skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What law do you suggest here? Or do you mean consumers should vote with their wallets? (or eyes, in the case of ads.)
Heh, that was my local shoe shop for quite a while... never thought i'd see it in a comment on HN.

"Heelys" were their common name (it's a brand) and they were very popular in the early 2000's. Kids had them everywhere - it was impossible to go to the shops without seeing a kid sliding around.

A comparison to offer though is "why would you pay 10x the price for an electric bike?". I don't think it's an entirely fair analogy (electric bikes let people go farther than they typically could). If you use Heelys, they take a fair bit of effort - it's more comparable to rollerblading. I reckon the Moonwalkers are more 'assisted fast walking' - i can see lot's of middle aged people being more attracted to that than 'roller blading on a budget'.

That said I personally will just continue to walk normally!
I use my M1 Max MBP as a thin client, incidentally.

I have XRDP setup, but primarily use the machine heedlessly.
That's the canonical version of the story.

I wonder if anyone back then, say an armchair astronomer, tried to argue that it was due to the atmosphere, and backed their argument up by comparing the atmosphere to how a pool of water bends light.

We'll never know.
Can we not critique pet peeves and nitpick style? This is how I interpret the guideline, "avoid generic tangents"; if critiquing the style of a piece doesn't help us to understand it better (as is sometimes the case, but isn't here), I don't think it's worth discussing on this forum (as it promotes snide conversation rather than curious conversation).

In my experience working remotely, using lots of emoji is a professional expectation. Kind of like how ASL speakers are more expressive with their faces and bodies than English speakers, because they aren't employing vocal tone. Using lots of emoji prevents misunderstandings of tone (a frequent and avoidable source of bad feelings) and promotes camaraderie. Nothing unprofessional about that, but it may be from a different professional culture than you're familiar with.
In general yes. But with YC, I get the feeling that there is a push for founders who at the very least won’t actively shun the limelight if required.
I'd bet most CentOS and RHEL installations don't use any desktop environment at all.

However, why argue if we can check the actual stats? [1] GNOME seems to be well ahead for now for desktop GNU/Linux. But the dip in the February, when the Steam Deck was released, is interesting.

1 - https://github.com/linuxhw/Trends#de
FakeYou.com is my "pandemic project" that lept to millions of users. People make music and memes with it. It's at the low end of creation, but still provides value.

We've built voice conversion and singer vocalist conversion. We solved the real time case first, ironically, and are waiting to finish the web version (bigger reach/audience/impact) to launch them together. It'll be about a week longer. You can turn Taylor Swift songs into Freddy Mercury songs. It's wild. (You can also do this with your own voice!)

We're going to lean heavy into music production for non experts. Stems, instrumental generation, full synthesis, virtual bands.

But the great thing is that I'm a filmmaker. I have another subteam working on mocap, NeRFs (previously live photogrammetry in unreal), and LLMs. We have something really special launching here soon too. Find my Twitch channel. :)

100% of this feels new to the world. And it's building like a tsunami.
I've been watching "Viking Valhalla" which is mildly interesting. One anachronism in it is the vikings are speaking modern American English, complete with modern ways of saying things. (Albeit with a Norwegian accent.)

Contrast this with Spartacus, where the dialog was English, but it sounded like it was translated from Roman Latin. Similarly with Deadwood the dialog was in Elizabethan English (or something like that).

Viking Valhalla would have been more fun if the dialog had been written in the language of the Norse Sagas and then been transliterated into English. Or at least sprinkle it with Norwegian words whose meaning could be inferred from the context (like Skol!).
DISCLOSURE: Previous DOD contractor, now retired
DISCLOSURE: Retired Army Warrant Officer
DISCLOSURE: Common sense with the facts as presented
DISCLOSURE: Worked directly with a named party

.. having retired from the DOD, I can assure you on my mother's grave that google has nothing but nefarious interest in this project. All this incessant posturing, bullying and socio/psychopathic behaviour of "aforementioned parties" points to one internal memo: '...extract maximum profit at all cost.'
I had a PS/2 Model 80 and I was desperate to have a sound card. Somehow, through a work bulletin board, my father scored me a very rare Sound Blaster Microchannel Architecture (MCA) card. If I recall, I paid $150 for it. My friends and I would gather around to play with the text to speech utility that came with it. I can still imagine, "Dr. Sbaitso by Creative Labs" in the robo voice.

They dominated until the DSP based combined sound card / soft modems took over, and then of course sound cards were eventually integrated in motherboard chipsets.
Oh no, it's company policy you see. [Sign it, or else we'll sic our AI robot dogs onto your throat!!!]
;)
Salesforce Guts Tableau After Spending $15.7B in 2019 Deal
Sounds interesting. Could you tell more? How do you like plain vi? Why vi and not vim? What do you do on a daily basis in the editor?
$90000-$900000 seems like sort of a cop out on the spirit of the law
There are plenty of alternatives: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

I'm building one of them, Pirsch.
> Not only that, but doing so put you on an upgrade path. There were so many models released over the years. Just a tad like graphics cards today.

