skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in no way able to provide evidence because its very clever and full spectrum you dont realise what people are getting at the time. I've got wise to some of it now, but you need to understand how the innuendo game plays. If you dont get innuendo, you wont get it, but its extremely clever and is something that is played out over decades. However I will leave you with this thought, if you recognise the existence of preemptive military attacks then it could be argued that the military dont accept the British legal stance of "innocent until proven guilty". Ergo anyone backing the military, backs state sanctioned illegal activity which is why the security/secret services exist!
From management's perspective, working at home has major disadvantages:

- increased privacy for employees

- increased autonomy for employees

- increased flexibility for employees

- neutralizes many office-based company rules and restrictions

- makes employee surveillance more difficult

- undermines supervisor role of monitoring and control

- public shaming, punishment and abuse tactics are less effective

- less visibility for supervisors

- less empowering/status-enhancing for supervisors

- possibly smaller and less important role of company in employees' lives

etc.
The piracy case as a whole is a sad story...
The plaintiff doesn't just run that conspicuously named inn, he also regularly informs various federal agencies about his guest's goings-on.
Bookmarked. I'm learning Dutch right now with my grandfather.
> We've got 25 million to build a bridge to a sports stadium. Think we could find $100 a week to pay someone to pick up trash for 4 hours.

TBF this one isn't government specific. It's often easier to fund a debt instrument for a big initiative than to find a revenue stream for a small obvious win. This happens in large companies, too, btw. You argue for years to consistently invest a small amount in something, the investment is never made, and then the company ends up acquiring to save itself from that exact underinvestemnt.
As someone who followed this scene pretty closely for a while, they absolutely are not seen as heroes by most. The primary controversies being their use of Atmosphere components and promotion of piracy. Atmosphere being a free open source gplv2 project that does much of the same thing as Team Xecuter's SXOS. They benefited greatly from this existing project while violating its license by keeping SXOS closed source and profiting off of it. Their main addition being tools to support piracy.
Additionally, at one point SXOS contained anti reverse engineering code that attempted to brick or at least temporarily disable the console of those investigating their cfw. https://twitter.com/hexkyz/status/1012363017957380096
Definitely not a group to idolize imo.
The "verified" checkmark in GitHub UI is not really a big reassurance. Someone can steal your private key, continue to use it and still be verified until you or someone else notices and revokes the key.

GitHub, for example, has their own GPG key as verified for commits you author on their UI. In this case, you're trusting GitHub –and GitHub can also mark sigstore certificates as verified as well (they should), as they're actually verifiable using a transparency log.

What sigstore really brings to the picture is the attestation of "whoever signed this commit was actually signed into the github account @foo –or google account bar@google.com at the time, and here's the proof in a transparency log" –and those accounts can be secured by 2FA. It also takes you out of GPG key management business which I personally despise.
Who funds them, and why? What's the profit plan?
Also give https://kdenlive.org/ a try. I settled on it as a high-power, steep learning curve solution when I found myself hitting the wall with alternatives. It's clunky but it does everything I need.

Like Shotcut, it's all MLT underneath the hood. You can click "Generate script" on the render dialog, and get a .mlt file.

Another lead for you: https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenTimelineIO
I think that would be much less likely than being crushed by your d65538, given the premise.
XPS13 weight is 1.23kg that is almost identical to MacBook Air , and size is similar, so still valid comparison.
Other people have been working to get homebrew running without charging for it or making it explicitly geared towards piracy. Let the homebrew community be your heroes, not these folks doing actual crime and making real money on it.
No, I would not want a crypto job. I mean literally just asking for free stuff. People can be surprisingly generous and the only way to find out is by asking.

My rules for Asking For Shit are threefold:

1. Ask nicely — don’t be presumptive or manipulative.

2. Don’t be grumpy about a “No” — Don’t be a dick.

3. Maintain a habit of generosity such that other people feel comfortable Asking You For Shit — Be nice.
Another take:

Dev 1: Hey, I think we can improve the load time by fixing X, Y, and Z.

Dev 2: that's neat, create a ticket so we can keep track of that.

Product 1: hey, what's this ticket about?

Dev 1: oh, that's to speed up the load time. It's a quick fix.

Product 1: was that in the requirements?

Dev 1: No, but it will be a huge improvement.

Product 1: ok, I'll mark it as Tech debt, and put it in the back log.

~~ Many Month Later ~~

Dev 3: hey, did you know we can improve load time by updating X, Y, and Z?

Dev 2: Oh yeah, we even have a ticket for that. Let's let Product know it's still an issue and maybe they'll prioritize it.

Product 2: Was this part of the requirement?

~~ years later ~~

Product 3: hey, there's this old ticket here. Do you think it's still relevant?

Dev 35: I'm not familiar with that, but it's too old, most likely not relevant any more. We can delete it.

