skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish we had No-business solutions. Like you only have to write code and the business side of things is being solved for you by a script, just watch money flow into your account.
I had to do the same, but we used imaging software. It was called Ghost. Symantec later bought them.
Wow, that was actually an insightful and respectful comment, that made me appreciate both sides of the argument.

Bonus internet points for you today sir.
"One thing that I usually do when focusing is difficult despite these check-ins (which happens occasionally to me when doing something really hard or unpleasant), is I can tell my partner about the difficulty focusing, set the timer for 5 minutes, and write whether I was focused in gather.town chat every 5 minutes until the next check in. I find that these 5-minute text check-ins are sufficient for full focus on pretty much any task, however unpleasant."

This reads like satire to me. How can people work like that? Wouldn't it be easier to focus without the interrruptions?

Did you do that at the office too, stand up every 5 minutes and tell everyone you are focusing?
We keep doing this, every time with the same outcome.
This is something that can easily be argued. Not every project wants a donation, for one. Management of donations is also not straightforward - in case of GIMP, the project donations are managed by Gnome.

Second point: why show it on the first start? People don't trust or like the software at first, so they would just click X and begin using the software. Some would even think it's intrusive.

Rather, I've seen solutions where the software would ask for money right after it's been useful to the user. Duplicati for example would tell you to donate, suggested amounts, right after it successfully restored a backup.
Absolutely spot on.

This is the pain point we are addressing.
I've watched life science people spend months manually clicking boxes in the tools they have, because they don't have a developer embedded in the team to write some 10-liner automation scripts. Same with stats, there are all kinds of systems like GraphPad Prism which try to bridge Excel and 'real' stats, where 30 lines of python and a CSV file would save them months.

More, they weren't even aware that these things could be improved. So no, I'm not convinced life science is intrinsically harder or the people there smarter. I attended some biochem and genetics classes at uni and once you have the foundations the concepts are actually pretty simple, there's just a lot of new terminology and random facts to memorize.
"What I'm talking about is a solution for people who don't even want to know what a "foundation" or "mortar" is. Allowing them to learn and build only what they would actually need to care about: a house."

Sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it? Why is it that people think that all this computery stuff like syntax and semantics, compilers, and operating systems is superfluous fluff invented by programmers to gatekeep their profession, instead of tools we created to actually do our job?
While that trial didn’t have the desired result, didn’t it show or at least strongly suggest that gender and background are factors in recruiting in aggregate?

We can speculate what this means. One possibility is that the Australian public service overcompensates for gender bias by having a lower bar for female candidates. I can’t say if that’s true but this does seem to support the idea that some increase diversity with a lower hiring bar.
That's a 2-weeks notice event
Safety profiles of AZ and Pf vacc wrt blood clots are similar, study finds
You act like this is the first time you’ve heard of a crime taking place and the authorities are unable to prosecute the offenders. It’s not the decline of private property rights and the end of modern western civilization.
You're certainly right about murder. You wouldn't say that a cat "murdered" a mouse, you would say a cat killed a mouse. Just as when a dog has a bone, you wouldn't say the dog "owned" the bone. There's a difference between material reality (such as life, killing, and physical possession) and the moral framework you attach to it (like murder and ownership.)

Ownership is something a government does for you, and encompasses whatever arbitrary rules that government imposes and is willing to enforce. That's why this is a discussion about what courts should do.
Many teachers tried to convince me that the computer chassis was called the CPU.
Ecuador revokes citizenship of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
"Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information."

Any idea why this is?
Closest things would be developing ransomware, defi contracts, and algo trading.
More Than 50% of Workers Are Afraid to Return to the Office:Help Them Feel Safer
Have you ever stopped to think that there might be more than one reason to plant trees?
This story reminds me of the game Alan Wake -- maybe the creators were inspired by it?
This is why IT should unionise, or form a guild.

Imagine if this was turned around, and simultaneously a huge chunk of the world instantly black-holed Office 365 outbound email.

Then in response to the roaring noise from Redmond, simply send back their canned response of "Not qualified for mitigation. Our investigation has determined that the above IP(s) do not qualify for mitigation."

Do that for 24 hours, then 48 hours, and so on until they smarten up.

I guarantee you they'll have their CEO breathing down the necks of every moron in the spam filter team until they fix it.

Until then? Nothing will happen. Nothing at all. We'll complain on YC News, we'll complain on /r/sysadmin, and a bunch of small businesses will go out of business. Microsoft 365 will continue to grow to consume the world. Email will be rebranded "Teams Mail", and as far as everyone is concerned that will make perfect sense.

