skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$19.66 million, not billion.
In general, the Scots would not appreciate being called British, or lumped in with the British. So if you find yourself making use of this retained information in mixed company (ie, with a Scotsman) be sure to remember that Scottish != British.
I remember Netware. Not that I used it myself, this is what I heard from others.

Everyone used Netware because they had to. Everybody hated it. I never heard a nice thing said about it.

When another, better, networking solution arrived, that was the end of Novell.

I learned to never invest in a company whose products people use only because they had to. They're doomed. Invest in companies where people love the products.

P.S. really bad investments are companies that like to sue their customers.
I have asked this repeatedly. Maybe you can answer it

Outside of the quote from the governor where she makes this statement, WHERE is this agreement? Under what authority was the agreement made, WHO in the legislature agreed to it? Under what authority did this person(s) make the agreement

I ask because currently the NY legislature is not in session, and no vote could have taken place which is normally how one gets an "agreement" from a legislature
Lightworks is not anywhere close to open-source (2012)
https://www.reichandbinstock.com/blog/strict-liability-for-d...

https://www.whiteandwilliams.com/resources-alerts-Medical-De...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173549/

https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/courses/drugsf02/rest_3_6.htm

> (a) A manufacturer of a prescription drug or medical device who sells or otherwise distributes a defective drug or medical device is subject to liability for harm to persons caused by the defect. A prescription drug or medical device is one that may be legally sold or otherwise distributed only pursuant to a health-care provider's prescription.

> (b) For purposes of liability under Subsection (a), a prescription drug or medical device is defective if at the time of sale or other distribution the drug or medical device:

> (1) contains a manufacturing defect as defined in § 2(a) [i.e., when the product departs from its intended design even though all possible care was exercised in the preparation and marketing of the product]; or
Amazon routinely takes over 30%, especially if FBA.
> Which gains did you or the users get when rewriting to C#? What were the downsides?

The gains were performance. The MS Access application was not backed by a proper database, I forget the exact setup but it was more of just a shared MDB file over the network? Whatever Access was capable of at the time. There were contention/locking issues and all the other sorts of problems you'd expect given the setup. My memory of it is a bit hazy, but I know it was lacking a true database outside of its own MDB format.

Funny story, after the rewrite the software was so succesful internally that we decided to start selling it, and it became one of the industry leaders. The person who wrote it originally was highly knowledgable in their field, and I happened to have decent enough programming knowledge. The two put together ended up with something special.
How does zim-wiki compare to using Apple Notes?
True — though even if the people directly responsible for the theft aren't savory individuals, the people they sell to might be struggling to buy diapers all the same. There's apparently an entire black market around this stuff.

> The black market for diapers and other baby products thrives because so many people can’t afford over-the-counter prices for them. Diapers and wipes cannot be purchased with food stamps or other welfare benefits, and the expense is a grinding source of stress for families in poverty. During the pandemic, the number of families who couldn’t pay for diapers shot up across the country.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-...
This reads like a No True Scotsman argument
Whether it is a human or a chatbot, I think most people want to know the company behind the product will do right by them and keep promises made. It’s a about trust, not about cheer.
The government's #1 excuse for anything they want to do without having to actually justify it:

"Safety"
Go supports exceptions: panics.
Well, I am. Hacky workarounds like this might be ugly and slow, but modern chips are really fast, and I don't expect an RTOS graphics display to be the fastest thing in the world.
The sort of banana republic that can generate a court order for you to do that is the same kind that would simply put a gun to your head instead. In the US, no court would order that type of equitable relief.

But, pretending that's not the case:

> As a business owner, why would you reveal it ?

Because you have principles? Backed up with at least a little bit of spine?

> You'll go to jail (or struggle in court at least) for few years, have a horrible reputation and end up poor because your company is going to lose all its user base ?

It's not clear that you would go to jail. You can simply shutdown[1]. For those that actually care about privacy, your reputation would only increase.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-e...
I think Heinlein hit an essence in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for AGI.

It needs many inputs and many outputs into the real world. A true AGI sees the reaction of the world to its own actions. That is the root of sentience.
this guy talk like mRNA is a technology they created. think, if replace mRNA by DNA or computer...
I do think that we crossed some lines post 9/11. It's likely that the US had always been violating the constitution by spying on American citizens, or were engaging in torture or secreting people off to black sites and indefinitely detaining them without trial, but after 9/11 it was all out in the open. It was sanctioned by the government. It became policy.

In the decades before 9/11 the US government had the decency to lie to the American public about it. They told us that America was so great because it would never do those kinds of things. Those types of activities were held up as examples of horrible atrocities communist nations subjected their citizens to.

