skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a place where they had an entire division of people basically filled the role of Tom Smykowski from Office Space.

It was both pitiful and amazing. They didn’t really produce any valuable output, but by scheduling meetings and debriefings and briefings, etc they were able to engage at high levels. The dude in charge somehow took over project managers, and they literally started building these colored briefing binders inspired by some History channel documentary the featured the President’s daily briefing by the CIA.

At the end, I started losing talented engineers to folks getting significant promotions to attend meetings with bigshots. The rationale was that in order to deliver the “CIA briefing” to the VP of Custodial Services, you had to be a Director or something.
My daughter once took a job at a place that did personality/compatability tests before hiring. As it turns out, it wasn't to help them avoid hiring crazy people. It's because they were the crazy people, and needed to find folks who are compatable with that ;)
Ask HN: How do tech companies gives permissions of repos to the new employee
Hi, I recently joined a tech company as SDE, one flaw I found was the way in which they give permissions to their github repos, jira, NuGET and angular packages to the new joiners.
The current method they follow is to send mail to IT support with your manager or senior in CC, then manager/senior will send "OK" to the request via the mail, then IT support gives the permission to the respected person manually.
How about a solution where we bypass the chain of mails and manual approval of IT support?
This solution exists in some companies(they made it by themselves), they made a dedicated platform where everything is one click, the request is approved using github/jira API's.
But not all companies can afford to create such a homemade solution, So can it become a Product as a service company? do you feel need for such a thing?
Poor Man's X is just an English idiom.
It in illegal in most jurisdictions to access data which you are unauthorized to.

>Either way, you'd surely agree its a noble pursuit?

Considering it hurts Twitter's profitability by not showing ads, hurts Twitter's metrics by not having people sign in or sign up, hurts users who were accidently signed out from signing in to twitter and having a better user experience, and hurts content creators because nitter doesn't allow you to like or retweet posts. I do not see it as a noble pursuit.
But you don’t need public copyright for that. If you share something with a limited set of parties just draft an NDA. If you publish to the public with which you can make no prior agreement you use copyright.
If you write it in Swift or Objective-C, you're using LLVM and clang.
There's definitely some super clunky stuff, there. "This is an image! no... wait... this is an embedded document! no... hold on... it's an ima... hmm...."

It all makes sense from a technical perspective when you dig into it, but it's totally counterintuitive in surprising ways, sometimes.
That's not really the same, you could have a copy of my credit card, but you using it to make purchases would become an issue. Regardless, that quickly steps out of the domain of intellectual property.
IANAP, but...

> if these hybrid theories are true, there must be some minimal amount of gravitational noise.

... this already sounds suspiciously Heisenbergian, reminiscent of quantum foam, the Casimir effect and all that jazz.
The part where they redistribute it. There's no way that money isn't going to government cronies in my country no matter which party is in power.
Universities are heavily subsidized industries with little or no oversight.

Any other industry has all kinds of regulations and consumer protections they have to comply with.

A university is allowed to sell degrees to unsophisticated buyers, and if the degree is worthless, they are not on the hook. Who else can do that?

Universities never experience recessions or any other kind of contraction, so they never have to shed dead weight. The administrator to student/faculty ratio is way out of whack.

Student loans should be guaranteed by the university, not by the government. If the university has enough confidence in admitting a person and conferring a degree, they should stand behind it.
Eh, it's Jalopnik, they do a lot of misleading headlines.

And at least with the Mach E; anecdotally they're kind of correct in that there's a bunch of Mach E's sitting on the lot. Thing that they're either fully optioned Premium variants or GT variants, so you're talking $82,000 to $90,000 Canadian dollars even before you starting thinking about taxes and other costs.

The $55,000 to $70,000 price ranged EV's seem to be selling well enough for the time being.
Much better data on changes in published and net tuition paid over time...

https://research.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/trends-in-colleg...
off topic, how do you find time to follow and read all those newsletters?

