skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to ask: are a lot of secondary Amazon technologies in a rickety state compared to other large technology platforms?

Just yesterday there was a long thread for "Amazon walking back raises after internal bug miscalculated compensation" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982398) and anyone who deals with its selling platforms like Vendor Central, Seller Central, and KDP lives in constant fear of unwarranted account lockouts with no explanation or obvious triggers.
I feel like we are close to the endgame. Sure, learning to DJ and even buying DRM-free music is easier than ever in 2022, but actually performing as a DJ? Have fun dealing with licensing. The labels have been enjoying this transition from music as part of a huge remix culture to music as a strictly personal medium of entertainment, as something you passively listen to exactly as Spotify wants and occasionally embed as-is into your 10 second TikTok video. Discovery now happens primarily through personalized algorithmic "radios" (read: echo chambers), along with the occasional excessively overhyped 80s song artificially brought back by being featured in an episode of a Netflix series. The equipment used for listening of course followed this trend, with horrible-sounding-but-convenient true wireless earbuds and portable speakers becoming ubiquitous and displacing pretty much everything else in sales numbers.

Where did all the creativity go? Some of the more niche platforms like SoundCloud are absolutely full of highly illegal mixes and mashups waiting to be taken down... but I haven't yet seen anybody seriously considering listening to SoundCloud daily instead of just consuming Spotify's prepackaged playlists. Even piracy doesn't seem to care; just go to TPB and see how large its repertoire of DJ mixes, EDM or non-mainstream hip hop is (hint: not very large). And let's not even talk about the minefield of doing anything related to music on YouTube. Remix culture is not yet fully dead, but it might as well be.
Yes, Ukraine's famous Baltic sea combat divers.
TAG-Connect makes a nice one of these. I use their target footprint on all my MCU projects now. The guide holes and pins make it easy to hold with one hand and know it will stay put as you initiate the programming with your other hand.
the author of the tweet is just trying to evoke some outrage from the uninformed in order to try to get his money and run.
The first computer mouse was not invented by Douglas Engelbart, but by the German corporation Telefunken:

Auf den Spuren der deutschen Computermaus

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Auf-den-Spuren-der-d...

"Rollkugel": Erfinder gibt allererste PC-Maus nach Paderborn

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Rollkugel-Erfinder-g...

Google Translate to English:

On the trail of the German computer mouse

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/newsticker/meldung/Auf-d...

"Rollkugel [Rolling Sphere]": Inventor gives the very first PC mouse to Paderborn

https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/newsticker/meldung/Rollk...
It is more the corporate culture on how security is treated .

Sure it is might convenient for NSA who probably use it when it is found , but is less likely that company of cisco size can intentionally do something like that coordinated and keep it secret too.
Generally the problem is, in many (most) companies, management track is the only track.

I'm not sure how many companies have the maturity of recognizing that management stuff is just one of the things one must do, which some people have a knack/passion for, like devops or talking to customers.

Most companies have an org chart, and the level of success/pay correlated to how high you are on said chart (in no small part due to your pay being determined by the person above you).

This is an unfortunate reality, but truth is, programmers can avoid this BS to some degree, because can jump ship any time/start contracting, but this is even more the rule in other industries, that some paper pusher out-earns the movers and shakers.
Because the formula was not published.
I'm using a similar setup but with a Davis Vantage Vue weather station [1], a Meteostick USB receiver [2] and WeeWX weather software [3]! It is pretty cool to be able to compare your feelings vs the hard facts (eg. I found it very hard to evaluate wind speed).

[1] https://www.davisinstruments.com/pages/vantage-vue
[2] https://www.smartbedded.com/wiki/index.php/Meteostick
[3] https://weewx.com/
As a US Citizen. I laughed at "Freedom Fries" as did many I know.

The US is not homogeneous or even close.

As an example:

I remember warning people when visiting over seas: Trump is many things. Stupid is not one.

