skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really tech, but tech business:

ARM's US listing will be aborted in favor of private sale to unreliable new owners, setting off an IP conflagration that no one can sort out, putting CHIP investments at risk and situating tech as ground zero for the economic & culture wars of the US 2024 election.
> If you're on the same road, 45 MPH limit, at 2 AM, with zero other cars on the road

If that happens, you're not driving in DC. There are only a handful of roads with speed limits that high and they are major arterial roads that have ample traffic even at 2AM.

At 2AM, you also have decreased visibility and it's even more important to follow the speed limit because it's harder to see pedestrians and cyclists.
Agisoft PhotoScan was publicly released in 2010 and I know someone who used the beta for scenes in a movie that hit cinemas in 2014.

But yes, the images totally came from a controlled environment. They rented like 50 similar cameras and hardware-synchronized the shutters.
I keep thinking about this - how microsoft's culture has led to its continual survival. They respond quickly to the market and ship features.

The products work for people, but nobody loves the products, they tolerate them.
I don't think that such a "sweet spot" necessarily exists for every company. Many of the companies depend on these illegal business practices to be profitable. If you levy fines that make those illegal practices unprofitable, there are companies that will no longer exist (and shouldn't have been allowed to exist in the first place.)

The bigger problem, is that many of these companies are structured in a way that profits get extracted to the owners while liabilities don't. So even if you fine these companies out of existence, you don't necessarily make the practice unprofitable.

This is why we need these fines to also pierce liability limiting corporate structures and why we need laws to allow us to put the people profiting from these illegal acts in jail.
But that's why these "X has a better UI than Y" arguments are silly. I prefer KDE to any other DE because it worked (I now use MacOS and can't run other DEs) for me, and most people who prefer other DEs. That's OK. They all have different strengths and weaknesses (customization, resource usage, ability to run on certain OSes, high DPI support, etc).
How unhelpfully dismissive. Even if I was willing to let 13 years of content/memberships/friend-links/etc. be destroyed, do you honestly think I didn't try that?

I resurrected a 6-year-old account I had used as a throwaway, since it already had some qualifying age and karma, allowing me to to actually post in relevant help-subreddits. (For example, I posted a bug-report in /r/bugs.)

Yet within couple weeks, IT HAPPENED AGAIN: Totally vanilla usage leading to the exact same series of events, plunging the other account into the same inexplicable bugged state.
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Previous posts describe Swift in a state of flux, while Objective-C is more stable in most areas. It would not appear that phasing out Objective-C would even be possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914330
Thank you for articulating this well. It really is such an odd world we live in nowadays.
That is correct. They are very far right and essentially weaseled their way into the formerly right of center Likud party.
Check out SuperCollider and Clojure for more on the tech behind Overtone. They offer great resources for audio programming and live coding!
Same in Greece for 10 days usually in January named after a bird (and a myth that this happens for this bird to stay with their eggs).
looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue
What I am doing for myself is not DBT, but I recommend that people try DBT in general because it is great.
I wholeheartedly agree with the IP crisis.

Maybe we are seeing that, in the end of the day, who was indirectly paying for open source was the government by offering low interest rates so companies could have some space to spare developers?

Why the Open Source is in crisis right now if thats not the case?
Renting a matterport pro is like $200 per day, so that should be well within the budget of most hobbyists
They are providing the source as required. However, a key part of the GPL is that RH's customers should also be able to redistribute the source to anyone else, and RH is preventing that through contract law.
I'd rather do the Ship of Theseus thing and just harden the prototype as required, and only when faced with real-world evidence.

The problem with rewriting is that sometimes you face second-system syndrome[1] where you overengineer everything.

Believe me--it happened to me at Groove Networks after Lotus Notes (ask your grandparents about that).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
It is deeply ironic to me that the most stable API target on Linux is the Windows API as implemented by Wine.
Let's just be honest... We like the way it looks more than we care about our long term health.
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1217/
That sounds more like the BahnCard 100, which costs 4.339 Euro per year. The Deutschlandticket is only valid for slow, regional trains, not faster long distance trains.
Obligatory Frackers book recommendation

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707481-the-frackers
I want to agree with this post, but I don't. This person is in a position of power over their product.