Either we act, or we live with the consequences of inaction.
This is why I'm a great fan of less electronics. An electronic parking brake is a non-feature. It takes away your option of leaving the parking brake off (they tend to seize when activated for a long period). It can break. It make service harder and more expensive than it should be.

The classic 'Mini' had it just about right: what isn't on there can't break or fall off.
I think the problem there is that the local council decided to notify him about some damage to the house with a letter - so someone on the island isn't "in" on the whole conspiracy, otherwise, why even send him a letter. Or indeed, why not send a letter saying "yep, there's been a fire, we tried saving it but the house is gone".
>which would also amplify the frequency of these events.

Fire needs three things. One of them is fuel. The west coast has an abundance of fuel because for generations we have prevented fires from removing it. If we stop doing that or the fires are too overwhelming to manage the fuel will go away and the problem will solve itself. It will just be way more fiery because you're compressing say 100yr worth of fuel consumption into say a decade.
I think it’s relevant to plug OSE
https://www.opensourceecology.org/

There are free designs for a large number of useful machines, but the trade off is that you have none of a manufacturers’ warranties for safety or useful life. Personally, I think it’s a lot more palatable to subsidize open designs that can be easily modified by a user instead of legally compelling a manufacturer to give the world their intellectual property. I think a few $M in grant programs to uni engineering programs with a few paid senior industry consultants could really make a difference (I think the motive force behind OSE is basically one guy).
I found it really easy to pay them 10$ per month. Clicked the paypal "P" in the top right corner and set it up in a few clicks. The main busy work was logging in to Paypal since I don't stay logged in there and use 2FA.
There is nothing special about the brakes on a b5 Passat and there are tons of aftermarket and OEM spec replacements available on the market.

The labor for a replacement clutch replacement is typically pretty high. I think the book time for the clutch job on a b5 is really long, something like 10 hours.
Edit: If there's a better venue to ask please send me elsewhere.

Hi Omar,
It seems like you're not at Plaid anymore, but if you don't mind there's something I've been trying to figure out for a while and would appreciate your opinion/thoughts.

It has to do with the way Plaid works. Seems to me when financial institutions have account security liability, such 'security guarantees' tend to be contingent on the account holder _never disclosing credentials_. Given the nature of how Plaid works [1], it would seem Plaid users could be taking considerable risk.

I'm wondering if my understanding is right -- do account holders forfeit protection 'guarantees' their financial institution might offer when they use Plaid? Do financial institutions consider Plaid an 'authorized user' in some special way? Quite possibly I'm missing something and was hoping to understand. Thanks!

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/198005/is-plaid...
All good points but I think at the $5 level you're also competing with "free". There are a lot of comments here suggesting fonts like Iosevka which are open source/free. In any case my point was that we don't really have to debate what the market "would do": there isn't a market for $5 fonts but there is for $100 fonts. It's possible that nobody has figured out there's a gap and therefore an opportunity. Or font makers have found that they make more money selling fewer licenses.
>B5 Passat - dealer only for brake pads/discs

While I do love Toyota this is simply not true. Pads for the B5 Passat start at $25 at Autozone.
The right word here is specific it seems.

It's Arabs as in the people who would be a muslim majority in Palestine.

And Israelis as in Jews that are the majority in Israel.

And i know full well that Israelis have committed horrible acts in the past, but so has most countries around the world in the past.

But the real goal here is a lasting peace for Israel and Palestine, to do that Israel has to make some hard choices if they really want peace.
This is exactly what I needed - thank you!
Private property laws don't work like that.

You can do anything with your own house as long as it is legal and you pay your taxes each year. Even not visit your beach house for a while if you don't feel in the mood to do that or are working in a different place, or are being treated in an hospital.

If he has paid the taxes, and was paying insurance, and water and electricity bills each year, the house is not marooned.

The idea of my neighbors being allowed to burn my house, destroy my souvenirs, art and stuff, and use my property as a private parking and say that they can because I'm not here to stop they is returning to law-of-the-jungle. Is horrible and unaceptable.

If the building would be in danger of collapse or refuse to pay taxes the government should fine him first, ask for repairs and/or notify officially its demolition if necessary.
Chicago95: Classic Windows 95 theme for Linux
To fix this you first need to fix corporate lobbying. As long as the beneficiaries of the laws get to write the laws this bullshit will continue. And the pox on any software engineer's house that implements this shit, you're co-responsible for it.
Not a farmer, but missing a single day's planting can cost a lot more than $1000. It could me $1M+ if I had to guess.
> I often wondered why doesn't everyone want to be a construction worker.