I stand by that statement. I don't agree with the man. But I will never mistake him for a total fool. Did he mis-calcuate. Thankfully, so far yes. But 2024+ will tell the truth on that, alas.

Many in the US consider Trump a fool. I do not.
What translator do you use? If it's any other than DeepL, you're making a mistake!
I guess I’ll take the opportunity to throw in my hat… I’m currently running a very early-stage startup trying to address some of the brain drain and complexity in industrial maintenance. If you’d like to talk/rant about your job and the pain points you have, I’d be all ears! Wouldn’t be a sales call, I’m just trying to talk to people at this point. Feel free to DM me if interested.
Stalkers gonna stalk. The “all of this” would just have to be getting the interview link/time (calendar or email access) and then showing up a bit early to tell the story.

It is very very unlikely and I don’t judge the interviewer for how they handled it.
> judging against the experience of using Windows, well let's just say that's a low bar to beat.

Honestly, even with all the bullshit that Microsoft has been pulling, this isn't really true. I have used all three extensively in the past year (Windows since I was a teenager, switched to Linux only for 1 year, work has had me on an Apple device for 6 months). Linux just works. Windows usually just works, if you can ignore their asinine "features" such as adverts and Edge nags. Apple is by far the worst of the bunch, it feels like the entire platform is teetering on the edge of absolute chaos, held together only by the thankless work of the community (Brew, Co/lima, etc.). A fresh install of MacOS is completely and utterly incompetent.
Contracts include unbounded variables all the time.

Banks offer accounts with “whatever we feel like” interest rates. Bonds can have “whatever we feel like” interest rates. Stocks can have “whatever we feel like” dividends. Short term rentals have “whatever we feel like” rental prices.

In practice, the payer offers a very short term guarantee: “for the next pay period, you will get $50 an hour”, but after that pay period they change it.

There are contracts behind all these things.

One party offers something on a continuous basis: labor, money, etc. The other party walks away when they don’t like what they’re getting.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Your comment made my day! :)
position: sticky; makes tons of sense for web apps. It’s very common to want toolbars or menus always visible. I don’t think anyone in their right mind would claim that, for example, MS Word would be better if you needed to scroll to the top of the document to see any of the controls.
Pretty sure GasBuddy, for tracking US gasoline prices, is mostly ad-supported.
Yes... If you blow the enemy's, it is not a warning anymore, it's already an agression.
Right -- YouTube is essentially the only platform that you can get "all three": distribution, discoverability & revenue.

People can make creative content and get the first 2 on TikTok but all things equal the payout would be way, way less. They can make money on Patreon and distribute their content through it but there isn't enough discoverability there for them to grow.

There's a reason why everyone who blows up on any other platform expands to YouTube asap.
You kind of contradicted your first paragraph at the end :)

Small time investors who know what they’re doing have been buying index funds for the past 40 years and making great returns
Well, it's bad.

Whatever US president a says to reporters doesn't change the fact that US government doesn't care much about pollution when it comes to national security.

- https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/

- https://www.ewg.org/research/decades-department-defense-knew...
>"Ignore the second biggest desktop OS because they don't ship the latest version of the non-standard scripting language I like"?

There's nothing wrong with that position. Bash is not a "non-standard scripting language people like", it is the de-facto standard on Linux (heck, it was the first program Torvalds ever run on Linux) and the most widespread implementation of POSIX shell in the world. If Apple chosed tivoization[1] over freedom, so I can choose the #!/bin/bash shebang.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
Ask HN: The most exceptional anecdotes of those escaping conscription in Russia?
With all due respect for genuine human suffering as it is going on in the Ukraine, and also in Russia, I find humor a way to go beyond any set of human barriers, and I see the current circumstances of those escaping conscription in Russia a source of endless interesting and profound experiences. Have you heard from anyone going through something exceptional? Please do not post any personal information. Please note my family was a victim of other conflicts in Europe, and I advocate against personally victimising attitudes and -- in some cases -- in favour of humor.
I think this is the wrong take.

