skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it isn't relevant. I could say that email has a billion+ existing users with an account that an app could utilize, but adding email signup to a hypothetical app doesn't just get you a ton of users.
> just edit it online in the Github UI

I do the same but I wish there was a easier way to make a blog post as it's still a bit fiddly. It would be great if it was as simple as sending an email or writing a message in a messaging app.
Wow this is horrible
Archived: https://archive.is/jCnXJ
... there's a VM on here?! (Start menu > Programs > Doom Linux) That got a real belly laugh out of me. Looks like https://github.com/copy/v86?

Awesome work! The whole aesthetic is well done.
Processors got obsolete pretty fast at that time, and while in 1996 (or maybe 1997) it would be hard to sell 486s, by 1995 I was still selling lots of AMD DX/4 machines for cost-conscious customers from my home business assembling PCs.

Small companies mostly run DOS-based programs in applications like POS and accounting packages, and for those a 486 was more than enough. In fact, running Windows on those machines would bring no benefit and made loading Novell Netware drivers on conventional memory a bit tricky sometimes.

I sold Pentiums at that time mostly to domestic consumers, with the occasional DX4/100 thrown in the mix. Once I got lucky and sold some 10 machines in a short period. SoundBlaster "multimedia kits" came in humongous boxes and for a few days, I barely had space to live in my bedroom.

It was a fun time. Around that time I built a POS application for Windows using Delphi, in a time were most companies were using DOS-based solutions. I could have built a good business around this, but I was young, naive, had no experience or inclination with sales, and looked chronically even younger than I was. So, after some time I quit trying to run a business on software by myself. Sometimes I feel I should have been more persistent.
Most people in Hertz Gold are business travelers and aren't spending their own money. Price is not a concern as long as it doesn't exceed any reimbursement limits their employer may have.
Which one did you go with
Time commitments were generally aggressive but reasonable with a 10-20% buffer to account for ramp up (realistically closer to 10 than 20). The reasonable-ness of most things eng-culture related at Amazon is probably a function of the competence of your management chain.

As for my fellow engineers- I don’t know anyone else who did this regularly so I’m not sure
sewing thread emoji

(Yes, but it was combined with an operating system class.)
> Is there a way that an LLM isn't, legally, a compression algorithm for a large set of copyrighted works?

An LLM is a lossy compression algorithm for a body of data (which may or may not consists of multiple “works” under copyright, and any works included in the data may or may not be protected by copyright), which body as a whole likely comprises a work (as compilation) which may or may not legally be derivative of some or all copyright protected works contained in the compilation, before considering Fair Use analysis.

It is not particularly a compression algorithm for the individual works if the body of data consists of individual works.
Here's an alternative explanation, one which I find much more likely: when being LGBT is widely accepted, people who would previously have been in the closet are more inclined to come out.

I'm pretty sure my father wasn't turned gay by PFAS and other forever chemicals (which weren't even in widespread use when he was born), it's that he grew up in an area and an era where coming out as gay could get you murdered (if you were merely ostracized, you got off easy), and it wasn't until societal attitudes had shifted that he felt safe enough to leave my mother and be with who he wanted to.

If I had to worry about that, I (a lesbian) would probably still be in the closet, too. And I probably would have married a man to deflect suspicions, much the same way my mother was a beard to my father.
Was just in London for a day and being able to tap my phone with no app or anything was just dreamy. Ended up riding the underground several times without a care, whereas many years ago when I had to buy an Oyster card (?) I couldn’t be arsed.

So, enthusiastic agreement over here.
Most of them do. Get on the bus, tell them your name, get off the bus and walk to the car. Key is in, trunk is open. Load, sit, drive off. Avis Preferred, National Emerald, ...
It's not an upgrade per se, it's just whatever vehicle they have available. If they're running low on sedans (which often happens), they'll start giving out SUVs to people who'll accept them, keeping sedans in reserve who want them.

