skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only visible to upper management if people in the field aren't overworking themselves to meet deadlines impacted by someone leaving. Most problems are masked because people can't just "let it fail" and force mgmt to deal with it.
Amazon Became the Largest Buyer of Renewable Energy in the World
Nice. Passably pretty and tasteful. This could be useful. Do you have a javascript random-generator version that I can plug into my page?
> The lesson is don't send passwords over slack.

I was going to make a suggestion about PGP or GPG or whatever, but those tools are so bad you can't expect software engineers to know how to use them... (not sarcasm)

Snark aside. What I mean here is that GPG is difficult to use and I would guess 90% of programmers don't know how to use it.
Having had to rebuild carbs only like 20 times and fiddle with fuel mixture a hundred more… I’ll take a hard pass on this.

This is heavily romanticized. It’s a complete PITA and if you are unlucky enough to not have adjustable enough carbs due to insufficient part availability that allows for micro-adjustments to flow - you’ll have an engine that always runs a bit off.

I’ll take modern FI any day.
I recently switched to Corel because they still sell perpetual licenses.

On physical media.

I won’t say it is as good or better than Adobe.

Only that it is good enough for me at this time.
There is a power imbalance between him & a giant multinational corporation, and he's just rectified it.
Build a simple model you can explain in a few sentences; perhaps accompanied by a simple picture.

Elaborate details in each important direction, separately.

Finally, describe unusual complications that arise when different elaborations are combined. Use a narrative voice when there's a process to explain (but, be sure to use numbered statements!). Use a well-known top-level article structure to help familiarize your reader — but be sure they know to expect that structure.

Finally, always edit for clarity.
> Ultimately, the ethical responsibility is to choose the best client representation over the most readable contract, right? Those don't always overlap, do they?

It depends on what's meant by "the best client representation" — is it "best" for the lawyer, or for the client?

What clients want — pretty much universally — is a contract that:

* sensibly and understandably handles the usual use cases;

* addresses the important business risks; and

* can be negotiated and signed quickly — in many cases that might be the client's most-important consideration, because the client is confident that the deal will go smoothly and/or that the business risks are low — and an understandable contract draft can be negotiated far more quickly than a draft that's loaded with "wall of words" provisions.

(The old saying is that most contracts are signed and never seen again, either because the deal goes smoothly or the business people work out any difficulties between themselves without getting lawyers involved.)

Almost never do clients give a [hoot] about maximizing their theoretical legal position for every conceivable set of circumstances — in fact, they're actively hostile to doing so if it means undue delay in getting the deal to signature.

A relevant Dilbert cartoon: https://dilbert.com/strip/2008-08-28

(Source: 40 years of law practice, including nearly seven years as vice president and general counsel of a public software company that I'd helped the founders to start.)
I was kind of hoping maybe there'd be stuff in their VDI implementation that the EmuTOS people could maybe work from to maybe improve some VDI performance or flexibility. But I don't think it got on anybody's radar.

Now you have me browsing through their VDI sources, damn you! https://gitlab.com/AndreasK/Atari-Mac-MagiC-Sources/-/tree/m...

:-)

And yes, I believe MagiC naturally didn't survive the transition from PowerPC to x86. I'm surprised it survived 68k to PowerPC, TBH.

I never used MagiC back in the day, it came after my Atari days were over. But I've played with it since and it's really quite impressive. Definitely an imaginable alternative Atari timeline there.
I sometimes do these bug bounties and some of these are just...

I mean Uber critical max payout is... $15.000. These are bugs that leak out client data and could possible damage the company for millions. I've had companies that argued with me that loss of client data wasn't critical but minor. Some even just give a bounty of $250.

Not that this excuses the behavior of hackers leaking confidential data but companies easily pay millions for anti-virus software that only detects well-known viruses but skimp on zero-days in their own software.
>To my knowledge, and according to the website, Go is effectively entirely controlled by Google, not a foundation

That's a slip up from me, I thought that Google had moved away from the project (still supporting it actively).
> One learns how to learn.

A thousand times this! School is obsolete by construction if we only learn specific skills, which might not stay relevant for long. Learning how to learn is the truly useful thing that a good school should provide.

