skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In developing country contexts the figures are easier to calculate than people think, due to the fact that functioning recycling and waste management systems are rare. Plastic waste improperly disposed of tallies almost 1:1 with production, and most production is carried out directly or on a contract basis by auditable multinational corporations.

Thanks for educating me about Amdahl's law. Some interesting reading to do around that.
A third of Basecamp workers resign after ban on taking politics
Whats the problem with CVS in development model like openbsd?....i wait...
I tried a semi popular product, it wasn't even listed. And that giant login popup irritated the hell out of me. Why do they need me to login? Are they aggregating this data and selling it or something like that?

Lets say we build a better version of stackshare. What would be the things you would look for, as a user (other than honest reviews)? It is near impossible to do a good job of comparing features, even having up-to-date pricing data is hard. So what else can be added to make it useful?
I've personally seen the opposite effect.

I've seen startups run by children of very wealthy people that failed because they didn't fundamentally understand the value of the dollar, or what reasonable spending should look like during lean startup times.

I've seen the repeated loans of a million dollars, and believe it or not, a million doesn't go very far in startup world. If you don't have revenue to offset your burn, you'll be in endless raise land.

This can only go on for so long, regardless of your family's money situation.

Conversely, I've seen several startups succed that were run by folks who did the obligatory teenage time working a counter at McDonald's (or equivalent). Part of their success was their ability understand and control costs, especially their lifestyle while in early stages.

I've run into many people who want to get into entrepreneurship but are unable to because their lifestyle bills are so high, they'd require a salary level that no reasonable investor is willing to pay during founding.
Do ratings actually matter? The only time I look at them is when it’s an Indie game and I want to see people’s impressions of it. Even still, I’ll go on Reddit and find the reviews there.

I say this because I have seen excellent but popular apps have very low ratings just because they are popular. Also, when someone gives it a low rating because of a bug that’s fixed 2 days later, is there a mechanism to take that into account?
Well I'd say that companies, unlike governments in a nation, are myriad, and one has choices as to where to go. Similarly, the founders should retain as much control as they wish, as do the employees, as it's a bilateral contract. Now, for companies that essentially force workers to work, such as minimum wage shops, I have no sympathy for them.
As explained, there is no violation here, since the API was being used as intended.

Also, considering the owner of the repository considers the Chinese state a dictatorship, it's pretty fair to assume "calling the Chinese police on him" doesn't mean anywhere near the same as it means calling the police in Europe or America. This is clearly the worst kind of threat you can make to this developer.

You seem to be giving all the possible benefit of the doubt to the company while giving less than none to the repository owner, even when they provided information about how what they're doing is not breaking the law, and provided a proper way to solve the issue, DMCA. At the same time, the company hasn't provided much.

I don't see why anyone should assume that the company knows anything more than that but is still resorting to threats instead of solving this the easy way.

The accusations don't have a leg to stand on, otherwise a simple DMCA would have solved the issue, period.

EDIT: Also, I don't see how this conversation can continue. If you don't see a problem with calling the CCP police on someone whose only personal information we know is that he's anti-CCP, then I don't think we have enough ethical common ground to even continue this discussion.
The labor market, just like any market, prices goods according to supply and demand, not value.
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This is fairly ruthless towards the victims of this ideology - those that live in the communities left literally destroyed after manufacturers pulled out and those trapped in chronic unemployment.

You can use emotive and loaded terms all you want (slavery, indentured servitude, exploitation), but the real-world negative human consequences and rather racist outcomes of these ideals are on full display for everyone to see.
Thanks so much! That's great.
Except that a healthy trade in older cards ensures that demand will continue for the presently sold ones. The buyers hope the cards they buy today will appreciate in value.
Case in point, Civilization VI currently has a 3.3 rating on the App Store which is criminally low
When fanboys kick you butt...welcome to HN ;)
Let Your Employees Ask Questions
Show me a nuanced position on HN and it’ll be the first one I’ve seen.
https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/
the plotters themselves don’t have any, really. i do an optimization step before sending anything to the plotter.
Haha its funny because "NBA Top Shot" is actually a thing now, where you can own official NBA moments (like a Steph Curry 3 Pointer or Lebron James dunk.)

You're right, all that owning the card does is allow you to own a tradeable moment/card/NFT... no copyright or direct ownership of the play, player, or NBA.

However (correct me if I'm wrong) I do think that you would be granted some inherent rights or copyright protections (though this is early and would need to be contested in a court when it happens) because you do own the moment to some extent.

