skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are just like any other weapons manufacturer, really.

Top talent will make way more in private firms, it's the only way to make a ton of money. Government pay is basically capped. The government pay also encourages the government employees to hire contractors, because that's how you get side benefits (not bribes! tooootallly not bribes), like ultra cushy jobs for relatives, a "consulting" job once you get sick of the government, etc.

I'd say it's like aerospace contractors. Just wayyyy to high tech for a government project and mediocre pool. Even NASA can't efficiently design complicated engineering projects, and they probably are the only government agency with a good reputation and decent people.

The only interesting thing about these vendors is that their weapons are in active, constant use, but it's not that obvious to the victims.
> a page view shouldn't be tracked until the page is finished loading for the user

Isn't this a little more client-driven than Cloudflare would have visibility to, unless we narrow "page load" down to something like "probably read all of the input stream"?
It sounds like you regret the decision to make RISC-V variable length. Is that correct?
Just google "github inlets"

Project is honeslty cool, we really liked it except the limits of inlets free tier compared to inlets pro tier.

In our use case going for zerotier / tailscale made more sense.
This article, the Twitter critics, and the overall lesson learned reminds me of this quote, one of my favorites:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
I did find an old post from Google that suggests adding a ! after the #.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2009/10/proposal-f...

No idea if that still works.
The issue here is with deactivating the key fob radio based remote start, not the cell/internet based service.
Uh in this case the “extra device” is your car key
> Interestingly enough, in most of your examples you are wrong - legally.

Care to point out which?

> I’m saying it happens, and it happens a lot, and it’s happened here in the US recently, and it’s not as illegal or clearly stoppable as people here seem to think.

Harassment is clearly illegal. It has a legal definition and everything. That being said, it is hard to prove, which is where the complications actually lay. In this case, it seems like there is plenty of evidence though.

> So watch your ass, anyone that thinks that some moral right to speak truth is going to save you without some serious planning or thinking ahead (like the student who spoke out) - because you may very well be a martyr for a cause you did not plan to.

I don't see where this fits into the conversation. Are you saying people shouldn't speak out? Are you saying reporting harassment to the police is bad?

> Because I’m one of those who likes to speak out, and I’ve almost been steamrolled by something before. So watch your ass.

That's pretty vague.
Agreed. I choose not to use Apple products for my own reasons, and it's frustrating that Apple refuses to let people into their iMessage garden while also refusing to implement open chat standards. RCS is far from perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than SMS, and even can support end-to-end encryption now.

Speaking of iMessage... that's already a thing, and it's already an Apple-only chat platform. Not sure what Tact brings to the world if it's also Apple-only. Based on OP's description (looks like it's pinned as the first comment and can't be replied to), Tact seems like "iMessage, but not as good".
https://archive.md/R5KP4
Ask HN: How would you keep track of a live poker tournament's state?
I am attempting to create an poker tournament software and I am getting hung up on how exactly to keep track of hands, dealer/action position, tables, and tournaments.

In my eyes there are three things that need to be tracked.

Hands, which are a subset of Tables, which are a subset or Tournaments.

I've created the idea of a *tournament_registration* table that simply stores the *account_id* of the eager player and the *tournament_size* of the size of tournament they're after.

Whenever a new *account_id* is added to the *tournament_registration* table for a certain *tournament_size*, I query the table after the insert to determine if enough players have registered for a certain tournament size.

That setup seems fairly optimal.

But when it comes to seating players at a table... I am confusing myself (probably overthinking this) as to how exactly to keep track of hand progression at each table.

Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

I did try researching this of course, but any search for "poker database best practices" only turns up countless poker tracking softwares.

And unfortunately not many private poker websites talk at length about their setups.
> That doesn't sound all that unreasonable, at first.

Selling an item, then selling the repair manual to that item, isn't unreasonable - it's an insult to your customers, and only a few steps removed from extortion. It's the manufacturer saying "I want to use technical means to control how you can use the item, even after you've bought it - and by extension, to control you."

I hope the right to repair movement makes this practice illegal.
It is a limitation. Anyone who's ever tried to read a PDF journal article on their phone has experienced it. (and don't even get me started on Unicode copy/paste...)

HTML can be styled in a fixed layout if desired, and reflowed by a reader mode if needed. PDF can't be styled in a responsive way, and there's no (easily accessible) reader mode equivalent for PDFs.

HTML is a far better document format than PDF.
How much are you staking to get that kind of return?
$14k USD / 700k PHP -- not bad!
Or maybe our problems and potentials are radically different than they were 200 years ago?
These exist.
Actual grandma tech: keep grandma at home using the oven so the house is warm when you get home.
I picked up a new Mazda CX-5, was told that a satellite was involved in the signal routing for the remote start?