I tried to follow couple of them, after a while it felt like everyday I am reading some newsletter. At this moment I completely stopped, because messed up my time management skills after having kids. Need to recover
Unnecessary wrappers. Obviously anything longer than

print('hello world')

is a waste. If the language violates Exupery's law why shouldn't developers?
To play the devil's advocate:

IANAL, but if I recall correctly part of having a trademark is having a legal obligation to enforce it, and if I'm reading the tweet correctly this is a name of a company and typically one cannot use a trademark in their company name.
If you just want to track a few individuals... Enumerate all those who possess the data. Now look for data brokers that they deal with (as commenter korse said) and recurse. Find all the employees of every company in question. Muster a few hundred bucks or so, seems to be the market price, and there you go[0].

For research I dunno. You'd probably have to make a deal directly with one of these companies, one way or another, so I would start by talking to them.

[0] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunte...
Is this a problem for something like OwnCloud? Not everything needs to be acceptable for business use.
I'm also making a game from scratch and reinventing wheels. What is the processing that you are doing for GLES? I see the GLSL_PREPROCESS in the GLSL.
This seems relevant:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs...

Apparently University of California used to be free.
Copyright, unlike the land comparison, is not physically limited in nearly the same way. There is a limited amount of land, but ideas are nearly infinite.

I genuinely think if a company has piece of media X that they make a decision to not distribute, it shouldn't be piracy. Things like Nintendo sitting on titles teasing a fat "maybe" of bringing a subscription based access model to on limited hardware isn't cool.

These games sold their last physical copy decades ago, long before an online store. They took them off the market, so fair game. There's zero difference from Nintendo's perspective, of buying a used game vs playing a rom on an emulator.
Sure, but your analogy fails there since it implies that the map contains the entire original work. AI models do not contain the entire original works of their training data. If they did they would be the most efficient storage methods ever devised. All those terabytes of training data can obviously not be squished 1 for 1 into the model that is only a couple of gigabytes at the higher end.
Maybe this just shows that I have some experience under my belt... but I understand that most things take longer and cost more than planned.

So the thought of scrapping a working factory with decades of fine-tuning already done... pains me.

I worked with one project manager who was straight out of school. I couldn't believe that the direction and management of multiple teams of engineers was coming from someone who was going to make all their rookie mistakes on our project... and all the people who hired him already left for new jobs, so no consequences for them.
Density Based Retrieval Relevance
Mods change titles all the time here, unfortunately... Sometimes for the worst
34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ
As we speak the Mozilla CEO, on reading this comment, is probably saying "see, they love our innovative addressbar; so we should focus innovation efforts entirely on that, make it entirely new, ... nothing stays the same ... we could make it vertical!" ...
Neither does a Mac, yet it's the only device that's allowed to develop for the headset.
Another great thing that only seem to exist for Firefox is Tree Style Tab [1] and a bunch of plugins around it. It completely changes the way I browse.

There is an honest but much, much more limited attempt top bring a something similar to Chromium: [2].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...
I really hope that when the Pi 5 comes out that the one thing they change is the number of PCIe lanes in a meaningful way.

As much as I’d like all sorts of other improvement, this one improvement is far above the rest for me.
The Ford and other EVs listed cost around the same as similar Teslas. The Teslas use the Supercharger system, which is far and away the best charging system in the U.S. right now. Moreover, Ford and GM are moving to Tesla plugs in a year or two, meaning the Tesla ("NACS") system is going to wind up being the standard.

So why would someone pay around the same amount for a Ford electric Mustang or whatever with a legacy CCS charging system as they would for a Model Y, when the Model Y has the right charging standard, and, in addition, one doesn't even have to deal with a hostile car dealer?

Can anyone—anyone—solve this perplexing set of facts?

I'm sure there are some people who want an electric car but don't like Tesla, but for most people the Supercharger network and future-proofing are huge advantages.
Dropserver Progress – April to June 2023
A few years ago, when trying to get my father in law into the (state-run, not VA) veteran's home, we had to have records of his service. I was surprised that he had kept and that I could still find in his house all of the original paperwork from when he was discharged in 1954. That made everything much easier than it might otherwise have been. A lesson for me on keeping ones own data.
Orchestration of k8s wouldn't be necessary if they had made K8s' operation immutable. As it stands now you just throw some random YAML at it and hope for the best. When that stops working, you can't just revert back to the old working version, you have to start throwing more crap at it and running various operations to "fix" the state. So you end up with all these tools that are effectively configuration management tools to continuously "fix" the cluster back to where you want it.

