skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that comma2 would assume anyone interested in their product wouldn't have ad blockers. Or that anyone would want to context switch to looking into it from Instagram.

I would have assumed ads for comma2 to revolve around sponsored content on various DIY/hacker sites. But I am not a good marketer, nor do I pretend to be (I do recognize it's value and wish I was, but I just don't get it.)

I suppose comma2 doesn't pay for blocked ads. So that is less surprising on reflection.
You seem to consider yourself a good middle manager, and I'm sure many people like you exist. There is however a bigger problem in that many managers are not good at the job of being a manager, but they are great at taking credit for the work of others and rising up the ranks of corporations/organizations. Rather they were born with the psychological makeup that directs their actions towards taking credit, as well as other "leadership" roles, but because that specific psychological makeup requires a greedy algorithm, it is actually not very good at orchestration of its subsystems because to be good at orchestrating all the subsystems require being less greedy and understanding each subsystem and their issues well, rather than manipulating, extorting, deceiving, and self promoting (of the work of others as ones work).

I don't want you in your defense of yourself to defend the existence of this coporation/organizational sub-entity because in reality they cost corporations(and governments) an absurdly unjustifiable amount of capital for on average negative result.

Realize that most people if treated like adults know how to work towards a common goal, we are socially adapted creatures by genetic design, and have dominated earth because of it. We actually do not need cult leaders to get to the moon, actually they are more of a hindrance.
And also at the end of the day they take on liability for the products they sell. If amazon was liable for its 3rd party garage it wouldn’t be a problem
Because the inflation grows in respect to the access to captial you had before.

So our Senior Sales associate at Home Depot doesn't see any real increase because he doesn't have any assest to take advantage of it.

Meanwhile those that have access to cheap money are able to move it to others sources that are inflation resistant, stocks, companies, real estate, etc, meaning that overtime he is still getting paid $80,000 and his house may have increased in value but everything he needs to live is outpacing his ability to buy. Meanwhile those involved in finance are now substantially richer because they got more of the new money being created by having easy accless to captial.

EDIT: If I am wrong in something here somebody tell me why, because that basically seems to be what is happening with the feds inflationary money policies is that everyone that can is borrowing at low interest rates then plowing that into real estate and the stock market because those are increasing in value so much, precisely because interest rates are so low and inflation so high.
Check your iron levels (or just check your diet). Restless leg syndrome can be caused by iron deficiency.
The amount of lobbying you need is going to depend a lot on what your industry is.

If you're building mines or manufacturing plants that take years to build and then another year to get running right and then another five to be profitable and your margins are thin you have a much larger interest in ensuring regulations don't change or at least not fast because a few percent change in profit could mean you never recoup your investment over the lifetime of the facility.

It can still take years to build stuff but rarely is it 3+yr and tech margins are fatter and once you have something your can scale up and down much more rapidly.

I think the "natural" amount of lobbying is going to be lower in tech than for industries that do physical things because tech has some things that make working with regulatory uncertainty less terrible.
Personally I don't think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse.

Right out of the bat there is a page where you need to uncheck all the spyware crap and there are so many it scrolls. They also make it so a normal local user is presented like a somewhat inferior experience than their web login. Then you have to fill in obligatory 3 recovery questions even if you are confident in your choice of passwords.

Nothing of this is new but I've recently had to install Windows 10 on an old computer to use some crapware and after all the questioning and cringe "we are working hang on it" messages there was some huge tray icon displaying some weather data and other unnecessary stuff. Something about Interests and it sits there with lots of unsolicited stuff like OneDrive.

The start menu is littered with squares filled with animated web page stuff and honestly its hard to find out if those are about news or ads.

Now I'm not a Windows hater. I mean... LTSC and Windows server are nice. Why does default Windows and Windows Pro must look like BonziBuddyOS?
> Sanders is pouring manure all over corporate America since 2015

Can you please expand on this? What exactly are you trying to say here?
Restic issues for adding GUI and compression are 7 years old. If if there was interest/"easy to do" for implementing them that would have been done.
> Only four companies—Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google—currently meet the parameters laid out in the bills, according to one of the people, and they are the same companies that Congress investigated as part of its probe into Big Tech. Walmart Inc., WMT +0.44% for instance, operates an online marketplace and has private-label products, but only has a $392 billion market valuation, so wouldn’t be subject to any of the bills, according to a person familiar with the matter.

That seems oddly specific and I don't follow why this has to be the case
Actually I don’t think it is.

Microsoft promise way ahead of time, fail to deliver, reduce scope, kick out a broken half finished product, get the customers to beta test it, change their mind on the direction of the entire organisation in that space and generally leave everyone confused and a bit burned out. This happens every time and has done for the last 20 years. Even the latest reinvention has just increased the frequency of this incompetence.