....

Dev N: Hey, I think we can improve the load time by fixing X, Y, and Z....
> At the earliest stages of building a business, being flexible and continuously re-evaluating your assumptions in order to find real market opportunities is more useful than having a lot of passion solving a single problem.

This. I helped a friend develop the software for his start-up, and everything has been continuously growing for 10+ yrs now. When doing so, I have no special passion for it. The project gets my full attention when I am working on it as any other project would get. Of course, I am kind of proud of what I did. But this satisfaction comes more from the impression that I did a good job, not from the enthusiasam that I am following a big vision or whatever.
I talk it out to myself. “Ok, a is right one and up one, b is right two and up none. B to a would be up and left”.

I tried really hard to do this by imagining a grid with points on it and I couldn’t, going back to the reference clears the image and I lose it.
This feels like a good area for tooling (editors, source hosts, SCM extensions) to improve experience. I don’t always mind large source files (and sometimes may prefer them over large file system hierarchies), but the can be a pain to navigate in some circumstances.

As an example, making several related changes in very different parts of a file, where you need to cross-reference between them. The changes themselves might be small, but it’s a huge cognitive burden to alternate/iterate through them. I’d love to have a view which temporarily projects those targets as if they’re isolated files without changing the actual structure on disk. I’d love it so much I actually do this manually for a lot of tasks, creating temp files to prepare edits for related areas of code. But then I lose a lot of the benefits of tools which understand what’s being referenced. It would be great to just type a quick command (or click or whatever) to say “don’t refactor this function to another file, but let’s pretend you did, for a while”.
> - Describe a time you disagreed with a colleague. How did you resolve it?
- Tell us about a time you received some negative feedback from a manager and how you handled it.

These questions are incredibly annoying when asked.

For one thing I’ve literally never received negative feedback from my manager, but nobody believes that when you tell them, so you have to come up with something absolutely trivial, and somehow blow that up into ‘negative feedback’, then think of a way you dealt with it other than ‘I didn’t do it again’, because that isn’t what they want to hear.

The times I disagree with a colleague are not situations we ‘resolve’, it’s something my manager ultimately decides. I don’t know what kind of answer they’re fishing for here. At least ‘we talk about it, and then either not disagree anymore, or escalate it’ does not seem to make anyone happy.
Gabe Newell was absolutely right when he made it clear that piracy was a demand being unmet.

I suspect part of the Steam Summer Sales being as deep as they are is to give a chance for people who can't afford AAA games normally to have a way to snag them at 80-90% off. A big AAA title makes the majority of its money in the first few months of sale, then fucks off for the rest of its lifetime, so doing deep cuts in the summer makes it profitable through volume.
(dons mad scientist hat)

Create a system like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31668814 for voting.

Voters remain anonymous yet can still verify their particular vote was counted correctly (and in fact that all votes are counted correctly)

You’d still want a paper trail.
I think that's a fair description of the achievements made so far, but there are some quantum simulations that would be worthwhile or even groundbreaking to simulate (and it's possible that quantum computing is the only way to handle large quantum simulations). My guess is that we're a ways off from them, and even further off from any impressive integer factorizing/cryptography breaking quantum computers (but those predictions are basically worthless).

I'm definitely not an expert in the field, but I read lecture notes by Scott Aarsonson that referenced research by Microsoft that looked into nitrogen fixation specifically as a (potentially) achievable simulation with a (potentially) massive impact.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/29.pdf

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
The idea is that it's not something that we can really choose to try or not. If/when we get to the stage where enough is produced to allow post-scarcity even in theory - i.e. the technology and the logistical science is there - it implies an extreme degree of automation. But if we have that, how would a traditional capitalist economy even work, if all that automation is concentrated in relatively few hands as it is now?

It works today because the owners of capital need workers to make that capital produce something useful, and even with all the economic rent fleeced from them, those workers still retain enough to then buy the products (if not their own, then that produced by somebody else). This enables money to cycle in the economy. But the more things are automated, the more people are unemployed, and - in capitalism - effectively excluded from the productive economy. So it's a question of how many people you can so exclude before the whole thing crumbles down.
No clear communication of what the plan is, meanwhile notion calendar integration is non-existent
It appears so? https://support.apple.com/en-om/HT212814 mention baseband.
I’m talking about waste, not cost.
The most ergonomic error handling is a Result<Value,Error> with some syntax sugar to get-value-or-return-early-error like rust's ? operator.
I'm not surprised. TS exceptions feel limiting and awkward and I don't like using them, compared with Python's. Add to that, TS's powerful typing makes it easier to precisely type return values compared to Python's annotations, but still you cannot type what function throws in TS.

In Go, I tend to use the return error pattern. In Python, I raise and try. With TS, I do both (but slightly more confident with returning errors).