Microsoft is trying to land on the PWA beachhead in an attempt to make mobile devices irrelevant and app agnostic.

Furthermore, they want to provide the tooling to develop and deploy into this ecosystem. Github, Github CI, VSCode, Azure, ...
do you think this would ever go to trial or even indictment?
You only need a bug in a single line of code of your dependency to compromise the whole app. Most of the code doesn’t matter for security.
I don’t consider 16 year olds to be children. If they are, they shouldn’t be driving. Yes, all kids do dumb things. But, if you are still behaving stupidly or dishonestly at 16, well that’s a different issue. That it’s no big deal to the younger generation explains why the country is as messed up as it is.
I would like to know which fridge company is the most reliable. My samsung fridge and washer/drier bought in 2013 are still running good. I heard bad things about LG compressor in fridges, but their cordless vacuum is outstanding. I will probably never trust GE.
I would put it as "Tell me about a time when you had to take an ethical stand or make a choice based on ethics."
There are other pipelines - and boats.

Norway is in high alert right now. Can you guess why?
https://mobile.twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/157479814778362...
I want the opposite of a PWA.

I want an app which can be compiled into Desktop/mobile builds and also interpreted in browsers. An alternate HTML/CSS/JS with no JavaScript.
Just speculating but perhaps true competition wasn't introduced? Are there 3 or 4 genuine competitors, who aren't just retail frontages for the same back end company? (that's the way telcos and power companies here can be structured).
> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)

Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin).

Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other:

https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...
That does make me think now is it an actual pre-requisite to be a conductor at a high level or just the way things have been. We seem not have much/any counter examples?
Welp... adding my S6 Edge that was stored in a drawer at 80% battery to the anecdote pile.
> Is this that different from a SPAC?

SPACs are reverse mergers with bells and whistles. Reverse merger just means a private company mergers with a public company, the shell, where the motivation for merging is that the shell is public.

Shells are usually vestiges of a failing or failed company. They went public because they thought they would idk sell sandwiches, they didn't sell enough sandwiches, so now their most valuable asset is the listing itself. When they are bought, there is no cash or goodies for the new owner to control. If anything, the less there the better.

SPACs go public with the ex ante intent of merging with a private company. When they merge, they dangle the promise of their pool of cash to potential acquirers. It's more deliberate, complicated and lucrative (for the bankers).
Likely talking about meetings. I'm not quite as forceful, but I agree. Webcam off is fine for large meetings, but if you do speak it's nice to turn it on for that moment. In small meetings we strongly encourage having your camera on as the norm.
This app has earned significant money since 2017:

http://driftwheeler.com

Not safe for work. Pornography advertising.

I get a cut of the monthly fees when somebody signs up for MetArt.
The point is more that "moral judgements" like the time you pointed out that the company might violate the AGPL might actually be good stories to tell an interviewer if you've lead a drama-free working life building CRUD apps for regular employers, but are pretty hard to recall when the first thing the words "moral judgement" bring to mind are the time you had to stop interacting with X because they did Y.
Hey fsflover, I'm not sure how answering your question "How can I avoid that?" is moving goalposts. My answer stands — don't use a phone if you don't want your location captured and shared.

It's trivial to turn off Location Services on an iPhone, in which case your location data isn't sent to Apple. You can also control this on an application-by-application basis if you wish. However, this doesn't stop your carrier from capturing and sharing your location data.

Hopefully this clears it up for you.
Yes you can, but also i dont think it matters that much. Might it in the future? We shall see. But right now it sounds like the village chicken littles worrying that the only bakery in town might close…
Tried Brazilian Portuguese - the accent is spot on, but the wording is completely off (reads a bit like Portuguese from Portugal). Great starting point though!
I think in general the human mind treats Maintenance as less important or not important at all. The ancient people realized this: When I studied Chinese in primary school, there was one ancient text that spoke about a discussion between a king and a famous doctor. The doctor explained that his brother was superior than him in the medical science but no one heard about him because he could always treat small illnesses before then evolved into terminal ones, so people said, "Oh he is a fine doctor, but he only treats minor illnesses".

