skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats! Some quick thoughts, then I've got a few questions for you...

Let's face it, there are many platforms out there already which are ideal for publishing a programming course. There are obviously pros and cons with each.

I'm glad to see Slip has such a straightforward and open revenue model. Some course platforms work on a royalty model where you are paid by minutes of your course videos watched... which can make it difficult to estimate how much you'll earn for all your hard work.

It's also nice to see that you're handling taxes and VAT obligations. Few do that. Udemy springs to mind as a platform that also handles tax, but there are others. I think going forward that more and more platforms will need to help their merchants handle tax, so kudos to you for thinking about it from the start.

Some of the platforms like Scrimba.com, Tuts+ and egghead.io are invite-only. I'm really glad to see you didn't go that route. However, those platforms will tell you they do it to ensure course quality and happier outcomes for students.

Which brings me to my questions...

Q1) Since you've created an open course marketplace, how do you plan to ensure course quality?

Q2) In the spirit of openness and transparency, I'm not seeing any links to terms of use, privacy policy, or policies that apply to instructors (licensing, payouts, dispute resolution, etc). For example here's Udemy's Instructor Terms (https://www.udemy.com/terms/instructor/) which references their promotions policy and various instructor obligations. Are your versions of those documents still in the works? If they already exist, are they only visible after you register (that would be an anti-pattern, but maybe there's a good reason)? Are you planning to make those viewable before someone signs up to the service?

Q3) Programmers aren't always natural course creators and effective teachers. Are you planning in the future to offer educational materials to help guide programmers on best practices for planning, producing, and publishing their course?
Welcome to back office hell.

As far as I'm aware, the only systems that actually handle things like that are ERP's, and HR systems. Those mostly tend to be hand rolled from my experience, and the ERP out of the box stuff tends to have so much baggage it's considered common wisdom to change your business to fit their program than for them to change their program to accommodate you.

The issue you're trying to deal with is the hardest business problem to solve. "How do I pay X, and what subtransactions am I on the hook for in order to do so?"

Often, the answer is liberal application of accountant/software in some proportion. You can make your life easier by constraining your jurisdictions of business to the ones you know how to handle at the trade off of missing out on some early growth hacking, but in my estimation, better to grow off a stable foundation than a shaky one and be constantly writing checks that the first audit could result in the entire house of cards falling over.
As long as everyone keeps playing pretend I guess it doesn't really matter
I just think it provides less security than alternatives. To me, you want career security; the ability to leave at the drop of a hat to somewhere else.
Why the -1? :) The EU CoronaCheck used in most countries here was explicitly designed so it can be printed, for those without smartphones or not willing to use the app.

And most countries that enforce this are in the EU.
This is great. Historical newspapers are one of the largest corpora of information that has yet to be adequately brought on line.

In the U.S. the Library of Congress has digitized a fair number, but at the state and local level it's really hit or miss. Some states such as California and New York have put quite a bit on line, but many others rely on individual towns and historical societies.

Different pay services cover various papers, but there has never been concerted effort to digitize the staggering amount of microfilm that is out there.
OK, you're one of those noble devs working hard to further entrench the Blink/WebKit monopoly situation. I'm sure its practical right now, but try not to be too short sighted. Sorry for the bitterness, but this infuriates me.
I just checked and it looks like netboot.xyz provides an sdcard image so no excuses :)

https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz-rpi4-sdcard.img

Edit - ok I guess being airgapped would be one, fair enough!
I hope it isn't backed by BTC.
Hand-drawn wireframes/mockups
I agree, that is my assumption about why most people talk about the California migration. They are most likely to personally know someone who has migrated out of California(no tech people). I am from Ohio and can think of 5 people off-hand who left California and live here now. I can't think of another state with more than 2 people exiting. Maybe I am biased because of what I read online.
If you look at the current EU commission, this is clearly something where they think the can build a profile. I hoped more people could see this as the insecurity of leadership that it is.
(Update: HN changed the link to Bloomberg) The link was hugged to death. I thought that was USDC’s entire deal though?

Have they gone back on it, or was it a misrepresentation and on whose part? I used to hold a fair bit of it before diversifying.
Think of it as a synthetic derivative. They are investing in something like treasuries or commercial paper denominated in dollars but maintain a dollar peg. Less of a scandal and more of a honesty in advertising thing I would guess.
BC raised the bar to 60% for the referendum. It was kinda rigged for failure, and deeply disappointing. (Lost with 58% of vote)

I don't see how things can get any better in Canada without electoral reform, so I don't give up on it.

There is a Local Choice movement to get local municipal to chose how they want elections, eg ranked ballot, and this may have impact on future pushes for reform provincially and federally.

