skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weekend in jail was officially for the failure to appear.

I'd been pulled over because my vehicle's registration was expired. The officer didn't issue a ticket for that and just gave me a warning. But the car was also missing a front bumper and had no mirrors. I was issued a "fix-it" ticket for the lack of mirrors. The instructions in the citation for how to resolve the issue were crystal clear and provided a more than generous amount of time to do it.

It would have been very easy to avoid ending up in jail, but me, being a freshly 18 year old kid with undiagnosed (at the time) ADHD just didn't get around to resolving the issue. I could have gone to any auto parts store and spent $20 on a single cheap generic mirror, gone to any police station with my "fix-it" ticket and shown that I'd fixed the issue, paid the $5.00 fee, and been done. But I didn't. I just forgot about it.

When you do that, it's considered to be the same as ignoring court orders. A warrant was issued for my arrest. I was pulled over on a Friday night and spent the weekend waiting for my turn to explain to a judge on the following Monday morning why I ignored the citation.

The initial citation and path to compliance was totally reasonable - maybe too reasonable considering it allowed me to continue driving around with no mirrors in one of the most car-dense metropolises in the world. I could have done the right thing and it wouldn't have gone on any record, or reported to my insurance company, or risked losing my license. Zero consequences except a safer car.

I don't disagree that there are obvious flaws with the American justice system, but this example ranks very low on that list in my opinion.

For what it's worth, the experience of spending a weekend in "adult" jail as an 18 year old changed my life in positive ways. I had lived my life not knowing I had ADHD, and this event was a catalyst in helping get diagnosed. That diagnosis helped make sense of the common refrain of "why are you failing your classes - you have so much potential", and helped me understand I wasn't stupid. Just different.

I don't like to imagine how different my life would be today had I not had that experience and subsequent diagnosis.
If memory serves the fines stop after 1.5 million. Please someone correct me if I'm misremembering.
> The main reason animations can get annoying is that people don't get the timing right (too slow), or really just use them to show off.

This is it. 90+% of animations I see fit into this category.

Apple is notorious for this [0]. The animations on Macs and iDevices are so painfully slow and unnecessary.

[0] Just one recent example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254333888
It's true.

Now, completely without benchmarks, I can tell you that my workplace has migrated from Oracle to Postgresql and performance is essentially the same: a few things were a little faster on Oracle, a few a little faster on PG. All revenue is directly or indirectly dependent on the database systems, which have been continuous for 20+ years: this is not a side-project.

PG administration is much, much faster. Starting an Oracle database always involves a wait similar to booting an elderly operating system. Starting a PG database is fast. Things that Oracle will want to up-charge you to an Enterprise Edition license for, PG has for free. Want to spin up a new machine? No need to negotiate a new license with PG. The cost of the Oracle license would routinely be so large that you need to buy awesome hardware to justify it. You can install PG on anything, and justify it.
CNBC has been reporting all morning that their deposits are evaporating too fast for a sale. I’m expecting receivership before Monday.
Time to take some personal responsibility!!!

It’s only social media.

We’ve gone way too far in needing others to help us.

“Someone help me stop using [favorite social media company]”
Is this Nvidia's repentance for the crypto mining and price gouging?
Tech jobs haven't been 9-5 for about twenty years. If your employer wants you punching a clock and sitting at a desk, you need to change your job, or Change Your Job.
It’s likely just one person fwiw, HN is alarmingly bereft of anti-one-person-who-is-upset measures.
It depends where you live. In the U.S it seems that typefaces can't have copyright protection, the font file ITSELF has copyright protection because it's a "computer program" for generating a typeface. In theory in the U.S you can take a typeface, create your own font file and use it as you see fit. Of course you might run into trouble and prove that you created your own font file. Other countries like Germany it seems DO give protection to typefaces so you can't just copy a typeface exactly.
It certainly is quite damaging because that connection isn't an accurate representation of a real-world connection. When you see someone in the real world you see them sneeze, you see them cry, you see their successes and their failures. When you are 'friends' with someone on social media you see a carefully curated window into a reality that doesn't exist. This gives young people unrealistic expectations for themselves and others that I would certainly call damaging. It takes all the healthy parts of human interaction, processes them , and spits out a refined version coated in advertisements.

