skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can guarantee you that if the UK was supplying weapons to a country that was using them against its own allies, there would be an incident, and at the very least they would stop supplying them. There is no hypcrisy - yet.
Well in my view they are servicing you the page you requested. If you want to go to an other link, you can always edit it. And it is especially easy on PCs. I really dislike editing URLs on my phone.

And BTW have you observed what kind of user agents browsers are spouting? Firefox claims to be Opera, Opera is Chrome etc. But umm this kind of offtopic, when it comes to a desktop/laptop/tablet/phablet/phone distinction.
Okay, but the distinction isn't that one of them is not electric.
> Grammar composition is hard.

Composing grammars may not be possible, but it's easy to define a new grammar that provides the composition of two other grammars along with boilerplate that serves the purpose of determining whether you're in a "grammar A" context or a "grammar B" context. You just need tokens that aren't valid in grammar A or grammar B.

No statement in such a grammar would be valid in either subgrammar, because of the boilerplate, but they would all be trivially reducible to valid statements in the appropriate subgrammar.
Dude I live there, it's a green and pleasant land, especially on
summer Fridays after a beer by the beach. Quite good enough for me.
You may enjoy the first four Mario games all played with the same (scripted in advance) inputs: https://tasvideos.org/2636M

Follow the "verified on console during SGDQ 2016" link there for commentary.
A really specific scenario that might illustrate my point! App or no app, I would accept at the outset it may not be possible, or even advisable, to attempt positive identifications (by ear) of unfamiliar species in a country I've never visited, unless I were in the company of an experienced local friend or guide. Otherwise, I would concentrate on getting good quality field recordings to share when I got home. Same thing goes for birding at home..Merlin and other apps simply cannot approximate that kind of experience building, at this time.
Apple Newton Keyboard: The Time Apple Turned to IBM/Lexmark for a Model M
My god this was a horrifying read.
I emailed a link to this comment to the site's (long out of the pl research community) founder, and he replied:

Thanks. I actually know about it and am trying to fix it. But thanks for the heads up!
> 1. This question is heavily biased towards specific software experience and familiarity with the domain and tooling

Heavily biased towards the specific software experience and tooling _in use by the company who is hiring_. That seems like a win to me. If you are a Windows shop, go find an open–source C# or VB.net project to use instead.

> 2. This question takes too much time to set up and complete.

You might have missed the part where the candidate is given a VM to ssh into, where all the build tools and dependencies are already installed. Also, the author of the blog misremembered; they were given only one hour instead of three for this problem. There were probably other interviews, and maybe lunch, afterwards.

> 3. This challenge is actually not that great to identify senior / great coders

That’s true. As stated in the article, this question was intended to filter out low performers. Other interview questions would be used to judge other aspects of the candidates.
Some brokers support CSV download of trade info. If FreeTaxUSA could then upload direct from the customer's PC, maybe ask for help understanding column names, that would be good enough for some of us.

Tangentially, there are all sorts of good reasons for an investor to want a CSV available locally anyway. Analysis of one's misadventures, for a start.
Wow hello famous person.

This weekend I got back to doing a little bit of work on my TerseNet concept, inspired by one of your articles "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-n..." and things like the Gemini Protocol with the idea of combating monopolies by making protocols simple enough for the average programmer or small team to implement them.

https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet -- still just some ideas, not an actual prototype.
> We buy computers by comparing sets of numbers. Your GHz and Mb are bigger than my GHz and Mb? And the $ are lower?

Anytime "normies" ask me to help them buy a laptop, this is not at all what they ask. The only thing they want to know is "is it fine for my needs?" and the only thing I really need to do is check "min GHz, min Mb", and find the cheapest option in the bucket with a decent support contract and then pick the cheapest option.

And in my circle, the cheapest option is not really anyone's concern (they budget 1k, 2k, and are fairly agnostic within like +-$300); in near any other subject, it'd be preceded by look & feel, but they all look and feel the same (inoffensive, at best), so cost is all you've got.