The PROC committee did pass a motion recently to examine a Citizen Assembly on Electoral Reform, and it had support form all the parties. Unfortunately that committee may dissolve due to a federal election. (An attempted to grab 100% of the power with 40% support. Ugh.)
The article indicates that in tropical regions cloud cover has an impact on maximum temperature reached; subtropical regions have less consistent cloud and so have stronger heatwaves.
You can build ventilation or even just building houses with basements would help a bunch. The temperature underground is a lot more cool and steady and would help you escape the heat. There is a town in Australia that does exactly this because it's so friggin hot:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy
> I've noticed them getting cargo-culted into projects where they aren't even remotely necessary

Do you have some examples that can be shared?
Agreed. But America is still an idea. Many other countries have massacred their indigenous population. Many other countries have enslaved people. Many other countries have fought unjust wars. There's a lot America has to be ashamed of.

And yet America is still a great idea. That's what gives us accountability. That's why we can't retreat from the world into isolationism.

[edit] Just to expand on this, I'm from the immigrant side of America, and the working class side. In other words, I'm not a rich white guy whose family sailed here on the Mayflower, and I'm not someone with "white privilege" or whatever. This is the place you go if you have something you want to build, make, say, do, create, or a freedom you wish to exercise that you cannot exercise in your home country. Now. A lot of old-school right wing Americans think they don't want more immigrants. But without immigrants, America is nothing. The force of change and justice and creative power in America, in my mind, has always been about immigration and the freedom it unleashes in people who were repressed elsewhere in the world. And that is why we have a responsibility to help people, like the people in Kabul right now, who are being crushed by horrific violent forces like the Taliban.
Half backed solutions that never work. If it can be read, it can be copied - it's that simple.
That's only a problem if you're building with expensive materials. Build those walls with earth and aggregate and the biggest expense is gas for the heavy equipment.
>I believe this "personal brand" strategy is the way forward.

I think I'd just rather make less money. It's not just that I dislike selling myself. I actively cannot respect people who are taken in by such an approach.
Curious, why did telephony require such accurate clocks?
You don't need to tell them they can't vote, you just need to tell them there is free beer at the footy on that day /s
Big factor is body fat, when I was very skinny I could take higher temperatures than 40pounds later. It made basically 5 celsius degrees difference of "quite nice and warm" vs "too hot to operate" temperature.
This is the Nth article trying to convey the new narrative.

The narrative that "we need to go back".

No!

We don't need. The market is hot and we can choose.

Take the simple math. 1 hour commuting one way.

2 hours by day, 10 hours by week, 40 hours by month.

Working at home gives you back at least 40h.

Working at home GIVES you BACK AT least 1 Week!

And I am not even talking about better food, spresso machine and gym!

Now we are fighting climate change staying at home and reducing our carbon print not commuting.
Chinese BTC miners sent 200K rigs to Canada but can’t find enough power
Looks interesting:

> A Digital Vegan takes care of their mental health, privacy and dignity by making better technology choices. The devices, apps and media we consume can have negative effects on us and others. Badly designed gadgets and services from Big-Tech monopolies damage our environment and society. How do we avoid contributing to toxic e-waste, surveillance, and inequality?
If the Crips are keeping the hood safe, then the police bust them and the Bloods take over and disrespect everyone in the community, perhaps the police should not have left a power vacuum!
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137561
This looks really nice, and I'd love to try it. I am steadily becoming more convinced that there's room for an LTR APLish language.
will be interesting to see how the market responds. Companies who are willing to pay the same amount regardless of location will obviously have an advantage in recruiting

plus I feel like it might create tension in teams, people doing the same work knowing other people are getting paid more only because of their area code. Google is swimming in cash, the decision really makes no sense unless they plan on becoming the next Amazon in terms of employee treatment. Most obvious explanation seems to be them essentially trying to prevent work from home without explicitly banning it

also, is there anything legality-wise stopping 20 people from "sharing" a 1 bedroom apartment and then forwarding their mail and to their actual homes in a cheaper place in California or wherever they live?
> How is becoming the "digital territory of" a dead monarchy part of decentralization?

Or, how was that even accomplished? Given that there is a check mark next to it, I take it that it is considered done?

That said, some of those points make me hope that it is just a strange attempt at humor, and not something that requires treatment. But reading through the entire thing plus some of the other blog posts, I'm also not entirely sure anymore.
Even with "show dead" on, the posts I see that are flagged and downvoted seem... pretty even-handed.
Hence my last paragraphes. I'm pretty sure we are not heading in the right direction either.
This needs to change, big time.

There is almost no cash value to an article one day later, yet we completely impoverish the public domain for its sake. Not only are creators of valuable works is usually pretty distant from direct ownership anyway, there's no possible way for them to profit directly from this work. The only way a spotify-like deal works is because copyright ownership is conglomerated.