I don't like hard physical work. I don't like sweating. Much prefer to sit on my ass in front of a computer and pretend to work while i scroll endlessly through twitter.
Am I the only one that thinks it’s ironic that a company called “bubble” just raised $100M?
cool. I am a professional working in this field for so many years now. We currently use a host of softwares, basically all the big ones in the market, from tally to marg to busy. then we have online ones like zoho and margbooks to name a few.
I have tried to look at khatabook et al myself but they look more into like AP/AR recording first. They do not have inventory features, no eway billing to name a few.
I would like this to work, if nothing but to have better competition in the market. my clients send me "sales and purchases" every month via whatsapp which are excel files that i have to spend 20 minutes everytime because there is ".00" in the taxable figures tab and tax rates are mixed up so i need to sanitize them.

How are you planning to be better than the incumbent players and are you willing to collaborate because i tried with quickbooks last time and they have essentially left the market. I lost clientele because of the sub par experience i was banking on.
>If the profits were to come mostly from maintenance, then pricing could not just stay where it is (absent new market entries creating downward pressure).

I just can't wrap my head around that.

I mean, if that was the case then probably asset depreciation/wear should be reframed in accounting/finance, because not only they lose value but they have a added cost (arguably planned, since it's part of the pricing structure and business model of that equipment).

In the end you're just paying to rent parts that will need to be replaced and paid for, because the equipment won't work without it and they can only be serviced by X player... farming equipment became just extremely large printers, where buy them cheaper to then get looted on refills?
Sounds like they've never tasted a good-quality rum. Havana Club 7 is a decent quality, middle-of-the-road rum for the price.
that may be the case.
in the U.S. (I'm from the U.S. it's stratified by age and income and race, by default. Dive bars, amazingly, are not) I've had a hard time finding a casual space that didn't involve alcohol, where you can just sorta hang out and complain about stuff.

dive bars are perfect for this. great conversation with folks from all kinds of backgrounds. coffee shops don't really cut it. there aren't that many spots to just, chat.
Just to clarify, are you talking about a resource histogram?
Best example here is the grand mufti of jerusalem.
https://time.com/4084301/hitler-grand-mufi-1941/
You're right. My parents used to witter on about all sorts of old fashioned things that I've remembered and refer to (e.g. Monty Python quotes) simply because my parents and The Simpsons were almost all I had as cultural guides. I know who the Three Stooges are entirely because of a reference a doctor makes in The Simpsons! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmBj8r1-fDo

Nowadays, the Internet offers thousands of entertainment choices in every sub genre with a million memes generated every minute and modern audiences like that, so until The Three Stooges turn up in a popular GIF or TikTok...
I only code using multimedia keys.
Just in case:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html
What about comparable countries then? Russia looks pretty similar to other country trends here:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cross-country-literacy-ra...

In particular try Italy and Spain, countries with many peasants circa 1900. Virtually identical trajectories.

The USSR, if around today, would have a population of 300 million. They were a superpower. Only large powers made it to space. It was certainly impressive, but also a natural result if you have a large portion of your economy devoted to military spending and missile research. The space program in both USA and USSR allowed for ICBM delivery of nuclear warheads, a crucial strategic goal.
How do farmers feel about these harvester companies?
Probably half of the posts on HN are blogs
Farmers are pretty much slaves to large corporations now, they still have some clout but it is diminishing day by day. Large supermarket chains buy out the independent farmers after first unfairly dumping produce to depress the price to where the farmers go out of business. Then they put their own people in there, typically for a regular wage and without any power to set prices or to ensure that a farm is operated sustainably and responsibly.

A nationwide independent farmers strike on the basis of right-to-repair laws probably wouldn't get off the ground but if it did then effect might be less than what is needed to effect change and could very well play right into the hands of their opposition.
"And think of the children, a combine hacked by a russian 1337 haxor will drive into a school and kill all the kids!

Why do you hate the land of the free open software people or should I say communists!?"

Do you guys think I can become a politician, or at least lobbyist?
It is worth noting here, as you didn't say it explicitly, that COVID labs routinely report positives as late as 40 cycles.
At least two of those (Budibase and Saltcorn) are available as one-click apps on DigitalOcean. Saltcorn has users with no coding skills who have done this, budibase probably does as well.

I have zero interest in running a hosting business
The same way you feel about Google: they dislike them but have no alternative.
Tell that to self-employed people. They also must work but may not be allowed to do so.

It is a compromise in any case.
Coming out of the 1st and then 2nd World wars the US seemed to be the voice of reason and alongside Britain (and possibly France) had a strong desire to make the world a better place and not repeat the mistakes of the past - which were all around to see.

