skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How did the owner get 10 restaurants? They likely started with one and carefully scaled up over time as they could afford to, each time taking on risk that they fail and wind up with less than what they started despite all the effort.

I don't know what point you tried to make, but it's completely irrelevant if the business owner scaled things very carefully, blew all his YouTube money on restaurants all at once, or inherited his family business. How the business came to be is totally irrelevant.

The only relevant point is how employees are treated, and if it is fair or not. If not, and this is the key point, why should anyone continue working for a business that abuses and exploits them?

Are they paid fairly or a slave wage? Can employees live on their paycheck or do they need food stamps to get by? And are employees expected to endure hardship just to finance their bosses' careful or reckless expansion strategy?

What we're seeing is people answering those questions with a resounding "no". There are far better things in life than work yourself to death to feed a "very carefully scaled business" that earns the owner a small fortune.

People exist for reasons other than validate someone else's business model, and there is more to life than working shifts for peanuts at a "carefully scaled business".
Mass market pop culture in the past wouldn't place the focus on plot elements like multiple dimensions, alternate timelines, elaborate nostalgic homages to different genres of television, stuff like that. The more high concept sci-fi or fantasy might, but not something as basic as a superhero television show. It goes to show that even mass appeal entertainment are now experimenting with nonlinear storytelling.
In my experience it is almost always the database holding things up. If your app does not use a database or it makes very simple use of it, then I'm not surprised it is blazing fast. As soon as you need to start joining tables and applying permissions to queries, it all gets slow.
IMO, Protonmail is clearly a honeypot. Among other things, you cannot create an anonymous account from Tor. If you do, it requires that you use a phone number for verification. This is not required if you connect through clearnet. It’s clear that they want something they can link to your identity, whether it’s an IP address/fingerprint or phone.
Holy crap, you weren't kidding about the pages loading quickly. I wish every web page loaded that fast.
Yep, it's good. It starts off with a really cool description of the process by which a synthetic mind is created from scratch and thrown into a community of other minds (both synthetic and post-human uploaded consciousnesses). The rest of it was good too, but that was a memorable moment for me.
"old skool" exchanges uses either FIX (old and really vernose), FAST (binary encoding for FIX) or custom fixed-layout protocols.

Most big USA exchanges uses custom fixed-layout protocols, where each message is described in documentation, but not in machine-readable way. European ones still use FAST.

I didn't seen FIX in the wild for data feeds, but it is used for brokers, to submit orders to exchange (our company didn't do this part, we only consume feeds).

I don't know why, but all Crypto Exchanges use JSON, not protobufs or something like this, and didn't publish any formal schemes.

Fun fact: one crypto exchange put GZIP'ed and base64'ed JSON data into JSON which pushed to websocket, to save bandwidth. IMHO, it is peak of bad design.
This is your daily reminder that any company you use is subject to the laws in whatever jurisdiction(s) it operates in. No amount of marketing and false promises should confuse you about that.

On a side note, personally I'd consider it an interesting intellectual exercise on how to best structure an enterprise that did its utmost to protect its users as much as possible for egregious law enforcement requests.

I imagine it would be some combination of operating only in certain countries and using subsidiaries in other countries. You might have to go as far as using crypto for payment.

Nothing is guaranteed of course and the unfortunate truth is such a service would be used by those doing things that illegal or that I simply would have no interest in enabling.
I'd read an article about what those conventions were.
Adding to the the sibling comment, the “MIGHTY” is a portable dry herb vape by Storz & Bickel (they also make the Volcano) and is generally considered one of the best portable dry herb vapes on the market. The primary downside is that it’s still a bit large for a portable device.