It's not new (we've been doing that to young people since media was invented) but the level of pervasiveness is.
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...

Coming up on a year since they've had source code available.
Ahrefs is like my white whale. I hate them. I can't stop myself from battling them. I hate the fact that they ignore status codes, I hate the fact that they ignore crawl rate specs in robots.txt, I hate the fact that they crawl URLs on my sites that have never and will never exist and keep coming back to do it again.
Apple, Foxconn convince Indian state to loosen labor laws
“Feature” can mean “physical beauty” as well as simply “appearance” or “form”, though all such are considered obsolete usages.
Dynamic typing and garbage collection are kind of inherent to being a lisp. Without those you just have C or Java but with sexprs.
It is an excellent customer base for a bank. Startups are going to burn at a fairly moderate rate, such that you have a fairly good idea of the cash flows you would face in the normal course of business - it wouldn't take the most advanced Ai in the world to know for every startup on your books what their cash flow out will look like for the next 12-24 months.

By also being tied into the valley and the big VCs you have a fairly consistent stream of new accounts and large deposits throughout the year.
I've had Thinkpads for the last 20 years of my life. I presently have an M1 Air for music production and a used T480 - great combo. I've found the MacBook to be fairly durable in spite of all the horror stories that I've heard over the years about cracked screens and so forth, so my plan is to buy an M3 Pro when they come out and throw Asahi on my M1. Unfortunately new Thinkpads just aren't what they used to be given the compelling value prop of Apple silicon but I'll happily continue buying used ones for $150 a pop.
From idea to validating and launching app beta in 7 days
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I'm really old school - I make music but I don't record it. My creativity goes out the window whenever I open a DAW. I need to find an alternative that's more akin to working with audio tape and for me at least, DAWs just don't cut it.

Looking forward to seeing what other people are doing!
you know how it is, cookies in bed @ midnight, then they get everywhere and somehow they sell all your information to advertisers. C'mon Technology, amiriteguys?
The banks a decade ago got bailed out. None of their customers lost money.
Pretty sure GP was making a sarcastic comment referencing how floating point is notorious for subtle rounding issues when handling values that have an exact representation in base 10 but a repeating pattern in binary.
Pure gold. And I just love the format.

Hobbes and Sarah Marshall's "You're Wrong About" podcast, also golden, introduced the "moral panic" phenomenon to me. Explains so much.
Awesome, thank you! such a pity the Lighttable dream dried up and died.
The pandemic was going to shake the boat regardless. It was impossible to right-size the stimulus, and in hindsight we over did it, but given the information we had then I think we did the right move, at least with the 2020 stimulus. The 2021 stimulus is much more shady given that then we already had a vaccine deployed and were in a trajectory to recovery.
There are. (With the caveat of look the same as some typeface. Not all the kerning and so forth may be identical.) Overpass is one example I'm familiar with off the top of my head but there are many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpass_(typeface) Arial, notably, is also similar to (though distinguishable from with some letterforms) Helvetica.
The paywall free republish https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/apple-foxconn-convin...
How is this different from the relatively well-known concept of a minimum viable product?

> A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
Yeah, I switched from HX Stomp to the first batch of QC. Very happy with the result.
I found that particular paragraph of the article a bit shallow and simplistic. There are reasons why law tend to focus on intent, and it is very difficult to build a moral model around acts if one remove intent. It also start to redefine words which carries intent, rather than using words that implies a lack of intent.

If I know a person was an oblivious asshole moving around in a concert, then I would not describe them as acting aggressive. I would describe them as acting inconsiderate. From a physiological/medical perspective, aggression is associated with fear, anger, stress, and dominance. Inconsideration is the lack of empathy, lack of understanding social norms and etiquette, and lack of higher thought processes. It is only if we remove intent that we can confuse the two concepts.
Okay, for me the functionality of those libraries is quite straight forward. You can just turn on/off whatever you need with one setting.

But usually the defaults is what you want. Your user is on a bad connection? Automatic retries are what you get and what the user needs. You user just got back online? React query notices that event and refetches the failed queries.

