skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s non-voting shares. It’s free money without any risk of losing control.

The Volkswagen corporate structure is really confusing due to complex financial maneuvering by the Porsche/Piech family over the past 20 years. 30% of Volkswagen AG is owned by Porsche SE (a holding company under the control of the Porsche/Piech family, not the car maker), but those shares are more than 50% of the voting shares. Volkswagen AG contain Porsche AG (the car maker).

Porsche has been a money printing machine for quite a while, so why not cash in with an IPO when there is 0 risk of losing control?
Activist investors seem to be able to get results with 5-10% of shares. But there's probably more to it than that.
Thanks for saving me a reply lol
OK that was really really good. Thank you.
Estonia claims to have not four seasons, but five. What’s the deal?
I think you and the original mentioner of "hikkikomori" might be missing the actual social causes of it, it's not purely a "got no work to do, gonna just lounge about eating noodles and watching anime all day". It happens in a very, very rigid/conservative society, almost as a rejection of it.

If it were purely lack of work -> become recluse, we'd see this with 100% of retirees everywhere, but we don't. I'm not saying it's 0%, but I've known plenty of retirees with hobbies and socialization.
Yeah, I'm quite proud at how my doodling skills have improved now that I take "notes". Keeps me from zoning out, and while my pen is out I find i actually do write stuff with it
No, I meant single sign on.

In my experience, if you can get SSO working for (or at least in parallel with) the old codebase, it makes it much easier to introduce a new codebase because you can bounce the user outside of the legacy nginx context for new functionality, which lets the new code become a lot more independent of the old infra.

I mean there are obviously ways to continue using the old auth infra/session, but if the point is to replace the old system from the outside (strangler fig pattern) then the auth layer is pretty fundamental.

That’s what I faced a similar situation - I needed to come up with ways to ensure the new code was legacy free, and SSO turned out to be a big one. But of course YMMV.
If you choose carefully which things to peg to it, you might end up with countervailing influences.
Next election will likely see fewer candidates, as parties realize that Hare RCV still suffers from the spoiler effect, despite all the lies from its proponents, and that they still have to eliminate all but one candidate from their party if they want to win.
Bluetooth trackers are handy for Halloween, but AirTag isn't the only one
Yes and you couldn't use all those fine languages for anything else than attending a folk festival. It was Russian-language monoculture in every aspect of your living (source: lived there). Certainly not so in satellite states. Besides you waved off my examples and these already were enormous cultural distance.
Mathematics can be applied to programming, for sure. However, much of programming is encoding of business processes. Such that, unless you expand your scope for all business process also being applied mathematics, I'm not sure this is that instructive.
> last paragraph

You can't safely paste anything into the shell ever lol. For multiple reasons. It doesn't matter how much visual inspection you do.
Both Canadians and Germans are supposed to be living in a "rules-based world" which is now, supposedly, under attack. I had suspected that that "rules-based world" included the liberty/freedom of protesting against your government's policies, this is not a "freedom of speech" issue in the American sense.
De-Painting with Stable Diffusion
I've been playing around with Stable Diffusion (as an artist, not a programmer), particularly its img2img feature. I've played around with using it to generate photographs from medieval paintings to creating a photograph from a self-portrait I made several years ago!
> you seem committed to a very shallow comprehension of the events going on around you

That's rather patronising; I read your prolix essay, in which I found nothing either very controversial nor very objectionable. I was surprised, and not pleased, to be personally insulted at the end.

I'm neither a prophet nor a futurologist. But I don't share your optimism at the idea of tiny numbers of influencers, advertisers, political POV-pushers and plain trolls using these tools as 1->MANY megaphones. I don't think TwitFace will get rid of the bullshit, because they can't; and I think people will turn away. That's how it's gone in the past, that's why I think that.
> Anti-BDS laws have existed in many states for quite some time, under many different courts, and not been overturned. So until a SC decision finally finds such laws unconstitutional, I will continue to accept that they are, even though I am strongly against them.

That's fine, but they still don't do what you claimed. Your said the laws prevent me from choosing but to do business with Israel. That's not true. That law has the government put a particular line in it's contracts. The government, when acting more or less as a private actor, can do what it wants with it's contracts, even things that would be unconstitutional if passed as a blanket law.

> As you said, Twitter can still claim "a legitimate non-protected class reason" (like, the account is a bot) for terminating accounts, but can't "discriminate" against political views.

It already does: threats of violence are like the primary reason accounts are removed. Being republican isn't carte blanche to threaten or harass people, and neither is being a tankie, and that's why Twitter removed accounts from all sides of the political spectrum without discrimination!

> In Texas, because of this law, political belief is now effectively a protected class, at least w.r.t social media.

