skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is some really strange gaslighting.

I'm an Engineer and an MBA, very proud of both designations, and proud of almost all of my colleagues in both of those fields.

I'm a better person for knowing the people I worked and studied with.

I'm not hugely offended by the OP comment (or even yours), it's not a big deal, rather I'm pointing out that it is straight up a kind of misplaced bigotry - maybe not the best word, but it's correct. It's more ridiculous than anything.

Just re-read what you wrote: "because you are in the squeeze & exploit group and you know it"

Seriously? What the F is your problem? Why would you even conceive to write that to a random commenter on HN?

Do you folks not see this weirdly dark and perverse cynicism coming out here? What's wrong with you people?

I think maybe there is an odd, intellectually lazy thing happening whereby some people, possibly lacking the understanding of a lot of the mechanics of the 'business world', and knowing that 'bad business people exist' ... just want to throw it onto 'MBAs' for some strange reason, not understanding how odd and misinformed that rationalization is. It's really weird. Guys, stop this, it's just misinformed.
> a lot of technology was not only secret but even actively obfuscated.

This is exactly the state of things today. It always takes significant time for a new technology area to open up and improve in transparency, and it's not at all clear that copyright and patents can really improve on this.
Hubble definitely piggybacked on the defense applications, for JWST that isn't the case.
To get on the other side of security. Presumably this was in the international baggage pickup or something.
Not my '98 Civic. Then again, pretty much any Honda key from that era can open up any Honda from that era - so it's not like Honda has ever been very concerned about security.
Exactly, also you have already paid for them, since there is no way they are selling at a loss.
Polaris maintainer here - happy to answer any questions!
Good point re: immigrants! I was making an inflation/wages argument, not a value-based one here. The prevailing minimum wage (for 95% of "low skill" jobs) is significantly different than federal minimum wages.
With standards the question is "Do you really want the expense and hassle of a patent?" The answer is of course hell no. If you make a patented standard now you have two standards.
I don't use Taxis much, but FWIW when I last used a Lyft (years ago) the driver told me how much happier he is with Lyft over Uber.

... are Lyft the good guys? Are they just a bit less bad? I'm not sure.
Only $15 billion has actually been spent, the estimates of 470 to 660 are predictions from think tanks and not what has been budgeted.

"Renewables" is really wind and solar supplementing fossil fuels. There's no realistic plan for a predominantly intermittent grid without some form of dispatchable source backing periods of non-production. If that happens to be a hydroelectric dam, great. But for most regions that means fossil fuels. So advocating renewables is advocating fossil fuels in effect.
Reverse engineering WoW before release
Understood, but in practice how often does that really happen? (I'm aware of the contrived 'odd'/'even' example always given, but in the real world, I never had anything like that). Even when I wrote more functional code I rarely (if ever?) did that. 98-99% of the time it was the same function calling itself. Is your experience different?
It’s likely a bug. Iirc dang has posted before that filtering out emoji while allowing most of unicode isn’t entirely simple.

The heart is also weird in that the symbol was in unicode before most emoji (but it would typically be black and somewhat smaller).
> nice disengenous quote used out of context, used nuclear fuel is a subset of waste from a nuclear power plant.

What's disingenuous about it? I guess there's used concrete that needs to be cleaned up, but used concrete is hardly unique to nuclear plants.

Also, your link about plutonium overdoses seems like a non-sequitur. Most spent fuel is uranium, not plutonium. Furthermore, chances of it contaminating people when that waste is buried 400 meters underground beneath impermeable rock is zero. The only things that would make it get into the ecosystem is deliberate excavation, or maybe a meteor strike kicking.
This is really the wrong sort of response.

It is quite clear from the post that the author had heard of some "low level concepts" but does not have a clear idea of what they mean much less understand them. This is NOT a "XY Problem" as your response seems to suggest. They are basically exploring in the dark and need guidance. As many have pointed out, "C" is the answer since those concepts are "natural" in that language and moreover is the "lingua franca" of low-level programming.
Other than the big bright ones (which I guess are nearby stars) are all these things different galaxies?
> Do you trust a DoH provider more than your ISP?