IMO, rule of thumb: try not to surprise the developer after you, who most likely will be hired for knowing this language not this project (note: that developer may be future yourself). When in Rome...
There's not that many, it's just a dig at @ecommurz. There were a lot of good tech memes on Facebook, but even the memes don't drown out the negativity.
No, that's not how it works. See the FAA and many other institutions where commerce, one upmanship and all kinds of other considerations besides the actual work ended up trumping what should have been done in the first place. I don't think the nuclear power industry is immune to that sort of thing.

This kind of thinking is what brought down the spaceshuttle. Three Mile Island (US), Windscale (UK), Chernobyl (Then USSR, now Ukraine) and Fukushima (Japan) all had the very best teams assigned to their design, construction and operations and yet each of those had a major accident.

There isn't anything fabricated about these facts so you can extend your appeal to authority but I'm just not buying it: people will always be people and the day that you start bending the rules on the design requirements is the day that I bow out. Obviously that isn't going to move the needle but it is exactly why I don't trust the nuclear industry: way too much did not go according to plan even if it always was with the best of intentions. And that's before we get into non-proliferation, waste and other considerations.

Trust has to be earned.

Also, you should probably lay off the personal attacks.
I think Tudor Girba has a similar vision. E.g. check out https://gtoolkit.com/ and his talks on software environmentalism, such as https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3l3eB62oSw
Well have far back in time does one go to settle a dispute? I think Isreal's existence claim goes back to the time of Christ, Roman & Egyptian times, so is that the precedence we should adopt globally because we know how many clever Jewish scholars there are and they wouldn't be wrong would they?

However my point is, with hindsight I object to the propaganda and one sided nature of the clearly biased teaching I was subjected to at the time, possibly even without parental consent because its not like many parents even get a say in what their kids are taught. The knock on effect is now starting to play out, decades later!
The Beatles from "beatnik" not from a pun on musical beats
I bought my Model 3 SR+ about 18 months ago before all the price increases. I love my car, but I would not buy it again at the price they are asking now.

I also don't love the hype machine side of Tesla around future products and features. "Full Self Driving" is so close to fraud I'm shocked the FTC hasn't investigated or sanctioned them already. Semi, Roadster 2.0, and Cybertruck are all vapourware and have been for years.

The pros: Very sharp steering. Driver profiles that set the seats, steering wheel, and mirrors are excellent. Every other car maker that limits you to 2 or 3 presets is blow away by just how easy Tesla makes it in the UI to have as many profiles as you need. Supercharger network is great, especially since you simply drive up and plug in. Backup camera is excellent. Preheating/cooling from the app is delightful.

Cons: Model 3 should have been a liftback. Ride can be a bit harsh on rougher tarmac. Not being able to charge at CCS stations is a disappointment (fixed in the EU thanks to directives). Paint colours are way too expensive. Autopilot and FSD drive like drunk teenagers; do not trust at all. Phantom braking while in adaptive cruise is annoying. Road and wind noise are quite noticeable compared to other cars of similar price. Headrests don't adjust and the rear ones can't be removed for better visibility. Rearview mirror is tiny for no reason. Touch screen only interface is annoying sometimes. I'd like some hard buttons for some key systems like wipers and HVAC.

If I was buying today I'd get a Hyundai Ionic 5.
Yes, and I don't think the author fully grasps the role of capital: you can create all the egalitarian protocols you want, but if there are massive wealth inequalities, capital will ultimately capture whatever communication channels are built on top of them.
Tech workers, for the most part, know how much of a scam most intellectual property really is.

But leaving that aside, the existence of illegal activity doesn't automatically justify arbitrarily severe measures to suppress it. With pretty much anything, there's a line that we draw and say, "this is what you can use to enforce it". The measures that were proposed above are way past any sensible line in a free society, especially for a strictly economic crime.
Oh well ... at least it led me to learn more about Raman scattering today. And wonder about that as a possible explain for some FRB phenomenae.
But isn’t everything we compute ultimately tied to a physical system?
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In 1790, copyright term in the US was 14 years (if registered) plus 14 more years (if renewed), for a maximum total of 28 years. As of 1998, the copyright term is 95 years after publication (or 75 years after the author's death). So if creativity is equally as difficult now as it was in the past, I would ask why copyright terms have been so substantially expanded.

It's also worth pointing out that, since the vast majority of works generate almost all their profits within the first few years of publication, such a lengthy copyright term primarily benefits rights holders of the extremely elite set of works that remain popular after decades of publication. In practice, this mostly winds up being companies like Disney, Sony, Universal, and so on. Meanwhile, the group that is most directly harmed is not the public in general, but everyday artists—who are less free than they were in the past to build on previous works, remix them, or use them as supporting elements in a larger project.

