skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One technical point - this is a very sensationalist headline.

First of all, this is a lawsuit and civil trial, but worded this way in common use you might assume a criminal trial. The word "lawsuit" or maybe "trial in lawsuit" would be clearer if more boring.

Secondly, the judge did not really say "Visa knew about ... child porn". What actually happened is that the judge ruled for Visa in one motion-to-dismiss and against in the other.

"a judge has agreed that they're not just speculating. It's a real possibility that Visa could be liable."

"In his order, Carney granted Visa's motion to dismiss claims that the company knowingly participated in child sex trafficking"

"but denied its motion to dismiss claims that it conspired with MindGeek to benefit financially from a child sex-trafficking venture."

What that means is that Visa's arguments in the second case can't be dismissed without having to defend themselves in the lawsuit. The bar for a dismissal is very high. But the judge hasn't decided anything at all about whether Visa actually is liable for anything. Or MindGeek for that matter. Nothings really be argued yet. But discovery is forthcoming and the judge wants to see what Visa knew.

Conspiracy is also a pretty difficult thing to prove - did Visa conspire with PayPal and Amazon to ship me defective and dangerous workout videos that hurt my self esteem? They certainly "conspired" to profit from helping the vendor to sell me those items.
Just because you believe in something doesn't mean any action you take to push that belief is acceptable. There are not multiple groups blocking major roads, bus ways, bridges, trains etc. only climate protestors.

Take this scenario, imagine someone dying in gridlock in the back of an ambulance because a protestor glued/chained himself to the road. Extreme? It's happened. Now for what special reason was this person glued to the road for? So they could hold a sign that says 'end fossil fuels'. Thats it, holding a sign!
I don't know quite what you mean? MINIX isn't free, which is pretty big for a student project. In fact people may have started a similar project(not big like GNU) to due to its price.
A grandmaster logician descends from logic heaven to tell you it was actually rational and asks you to figure out why that it so. What is your response?
There are no recipes, everything I clicked was just dummy ones.
This is the thinking that technical folks often fall into - raw intelligence is the best indicator of performance.

At the core, C-level roles are often sales roles. They need to sell their ideas both up (to the CEO and board) and down (to their org).
There are over a million books written annually in the English language alone.

I'll track headlines every few days. I listen to a few in-depth podcasts. An hour on a substantial topic is useful.

I try to be aware of weather and local elections. That last is becoming stunningly difficult, FWIW.

Otherwise, news has a useful lifetime of < 24h in most instances. Philosophy, technology, history, culture ... are far more durable. Spend your time on those instead.

The tendency for public broadcasters to replace ever more long-form content and discussion with Yet Another News Show Hyping The Cycle Yet More ... is among the reasons I've curtailed even most of my public-broadcasting diet.

For a time there was a weekly programme which would cover 3--4 stories in depth with background, and do so well. It had been on a bit of a fade for some years and began what I suspect is its final implosion about a year ago. That had been a useful option for me --- an hour a week, substance, most of the hype and uncertainty had already resolved. Unfortunately it seems I'm now shopping for a replacement, though I'm not entirely sure I want one.
No contact info?
Five notable good things that happened after 1999:

1. Obergefell

2. First Black President

3. Wikipedia

4. .....idk, maybe CRISPR? Deep Learning? Avatar: The Last Airbender? I'm drawing a blank here
Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange (2016)
Sure, buddy, I'd be happy to help out! What can I dooo-diddley-doo-diddly-doodly-diddly-doodly-hobbidy-hoobidy-hobbidy-hibbidy-hobbidy-gooble-gobble-gooble-gobble-gabba-gabba-heeeeyyyyyy?
I’m going to go out on a very short limb and guess you’ve never actually worked closely with one of these people. I have, twice, and they work so hard they make me sad for them. Nonstop, there is no such thing as downtime. Yes they may go to their kid’s baseball game at 3, and proceed to answer 5 critical emails during it, take one or two calls, and then have a meeting on the drive home. After two more meetings from their house they have a quick dinner and do four more hours of work before they go to sleep, get up at 5am and work out, then work another 14 hours. During this entire day they may actually get 10 minutes to themselves, not all in one go of course. Their day is planned out in 15 minute increments and they have to constantly change gears as they go from one meeting to the next. Unless they want to be perceived as an asshole CEO they have to learn to keep a constant poker face, and always be the last to give an opinion for risk that they’ll never hear what people really think. Weekends are reserved for talking to investors, board members and key partners.