Instead, I have found that decisions work by "path dependency". If something works, even if it is a poor implementation, the path to get there is holy ground and the amount of effort to change a 10 minute decision that was made flippintly by two business people chatting in the urinals on a Wednesday is like trying to siege the walls of Jehrico.

There's no solving this problem because it is fundamentally human in nature. The egos are invested in the existing thing -- so improving the proof-of-concept-that-is-now-hastily-shoved-into-production problem requires that you unravel every person's thoughts and pride on the current thing, regardless of the seriousness of the problem. And so the problem cannot get solved and change cannot happen unless something catastrophic occurs.

Thus, the line-worker software engineer, who has no real organizational power, has to hope that the proverbial printer falls down a flight of stairs "accidentally" so that they can swap out the black ink cartridge to a new one that doesn't make weird bleed lines on the edge of every page. That way, when the new printer comes in, and someone complains that the ink bleed is gone and how they liked that, that you can feign ignorance.
Because it’s the free (like freedom not beer) version of something from the 80s.
Well I ordered mine through the DB app (big mistake) on the 4th of July. I have neither received the ticket nor have they deducted any money from my account (status in the portal is "open"/"unpayed"). I got an email stating there are slight delays and someone would contact me soon on the 4th. Have called the hotline a couple of times since, with stated waiting times of 10h, 8h, no lines available message and they hangup etc.
Finally reached someone at the end of July and they told me there's nothing they can do, I should write an email and they gave me an address. Sent an email, haven't heard from them since.

So basically I had no ticket for the first month, don't have one as of now. From my understanding, if I'd take the train and gotten checked it would be ok in July (they stated in the delay email that the email is proof of contract and the people doing checks are instructed accordingly and to accept it until end of July). However, I've already read stories that people still had to pay the 7 Euro administrative fee for not bringing a ticket (but having one in theory, so not the full 60 euro penalty).

For my upcoming train trips in August I will simply buy a ticket and ask for a refund once my ticket is finally valid. The only other option would be to take the train and risk a nice argument about having a valid contract but no ticket.

Simply ridiculous. I could go to a train station with an office and see if I can get it sorted there but I'd need to take the train to get there (only a small station where I live). Also a stupid waste of time.

So far the most amazing business process I have experienced in my life :P
Should have just bought the ticket elsewhere (locally, deutschlandticket.de etc.) but no stupid me wanted to have everything in one app and didn't really expect the official app to cause any problems.
If you want to have Escape in a good position, then the far top left is a really bad position, as is having Control on the caps lock position. But then to change that you'd need to reconsider the keyboard layout itself, which seems like a too big of a mental hurdle for most people.
Is the gossip about LG's involvement and the leaked-ness of the paper and the death bed dying breath parts really taking center stage here? I've come across that stuff but the focus of the excitement really seems to be on "will it replicate".
Lack of sleep reduces executive control in everyone.

For me, that happens with chronic lack of sleep. Particularly when combined with stress. But in general I'm not too sensitive to sleep. I just start with a low baseline of executive control.
...and IgY for animal products.
I'm not a Metabase user or customer but I've been following them along for a few years.

After all these events and the way they handled them, I'll keep them on my radar for when the need arises. No hard feelings, well done!

Also, they've been telling people from the start not to use H2 as a database and seems like they kept supporting it for ease of use (during onboarding/trying out the product).

Maybe now it's a good time for the to consider sqlite for that purpose.
Aromas while sleeping spark cognitive increase: study
FP-style castle of abstractions is just as bad as OO-style castle of abstractions. A "function that returns a function that returns a function that returns a..." is just as bad as an "AbstractFactoryManager that manages an AbstractFactory that produces an Abstract thing..." etc.

Don't write code that is so far removed from the actual business data that it becomes hard to reason about cause and effect.
Same. I was already reading for 20 years before I saw Goodreads.

I love that I can compare my favorite books list with other people on GR. I like to see what books my friends on there are reading or use the site for info about what book to read next. It's really very easy to ignore the rest... the entire article reads more like a personal problem, though obviously GR has tons of issues.
Olha Went from Zero Coding Knowledge to a Fulltime Job in 9 Months
I'm paying about $425 CAD for TV/Internet ($225) 350/10Mbps, two cell phones w/20GB data ($100), and a land line ($80) plus 15% tax.