I wanted something a bit smaller and less pricey to start with, and went with the “Fury Edge” by Healthy Rips. I’m a happy customer.
This was exactly my point, thank you. Unfortunately it seems like expressing my desire not to see hate speech is an unpopular position here. I expect better from the HN crowd, but there it is.
https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-est...
Mainstream Financial Advice is (mostly) Trash
This is just more feel good click bait. Google will do whatever market forces determine is best, the CEO coming out with statements like this just mean someone solved a formula and this will earn them more money (by attracting talent) than it will cost them (the complications with remote staff)
There was a controlled burn in April, and the state recently published a 150 page "Central Pine Barrens Comprehensive Prescribed Fire Management Plan".

https://www.eastendbeacon.com/controlling-fire-in-long-islan...

https://pb.state.ny.us/our-work/prescribed-fire-management-p...
Worth reflecting on how the John Birch Society looks in retrospect, now that you mention it.

Prophets, or paranoid fools? Are we looking back and saying, gosh, we should have listened to them, that damn Jane Fonda ruined America.
My solution - crappy china phone and the cheapest pre-paid sim card I can find. I turn it on, receive my SMS, then turn it off again. Doesn't track back to me because I paid cash, doesn't report my location because china phones don't have GPS, isn't on the VOIP or multiuser blacklist because its a "real" phone number.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?trafficChannel=main&d=y...
For some reason this makes me imagine an alternate history sci-fi universe where Pythagoras (famous for his love of fractions) invents FRACTRAN. Then Archimedes builds a mechanical computer to execute those programs, and one of the successors of Alexander The Great puts the computer to use in warfare and conquers the world. Science is accelerated so that nuclear physics are invented by the time Jesus is born...
We just launched a global news video streaming service called LeadStory
The difference is that Netflix isn’t promoting and profiting off of hate speech and disinformation. Odysee apparently is. I’m sure there is content on the service that I would enjoy, but having to wade through the garbage to find the gold doesn’t appeal to me.
I have family that work for the NJ forest fire service and they are always doing small controlled burns. Like, all the time. Ranger goes out with a small sprayer, spreads some accelerant, and watches.
The comments in this thread surprise me quite a lot. I suppose it shouldn't, but it does. This post + the response calls to the surface how badly basic system operations knowledge is needed in the industry and how much of it is missing from the toolkit of most developers.
The school might not have had a correct phone number on file.
I'd love to hear your explanation. I've tried my hand at explaining it to others in various contexts, but I usually lose my audience pretty quickly.
I grew up in the UK, and went to public schools there (comprehensives, no grammar schools etc).

I've lived in Seattle, Philadelphia and now near Santa Fe. I've raised 3 children through public and a tiny bit of private schooling.

The good US education which my children received in suburban Phila. was very, very good. It wasn't really the education I had dreamed of them having, and it certainly wasn't the education that I received. It was different from both, but still excellent. My two daughters enjoyed school a lot, which coming from the UK in the 1970s is quite a big deal all by itself. My son, less so, but even he (now 32) finds many good parts to look back on. The education paid less attention to the rote learning I experienced, and lots more attention to collaborative learning, integrated curricula (crossing subject domains, for example), and individual student empowerment. So yeah, my kinds don't know how a wheatstone bridge operates (I'm not even sure they know how an electrical switch operates). But I am absolutely confident that they are at least as well, if not better equipped for the world they are now adults in than they would have been if they had experienced the education I received in the UK.

This is certainly not true across the US. But it was true in a very affluent, extremely well-funded school district, and that by itself, IMO, invalidates your claim.
For me, in Windows 10, I can type "calc" into the search menu and it will recommend and open the calendar app instead of the calculator app 2 out of 5 times.

I will search for an app that I have installed and instead of opening the app it will open a bing search for the app that I have installed.