It was rather frustrating when I bought a new Sound Blaster only to discover it was not Sound Blaster compatible, and therefore I couldn't use it with (the original DOS) Civilization.
Samsung Profit Tumbles in Historic Drop on Chip Price Falls
A lot of checks and balances in there to make sure the defendant knows what they’re doing and can’t claim later they want to change their mind. The government’s strategy on these sort of cases is to take out the little people with deals, get them to flip on the big boss, and then throw the book at the boss. They seem to be following that playbook here.
> childish

I hate the use of face/body emoji, but my anecdotal experience is that the biggest users are age 40+, and younger people at least tend to be more creative with emoji.
I mean, if you find privately owned social media companies dominant in the field of journalism and breaking news co-opted by the state in the form of agencies like FBI and CIA in the wholesale manipulation of public information "no big deal" then ... you're welcome to your views, I guess.

It should be unsurprising to anyone properly aware of the facts and context that others do find it to be noteworthy, however.

> we've seen much more harrowing releases with much less proportional reactions (see: Snowden, Wikileaks, et. al)

Not sure what you intend by "proportional" here ('proportionate'?) - but Snowden, for example (avowedly a much more significant story) received weeks of headlines and coverage here in UK.

Of course, much of that coverage was of the form: "Not true -> Maybe somewhat true; Snowden is a traitor -> True but no big deal, security trumps legality -> True, but so what, we already knew all that."

And we did know a lot of that - see Duncan Campbell's reporting on Echelon, for example, as early as 1988! - but detail and documentary evidence was nonetheless important and worth publishing.
Not just that but they leaned into their Jibbitz acquisition and emphasized how customizable Crocs are. Most of my millenial cohort uses Crocs as comfy, functional shoes, but I've seen a lot of Gen-Z who go out of their way to customize their Crocs and make them stylish. I have to admit I catch myself wondering whether I should customize my own Crocs.

Also +1 on the chunky sneaker/silhouttes trend. Crocs with stylish charms on them look a lot like the chunky sneakers that are pretty "in" these days.
You're right but I think you're missing the point. Offering a range that broad in the job listing is just an effort to flaunt a law. That law was put into place to help the people you're talking about.
The Vampire Tapestries, about a non-supernatural vampire
> it has become simple to use for the masses, and I consider that a win for Desktop Linux adoption.

Is that thanks to their decisions, or despite their decisions?
Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V – Lars Bergstrom
Am I the only one old enough to remember when a social network called Ello was going to like kill Facebook or something?
You can't really find work in an oil field if you are trafficked before you get there
I'd explain why I think it's definitely one way more than the other but the ambiguity makes it much better.
> I'm not sure how to do creds currently but I'll look into it

Welcome to the nightmarish world of authentication to Google products, which all have 4 different versions of documentation and not a single one up to date.
Bandwidth is expensive and videos take up way more bandwidth than text. I'd say it would be pretty much impossible to run something like YouTube, on that big of a scale, solely on donations.
In many jurisdictions much of the EULAs are unenforceable for this reason and others; they are effectively a set of false assertions about rights and prohibitions.
> Is it still working?

Yes. Your sentence misses a comma and a word: feed2imap is (more or less) unmaintained, therefore I rewrote it in Go, resulting in feed2imap-go

> One feature I would suggest is to import an OPML file to help those (like me) with insane numbers of existing RSS feeds.

Please feel free to open an issue.
Note: Import does not make that much sense, but writing a generator that spits out the yaml file (or portion thereof) could be useful.
“Easy, just commit fraud.”

It’s like people forget that we have a functioning legal system where a human can see through the bs.
Not just the batteries and motors but the controller chips and sensors needed to make the experience smooth… products like these only work if you have a decent microcontroller determining how much power to feed the motor based on minute changes in input and balance.
Nothing like a pull yourself by the bootstraps argument
He should start buying some cheap tools of his own (to start with) and do weekend/night jobs for himself. If he's working on 1.5m homes I guarantee you there are a ton of homeowners who need electrical jobs done. Get on Yelp, ask his customers to leave good reviews, and build a business.

There are a ton of niches and other opportunities. For example being available during late hours. In anything like a large or medium city you can charge $150-350 per hour and people will happily pay it.

