skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am of the opinion that many people have experienced childhood trauma in one form or another, and generally speaking few people want to admit to or have grown up without tragedy. Is there a particular type of "trauma" here? Are we saying those who've been abused physically, mentally or sexually? Are we saying someone who had a loved one die before their time?
>1000lbs heavier and taller to boot.

About the same weight (4k per Google) and the road-master is shorter.

Hell, an Altima is pushing into 80s base trim half-ton curb weight territory.

>People forget just how big old station wagons were. I used to roll in a B body, so it amuses me when people talk about how much bigger cars are today.

Because the overwhelming majority of people who are saying these things were born to well enough to do families that they never got to live first hand the experience of the Country Squire that had to do it all. There was the minivan for kid hauling and the Accord (or whatever) for commuting.

You know how people today judge a Dodge Journey or used Chevy Tahoe. That's what station wagons were back then.
I don't think he is saying that $100k is the number he is simply using $100k as a comparison that makes the math easy. The core point is that whatever the going rate for an engineer of your specialty and skill level is in your area that same job as a self-employed person should be paid more on an hourly basis to account not only for those extra expenses pointed out but also because of benefit to the company of the flexibility of the arrangement.

That said there is a near infinite amount of people in the world willing to pay less for software engineering consulting services all the way down to $0. You need to avoid those people like the plague.

I have personally dabbled in self-employment and really hate the sales aspect that is required to make it work. You really need a deep network and outstanding soft skills. If you don't have that another way is go use a head hunter that specializes in placing consultants/contract employees. The draw back there is they are going to take a cut of your hourly rate so long as you hold that position but it out sources the hard part of sourcing work if that isn't your thing.
People ignore stop signs everywhere, IME. Best case, they slow way down and yield; worst case, they just blow through it entirely. I've even seen cops roll through stop signs. Nobody actually stops unless they would physically hit something if they didn't, and few use turn signals if they're going to turn. It's maddening as a pedestrian.
> the quote is not by Knuth, but by Claus Tøndering

Sorry, my mistake. I knew Knuth was religious so I assumed it was his quote.

I stand by the substance of my comment though. But I agree with you that it's not a huge big deal.
I've hit this twice, and each time it's actually turned me off from interacting with a community completely, namely the Elm slack and the NixOS IRC. It's not out of spite mind you, but its just a weird first impression and creates this feel of egg-shells, and really blunted my drive of wanting to participate further. The "political" context wasn't a factor for me, it was more of just the exchange of `attempted-friendly-statement` with a response of `be-friendly-but-not-like-that`
Copyright assignment is an interesting topic.

With the copyright assigned the owner of said copyright can release the code under any license of their choosing.

Some dual license open source projects do this, the organization requires the copyright assignment and hence they can release the code under an open source license and their own closed license. License changes here are perfectly OK (legally at least).

Interesting cases are those without a copyright grant. Now you allow the group to only produce copies and releases in accordance to that specific license. License changes now are questionable. Can you relicense Apache 2.0 as AGPL? BSD as Apache 2.0? (Without owning the copyright, my guess in both cases is no.)
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The list your linked is from 2012. In the last 9 years ECMA-402 has been heavily influenced by Mozilla's projects like Firefox OS and MozIntl APIs. :)
A datacenter and a bunch of computers costs less than an airport and a bunch of fighter jets?
It’s not waste in that it goes into the trash - it’s just a sink cost that I’ll never recoup. Anything left over I keep for myself, give to friends/family, or donate (which is actually more difficult than you would expect since it is perishable)

I’m only open once or twice a week so secondary uses (beans, chili, etc) unfortunately don’t work for me.
I'm curious what people find their ratio of billable/total hours to be (which the article mentions only briefly as utilization) and how to improve it. For me over the years it's around .8 billable per hour worked, it seems hard to do better than this.
I dunno about the marketing, but I for one was excited about the first consumer devices capable of realtime, immersive 3D worlds. I played a lot of 16 player halo in college classrooms on big screen projectors. It was exciting.
> although Youtube still does track you, but in ways that probably violate EU law, and might violate US law too.