IMO, public (especially free-as-in-beer) access to newspaper archives could be pretty liberally justified on fair use grounds.
That’s because Silicon Valley and other tech hubs need money and talent, everything else is secondary.

SV specifically had bottomless US defense spending and good local schools to create a talent pipeline. Back in the early days, the defense industry was the primary consumer of chips, which built up the industry via public defense dollars.
Wealth is options and freedom, not a luxury car and it’s payments. Optimize for freedom.
Show HN: List of 110+ Remote Job Boards
Tangential, but this reminds me of the US practice of having military (SOF) personnel temporarily terminate their military term, sign a new contract for the three-letter-agency of choice, execute a clandestine operation, then reverse the prior steps to walk right back into the military as if nothing ever happened.

Statecraft is so strange in this way, that you or I as laymen will ask just what in the fuck is the point - but it's totally legitimate and not casus belli for our solider to magically become a spy for a day to execute an operation on another nation.
San Francisco is slated to just about hit 10 today.

Living in both San Diego and now Denver, they hit 11 quite regularly.
Show HN: NoCode Web App Builder with Code Export / Self Hosting Option
should have titled it
"An Old Hacker's Hacks on Staying Employed"
I've been looking at this. When using inline hardware kTLS offload, this is an amazing solution on paper.

However, NVME speaks in 4KB blocks, but NICs speak in ~1400 byte MSS chunks. According to a colleague who knows the internal architecture of NVME drives well, making 1400b requests is a non-starter.

So to use P2P DMA, you need some place to cache things. There turn out to be 3 places to cache things w/o going to the host:

1) On the NVME drive itself. This is known as controller memory buffer (CMB). Unfortunately, in order to get a CMB that's large enough to be useful, you need to buy gold-plated enterprise drives, which would be fine for a science experiment, but does not scale.

2) On the NIC. We use Mellanox CX6-DX NICs, and they have essentially no storage.

3) On something on the PCIe bus that has memory, like a GPU or custom "box of ram". The GPU would blow our thermal budget, and I can't think of a low cost, low-power "box of RAM" that can be attached at full speed to PCIe.
More like .95^3=86%, at worst. There really hasn’t been that much change in motor performance and even battery is small (5%) as the chemistry Ingenuity used already existed. Solar has changed maybe 3%, at most.

Reduce Ingenuity’s flight time by 10%, and it would still be practical.
Inflation and the CMB
I'm not saying to be phoney. I'm just saying I'd rather try to keep a positive attitude and not be miserable to be around, if I can avoid it.

I look at each new JavaScript framework, "SQL sucks, no wait, SQL is actually great!" passing trend in the industry now and on some level it can make me miserable. But I try to not let it bog me down and take my whole attitude with it.
Just took a quick look at COINTELPRO (1956–1971) and we're going to have to disagree that their priority was "investigating peaceful protesters", but rather "violent groups threatening national security" when I read: Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, Black Power, Nation of Islam, Young Lords ... Does that mean COINTELPRO was flawless? Certainly not, but pretty founded IMHO.

There's also the communist party, well I guess that's over now you're absolutely free to be communist, same goes for feminism.

And the groups in question have all won, their ideologies have won, you know have blacks, muslims, feminists, communists inside probably every government agency - even though, they will probably not be extremists, and love their country.

If these ideologies have won, and that freedom has stabilized for everyone, what's the point of going into yet another civil war now? If you agree it's pointless, then why are you afraid that the government would go after you if you are not dangerous?

You're saying the ethics of individual operators are irrelevant, does that mean you think that the ethic of Minutemen was irrelevant? It's half the story from my point of view, even you are criticizing their ethics ("trying to coerce into committing crimes").

Psychological warfare goes both ways you know, for a government to try to counter it seems pretty sane to me. It's not like you're not free nor have many means to publish all the agitation propaganda you want these days.

But we get it, you just want to keep your tech to overthrow elected governments instead helping the government to protect your family and people, because "solutions can create more problems than they solve": let's not do anything about our security problems and let's especially not try more tech nor tech upgrades.
Foxconn’s MIH Alliance Has a Rival, and It Might Have TSMC’s Support
man I miss Fringe...one of my favorite pilots ever
I have travelled to two countries where heat can hit that temperature, and they do not have the luxury of any AC, or in some cases even a fridge.

A few cities around the world do reach 35 or higher regularly during summer.
And in a some of those people have lived for
thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_average_temp...
They did that after it had already spread out of Wuhan.
Ok, but some ARM CPUs are very cheap, so you could run part of your software on a small hardware box with tamper-proofing.