Not sure if I believe that.
I myself like Mary Schmich's definition of advice from the "Wear Sunscreen" column:

> Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen...
You're working as a contractor or not?
It's lying to represent yourself as working solely for one employer, while actually working for two. It's stealing to accept pay for work you haven't done.

If you're not doing these two things, you may not be lying or stealing, but this submission advocates for doing these two things.
Is this very UK specific? In that golf betting is bigger in UK than USA?

Interesting that you trade your own predictions. That's a good sign.

When did you start this? There were companies like numberfire in the US that did this for American football and baseball.
investors aren't dumb - the economies of scale hasn't happened yet at that time, but would eventually. The gov't incentives and subsidies are just icing, not the core, of the investment thesis in tesla investors.
In our field your answer would be the equivalent of “Memory management ? allocate and free your memory yourself. IDE ? another things that eats memory, use nano. Syntax Highlighting? count your brackets and watch your semi-colons. Static analysis ? validate your code yourself.

Memory leaks? No.”
Also excluding Unicode normalization? Or should that also be baked in?
This one I think https://github.com/inlets/inlets-operator
I realize that most people here who ask what NFT is, actually is not asking what NFT is. They are referring to whether there is truly a market for it; and if it is web3, they have doubts whether the broad market is going to accept it. (I'm one of them :D)
Brice here from the /tap team, please email us at hello [at] tatatap.com and we’ll get you sorted out. Thanks.
> dozens of internet-attached devices from TVs to refrigerators to light bulbs accessible from one's smart phone. I suppose I should instead be curious as to why anyone would be comfortable with such a system?

I get value from such a system for the following reasons:

- my bedroom lights wake me up by fading in over the course of an 20 minutes. Before that, I'd always wake up in a bad mood as I got startled awake by an alarm.

- Thanks to the HomePod in the bedroom, we can adjust the lights by voice, useful in the evening when one is falling asleep and the other's still in the bathroom. Like the 80s "Clapper", but magnitudes more useful.

- My mainroom lights adjust color temperature through the day, which I find inordinately pleasing. They will also switch to an "evening" dimmed and redder lighting at a particular time. This is often a subtle cue to me to stop working, or prepare for bed.

- The HomePod in my bedroom also serves as my alarm, using music from the auto-generated playlist of stuff I like. I no longer am woken up by the same repetitive alarm (I can't listen to some of my favourite tunes due to the association), or awful radio.

- I can transfer the music to different devices as I go through my morning routine. It's never been easier to listen to what I want, where I want.

- If a meeting suddenly comes up, I can just give a vocal order to stop the music

- I can switch watching something on my iPad to my TV, and control the TV from the phone that I always have with me, rather than hunt down the single-purpose remote.

There are some downsides of course, but they don't outweigh the above quality-of-life benefits, and I'm very happy with what I have.
I use it, it's one of my core tools. It is fantastic. Reddit links all open with old.reddit.com (until reddit inevitably decides to kneecap that service) and I can have all YouTube and twitter links open in invidious and nitter. You can use regex or wildcards to basically redirect any URL scheme to a different one, and mutate any URL string you like automatically. IMO this sort of thing is what extensions were made for.
Then you're doing piecework? I thought you said you weren't a contractor. I've done piecework, too, which is deliver a product to a specification. But that's not as an employee.

Employees get W2s, contractors get 1099s.
@renderedcarrot --

Pros, Concerns, and Ideas:

First the pros:

(1)Your product looks clean.

(2)Your heart is definitely in the right place.

(3)I really like what you wrote in your posts here.

(4)It sounds like an experienced team that is passionate.

Concerns:

(1) Apple's 180 on respecting a user's endpoint security and privacy this year.

(2) Security conscious users might soon start migrating away from Apple.

(3) Hitching your boat to Apple locks out the vast majority of potential users.

(4) The landscape of chat apps in 2021 is way different than when Skype came about... Discord is a beast that was built on just MariaDB after a few months of development time and scaled to 100 million users, using only a few terrabytes of data before doing a major re-write of the code switching to Cassandra NoSQL. Your users value privacy? Give them a private cloud and allow them the option of getting away from a provider that compromises their endpoints...

Ideas:

(1) Dark mode. Look at Discord, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost.

(2) Support for opensource, self-hosted clouds would give this app a reason to exist. Example -- Nextcloud integration or something as an alternative to iCloud...

(3) Maybe even sell the software as a completely self hosted, E2E thing using something akin to the OMEMO methods.