Most marketing at least delivers an 80% product.
Have you tried the https://hotwire.dev/ stuff? If so why did you pick htmx over it?
A lot of 0-downtime migrations end up turning into a months-long ordeal and can still fail.

Allowing maintenance windows means you can do things in a much simple manner. Need to take a snapshot of a DB without running into issues with a production system adding data? Sure, go ahead, you just saved two months.
Not sure what to say, but this is how it works on all the large systems I'm familiar with.

Image you have two servers, each with two 1TB disks (4TB physical storage). And you have two distinct services with 1TB datasets, and want some storage redundancy.

One option is to put each pair of discs in a RAID-1 configuration, and so each RAID instance holds one dataset. This protects against a disk failure, but not against server or network failures.

Your other option is to put one copy of the dataset on each server. Now you are protected from the failure of any single disk, server, or the network to that server.

In both cases you have 2TB of logical storage available.
The technology field has much deeper problems that increased competition alone won't fix.

One of the most pernicious effects of tech advances in recent decades has been the rise of surveillance state and surveillance capitalism, and the loss of privacy that comes with that.

This enabling of spying on everyone is not going to be addressed by more competition, and might even enable it further if innovation in that space increases.

Another major issue is economic inequality fostered by the internet and tech booms which, again, the breakup up (or even end) of these companies would not address.
There are at least 2 manufacturers for tapes (Fujifilm and Sony), but their tapes are also sold under many other brands (e.g. IBM, Quantum, HP).

The price per TB is currently about $7 or less (per real TB of LTO-8, not per marketing compressed TB), so there is no chance to approach the cost and reliability of tapes using HDDs.

The problem with tapes is that currently the tape drives are very expensive, because their market is small, so you need to store a lot of data before the difference in price between HDDs and tapes exceeds the initial expense for the tape drive.

Nevertheless, if you want to store data for many years, investing in a tape drive may be worthwhile just for the peace of mind, because when storing HDDs for years you can never be sure how will they work when operated again.
The main details:

> Now through June 22, the USA Rail Pass is available for $299, a savings of $200 off the regular $499 price.

> USA Rail Pass allows up to 10 segments in a 30-day period beginning with the customer’s first trip and is valid for use within 120 days of pass purchase.

So normally it'd be a $50/trip pass (if you use every segment) but now it's a $30/trip deal. Oh if you have a connection, that counts as two trip "segments" btw.

I'd spring for this, if it weren't summer time. Checking out some random places in America by train sounds nice, when it's not 90+ degrees out.
A graph shared on Slashdot at the time made a big impression on me. It shows that until the antitrust pressure started ramping up [1], Microsoft didn't lobby (as I recall).

The graph showed a huge spike in lobbying money after antitrust. Of course, this makes perfect sense in terms of incentives on both sides. Perhaps this [2] was the graph.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/images/micro1...
This "volatility will come down as the market cap gets larger" keeps getting thrown around, yet Bitcoin just lost 50% of its value at a market cap of 1 trillion USD. What market cap is required for Bitcoin to stop being volatile?
Lightning is a horrible kludge to deal with the fact that Bitcoin is terrible at being a currency. It essentially boils down to this process:

1. Pay huge fees to take your money off the blockchain.

2. Whiz it around a new, totally independent, centralized network where you need an always-on connection to anyone you're paying or receiving from and need to trust any intermediaries you're using, with brand new fees for every transaction and even at rest (so you can pay a "watchtower" to help make sure you don't get cheated).

3. Pay more huge fees to put your money back on the blockchain when you're done.

4. Wonder how you got yourself into a situation where you have all the disadvantages of Visa and Bitcoin, with none of the advantages of either.

We already have existing coins, like Nano, that can handle transactions instantly, for zero fees, and with nearly no energy use, on the main chain.
It looks quite nice.
I also made similar tool: https://about.kakeru.app
This works wonderfully. If you have any long running queries, though, the PAUSE won't pause until they have finished.

I love pgbouncer, it is such a great tool.
Making them write-once doesn't increase the capacity; that's mostly limited by how many analog levels you can distinguish on the stored charge, and how many cells you can fit. The management overhead and spare capacity to make SSDs rewritable is –to my knowledge– in the single digit percentages.

(Also you need the translation layer even for write-once since flash generally doesn't come 100% defect free. Not sure if manufacturers could try to get it there, but that'd probably drive the cost up massively. And the translation layer is there for rewritable flash anyway... the cost/benefit tradeoff is in favor of just living with a few bugged cells.)
Perhaps I’m old and cynical but we’ll see if that actually occurs. I admire your optimism though :)
Fear not, moderators seem to have unflagged it. The righteously-oriented flamebait must go on!
Spoiler alert - This is the plot to ‘The Prestige’.
Show HN: Made an app called Seamless to replace AirDrop in some ways
Yep, shows thumbnails for pictures, videos, pdfs etc. More formats than Windows in fact. Windows has been standing still, the rest of the world hasn't.

