skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Factually most businesses don’t make it past the 5 years point for different reasons which are not always even solvable by the the starting team. An example would be the market moving at a time where you don’t have enough available capital to adapt. The alternative is doing something relatively predictable and safe like a corner store or a bakery. There is good money to be made there but probably not much more than by doing a well paid engineering job for most.

Don’t get me wrong. Starting a business is a bet in yourself which is always good. I think people who are interested in the life style should definitely do it, just not by using all their retirement savings.
The easiest way to get started is to just write a driver for whatever simple device you have.

It may be easier if you do some electronics as a hobby since you can create the devices yourself with simple enough protocols. It gives you a good understanding of how the hardware works at a basic level.

There are thousands of tutorials out there on how to get started writing simple drivers, as well as the excellent book "Linux device drivers".

I don't do _complex_ drivers, but I've been able to write simple ones for my DIY electronic devices (keyboards, sensors, ...) and even a reverse engineered one for my BOSS RC5 guitar pedal.
Yeah, given that they started migrating there (by the millions) decades before The Communist Manifesto was written -- it's probably pretty safe to say that most of them were not communist.

A very important detail indeed.
Maybe it shouldn't?

I feel like the problems with their app are more algorithmic than in the implementation details. I once had to go edit my watchlist on amazon.com because I had added enough movies that whatever super-linear algorithm they were using simply could not comprehend my watchlist and the input watchdog timer would murder the app. And come to think of it that was when I used Prime on a Roku, so it's a cross-platform problem (yay, WASM!).
You probably meant quintile. It is not in the top decile.
Thanks. I’m on here quite a lot for the past few years. Do you think the “show HN” is appropriate for things I’ve written? It seems it is typically used for products.
Thanks for the reply. This makes sense. Is there an specific way to shop for a warehouse account? It’s this something that is offered in some productized way? For example, the bank you shared above doesn’t seem to have inbound sales, so it’s not clear to me how would your shop for this type of account.
Zero interest is a lie.
The interest is already on the price
Back in the 1980s, my father was a selectman of our little town (Many New England towns have a board of selectmen instead of a mayor, for those who aren't familiar). The selectmen were also honorary members of the police, and the employment application for police officers asked if you would ever arrest a member of a town selectman's family. If you answered, "Yes", you didn't get the job.

For this and other reasons, after my dad's single term as selectman, he vowed never to be involved in politics again.
United flies passenger flight on sustainable aviation fuel supplying one engine
Maybe the core issue is that you are just not a good programmer.
Your critique reminds me of colonial British complaints against the colonies’ complaints.
I’ve been the beneficiary of wearing a helmet - but ask professional hockey players why they don’t wear face masks or why concussions are less in rugby rather than football, and you start to see that there is a seed of a point.
Your mistake is falsely claiming ivermectin is "dangerous", when it has been an FDA approved drug for humans for decades. When taken in advised doses, the worst ivermectin is is harmless.

So, your rebuttal for CNN and friends literally causing death by anti-mask propaganda in 2020 is a harmless drug? You're going to need more evidence.

How about the City of New York encouraging residents to visit Chinatown when the pandemic ramped up? [1] Seems a lot more dangerous than an FDA approved drug.

Dr Fauci also has made repeated dangerous claims, such as the vaccines being "100% effective at preventing hospitalisation" [2] -- this fabricated lie DESTROYED public confidence in officials.

A recent Decision Desk poll showed only 31% of Americans trust Dr Fauci (likely due to repeated lies), and less than 50% trust the CDC (which lied repeatedly about masks and bungled health advice constantly). Most notably, news media enjoys a pathetic 10% trust among the public. [3]

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/079-20/mayor-d...

[2] https://twitter.com/independent/status/1366125427144732672

[3] https://www.newsnationnow.com/polls/newsnation-poll-voters-t...
No, no it would not. Most of it would be breaking thoughtless behavior. Johnny you have your fingers in your eyes again. Joan, did you wash your hands before and after smearing that lip gloss on? Etc...

It is all pretty much worthless considering all the unmasked children gathered for lunch.
"Show HN" would not be appropriate for the blog postings that you've submitted in the past.
Graft. Skimming off the top. Stealing government funds. Expensing personal things on the government dime. Bribery. Etc.
>you might make more money but despite that, you will not be able to buy more things.

I'm not sure how else to read that. If you make more money, you can buy more things. Even if you go up a tax bracket. If you make twice as much money and that moves you up a tax bracket, you won't be able to buy twice as many things, but you can still by more things than you could when you made half as much. Maybe 1.8 times more things.
I ran into a similar issue and used a hashset of all the related keys with ttls on the individual keys. the hashset would expire making the keys unreachable, and the TTls basically garbages collects the individual keys. anything that required to transact with the set would do so atomically by being wrapped in a lua script.
I'm not sure how you knew all if that about me, but the accuracy is astonishing!