No, that's not at all what that means. For one just no. But second, this law goes beyond that and bans speaker neutral, content based policies that aren't indented to discriminate, like for example saying "you're not allowed to threaten to kill people on our platform".
So I use neovim as my editor, I'm familiar with fugitive but only use it for blaming.

I just prefer switching to my git tab in tmux and using the cli or tig deepening on what I'm doing.
GPS jammers are being used to hijack trucks and down drones
> This is in a sense totally factual, and I challenge the blowhards here to like, name one substantive harm someone has experienced from ad ID tracking on an iPhone

Building up a huge library of data about you in an unregulated fashion has never backfired on the public at large, oh wait those exact data warehouses have been continuous sources of pain for users.

The reality is these breaches cost the business next to nothing. After all even if millions of users have <$100 worth of damages it is impossible to recover that. So the business did hundreds of millions of damages at no cost to itself.
The form of RCV used in US is undemocratic garbage, just like FPTP. It counts votes exactly the same way as FPTP in each round, and therefore suffers from all the same problems, such as the spoiler effect, vote-splitting, and center-squeeze. There are so many good voting systems, I cannot understand why the US is obsessed only with this one bad system.
Yes, you are right, so far the biggest discovery of this century is that intelligence emerges from large enough networks of digital neurons trained in large enough datasets. It isn't perfect, or super human at all. But the crazy thing is that these abilities are doubling every 6 months.
Absolutely, although the risk for them is retaliation, especially with the US deciding that it wants to be the chief geopolitical chaos generator in the world.

Having US social media in your country is a huge geopolitical risk, especially if you're one of the regimes that isn't just doing what the US wants at all times.
I'm not aware of any other examiners who use this tool. I did ask an examiner I know to try it and they did, but they didn't find it useful. They suggested that the warnings that plint returns are more relevant to the areas I examine than what they examine, which is fair. They also found my syntax for antecedent basis checking to be confusing.

The personal reason why I made it nitpicky is that there's a huge variability between examiners in terms of which rejections to make. I'm a junior examiner, so everything I do has to be approved by someone else. They might tell me to remove a certain rejection because they don't have a problem with that, and to add some other rejections for things they care about. In my view, it would be better to get a wide range of possible rejections upfront and then think about which ones the person signing off on the office action cares about. The alternative is going back and forth about which rejections to do, which would take more time.

The JSON configuration file I use filters out a bunch of the rules because the person who signs my office actions right now doesn't care about those ones, or I don't care about those ones. I need to update the README file to say that.

Also, an attorney writing a patent application has much less information about which rejections are likely than I do. So from the perspective of an attorney, I think being nitpicky makes sense too. Not that I'm aware of any attorneys who use plint.

plint might not even be nitpicky enough. Recently r/patentexaminer had a poll [0] where about 6% of examiners said that the term "at least one" was indefinite... which is astounding to me as I think that's totally fine from a definiteness standpoint. As I recall, I have some warnings in my linter for enablement on that in case it's not clear how having two or more of something would work if only one is disclosed. But usually "at least one" is fine from an enablement perspective.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/xfvsrs/at_l...

(Again, my posts here are only my opinion, not that of the USPTO, US govt., etc.)
>unless your cursive is extremely incorrect.

what good does it to, to tell the majority that their cursive is incorrect? if a system results in most people doing it wrong, then the system is wrong, not the people
It takes horrendously long to generate the proof. I gave up after waiting 5 minutes.
> I challenge the blowhards here to like, name one substantive harm someone has experienced from ad ID tracking on an iPhone

The sense of entitlement from those on the other side of the ads business, and their disdain for what users might want or how they feel, shows exactly why this business and industry is broken. And frankly why the whole thing is being dragged down right now. Figure it out. Adapt. It's what every other business has to do all the time.
"I have to find a strategy to fix this development team without managing them directly"

Sorry, but you can forget about this. Because if you are not in a managerial position and do not have support from management no matter what you are trying to do to make things better could even backfire on you and could even lead to reprimands or in the absolutely worst case scenario getting you fired.

That's why the realistic old geezers around here would recommend people who are in a situation like this to please look around and try to find something better.

If you are in the situation that you actually can make decisions and have management support (or can acquire it) then it's a whole different story, ofcourse.
Wow, that’s worse than anything I’ve heard about around here (northern Bavaria). Power strips with switches are a sound economy move, in either situation.
Does that mean they agree not to repossess it after 933 miles when I disable payments?
The "and" condition (must have someone on the flower and the bone) confused me because I thought it was an OR condition. Took me a few tries to realize what the constraints were.