No. Absolutely no. Especially when they are forced down your throat by the browsers in the name of safety and privacy.
Is it cold calling if the lawyer has expressed interest initially?

Not sure the context, but I cannot strongly recommend enough doing the cold calls yourself. It's free, you can crank out 10+ calls in under an hour, and it's one of the best learning experiences available.
This is automated, with a shell script and DDWRT
It's kind of society's job to fight off that harm. Companies can not expected to be nice.
As someone that spends a lot of my work week reviewing code and documentation, here are some initial thoughts that come to mind:

1. break large feature branches into smaller PRs so they are more easily digestible by reviewers. If this is not feasible, at the very least, ensure each commit in the PR is concise and meaningful, so reviews can look at the PR commit-by-commit if needed.

2. have specific reviewers or "owners," for different areas of the codebase. Tossing a PR into the abyss without specific reviewers isn't a winning strategy for getting the desired feedback in a timely manner.

3. do not backtrack when requesting PR changes, meaning, each review should only review the code that has been implemented since the last review (don't retroactively ask for changes introduced in the original PR if it's the second or third time reviewing).

4. Code reviews should be celebrated at the team level; they shouldn't be seen as a net negative on one's velocity, rather, they're a net positive for the team's velocity.

5. Be proactive: be an active reviewer of your peers code and they'll feel a bit more urgency in assisting with your PR reviews as well.

My 2c,

Some dev on the internet who spends a lot of time reviewing code
Well—that's exactly the case, and that's why you see different usage guides and dictionaries for American English and British English. "Correct" usage, for values of correct that favor clarity for a given audience, does indeed differ substantially between American and British English, among many other variants and dialects.

What has minimal effect is some international standards body trying to dictate usage. Today, and likely for a long time to come, if not indefinitely, "Turkey" is less distracting or confusing to practically any English-speaking audience one might choose, than the new thing. The new one's odd-enough looking (again, even just considering the letter order) and the old one enough entrenched that I expect the old form to be the better choice for communication in English for a long time.
I think wash trading is the explanation. Without regulation these numbers aren’t very useful because of wash trading.

The real question is why only this amount of wash trading and why everyone doesn’t do a billion.
> Everyone enjoys scanning it

What kind of backwards country do you live in where people _enjoy_ scanning QR codes?
So I posted this to find out what happened !

Firstly I assumed they streamed their own music but watching the channel they show the song title.

So I guess that they can pay for the rights to use the song ("Cocabona - You" right now) and still make a skim off the top.

Which seems ... odd. Like one musician could license their track to a hundred youtubers and spotify playlists and ...

Look this is why I don't try to understand the music commercial world.
It's a circle fest IME. I no longer visit.
Oh, okay, interesting. I didn't realize there was a whole record label behind it.
Although I support LGBT rights by all means, personally I feel (unfortunately) in some instances people get charged & take things pretty far. This is a general observation not exactly tied to this specific instance. For example, people also criticize Eisenhower & Kennedy for their follies. Yet they have national monuments, naval ships or places in their namesake.

We should maybe drop the practice of naming things after people - and stick to non-persona designations (e.g. Orion, Telstar, Apollo). Safe bet I guess.
Whose real life? Some of the aliens can see better than us. ;)
It's easy to think so. And I did for a while. I was on Canon DSLRs and eventually as iphones got better I stopped using the setup. For a few years I was back to fully mobile photographer. Now recently picked up a Sony full frame mirror less and it's been amazing rediscovering what you can do with a better camera. I don't take it everywhere, but I do make the effort to bring it out with two primes when I know photo opportunities will present themselves. Can you tell what shots are what camera? https://instagram.com/kballenegger
Hackers ♥ Julia