NYC has some crazy rental experiences because the lots are so small. One time I got "upgraded" to a 3 row minivan (which costs 2-3X the base economy car rental price) because that's all they had left. It was not the ideal car for a road trip for my girlfriend and I, and we ended up spending more on gas, but they didn't have anything else available.

Similarly I've often gotten free upgrades to convertible sports cars (e.g. a Mustang) just because they have a lot of them and they have extra on that particular day and want to reserve more boring options for picky people.
For what it's worth, I had a similar problem with a USB-C dock for my Framework in KDE. Check the Thunderbolt permissions under System Settings -> Hardware. I had to do a pairing dance to get it to work correctly.
Agreed. And, sadly, besides providing zero education, some code reviews even turn into spaces of abuse of political power when conducted by unprepared reviewers.

I've been unfortunate to work with one of those, some years ago. I decided to pretend I enjoyed the style as soon as I realized she suffered from a fragile sense of authority. In hindsight, that doesn't seem to have been a good decision.

It was clear she felt affronted by any deviations from the intended standard. But the feedback mostly comprised extremely vague, subjective, non-actionable ad hoc prescriptions. I carefully read through my reviews and the ones received by my colleagues, but was unable to devise any pattern. Ultimately I decided to simply code as fast as possible so that I could collect the feedback earlier and get rid of the damn thing.

That way I could kind of cope, but after some months I was really burned out and struggling to sustain any interest about my tasks.
Guilty as charged. I hereby confess I didn't read the article. Thanks for pointing that.
Thanks for the post, I will attempt a similar thing using PowerShell.
> I was like: you guys should've FedEx'd me this in the first place. For all they knew, I wasn't getting their emails or letters in the first place because nothing had been sent signature required.

I love the scream test, but the analogy you bring up actually - this seems unfair. The cost of Fedex'ing everyone is astounding (for many businesses).

But I like the concept. Definitely a sort of "shut off the server for like an hour" and then see who yells.

Phone calls for any account that still operating on the location.

100% agreed 3 emails is... hardly anything.
Are these U.S. Apple stores? I’ve had a dozen or so purchases over the last few years at several Apple stores in the Bay Area and Los Angeles area and have never experienced anything remotely like this. Sometimes I’ve bought online and done in store pickup, other times I’ve just asked the employee for the exact item I wanted, and I’ve never experienced the slightest roadblock to an extremely fast checkout process. I would be surprised if this isn’t a very deliberately planned in-store experience, so I gotta wonder if it’s a regional thing or something.
A lot of car rental chains have this program now.
> My criticism, I think, is still valid. Just because you've renamed things in a bunch of fields with a consistently obtuse verbiage doesn't mean you've understood anything

It's unification, not renaming. As a somewhat tortured analogy, consider two concepts: "games", and "mass". Particular concrete games are prior to "games" in general: we learn nothing about chess or basketball by noting that we happen to have a label broad enough to include both, and the worldview of an alien visitor accustomed to thinking only in terms of board-games or ball-games but never simply games is simply different, not incomplete.

But if someone has concepts for mass-of-people and mass-of-planets but doesn't realize that they're all instances of a more general notion of mass-of-things, the situation is different. People-mass and planet-mass are both "mass" not only by convention, as with games, or by brute coincidence, but by physical law. And someone who doesn't know that has a hole in their understanding of physics.

Category-theoretic concepts should be understood in the latter sense. Expecting knowing what a monoid is to deepen your understanding of string concatenation, for instance, is getting things backwards. (This is really an example from abstract algebra, not category theory proper, but the same principle applies). The point is to use your knowledge of string concatenation to get knowledge about {string concatenation | linked lists | regular expressions | MapReduce | max/min | addition | multiplication | convex hulls | ... }, all at once and (once you've paid the upfront cost) all for free.
I convinced a rental agent to upgrade me for free from a compact to a convertible Mustang… in Minneapolis… the day before Christmas Eve… at midnight. The most fun and stupid decision I had made in a while. I got caught in a snow storm and ended up driving 200 miles on the interstate at 30 mph because it was literally the fastest I could go without fishtailing. Worth it.
Link disappears if you don't have flagged submissions and comments. I had a few accidental flagged submissions, once I unflagged them, link disappeared.
> I think this will be a bigger issue than some people think. Maybe there's a market for 'clean' training data that doesn't include potential copyright claims.