It's so infuriating that if there were a M$ rep within arm reach I might be tempted to do violence towards them.
Tech Epochs and the App Store
Scale vertically, literally.
Well if you can bribe some people in the middle that does not count hence the Panama based ISPs
Github/Gitlab pages is my choice for being free, managing https and just generally being pretty good. You can even use the CI to compile the site for you.
You could also use Github pages or Cloudflare pages to host.
There are team members that are beloved for characteristics besides what they’ve been hired for. It’s explicitly why I pointed out it’s a hard decision to make but ultimately the right one. Pointing out how they are bringing down the team is not easy but necessary and part of what makes the job hard. This is after several quarters of speaking with privately and many attempts at coaching and external training with no change, which is how we get to the 9 box rating in the first place.
I want to see more examples besides these two. My suspicion: open source is a red herring here, and all we're seeing is Google's longstanding culture of being terrible at support.

This blog post is basically comparing two companies in different parts of the "standard" company life cycle: first make them love you, then make them use you, then ignore them[1]. Support in large companies is a high-leverage activity. To receive support you need leverage in terms of dollars spent per month.

[1] In the past I've characterized this from the customer's perspective as https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106742502781631361
How are you supposed to _serve_ that static _web_site then?
I’m sure you’re correct, and I know how to use a search bar, but my issue is that their main feed is full of garbage and hate, something I don’t want to see every time I go to the service. I get the need for a censorship free service, I just lament the fact that they always end up as cesspools of hatred and idiocy.
There's only one ThinkPad with Ryzen that comes preloaded with Linux last I checked, but I'm hoping more come out soon since I really like ThinkPads. Either way, ThinkPads are worth a look since they play well with Linux, whether they come with Linux preloaded or not.

I'm also in the market (to replace my MacBook-esque XPS 13 Developer Edition), so if someone wants to suggest me a (other than ThinkPads) 13-14 inch laptop that will play well with Linux [not necessarily preloaded], let me know.
Something like half of the top 10 games on Steam can't even start due to anti cheat and Steam is what's pushing gaming on Linux. To be fair to them if they weren't that number would be a lot worse, many of their own games are in that list. Of the ones that can they generally work alright but a few have intermittent crashes or things you have to workaround.

If you play older/smaller single player games though it generally does the job pretty darn well.
Can you outline how that could have worked for cars, trains, and all other automation, which were all extremely polluting and inefficient, and were slowly refined over a course of XX century?
Eh. It gives _some_ people "flexibility and choice".

As a junior team member, one might feel compelled to be in the office when your senior is, even if that isn't when you wanted to go in given your "flexible choice".

This whole dog-and-pony-show about return to work continues to amaze me. At some point, the bill will come due, and there is no credit without an equal debit at some point. So will the debit be in the form of increased worldwide competition? A reduction in head count? More costs bore on the employees (electricity, internet, heating, space)...
I still don't buy your thesis that there aren't huge swaths of unbanked El Salvadorans who could benefit from low fee crypto transfers, especially now that it is a recognized currency in El Salvador. To use Wise without any fees would require both parties to be banked.

I know it isn't fruitful here to discuss whether illegal immigrants should exist (maybe we should block all their access to money supply so they and their family can starve). But they do exist, and they will seek out the lowest cost non-KYC options, and crypto looks to be a decent bet. There are other people as well without documents, such as homeless who have long lost them and people born in weird situation where their parents never sought legal documents for their existence.

>Crypto is always available for money launders and criminals, yes.

As are banks and fiat.
I really really really hope JWST successfully launches and deploys. It's been almost 3 decades, countless people worked on it and billions of dollars are invested in this project. Not to mention how much it will improve our understanding of the universe. Fingers crossed.
There's probably a proper term for this but it seems to me there's a lot of absolute-izing language being thrown around, on issues that aren't absolute. Eg, anyone not 100% onboard with immediately taking whatever vaccine is on offer is an anti-vaxxer. Anyone interested in searching out possible off-label uses of ivermectin might as well just cease and desist because we all know ivermectin is just for killing worms in horses.