(4) Design / Designers could help with branding the product more.
The trick is kinda meh I feel. Yes you can make a pretty cool app in a single HTML file with some inline JavaScript to boot. Still possible today just ever more out of fashion
Interestingly, the support for mht/multipart is still there in Chrome and Firefox; or at least it was relatively recently. However it only works for files and not when accessing an mht file over http. The format itself is relatively simple.
I thought this was going to be a really cool project about Bluetooth Over Wifi. It's not! It's about hacking wifi to make wifi cards speak bluetooth! We're not "over wifi". We're hacking the wifi hardware to make it act like bluetooth! That's a not-so-fine distinction!

I was expecting a cool project on tunneling bluetooth! It had me thinking about HTTP3. One of the really interesting things that happened with HTTP3 is that it leverages the new HTTP Semantics[1] document. Previous HTTP documents like HTTP2[2] had to kind of redefine the universe, explain how to wedge themselves in, how they updated/replaced/operated with HTTP1 universe, explain their relations. But HTTP3 relies on an independent, transportationless definition of the ideas of HTTP, and explains how HTTP3 fulfills & enacts those ideas atop a new transportation layer, explains how it shims into place.

I feel like this decoupling is absolute magic. I feel like conventionally Bluetooth is Layer 1 physical to Layer 7 application- a monolothic specification, totalizing. Convenient for building some products for a couple years, but ultimately inflexibile, limited. I love love love this project, BlueFi. Trying to re-use pieces of a stack creatively is so virtuous, so empowering.

Projects like USB-IP[3] demonstrate similar virtues, allowing whatever-have-you usb devices to work across the network. Really magic capabilities here. I've had less than stunning success getting it working, but I love the premise so much, am so happy we have something. Particularly with Linux's virtual gadget support, we can have a computer pretend to be a sound card, and forward that sound card over usb-ip to another computer, for magical results. But gee, wouldn't it be great if we could just use a network connection for this? Or BlueFi?

BlueFi is a cool project. But generally I just wish headsets could actually speak wifi. And I wish wifi headsets had some kind of a BT compatible streaming system. There was a similar nest of issues with WiGig, which had some various profiles for video connections, pcie connections, network connections, that it had to kind of reinvent how to establish connections. Or companies like MediaTek, which were supposedly going to announce connect-em-all technologies "CrossMount" that simply never materialzied. Connectivity is so weird. All the various standards- except wifi- refuse interoperation. But hey, BlueFi has hacked the DSPs to behave like other protocols- "yay"?

[1] https://httpwg.org/http-core/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-la...

[2] https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7540.html

[3] http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

[4] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mediatek-introduces...
You should have been alive in the 1970s (maybe you were) when drunk driving was truly a slap-on-the-wrist offense. In 1980 came MADD, and though their ad campaigns were annoying -- they and other similar efforts were effective. Since 1982, drunk driving fatalities in the US has decreased 52%, while total traffic fatalities have declined 18%. Among persons under 21, drunk driving fatalities have decreased 83%.[1]

[1] https://www.responsibility.org/alcohol-statistics/drunk-driv...
The lofty goals are pretty much always puffery we can discount because most people find it distasteful to say "well, the main reason I want to go into this business is I think it's high-margin and I can make a lot of money at it." I doubt they openly set out with an intention to flagrantly violate the law, but I don't find it unlikely that they didn't have much qualm about skating close to where they imagined the line was on the theory that they could establish themselves before the regulators caught up with them -- after all, this is precisely the strategy that worked well for YouTube, Uber, or AirBnb.
Many places are fine with it as long as you don’t let your side gig interfere.
It's like how people will make hurtful comments and suddenly change courses and claim it's "just a joke" if anyone calls them out on it.
“How to change your mind” by Michael Pollen.

I read a lot of books, and this is one that caused a change in my life. The succinct summary is that psychedelics are misunderstood and there is more and more research showing their potential, especially in the treatment of trauma.

I had a difficult childhood. It’s something I still struggle with personal interactions because of this, even after years of therapy. After reading Michael Pollen’s book I thought this might be something that could move the needle on my day-to-day quality of life.

I found a shaman and did an 8 hour blindfolded mushroom trip. Similar to what’s outlined in the book. Previously I’ve never done anything more than weed occasionally.

It had a profound impact on me. The way I describe it is like jumping off a diving board into a deep dark pool, and the pool is you. Then spending hours there.