It’s a super shitty life, but hey, they get to make more money than the rest of us, which mostly just causes them more headaches, like not knowing if anyone they meet is actually their friend or just looking for a handout.
Might be a dumb question, but do C-level execs fake it till they make it ? By make it I mean actually get good at the job they get hired for. I know this is a stupid question but it happens quite a lot in tech where a person gets hired not knowing everything out of box but they learn and navigate through it to become successfull Software Engineer.
While the main body of a Hollerith card was invariably a light tan, it was typical to have a quarter-inch strip of color across the top. The idea was that you could tell the payroll program (purple) from the inventory program (green). It was also helpful to see which cards in the deck had been revised, if any, as they’d be a different color. Kind of like “revision pages” in a script, or output from “diff”.
And yet, distilled water tests a 7 with a PH strip, people use copper pipes with distilled water with no major ill effects, and distilled water won't eat it's way through a copper pot either.
go bears
It's absolutely too much.
> who have never used the product lol

this is non-obvious
I live in the East Village and there are certainly mosquitoes that bite me on my patio and ones that come in through my screen door. Upstate even as close as Westchester has them as well and much worse than the city I admit.
I spend eons shopping for things, and it's not a mistake. The trick is, there's a third option: I don't buy most things I want to buy. I have my criteria, and I won't purchase something I don't want. I'll look again in a month or so. This is an incredibly effective way to save money. But, obviously, it doesn't work when you really need something -- then, I try to tally points for and against, and accept that I'll be dissatisfied.
Yes, that was unfortunately caused by time pressure and limited resources last year. We had both pleroma and mastodon versions in development and made the call to go with the more feature-complete version in October. We've been writing various replacement components with other tools (elixir, go, and sometimes even java...) to handle support functionality. At some point this will be a Ship of Theseus, although we'd like to continue to use contributed open source for parts where it makes sense, and we're going to open source some of the tools we've built as well.

Would definitely recommend Pleroma today, or without the specific internal constraints we had at the time.
It’s quite clear from the design of Python, both of recent features and of fundamentals like `+=`, that its designers never got that memo either.

I’m baffled as to how it retains its reputation of being a simple language.
-- I'm not going to sign up for something - especially something I put my credit card into - till I can find an about page that shows me who is behind the company and a little bit about their background & experience - otherwise I would have signed up --
It's like python's metaclasses. You rarely need them but sometimes they really are just the best solution to the problem. Those times, you're really glad they're available.
Not sure, but maybe because it isn't a positional zero.
The brain makes use of electrical and chemical gradients (neurohormones), among other chemical forms of communication, with which synapse speed must likely be synchronized. Synapses alone are absolutely insufficient to model the brain.
This is like an SSA representation of a recipe.
Like a flashy version of https://based.cooking
I'm a "collector" in that I bought the stuff originally and never got rid of it. I recently purchased a FC5025 from device side data. With Apple ][ disks from early 80's, I had about a %50 rate of reading them successfully. It's even worse on my TRS-80 cassettes.
To answer 2. in some more detail:
We generally like to have GPS, cameras and lidar. Optionally, we add in IMU, radar and close in sensors (ie ultrasound).

We are approaching the ML problem somewhat differently, we try to give the robot an understanding of navigability of a space. This is done with semantically segmented images, overlayed with depth data where needed.

Once we have this, we flatten it into a 2d costmap of areas where kinematically (ie: ground clearance, terrain handling ability, allowable areas, etc) the vehicle is allowed to go. This is fed to our planner, which in turn generates valid paths for the vehicle to take.

The particular cameras and lidars used are abstracted away in a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that I've described a bit elsewhere on this page.

Cheers!
Ah, the tired old arguing over if something is comparable or not. People. If you define something as binary (on or off), you have to set a threshold. Don't expect others to share your definition. But feel free to bicker away.
It's equivalent to 3-clause BSD.

https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:licens...
I love stories. Some of my most transformative experiences were gifted to me by good novels. Metaphors and parables are powerful tools for conveying hard-won lessons.

Fiction can deliver truth. But presenting fiction as fact ruins the whole game.
I think it’s a pretty simple language for how powerful it is. But it’s not simple compared to some other languages like Go
Ask HN: Please share your productivity and focus tips, hacks, mindsets, etc.
I am looking for anything you do that helps you get stuff done, even stuff you are not passionate about. Although I've come across many useful tips here on HN, listed later, I still struggle. Some days I just can't code at all. probably got sleep apnea.

Some stuff that has helped me on good days

- light cardio first thing or in noon

- good sleep

- not being stuck at some code

- deadlines not created by me (but leads to burn out)

- working closely with other people (PM, fellow dev)

- being in flow, hitting trifecta of skills match + interest match + support match

- air circulation and quiet environment, coldish temperature, multiple places to sit/lay

- informal culture and small team

- no ambiguity

- no bad blood between me and mgmt/boss/company/teammates

- create 3 todo item list daily

What else? what's your morning routine?

I don't think it's even about passion, I had all intentions and passion when I was working on my own project, but I worked 10 hours a day for a week and then never could work on it again, ended up selling it for few grand mostly to not see it rot.