My ISP won't bundle them since TV/Internet, landline, cellphone are all different lines of business. They are one of the cheapest ISPs though. Bell Canada is aggressive (continual salesman visits to my door) and has poor service, with Rogers the same. There are resellers of my ISPs service but they are very small and support is limited.

The land line and TV and one phone is for my elderly mother. She doesn't even watch a lot of TV but the land line in her mind is essential. The cellphone is like the modern version of Medical Alert she has it in case of an emergency. If she remembers. Yet last year during a hurricane we lost all comms landline and cell for nearly a week.

Even more fun so many people moved here it's overloading all the cell towers.
Afterward, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet fights back.
They provided evidence that reduces the likelihood of total fraud/fabrication on the part of the original researchers, though.
every few years i go and search for a NeXTStep theme for gnome or kde. (i also look at GNUstep but switching the whole desktop environment is more effort, since the needed packages are not easily available, and the apps i use do not have GNUstep alternatives either, so i am struggling a bit not knowing how to proceed)
All of the tools needed to do this are already there. However, maintaining this kind of project would be a thankless task riddled with bad users, regulatory/legal issues, and isn't likely to build a strong community for various reasons, so I don't think anyone has been highly incentivized to do it.
While there are distances that are certainly "too long", there are very few regions in the US where the majority of the population is so spread out that more trains wouldn't enable a lot of travel to nearby towns and cities even if it's not attractive for long distance travel.

E.g. I got in an argument with someone a while back who insisted on using Montana as an example, but while Montana is sparsely populated, Southern Montana had Amtrak passenger service until 1979 (ironically the only Amtrak service currently serving Montana goes through some of the sparsest populated Northern parts of the state as part of the Empire Builder route), and has a density and distance between the main towns comparable to places in Norway with a perfectly viable regular passenger service.

It's not like you need to have good train links everywhere to improve things, but often the point is not to connect big cities far away with each other but to serve as extra life lines which makes it viable to move further out of the big cities for those in between. That means the relationship needs to be reversed from what Americans are used to: You can't look at where there is demand for transport now. You need to look at where people might want to live or want to work, or where you want to encourage growth, and where better transport might encourage that. And then you need to take a 20+ year horizon and commit to it, because only once the links are there will it start factoring into peoples decisions about where to move, and it will take many years before demand shifts. This is less obvious with cars because as long as there's a road people can forgive a lot. It doesn't help to have rails if there are no trains running on them.

And then you need to consider that it's ok to lose money on a per passenger basis on infrastructure if it promotes economic growth or positively affects other factors (e.g. reduces the amount of car congestion and environmental effects). You should still look at the economy of course, but take all the factors into account, because it often changes the calculations drastically.
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I'm still super curious what the "objective truth" is in this case.
> "Just socialize outside of work!" seems to be everyone's go-to response, totally missing how much time is taken up by the 8+ hours of the workday, and how much ambient socialization has been lost with that time now spent remote.

You're working remote, not necessarily working from home. The world is your office now.

For particularly meeting heavy days I have experienced no shame going on a daytrip while on those calls. It's nobody's business how you do your job remotely anyway. Get some coding in while stopped somewhere. Yes this means I have to make up for lost time in the day with all the interruptions. No I can't just put away the laptop at 5pm because I still have stuff to do (usually done by 8pm), but it's worth it. If Sarah from accounting is allowed to flex time to pick up her kids from soccer practice, I'm allowed to shoot the shit with random people I meet while getting gas or trying a new restaurant. There's your new watercooler. Go to the beach or something. If your partner is driving you around, even better. Use the laptop like its namesake suggests.