I don’t know if I’d do it again but I learnt a lot about myself. I won’t proselytize here either, because the research is still early. There’s also risk because you put a lot of trust in someone who’s there with you while you’re high. But I do recommend at least reading the book.
True, but the rigid layout is what makes PDF unsuitable for some use cases. It’s main use is to represent a printed page of a very specific size. Anything outside that just requires too much flexibility.
There are no slave working conditions for prisons in California.
Can you tell me what company do you hire for, so I don't apply? People's LinkedIn profile are private to them, none of your business. I wonder if you just hire in 3rd world countries, or focus on hiring people in need with no leverage, coz, if you ask me about my LI profile, I will tell you to take a hike.
Hey there. Been in hosting since 1999. I've worked at two of the companies on your first page and know people at/from several others on your first page. In fact I was at one of them until this month. Hello from the other side!
No JS here though, just CSS using :target. That's pretty cool if you don't want a JS dependency but want more control over interactivity and presentation.
I started learning web development back in the day of IE6 and table-based layouts. It's actually incredible how many modern designs I see today that are portraying a table, but have recreated the <table> element (and its associated <tr> and <td> elements) in a soup of flex layout divs and such.

With that said, centering is not difficult. The difficulty comes in not realizing that flex layout is essentially the same rows and columns you used before, but with better controls for wrapping elements (tables can't do that easily).

Edit: Some more nostalgia: Cutting out rounded corners and shadows in Photoshop with the slice tool because there was no border-radius or box-shadow at the time :)
What do you mean "paid interviews"? I do a lot of interviews for the companies I work for and this intrigues me.
Joplin was dog shit when I used it. Basically it tries to save the file after every single character you type so if your document becomes long enough it starts using a shit load of data and crashing your phone. There was also something weird where you couldn’t scroll to the bottom of your note In a reasonable amount of time, I forgot what the reason was but overall the thing seems like typical FOSS dog shit where they’re talking about all these fancy features like nextcloud integration. if you just want to type a note, you know the most basic thing, it can’t do that, but of course the devs are working on some super advanced feature which is irrelevant because the base product doesn’t work. yes this was on android
People tend to think about this in binary terms but there are three options. Innovate even when you don’t need to, the Facebook strategy of over paying for any competitor that gets real traction, or the Newspaper approach of just milking a money maker into the ground then selling off the remnants. They are all completely valid and profitable options.

Facebook’s approach only works when regulators are asleep at the wheel, but standard oil style monopolies can just print money to cover these costs. Innovation is expensive and can fail regularly just look at Intel or most corporate R&D. Finally milking a dying business model can fail really quickly, just look at say blockbuster.
Put your script tags at the bottom of the html page so that when the JavaScript is executed all the dom elements on the page can be referenced. Either that or bootstrap in a window onload callback. I remember picking up and being in awe of secrets of the JavaScript ninja
This looks like one of those sites I made as a kid. What is the significance of this?
Anyone here absolutely godsmacked that this is the top news on HN?

The hell happened? Did I get cryogenically frozen and just woke up?
sad, but I had to google what Match Group is :-(
I wasn't alive in the 1970's, so I indeed lack that context. However, I'm not arguing against punishment for drunk driving or anything crazy like that, just that it's possible we've passed the ideal point for how much punishment is appropriate for drunk driving. As far as I can tell, the journalist isn't either, just arguing that it should be covered by more generalized offenses rather than ones specific to alcohol. To be honest, that doesn't seem too radical.
I'm just saying, the claim is that no "junior engineer" can make 300k. That's pretty false. You can also look into HFT "junior engineers" like at Citadel which will clear 300k easily. Facebook return offers for new grad can hit very close to 300k, and there are definitely other companies that pay just as much, if not more. Of course, it's rare, and these people are in elite air.
There’s only the main page, that’s the trick. Nothing else for Google to find.
Not to pick on you, but why do you just take it? I was bummed to lose it on Firefox mobile as well, which is why I stopped using it and started using Kiwi browser. Kneecapping my tools and then telling me the other guys are worse does not fly with me, and it shouldn't fly with anyone.
Oh, so you believe all people using cannabis are the ones lighting it on fire/probably using tobacco, at the same time?

Common misconception. Find vaporization people!
If you need dollars, you can exchange your euros for dollars seconds before paying whatever.

If the government had a problem with that, something drastic would've changed.

You can speculate that the US will deteriorate into a state where there will be currency controls and stuff, but in our lifetimes, it hasn't been like that.

People say, or used to say, a lot, that oil being denominated in dollars meant something. I mean, that the choice of units has great economic value, somehow. But nobody's denying that you can exchange one currency for another at any time, right?
Yes. I ran a high fever on and off for 2 days and then kicked it. I had fatigue for about a week. I also lost my taste and smell for a couple weeks, which was probably the worst and most annoying part. But I’d rather have had COVID than the flu. The flu sucks.