But unless I know your position on Easter eggs then I cannot accurately determine to hate you or not.
That’s a very important difference. US corruption especially at the local level is well hidden in part due to a recent drop off in investigative reporting.

It’s also been institutionalized via regulatory capture etc such that things often go unnoticed by the general public. On top of this trying to bring up how corrupt other countries are perceived is pure whataboutism.
Ah, very cool! Thanks for letting me know. This is much easier to edit code in now
Regexr was great. It's a shame development has stalled. I've started using regex101 instead, mostly because of support for more than javascript and php. There is plenty of opportunity to add some additional languages through webassembly but sadly I don't think this is gonna happen.
If you read the second tweet in the thread, the guy mentions that he already got a certificate that he won the elections from the Bureau of Elections. Knowing that, I don't really see the point in contacting him.
or better yet just use some already written by lawyers.

Check out the polyform licenses

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/
So no accountability for the corrupt officeholders? Just the taxpayers have to foot the legal bill?
The free version of Wire (https://Wire.com), from the creators of Skype, Opus codec, WebRTC and IETF MLS, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/.

Email is sufficient, it requires neither phone number nor contact sharing.
I guess for the truly paranoid, LTO / Tapes have that "Write-Once Read Many" feature if you really were worried about some virus overwriting your stuff.
No, it is not, but that is besides the point because all we have been saying is that it should be the case with new/newer projects as well.
You would still have the same bottleneck but the API request would return straight away with some sort of correllation ID. Then the workers that handle the GPU bound tasks would pull jobs when they are ready. If you get a lot of jobs all that will happen is the queue will fill up and the clients will wait longer and hit the status endpoint a few more times.

Here is an example of what it could look like: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns...
There is an app called Session which I think uses the Signal protocol under the hood. It doesn't depend on phone numbers at all.

https://getsession.org/
I think you're right on all counts. I don't actually want to stop my colleagues from working on this idea. I am happy that someone is working on it and, though I still have some ideas in a similar space I would like to tackle, I'm not expecting them to let me work with them (nor do I want to). I don't care for equity as, like you said, the idea is worth nothing.

I am hurt on principle as it feels like a violation of a professional and personal relationship built on trust and loyalty. I was first told over an IM program and I did not want to make the accusation of impropriety over the internet. I would much rather meet and discuss in person (I am not a fan of difficult conversations asynchronously). I think you are right that the only option forward is to address the situation because I am not the type to let something like this go. But, I wonder if I am bullheaded and should just cut the losses and accept it. The odds are this idea does not work out for these two and the practical reality is that they move on to something else. It still feels bad.
Local politics is also absurdly boring which, I would argue, is why nobody pays attention. It's such an inconvenience to participate in the local political process because we're so used to the theatre that is Federal politics. I mean honestly, can we all name the members of our city council, our mayor, etc.?

Our culture is so addicted to stimulation that we just don't want to spend time on something as boring and banal as a city council meeting.
Why is that? Your assertion looks shockingly true when I eyeball the map of percentage Catholic by country, but I can’t find anything in Catholicism itself that would cause this.
Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test
So fun to read!

Question wrt:

> If Linux doesn’t know a clock or power domain is used by the GPU, it’ll turn off the GPU inadvertently.

If you know the name and ID of the GPU, is there a command from the terminal to tell Linux to turn the thing back on?
I don't think a potentially valid complaint about something should be accused of "corroding it", especially when there is very blatant and obvious problems with the political system in the US in general. Respond with substantial counter evidence if you want to be persuasive
I suppose just throwing it up there is the way? I guess I’d like to be transparent that I am the author and looking for feedback.
Taiwan isn’t suffering from near 50% obesity though…
I want private acknowledgement and an apology, foremost. I don't need equity to feel fairly compensated as, if they make this idea successful, they will have put in the hard work. I don't feel confident enough to discuss something like that over the phone and would rather do so in person (which is my current plan).
> Vaccinated areas? Doing fine. Undervaccinated areas? Not doing so well.

Not accurate AT ALL.

NPR has a better source that also gives COVID patient percentage.

Marin County, CA and Santa Cruz, CA county have 95% vaccination rates and are doing worse in ICU capacity than Escambia county, FL who has 55% vaccination rates.

For most ICUs running at 80 to 90 percent capacity is standard.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/09/9443799...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/2-healthc...
People are afraid to die, and some people will do anything to lower the risk (ironically, life is still 100% fatal). These people will get angry at you for something dangerous even if you don't endanger them!