Not exactly a "digital nomad" lifestyle, but it's such a mood boost to mix light travel with working hours. It's a win for everyone if productivity goes up from these little things.
I have used the FracFocus database for about 6 or 7 years now (been a petroleum/reservoir engineer for ~20 years), and it is quite depressing to look at some of the chemicals they use. While I applaud the study, it would be interesting to see how much cleanup they have tried to do on the data to yield their numbers (OpenFF isn't great). I have written a fairly long cleanup in Python to get some of the data valuable to the industry. Hydraulic Fracturing recipes differ from basin to basin based on geologies/depths/and major product being produced, just to name a few variables. Doing some math, because they have decided to report the numbers in a very convoluted way (they don't give it in barrels or lbs, they give it in volume percentage based on bulk water volume reported - this leads to inconsistent numbers because the carrier fluid isn't just water, it is water and some other chemical, which differs well to well, that increases the density - which will mess with final volume/weight counts on the various chemicals). The other major issue is what you call a chemical. For example, one chemical can have 10 different names, and pumpers (field personnel) are entering the data by hand a lot of time. Some guy, taking mud samples for an oil company, working at a site 50 miles from Midland, isn't really caring how he is spelling "2-acryloyloxyethyl(benzyl)dimethylammonium chloride" at 4 in the morning. So, on top of chemicals with multiple names (and just field reference names), you have spelling errors galore. Also, when going through the database, there is no standardized way to enter percentages...nor do they care if those percentages add up to 1 (100?). The study does what it is supposed to do - identifies "bad stuff goes into the ground", but we really can't judge what the real amount is given how error full the database is. To finish a thought from before, the thing that E&P companies get from the database on competitors is how much sand (what kind of sand/proppant, too) and water they are using to fracture the rock in a well. The completion is the more expensive part of the drilling/completion/facilities cost of a well. If you are interested in seeing what the database looks like, here is the location. I haven't cleaned it in a bit, and it looks like they changed up the site some, so take this link FWIW. https://dev.fracfocus.org/index.php/data-download
According to https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/831740-831740, the planned investments for this year are 9.08 billion Euro for long distance railways and 8.4 billion Euro for highways.
Now I'm curious about how many mathematicians have published papers using the wrong pi code point. Do journal editors check for that sort of thing?
23 year old indeed might be too much of a difference IMO + there is a big gap of maturity between 23 and 28 years old, but 28 year old is totally fine in relation to his age (unless he behave and feels like a 50-60 year old). I was with around 10 years younger gf, she was very attractive and had many relationships before but couldn't connect with anyone as good as she did with me.
Money for me not for thee. Tired of Valve’s transition from embracing the mod community to having disdain for the UGC community.
There's an abundance of people that can talk but do less. Real tech talent are rare, not that you find them by algorithms quizzes.
They bombarded a target with half a billion billion high energy nuclei, and detected 9 Na³⁹ atoms.

This has no practical purpose, but will improve mathematical models of the nucleus, and understanding of neutron star evolution.
Reconnaissance mission is a great analogy. I think of it as scouting from the Age of Empires.

Besides discovering unknown-unknowns it also helps in conveying design/idea to rest of the team.
The current problem arises from the fact that you have to ask for the source code. So companies can retaliate (if you ask us for the source code, we terminate this other contract).

The solution would be to mandate either including the source code when you distribute the software, or a link to something like IPFS that hosts the source code.
What's the loophole? This is working exactly as intended, no?

GPL is to grant the user of software freedoms. Free as in freedoms, not beer. It's origin was from the user of a printer driver being frustrated they couldn't debug and fix an issue.
No. The analogy here is this: Every time I hand you your monthly subscription of software, you can do anything allowed by the GPL. However, if you threaten my business, I can stop your monthly subscription.

You have the GPL rights for everything I've given you. I don't have to continue to convey the rights to new things to you if I don't like how you use them.

If Red Hat were selling GPL'ed software for navigation systems to a supplier in Country A and it turned out that they were re-distributing that software to Country B to bomb Country C, nobody would blink if Red Hat refused to stop doing business with that supplier. The imaginary obligations that people have invented around the GPL wouldn't allow Red Hat to discontinue that relationship.
It's the same here in British Columbia. Most people here have no idea that a vast bulk of our forests are in fact second or third generation since we began managing forests. They're not especially vibrant with life, and their diversity is remarkably low. If you live near it, it's virtually guaranteed that it's not a natural forest.

The amount of truly old, "ancient" (250 or 400 years +, depending on stand-replacing disturbance) forest in our vast province is minuscule: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-...