I'd like to see these be autogenerated, that seems like a fun problem to solve.
Also, WiFi de-authers are being used to bring down WiFi security cameras... everyone knows it, but no one cares apparently
These issues are nuanced. Texas municipalities depend on property taxes more than most as there’s no state income tax.

One thing local government politicians love to do is pass tax exemptions for old people, disabled people, veterans and combinations of the three. It’s a type of patronage, that lets Mayor Good ‘ol Boy drop by the senior center and VFW and pull in the votes.

Property taxes are essentially allocating the levy based on your proportional share of value. When they get out of control in small towns the effect is a two-tier system where some people pay dramatically more.
Just look at the processor architecture diagram.

But TL;DR modern big processors are not one big piece of silicon but basically "SMP in a box", a bunch of smaller chiplets interconnected with eachother. That helps with yield ("bad" chiplet costs you just 8 cores, not whole 16/24/48/64 core chip). Those also usually come with their own memory controllers.

And so you basically have NUMA on a single processor with all of the optimization challenges for it
You've got this backwards.

Under Approval Voting, it is always safe to vote honestly for your true favorite, which increases the visibility (and perception of electability) of third parties.

Under IRV, it is not safe to put your honest favorite as your primary choice, or you risk creating a spoiler effect that helps the greater of two evils win.
lol I feel like this is more or less exactly what led to the earthwide frozen wasteland in Snowpiercer
iOS 16 would like your permission to paste, and paste again, and also to paste
I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure.

Adding JDBC and later nio is probably what got it there the most.
And to this day, still stuck on that deserted island - at an unknown latitude and longitude.
Would using a VPN termination in the state constitute sharing or receiving content on a social media platform in the state?
I bought a couple 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollar notes a while back. Been meaning to frame them, just like this. :)
Start point would be to search for socket based activation.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html

I've done it with Python it's very easy.

systemd listens on a port and when a connection request comes in it starts your service. You could spawn a new process and let systemd keep waiting for new inbound connections.
Do you mean gig workers enter into no contract, or indentured servants entered into no contract, or something else?

Indentured Servitude: ‘Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years. The contract, called an "indenture", may be entered voluntarily for eventual compensation or debt repayment, or it may be imposed as a judicial punishment.’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude

As for Uber drivers: it’s pretty hard to be an independent contractor without entering into a contract.
I agree that “think of the children” has been misused by power-hungry cops.

I’m emphatically not saying that safety should be the only consideration when thinking about technology. But what I am saying is that preventing clear harms to people is important and undervalued by the (predominantly) relatively young men who start tech companies.
>Mappings of Potential Sailing Mobility in the Mediterranean During Antiquity

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-022-09567-5
And step 1 in marketing a new language is a cute mascot, obviously.
Poor kid, the family are basically gimping his start in life by a decade... it's outright abuse
If you search for socks and someone shows you a promoted ad for socks, you are likely trading relevance for money as the best sock for that person is unlikely to be the most promoted one. This works in the short term but ultimately what should happen (and currently doesn't) is users then use a search or retail platform that gives them more relevant results.

Second is using my search for socks elsewhere on the platform. This is essentially using user-data outside of the intent it was given and that should be controllable by the user and default to the most conservative option without annoying dialogue boxes or other harassment. Whether it's within the platform or not shouldn't make a difference.

So competition is good, but unfortunately what I'm taking away from this that companies are going to bake more ads into their products because the products themselves aren't seeing much competitive pressure (except maybe for Meta and rightfully so).
Yeah I found it quite hard as a novice to actually tell if my Facebook pixel stuff was all working and firing exactly as intended. The lack of data means it's hard to map a 1:1 relationship for a certain visitor (me). "Luckily", our site was not successful so we could find some matches in the recent queries list... on a busier site it would have been hard to pin down.

It still felt like a total money pit into which you toss offerings to a dark god which may or may not grant blessings.
Abbott Faces Competition from Heart Valve Device Cleared by FDA
Especially since an android phone can idle for days on about 10Wh of battery, or something like 0.2W.
Intel market cap is 120B. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all worth more than a trillion.

TSMCs market cap is 4x Intel’s and produces far more processors and has a more advanced manufacturing process.
Those are the things that don't cost money or relatively little money in societies where everything social costs money. Land and housing is super expensive for someone without a high paying job. In the US at least, anything social costs money. There is no public place where people can meet others. Public spaces are either dedicated to cars, office space, or retail. It seems different in europe with social public plazas, not sure about Japan. But people like to have some kind of say in the area around them, and improve their environment. Any city I've lived in has a city government where the most input you can have is 'feedback sessions' where only pre-approved questions can be asked. If you don't have land to yourself or assets or already have a strong social network, what work can you do where you feel like you are making progress and improving yourself or your community and not just contributing to someone else's profit? As someone in software, I feel like I had a path to obtaining some wealth, but I understand why people without it might just want to detach and from the 'real world' and spend time doing things that make them happy. You also have to consider that the 'work' that they are choosing not to do might be bad for their mental/physical health if it is depressing/stressful work that doesn't reward them.