It's designed to shut down any reasoned discourse or critical thinking and I'm surprised it's still working.
> Unity is claiming an automated system for determining an optimal memory layout as entities with new combinations of components are generated

So they've patented a database server, basically.
Slide/page 3 has clickable icons to take you to those pages. I guess thats what they mean by "interactive".
I don’t see how applying existing antitrust regulations would be censorship. But limiting what companies are able to do is a kind of it, sure!
There are always going to be some parents who are overwhelmed, neglectful, or just disengaged. Blaming them accomplishes nothing. We can't just write those kids off. The public school system needs to step in and at least give them a chance to succeed.
Broncos QBs tried to fool Covid system in 2020 but were caught on surveillance
In WA the ballots have a statement from the person saying “X prefers the Republican party” or similar but there are no endorsements allowed.

Partly this is because of the way primaries work here (they are open and there is no “official” party-backed candidate).

Anyway, there is nothing stopping a candidate from claiming they prefer a party that they don’t actually hope to represent.
Secure and efficient IoT connectivity using elliptic curve cryptography
That's definitely never been what battery efficiency meant in the EV space, but ignoring that...

>something sure is [the blocker]

Yeah, they didn't want to lol. It's exactly what I said above, they didn't want to go all-in on EVs so they didn't. I know people don't want to accept it's that simple, but that's good old organizational inertia.

Like a rolling boulder, once it slowly picks a new direction, it's not going to lose that momentum either

> if the relevant supply chains are battery/motor tech and Tesla has developed the best supply chains for those specific technologies

So Tesla theoretically has the "best" supply chain for the powertrain (that's questionable)... and the rest of the car?

Batteries and motors are the easiest place to be behind. The raw capacity using "behind" tech can be smoothed over with eating some margin.

But the rest? Even simple body panel availability had eluded Tesla before COVID gave an excuse for it. And that was after 7 years of production! It's unheard of in the industry.

Tesla's supply chain is not anyone's envy in the automotive industry. The only force that can stop major manufacturers from staying competitive just because we changed the engine cars use is their own reluctance, and all signs (and money) point to that no longer being the case.
This is the interactive version. Almost every page has links you can click to watch videos and read more about a topic.
The best book I've read on hiring is "Who: The A Method for Hiring." It's so good in fact that I feel kind of bad sharing it, almost as if I were giving away a competitive advantage.

It makes a very simple point that runs counter to most silicon valley talk about "hire for slope not Y intercept" or "hire hustle" or whatever:

Hire people that have the skills necessary for the job that needs to be done. That's it! It sounds simple to the point of ridiculousness, but the truth is that most job descriptions/roles in an organization are written in a lazy way, in which the org has not actually done the work to figure out what specific skills are required by the organization to complete it's mission.

So instead, they hire for generalists, or for "people they like" or for people that fit a pattern--all because they haven't actually done the work to figure out what skills are actually needed.

Examples. A small startup puts up a job description for "senior ruby engineer." If the org is bottlenecked because they are working on very tricky code they should be interviewing for a very different engineer than if they are bottlenecked because they actually need someone who can ship simple CRUD features fast. "oh, but see we only hire senior engineers because {reasons}." Balderdash! Think about the problems you actually have, the skills and experience required to guarantee (or as close to it) that a candidate can Do The Job, and go.
there's still ascii FIX floating around on the market data side for a few esoteric venues

FAST is not particularly common in Europe

the large European venues use fixed-width binary encoding (LSE group, Euronext, CBOE Europe)
Oddly at many large organizations it's not the dead weight that's getting fired. In fact, the dead weights are usually the safest. Anyone that's managed to be dead weight at a Fortune 500 company for more than a couple years is very good at it. Think of Wally from Dilbert.
Not super excited about this reaches very broad conclusions about legality while really only considering two jurisdictions - US and EU.
I think Ford's system circa 2012/2013 did OTA updates, but the problem is that they stopped making updates.

Further, there was no modularity to the hardware running the nav/entertainment/app platform, so the hardware got outclassed very quickly for apps anyway, with no ability to swap in a more powerful system.