No "normie" I know has high expectations of computers, both by their own failure but mostly by failure of the machine itself, and its largely because computers do not have high expectations of themselves.
Leaked ‘Shill Price List’ Shows Wild World of Crypto Promos
These two computers are among the best windows computers though. So, you expect them to set the bar.
I wonder if the outcome would have been any different if the shirt said "I am the bomb."
You completely lost me at "they're general purpose computing devices."

This is not even remotely a reasonable definition of today's smartphones.
> Why does nobody care about creaking plastic?

I care way more that my Dell laptop is trivial to disassemble than that making it that way (cheaply) involves plastic, panel gaps and creaking joints.
> Why LineageOS and not GrapheneOS?

One problem with GrapheneOS is that it only supports a tiny handful of devices, and only for few years (at best) per device. A lot of people can't afford to keep buying Pixel phones on that schedule, and some who can afford it find the e-waste unappealing.

This isn't exactly the project's fault. It's more a side effect of an industry that prevents customers from securely installing an OS on their own hardware, and/or refuses to provide firmware security updates beyond a rather short time frame.

I hope that changes. I love what GrapheneOS attempts to do, but at the moment, I think using it is unreasonably hard on the budget and the environment.
Thanks for the reply! I'm curious where you draw the line between derived data and a full application for something like modeling climate risk for insurance?
I emailed a link to this thread to the site's (long out of the pl research community) founder, and he replied:

Thanks. I actually know about it and am trying to fix it. But thanks for the heads up!
Power-line work on live transmission lines always seems incredibly bonkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPNK7bc2qvM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmFHAFYwmY

Let's fly a massive chainsaw beside a powerline. That'll be safe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz1YrpMbBg
>"this as a natural survival instinct of... checks notes ... a corporate entity"

There is no need for the glib "checks notes" snark on a forum like this. I feel like it undermines the argument and makes the post come across as adversarial rather than constructive.
Here's a datapoint to get started:

- ~8M Seed Stage

- 4% 401k match (through Guideline), Anthem Platinum PPO (CA), 10 days PTO + Xmas->New Year + federal holidays. $100 monthly in donation matching -- al managed via Gusto. $250/year in accessories via Expensify
>The solution is to git gud.

someone unironically espousing this as a "solution" to a struggling creator will never understand why other frameworks become popular when they cater to helping them out instead of throwing a book at them. That's why Unity is more popular among small creators. They don't necessarily want to be an engineer, they want to create art.

This mentality spreads outside of programming to other software as well. Gimp, Blender (which is fortunately making changes towards accessibility), etc.
The same here. Bought a 12 Pro Max last year, expect to still be using it by 2024/25
if 100% of hydrocarbons are used to make things vs. power things then they would last a lot longer than otherwise.
Vuln assessments, bug bounties, pentests, and red teaming with Daniel Miessler
I mean - that's sort of the ultra-capitalist creed right? It's impossible for us to solve poverty in any manner other than exporting work to make cheap t-shirts and since slavery is close to the same level of suffering it must be alright?

Global wealth inequality issues are certainly not easy to solve, but we don't just need to shrug and say "I guess that's the way the world needs to work" - there is an extreme amount of excess in western countries, we've got several people who have literally nothing better to do with their money than launch private rockets into space for PR so I don't think it's fair to say "it's near- slavery or t-shirts".

As the wealthiest nation on earth and the never-sated consumer that drives most of the world's economy America is in a position where it can demand better working conditions, it can say t-shirts at walmart can't reasonably cost 5$... but it is choosing not to do so. And, with all that said, the UAE in it's (hopefully now in the past) passport seizing days was still far worse.
Click to play? I wish.
Hey, I was there, too! It was a long way to go to end up watching the catch attempt on monitors in a hangar.