I was in agreement with your post until this throw-in line at the end. What reason do you have to believe that YouTube is breaking US and EU law?
My mother's Australian, and as a (partial) joke to rib some relatives of mine (I was born in the US; father is American), I used to sing this parody:

99 bottles of beer on the wall

99 bottles of beer

If you're an Aussie you'll drink them all down

99 bottles of beer on the ground

Not only is it a faster version of the song, I hadn't internalized quite how true it was. lol
A 2000 outback is a (I'm going to stop just short of saying literally but I really want to) 1989 Legacy with redesigned cosmetic body panels, interior and some extra supported welded into places you can't see.

You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the stripped shells without looking at the head/tail light opening shaped. The pile of drive-train parts is more or less identical save a 5-gal bucket of minor stuff
If you’re using a userns then power to you it’s all the same since you’re not really root.

If not then you’re playing a dangerous game because now your container is running as root on the host system which is almost certainly not what you want. The fundamental security boundary on Linux is users and containers are not a sandboxing solution. You can use seccomp, SELinux, gvisor, or honestly virtualization to get real sandboxing and docker can use those tools to create a sandbox but Linux namespaces alone “containers” aren’t that. You can use these tools without any namespacing and vice versa. It’s not a question of “not trusting” process isolation but defense in depth. If you wouldn’t be comfortable running every process on your host system as root and put full trust into SELinux, AppArmor, and seccomp then you shouldn’t start just because you added a high-tech chroot.
This is very nice tool. It would be great if importing card deck from Nandeck was an option.
It let me capture the pages with the correct orientation and the cameras have a fixed focus on the Platen so it works really well. Then Scantailer can crop automagically and deal with the rest.
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> Surely it's not a clear case of good vs evil

It sort of is though? Israel started everything and has 1000x the military capabilities of Palestine, thanks to US government funding. Israel uses their military superiority to slaughter innocent civilians in order to further their ideal of an ethnostate centered around Jewish supremacy. If Hitler had been Jewish, this is exactly what he would have wanted.

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I can't wait for Intel to release an i7 variant as the i8 Gran Coupé.
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You can't infer priority from budget size, because different military activities have different equipment requirements.

Need the capability to send a few guys in a helicopter to attack an enemy physically? You are looking at hundreds of millions for the helicopter and weapons.

Need to have a few guys remotely hack a foreign website? A few computers, a good internet connection, and some comfortable chairs.

No matter how high you prioritize those kinds of cyber ops you aren't going to need a budget anywhere what even a modest fleet of aircraft or ships or tanks needs.

Sometimes there may be a need to blow up something or physically sabotage something in another country to facilitate some cyber ops goal, but that would be carried out by the people with drones or planes or by special ops, depending on what the relationship is between the US and the country the operation will be in and so how discrete the US needs to be, and the money to support such capabilities would show up on their budget rather than the cyber ops budget.
I would expect that if software programmers were of similar quality they would produce similar per capita software products, companies, and open source projects. But it’s not nearly as common.

I think the best programmers in the world get sucked into US companies so while there are decent programmers around the world, the quality isn’t the same. Whether it’s 5 or 25%, I don’t think there’s quality parity.
Technically there probably is an optimal solution, if you decide on a system for valuing each of those positives/negatives. Once you manage that, there's almost certainly a point on the curve that gives you the highest total value. And yes, it is probably impossible to be objective here, but a subjective optimal solution can be helpful too.
Actually it was Video Enhanced DIC (VEDIC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanovid_microscopy?wprov=sfla1

It is apparently able to resolve colloidal gold particles 20-40nm in diameter.
We have been talking about this problem a bit. The tension here is that UX mocks a particular locale as "pixel perfect" and doesn't really "care" about how it'll i18n into other locales.

So they want "do the right thing" for 103 out of 104 locales, but "do what I told you" for "MY" locale.

This is a bit of a conundrum because we don't want to treat any locale as "special".
To translate it to code you'd write something like:

if (currentLocale == "THE_ONE_UX_CREATED_MOCKS_FOR") {
let value = formatToUXProvidedPattern(data);
} else {
let value = data.toLocaleString(currentLocale);
}

I don't have a great answer how to approach it since there are severe drawbacks and risks to all known potential approaches to "squeeze just one particular format that UX provided into i18n database", but I just wanted to say that we're aware that Intl API has the clash with the UX-driven-development.
Europe is exactly the same though. Majority of the countries/people don’t drink fancy wines for dinner but binge drink to party and forget about their troubles. Upper middle class in a few wine producing countries does not create a continental monoculture.