TLDR: Extremely low stamina/energy and procrastination
Okay, I think it's time to throw down about that cookie recipe [0].

Better version:

- Use 1 c. white sugar + 1/2 c. brown sugar, rather than 3/4 + 3/4

- Reduce flour to 2-1/4 cups. And make sure it's white, or else you'll need to tweak the recipe further.

- Don't actively soften the butter with a microwave, because you'll probably overshoot and end up with flat cookies. Better to just let it come up to room temperature.

- Optional: Refrigerate the dough before making the balls. It's easier to work with, and it helps you avoid flattened cookies.

- The baking time isn't necessarily 10 minutes. Start checking them at 9 minutes, and use your eyes and nose to judge doneness. (It takes practice to calibrate.)

[0] Smacktalk intended for humor purposes only. But I'm 100% confident in my recipe's superiority :)
> What I wonder is why some of them chose not to publish their works when their hunches were correct?

What have you published? Or have most people?
I love this approach, it's effectively a forcing mechanism for revealing preference.
Saw the gif on the homepage, was excited, then saw I need to share all data with you and can't just download the software for running locally or self hosting.

That I need to put everything on your systems means I don't want to use it for myself and can't use it for work. That's a shame, but I guess the upside is that I can stop distracting myself with looking into a shiny new productivity tool and get back to work.

Edit: and I see in other comments you don't even have your own account system but one is required to create a Google account first. This product isn't for hackers but for management.
It's been hours since you posted this, and no replies, which perhaps is a reply all its own.

For myself, I regularly seek out and use appropriately licensed open source libraries to use in our commercial apps.

OpenSSL springs to mind ax an example, but there are lots.

It's a strategy only in the sense that it speeds up development. It's not a differentiator because by definition any compeditor can do the same thing - and also because its not "what we sell". Our magic sauce is in our code, not the fact we can GZip something.

Your use of the word "viable" suggests you are wanting to open-source something (yay, opensource) but at the same time have a business, And differentiate your business from the competition?

Which maybe explains why you got so few replies. The cynic in me says "good luck with that." :)

The more serious part of me says that it's hard to do, because then the "value" of your business goes from being easy to protect (we're the only ones with this code, which is protected by copyright law) to something which is hard to protect (we are the only ones with specialised knowledge for this market, we offer better support, we are better at selling.)

All of which can be easily duplicated - not least by ex-employees setting up on their own. They can even say "trained by you" on their CV.

Consulting is obviously one route, but you're always either overloaded or underloaded, and it doesn't scale so best applied in groups of 1 or 2 people.

So yeah, open source is not a term that's useful in a "build the business" meeting. At best it's a tool you can use, not something you can sell. Open sourcing your own secret sauce generally makes life harder not easier.

Sure this sucks. It would be nice to marry creating open source with making sustainable businesses, but I haven't yet seen a generic model which makes this work. There are exceptions that prove the rule, but even there there are other factors in play.

Aside: people who would advocate to use your offering _because_ it's open source make bad customers (generally speaking) because they've been trained to be bad spenders.
My comment as may be noted was more a commentary on the historical licensing of MINIX which lead to Linux, see the original post.

https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
There is an open source cooking guide for programmer. Unfortunately, its for chinese reader only.

https://github.com/Anduin2017/HowToCook

https://cook.aiurs.co/
My passwords live in an encrypted folder with contextual information, then are used in the browser with per site rules.
Bookmarks are collected in Markdown with tags/notes (Obsidian), or clipped with a bookmarklet.

I use this script: https://bit.ly/3vyA9on. Big thanks to the Author.

Usually at the end of the day, I refine all collected information with tags or specific folders/links.

If you want to export your clipped content, there is a plugin called Obsidian Enhancing Export (requires Pandoc) https://bit.ly/3cZFmzl

P.S. This approach has saved my skin many times. I can sync to my Obsidian folder, which I sync with Synology NAS.
Industry insiders and experts can tell you the history of who did what and when. But "comparable" is in the eye of the beholder (i.e. the potential customer). Does the customer anchor on Evernote? Maybe. Maybe not.

I tend to think "almost certainly not." I have not once thought of Evernote as an all-inclusive productivity, calendaring, and organizing tool. But that's just me.
I think a lot of people fall for this kind of fallacy (no offense meant to your acquaintance).

1/ You really cannot grade absolute values on a curve. As others have pointed out, your A players are only in comparison to others in your team. Maybe they are actually C players, who knows? Maybe they are A players only in the environment you created etc, etc..

2/ And a more important point is that a lot of work is being done by people that are not A players. Whom I would call net positive is only in relationship to what I can measure. I know of many people in my team who were not exceptional at software, but got things done due to building relationship with other teams, ability to see things to completion etc. I think Amazon fell into the trap that only type A personalities get things done and I see it in other places too. It is easy to see the extremes, but a lot of times the glue that holds things together is almost invisible.

