and honest discussion about the role of emotional empathy in tech communities and tech employment (while also acknowledging that it is possible to be an asshole and deliver good tech).
From what I've been reading, a there is a large contingent in the Fediverse that is against people being easily found. This is due to fears of of harassment and stalking.

I think this is not a sustainable view. It is trivial to write a crawler to find people's profiles using open APIs, and even more could be garnered if you scrape pages.

If you don't want to be found but must put stuff on the internet, the answer is to not federate.
The idea is that you want a trusted third party because either of the two adversarial parties could screw the other over.

The company could say: we’re going to pay you 125 and you could sue us and spend 60k and two years or just settle for that, after he’s already done the work.

The guy could demand the payment directly to his account and then not deliver, and the firm would be in the same situation.

By depositing the funds in escrow, they’re making sure that the money is there and in the hands of people whose only incentive is to give it to the correct party upon fulfillment of the contract.
So where is the example?
"extorted"

This is pure slander

The company can avoid this if they only care to maintain the documentation / wiki left behind by said person

When they failed to do even just basic proper operations, it's their own fault.

I'm a business owner and a consultant, and I too charge more for these kind of asshole clients, because of the extra stress.

But nowadays I just try to avoid them, it's just too damaging for your own sanity. Their kind of stupidity, self-entitlement, and ignorance is on a completely different level.
There will always be some inconsistencies that consumers will need to be aware of. For example, Thundetbolt cables are limited in length, to about 0.5 m for passive cables and 1 m for active cables (and those are very expensive). Meanwhile, a bog-standard charging cable can easily be several metres long. I doubt every cable will become an active Thunderbolt cable; that's simply not realistic or economical.
This is pretty much how I read it, but I thought maybe it's worse: I would bet that when you connect to the lamp's network and set it up to connect to your network as you should the lamp's internal WiFi ceases to broadcast, and you'd need the reset switch to enable setup again.

What this guy seems to have found out is possibly (and how, I don't know--the article is horribly lacking in detail) that the lamp accepts API calls /when it is in hotspot mode for setup/ as well as in HAZ_EXT_CONNECSHUN=1 mode

So what I think is that /anyone/ close to the lamp can send the API calls and affect it. Because the lamp is in perpetual setup mode with its unsecured hotspot active...

"A browser hitting that returned a page to connect the lamp to local WiFi. That is a no-go, so maybe there is a web API…" he said

the dumbass

e: Sorry, I misread your post on the lamp network part. I'll leave this here but now you know I spotted it. My apologies.
One can't spell "idiot" without "i", "o", "t".
There is a reason why the term "starving artist" was coined.
Then you can go ahead and use one of the many code generation libraries out there to handle it for you in a type-safe way.

Here are three options that were on the first page of google:

* https://github.com/kulshekhar/fungen

* https://github.com/awalterschulze/goderive

* https://github.com/cheekybits/genny
I would say I'm an alright tennis player, have been playing since I was younger, lessons, coaches, the whole thing. Never even got close to playing at a D1 school though.

Mostly out of curiosity, I looked into what it looks like to go pro now. Basically you go into a machine as a young kid, and if you show promise, you get focus from the coaching staff at the academies. Everyone else is basically just a warm body whose parents are paying a ton of money for their teen to be a hitting partner for the academy's golden goose.

THEN if you make the show, you're fighting for rankings through some absolutely abysmal satellite tournaments that you're essentially losing money to go play in. Losing in the first round of a major makes you more money than winning one of these things.

The delta between the 20th ranked player in the world versus the top 150th insane, too, with one worth millions and one worth maybe a small six figure salary, with a notable portion of it going toward travel/training expenses.
> I can't listen to anyone complain about climate change while they fill their homes with cheap consumer electronics from globalized supply chains that spy on them.

Your hearing must be better than mine! I didn't hear Todd Weaver, the author of this blogpost, complain about climate change.
Flexport is hiring commercially minded PMs to build the future of global trade
There was an article about swappable electric motorbikes.. I find the idea appealing and I'd love to see that happen for cars.

I think Tesla should, if it wants to increase its chance of long term survival, put some partnerships into a battery interface standard.
NFTs, Explained
Speak directly to, not over, the audience. Like, as if you're teaching a friend how to use what you built.