The compiler could move the outer loops to the external CPU, and leave the inner loops to the main CPU which is faster. Of course you would have to think about how you move data around, but in principle why wouldn't this work?
A Practical Guide to Growing Your Open Source Project: Part 3 – Users
Here is Asia old-style houses have a central atrium. Above most windows are holes. The entire apparatus acts like a chimney, sucking air through the house.

It was also common to place a large tub of water near an outside door. As it evaporated, it sucked air through the house, improving through-flow of air.
According to the discussion on Twitter it's less than 4 hours until the perpetrators will publish the data. There is a screenshot in circulation that says "11 August, 17:30:00".
>Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing.

People who think like that are progressives. However many Russia-firsters in the West are right-wingers.
Workaround to solve cracks, noise and bad sound quality in Linux Mint
>Re "How humans work": My underlying argument is that humans are and behave in a certain way, and you can't change that. Humans, just live everything else, cannot be molded into anything you can imagine.

Disagree, if anything its the contrary, human as like any other living organism always evolve, always changing. Its language, its culture is constantly evolving/changing, even its physique.

>You also write that some underlying issues need to be fixed. What issues do you mean by this? What is the root cause that you'd like to fix?

Lets take one example, assume I'm gay. Let say If people know I'm gay I will be discriminated. There is 2 way to solve this issue: Hide that I'm gay or fix the discrimination issue. I would much prefer the later approach.

When the underlying issue is fixed, I would not need for self-censoring.
Lens size is the limiting factor for smartphone cameras, so the photos will look better.
I never really worried about that. Having started work in a recession and finding jobs quickly after two layoffs made me fairly relaxed job security.

It obviously helps if you aren’t too spendy.
Former Huawei Brand Risks US Sanctions, Chinese IC Market Is Further Fragmented
GrayShift Keeps Its iPhone Unlocking Tech Secret
The article is on keeping a job. The "Make Your Boss Afraid" section of the article reminds me of the book "Linchpin" by Seth Godin.
I'm Australian. Respectfully, you're totally wrong.

Government should be for everyone. Parties should have a platform that is for a majority. For the most part, Australia has populist fairly centrist small c conservative governments.

It's getting bad at the moment here mostly because the current governing party is past due for it's turn on the opposition benches. And it also seems that everyone's having a go at being corrupt at the moment. Hopefully we get ontop of that.

Anyway, folk with low IQ's making bad choices isn't really a problem. We have optional preferential voting (rank choice), it's hard enough to make an informed decision above or below the line each time and I do research!

Most of the uniformed, just vote along family lines.

Anyway, everyone has a right to vote and a duty in some respect.
Making it harder for some, by making it opt in, will lead to more problems then having disengaged voters participating in haphazard ways.
At the time he was banned he was actively attempting a coup. Many of his followers still believe he will be reinstated as POTUS and he has done little to disabuse them of that notion.
Nice, thanks. FWIW, I just checked, and wunderground reports both temp and 'feels like', apparently matching the NWS Heat Index:

https://www.wunderground.com/hourly/us/tx/dallas
> This is a conflict between individual and organizational rationality

I don't see any conflict here. I am not and 'the organisation'. I am hired by one to do a job. I lookout for myself first of all. I am not paid to protect 'the org', and lets not kid ourselves 'the org' will NOT protect me. So why would you put org before you?

The way I see it is that you got some goodwill from peers and mgmt but you consciously made yourself replaceable. If mgmt knew you documented all you workload and an intern could just waltz in, read through all docs and do what you do for 1/2 the salary - you will be out on the first bus.

The 'super star dev' - if he goes the business will hurt. Mgmt cant afford let him go.

If I were to pick a role I would definitely go with the 'star dev' over you.

Mainly because they can negotiate his pay as he has leverage. Also they don't have to play too much of office politics as they are in position of power already.
Where did the US enter into the conversation, other than as an attempted distraction from the points the parent was making specifically about Australia? The parent never mentioned the US. The linked story is also not about the US.

Apparently North Korea is terrible compared to Australia. And yet the parent's comment was also not about North Korea and nor is the linked article. We could run the gamut on countries, there are another hundred plus after North Korea that are not great places to live compared to the affluent top.
Best I can find so far is this, which seems very similar to the method described, but is quite a bit later (1982):

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/3d/d5/b4/5beda28...

> An anti-copy system which prevents copying of tapes and records and other source material by placing a degrade signal on an analog source signal to be recorded on a recording device. One embodiment of the system includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit that generates a pulsed signal in a frequency range from near the upper end to well above the range of hearing.

> However, attempts to make taped copies of the original recordings cause the degrade signal to beat against the bias oscillator frequency of the tape recording head, thereby creating harmonic signals that result in distortion and noticeable alteration of the reproduced source signal that are unpleasant and objectionable to the listener.