If I remember correctly, the problem was that the deceleration sensors were drawn upside down.
> Can someone explain? This, to me, says that bikes can enter a road with ongoing traffic. Yes, it says "when an intersection is clear", which could mean anything ore, more than likely, used irresponsibly. And treating red lights like stop signs also makes no sense. It all sounds like a formula for carnage.

By clear, they probably mean clear of existing or oncoming traffic. Basically, no one is around, which happens a lot. Cyclists aren't trying to get killed, in fact quite the opposite. Allowing them to assess the situation and continue without stopping means they can spend less time in the intersection, which is a dangerous place to be. They still have judgement they need to use.

> What problem is this solving? Were cyclists getting killed waiting at stop signs and red lights? If so, the law now allows them to potential ride right in front of moving vehicles? Is that better? How?

Yes they were and are being killed in intersections. They are still not permitted to simply ride in front of moving vehicles, they have to treat stops and red lights as yields, similar to yields when driving. Blame can still be placed on the person that was supposed to yield if they cause a crash.

I think you need to actually read up on the law and the reasons for its existence, because it sounds like you're coming at this from a worst case scenario where there aren't rules. There are still rules and parties can still be at fault. This isn't some "anything goes and we'll see what happens" type of law, not at all.
It is, but if this whole thing has taught us anything it's that there are a very large number of people in the US that only believe in free speech for themselves and their political allies.
Sure, it was just a small thing pertaining mostly to gamepads. If you have joysticks with an extra throttle control, or only one joystick with only two analogue axes, you can likely ignore it.

FS4 had joystick support for the analogue joysticks of the time already, and dosbox properly emulates those. But the problem I ran into is the limited configuration options for the joysticks:

* "Joystick A" controls the yoke.

* "Joystick B" controls either trottle+brakes, or throttle+rudder.

Again this should be fine if you actually have a physical throttle control and can split up the two axes to different joysticks (as you're not likely to actually have throttle and rudder on the same joystick), which dosbox/dosbox-x should be able to do.

But for this "quick flying", I'm often on my laptop and using a Bluetooth gamepad with two analogue thumb sticks: https://www.8bitdo.com/sn30-pro-g-classic-or-sn30-pro-sn/

In that case, having the throttle forcibly on any thumb stick axis is terrible: Throttle adjustments are done comparatively rarely, so the self-returning nature of a thumb stick means that you're constantly having to hold the axis in the same position with your thumb. In addition, typically one stick will be fully occupied by the yoke, so the other stick will have to be throttle and rudder, which is just unnatural and weird.

I put throttle increase/decrease on buttons instead (not ideal, but works out pretty well), but unless you turn off "Joystick B" entirely, which implies also losing rudder control, FS4 can't be made to ignore the throttle axis, and will override the throttle setting with whatever the current value of the axis is. Mapping the axis to "nothing" in dosbox does not help, since that will just keep the throttle at 0.

So I spent half an hour or so dumping memory state, diffing, and single-stepping through the assembly, just so that I could patch out the instructions that set the throttle value from joystick input with NOPs, effectively ignoring it.

To do that, patch out the bytes from 0x776c to 0x7771 (inclusive) to be 0x90 (a NOP) in FS4.EXE. This is for V4.0b of FS4 specifically, but if there is a reason to use an earlier version I'm not aware of it.
We're collectively and purposefully ignoring an absolute ton of issues with cars
Two particles travel through an aperture going in the same direction but at different speeds. The aperture is so big and the particles so small that they shouldn't collide or even notice each other. But somehow on the other side of a aperture they appear to have interacted, one accelerating the other. That's starting to look very much like a double-slit type of situation.
Tesla Autopilot Stirs U.S. Alarm as 'Disaster Waiting to Happen'
I mean, it's not unreasonable for a painter to not really give s** what her brushes look like, as long as they work?
I don't know if it's on purpose to deceive; I'm not familiar with the chemical industry at all or if there are any reasons for this. I think it's more likely it's just different chemical companies trying to market/sell their product.