I am baffled by all the comments about how children should learn <specific skill someone think is important>. How useful would have been an education where arithmetics would have been focused on how to use slide rules? And yet, that was a practical, critical professional skill for quite some time.
This is plain old favoritism and should be countered not celebrated, condoned or dealt with in a business as usual manner.
And this is why the West has failed. Because even in the most educated forum online, you prefer malicious decorum over crude logic.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers visit Armenia as cease-fire holds
It does. This decision means other people “can’t censor” by reverting changes or overwriting.
Uh, what are you talking about? the article is talking about significantly reducing the complexity of running a destributed container platform...
American patents are written in a language that isn't English. It's very precise if you can learn to read it, though. The same seems to hold for contracts, but to a lesser degree.
I wonder if this dumb behavior in games (GTA in particular, and games in general) has to do with the incredibly lackluster CPU power in consoles - a single core of the PS4 has about 2/3rds the performance of a Core 2 Duo core which came out in 2006.
I mean, Milwaukee is a major tool brand. It stands to reason that the vast majority of people searching "Milwaukee" would be looking for tools, not the city. Searching the word "apple" also brings up the company, not the fruit first.

It doesn't even make that much sense to search for a city name by the city only since most city names, including Milwaukee, exist in more than one state. "Milwaukee MI" returns the Wikipedia page for the city as the first result.
Yeah, I doubt it ever will be.

Reading some of these before/afters gives me hope, though: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/before-and-after/

Before:

> This form will be used by Federal agencies to obtain applicant certification that States which have established a review and comment procedure in response to Executive Order 12372 and have selected the program to be included in their process, have been given an opportunity to review the applicant’s submission.

After

> If your State requires an opportunity to review your application, use this form to certify that you have done so. Include the form in your application.
I'm old enough I learned cursive in school. Some years back I made a deliberate decision to abandon it, it had atrophied enough from a lack of use that I had a hard time reading my own writing. Realistically, all I write these days are forms (which shouldn't be in cursive anyway) and the occasional short note. Anything else, I'm a lot faster with a keyboard than with a pen and I can pretty much do the keyboard without thought. (It's strange that as I've aged it's become not quite so utterly automatic as it used to be.) It's very convenient to be able to think about what I'm writing rather than the mechanics of actually doing so.
I liked the fact it didnt count steps and has no score. More casual that way.

Idea: rabbit grab an object (e.g. a key) and needs it to reach a cell.
This term seems to have been co-opted and changed. It went from people phoning it in, actively avoiding or farming out work to “not going above and beyond”.

If you want to show up and “just do your job”, that’s not my jam but more power to you. However, “quiet quitting” as I’ve seen it is people being “anti-work” and actively doing as little as humanly possible to collect a pay check. Borderline not doing their job.

It takes so much extra effort from the people who are trying to do their job, that the people I have heard about are an active detriment to teams - not a net positive or net neutral.

Form what I have seen, these are not people “trying to have a good work life balance”.
It has happened to me multiple times that I’ve been writing the documentation for a system I’ve created, and found that it’s hard to even describe how to use the system, let alone to actually use it. I think “why can’t the system do all this automatically for me?”, and I fix the system to do exactly that, and then I’m relieved of the burden of having to write any documentation for how to do it manually. And as a result the system is better and easier to use for everyone.
Related:

Mister FPGA: The Future of Game and Computer Emulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439279 - Dec 2021 (64 comments)

MiSTer FPGA GBA Splitscreen Multiplayer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27547848 - June 2021 (9 comments)
The plausible explanation for "center-embedded clauses"(CAC) is this: whenever there is an issue of ambiguity about a concept in the main clause, CAC will clarify that ambiguity. If one makes CAC as an independent clause, this independent clause can clarify, or reduce ambiguity, in all clauses of that paragraph or the whole contract (all paragraphs). In some unforeseen circumstances, making CACs as independent clauses may cause problems.

I see CACs as footnotes, directly attached to the clause.
Dyson Sphere Program

Build as many Dyson spheres as you can.

Absolutely phenomenal game, I have 200+ hours in
That's... the whole point.
Criticism of government workers is not terrorism, even when somebody is exceptionally rude about it. If the harassment was criminal in nature, then enforce existing laws. Construing it as terrorism is harmful to the public because it reinforces the government's anti-terrorism narrative used to justify unceasing scope creep and power grab.

>> Federal judges rubberstamp every fishing expedition search warrant put before them

> Is this in any way related to the investigations into a former president?

I am talking about surveillance capitalism and government dragnets aimed at the general public. I'd be a happy man if Trump fucked off and died years ago. He was a willing and eager participant in all that I describe.
Adding a clock signal to my self-contained AVR programmer
I wouldn't mind a move to fuel injection on small dual sports (mine's a DRZ400S). (And some have already made the move.) But that's about it. No more computerized anything, if you please.

These bikes are fun and useful because they are simple. And when they quit running in the middle of nowhere, odds are good you can get it going again with the tools you have on hand.