Even as evidence came up from time to time showing that the US government didn't always live up to those ideals they continued to be expressed as what this country stood for. Post 9/11 that was no longer the case. This might be a more honest American government, but I can't help feeling like we've lost something.
You're advocating for more programmer work and less machine work. The situations are exactly the same. Just because programming is "brain work" rather than "muscle work" doesn't somehow make it not work.
> The Lightworks video nonlinear editing program will be released as Lightworks Open Source in the fall of 2010.[0]

[0] https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Lightworks-Video-...
There should be a public canary watcher, to notice dead canaries sooner.
Homelab Move to the Garage
On a first date, someone quoted the contents of your diary that had been stolen in a hack? Were you dating on a hacker matching app? How does this even come about?
I thought it was more that you can't be ordered to lie.

Not saying something is one thing, saying something false is something else.

It boggles my mind. "Why do I have to comply with this order?" "Because not complying with a legitimate authority is breaking the law." "Can you really use an argument based on the sanctity of the law to justify ordering me to break the law?"
> Instead of confronting him and hurting his feelings we let him keep driving and we would shoulder check for him. Very dangerous and we knew it.

Sounds like you guys also folded. The mentally and emotionally resilient thing to do would have been to not endanger multiple lives for the sake of this anxious person’s pride.
As someone who was homeschooled, loves being fully remote, and has worked as such for several years (and pined for it long before) I don’t think we can yet equate video chats with real conversation.

Conversation isn’t a data transfer. It’s a joint function of two people. Anything other than the real thing is messing with that function in weird ways.
In US residential style construction drywall is gypsum plaster pressed between two sheets of paper. There's no frame on the sheet. It's cut to fit (scored with knife and snapped off) and nailed/screwed to the wall studs.
Then you’ll be happy to read this from Facebook’s lead engineer for their (unreleased) style library StyleX:
https://twitter.com/naman34/status/1599581414487359489
Theres not much of a story here. The entire sector is down from the FED induced covid highs. For example, Amazon and Facebook are down 50% in the public markets. But since Twitter is now private and has no public stock price, its up to shareholders like Fidelity to guess the current value. This is their guess.
Taking that much time off of any job is pretty hard to do!

The real goal of a bootcamp though (besides networking) is adding a project to your portfolio. You can then show off this project to hiring managers to demonstrate your competence.

You don't need to do a full-time bootcamp to make this happen! I just checked and Flatiron school and Hack Reactor both have online part-time full-stack bootcamps. Also, while not as big of an investment, online platforms like Codecademy have career paths with a capstone project you can complete and add to your portfolio.

So, overall there are a variety of pathways to do this. Totally fair to point out though a bootcamp of some kind is a nice option in the off-chance it's a possibility.
In anonymous congregate housing I can see optimizing for cleanabilty and surface lifetime. I.e., if the common manner is to carry in and out (as in a basket) all personal items with each visit. In such case, nooks and crannies are an antifeature. I could imagine some roommates or even families uniting around such behavior.
I hear that! I actually started doing the same for my rent. Landlord tried to raise the price so I just stopped paying. Same with food actually. Price of a tomato has gone up too much so I usually take one or two as I leave the store.
Scotland is part of Great Britain. The "British" adjective basically denotes anything under Britain.

The Scottish language isn't in the Brittonic family. It is Anglic. However, English is also Anglic and not Brittonic, yet the English don't mind calling themselves British.

Go figure.
They move a bunch of freight by rail, nobody wants to pay someone a bunch of money to drive it when they can just throw it on a train.

And trains are relatively time inefficient so people in Maine couldn’t have their fresh Californian strawberries a couple days after they are plucked out of the field.

Maybe people don’t deserve to have fresh produce but that’s another discussion altogether.
The assessment is largely correct.

US Presidential politics has been on a knife edge for the past 2+ decades, with multiple popular-vote-minority presidents elected (or appointed, according to some, notably Bush-Gore 2000).

There are a handful of swing states, with Ohio and Florida topping the list via Google Ngram Viewer. The term "swing state of " starts appearing notably around 1995, and has been persistent since the 2000 election.

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=swing+state+of...>

(Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, New , Illinois, and Virginia make the top six over that period. "New" seems likely to be "New York", though it could be the combined effect of "New York" and "New Jersey".)

And again, Cuban politics and policy is absolutely pivotal in Florida.
Oh of course, packaging python apps for final distribution is a different matter. I was assuming they were talking about the process of setting up a dev environment not deployment.
I don't follow. Python's static types can be gradually introduced to an untyped code base. Sure, they may be unhelpful if you don't use them everywhere. But how can they be painful? It's not like they prevent your code from being compiled?