Which is ironic, because in the 2012 Fords, it's literally just a PC behind your dash, USB ports, hard drive, and all running Windows. It sucks that people are compelled to upgrade a $50k vehicle for lack of $1000 in PC components.

I can understand why that would be a business model, but I really think the vehicle is like a smart TV - nobody should use the junky built-in "smart" platform, but instead use platforms like CarPlay and Auto to bridge/mirror their modular phone capabilities into the vehicle. Vehicles in time just need something like the OBD standard for connecting external processing/info platforms. CarPlay and Auto are steps in the right direction, but.. more abstraction/standardization/modularity please.
Can anyone recommend art data sets like this, but with images?

I am trying to compile as many as I can. So far I have these:

* https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/01/21/over-700000-pain...

* https://www.artic.edu/articles/902/public-access-to-our-publ...

* https://artvee.com/
Yeah a bit overkill my threat model just encompass ISP/GAFAM not three letter agencies :D
i'm running my SaaS for 10 years already, and still using the same $5 plan a month

HTTPS and certificates? i have no clue how to setup that, i use dns from cloudflare and they have it all automatic for free

if your employees are asking you to pay ton of money for your services, hire someone else
I'm guessing this is done with WebKit so I wonder how hard it would be to port to Linux/Windows. Also it would be neat to have vim-like keyboard shortcuts.
Not OP, but I imagine you can set maximum limits on the rate change of the RGB vector so it doesn't create a static but a more fluidic appearing image.
There's a 4th type, the competent but lazy engineer. They do great in the interview, then it's rest and vest time. They thrive in remote positions where they spend most of their time at the doctor, dentist, and vet.
Somewhat related and relevant is Artsy's Genome Project[0] which is basically a classification system of (all?) artworks on the Artsy platform which I think includes those not for sale. They publish the full list of "genes" on their github[1] and they have a public API where you can query for artworks by gene[2].

Disclaimer - a friend works there.

[0]: https://www.artsy.net/categories

[1]: https://github.com/artsy/the-art-genome-project

[2]: https://developers.artsy.net/v2
I work in a somewhat related industry and have definitely heard people talk in these terms. I think it's partly because a large percentage of the cost of this sort of manufacturing is embodied in facilities costs, which scale roughly-linearly with area. Because the facilities costs are high, manufacturing is therefore packed in at the maximum possible density, which means that the production capacity ALSO scales roughly-linearly with area.

Bear in mind that actual productive output, or how much a factory cost is quite possibly not public knowledge. But area is (just look at google maps). If you're an insider with some of these ballpark area ratios in your head, you can easily come to some conclusions.

I've likewise heard people talk about building particle accelerators in terms of cost-per-meter. In particular: ballparking the cost of a synchrotron light source as a million USD per meter.
> No, no individual or group consciously decided how races should be divided,

I think the Portuguese, the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, and the Danish consciously chose Africans to be imported as slaves to America. Don’t you?

Jim Crow laws were consciously written by people who were deciding how races should be divided.

Race isn’t even a natural category.

> that happened naturally.

Are you seriously suggesting that slavery and Jim Crow happened ‘naturally’?

> What you're saying its that acknowledging the divide exists is racist, which is the classic "color blind" excuse.

This is false. If you can find somewhere I argue for that, you’ll be able to quote it.

Here is something I did say:

“We don’t have to ignore the effects of racism. There is nothing wrong with looking at the kinds of disadvantage it has produced and then acting to support those who are impacted.”
>sorta giant iphones on wheels

I think they're giant smart TVs on wheels. Apple is right in complimenting the primary function of the vehicle with an offboard services solution, which replaces the crappy built-in 'smart' platform.
“Webb observes near infrared to mid infrared light”

Interesting. I thought all the fuss was because it would be in the visible spectrum (i.e. nice magazine photos and desktop backgrounds)

Disclaimer: I know very little about astrophotography