So, while a NBA Top Shot card holder may not receive any of that player's dividends or direct copyright for that play, maybe they have some inherent protection to be able to use this moment in artwork or another content creation form? Just food for thought!
You can almost certainly get that information from somewhere, as virtually every app is sharing data with advertisers, or is directly showing ads which can track lifetime usage.
Audacity lacks very few features IMO. Maybe a revamp on broken plugins and suport to drum sequencing. More than that will force the daw to change UI paradigm, a thing that will hurt badly in usability. The big reason Audacity is so successful is how easy it is to beginners to use.
Mechatronics, which is why I'm interested in mechanical engineering. I guess this mostly implies servomechanisms, kinematics, motors.
I don’t buy it. Civil servant salaries are adjusted for cost of living, and this isn’t just the lower levels but ALL levels.

Again, this is just excuse.

You can’t fix a lack of housing issue by keeping wages low.
Citations would be welcome. The program includes manned landing, but this contract covers just one part of that program. I looked again, and can't find the contract you say exists.
In case it wasn't clear from my post, I am very all over the place with the word 'merge'. I usually use it to describe the concept. We don't ever have actual merge commits. We merge by rebasing and that then makes the 'merge' just a fast forward.
Being rich helps because you can spend 10 years not making money trying to start something.

People way overestimate how much contacts help.

We've had meeting with all types of influential people in our industry who were friends or relatives of a founder and they just haven't been that helpful.

Our most valuable contacts are people we met along the way, because they really believe in the product. And that means so much more than oh your the son of an ex coworker and you have a startup you want to tell me about during lunch.
I looked into making my own PCBs and came out with the impression that unless you need truly rapid prototyping JLCPCB is just better on all other accounts.
Sure, YouTube doesn't want to get sued, but they also don't want to lose most of their content creators. Things are rarely as simple as assuming a party has a singular motivation.
I'm not conservative and have only a small fraction of conservative-adjacent viewpoints and opinions, and I am not welcome in certain Bay Area companies (backchannel fact, not speculation) due to having a little cokebottle sliver of Venn diagram overlap with (some of some) conservatives' personal opinions.

All of this is precisely 0% to do with the work, mind you. It's entirely philosophical viewpoint discrimination.

It's a real thing that's happening there.
Also, like many pundits, there's a lot of "My way is THE ONE, TRUE WAY" stuff going on; which isn't a particularly good way to make friends.

They have the right idea (I have taken a number of NNG classes, over the years), but they are only one dimension, of a multi-dimensional space, and I have found it to my advantage to take a "hybrid" approach (which means that everyone is pissed at me).
I bet you did not made a bug-report right?
To this day HP still sells "plotters". They are just mostly used for cutting but you can definitely put a pen in there. And they have an optical eye to read markers on the printed media.

See HP Latex cutter: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/large-format/latex-plus-c...

EDIT Oh, and they still speak HP-GL!
Hahaha ok, if you really do want one email me at fallingfrog at gmail dot com and I’ll see what I can do.. it would feel nice to have someone besides just me to enjoy all that work. I’ll send you a schematic with the pedal.
Because it's thankless. The bosses I've had generally seem to think that writing documentation beyond inline comments is a waste of time; something that shouldn't be done unless scheduled for. And of course it's always the first job to be postponed if the schedule is tight (it always is.)

At work, documentation gets written when the boss isn't looking. Corporate culture makes writing documentation taboo. The examples of great documentation I am most familiar with are written for open source projects where managers aren't around to hassle people for writing it. Particularly: mpv, ffmpeg, racket, emacs. In my career I have yet to encounter a commercial software project with documentation at this level.
Well, maybe first they will appeal to "the we", "the collective", "the identity", or the will of the emperor. Then it will descend into the superstition after the dictatorship.

I much prefer the Christian religion to that, even if I weren't a believer. Mob rule and government rule - dictator rule is just an extension of "we" rule - and who is we and who gets to say? And that is, after all, what this article is about.
Can you reach out to the original composer of the game music? They would likely care about the bogus claims. Particularly if it is a smaller studio. It’s not a great solution, but it might work.
Starship's Belly Flop Maneuver
You are not allowed to create derivative works from another person's creation, regardless of whether you are making money from it. You can't go and make a Shrek III flick, for example, or write a book set in the Harry Potter universe. Likewise, you can't adapt music from a film (IANAL, there are things like fair use, but in general this holds).

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
here is my HP DraftPro DXL going full tilt: https://www.instagram.com/p/CF048Zlpu2u/?igshid=1xsl4wmrcx2f...

Here is my CNC router with a paint pen also zooming along: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT56JwA9sA/?igshid=15p9mru3f5ug...

if you want to get into this, the way to go is the Axidraw from Evil Mad Scientist Labs
I'm very much opposed to this. Society has everything to do with companies, and most of our current societal and environmental problems are a direct result of the way we do business. Externalising environmental and societal consequences for example. Wasting the environment by not taking pollution into account. Having drivers pee in bottles because it's not the company's problem if they can't meet their targets. Bullying of people who are different and HR turning a blind eye.