If you rode motorcycles you'd encounter this safety fascism attitude quite a bit. Ive had ppl flip out on me just for mentioning I disagree with helmet laws, even though I ride with 100% safety equipment 100% of the time.
It's interesting that there were over 200 write-in votes, and no official candidate? I wonder why the write-in campaign. Fees or signature requirements?

https://www.ccpa.net/DocumentCenter/View/38413/Unofficial-Su...

I would hope that the PA Attorney General would take an interest in getting him seated.
Might not be quite on topic for HN, but I still find it to be a nice reminder to just be kind and courteous to the random people we run into. You never know what someone is going through, nor what kind of an impact your interaction may have.
There are now 1.8B Apple devices currently in use, up 300M from two years ago
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That's because local politics is dedicated mostly to establishing inane bureaucratic blockers for policies that would benefit everyone except the existing homeowners in the city.

My city council recently spent until 1am debating zoning regulations for California's new ADU law instead of doing the sane thing and just letting people build ADUs.
Why is this in their “science” blog?
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I coined this term (https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/) and believe (productive and earnest) critique can be valuable when it comes to terms like this one. (See also “devops”, “agile”, “serverless”, “toil”, “technical debt”, and others)

Paul Reed has made a great case for ‘blame-aware’ (https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/why-blameless-postmortems-migh...)

Rein Henrichs also explores the topic very well through a unique lens (https://youtu.be/KXrsvLMqF1Q)

As Cipriani points out, there is the term and there is the concept(s) the term is intended to convey. It does seem to me more folks know the term than have read the origin (my post above from 2012). This is fine, as long as productive dialogue continues in the industry about what the term was made to convey.
My favorite source… “The full list of all 88 million domain ranks is available for download.”

https://commoncrawl.s3.amazonaws.com/projects/hyperlinkgraph...
Counting the votes is currently less important than deciding who can vote, and what they can vote for. Over 1% of the US population lives in non states. The majority of the US population lives in areas gerrymandered into irrelevance.

Beyond that the vastly expanded definition of felon has eroded the ability for at least 5.1 million Americans to vote. Immigration is almost more a question of voting than anything else. Add in various forms of voter suppression and frankly Americans politics has almost completely been separated from the “will of the people.”
Kasper: Scanning for Generalized Transient Execution Gadgets in the Linux Kernel
Fun fact: macOS used to encrypt its system applications as a form of copy protection on Intel machines, using encryption keys that were read from the System Management Controller chip on the board.

They don't do that any more on Apple Silicon machines, and the entire OS is free to download from their CDN, completely unencrypted. Still, though, the SMC on M1 machines (which is now part of the M1 chip itself, and completely different from the one on Intel boxes) continues to hold those very same keys, and they're still "secret" and omitted when you enumerate them. macOS no longer even reads them, but you can dump them with the debug tooling I wrote for Asahi Linux a few weeks ago.

$ python tools/smccli.py
m1n1 base: 0x100046dc000
Fetching ADT (0x00070000 bytes)...
[...]
[smcep] Starting up
Have fun!
>>> smc.smcep.read("OSK0", 16) + smc.smcep.read("OSK1", 16)
> 20:0x4f534b3000102010 (TYPE=0x10, UNK=0x0, ID=0x2, SIZE=0x10, KEY=0x4f534b30)
< 20:0x202000
> 20:0x4f534b3100103010 (TYPE=0x10, UNK=0x0, ID=0x3, SIZE=0x10, KEY=0x4f534b31)
< 20:0x203000
b'ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc'
Most properties are bought cash. That's dollar bills, no bank transfer, no pesos.
Haha no.

It's a quick and easy way to separate companies who know what they're doing from those that don't.
Heh I see lobbying as equal opportunity corruption.

You don’t need to be from the right family or even have gone to the right school. As long as you can pay, you can play.
https://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/
> I haven't noticed any loss of muscle even though I've eaten almost no protein

Yes you have: potatoes are 9.5% protein by dry weight (2% by raw weight).

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Nutrition
It would protect against passive monitoring but not active attacks.
The disinformation playbook: industry manipulates science-policy process (2021)
Why don't apps like this leverage gpu hardware acceleration?

On my old tablet, Netflix runs a-ok, the media player has hardware acceleration and runs a-ok, but Amazon Prime stutters.

I haven't checked it in years, so maybe it is better now, but I am skeptical this is the case, because if the original creators of the Android app didn't think hardware accelerated video might be a nice idea, why would it be different now? This is a structural issue.
Reads like you can just make an oath in front of a notary public (no need to have the supervisors supervise or anything):

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm...

The hired accountant does get most of the powers:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm...