Anyone from Northern/Eastern Europe or UK will be shocked by US drinking culture in the opposite direction. My experience of Germany was also certainly not “wine for dinner” type of behavior
> - Do not get tricked into rolling over old employer 401k plans to a traditional (non-Roth) IRA. If you do this, there are very complex tax implications when doing backdoor Roth contributions.

Do you have more information on what we should be looking for here? Is the backdoor roth you're referring to different from 401(k) plan sponsored mega backdoor roth?
That if you are going to pay a sub set in a mostly volunteer project it [imho] should be the most shitty tasks. Improved moderation would dramatically improve the wiki as people are quick to leave if the mod is unable to do the work required.
I'm glad we're getting further and further down all this, just waiting patiently for a `strftime` that gives better control over formatting.

Especially given that everyone and their dog was using moment.js for the longest time, it's always a bit surprised me that spec improvements didn't try to get more coverage for the "generalzied formatting" stuff. Maybe this stuff is all just calling OS internals
Another potential benefit of self-employment is that you can't sell your job. Assuming you build systems into place and remove yourself from your business, your business could be worth many more times revenue to exit. You can't sell your job unless you are playing the startup lottery and hit it big.
Please don't call me Shirley!

Do you not think Apple looked at the prior art before writing that translator? Of course they did.

"Great artists steal" -- indeed they do.
> I’m wondering if the research is not in agreement or if the Atlantic is getting even warmer faster.

Note: I am writing this without direct access to the stats at the moment.

The Arctic is warming faster than many parts of the world, yes, in that air temperatures are rapidly increasing. The oceans, however, warm much more slowly and the differential between the two oceans should still be quite large.
This is great, and I would ignore the people who complain about the UX being too difficult. The most profitable customer is people buying in frequently to online tournaments, for whom this all makes complete sense. The regular casual low-mid stakes customers spend hundreds of dollars per day or at least week on buy-ins easily, and you're gonna get a tonne of em to be comfortable paying $30/month.

I've played online tournaments for a month or two and can tell exactly what this is saying. So it's not exactly high level.

Where did you get the data for this?
Wrong thread. This is for people looking for work, not companies looking for people.
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IANAL but an employee generally does not have to just contribute work related code. The company has to OK it either for specific contributions or as a blanket policy, but it's opt in.

Then there is a secondary question on whether you contribute the code under a specific license (say Apache 2.0 GPL, etc.) or whether you assign the copyright.

In the former case the code can only be used in accordance with that specific license, in the latter case the code can be re-licensed by the copyright holder.

In either case the company could claim that the employee did not have the right to contribute the code, but (AFAIK) that is independent of a copyright grant vs license grant.
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You’re completely misrepresenting the supposed similarities between your example and the reality in 2021. The document you reference is talking about quarantining travelers from abroad before they officially enter the US:

> "It was asserted that the plaintiff, a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the Republic of France and a citizen of said Republic, on or about September 2, 1898, caused its steamship Britannia to be cleared from the ports of Marseilles, France, and Palermo, Italy, for New Orleans with a cargo of merchandise and with about 408 passengers, some of whom were citizens of the United States returning home, and others who were seeking homes in the United States, and who intended to settle in the state of Louisiana or adjoining states, and that all the passengers referred to at the time of their sailing were free from infectious or contagious diseases. It was further averred that on September 29, 1898, the vessel arrived at the quarantine station some distance below the city of New Orleans"

It does not in any way justify indiscriminately restricting the constitutionally protected freedoms of American citizens, on American soil, for more than a year. Try telling someone in the early 1900's that their church or synagogue is closed for the next 15 months, by order of the U.S government. Good luck. In this case, when Americans have chosen to travel abroad, it justifies a limited quarantine when they return to the country. Nothing more. Indefinite lockdowns of entire states or the entire country is not quarantine. Rather, it's a grave human rights violation that we cargo culted from Communist China.

Edit: lol to the comment below. gnight bro.
Eh, I've spent a great deal of time in Norway, the UK and France. The UK and Norway are just as bad in terms of "problem" drinking in my experience. France seems to have it more under control but there are still plenty of drunk people roaming around in public after 6pm.