This text has been resonating with me for many years. Humans simply do NOT appreciate maintenance people TBH. Me as an example: I own a house but whenever I plan maintenance of my house I always tried to push it a bit further because 1) It's expensive, and 2) Manual or company says that I need to do X every Y years, can I push back say 10% and still don't break things? As for my electronics, unfortunately I never maintained them and in my earlier days I never had a computer that lasted for 3+ years -- they always broke down due to this or that reason.

And then both of my knees have degenerative issues; I had kidney stones; I need to maintain physical health but I was and still is too lazy to do that. I simply do not have the maintenance mindset.

This probably can stretch out to the whole society: We simply do not appreciate Maintenance people. They are usually lowly paid and have low moral because what they work is chore. They also do not get to enjoy creating new things. Basically you need someone who has the mindset to appreciate maintenance to be a good maintenance person, and a society of this mindset to support such work and lower the cost. Nowadays we do not. Nowadays we always doubt the necessity of maintenance and sometimes even accuse other people to charge a large bill for maintenance (sadly, this could be true). There is little trust between.
Hopefully my intent could be explained to a reasonable person, as I did make a good faith effort to look for help. It was a quiet evening, about half an hour till closing time with very little business going on in the store.

I didn't find any employees walking the aisles, just the guy working the register, who glibly advised me "yeah, you should probably look for somebody to unlock that" and provided no further assistance. Only after another fruitless search for such a somebody did I resort to my DIY technique.

Edit: A funny side note, some months prior to this event I had been in the same store to buy a different router bit. On that occasion I did find a very helpful employee who wanted to unlock the bit for me but did not know how. He cut it off the peg with a utility knife on his belt, slicing through the plastic packaging. I was more nervous going to the cash register with that!
Literally the day after I spend hours figuring out thinkfan and tinkering with fan levels to get something I can live with. What timing.
My dad has repeatedly installed samsung appliances, especially one of their dishwashers, in all his housing projects (as a general contractor) because they are "very quiet". Meanwhile, ever single one of them, for two decades now, fails and becomes useless within a year because a stupid water level sensor is exposed to the dishwasher environment in such a way that it gets dirty and tells the system computer to not do anything. "It's an easy fix" he says. If you replace the part, it will just fail again.

I think he might be stupid. He does not get a kickback for this.
"Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt."
Merkle Proofs for offline data integrity
I think it's wider than that - we really are talking about how to share the wealth of all society with all its citizens.

But yes, it's why we cannot hope to leave it to the SEC or the Fed. The UK just learnt what happens when the Government and the central bank disagree on even the most basic questions.
You realise that puts have a cost that is determined by the market?
I wasn't in the room, but my manager was. Is that you, Preserved Killick?
There's a high possibility that he's the imposter of the imposter.
Are you under the impression that working for the white house is a prestigious position? These aren't America's brightest filling these positions. Quite the opposite.
How does a union welder get saddled with debt trying to stay afloat during covid? What was the thing he was taking on debt for to keep afloat? What does keeping something afloat even mean? He took on new debt to make payments on his old debt?

I say this as someone that knows two pipeline welders in Wyoming. They were living it up with their time off. Who do you think bought all those side by sides in 2020 and 2021. You couldn't find one to buy no matter how far you were willing to drive. Do you think it was the office worker crowd buying $30k go-karts?
This reminds me of the captors in Iron Man exposing plot spoilers, but only if you happen to understand Urdu.
Sounds like BoxyHQ could be relevant here. Plug-n-play for developers that need to build enterprise features like SSO, audit logs, directory sync, privacy vault and other boring stuff that are required to be compliant.