As an employee I want to make sure the company aligns with my ideas about equality and environmental protection. As a customer I don't want to do business with a company that doesn't. This is why it's important that a company takes a stand on these issues.

Also, it seems to me these things will not be applied equally. Will someone be told off for wearing a cross or a church group badge as much as someone wearing a gay rights ribbon?

Companies are the cause of many if not most of the world's problems and this feels like they're getting back to closing their eyes to them. I'm glad I don't work for Basecamp nor do business with them.
It's in their mutual interest. Imagine what happens to GIThub if GIT goes out of fashion.
See also, for example, Laplace's demon.
> Let's be clear as to what a minimum wage actually is, it's simply and exclusively making employing unproductive people illegal.

It also gives raises to those whose productivity exceeds their negotiating power.
He mentions seizures and micro stroke. This isn’t too far off. Qualitatively different effects, so the underlying physical cause could be different, but I wasn’t intending to imply that mine and his effects were identical.
If the complaint is as easily dismissable as you say it is, without apparently even needing the consult of a lawyer experienced in Chinese law, then it seems no harm was done. The repository is still up months later, so that's where I'm giving credit to the repository owner. And obviously if the person is not a citizen of China then talks of investigation by the Chinese police wouldn't really be relevant, so again no harm done. The letter can be dismissed without needed to post it on Github and make an issue of it.

However I would still encourage open source authors to be educated on Chinese law and to avoid telling Chinese citizens to do things that could potentially get them arrested in China. If there is a real legal threat there it's irresponsible to ignore it. So in the end it's probably good that it was posted on Github.

Edit to respond to your edit: That's not my view. The issue is that the police have already been called by a different party. (or the equivalent of it, i.e. the company is contractually obligated to contact the government in the event of a violation, under threat of legal action from that government) The email appears to just be informing them of that fact. In my view, that is the only responsible thing to do. The only other option is to just not inform them, and have the police show up anyway.
Yes, the hypothetical punishment is not currently happening in reality. You definitely misread the first comment.
they matter because they tell you how to make the app better.
But to compensate those tricky features are sandboxed much more rigorously than JS is, e.g. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enabling-shared-array-buff... - no SAB without site isolation.
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Spectre isn't really something that you can catch with formal verification. It sort of isn't a bug, that's why it's such a problem.
Yes, physical controls are also good and useful.

IIRC, Ford has a simulator just for testing these controls in the cockpit. They design and implement a cockpit, mount it to the simulator and run some scenarios like animals crossing roads or someone braking hard in front of you.

I drive a 2001 focus, and all controls can be operated so-called blindly. I can do anything (HVAC, hazards, lights, etc.) without moving my eyes from the road. I think it's very important.
Steve Jobs of Apple (machinist and accountant parents, neither of whom had a college degree. Dropped out of Reed College).

Jan Koum of Whatsapp (Ukrainian immigrant, came to U.S. with nothing, was on food stamps as a teenager).

Brian Chesky of AirBnB (child of social workers, attended RISD).

Sergey Brin of Google (parents were professors, but emigrated from the Soviet Union with nothing. Attended University of Maryland).

Marc Andreesen of Netscape, Loudcloud, Ning, and a16z (parents worked for Land's End and a seed company, grew up in cornfields of Iowa, attended UIUC).
HP pen plotters were/are highly intelligent devices - for example you could tell them to draw a pie-chart, provide the data and the labels, and they would go off and do it. If they were not intelligent, and you had to plot all graphs by individual pen movements, no business would have used them. They also optimised things like pen changes and paper movement.
Testing per capita is not same across the country. Maharashtra has been doing a lot of testing. I have been in touch with my friends in UP and it is really hard to get tested there. So the current official numbers are not accurate there.
There is also the consideration whether the abnormality causes distress to the patient.

As an example, the average gay person may not be distressed about being gay. However, the average trans person may feel uneasy about their physical body. This is why the DSM-V describes gender dysphoria, previously known as gender identity disorder. [1]

Feelings be damned, I think that anything that causes a person to feel bad, particularly bad feelings that stem from internal causes, should be considered a disorder. This is not a bad thing, since recognizing a problem is usually the first step to fixing it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
Why is education like this in the US? Is it the teachers who willingly allow students to spend so much unnecessarily? Is it the admins? Do they get paid to do this stuff?
Famicom 3D System
I am no outsider, I have spent last 10 years partnering/ integrating with testing companies . I have seen tests built and marketed and sold.

All tests have frameworks underlying them , do you know how long it takes to establish a framework ? How many peer reviewed papers that have to published, and time it takes to shape the opinion of the ecosystem to make it acceptable? Without a established validity and equity nobody is going to buy the test, why would they risk it to get sued?