I do think the attitude of "oh, we tested it a little bit and it seems alright, let's put it in everything" probably not a good way to go about things, which has caused (and continues to cause) a lot of problems.
… that is also shocking… it wouldn't just stream the decompression, perhaps piping the decompressed stream into grep itself?
For anyone looking for the interesting numbers:

Insulation resistance: 3.4 x 1014 ohms/square

Contact resistance: < 0.3 ohms

Minimum gap: 0.4mm

Minimum overlay area: 3.2mm^2

Direct link to datasheet: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/66235O/3m-electrically-c...
ending online anonymity does not seem realistic: you would need to be able to get/buy the "IP logs" of foreign proxies/vpns.

what worries way more: macron has put in charge of the administration online services ppl who literaly sold france to big tech. For instance, they broke noscript/basic (x)html web browser support. I don't think he even knows that.
I lived in the UAE for 3 years, and think the reality is more complicated than the article's "every visitor to the UAE should be terrified" makes it out to be.

Is the UAE a dictatorship? Absolutely - the newspaper is censored, and publicly challenging or speaking ill of the government is a Bad Idea that everyone knows not to do.

Is it the autocratic dystopia that the article makes it out to be? Also no; I didn't have any problems during my time there, nor did any friends that I know of (including three gay friends). The UAE is basically caught between both traditional Muslim and Western democratic influences, and it's not strictly one or the other. As long as you're not challenging the government or doing anything Muslims would consider bad taste (e.g. public PDA), you're generally left alone.

Which meant I was surprised to learn about the jailing on account of a joke about the name "Nahyan", until I saw, "Another joke Dr. Kharrat tweeted urged the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to attack Dubai’s Burj Khalifa".

Iran and the UAE _really_ don't like each other, and the UAE maintains a strong security state at least in part because of it. Urging a Houthi attack on the Burj Khalifa would be taken very seriously, and I'd surmise 1) he ended up on a watchlist when he first made it and 2) the UAE is now using him as political pressure on Lebanon.

To be clear, I'm not at all condoning the UAE's actions here as they don't align with my personal values. That said, I'm not surprised: the UAE takes perceived threats to the state very seriously and doesn't claim to allow free speech, so Kharrat was doing a (from an Emirati perspective) Very Bad Thing that most visitors to the UAE aren't likely to.
It's interesting to see a16z launch an early-stage accelerator only a couple of weeks after Sequoia announced a similar program:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/20/sequoia-arc-outliers
Good luck expecting a capitalistic government to do that.
Sanboxed Play Services nets more app compatibility than LineageOS+MicroG, I don't understand your usability argument.
Dictatorships over time become police states. In Lebanon there is a healthy history of political satire, thanks in part to the fact that there is no real government. The doctors mistake was thinking that any sort of "freedom" of speech he had in Lebanon would be protected. Unfortunately not the case.
s/lobby to strip you of more of your rights/set their own terms on how they want to sell the products of the labor they acquired.

Pirates are empirically no more merciful of content distributed on more egalitarian principles and outside of "major label" distribution channels. The root of the phenomenon is acquisitiveness, not ethics. It's just fun to back-rationalize the behavior, especially in places (like HN) where the audience is largely dismissive of the underlying ethics.
A patriotic American might say that supporting the national interest actually does support human progress. There’s plenty of evidence against that, but some evidence for it might be the immense number of people pulled from poverty under to the American rules-based international order.
Writing a scraper for a webpage is typically far more development effort than writing an API wrapper
I think the comparison to asbestos is off base. Asbestos has very obvious good (it's evidently fantastic at insulating stuff), but also kills you. With crypto the benefit is (at least to me) a bit more obscure, and at least from proponents point of view the harm is avoidable if it's just used properly.
Keep in mind that most applications are not impressive & are dismissed without much thought. Only a few are even interesting enough for a second meeting. If you're interesting & you know it, your odds are better than you think.
From a taxonomy standpoint, I think those are very light jets.