Having a Scala code base not compile because someone went all-in on type-level programming, and now simple changes require an understanding of category theory and the associated compiler flags .. that's real pain.
I don't think New Year's resolutions are a good idea. There's a whole cultural phenomenon of them not working.

I think, if you're going to set a particular time to focus on changing behaviors, you really want to start right away, with very small steps, and ramp up as you approach the time of focus.

Q1 for me will emphasize going even deeper on sleep improvements, and on organizing events / making friends.

If you're in the bay area, feel welcome to reach out
Yeah. Encountering a cheerful chat bot when experiencing a frustrating issue is maddening. It amplifies the lack of empathy the company seems to have to the situation because you know the bot has no feelings. Feigning sympathy would be just as bad because it's fake and therefore not.
Typical pseudo science anti vaxxer who makes his $$ from it...
Yeah that's fair -- maybe just focusing on becoming an expert in data and ML engineering in the long-run is a more prudent career choice than totally dropping those for another corner of engineering. There's some wisdom here.
Even if they spent $216k to make $250k it had to occur to them that it wasn't really worth it. They talked about them working 3 shifts, 12-16 hours every day for 6 weeks, bringing in extra people to help out to get them over the hump. They did all this so they could have future orders like this from this buyer. All for $34k after expenses.

All that effort to get them over the hump and they're basically making $10hr at best. Future orders like this wouldn't be sustainable because you can't pay labor that little. They seem like a lifestyle business that got in over their head.
I've definitely seen this sentiment. It's in avoiding burnout. It's in noticing that one is going hard but the returns just aren't there and focusing instead on onesself or their family. But of course this isn't going to be written down about ;)
> But I would really suggest anyone out there just to avoid backend-frameworks-based view/templating (guess json responses are view layers) layers

Are there client-side rendered frameworks that can match the developer productivity of Phoenix or Rails for early stage, small team products? It seems they are still the best for small teams moving quickly in the early phases of a project.
It is ironic that you use Manson as an example. He was convicted of murder despite not directly committing the murders or ordering the murders to be done. He is in jail for the how his speech inspired others to act.

These are trials we are talking about. We don’t have to believe everything that is said. We can let a jury look at the situation and make a decision. A reasonable person wouldn’t consider any Beatles lyrics to be instructions to murder. A reasonable person could interpret some hate speech as instructions for murder.
I5 through all of king county is concrete plate. The boundary at Pierce and Snohomish is clear. Odd.
All comp is about aligning interests. Nothing special about CEO comp unless it's to overcome pathologies in the CEO's makeup.
Did you not see Storj's canary? They used a cryptographic signature. [1] For the government to continue ongoing operations, they would either have to physically seize the relevant private keys, or compel release of them if they couldn't locate them. As far as I am aware, as long as the government fails to physically seize them, compelling is still not allowed under the Fifth Amendment. [2]

> The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves

Although, with Storj, the signatures didn't expire, so in the event that the government did setup operations, they could have just continued using one of the older signatures. (And only would have been unable to create new ones on request)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221021050048/https://www.storj...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat...
>I've found that lots of people out there seemingly can't handle disagreement at all, and attribute a fundamental moral failure to their conversation partner if they don't see eye to eye.

This is because we don't let kids fight each other on the playground anymore. No, I'm serious. For a lot of young people the first time they encounter real conflict that isn't adjudicated by some superior is when they're experiencing adulthood for the first time. This is a bit of a self serving comment because I got into a lot of fights as a kid, but I consider it a required experience for boys to get punched in the mouth once or twice (and also throw some punches of your own), less so for girls but imo still important. Not doing so warps people's perceptions of what violence is and we end up with really contrived and bewildering phrases like "silence is violence" and so on. Those people end up unable to determine an appropriate escalation (or deescalation) path, and this leads to your second point.

I strongly suspect the inability to independently resolve conflict can and does lead to mental health issues.
I would have called https://xkcd.com/1494/
Most of the outsourced support I've tried to get help from really might as well be chatbots. They will just keep repeating the same things which don't actually answer my question.
The government's will mysteriously synched with corporate interests
I wonder what the data says about viewership dropoff after initial release.

I didn't watch Stranger Things or House of Dragon until months after they dropped. As my life becomes more busy, I'm less inclined to watch media with immediacy.

Watching Netflix cancel shows within mere weeks of them dropping is interesting. You'd think they'd have some kind of signal before launch if they're confident enough to cancel a show days after release.