But I feel after the 1960's the US has slowly lost that ideal, and the visionary leaders (Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt or Eisenhower) are no longer anywhere to be found (whether the electorate don't tolerate or desire them I'm not sure).
I agree its annoying, personally I hate them.

They usually serve to allow for automatic roll-away protection. On new Jeep Latitudes they come on automatically when the vehicle senses you have the vehicle running and are stopped, with the door open, or neutral. Owners like the hand holding ... it's a Jeep thing.

It does increase the price a little bit and if you do not have an OBDII scan tool and need to buy one. If you operate the EPB maintenance mode very incorrectly it is possible to damage the EPB mechanism. They're pretty easy to operate and replace if you know what you're doing.
The best way to do this is to code yourself some game, view it's assembler in your preferred IDE while doing step-by-step/trace into to familiarize how its instructions are executed at CPU level. Then do the same in Ghidra. After a while, all of this during the process of coding the game to completion, you'll be able to pickup fairly easily different patterns in assembler which will make you more productive at reverse engineering.

I did this with a Tetris clone, then a Minesweeper clone and then I did a multi-threaded "Shoot the ducks" clone, each duck being a thread. Probably will take you several months but at the end you'll really be able to do a lot of RE.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
Agave[1] and Lekton[2] are among my favorite monospace fonts.

[1]: https://app.programmingfonts.org/#agave

[2]: https://app.programmingfonts.org/#lekton
> A full multi-stage CI/CD integration pipeline from a devs machine, into what became known as diamant build, would take about a day, assuming all in-between-stages were green on first build.

A day is indeed a bit on the long side, but CICD was never a synonym for instantaneous.

Let's put things into perspective: staged deployments, or simple blue/green deployments, do require a baking period to verify if a new deployment leads to alarms going off. Depending on how you phase your deployment, that last stage alone can take hours. and that's deployment alone.

If we look into it, unit tests barely register in the time that it takes a commit to go from git push to the client starting to use the feature/bugfix. I've worked on webapps deployed globally where unit tests took far less time to run than the baking time of a single deployment stage.
Wait til you hear about State Stores. The day after Prohibition, our state passed a law to explicitly make it as expensive and inconvenient as possible to obtain alcohol. Plus there's always a kickback somewhere: so they invented a system where the State would do the selling of liquor, bars could sell one six pack, and beer wholesalers could sell only cases. The liquor system persists, with its original mandate, having no legal competition. The beer system is loosening slightly: until very recently, it was literally impossible to buy, say three six packs, anywhere.
Microsoft is also the only server operator that will randomly block me. Since I don't host any customers I have decided to simply not care about them and their customers - if someone using microsoft's email services isn't able to get email from me, it's their problem.
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"Islander gets annoyed about the vacant property blocking their view"

Could well have been a vacant ruin after 8 years without any maintenance - we live in an exposed site half way up a hill in Scotland and I wouldn't leave our house for 8 weeks without arranging for someone to keep and eye on it and potentially getting repairs done.
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I could see that use case inside a business though, where your non-developer staff can build their own line of business apps and your normal ops people can deploy them internally. I guess the other tradeoff there is support though.
I adopted this style for a while (I mostly code individual and personal projects so I’m not obliged to follow style-guides) but reverted back…

This looks better in monochrome text but usually the editor colors allow a fast distinction of the parentheses, variables and literals so the extra space is not needed for me.
There’s 350 ish million people in the US, and together they throw away only 400k phones per year? There must be something wrong with that statistic.
Visual Studio 2022 is here
I just noticed they don't even have screenshots on their website. That's horrible in my opinion. I'm not using a program where I have to actively search for 3rd party websites to find some pictures of the UI.
A dozen (17?) complex-valued (some scalar, some vector) fields, where the square of the absolute value of a field gives the chance of seeing a particle in a given state.

I think. I’m still learning, and from MOOCs and YouTube not a university course.
This is only for converting 2d photos to 3d. If you have photos shot using portrait mode on Iphone/Galaxy/Pixel, they have a local tool that extracts depth info. AFAICT that is free, although it requires at least a GTX1650 for some reason.
Culture went through a brief period of heavy homogenisation while terrestrial television was a big thing. The Three Stooges never aired in my country, but I still got the reference.

It's still homogenised, and with the advent of the commercial internet, subcultures are exposed to reactionary backlash before they have time to properly develop and establish themselves.
My dad used to repair our cars on his own when I was little. He can't do that anymore, because even our simplest car have 2 computers on board now.

It's a fucked up future we are looking at.
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