To be clear, I’m not saying the light jet market is dead or anything definitive like that, but the fact that Bombardier is shutting down their well established light jet offering would seem to indicate they don’t have a rosy outlook for the segment.
Well, it’s certainly of interest for those here.
Linear Elamite
> I could be wrong, but I though SpaceX catches its entire rocket (all stages) now with rafts/boats, doesn't it?

Only some Falcon 9 launches recover the first stage. For performance reasons sometimes the booster burns all fuel and crashes into the ocean. The second stage has never been recovered and no attempt has ever been made. Early concepts may have mentioned it but I don’t believe the capability even exists on current Falcon 9s.

Starship is an entirely different rocket which has never been launched from a booster nor recovered from orbit. That is the eventual goal but SpaceX is far from achieving it for anything approaching “all” launches.
Don't bother with search. You really need to start out following people you already know about, then when they boost posts check if the people who wrote those posts are worth following. I started following 1 person and now I follow 102 people.
I would say, if you absolutely need an estimate on how long a project will take (and often you don't), do a proper study on it, don't just pull a number out of your a*. Software project estimation is doable, but it takes some effort. It (IMHO) cannot be replaced by a clairvoyance seance, AKA planning poker.
> As a B2B site, all our pricing is custom as negotiated with each customer ... the pricing is dynamic

So your company is deliberately trying to frustrate the market, and doesn't like the result of third parties attempting to help market efficiency? It seems like this is the exact kind of scraping that we generally want more of! I'm sorry about your personal technical predicament, but it doesn't sound like your perspective is really coming from the moral high ground here.
No mind you the US disappeared people for much less, be it in Guantanamo or some of the black ops prison they had all over the place in "collaborating countries" after 9/11.

There is a difference in scale and directness to this in UAE though.
If the worst performers on the team weren't creating negative value (the team would be more productive without them) then that was an incredibly good team to start with.
And highly technical people with time to spare in an expensive hobby.
Similarly, a pet with a set schedule. They'll let you know when its breakfast time.
The pixel 2 was the first smart phone I was completely happy with. In fact, it's still my main phone right now. And I'm someone who had a neo freerunner so I get what the OP is saying, but at the end of day I need something that "Just Works".

The main current problems are 1. support life 2. repairability 3. non-competitive/closed software platform.

I feel like Google had a chance at some point to "open" phone hardware similar to the IBM PC situation... but I suppose, realistically, the telecoms and qualcomm held those cards too close to the vest. oh well.
Indeed, the link should not include "www.". (We've never used that subdomain.)
That's only true in extremis: it's not even completely true of car/industrial motors! Companies like Cummins design motors that are used in all sorts of applications, e.g. https://www.cummins.com/engines/qst30

When you look at smaller motors (e.g. DC motors in handheld consumer products), they're basically jellybean parts targeted towards the highly specific use case of making a shaft turn.
Today, Comcast, Disney, AT&T, Sony, Fox, and Paramount Global control 90% of what you watch, read, or listen to. These companies spend millions on lobbying each year to sway legislation in their favor.

I was not aware Disney and Comcast made books. Was not aware that no one uses Facebook. This article is just..wrong. Few people rely on those sources for information. they are mostly for entertainment. Even for the news, most people get their news online like Twitter or Facebook.
Personally, I spun up an extra bank account specifically to deal with privacy integration. I push money from my main bank to the middle bank that Privacy can then pull from.
I don't know what kind of data you serve up but perhaps you could serve low quality or inaccurate content from addresses that are guessed from your api. I.e. endpoints not normally reachable in the normal functioning of your web app should return reasonable junk. A mixture of accurate and inaccurate data becomes worthless for bots and worthless data is not worth scraping. Just an idea!
I would call that mismanagement, no?
Have you considered GNU Guix? It's modeled after nix but uses guile as a configuration language:

https://guix.gnu.org/

I also used nix for a while and found the transition painless on my non-nvidia machine