Maybe they can even play fancy tax games and remove the shows from streaming like Discovery/WB/HBO has started doing. Declare a total loss.
I believe I read a book on Mercury where they did the reverse - a giant moving city to stay out of the direct sunlight.
Great finding! :)
There's some real old roads that are bricks under asphalt. That's a trip. Some of the real steep stuff like Bell or Blanchard at Western, IIRC.

PS if you like brick roads, there's a big (flat) one out in Redmond I accidently drove on once that someone made a nice post about https://www.dadlogic.net/old-red-brick-road-redmond/
Great! I made some of these changes at https://github.com/PRQL/prql/pull/1370
As a youngish adult (27) this is some of what I feel:

- Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and corporations keep on trucking along with an endless growth mindset, not caring about the consequences of what is essentially a cancer

- Somehow I lucked out and ended up turning my favourite hobby into a job that pays really well, but something feels empty. I don't feel like I'm working any harder than people in lower paying jobs. I don't feel like I'm providing more value. It kind of makes me sick how bad income inequality seems to be getting. People around me in tech jobs seem to constantly want more, while I'm perfectly happy with what I have.

- Social media is crippling social interactions. It's taking away a deeper form of connection and replacing it with something more surface level, while also warping people's perceptions of reality.

- Most forms of social media make you feel like crap (with how it's designed to manipulate dopamine levels), but disconnecting can make you feel socially isolated.

- We seem to have a lot less trust in institutions like the government, organized religion, and capitalism having access to information that previous generations didn't have - and because of this we have fewer places to find hope.

- It feels like people on both the left & right are increasingly behaving more like fascists and it's kind of terrifying. I always feel like I have to guard myself from "saying the wrong thing" and that makes me feel like I'm being less myself.
Idea: (never used Google Cloud, no idea of possible impediments)

1. Create throwaway account

2. Create throwaway project using throwaway account

3. Find emails of possible Googlers using public bug tracker

4. Add Googlers' emails to throwaway project

5. Post messages to throwaway project describing the problem

6. Hopefully Googlers understand the issue and can forward the issue to get it resolved
DEC's datatrieve. Also one of the earliest pieces of software that I can recall having easter eggs. "HELP ME" and "HELP WOMBAT" being two that I can remember.
I think more companies should do this.
The same as the years before: [0] To not have any "New Years Resolutions" and to prepare for 2030 instead.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752304
> wouldn’t the government instructing that you cannot opt to stop publishing the canary equate to compelling speech

We compel speech in companies all the time. We force them to disclose ingredients and add labels to their products. We force them to hand over financial information and employee records. Forcing them to lie is something I haven't seen though.

I don't see how the government could be stopped from forcing a company to hand over their encryption keys and just continuing to publish the canary on the company's website themselves though.
What drives me nuts is when I’m (possibly) talking to a chat bot and I have not way of knowing.

Notify me that you are not a human.
> For the sake of the survival of the planet/species, I also don't think any institution based around magical thinking should fill the gap.

I know this won’t be a popular point, but I think we have nearly all of human history as evidence that “magical believing” societies survive more effectively than not. At any time literally any tribe could have chosen to believe in nothing. It’s almost impossible to think that no tribe tried it. Heck. It’s the default state until you make up a deity!

And yet… the overwhelming majority of societies were based on “magical” thinking.

Inversely, it’s possible there could be a hard scientific truth that we discover and kills us all (“information hazard” by Nick Bostrom is a good survey… think nuclear bombs etc)

It’s a really interesting mental experiment. Is truth best defined by repeatable experimentation (Manhattan project) or by human thriving (including magical thinking).

Aside: Reinforcement Learning theory hardcore leans (implicitly) on the latter.
It's not about the quantity of opinions, it's the strength for which they are held. I'm talking about people whose ways are set in stone, and if you don't agree they'll whine about kids these days or newfangled things like jQuery. Using an intentionally outdated library to represent how absolutely behind the person in question tends to be.
1.7 trillion spent and 25 million for NLRB. Truly the current regime looks after the little guy.
I hear this about big JS codebases but the 7 year old Elixir app I work on is many 10s of thousands of lines of code and we just don’t have that problem.
That’s a novel take I hadn’t heard before. What data are you looking at to come to that conclusion?
False rumor: He was going to write his criminology dissertation using standpoint epistemology.
As a Canadian citizen, it makes more sense to immediately move to the States to work because of the TN visa, but if you are an Indian or Chinese national who is dealing with a 30-50 year greencard backlog, moving to Canada for 3 years to become a citizen makes much more sense. That way you have a first world passport plus the ability to work in the US indefinitely. My parents did that, and multiple other people in our network have done that.
He forgot the most important part, which was to set the building on fire.