Consider that, whereas consumers wanting to enjoy an older (let's say WWII-era) work usually face a choice between paying a small fee and getting an unauthorized copy somehow, creators face a choice between enduring a difficult and extremely costly licensing ordeal or opening themselves up to substantial legal risk. Creators often lose heart when faced with this dilemma—and many projects, at least a few of which would probably have been great, will never be made because of this.
That's not what it's called.

Imagine you write software for rabbit-mq. But then you get a requirements change to use zero-mq for whatever reason. Is that deviance? Have you normalized it? No, and no.

Deviance is when you're dropping messages in production when you shouldn't. Normalizing is when you ignore it because "it's usually fine".

You're probably thinking that my analogy doesn't work because changing software libraries is different than accepting an out of spec part. But why? If it's out of spec, it's a different part. You can make a spec around that part and design to it all the same. Just because it wasn't your first choice doesn't mean it's dangerous.
Copy paste of mil/areo with a dash of space. I can't wait for my car to be 20 years out of date and cost 500,000USD.
Thats great, although I would say that I think that the maternity benefits should not exceed the parental benefits for time off, as this creates a different burden on an employer for two equally matched candidates. So, while a mother is arguably more deserving of a break, the long break creates a different cost to an employer which may negatively effect a woman who is yet to (or may never) have a child.
Worth exploring? Asking for a friend
> I'm being nitpicky but it feels off to me to call people out on owning their own platform but then use Cloudflare's CDN instead of running their own.

Infrastructure isn't a platform, and vice versa. If Cloudflare started to make editorial decisions about which web traffic to "promote" to users, there would be hell to pay.
The big benefit of the ACA is that anyone can buy real, solid health insurance just like they were ordering something off Amazon, and if they fall into certain categories the government will pay for it. That's huge. I don't know if you had experience buying insurance before the ACA but it was a lot worse, putting it mildly. If the insurance companies made out then it was a "take my money, please!" situation from the perspective of the buyers. People before the ACA paid a lot of money to even get to the point where they had an insurance card in hand and a number to call to argue about benefits, or they did without entirely and envied those who had that.

I still remember Obama having a televised meeting with Republicans from Congress and each of the Republicans had this big stack of papers next to them as a sort of prop to suggest to the folks at home that it was some bureaucratic government takeover. What nonsense. The U.S. government is a complicated thing, so is healthcare, and put it all together and yeah it might take a few pages. Bills like that get passed all the time. And even as careful as the authors were, Republicans were happy to read the law closely and take advantage of every loophole they could, with the Medicaid expansion nonsense and the endless lawsuits on technicalities.
I really like the Switch. I bought it solely to play Breath of the Wild and I regret nothing. Actually if I could play it on PC in 4K that would be nice but we live in the world we live in.

But Nintendo has had some pretty despicable practices when it comes to so-called IP infringement and this is just one example of that. As i understand this case, the guy merely sold devices that would allow others to play pirated games. Is that correct? That's insane. He's not even selling thos pirated games (AFAIK).

So called "unauthorized" use of a device you ostensibly own should never be a criminal offence.

If Nintendo wanted to sue the guy in civil court to shut him down, that'd be one thing. But getting the criminal "justice" system to do their dirty work? Can you really look at that and not be convinced that the governments works for and on the behest of the capital-owning class? Really?

Want another example? Steven Donziger [1] helped Ecuador win a $9.5B judgement against Chevron for their massive and egregious pollution in Ecuador to which a US Federal Court judge empowered a private oil law firm to criminally prosecute him in the US for fraud. He was held on $800,000 bail and was under home detention for years over "misdemeanour contempt of court* charges.

But I digress...

Another example of Nintendo's heavyhandedness: Nintendo used to copystrike streamers for streaming their games. I don't believe they do it anymore and I'm not sure when exactly they stopped.

But that just goes to show just how insane this IP situation is. Most stremers are technically in violation of copyright law. It's just that the copyright holders aren't choosing to enforce those rights. Even if they don't, you can still get a strike for, say, music in the game (eg the GTA games suffer from this).

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2022/04/27/deconstructed-steven-don...
I've done my own (failed) startup and was 1st employee at a successful one, among other startup experiences. I agree that this is wrongheaded:

> Ultimately, the reason that the startup died was because I did not do the due diligence in discerning whether this was a problem that I genuinely wanted to solve with my entire being. That's the bar for creating a successful startup, you need to find a problem that you're willing to dedicate yourself entirely to solving.

I believe you pulled the plug a few months early because of this. But your startup was unsuccessful because you ran out of money while toiling in a market niche with well established dominant players and you did not have enough value add. That was where you needed more due diligence.

It's simple and very hard. You need to build a product customers want.

I agree with you on the unique highs of the start up life. Great, horrible, great, horrible. The successful startup was one of the peak experiences of my life.