It is hard to gauge value and I personally am refusing to judge anyone (to the extent possible).
Another improvement would be to strip away the recipe details / steps that have no benefit for the finished product.
-- phew! glad the arbiter of product pricing has finally weighed in - now we know - do you mind going through everything else I pay for to confirm it's not "absolutely too much" for the value I'm deriving? --
usually there are lawyers involved when hiring a c-suite and there are negotiations and contingencies. if you fire a c-suite you might have to send them off with a lot of cash and/or legal fees. it might even cause a little stir in the public image and hurt the stock or investor perception. It might be cheaper or less of a headache to just work around them.

one of the better scenarios is to have a candid, open conversation about their offramp and give them a couple quarters to find a good spot somewhere else and then they "resign".
With the same or even cheaper price, you can get a much more powerful and enterprise grade refurbished rack server on eBay.
Both projects tackle related problems, but each is trying to answer a different question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264059
On a technical level, I'm not sure what sheep shearing robots in the 1980s has to do with automating vehicles... but I'd love to see a video/article if you've got one! :D

As with any large opportunity, there are multiple players in the space, both new and old. As seen with the "innovator's dilemma", I'm not sure I'd place my bets on tech straight out of the 1980/90s/2000s (sheep or no sheep ;) )
Latin America cartels turn increasingly to lucrative synthetic drugs
Seen it so many times as a customer of startups.
“This is an awesome SaaS!”

Then they sell it to BigCo, and less than a year later it is at best loosely integrated or worse sunset. Innovation and this form of capitalism is not a good match if we value innovation as a society.

Probably that is also why we read so many comments saying “We did this 20 years ago with…” here when new tech is released. A long repeating cycle where only scraps of innovation is kept.
Maybe relevant to your idea, if I'm understanding it correctly: you can put water in a suppressor to mitigate first round pop.

(pdf) heading 9: https://assets.surefire.com/uploads/2019/07/SF-BSD-manuals.p...
Might have been more successful if it hadn't been burdened by Intel's IP and licensing.
And Oracle, and pretty much all the FANG MAAMAs except Amazon.
> I also don't think it is guaranteed that America could defend Taiwan if push came to shove. We recently lost a two decade war against Afghanistan. Why are we so confident in our chances against China? Much better to have options, and to supply the Taiwanese with weapons, as in Ukraine, than to say we have "100% commitment" to the defense of Taiwan.

This doesn’t show how hard it would be for the US to defend Taiwan it shows how hard it would be for China to take Taiwan.

If not even the US can handle holding a country against a much less sophisticated adversary what chance does China have against Taiwan and the US

You need to remember as well the Chinese army hasn’t fought a war against a sophisticated adversary in a long time.

Additionally Taiwan is a island making it much harder to take. The buildup before the war be obvious.
As a millennial, I think it’s a dirty/open secret that a large majority of our generation who are able to afford buying are getting help from their boomer parents.

It worries me that this is just further driving inequality and creating an even greater separation between haves and have-nots
Wait what? Did Intel macs have EULAs that go into what OSes you're allowed to install on the hardware you "own"? It blows my mind that we'd need Apple's permission, unless you're just licensing/renting your mac
This is a masterpiece of fine art.
Automatic login with startx and systemd – Vincent Bernat
That is true, but they also have several orders of magnitude higher power density. Maybe the battery technology to make this work just doesn't exist -- I'm imagining something that can absorb enough energy in, say, ten seconds or less, to make it around the track a couple times. Lithium ion can store huge amounts of energy, but charge times are slow. Capacitors can charge very quickly, but have very little capacity. I don't know if there's some technology that splits the difference. Lithium Titanate? Solid state batteries?
Like it or not, "10nm" is the official label for Intel's most pronounced and prolonged fuck-up since the Pentium 4 dead-end. The fact that node names have little to do with node geometry is irrelevant here (nobody's trying to compare competing process nodes on the basis of nominal size); what matters is that Intel didn't finish moving their CPUs past 14nm until last year. Their recent and long-term inability to ship a functional and profitable new process across all CPU product segments combined with their inability to adjust their CPU design roadmap to account for their fab problems is highly relevant to any discussion of their future prospects, even if the discussion makes use of Intel's technically inaccurate nomenclature.
I would definitely complain about this in code review without some performance testing showing that 1) it's actually faster than waiting for a lock and 2) it's better than just increasing the number of slots.
Python is not the first language to have customizable pattern matching. Scala can do the same with extractor objects.
Cauzin Softstrip did this back in the day to save magazine readers from having to type in programs or raw byte code. Or at least, that was the theory, I never actually had a fancy enough setup, or knew someone that did, to see it in action.

Here's an example from a random magazine:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05/page/n432/...