skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not sure here -- public officials do get threats and that is serious. Yet the timing and emphasis of this article causes some questions.. Is this at all related to the ongoing negotiations at the World Meteorological Organization over access to data? Wading through the volumes such as WMO-No 15 "Basic Documents" 2021, it seems like the West is trying to reset data access to align with its own military interests, and less the "unique cooperation" founded shortly after World War II and renewed in the 1990s.

If a public case is made that "scientists receive threats" while at the negotiating table, US-allies retract previous data sharing agreements.. Is this progress in an age of Climate Change? worse, could it cover some Oil and Gas industry activity in more secrecy for all sides? not fake
I have no idea, but I suspect it is combination of factors.

Let me ask, does Spain have and enforce loitering laws that prevent homeless of camping in front of businesses? Is this a factor in driving them to under the bridges instead of roaming the streets?

Because CA prohibits the police from enforcing any of these laws, and many prosecutors refuse to charge anyone with "low level" crime.

SF and LA (and CA in general) has the nicest weather, unlike other parts of the US where you have Extreme cold, extreme heat, or both in many area's LA and SF have mild temperate weather with limited rain fall, this promotes a "roaming the street" style of living.
People still read newspapers, ride horses, plant crops by hand, and dress up for renaissance faires.
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615, [1] 033, [2] 885, [3] and 966. [4] These were the patents listed in the case [5] if you want to quickly look at them. I am just linking them to save someone else from having to search for how to find them. The jury decided on 885 and 966. [6]

The quote below is from the source for [5]

> Whereas the '615 and '033 patents cover technology related to transferring playback between devices, i.e., “casting,” the '885 and '966 patents cover technology related to managing groups of smart speakers.

> Pursuant to “patent showdown” procedure, each side has already moved for summary judgment on a single claim. Separate orders granted summary judgment in favor of Google on invalidity of claim 13 of the '615 patent and in favor of Sonos on infringement of claim 1 of the '885 patent. Sonos has since withdrawn its remaining claims based on the '615 patent, and Google has since begun developing and deploying a purported design-around for the '885 and '966 patents. Claims and defenses related to the '033, '885, and '966 patents are now set for trial starting May 8, 2023

[1] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

[2] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

[3] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

[4] https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

[5] https://casetext.com/case/sonos-inc-v-google-llc-7

[6] https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egpbyxmqdvq/...
Statement should be like People reward social skills over hard work.
San Francisco's Homeward Bound program is run by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Obviously not privately run.
Average 2026 bank fwd PE is ~50x. I have no idea what you're seeing.
Minigrep-Zig: Zig version of the Rust book's minigrep tutorial program
Maybe they can use that money to make basic volume control functionality of their app function correctly.
> Some sites are putting it Forward P/E as 50, I have no idea where that figure came from.

Forward P/E is just current P divided by some estimated future E. You can use your own earnings estimate, or commonly you can use sell side analyst estimates.
Same here. Tried to connect an old Midiman Midi interface to a recent MacOs. Oh boy. Someone built a driver and I´m grateful for that but it was quite something to get the thing working. It seemed to me a waste to buy a new piece of hardware for some antique technology like Midi, just because the driver of the old interface was not working any more. I don´t mind dealing with pain caused by computers in my day job. But in my free time as a musician all those technological hassles are a hindrance of creativity.
34 Excuses for Why We Failed at Love
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I guess he thinks he is the smart working kind then?
Lions were once in Europe and Asia, which is why you see so many depictions of Lions in the ancient cultures of places that seem quite disconnected from Africa. So many European coat of arms for example have powerful lions drawn on them, because they actually lived in the countryside of those locations.

Imagine being in the Spanish countryside, and encountering a pride of lions.
In the original video, he says he needs the wall to achieve the looping effect. But in this case, what's the reason it seems to need to be indoor, or within some kind of booth?
It has nothing to do with nuclear reactors. It's about all the systems we create. The difference between paper and real ones.

You could apply this to almost any engineering endeavor.
Why don't you tell us why it is tricky?
I would just port my number to twilio and use/write a really basic twilio mobile app. It's a bit risky to rely on a slightly cobbled hardware/software setup that is sitting across the world with no physical access.
Definitely:

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/content/images/2023/02/riscvdc.jpg

The broken text makes is very clear.