I hope the irony is lost on no one that this is an orchestration tool for an immutable technology, and the orchestrator isn't immutable.
I wanted to include common code for all shaders in a simple way, but I was too lazy write a proper parser. So instead I used the C++ preprocessor and macros to include things from common shader code and combine them in the build step.
Well, you could try something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36672217
“The amount of waste in this industry would boggle your mind,” said David Esterlit, the owner of OHR Home Office Solutions, a refurbishing company and liquidator in Midtown Manhattan that has resold equipment from big office tenants.

Despite efforts to reuse and repurpose office equipment, most still ends up in the trash, said Trevor Langdon, the chief executive of Green Standards, a sustainability consulting company that helps to minimize office waste. Based on 2018 federal statistics on waste, the latest year with available data, Mr. Langdon estimates that more than 10 million tons of office furniture in the United States end up in a landfill every year.
'Football Leaks' hacker charged with 377 offences
I wonder how old these tapes are
Well they should ban all data collection except for debt payoff data.

And maybe even that should be banned (if someone smart can figure out a way to make risks stable without that data).

This entire thing needs its own HIPAA. FTC needs to be put under new management.
> * An artist improvising in public

You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.

> * Someone sharing with another party in a situation with a large power imbalance (and so they refuse to sign an NDA with anyone)

Don't share it with them until they sign. If they sign and violate the NDA, you got your payday.

> * Someone sharing in a social situation where NDAs are not practical (romantic, familial, or personal relationships)

If you don't trust your spouse then get a prenup. The other categories aren't special.

That said, if your work is so easy to copy it probably wasn't (or shouldn't have been) valuable to begin with. Implementation matters more than ideas. So most of these concerns are silly to me.
I worked on a team of hundreds that developed and maintained a vertical market app enterprise app for a few thousand client companies, probably more than 100,000 end-user seats, but fewer than 500,000. My small sample size (1) observation is that the developer organizations least able to manage feature flags are the ones most likely to buy into such a magic pill cargo cult solution.

If your software has accumulated or is built to support numerous independent client organizations, it almost certainly has features that are not used by all users, and thereby the software has implicit feature flags embedded in the data that it is already processing. Regardless of whether those feature flags in data work well or work poorly, why in the world would you want to add a second feature-control subsystem? Because it is meta-programming, I suppose, and we all know that meta-programming just adds another level of power to everything, and your first feature-control system may be a little hard to disentangle, and you can make feature-flags work by having the meta-programming done by a select few who really know what they are doing, and it will be a worthwhile challenge, and even if it doesn't work you will learn a lot, and it will look good on your resume, and give everyone a few good laughs when they realize what they were trying to do.
What you are describing is what a directed acyclic graph achieves. It works well when you need to do a series of transformations. It does not work well when you need branching, loops and state at a high level. The mistake people make is that they see it work very well for certain parts of their software, then they give in to silver bullet syndrome and try to make it work for everything.
These are just mathematical tools we use to make predictions. Assuming they represent objective reality and somehow prove an infinite number of universes doesn’t seem very scientific to me.
Not necessarily. Distributing such software would be, though.
There goes philosophy, music, and many other liberal arts degrees.
As anyone who has done inventory management could tell you, the admin involved in keeping your pantry inventory up to date would massively outweigh any utility you'd get from this.
What about older OSes? Are they not vulnerable or simply ignored?
I’m giving you a hypothesis about the reason why the Planck length exists as a constant.

Below Planck length there is no length, time, mass, or temperature.

All of those things are given “reality” by our mental process.
Great point. My $dayjob use case is the same, but probably worse (windows + wsl).
if vendors from outside states follow the rules for what can be sold in CA, then they can sell in CA also; CA can't favor its own farmers. Also CA can't control what those same producers sell outside of CA, but they can control any production within the state.

The only other aspect I think has to do with whether federal FDA and Agriculture regulations take any precedence over CA, but that's not interstate commerce.
OMG ... information horder in me will resist this temptation.
I'm not saying it's impossible to put this together sometimes, I just don't think anyone is attempting to do so at a commercial level. It's really pretty unusual that you can heavily monetize the location of a single, real person.
> In general, judging which categories don't need the protection of copyright amounts to deciding which categories of readers don't matter.