BTW, you can use emoji in Julia code, see e.g. https://github.com/StefanKarpinski/Cards.jl, as well as other unicode characters. You can enter help mode in REPL (by pressing `?`) and paste the character to see how you can type it.
Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL DB [pdf]
I'm a little embarrassed to say that I've heard "roguelike" mentioned frequently, but I still have no idea what it means. What are some popular roguelike games that I might have played or could easily play to get an idea?
How we ported Wasmtime to no_std atop Theseus OS
The seats are the same. The difference is a heating element that weights < 100 g

Here is example with packaged weights:

[1] https://bimmercat.com/bmw/en/search/selectCar/F30/Lim/BMW+33...
At least with uber you have a remedy in the form of the rating system
The incentive for me is that the information becomes off-line first. I've been on Scuttlebutt for 5 years now, and all of my discussions are available to me to go back to and expand upon whenever I want, no matter if I'm connected to the internet or not.

Necro-posting (bringing up old discussions) becomes a viable option, as does scouring through old information.

What is more interesting to me, is utilizing this functionality for something beyond a social network, something more productive like an ERP system, yet allowing the social aspect of collaboration improve such a platform.
pointer to a draft?
Thats not a surprise considering mirrorless cameras are popular now. I keep seeing this news being spinned as “iPhones replacing cameras”. Not sure why, iPhones have an effective range of like 8 feet obviously people need to take pictures of things further away.
>As someone that started with 8 and 16 bit computers, I am fine with single purpose computers.

I'm also okay with single-purpose computers. Like the computer in the thermostat that controls the boiler, or the timer for the sprinklers. An OS-locked computer is still a general-purpose device, and describing it as "single purpose" muddies the waters.

> Instead of giving money to Microsoft or Apple, support OEMs producing hardware with Linux pre-installed like Tuxedo and System 76.

Why is this an "XOR" instead of "AND"? I prefer purchasing from OEMs that provide pre-installed Linux, AND I find it morally repugnant when manufacturers assert ownership over a device after having sold it.
if they had an integrity they wouldn't be in the cryptocurrency game
1. I didn't name-call at any point?

2. You're pedantically missing the forest for the trees.

I understand and agree with what you're saying up to your last 2 sentences. The reason I said you're missing my point is because you are. My point is not that laws are the end-all-be-all of morality and don't question just follow. My point is that, while you can believe whatever the hell you want ethically (and, because I'm pretty morally relative almost to the extreme, I'd probably support you abstractly, even if you're not morally relative and rather hold some things absolutely,) I still believe that our western society plays an important superseding role in determining what behaviors should be allowed and the punishments if you misbehave. I accept that we govern each other, that we've figured out a system that isn't "don't insult the king" and that works for the majority of people.

So, abstractly: argue about whatever you want. Express yourself freely. Challenge the status quo. Bad laws are bad, let's change them. Civil disobedience! Etc.

But, in this case: it's not abstract, there are facts, a justice process, and outcome to consider so it's silly to apply abstract reasoning to it. <-- That is my sole point. We can descend from our ivory tower and discuss the dirty details of because they exist. And that's what this topic is about. OP is not an abstract piece on whether it's ethical or desirable or not to not police content on your platform. I'm pretty sure we'd fall on the same side in that debate.

I, basically, don't understand why people are ignoring the facts to push some whacko narrative about how DPR is a libertarian saint who was "just running a platform" and got unfairly boned by the legal system, corrupt cops, a maleficent judge, and unwitting gullible jurors. It's crazy to the point where I'll call it illogical because I don't see any rhetorical way to just ignore the facts in pursuit of a content neutral platform agenda (which I happen to agree with, btw). Defending DPR in face of the facts and outcome hurts that agenda.
You probably don't realize this, but (in the USA) it's very illegal (although unevenly enforced) to actively prevent your employees from unionizing. This is because there is a huge incentive to prevent it, because as an employer you can keep wages lower that way. Because of this, to use your own clinical language "the ROI of your continued employment" is very negative if you might help start a union. But it isn't actually legal to act on this information.