Until this issue is resolved, that will have some value as risk mitigation.

Once it is resolved, it will either be a complete non-issue or an issue related to a much more knowable cost/benefit tradeoff.

> We'll know it's an AI because it talks like a late 18th century/early 19th century writer?

A mix of that and US government publications (which are categorically not subject to copyright).
This was likely ASP.NET code. In the early days many folks just FTP'd their whole ASP.NET project folder to IIS, including the source code (e.g. .aspx.cs code behind etc) when you didn't need to. There was a lot of misunderstanding about how to deploy ASP.NET applications, many folks were still working with a Classic ASP mindset. I speak from experience as my company's .NET go to engineer and developer for a shared hosting company back in the day and having to explain to customers how to deploy their apps sans the source code.
Government.

Someone threw in the rise of authoritarianism. The issue is much broader. It's one of efficiency; understanding and respect of technology and science (past, current and potential); influence of religions, mobs and fads (including scientific fads and mobs); understanding and respect for economics (mostly taken as a joke and molded to other obsessions); understanding and respect for time scale including the power of engineering at scale (as opposed to the next election or coup).

In general humanity has tremendous resources and potential power - and makes sad and shitty use of it. Yes, different people have different ideas on what is the right thing to do, but that's where the problem is. We need to become more effective at sorting that out. It's hopefully not simply a question of "enlightened authoritarianism can do it". This all deserves work and progress and our systems are dated and don't seem to be progressing currently (I mean over the past 20 years).

And corruption (in broad terms, not just money), and alignment, etc, etc.
The deleterious effects of PFAS on the body are well established. It’s the tobacco story all over again, companies that know the harmful effects of their chemicals then willfully flood our waterways with it because it’s profitable. What are you gaining from being dissembling about this entire thing? What about it rubs you the wrong way so much that you’re rationalizing its ills by spreading falsehoods?
Pragmatic Engineer did a round-up a couple months ago: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/oncall-compensation/

I guess Google is at $2000/wk for second tier now!
Somewhat related: If you're interested in spider sex, get your pedipalps on this book:

Bitch: on the female of the species
Lucy Cooke
https://worldcat.org/en/title/1322488372
Ask HN: Just moved to SF. How can I leverage my new location to skill up in dev?
Against the trend, just moved to SF from a mid size hub-of-nothing city of the East Coast. My GF got an internship in biotech and I work remote so here we are at least until January.

I'm self taught, have a technical high school degree in electronics and computers, and an AA that I meant to use to start a CS degree back in the east coast before we moved.

My work is a mix of App support with light software dev. I mostly support and update old apps written using ASP.NET (of which I know almost nothing), Nintex workflows that should've never been, make little scripts for ServiceNow virtual agent, and we have a series of low code apps that I also support, modify, etc. I replaced a guy who was also self taught and had no best-practices checks.

I'm solo in this endeavor since my product owner is not a developer and my other peer mostly deals with the red tape and administrative stuff like dealing with InfoSec's recurring paperwork and vendor licenses. Happy to have him, but I can't skill up in my field.

I'm now much closer to all the tech brain power of the country, and I'm trying to figure how to leverage my stay to improve my skills. I work 5AM to 1:30PM and so I have the whole evening open to feed my brain.

Are there any groups, meetups, schools, apprenticeships, or whatever else I could use to become a better dev? I know I could enroll in a CS degree and I do want that, but I already know of that answer.