I agree if you say "don't need protection", though I think that's a harsher criticism of my proposal than is warranted. Maybe there are categories which need stronger protection that what I proposed, which is fine.

But I think you're also not considering the fact that _entry into the public domain_ is also a huge positive value to the reader.

So, we need to have a balance between adequately incentivizing works, and works entering the public domain. I'd argue the current balance we've struck is totally fucking broken, and gravely harming readers of all types.

But, I'm open to the criticism that we would run the risk of this scheme of not adequately incentivizing certain works. I think that's good feedback.
But "possession of stolen property" is a specific criminal charge that doesn't typically have to do with copyright (being more to do with, say, bicycles). I can't find any example of "possession of stolen property" charges being brought against a copyright violator, but it's a hard thing to Google.
The second I read "shared block cache" my brain went to containers.

If you want data colocated on the same filesystem, then put it on the same filesystem. VMs suck, nobody spins up a whole fabricated IBM-compatible PC and gaslights their executable because they want to.[1] They do it because their OS (a) doesn't have containers, (b) doesn't provide strong enough isolation between containers, or (c) the host kernel can't run their workload. (Different ISA, different syscalls, different executable format, etc.)

Anyone who has ever tried to run heavyweight VMs atop a snapshotting volume already knows the idea of "shared blocks" is a fantasy; as soon as you do one large update inside the guest the delta between your volume clones and the base snapshot grows immensely. That's why Docker et al. has a concept of layers and you describe your desired state as a series of idempotent instructions applied to those layers. That's possible because Docker operates semantically on a filesystem; much harder to do at the level of a block device.

Is the a block containing b"hello, world" part of a program's text section, or part of a user's document? You don't know, because the guest is asking you for an LBA, not a path, not modes, not an ACL, etc. - If you don't know that, the host kernel has no idea how the page should be mapped into memory. Furthermore storing the information to dedup common blocks is non-trivial: go look at the manpage for ZFS' deduplication and it is littered w/ warnings about the performance, memory, and storage implications of dealing with the dedup table.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coFIEH3vXPw
Who are they "stealing" the token from?
I just spent several weeks in Germany, one of my goals was family history (my father was born in Dusseldorf, his father in Berlin), that whole side is dead now, basically. I had a much easier time in the west (my grandma's birthplace) than in the east, much of which was apparently due to war damage. It also turns out that my naive notion of just walking into the national archives and putting my grimy American fingers all over their paper records was objectionable to the Germans. But at least I made contacts, the archivist basically takes a fee and get back to you in a few months' time.
If those were the only records, you're probably correct, but there are sources other than the national archives that can be used in some cases such that I'd still do a search, especially for high level awards like silver stars and up.
Current EVs are really expensive and pretty much a luxury product. There's reasonable fear about finding charging stations if you don't have a Tesla. The plug seems to be converging to Tesla now. Needs one more iteration in battery tech so we can reach 450 miles EPA and under 40K USD.

It's not that you're going to drive 450 miles but there needs to be enough cushion left for degradation, optimal charge cycles, winter, etc. so you can atleast go 300 miles without any issues for the entire life of the vehicle.

Long term, EVs are definitely superior and simpler tech in terms of maintenance, but the current gen isn't fully there yet.

Tesla is ahead right now in terms of product maturity and seems to have enough margins to be able to discount. I'm really excited to see what they offer with their next platform.
Why should we not just take it as a probability based abstraction for something we don’t have a true understanding of and move on? Anything else seems like weird theology to me.
Maybe in the Metro parts of the USA, but China is next level scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo_FM3mjBCY

It's all possible.
"The mouse" isn't an abstract entity you can copyright instead you would have to copyright countless actual works and the price to keep hundreds or thousands of individual works would be essentially billions to keep "the mouse". While this is an interesting concept if the practical effect is to end most copyrights within 20 years wouldn't it be simpler just to do that?
Chips and cheese (in depth hardware analysis)

Asianometry (just go subscribe, it's brilliant)

and as others mentioned, the graphics programming newsletter
Mods change titles all the time here, unfortunately... Sometimes for the worst

Its far from the only thing that they constantly change too
You say lazy, I say time is money. Entry level jobs expect more and more hours out of young workers these days. Some people would rather pay for a meal and eat it in 30 minutes than spend 3x that time cooking and cleaning.