EDIT: I used "Files", not the file picker.
> there are plenty of places (like my hometown) where parents send their kids further out to ensure that they attend a school that is majority their race rather than the local neighborhood school.

Ah, that is interesting. In my district (and state, AFAIK), school assignment is completely out of the hands of the parents, with some narrow exceptions.

I fully admit to having a narrow view on this, my state is not especially diverse, with more than 75% white and 2% black. So most of our school segregation, if it's fair to call it that, is completely socioeconomic even if the students are largely the same race.
Windows X One .NET Series 10 Core Framework.

Edit: Anyone willing to give me some betting odds on it being Microsoft Bob 2.0?
I think it will be just Windows. Just like Xbox is now Xbox with different flavors called either series X or series S.
Probably he is not.

I use Windows 7 myself. I hated Windows 10, the telemetry, ads, candy crush, random reboots, updates that erase settings and so on are just crazy, and then seemly it often goes out of it's way to break important software.
I was splitting an apartment with a family friend in my hometown in a really nice quadplex where I grew up, for $700/mo. Something comparable in Santa Monica would have cost well over twice that and I'd have a stranger for a roommate. The savings worked out to $10-20 per hour of driving so while not life changing, it was pretty substantial.

I quickly learned to cope by making full use of the company provided gym: I'd leave at 5am and spend 3 hours at the gym doing stretches, exercising, watching TV on my phone, and going to the sauna/steam rooms (daily! it was amazing). Since everyone was in the same boat wrt traffic, we'd all take a long lunch most days and leave later, like 7-8pm which made evening traffic more managable. Most weekends I'd drive 3 hours one way to visit family anyway so I got used to it.

Like I said, I have mixed feelings about the pandemic. Getting 3-4 hours of my life back each day has been incredible. Never going back to any commute.
there are people on this cursed earth who roll with windows 2000 on prod, you know?
Yes, but those chickens now are as powerful as Cray's oxen were then.
The federal government will destabilize the economy the nanosecond it sees big tech as a bigger threat to its power than economic instability.

The question is can tech boil the frog so they never notice.
> How many distros even ship with debugfs enabled by default?

Almost all of them, try `mount | grep ^debugs` or at least `/proc/filesystems |grep debugfs`. It's root-only though.
Yeah but if the manufacturer went kaput or the store was negligent in sourcing beef you could sue. Both of these are a problem with amazon. If target sold Chinese cribs that killed kids for example you can bet folks would sue target and not the manufacturer
From what I've read, TJ's doesn't infringe. They simply pay the original manufacturer to make a run of the product with TJ's label on it.
>It then finally became a free browser

Clarifying it became a freeware browser which even after the end of its life remained closed source.

>but by then it was too late

It was the third most popular browser in the pre-Chrome era after IE and Firefox.
English is my second language and Latin my third. While the latter is not as useful as learning Spanish or French in day to day communication, it really helped my English capabilities as a lot of words in English are Latin based.

My favorite etymological thing is the German „Bank“ which can mean bench or bank. Funnily enough the financial institution is a loan via the Italian „banca“ but that itself goes back to the same old Germanic root as the bench you sit on.
You should really consider working for several of the large bay area legacy companies like HP, Veritas, Symantec, NetApp, etc. The "work life balance" at these places is quite good in the sense that most engineers aren't working much.

I think you could easily do two or three jobs at once and accumulate overlapping stock grants quite easily. That overlap eventually gets your yearly to a serious amount.
Current-day Door County, Wisconsin has existed since well before this map begins, but shows as Lake Michigan. So, there's that.
Two weeks of securing Samsung devices: Part 1
Here's the problem I own a home I am not owning that home as an investment vehicle I didn't choose the home to make a return I got that home as a place to fricking live, I chose my home because it would be most comfortable for my wife and family. The "value of the home" is an imaginary number in a database somewhere that doesn't actually do me any good when I need to pay for a hospital visit, or need to buy a car or something like that.

In fact the more of my "value" is locked up in my home the less I am able to access it. Besides even if I were to liquidate what should I do then, go live under a bridge, the problem is even if my home has increased in value so has everyone else's home so even if I liquidate I'll still be stuck having to roll all that value over into a new home anyway because no matter what happens I still need a place to live.
Costco does too - Kirkland is their own brand.

Same with Kroger's - Private Reserve
I've been WFH for almost 10 years, only going in the office for important meetings. Most of that time I didn't even have a desk. Nobody ever questioned if WFH affected my productivity. I just assumed everyone knew what I knew, that I could get more done from home and minimize stress. I don't remember a single awkward conversation about it.