But not the power to set compensation for the township supervisors:

The board of auditors shall determine the compensations for the current year authorized in section 606 for supervisors employed by the township.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm...
Especially if it has AI and recognition systems powerful enough to make these decisions reliably in the first place.

We're imagining a scenario where a computer is capable of reliably recognizing that someone is an elderly female doctor, and is capable of responding to that information in milliseconds before slamming into that person, but the car is somehow not capable of recognizing ahead of time that a human is on the side of the road and about to step into it.

Cars that have AI systems advanced enough to recognize what profession a pedestrian is in should also be able to recognize that pedestrians are on the side of the road, or that the car is entering a blind spot where a pedestrian might enter the road. These are very selectively omniscient cars that the website imagines we've built.
https://archive.fo/OcgQu
Er... "using" 100 percent sustainable fuel ... in one of its engines. While in the other engine:

1. The plane didn’t actually use 100% SAF

And it’s clear enough if you read the press release, as some of Twitter’s users did.

In fact, one engine was running with 100% SAF and the other with traditional jet fuel.

That’s because the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allows for a 50% total of SAT to be used during a flight, United explains.

For this reason, SAF is basically employed by airlines as a drop-in fuel that gets blended with the conventional one at a 50-50 ratio. United decided to fly its plane with one SAT-powered engine and one fossil fuel-powered to demonstrate that “there are no operational differences between the two.”

https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-vs-united-over-greenwash...
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TV streaming services already do as much of this nonsense as they can get away with. The more "secure" of an environment their DRM runs in, the higher resolution the image they'll let you see.

It's just subtle enough (e.g. lower definition but will still play) and most people use "secure" enough setups that only techies, media gurus, or that one guy who's still using a VGA monitor connection end up noticing
Create website without Javascript. Step 1: Include this Javascript.

From the website:
>create modern, dynamic, frontend applications without JavaScript

also:

You can create a Hibiki HTML app on any page in two steps. First add the Hibiki HTML JavaScript tag to your page
There is a cross sectional problem between what codecs that specific hardware supports (and generally is supported by all the popular devices), how much bandwidth you have on your connection and how many different codecs the various streaming services can support and cache locally.

There are trade offs to be made.
The strange part to me is that usually on policy issues there’s this band of reasonable behavior and people disagree on which end of that band we should fall, but if you’re honest you can understand the other side’s perspective. On COVID in Oregon, it’s the first time in my life I’ve felt like I’m looking at a completely different world than others. I’m just flabbergasted by the policy calls driven by COVID hysteria. I’m not some rabid right winger. (My wife and I are both triple vaccinated, AND we still recently got it!) I just feel totally, totally confused. We vacationed in Idaho over Christmas and it was like reorienting myself to reality. I have no idea what’s going on in Oregon, but I am confident that we have revealed a fundamental split in human psyches that some bad actor will exploit to terrible ends.
its still about the syntax and referencing that, there are like 3-5 ways of doing asynchronous code in JS

and its also not my point about "async in JS", thats a symptom in a field where ever random person pulled in to conduct an interview has their own random threshold of competence, when simply conducting an interview that mimics the day to day on the job would be more accurate

"did you google that in 10 seconds" great!

"did the compiler autocomplete your method name or show you a list of likely possibilities?" great!

"did you post a question on a QA website, while you went to work on other parts of the task while the hints and answers rolled in?" efficient!

"did your compiler show you a syntax error immediately that you corrected immediately?" great!

"did you compile it as you went and rapidly iterate towards the write answer like everyone else working here?" perfect!

whiteboarding, and most collaborative coding platforms, fail to replicate 9/10ths of that. so it tells nothing about the candidate.
How hard is it for a site (server side or via JavaScript on the page) to tell that it is being accessed via a browser that is being automated with Playwright?

I've seen some sites that behave differently when the browser is being automated. E.g., if I access fanfiction.net from a browser being automated with Selenium it gets stuck in an endless Cloudflare CAPTCHA loop. Accordingly I've come to prefer automation methods that are less revealing to the site.
I think it gets worse as an interface gets more declarative and tries harder to hide machinery and state (or tries less to expose it), either on principle or because it allows for extra safety or optimizations or evolution.
That quote isn't from the NIH though. Look at the disclaimer:

> This disclaimer relates to PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), and Bookshelf. These three resources are scientific literature databases offered to the public by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). NLM is not a publisher, but rather collects, indexes, and archives scientific literature published by other organizations. The presence of any article, book, or document in these databases does not imply an endorsement of, or concurrence with, the contents by NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or the U.S. Federal Government.

And this is the disclaimer from the publisher:

> The content published in Cureus is the result of clinical experience and/or research by independent individuals or organizations. Cureus is not responsible for the scientific accuracy or reliability of data or conclusions published herein.