I'd love to work on tools for people outside of the field that maybe boosts their productivity or makes their lives easier.
A few months ago I worked with my GF to make an app that helps her identify cyanobacteria automating a process they used to do in MS Word and it was super satisfying, but I know it can be much better if I had someone to work with.

Anyway, any idea will be very appreciated, even if you are in the same position I'm in and you'd like to meet to work on something.

Thanks!
Not to be confused with ReactOS, the OS that not only recreates the look but also the functionality of Windows NT.
The KiwiFarms issue is less what was said online in a club like forum context and more what was done in the real world by members and coordinated from KiwiFarms.
I'd probably just add a linter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good job finding it. The patient calls out two other key patents.

It also describes how the data is encoded.
It’ll never happen, but the first car rental company that abandons the timeshare presentation model of make-the-customer-wait-an-eternity-while-we-try-to-upsell-them will make all their competitors abandon it.

Because once I hear Hertz, or whoever, isn’t going to make me wait an extra half an hour to rent a car anymore (while enduring high-pressure salesmen trying to get me to get the “extended coverage” which is overpriced at best and useless at worst), I’m thrilled to go with them exclusively, and perhaps even if they’re substantially more expensive. Other companies will be forced to follow suit.

But executives don’t get paid to abandon tried and true customerphobic business models in favor of one where you lose upsells and save on staff, but you more than make it up in volume.

Business travelers like me hate hate hate rental car counters at airports. They’re the seventh level of hell. I’ll take Ubers for about the same overall cost, and Turo as plan B. It’s been like this for the past 5 years.

I don’t doubt your sincerity in wanting to improve the car rental experience, but Sinclair’s law applies.
You mean something like this? This does get a bit messier... https://htmx.org/docs/#oob_swaps
Hard to set up a control group when literally everyone is exposed
Just sent you an email to the email in your profile!
It doesn’t sound insane at all. Unless you’re paying cash, the transaction is going to be set up on a computer, the inventory is going to be checked on a computer, and the payment is going to be processed on a computer. And your smart phone is a computer. Why is it odd to expect it to be faster to ask someone else to do this process for you rather than you doing it yourself? It’s not like you need someone with extensive point-of-sale software experience to blaze through this for you.
Perhaps you should consider the emotional aspects of fiction. There’s more to life than facts.
Well, Windows 10 is necessary currently. At the moment 11 doesn't offer any real improvements above it yet from a security standpoint. But obviously Windows 10 only officially has about two years of life left, though I expect Microsoft to extend it.
I haven't downvoted but your first post point out that it's negatively correlated. It seems to non correlated. An example is a car shared by family.
Mandatory licensing seems fine.

The government charges a tax on everyone. Revenue is handed to authors based on how many times the work is used.

There are some questions around how to weigh things like societal importance of the work.

(“Not melting down nuclear reactors for dummies” seems like it should get more money per view than “poodles in outer space vol XXXII”, despite likely having lower readership)
It's going to be interesting when it gets out that carbon fiber acts a lot like asbestos when burned.
"Why do you think this was a merger or an acquisition?"

The reason I think it was a merger is, that it was a merger.

"The first Mercedes-Benz branded vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company on 28 June of the same year."

Mercedes was a car name from the Daimlers side of the merger (from a car seller and racing team) - so it was Mercedes-Benz.
My favorite physics sort: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8ssH7LiB0
True! I use Budget Fastbreak usually. Same experience.
To make this more explicit, the argument is that removing copyright hurts authors, meaning that fewer people become authors in the future, meaning that the progress of the useful arts is hurt.
Nice work! Thank you for taking my feature requests to heart :)
>What are you basing it on?

My experience following the VR scene. The unreleased product doesn't solve the weight problem, it doesn't solve the friction problem of needing to put on a headset, it doesn't solve the VAC problem which can strain people's eyes, etc. I would also speculate that it doesn't solve the content problem in motivating people to consistently use the device instead of regress to using your iphone or whatever to do those normal things.