Doing this while working for someone else is a good way to survive the initial ups and downs. If he builds a reputation for doing good work his clients will start begging him to quit his day job.
Oh the nostalgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw
Talk to contractors in any city with a hardware startup scene and they absolutely are making a killing. Lots of 220V, 480V, miles of 120V. Transformers, machine hookups. You name it.
ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion are like the Newcomen engine of our time. It took 100 years for the world to see what the Newcomen engine promised, but I think we'll see it in 30. AI is going to totally reshape content creation - what it means to be a creator is going to be completely different for the next generation.
Is there really nothing in the law preventing companies from doing things like this? Could they say something even more absurd like $1-$1,000,000?
Will be great for Microsoft Flight Simulator :)
Thank God they're protecting kids from the content on Pornhub. Those kids will now be safe, only accessing content on much less harmful sites such as luxuretv, heavy-r, and other websites based outside of the US, where people don't have such filthy minds.

More seriously, does this apply to people wanting to use the Bing search engine too?

Also, if Pornhub were to simply not accept subscribers or ad content from Louisiana, does the state even have standing to enact this legislation? Seems like its jurisdiction ends when it's no longer a matter of intrastate commerce. Perhaps they could require that in state ISP's firewall the site, but it seems like acting on a company that isn't operating within their state is an overreach.
It's easy for Google to re-write history....

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

But either way, the fact that they are evil today tells the whole story.
How does cryptocurrency solve any of the funding issues in open source, in ways that could not be achieved with traditional currency?
One of the comments there says that they will be really useful in warehouses. That sounds about right, unless robots replace humans faster
> are way older than me and I first started college in 1999.

I was told not to major in "underwater basketweaving" in 1983, or otherwise I'd be garbage man--as if that were not one of the most important jobs in a society! It's been the same class-warfare BS for coming up on half a century: demean low paying jobs at all costs for reasons I still don't understand.
China’s reopening will disrupt the world economy
Given what I'm seeing on levels.fyi for Netflix, they sound like exactly the sort of company that should be revealing their salaries more and that this law was made for (and of course they mock by offering such a ridiculous range).

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e...

In the samples,

L5: 610k
L3: 70k

edit: formatting and this edit message
Industry and commercial construction got mentioned. But also, the film industry can be an interesting one. Really crazy voltages over there too.
No. I use Linux on headless servers all the time, and even I don't mess with Linux DEs. The mere fact that there's more than one widely used is undesirable, and even a popular one like GNOME changed way too drastically (2 to 3). Last time I bothered with all this was GNOME 2 before 3 existed, which was ok at the time.

The real Linux DE for the masses is ChromeOS, but people don't usually bucket it with the others. And that is Google's way or the highway.
Yep, one full copy of the DB on each app server. So yes, it's bad if your data is 100s of GB, but if you only have in the low 10s GB of data or less then it's fine. It all depends upon how many server you need to run your app, If you only have one or two server then even very large databases of 100s of GB could be just fine.
Man I came in here curious about some solar-powered antennas and shit just escalated bigtime. Wow. :(
I was like, wait that malcolm thing is real? Lol
That's what lawyers are paid for. All tech companies in California can just pick this range $90K to $900K for every tech job. That way, one doesn't need to update the salary range field for every job.
What made Figma was its ecosystem. That and it was impacting Adobe's bottom line were reasons for its acquisition IMHO.

It'd be interesting to see what kind of locked in ecosystem OpenAI can build.
yup, you are correct
"I loved Twilio many years ago ..."

I did as well.

In fact, I built my own little personal telco around their services and API.

It is all slowly falling apart, however, as their failure to build out their infrastructure offerings (as opposed to their "customer engagement" offerings) and the regulatory SNAFUs[1][2] that are emerging as a result of their behavior erode all of my use-cases ...

All I wanted was more, and more useful, twiml verbs ... instead I got "customer engagement workflows".

[1] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1593384850073214976

[2] 10DLC A2P makes personal/hobbyist Twilio usage basically impossible (although mine continue to work ...)
"Foundation training" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI plus some quick yoga-like stretches and bends every few hours, standing on one alternating leg with upper body and arms moving around
Unless Google successfully removed online evidence, that simply doesn’t seem to be correct.

A more nuanced and accurate description of the change seems to be written up here:

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/2540...
The fundamental problem with Gnome is that it presumes that "the masses" (however defined) will use a GNU/Linux desktop. They will not. Insofar as the masses use Linux on the desktop it will be in the form of ChromeOS (or something like it). Instead of chasing Windows and MacOS's taillights, and infantilizing its desktop by continuing to remove features, Gnome should have continued with the Gnome 2 philosophy of focusing on power users, with an emphasis on stability and backwards compatibility. Instead, what we've ended up with is a Gnome desktop that has all of the customizability of MacOS, but with defaults that are nonsensical rather than (somewhat) thought out.

And yes, I'm aware that I can change a lot of Gnome with Gnome Tweak Tool and various extensions. But the fact that I have to install a third party tool, a browser extension, and then some extensions off a random website to get the same functionality that other desktop environments (such as KDE, MacOS and Windows) include by default is an absolute indictment of Gnome's design philosophy.