But that's exactly the market I thought AI would eat first. The blog posts need some sort of picture to represent the general idea of a high tech server. Nobody cares which exact thing it is and if it even exists. In many respects a non-existent one may be better, it won't get obviously old.

So why pay money for a stock picture where you could have a passable substitute for free?
Looking over the Edge
I was ready to be underwhelmed but the little dance animation the stickman performs between falling to his death (followed by some ASCII gore) in hangman was a pleasant surprise!

Did you use a specific library for the Web-based Console output emulation?
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Hopes and prayers they can't.
Your opinion of MIPS assembler is not universally held.

https://www.jwhitham.org/2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-hav...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607119
It is a strawman. But I wonder how much better we'd be able to do those other things if we'd been taught to do them with calculators as a tool instead of being forced to do the basic arithmetic in our heads.
> the guys have way too few resources to ever be able to compete against Microsoft

I don't believe they're competing against Microsoft.

Gaining compatibility is as much a cooperation from ReactOS'es side.

But it's a losing battle to gain compatibility with Microsoft, because it's against Microsoft's ethos.
Successful people with innate talent and gift downplay that role because it implies noblesse oblige. On display with say tech billionaires who love to stress merit because it frees them from obligations and boosts their ego. Admitting the role of upbringing, genes and just pure luck implies a responsibility to others.

That people have a keen sense for innate talent isn't some flawed bias, it's just very common sense recognition of facts. The irony is that we could have much better outcomes for most people if we ditched the egalitarian myth that just frees top performers from responsibility.
Mebendazole and fenbendazole, antihelmintics, have also shown effective against gioblastoma and other types of cancer.

Mebendazole, and others in its family, are also involved in a broken healthcare system in the US, where these medications costs between $0.07 and $10.00 per tablet in every other country, but there is a monopoly on manufacture that can price these tablets at $350 per tablet.
So? Google figured it out. The parents doesn't explain the tricky way to do it.
You should check your attitude. I didn't offend you, so don't offend me.
And then wouldn't all that renewable energy production better be used to replace fossil fuel production? Maybe once we've replaced all possible CO2 emitting power generation it would make sense to start building out more to power these things?
Archive link: https://archive.is/zgP6W
Google made a workaround that uses a different technology. And Sonos still got it blocked.

'When news of the patent decision broke, Google told The Verge it had gotten non-infringing designs approved by the ITC. Sonos warned, however, that Google might have to “degrade or eliminate product features” to be compliant, and that certainly seems to be what’s happening. '

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22871304/google-home-speak...

They somehow patented a common sense feature of managing the volume multiple speakers at the same time.

They probably used some loophole of volume of "smart" speaker or something.
Ask HN: Should QA engineers write unit/integration tests?
The current status of doing QA at my company is: QA engineers use either curl or something like Postman to perform "black box" high-level testing mainly on APIs. So, sometimes they have to test that one endpoint alone handles the happy path and many other secondary paths (e.g., "it throws a 400 when we pass the endpoint an invalid payload"). Sometimes they need to test a combination of endpoints in which many endpoints have to be executed one after another (e.g., "we first call endpoint A, and then endpoint B, and then when calling endpoint C the result should be X"). All these tests scenarios are not commited to any repo, so the current status of QA is a bit ad-hoc.

Now, my company is trying to adopt a new approach: they want QA engineers to write unit/integration tests for whatever API service they want to test (these tests would be commited as usual in the corresponding service repo). So far only the backend engineers are the ones writing unit/integration tests.

I can only see disadvantages with this new approach:

- QA engineers would need to learn about the domain (not just at a high-level), the language and the testing framework associated to the services they want to test. We currently use PHP, NodeJS and Go. So, that's a lot of learning if you ask me for a QA engineer

- Writing unit/integration tests is too low level. IMHO, I think QA engineers should focus on the big picture, they should be able to see the system as black box and test it accordingly. As part of my job as a backend engineer I have written thousands of unit/integration tests: you need to know the "high-level" details of the service you are testing in order to write good tests. I don't mean you need to know the implementation of functions/modules/classes; I mean you need to know that module X has interface Y with N functions with a given signature (this, if you are lucky and working with a statically typed language... good luck QA engineer figuring out what a paramter called "order" actually means). That's too much "low level" for a QA engineer if you ask me

- Writing unit/integration tests for a myriad of test scenarios is slow, both in terms of writing the tests themselves (create file + setup mocks + beforeAll + afterAll + write the code for actual N scenarios) and in terms of execution speed (e.g., jest in the Node world is slow when running integration tests)

IMHO, engineers should write good enough unit/integration tests (so that they can sleep good at night knowing their code is not totally garbage) and QA engineers should make use of tools like curl/Postman/Insomnia to actually run multiple high-level test scenarios fast. The only thing my company needs, I think, it's a bit more of organization when it comes to work on or share those curl/Postman/Insomnia scripts.