It's difficult to overstate how mad I'd be to have to call for a tow because of a software fault. :D
Shit is not a social construct. A human being can produce shit without the cooperation of any other human, no matter what language that human uses to describe it. Bathrooms are a social construct; we had to all agree that it's not acceptable to shit in the sink.
For me, GTD told me that if a task takes under two minutes, just do it now.
Twont happen again. Not if followed by "FPGA" that is.
Chromecast doesn't have a power sleep mode right? I e always wondered why especially since it can CEC power on when asked to. Maybe there's a device that I can use to proxy between Chromecast and TV to do this?
I can think of three reasons why they might be:

1. Your contract is really confusing and looks like it benefits the counter party at face value, but actually benefits you upon close inspection. These things can help with that. It's "dark arts" to apply this technique, and there are various shades of gray, but it happens.

2. It might cost less to have your lawyer correct these things. If I (lawyer) correct them and the the other lawyer has to read them and debate them with me, we're spending client money.

3. "Non-standard capitalization" for most purposes is standard in legal contracts. As lawyers we are more used to non standard than standard. I don't know what center-embedded means, and for passive voice, I'd need to see the example. Passive voice can be helpful as ambiguity can pull more possibilities into play, if desired. E.g.: "there shall be no fraudulent use of party A's intellectual property" is broader than "party b shall not use party a's intellectual property."
Shameless plug here but my startup's mission is to solve this problem. It seems wrong to me that in this day and age you have to hire someone to be able to read a legal document or TOS: https://layman.ai/
I feel the same way about your personal belongings, socialismisok. What does it hurt if someone steals your catalytic converter once in a while, or smashes your window in, or mugs you. Small inconveniences, oh well. They probably needed it more than you did. I volunteer your stuff to be donated to such charitable causes.
Working on an academic paper in LaTeX at the moment. I've got this feeling in the back of my head that just trying to produce a work fully from my own head seems inefficient. Why not just throw it up on github, then post it here? In the very least all my little grammatical errors would be quickly highlighted.
> You very, very evidently did not read what you replied to.

Strangely enough, I feel like saying the same thing here. I don't think our viewpoints are that far off. Unless you had a problem parsing my language in the last post, you might have seen that I wasn't strongly disagreeing with you. It appears to have triggered you emotionally however so I suppose this discussion has reached its endpoint.
Yes, this is what I'm getting at.

There's a very real desire for things to just be laid out for you, and much less regard for whether the workflow/tradeoffs associated with that beget quality software in the process.

It is hard to not see this as an army of advanced beginners unconsciously trying to avoid doing the work required to level up.
> It used to be that banks would compare signatures to approve/decline checks. What are checks you ask? Exactly!

I don’t know, in the US checks are so common. Wanna pay a contractor? Checks. Have a HOA account? Checks. Pay the landlord? Checks.
Was the poll about the term itself or about the practice that the term describes?
When I was at Apple in the mid 90's (Before Steve) I remember the Mac OS source code had tons of special app checks, mostly for various Microsoft (also others) apps that did odd things, so that older versions would keep running. When they were working on Copland, I thought it was nuts to write a new OS from scratch, but still do reimplement the hacks so that everything would still run. Good thing it all went away.
The shitty software probably isn't the product. It could be some sales/inventory management tool or whatever, that before they got some 'script kiddies' in was just some forms in Microsoft Access (is that what it's called.. the forms on top of database tool we had to learn in ICT at school) orwwhatever.

I think many people here are reacting to $20M forgetting not everything's a SaaS/in the business of selling software (but mostly still has some (in-house) software somewhere).
Reverse Engineering Tools in 2022
Then what hope is there for a layperson to do anything of significance without first having a lawyer vet the EULA?

Such agreements are already absurdly long for some of the most trivial services or products. The answer cannot become "be a lawyer or rich enough to afford retaining one".
I'm seeing videos and articles saying that leaving it on is to let the OLED pixels refresh every 4 hours. How important is it, really?

The pixel refresh thing doesn't seem to make any scientific sense to me as a layperson.
Nowhere did I say that this behaviour should be "celebrated, condoned or dealt with in a business as usual manner".

Explaining why racism and bias can be rational doesn't mean that I condone racism or bias. Its similar to how companies avoid women who are around 30 because they are likely to get pregnant, that is rational but still isn't something we should celebrate or condone.
And you have to reload the page then...

Should have been a "back" button or smth!
> To be fair, there was a good decade and a half, maybe two, where Usenet was the place to have deep, meaningful and respectful conversations. Most netiquette conventions were first established there.

There were BBS-era networks that also had meaningful conversations. The Well (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, ‘85), Citadel networks (‘81), Fidonet (‘83), and many others.
> I mean, you probably wouldn't last more than a few days in most "unskilled labor" jobs (which actually require quite a lot of skill).

you seem to know a lot about me, and what i've been through.
You can't post personal attacks or nationalistic/racial slurs here, regardless of which group you happen to belong to. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

Could you also please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments generally? You've unfortunately done that repeatedly, and we're trying for a different sort of forum.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Explaining something to another human is hard for people "on the spectrum", in part because they don't have a strong "theory of mind".