Now it's a daily topic and it's getting tiresome. We'll see if the "back to office" pundits succeed in ruining a good thing.
Integrating a web application with Azure AD using Datawiza in 5 mins
4 rounds? 2 is too much.
This is weird. I thought this was a super niche tabletop roleplaying topic. I would never have guessed to see this at the top of hacker news.
Fantasy: the next Windows is Windows Infinite, a unix-like operating system.
Technically both statements could be true. Doesn't seem likely though.
I don't have a problem falling asleep, my issue is staying asleep. The slightest noise can wake me up, or just wake up early with no way to go back to sleep. The last few days I went to sleep around 2am and just naturally woke up(feeling tired) between 7-9am. I end up napping later in the day
It makes me wonder why Google or Facebook hasn't bought Great America yet.
If past efforts are any indication, whatever regulatory scheme they come up with will cost these companies a good deal of time and money without doing anything to effectively solve the problem.
Phrased differently: Quake 3 servers could publish server mods that would be executed by the clients.

This is the same security risk that anything with plugin/extension/mod functionality experiences.

Generally, the best way to secure that vulnerability is to verify downloads from a moderated source, i.e. run a mod forum/plugin repository that disenfranchises bad actors and verify checksums at download.

A good example is Emacs and melpa.
My personal theory is that Microsoft probably thought Apple would stay on 10 forever, but with M1 macOS moved to 11. 11 > 10...
I get what you are saying but look at what happened to the 60s car here. Seatbelts don’t do anything for you if the other car is suddenly parked in your pelvis. None of the hard parts seem to reach at least the torso of the dummy in the modern car while in the 60s car the dummy ends up being pushed virtually into the back seat. Sure the seatbelt would have held it in the seat but it that does nothing as the bent door and the grill of the modern car crushed it’s lungs and liver areas. The airbag here wouldn’t have saved the dummy either of course. The thing that would have is a better crumple zone.
There is literally no mention of 2042 in the article.

Where does it say battlefield 2042 was leaked?

All I see is Fifa and Frostbite (a game engine)
...by completely avoiding all basic compatibility factors (wanting kids, sexual orientation, religiosity, etc) and misrepresenting yourself?
Sleep paralysis is only frightening when you fight it. Instead, you can simply direct your attention inwards and daydream about something pleasant. Think of it as taking a little break from your everyday reality. Nothing bad is going to happen -- everything you experience in that state is a smoke scroll drawn from your imagination.
How did we get from people calling themselves night owls to people suffering from insomnia?

You do realize that these are different things I hope?

If not, here is a hint: a "night owl" has no trouble falling asleep when it's "their time" to sleep.

A person suffering from insomnia still struggles to fall asleep even if it's 2am.
Sam Altman on the AI Revolution, trillionaires and the future of political power
The only thing I really notice is the settings ... app, box, thing, (not sure what to call it even) is wonky. Seems to get wonky-er all the time. But I'm hardly ever in there.

That's really the major change I notice. The little UI changes in menu or task bar I find easy enough to just adjust and so forth whenever I need to do so. Mostly I just turn them off and doing so doesn't really bother me.
how would this type of software compare against Dropbox / NextCloud?
in the USA I usually have to spell it out: Jay Aye Are Ee Kay , and I know I'm speaking with someone that has Slavic roots when they say "oh I know" ;)
What do you mean? Microsoft has always been clear and unambiguous with their naming and branding. Everyone can clearly tell the difference between the Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. No possible confusion there!
Rg3d 0.20 – a feature-rich and easy-to-use game engine with an editor
You need to be logged in, or have the app to see that sub - is that a new thing?

https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ works thankfully.
It's a pity that primary education isn't done this way now. As far as I can tell it is worse than ever with children being regularly tested but never taught how to think.
So did I. Until it aged which it didn’t well.
In civilized countries you have consumer watchdogs that deal with fraud and unsafe products so the consumer doesn't have to. The point of the law isn't to catch criminals, it's to prevent crime.
For wikipedia it's pretty easy if you've got even the most basic systems administration experience...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Of...
Microsoft should number their Windows releases by when support will end for them (eg Windows 25). That’ll make it super clear to enterprise that they’ve got to get with it and update, rather than obfuscating and delaying these dates. (Being half serious)
Some of the stock is essentially fully managed by third parties. If you see a bunch of Coke products in a store, there is likely to be a "Merchandiser" that visits and restocks it. It's a strategy by brands to get their product into more stores.
Yup, our stage block is fully featured webinar software with everything from Q/A and raise hand to screen share. We are actually releasing uploading slides and playing videos directly in our product in the next few weeks. You can already do that by sharing your screen, but this will ensure a high resolution image and smooth playback.

And right now, the best way to get a demo is to sign up for free(no credit card required) and create an event that starts right now. We are thinking about adding a perpetually active networking block on our website, especially since people really “get it” once they experience the product. Or maybe just more gifs or videos throughout our landing page can get the experience across.