Just doing VR, but with more resolution or VR, but with a different input scheme or VR, but with a heavier headset, or MR, but with higher resolution passthrough doesn't solve the current challenges that VR headsets are facing.
Was curious, where does all the stuff that's filtered out go? And then industry sites like https://americanhomewater.com/the-truth-about-reverse-osmosi... raise more questions which probably have better answers.
There's also such a thing as over-building. Robustness, per se, is good, but it comes at a price, including the opportunity cost. My city, Toronto, has never known a serious earthquake, though there is a fault zone in nearby Ottawa. Should we build all our skyscrapers to match the building code of, say, Seattle?
The other reason I haven't seen mentioned here for requiring non-Gold customers to go to the counter is so that they can check photo ID matches the person physically there and matches the name on the credit/debit card. Hertz even makes Gold members go to the counter one time after changing your profile card to get it validated with a photo ID comparison + swipe.
There are cultures that never invented the wheel, written language or permanent buildings. They are highly intelligent in their own ways, but they are as unlikely to fit into elite academic as elite academics are to survive in a jungle on their own.
Not Barney.

In Arthur and DW, on my birthday, of you press the correct sensor sequence, they will sing me happy birthday.

On Teletubbies, there is an Easter egg that I think scrolls the developers names but it has been too long i.e. I know there is an Easter egg but I not 100% sure about the message.
I don't fully understand who this style vice is actually for, and despite looking very cool, there's a reason nobody has these things 100+ years after their invention.

A woodworking vice typically has softjaws and despite the flexible-ish nature of this vice they still would leave marks in wood so not much help in the woodshop.

A metalworking shop typically uses vices to hold work that they are going to beat on with a hammer, lean on it with a pry bar, attack with a torch, and generally use as a super-secure hold while applying a lot of forces to the work. The vice here has a lot of precision moving parts which wouldn't really hold up to that sort of use case.

A machinist vice is a precision tool and the fixed jaw is a reference surface for the work. With suitable stops, one can use a machinist vice to place work into a predictable position time after time ("repeatability"). This style of vice can't do that either.

I could almost maybe see this used for small parts fabrication on a drill press maybe? The OP uses it as workholding while engraving which feels a little contrived and there are other cheaper/faster/easier solutions out there but sure maybe?
99% of their target audience does not live in Silicon Valley.

Go to LA for example and you'll find creative professionals that need "pro" level gear but appreciate the white-glove Apple service of showing them around and answering questions for a high end purchase.
You only, well, live once. Will you be happier staying or leaving? There is a lot more to life than grinding away at a project.
That's Apple enthusiast. I think xR enthusiasts (who mildly prefer using Apple products) don't like to visit jammed Apple Store.
You may have a leg to stand on if these were small groups being studied. Those underlying studies have ns of between 5000-100,000 with significant concurrency in results. You can’t just hand wave that away.
There's a lot more ways to exploit a Windows OS than JavaScript if you load websites at all. We won't even get into "if you ever read an email or open a document".

Have you ever seen things in a different font?
Working at a corporation and making a reasonable engineer's salary will make you basically rich. Not like rule-the-world rich, but rich enough to do anything you ever wanted, which I think is pretty much as rich as anybody needs to be.
Oh yeah! Perl sure did have a bunch of ugly programs, but I believe that was because it was so easy for non-experts to program in it. There have been many companies successfully built atop of a Perl code base, and I've seen fantastic systems built with it. I've also seen one-off programs handed from manager to manager which would scare you to death.
Neat article, though I think it misses some things. Shame it's buried under a dead comment.
Rented a car today and had the same question while waiting in line for 3o mins. If getaround can let me just walk to a car, unlock it, and drive away surely the car rental companies can figure out how to streamline the entire experience too!
As far as I can see that was a smear campaign if not an outright false flag. The specific post that was mentioned as grounds for cutting it off was removed by moderators in less than 15 minutes, and was posted by an account that hadn't posted anything else.
I've bought underwear with a longer return period.