If anything I'd say we're quicker to label drinking "a problem" here in the US than elsewhere - even though the drink amounts and resulting behavior are the same. YMMV I guess, but this seems like a lot of other articles I've seen lately that "throw shade" at America while ignoring the same issues elsewhere.
They offered FWD through 1993. The real world gains in fuel economy were negligible then and less now.
Thanks! If you'd like to help we just merged Segmenter API into ICU4X with an intention to back the ECMA-402 Segmenter API! See https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/pull/717

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People haven’t accepted mass surveillance, they just don’t understand what it is and have been mislead by the media, government, and corporations into silently consenting to privacy intrusions.

They think it won’t be used against them, until one day it does, and they are horrified when a divorce attorney is talking about the GPS movements from their “connected car” or their bank closes an account and locks out their funds because they attended a political protest. Unfortunately for them the realization comes way too late.
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I guess maybe the point I was trying to make wasn’t explicit enough. Getting excited about either one, understandable. Getting into serious and sustained arguments about which one was better like they were political parties or religions, not as understandable.
I18n parsing is indeed hell. I'm very very reluctant to try to add it to ECMA-402 for that particular reason.

Thank you for writing a user land library for it. It's a thankless task and a very important one and I think such a complex problem deserves a userland solution!
People in the US drink in the parks, the suburbs and the cities, especially in the evenings. The care and discretion one needs to take is proportional to how much free time the cops in the area have and circumstance / setting. You can drink openly at the beach. If in a small town park, you'd want to either have the alcohol in an unmarked bottle, a soda can, or a brown paper bag. In the cities the cops are typically concerned with real crime that they do not care and one can almost openly drink. In some areas one can legally openly drink, like in Las Vegas.

Access to alcohol is a separate thing altogether, and is freely available depending on county and state, but, in the areas where the majority of Americans live (ie, not Utah, or similar), it's very easy to get alcohol and it's not seen as a bad thing.

The issue is that the US is so large and disparate that everyone's experience will be slightly different, and, no offense, but your opinion of drinking culture in the US seems off base and I get the sense you don't know what you're talking about.
Would you pay $30/month to level up your game? Because for me this site is premised on the fact that the people willing to pay that already know the basic strat needed to digest this site.
It makes an obscene amount of difference.

A FWD wagon will practically get stuck on wet grass if there's even a slight incline. AWD is a ton better. And I say this as someone who has FWD and AWD variants of the same station wagon in my garage right now.
Can't you enforce a license too? A license is a contract and if code is released in breach of that license than should be enforceable as well.
Is the issue that a license breach is a legally weaker case than copyright infringement?
Awesome - I’ll have to check him out. We likely have mutual friends in the bbq community.

I don’t have any plans to go full time with BBQ anytime soon but that’s exactly the model I’ve looked into.
>It's hard to reduce the US to a single culture.

The US had a very particular set of economic conditions in respect of infrastructure quality, volume of arable land for corn production, and corn vs corn mash distillate transport costs.

The result? "[In the 1790s], the settlement of the so-called “corn belt” in the Midwest created large new supplies of corn, which was cheaper and more profitable to convert into whiskey than it was to transport great distances without spoiling. Thus, as Rorabaugh notes: “Western farmers could make no profit shipping corn overland to eastern markets, so they distilled corn into ‘liquid assets.’ By the 1820s, whiskey sold for twenty-five cents a gallon, making it cheaper than beer, wine, coffee, tea, or milk.”

https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/the-1800...

Given the price, Americans drank an absurdly, mind-bendingly large amount of booze. While not uniform, the US has a consistently different relationship with alcohol than most other countries as a result of the impact of these events and responses to them upon it's food culture.
you should go to three conferences a year so ahh these two numbers balance out pretty well in the end.
yes! I found these on sale at digikey. Search for "arduino nano rp2040". They cost about $28.
I'm one of the leaders of the ICU4X project which is a Rust implementation of ECMA-402 aiming to back client-side solutions.

We hope to eventually back SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine) implementation with it, but we also want to target WASM and in result expose it as a polyfill for any browser to use.

I don't know if by the time ICU4X is 1.0 IE11 will still matter, but it may be possible to compile it to asm.js and run in IE11 maybe?
As part of a school project this past year, my son had to do a historical video report. Together, we hacked together a set of 17th century evening news overlay graphics complete with scrolling headline ticker. OBS was great.
> If you are just swapping in some strings

Besides currency, date/time, numeric separators, and unit selection/conversion, that's all that's usually necessary (assuming the app's strings are translated).