I'm not saying this lifestyle is healthy, but I can see why some people want to opt out of a system that doesn't consider their desires or wellbeing.

Also, not everyone can be a software developer. Why do you consider being a game dev to be noble and productive, but playing games to be a drain on society?
https://archive.ph/b2M9X
I much prefer physical books, but as I'm adopting a more nomadic lifestyle, I'm having issue carrying my books.

Question to ebooks readers, why system do you recommend to read them? iPad? kindle? computer? phone? what's the preferred format?

I don't like reading on the computer as I'm too easily distracted. And I had bad experience with kindle (many years ago, it was painfully slow, just good enough for a novel but not suitable for technical books).
Big adv bikes are generally for older gents. Young guys are on 250s and 400s and 500s
> Businesses live because society allows them to live.

It is not a one way street from "mores of society" -> "business practices". Large corporations frequently go to extreme lengths attempting to manipulate what society does and does not allow.
Most lines of j40.h are only enabled with `#define J40_IMPLEMENTATION`, which should be defined only once.
Would it? You are welcome to start the business and try to compete with Costco/Chobani/Dannon/etc
Those companies aren't going away any time soon. Heck, IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard are all still around, and all still making profits. Doesn't mean they're desirable places to work at all compared to the olden days.
IANAL as well, but isn't there a reasonable person standard test applied in law, sometimes? It seems like the issue here is that reasonable people are expected to not be able to parse contracts.
I Kobayashi Maru’d it by setting the animals’ absolute positions in css.
Funnily enough, only Google is currently offering paid subscriptions that delete ads. All of their competitors are all-in on advertising. Google, by contrast, has that attention-respecting and affordable YouTube program that makes YouTube completely ad-free.
Thanks, that’s what I was aiming for. It’s kind of a litmus test what kind of professionalism you can expect in a place – if any. Especially when they have shown prior incompetence, as in OP’s example.

In all honesty, given that example, if I didn’t get immediate buy-in, I’d throw the towel right then. Over 15 years of experience show that train wrecks only ever get fixed when they are recognized as such from the start.
I use two folders, inbox (currently active mails, also sent ones) and trash, which is the ever growing pile of mails.

Most importantly is the use of a mail indexer (notmuch currently) for searching and getting virtual mailbox viewes.
It actually makes sense to me. I've pinged the bots team to see if we can improve here.
It's UN*X. The one thing it actually does good is having documentation on the system, instead of some weirdo's web page covered in ads. Type man <cmd> or info <cmd> in the shell. Also, for most of the world population, this will be a few seconds faster since it avoids loading a web page.
> when stuff in the movie goes boom my house starts to shake.

That’s how it’s supposed to sound. Explosions are loud.

This is not a problem with the source material, it’s a problem with the setup of the playback equipment. The source contains all the original data, it’s the playback equipment’s job to render that information in the appropriate way considering the space and circumstances where it’s played.

The ‘problem’ is that the sound is mixed to a cinema-level dynamic range. If you don’t want the full dynamic range you can compress it at playback. They store it at the full range since you can’t exactly un-compress it and the exact amount of compression depends on your setup and situation anyway.

Any half-decent A/V receiver has this capability. If your receiver has Audyssey you may want to look into the “dynamic eq” and “dynamic volume” settings.
Are you familiar with JPEG2000? I looked at this diagram of JPEG XL and was overwhelmed at the complexity, it seems more complex than J2K baseline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JPEG_XL_codec_architectur...

...and I say this as someone who has written PNG, GIF, and JPEG (baseline sequential) decoders, and didn't think J2K would fit in 5kLoC either.
Hanlon's razor never applies when politics or money is involved. Best to just suspend your judgement instead of giving politicians the benefit of the doubt.
I have a completely opposite view. Striving for perfectness can be very toxic and create an environment where growth is impossible if you don't match someones definition of "perfect". It's not about excuses, it's about compromises, making progress, growing in our own pace and being human.
LOL. Made my day. Cheers for that.
I would venture a guess that companies that already made quality products are entirely unaffected by this, it's companies pushing shit that only sells thanks to ads that get hit, and: good. I hope those all go out of business.
Tell them your employer is now paying for your subscription

Worked for me plus two others that I know of
Usually nothing changes for me as a developer if shareholders get bigger returns on their investments. So I don't really care.

What I care about is the code quality because good code makes my job easier. I inherited the code, not the business.