Instead of chasing after users who have never heard of Gnome, and barely know about Linux, Gnome should have focused on improving the experience existing users. They still can. A good start would be taking all the settings that Gnome Tweak Tool exposes and bringing them back into the main settings UI, so that I don't have swap between two settings applications, with no rhyme or reason dictating how settings are split between the two. Also, please give me the ability to hide the clock (like I can do in Windows 10) without having to install some random extension [1] to do so.

[1]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1110/hide-clock/
Unsurprising. The ca law unfortunately isn’t robust enough. Standard deviation and inter quartile range is necessary in order to make any real assessment here. Ideally mean and median too.
Also, a tip for anyone that feels like the low hanging fruit prevention methods aren't working (e.g. CAPTCHA, rate limits, etc.)

Consider installing a device fingerprinting system -- this has be the single most effective solution we've seen our customers integrate for more sophisticated bot problems: https://stytch.com/docs/fraud#device-fingerprinting. I'd recommend against the off-the-shelf solutions (e.g. open source ones) because many of them are easily reverse engineered, so they work well for low-level threats but not for persistent ones. In addition to our solution, Arkose and Fingerprint Pro are a couple ones I'm aware of
Would be nice to see the total comp salary distribution for this kind of position.
Anecdotally, the HF (shortwave) bands are on fire, lately. There's a lot of activity compared to 10 and 20 years ago. Broadcast and amateurs experimenting with digital HF. Also weird stuff. Just the other day I saw a very low rate OFDM signal emitting ~1 kHz wide AM tones several seconds long, across ~500 kHz of spectrum. Visible from receivers in Iceland and Australia. Unless regulations have changed recently, I'm pretty sure that mode is illegal in most countries for amateur radio operators. Could be military or government? If not, they're likely operating illegally. And they want to send a few bits per second, very reliably, probably global coverage with a cheap receiver. And the Internet isn't appropriate for that task.

In recent years, with signal processing, it has become possible to communicate, at very low speeds over HF with downright trivial equipment. 100 milliwatts or so, from a simple one-transistor sort of transmitter, running at say 0.1 or 0.01 baud, can go across the continent with a wire hanging out the window. With the right coding, software-defined radio can pick that kind of signal out from beneath the noise floor.

Similarly, with higher frequencies like UHF, the cost has come down to the point that individuals, or small groups, could construct their own large-area mesh networks. A dozen LoRa radios with microcontrollers, placed strategically, could cover a large urban area. $1000? Something like that.

It will also soon be possible for a small organization, or even an individual, to construct a satellite-based data network. Cubesats can be launched for just thousands of dollars each. It's possible to communicate with such satellites using readily-available and relatively cheap equipment. Someone will eventually realize they can launch some dozens of such cheap satellites, and have their own global low-bandwidth network. A new startup, Swarm, has already launched their first set of smartphone-sized satellites, which collect beacon/telemetry data.

I suppose my overall point is that low-bitrate radio at distance is getting easier and cheaper over time. And being able to send even 1000 bits per second between many points in an urban area between mobile devices, like LoRa-based mesh networks can do, would be a very valuable asset for an individual or organization to have, if normal communications were disrupted. Unlike a giant 10 kilowatt HF transmitter in the old days, it's kind of hard to pin down where the equipment even is, or what it's for, or who is using it. Once the cost is cheap enough, nodes in such a network are effectively disposable. Place and forget. This will be an upset for those who assume that if Internet access is controlled, most or all potential communication channels are controlled.
Presumably it’s not actually complying with the law. Try telling a Jude listing a salary range between minimum wage and 1 billion per year counts as salary disclosure.

That said, this could easily become the norm should enough companies do the same thing.
There is likely no engineer at that level, instead they're gaming the law. They're required to report their salary range for transparency, and they're basically replying with "our salaries are between between 0 and $1M".
Always wanted heelys but never got them when I was a kid. 20y later I decided to buy them as an adult. Well first, very bad idea in SF due to the hills. But also, not comfortable at all, and kinda dangerous. Returned them pretty quickly
No I mean, thanks for the brand, but what's the precise model? Supermicro what?
Hi kizzx2,

We are the developers of the ccxt library and we think that the rust implementation is really cool. We'd love to get in contact, feel free to email info@ccxt.trade or join our discord https://discord.gg/ccxt

We already have plans to move to typescript and support C# also.

> For people who have worked with / worked on the ccxt library this might also be interesting because this breaks away from the regex-based transpilation process and uses a proper parser library (acornjs).

That's really interesting, I see this file https://github.com/kizzx2/ccxt-rs/blob/rust/build/transpile-..., and I guess it does the transpilation. We're open to collaboration and we can compensate you if you are interested in working with us.
Define “white collar job.” Answering the phones at a law firm is now a job that requires a four year college degree. But it pays very little compared to a skilled trade.