You think companies go through the full journey of years and take all the risk? in most cases they only come in the latter stages and commercialize and adapt it.
Google's entire business is scraping websites
A past manager of mine used to do the same thing but using templates for PRs (which is a great GitHub feature)
Really? Interesting as i am looking for a video hosting platform.

Looking at their front page and it looks dead and weird to me. A mix of my little pony videos, scantily clad women and 5 second long videos of grass, bugs etc. Absurd curation.
Yes, isn't it nice when interests of multiple parties are aligned such that they help each other make progress towards their shared goals?
As you say your documentation is a part of the code review process. Getting your (I assume) PR through is an incentive.

Totally agree with you otherwise.
Well, we all can be idiots with various things. However, the problem you mention is real: ratings can be very skewed just because non-target audience may come and try something they don't need/understand. You can't solve it by just letting to delete ratings though - it's too easy to abuse.
My understanding is that most phishing attacks are launched from webmail accounts, which implement DMARC.
TL;DR: Naive string splitting on reserved/fragment characters followed by expected string comparisons in a search tree for known tokens (e.g., http, https, ftp, rtsp, mail).

It is a tradeoff between what you are asking the regex engine to do and what you can code in a small filter. A regex engine is a general-purpose tokenizer, which while having been optimized over the multiple decades since they were proposed will never be as fast as a parser that uses knowledge of grammar. You can tokenize and parse simultaneous which IMHO is a more future-thinking strategy from a support standpoint.

I suspect the person who rote Appendix B was favoring compactness: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396#appendix-B

I've encountered regex's this nasty in the wild, and while they may be compact, try going back and debugging this in 6 months, a year, two years, etc. Even harder if you didn't write it. There could be a page of comments explaining it (like the entire RFC). OR, the programmer could have been a bit more "naive", which in many cases pays off because it forces more verbosity which leaves clues if the comments suck.

Putting aside the mental gymnastics needed to identify if these sub expressions collide, in terms of performance, you can immediately see that almost the entire regex is optional: almost every level-1 subexpression is optional (except /([^?#])/), including the final match all .!. Regex's aren't even, but huge ones like this with multiple rewinds, compound subexpressions, and optional subexpressions can severely degrade performance.

Yes, I'm ranting, because I've had to fix the consequences of opaque code like this in the wild. :)
If double click/search is a true monopoly google may not need any further work to sustain itself and could push new costs to their customers.

I won’t venture a head count figure for google without R&D but it’s probably a tiny fraction of current head count.
I have the same issue with reviews like that. If an app isn't meant for you, uninstall it, get a refund, and move on. A review that basically says "I didn't have product X so this app that controls product X is garbage" are completely useless (except if the app says nowhere in the title or or description that it has additional requirements to function).

They don't bother me as much as the Amazon ones you bring up though. I swear the majority of negative reviews I see on there are people complaining that the product never shipped or that the shipping service damaged it. There's so many of them that on Amazon that it can be nearly impossible to find reviews that actually say negatives about the product. Tends to end up being better to find a trusted professional reviewer and if they haven't reviewed what you're looking at, just skip it in favor of something they have reviewed.
I've found that many developers do not pay attention to dependency management, so this approach of "it's either in the repo or it doesn't exist" is actually a nice guard rail.

I'm reading between the lines here, but, I'm assuming you've setup your tooling to enforce this. As in: the various projects in the repo don't just optionally decide to have external references, i.e., Maven central, npm, etc.

This puts quite a lot of "stuff" in the repo, but with improvements like this article mentioned, makes monorepos in git much easier to use.

I'd have to think, you could generate a lot of automation and reports triggering out of commits pretty easily, too. I'd say that would make the monorepo even easier to observe with a modicum of the tooling required to maintain independent repositories.
Curl vs. PSCouchDB
> One big risk here, or with any cyclically referenced benchmark, is runaway positive feedback. This can be exponential growth, oscillation, or exponentially growing oscillation.

Have we ever witnessed an exponentially growing oscillation in a large scale economic feedback loop like this before? I'd never really considered that concept for macroeconomics.
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If you think that's going to happen again in the USA, you haven't been paying attention.

Signed, child and grandchild of union workers from Michigan
Sample size 1: every 3 months I need to buy a large hard drive (14TB+). I buy external USB ones since they are the cheapest.

Since it was due, in the last couple of weeks I was scanning prices in Romania daily, in case I get lucky with a discount. In the last week, prices surged 60-100%, and stock disappeared for 4 TB+.

I panicked and after a lot of scanning I managed to buy a slightly smaller one than I needed with just a 20% surcharge.

Prices on Amazon UK are also out of control.

So now we are out of chips, CPUs, GPUs and hard drives. What a time to be alive :)

PS: I would love to hear Backblaze take on this shortage.