You need all those features turned off? Just turn them off in the config object.
The FDIC / Fed are currently on-site working on SVB resolution.
Not really that amusing, nor is the term meaningless.
Health data startups are mainly in the business for the data and how to monetize it. Not to provide healthcare services. I hope they die with the rising interest rates.
Diversity is 365 Days a Year
FDIC is probably involved with this sale already. But even if not, they likely will be soon, might as well start dilligence and figure out what your price would be.
I don't have a "smart" phone.

I rarely use my computer at home, unless I'm working on some music or video in which case I can't really listen to the radio.
For any use case? You join a F500 company and now they can use it? What if you leave the company. It makes sense if you are freelancer and can use it with an arbitrary number of clients. But then does it transfer when those clients sites are bought/sold/merged/rebuilt ? The problem is that the use isn't restricted to you as a designer, but is distributed by your clients. That makes it different than a hammer, or an IDE.
Probably, I'm not familiar with the domain. I'm suggesting their data and publishing practice could be dogshit while their process might still wield a room-temp superconductor, in which case it would be a little unfair to conclude they are fraudsters.
wow it's almost like they could add a page-specific url bar and decided that was silly, let's have it all point to the same domain
I think an argument can be made that social networks have been a net negative on society, despite (or because of) being very good ad delivery mechanisms and making some people and some companies very rich.
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For closed source blob adapters, which I suppose is something. It will allow kernel developers to integrate their drivers, without a really having the sources to the driver itself. You still get a closed source blob.
2am, when everyone else including a ridiculously energetic toddler is in bed?
Inflation is still 6% YoY.

Fed hasn't raised fast enough and is looking at +.50% next meeting.
I suspect, and I'm just guessing here, that they're fine with people like us using their fonts and maybe tip-toeing over whatever lines they've set, but they don't want, say, Coca-Cola using their typeface everywhere without forking over big bucks.

Were I a typeface designer, I'd like to think I'd say to myself, Self, what are the odds? Just charge $20 and rely on human decency. But I'm not a typeface designer, and my guess is that people who have tried that have found that human decency is thin on the ground among the subset of people who care about using typefaces on websites. But I'm just guessing.
"World's (almost) richest person consistently sets prices using 420 and 69 because weed and sex are funny" is just so dumb.
Excercise is also great for ADHD. Even a 2-mile vigorous walk every day. And it actually improves your health.
>> If Windows Server was free, what is it missing as compared to Arch, Red Hat, or Debian Linux that would keep you from using it?

What does Windows Server offer that is better than a Linux server?

I can download and install a variety of Linux servers now. There are tons of free software that I can install and use or modify for any task I can think of.

I can't think of any reason to use a Windows Server, free or otherwise.
It wasn't missing, it was slow.

Are you going to re kern and re layout the page when the font arrives? If you want to avoid that then you have to wait.
Didn't he suggest something to Elon that Elon immediately decided to alter on an upcoming rocket? Doesn't sound like he knows nothing..
Ah, interesting! I’ll have to do some more reading about the Japanese legal system, since it seems my understanding is quite off the mark.
This really does not sound like you're familiar with the necessity of regulation at all.

Yes an individual should be media literate, just as corporations SHOULD practice fair competition and people should not invest their life savings in Ponzi schemes or kill one another. Unfortunately, maintaining a stable society in the real world requires governance. 16% of the world's population don't have electricity. How can you expect them to educate themselves about misinformation while technology beyond their comprehension is being weaponized against them?
H&L aren't the ones saying harmful things make you stronger, though. They're saying being exposed to ideas and messages which offend you and make you uncomfortable does not harm you. I don't know that I fully agree with them on that, but Wilson's response of "well if being offended doesn't hurt you then they must love the challenge of having their speech repressed, neener neener!" is both inaccurate and childish.
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sure there's a niche if your core product is also providing hardware... Same reason why dropbox moved to own data center.
It’s a typo, it should be “future” instead of “feature”. Good catch.

SAEFs website: https://arcsaef.com/
"Securing Antarctica's Future [and] Environment" aka SAFE ("and" being optional) would have been a bunch clearer, imo.
True, but their cost is still relatively cheaper considering the profit you can make from them is more than from books. Part of this is also because they are easier to replicate.
That's a US entity, not EU. I have my skeptic goggles on too because the accounts and comments on that whole thread are a rat's nest of typical Twitter right wing garbage. There's even people tagging Elon Musk who seem to think he protects anything more than speech he agrees with.
In German sims there is no line between game and training tool. Their driving sims "play" more like DMV training films.
> If you are driving chance is it is also lost for the most part.