What do you think?
No, but it revitalizes your downtowns and increases density, which keeps city centers from hollowing out and getting taken over by homeless camps. High density also puts pressure on police and city authorities to deal with the violent mentally ill. And abundant, low cost housing gives you blue collar immigrant communities, which have little patience for angry junkies.
probably the money already went to their lawyers
Depends if one is stuck in the glory days of UNIX, or has already learnt to embrace native cloud development.
I wonder if it would be easier to finish if based on a wgpu backend, rather than having 4 separate backends.
The revival of Ruby on Rails popularity
That doesn't really solve the problem of patent trolls taking money from other companies.

A covered song is actually a specific lyric, not "a song about love in which the party of the first part expresses admiration for the part in the second part"
An implementation that keeps all of the volume levels in sync. I'm not convinced its more complicated than 2-phase commit, but that's kind of what you need in a distributed system.
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Think of your average engineer doing mobile development. "Here, hit this url to get the device ip". They write the code, it makes 1 request. The average backend engineer isn't performance focused, why would the average mobile engineer be thinking about a distributed denial of service against some third party api? Most mobile engineers have to be guided to not slam their own backend servers, and do not approach problems in their sphere with the mindset to prevent this type of issue. Not knocking mobile devs, it's just literally not something they have to care about most of the time, and imo only the ones who go out of their way to have a solid understanding of the backend systems would even understand what's in play here

Besides that, odds are that this is malware of some sort hitting this service to get the infected device's public ip to phone it home for use in a command and control situation, and if so, they don't care that they are slamming this service.

Mobile devs who care about this type of thing will not need to make any sort of outbound connection anywhere to get the device ip address, it's right on the device already. These what's my ip sites are used by script kiddies and malicious software running on anything

"There's always an individual with autism-level consideration for what one says, isn't there?" isn't needed and I'd advise you to be more professional, or at least more human.
>>The big issue is that the USA doesn’t have a national strategy for dealing with homelessness.

This is likely saying "the EU does not have strategy for dealing" remember the USA stands for "United STATES" States here is the key... We are 50 independent states, and most of our problems are because we look to the incompetent and corrupt federal government to solve problems they are not constitutional empowered to solve. There is a reason we are not "America" but instead our United States we seem to be losing that foundation, to our own demise. Not every problem is a national one, and homelessness certainly is not

>>We could always do what Finland does: admit that these people will never be productive members of society again and get them into housing with social workers on staff.

Well we used to do that, after many many many human rights abuses the US stopped doing that, and if you look at the graphs of institutionalization, and homelessness there is a striking correlation as the rate of institutionalization drops the rate of homelessness increases.

I am not sure bringing back institutionalization is going to be a popular solution
Linode uses Xen? That explains things.

At one point I managed to convince KVM to work with Linode-style disks where /dev/vda is the actual filesystem, no partition table, but it took a fair amount of fiddling.

I'm not sure why people don't do that more often, it's just a lot more comfortable when you can expand a host's LV as needed, and fsck and mount from the outside without having to deal with the embedded partition table.
Not worthless, obviously, I was maybe being a tad overblown ;)

But I do think that as we move forward with technological tools for this kind of mental task, that we should embrace them in our education system. If we have to teach every generation from first principles then we won't get them comfortable with the actual tech they'll be using in their lives.

thanks for the clarification on sign language :) One of those things on my bucket list that I keep meaning to learn but never get started on.
I think you're almost hitting the nail on the head. When we look to add teammates who will add value to our teams, it is often the appearance of value which is more important than the actual value. I suspect this is why we highly value "talent", given that it is easier to telegraph.
Buy a much nicer apartment, and keep doing what I already do for work. When I have free time, I'd take friends and family on lavish vacations.
That's really only needed for children and young adults. The CDC recommends taking Potassium Iodide (KI) if you're under 40 or pregnant/nursing.