So yeah, Amazon is absolutely trying to play the same game many big companies do, which is hamper union formation as much as possible without actually getting in too much trouble. Having all employees officially have bad performance warnings (which can then be acted upon if you see them unionizing) is one great tool in the toolbox of the union suppressor.
Postgres -> Citus is a great path for a v0 -> v1 data warehouse as it scales.
> Sisvel's AV1 license is 15c, which is imo fair for a 200$ HW, but not for a 1$ ad-less video app.

I'd say that this is perfectly fair (as long as everybody pays the same), and it's a problem for the creator of the $1 app to sort out. The patent owner is explicitly disallowing the usage of his patent in low-value products, but there isn't anything wrong with this. Either somebody will make a killing selling a $5 app with it, or nobody will care about his standard. (Relatedly, you don't have a right to get the costs of your app to adjust around any price you want.)

What is definitively not fair:

1 - Changing the price between licensees;

2 - Varying the price with product price, revenue, or any other metric;

3 - Embedding the license with any term that isn't payment from one side, license from the other.
I have only experienced that with ride hailing companies in India.
Use Uber/Lyft in the US and always have had a great experience.
Not sure how the platform does not penalize drivers if they keep cancelling rides or they hold customers at ransom.
That would not work in the US.
Makes me think that they have either figured out a way to circumvent the system or they just don't care that their ratings are getting dinged.
>it was something their engineering department had tried to do, but just never got operational "yet".

OR it was something a product manager aimed to do, and it was sold internally before it was developed - and then proper resources were not available to make it a reality
These were fun times. The RO soundtrack was great too.
The slightly cheaper tactic may be to actually to buy a fully refundable fare (usually for thousands) for much later in the day, and then cancel it and ask for a full refund.

(This is also how airport lounge abuse is done.)
Not everyone can work from home.

Doctors, service workers, construction workers, pilots.. an endless list of jobs literally can not be done from home.

The right is more about that it is an option where available, because obviously it wouldn't make sense any other way.
"We should improve society somewhat."

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent."

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
I was going to buy 6 of these just to get free shipping, and use it as mesh wifi AP, but it turns out it there is a limit of one per order.
the good 'ol pump and dump will be familiar to anyone who has ever studied small cap canadian mining/oil/gas stocks.

this is just a little bit more obvious and blatant.
I Was Told There’d Be a Cake Merger
Improving Semiconductor Yields with Machine Learning
> and it's impossible, by design, in a public-key-crypto-based system

You can walk back on the security preventing account recovery by giving your keys to a third party.
This is essentially the same as not having the security guarantees in the first place - and it's optional and you can choose who to give the keys to!
haha, I've definitely seen some of those. Comment standards are worth obeying, personally I like the code review pyramid https://www.morling.dev/blog/the-code-review-pyramid/
Fuji's JPEG colors are great, and if you're willing to spend the time to get it right in the camera they are sufficient for personal work. Especially if your personal interests are being out shooting instead of sitting behind a computer editing.
Ev Williams to step down from Medium
I think there are enough of us around who have seen really badly written software to know that there really is an easy-to-read piece of code somewhere in a high-frequency loop missing that simply says avoid object in front of me as a sanity check.

I wouldn't doubt for a second that their self-driving software is a nightmare to read.
At first, I thought it was some fashion modeling agency spam from some girl named Julia that got into the front page. The title is still in my opinion click-baity...but worth reading :D
That makes no sense, they have to rotate it every time they take a picture otherwise they'd be looking at the same spot all the time. Motors don't emit that much heat and neither do torque wheels.