Instead of understanding and/or inquiring how the other person's mind state differs from yours, and what gradual steps might lead them to greater understanding, they tend to treat people like a file system with a missing file, and stream the relevant data into them, assuming it will all be recorded.

This is not a simple problem to solve, but it can be done, and the first step is to realize the nature of the problem.

One simple process is getting feedback along the way. Instead of the 5 minute lecture, go step by step, and check that your counterpart has picked up what you're putting down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
Funny, it’s the dQw that I recognise.
my first (portable) digital camera was actually from the Zire 71. My entire graduating class got a m515, but I took it to Staples or OfficeMax to return for store credit, which was the price of the Z71. I used it mostly for games and photos, but had really wanted the wifi card - but the screen at some point.
It seems like you answered your own question there. If your legal name is "William", it's not any more challenging to use "Lisa" as your preferred name than to use "Bill".
I really like JEB Decompiler and dnSpyEx, those are my two favourite tools when it comes to analyzing Android apps. Any other tools not mentioned in the article?
Can confirm, my kids get letters at camp from their grandmother written in cursive and they basically cannot read them. They can puzzle out cursive when it is very neatly written, but casual cursive handwriting is frequently impenetrable.
> An ad with some useful content, but still.

There's a term for that, infomercial :-)
Your energy use is going to be much more impacted by how full you keep your freezer. For the same reason.. the more product you have in there, the less air you have in there.

Your chest freezer will typically use about the same about of yearly kWh as a standing freezer would, but the chest freezer will typically have about 30% more capacity.

So.. it's "better," but if you're not going to keep it full, you may not actually be saving any total energy.
I don’t disagree with this :) It absolutely depends on the situation though. Having a foundation which is maintained and (perhaps more importantly) documented properly by a community can be quite powerful.

My original point was more about the need for a long term technical vision, because I’ve found this to be an invaluable guiding star as I make smaller decisions along the way. Sometimes I need to change course before realizing this vision, but having a vision still helps. I’d feel like I was stumbling in the dark without this.
NES emulators ran GREAT on the zire palm pilots.
Lol. Brutal
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. That's not allowed here, and you've unfortunately been doing a lot of it.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
LiveGenie will help you fix two major problems:
Increase your conversion rates & reduce your customers churn.
> Such as dry weights, including 2 pints to a quart, 2 quarts to a...pottle? 2 pottles to a gallon, 2 gallons to a peck, 4 pecks to a bushel, 2 bushels to a strike, 2 strikes to a coom, 2 cooms to a quarter, 5 quarters to a wey, and 2 weys to a last

Good thing the rest of the world uses this amazing system where a kilothing is a thousand of a thing eh.
They are going to collapse making 20M a year, sure.
pushd / popd are also useful in scripts. For some reason they don't seem to be very well known and I rarely see them in practice.

$ pwd
/foo

$ pushd /bar && pwd
/bar

$ pushd /quux && pwd
/quux

$ popd && pwd
/bar

$ popd && pwd
/foo

So it's basically a stack.
> That app is doomed to obscurity.

Quite arrogant to assume that an app not supporting /your/ specific note-taking workflow means it's "doomed to obscurity". It's a popular app with plenty of users, a healthy plugin community, and a team of six building it. I think that pretty obviously proves you wrong.

If you were actually interested in trying it out, you could've simply run a quick find command.

find . -name "*.txt" -exec rename -v 's/\.txt$/\.md/i' {} \;
IANAL,

How would you prove that? I think there are protected classes for that reason, but if some adult outside of such classifications signs they could ostensibly renege at any point under the pretense that they didn't understand, conversely I presume it would necessitate attorneys (or similar) at every contract signing to ensure it would be binding.
But why not? Why shouldn't there be a process for renegotiating a contract? Especially in cases like this, where the employees are still producing things for the management--I would understand if you were renegotiating JUST on an existing product, because renegotiating on a deal that's already over makes the deal drag on unnecessarily, but these people were probably working on a new game while talking about renegotiating their contract. They weren't just talking about their compensation for the game they'd already finished; they were talking about compensation for every game they'd make in the future with that publisher.
From what I've seen, at least from 2000 forward in the US it was mostly expected that assignments would be typed and printed in high school/college. A lot of the length requirements specified it (times new roman, size 12, single space, one page). I imagine it was because of access (the colleges I know of had a computer lab), formality, and avoiding back-and-forth over legibility.

After leaving college and not needing to write much after a decade or two, its jarring enough to get used to writing in block script.
There is no such hope, and that is the answer.

Much of this country is set up by and for lawyers, and that has consequences.
Not everything that is a/b tested sticks around.