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/emergencies/ki.htm
> Once you want "advanced" features like voicemail, parking, hunt groups, three-way calling.

Right, but what I am saying is that I don't want any of those features. At least not yet.

I just want to give my customers a sip address (username@communick.com) where they can call other SIP addresses. In that case, is that a PBX still needed?
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> I'd argue that copyright expiration is not at all about some imagined exchange of legal protections for .. the use of courts (since when is the use of courts treated as a privilege?) and is more about historical preservation

Well, you're simply wrong on that score. The US Constitution empowers Congress to establish copyright laws thus:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries

It's not about archeology, it's about promoting the development of new stuff. To that end, at some point it's better to free a work for others to build upon than to allow continued profiteering by the existing author/owner.
I'll quote Larry Wall here: "We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris."
No, I can't republish a song and call it mine, and I can't use someone else's recording of a song without their permission. What I can do is record my version of their song and sell it and I can publicly play their song and charge people - but I have to cut them author of the song in for 9.1 cents for each instance.

Yeah, devil is in the details. Currently a patent gives exclusive use for 20 years and music copyright gives control for 100 years, but anyone can license it. The trick is to strike a balance that gets the most economic benefit. Set the claim fee high at first and tinker with it. I would think companies that innovate would be happy to know there is a ceiling to their liabilities instead of being at the mercy of a jury. And do we really want an inventor to be able to lock up any use of a technology for 20 years. Imagine a solo inventor cracks low-temperature fusion and sells their patent to Saudi Arabia for $1B - who sits on it for 20 years and sues anyone who tries to use it. Here is the public framing: "We need to pass the 'Freedom to Innovate' act passed to stop evil foreign companies from locking up American inventions that would benefit all hard-working Americans!"

Music is not as easy as it seems. How much should an artist get for a ring tone? For a stream? How much should artists get paid for longer songs? There is a 3 judge panel that adjudicates all these things:
https://www.crb.gov/index.html
I've said this before but I think fennel is one of the most impressive languages around. Lua has a good reputation but I've used it professionally and find it one of the more practically painful languages to work in. Apparently fennel's author agrees, because fennel is laser-focused on correcting exactly its worst problems.

AND/BUT one of fennel's impressive things is that it sticks rigidly to lua runtime semantics. Which I found a little repulsive at first but has huge benefits in its context. You can drop fennel into any version of lua on any runtime (bc they vary a lot) and it works the same. You can hook the single-file fnl compiler into lua's module loader and mix fennel files into an existing lua program, freely sharing functions and metatables both ways.

Very flexible and powerful because of that tradeoff. Anywhere I have to use lua now I am actually using fennel.

The downside is this choice precludes it from having the clojure-like data structures and reference types. It could add a new standard library but doesn't, limiting itself to a handful of special forms (notably pattern match thank god) that mix nicely with the existing lua primitives. It looks like TimL has gone the other way with that decision, which I also appreciate. Makes it maybe a less flexible general-purpose lua replacement/extension, but probably makes it more powerfully suited for the specific purpose it'll be used for.
And don’t forget myxomatosis!
It's counter-intuitive, but exercise gives you more energy. Don't wait to hit the lottery to make it part of your life.
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Pretty sure Genshin Impact was in development as early as 2016, before Breath of the Wild was released, although after it was announced.

Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo are not the only people that make open world games...
Is it/can it be confirmed? So many people took multiple vaccinations - there will be cases when timing overlaps with something serious. I’m not taking sides, just curious.
I’d hire help for chores, travel more frequently with family, spend more time learning/doing things that may have no direct financial outcome, donate more money and personal time towards charity.
> Yes, there are lots of people on the tech scene that just don't get ideas like "don't abuse it", or "considering the consequences for other people"

Got to love the cleverness with the people who design services with the assumption that there are no such people and then goes on to hackernews and cries when a kid in China breaks their site. Lol.

Insanely incompetent.
> I actually used it for something that is difficult to replicate even today. The AV input/output board allows for capture of s-video output (good for digitization of old VHS tapes).

This isn’t at all difficult today. You can buy a S-video to USB interface from Wal-Mart for $25. 20 years ago they were more expensive but still easy to get.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Composite-RCA-S-Video-To-USB-Conv...
No one getting anything good because one company patented an obvious idea and then AT&T'ed it would be even worse.

The solution to monopoly is antitrust law not patent law making more monopolies.