Though I suppose now that I think of it, it's possible the main mirror assembly actually has no built in roll control but only pitch, since the yaw part could be done by moving the entire telescope while remaining shaded. I've never seen any videos showing the full movement, but the previews for LUVIOR show it having full 3 degree articulation relative to the heatsink segment, so I assumed the Webb also has it given that they're extremely similar designs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzFEaCYhmEs
> individual behavior cannot be inferred by any prejudice against their group

That's exactly what was describing as a "core belief". I share that belief, but plenty of people don't. If you hold the opposite core belief "individual behavior can be inferred from a person's group membership" bam you've got a logical chain that leads to however far down the racism spiral you want to go.

There is no logic that can prove or disprove which of those two is "correct". Empirical evidence, maybe? But that involves changing a core belief - you can show me mountains of evidence, but like anyone I'll discount the evidence that disagrees and overvalue the stuff that does. It's a long road, far too long for the HN comments section.

> You are putting the horse before the cart by saying that something is bad first, regardless of whether or not it is logical.

I'm not. As best as any human can do I am attempting to put my core beliefs first (examining them for faults and prejudices), and following logical chains to end up at my morality. Within this conversation I'm saying that I can dismiss an idea without tracing it's logic back to first principal because there is a logical chain between it and a different idea (feudalism) that I have dismissed already.
This implication a 66 year old with decades of successful driving experience is likely to crash doesn't track.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/age-of-dr...:
drivers 65 to 74 account for 13.7% of licensed drivers, but represent only 6.9% of drivers in all crashes and 7.7% of drivers in fatal crashes.
> because they're not stored together

Most use hybrid columnar and store chunks of rows in column-major order (Snowflake, Spanner, Parquet, Arrow).
Yes, but Texas does not tax carbon, and if they want to trade off a decrease in efficiency for a increase in resilience, they can. I'm not really sure if people understand this, but preparing and stockpiling in general is highly inefficient, for example turning over smallpox vaccine stocks in the SNS does not come cheap.
YouTube screws content creators over, and content creators complain, and then go right back to YouTube, so that YouTube has no incentive to fix anything.

"Oh, you don't like it? Are you going to leave? No? K then."

YouTube makes its money because there are eyeballs on screens. As long as somebody is making content for those eyeballs, and the eyeballs remain on YouTube, there is literally z e r o incentive for them to change.
Certainly, but it would have started somewhere that wasn't hostile to free speech. The Netherlands 20 years from now, maybe, or Korea when the computer is invented 150 years in the future in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
People also get old advice that no longer applies. "Stay with a job, arrive early, go the extra mile and they will reward you down the road!"

In these sort of things, your direct manager probably doesn't even know what you make. There is a tight pay band set by HR and virtually no room for differentiation between employees. There is no mechanism in most roles to truly be rewarded for going the extra mile. The only surefire way to increase your takings is to be active in the employment marketplace and always looking for a better deal.

Working for someone is like this old Seinfeld bit[0], if you want to be rewarded you have to get someone to agree to it before you do the work, once the project is delivered and they are satiated they won't be feeling as generous. "We don't need labor now why are we giving this guy a raise?"

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-hk5turqgA
> 1) the rise of algorithms (which can't be patented) in replacing physical IP

You’re assuming there’s an inherent limit to ownership. The rise of software patents themselves are an expansion of the concept of ownership.

If there’s gold in them there hills, why would they go unmined? See “Are Business Method Patents Going to be Second Class Citizens?” for the “everything is ownable and licensable” side of the argument.

https://www.goodwinlaw.com/~/media/Files/Publications/Attorn...
Privatizing Sacred Spaces: How a New Guatemalan Law Threatens the Mayan Nation
I've often thought one of the reasons I'm drawn to software is it feels like there is, at the same time:

* great pay (relative to other jobs)

* good working conditions (sitting at a desk)

* low barrier to entry (no credentialing)

* the ability to be a craftsman (or craftsperson, I suppose)

I'm trying to think of other jobs that allow you to hone your craft in modern industrial society while fulfilling the other criteria and can't think of any.
This paper is not merely a meta-analysis.
He should get some fun graphs in Excel and write a blog post