Throw in some humor. Avoid any unnecessary hoidy-toidy or pretentious language.
It seems to me that the problem here is your job, not Go. You could substitute Go here for any other language or technology that you don't know well and for which you're not given adequate time to learn the basics of, and you'd get the exact same result.
Compile with -fwrapv.
Perhaps the messaging has changed or I came at it from a different angle, but my memory is that when I first investigated flatpak they promoted the security aspect of the sandbox, and that I was later genuinely confused when I found out that the apps could specify their own sandbox setting without specifically asking me on install.
- Include a BRIEF (fits in one screen) visual demonstration of how it's useful. I could see myself using this but it's all bloatware unless I can actually see it in action.

- Include a quick getting started (installation instructions, etc.), even if it's meant for those already familiar with the extension ecosystem. Just a few commands. I don't want to install it via docker, hardly ever. I have my own dockerfiles for that.

- Bullet points in the beginning have a LOT of repetitive content (Apache AGE enables|supports|etc) that turns those really important bullet points into a wall of text.

- You have three different links to docs, one of which seems to be a duplicate. Why would I need docs? For cypher? I already know cypher. For development? What about if I want to hack on the source? Where are those docs? Quick links are always appreciated since I'm almost always going to be on a time budget evaluating things like this.

Just to name a few.
It went into an escrow account, presumably until he completed the work
People are always claiming to release replicated models by replicating the architecture (or main parts of it) but not testing whether it produces the same level of results. It's maddening, especially when the level of results is so directly measurable (just measure what the paper did, not that it's easy, just concrete).
Business is business. The right to fire people, deny them raises and form binding contracts in regards to their work comes at a price. GP did not act malicious, rather, they acted in the same self-interest most bosses, CEOs and companies act while trying to stand on the moral high ground.

Coding standards, documentation requirements, meetings and code reviews exist for a reason, too. It's not like companies are defenseless.
Yes I totally agree with you. When this whitelist/blacklist stuff came to my awareness it didn’t sound right so I looked it up. And it seems totally unrelated so it’s a made up problem to solve.

I also agree about there being nothing wrong with the word master, in the context of mastery of a craft etc.

But with databases, a slave often replaces the master if the master stops working. That simply never happened in real life so it’s not even close to an accurate set of terms.
Secondary effects are not bigger than primary effects as evidenced by the fact that your thoughts on relative wealth are completely the opposite of what the data show and by the fact that income inequality has greatly increased.
Wow. After reading about the FB tracking I was wary about Backblaze but teetering on the edge of willing to give it a pass if they fixed it. But after reading brianwski's comments in that thread, the arrogance and unprofessionalism (especially in his last comment) just completely turned me off. That attitude goes beyond a technical fuckup or bad marketing move. I'm moving my backups out of Backblaze today and won't be looking back.
At least with the smartphone, you're taking a picture you can look at later, and share with friends.

It does seem odd living your life though the lens of expecting it to be future. But it really highlights the oddity of sightseeing at all: what's the point of going to look at a thing? OK, it's the Eiffel Tower, or kudus at the zoo. And... now what?

Perhaps the greatest example of this is the Mona Lisa. You go to see a painting that you've seen a thousand times before, and seen more clearly. What else are you going to do but grab proof that you actually did it?

I've been in places that were unutterably beautiful or heart-wrenchingly meaningful. One of my most treasured photos is a piece of cave art that moved me to tears... though I couldn't get a good photo in the darkness. My photo is of a postcard in the gift shop. (I was backpacking and didn't want to carry stuff, but I did make a donation.)

That kind of thing easily becomes habit. "I took a picture of the meaningful thing, so maybe if I take a picture of this the meaning of the experience will become clear later". Tourism often leaves me feeling like I missed something. I've tried to get better at it, both by letting myself feel nothing when the site turns out to be unimportant to me, and by looking for things I didn't expect.
Thunderbird 2020 Financial Report
Something I plan on making when free time exists - yet another tool for note organization but with features that I find missing from ones I've seen.

Table stakes:

- Open source
- Bring your own client (i.e. you can use any editor as long as data is accessible)
- Core idea: allows for multiple sources of various types (and makes it easy to add new ones) and then it creates a unified and queryable view over them (via a separate client). Some examples:
-- Keep notes in multiple files and get a single place I can search over them with annotations of where different pieces come from.
-- Have source code as a source type. Parse comments that follow the right format to allow smart linking to code for references.
-- Have the output of tools be source types too, e.g. the output of a grep command.

Bonus features:

-- Some sort of alerts/notification feature that allows for configuration of trigger conditions
-- Automatically generated graph view of related concepts / tags / whatever
-- Support for multi-user editing with some level of permissioning
-- LSP support
-- Editing sources from the unified view (whenever that makes sense)
> By contrast, when we dig up oil and burn it, there is no cycle. It's a one way street.

It’s also a cycle, the period takes some million years though.