I will never understand why people think time spent driving is "lost".
A bailout is not guaranteed. How long it takes to be made whole is unknown. How long can you go without cash while regulators work out the details. How long will payroll and creditors wait for you to get your cash back.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Edit (epoch time 16784666958): https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-is-shut-... (Silicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators, FDIC to protect insured deposits)
Anecdotal evidence does suggest this to be determined on a combination of the individual, and the task. If individuals are more productive, then the company as a whole must be more competitive?

In my own case, if we say an ideal productivity output per day is 1 unit, that is 100% productive. Commuting to the office, office distractions, and general tiredness, I would put the hard limit at 50%. I've measured it, and the duration I'm very productive tends to be at best, half the working hours. Usually, it's much less. Any meeting that could be handled in slack, design documents w/feedback do not count (this is almost all meetings). The many "could you..", "do you know...", etc, all take up a good chunk, even though the requests are only 5 minutes worth of work.

While working from home, suddenly the deep focus you had 2 hours in, stretches on for 6 hours, or even 10. Or around 2-300% productive.

To what extent there is a tradeoff in office culture, and colloquial banter, that has its own value, I'm not sure. But, for people who value getting shit done, the office, and commuting, sure adds a lot of negative value in the mix.

And, you might think that this just applies to "hands-dirty" (as much as they get dirty while typing on a keyboard :p) engineering work. Though I would argue it applies equally to secondary work planning, task breakdown, and strategic planning.
In the real world, programmers are brought into projects with literally millions of lines of code that have been developed over years or decades by tens or hundreds of programmers. They are under intense time pressure to fix bugs that they likely didn’t create. This is normal and debuggers are invaluable. No offence, but what you’re describing is a lovely ideal that only exists if you work mostly alone or on small things.
I didn't know about DJR's Font of the Month Club. That's kinda neat.

> That said, usage tiers (where you must pay more if your website gets a certain # of views/month) seem ubiquitous. I think these are ok

Why do you think that's ok if you don't mind me asking? I worked on sites that used to generate lots of views but made 0 money because were not designed to be commercial projects. Why should I pay more money for a digital asset just because my site gets popular? It's not getting popular because of the font. Can you imagine if a CMS started charging you more money if your site becomes popular? What difference does it make to them? I just find it baffling.
This seems like a good example of "don't believe everything you read on the internet".

This entire article is incredibly emotional and there doesn't seem to be any credible information backing his opinions.
It seems like we've had just as many financial crises before the advent of the Federal Reserve in 1913 than after, so it remains unclear to me the benefits of having it around, particularly as its nominal independence from the political process is eroding.

Sure, keep the lender of last resort; but maybe let the market determine interest rates through money markets, with incentive-control through judicious laws, instead of by fiat.
>The real value of the Maps API is in 1) routing and 2) local business details.

Google is crowdsourcing both
basing our economy's primary motivator on human greed isn't doing us many favors right now

How would you fix it?
Completely agree, especially on the last point. We've raised our kid with zero help due to geopolitics and economics, and it's clear this is not how nature intended things.
Not a really good argument in favor of USD.
Crypto bank Signature slides amid troubles at Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate
predictions are hazy, hindsight is 20/20. There's a reason there are dozens of companies dedicated to cutting cloud costs because surprise, they aren't configured well. Most of these probably severely overestimate compute needs and don't factor things like autoscaling.
Yeah, it can be a pain to pay font creators, but I expect that this web designer would be annoyed if his clients complained about paying him.

Yes, some of the mechanisms can be fragile or troublesome, but I think that's the market's way of exploring possible options. The companies that came up with the idea of charging per the page view were probably responding to designers who didn't want to pay too much for small jobs. It's a trade off.
Hotels where you don't pay rent, in exchange for the hotel recording everything you do in the room, in the lobby, and if you aren't careful, putting a GPS tracker on your person.
I think it's more nuanced.

SMP and hyperthreading are risky for security. Closed firmware is also concerning. Older systems without these architectural features are more difficult to abuse.

I would find one of these if I needed a secure SSH CA for myself, and use OpenBSD.

I probably couldn't get away with that in a larger organization.