100% free & self-hosted. It's Open source (Apache-2.0 license)
[I am one of the co-founders, sorry for the plug]
The distinction between the size of {I} and {I}/{I} (and {I}^n) is not the size, but the orderability.

(Sorry for the bullshit syntax.)

You can map any rational onto an integer index; you cannot do it so that that r[i - 1] < r[i] < r[i + 1].

This has no impact on cardinality, but there's something here that doesn't sit quite right with me.
I was a produce manager at Safeway in the 1980's. Both Red delicious AND Golden delicious were great eating apples. Not sure much anymore and I'm not sure why.
This web site
Meanwhile the dirt cheap kenmore I had my entire life had an ice maker that never had a problem. It seems more common on the more expensive appliances. It just seems like they overcomplicate and don't build in redundancy or repairability to save a couple bucks.
What kind of sub-national groups in relevant countries do you have in mind?

Otherwise: Agreed.
The YouTube economy isn't always unforgiving.

YouTube allows you access to a the world's largest group of suckers as well as those in poverty who are desperate. If you create content that targets these people, you can make bank… and fast. While someone creating high-end education content might get $1-$2 CPMs, someone creating targeted scam content can make 10x—yes, $10-$20 CPMs are possible.

Content about personal finance, coaching, "selling online", affiliate spam, MLM and pyramid schemes, dropshipping, and meta-content about being a "creator" all makes unbelievable bank.
The people giddy for recession are not going to like this
Go swim every morning 20 mins at least.
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People need to stop thinking of 'Russia' (or any other country for that matter) as a single monolith. For example, a possible motive that may be bad for Russia but good for Putin is that maybe he wants to deter any would be assassination attempt coming from within the Kremlin by making it abundantly clear that there will be no going back to business as usual if he was to be eliminated. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines is a very good way to achieve that.

We as regular citizens have limited info, really we don't know what's going on. But don't assume it definitely isn't Russia because of whatever reason that happens to seem plausible to you.
Minor kibbitz, but I wouldn't say, "latency hasn't been a problem for decades" in professional digital audio production. Maybe for studios that shelled out 5 large for a protools setup, but for smaller and non-protools pro recording studios latency is still a potential factor today.

Anything USB 2.0 would have latency if you were doing anything to the incoming audio live (like running a little reverb plugin on vocals) then it very well could cause audio latency and or stuttering issues.

Thunderbolt & USB 3.0 seems to have solved this (unless you are piping a lot of effects live on a weaker machine) but those only started hitting their stride 4-5 years ago.
And my nature as a man inclines me to burn pop-evolutionary-psychology takes, because it is natural for me to like fire, because fire was integral to my evolutionary survival, and burning garbage feeds the fire, and is therefore perfectly natural.

You're parading a collection of nonsense just-so-stories dressed up in a lab coat, and the beauty of them is that you can cherry-pick whatever narrative fits your pre-conceptions. That is, of course, also why they are utter rubbish, and not worth the paper they are printed on.

Are you saying something that isn't built on a quicksand of naturalistic fallacies? What exactly is it?

> but we shouldn't clutch our pearls when a boss dates a secretary

Right, because quid-pro-quo relationships, or even the appearance of quid-pro-quo relationships are fantastic for the workplace! Isn't it great for everyone else to see Sally get a raise after she starts fucking the boss? There's no conflict of interest, potential for abuse of power, or problem for anyone else involved!

Are there any other naturalistic practices we should normalize again in the workplace? Maybe kickbacks and bribes? Do we need a few just-so-stories to justify these practices, or can we forego that exercise in creative writing, and skip straight to the conclusions I want?
So if I understand your reasoning correctly, you’d rather have 60 minutes of downtime per self hosted service per year (all at different times), than 60 minutes of downtime per decade for all these services at the same time (all fixed once CF fix their incident)?