skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built 3-4 warehouse scanning applications using a range of bluetooth hardware and BYOD and zebra scanners.
From my exp, this product misses the mark for 2 reasons.
1) internet access for license checking. Every warehouse I encountered had enough dead zones to warrant offline first.
2) Pricing seems a bit high. Maybe the target demographic is clients with hundreds of scanners, but this solution wouldn't make sense for small-mid size businesses. Zebra scanners will continue to work and scan barcodes 6 years from now.
Transparency on "enterprise" costs would be nice. If i had a ballpark for price for maybe device breakpoints, id consider inquiring. But as it stands, i would advocate for hardware products and quickly move on.
I don't.

But power/status LEDs can be so insanely bright that they'll light my bedroom from other rooms if I don't shut the door. So I rip them all out.
Over 100K hackers fall victim to infostealer malware
I find it quite helpful to understand why people don't use a product or are unhappy with it. If there's none of that, all I'm left with is reading marketing claims.
By my count of votes listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

165 packages support XDG; 164 partially support it, where partial support really just means they have a way to configure the config path to an arbitrary file and if you tell it with an environment variable, it works; and 128 are unsupported. [1]

Based on that, if software is a democracy, the vote for XDG has failed, let's move back to dotfiles. Of course, moving config files is a lot of extra work and cost for users, so all the existing applications should get a pass for wherever their config files already are, but new application should follow the democratically elected choice of stuff dotfiles in the home directory.

Of course, I don't believe software is a democracy in the sense of voting and the will of the majority overriding the minority. Software is a democracy in the sense that the tools are open, so anyone can build what they want. Less restrictive source licenses allow you to take other people's work and build upon it how you want. Someone could fork all of the programs they use that don't follow the convention of their choice and "fix" them, and users could pick which one they like, software distributors could choose which one they'd like to distribute; etc.

From earlier:

> I addressed this in the article: Linux devs not being able to accept some authority—in this case, XDG—is the source of the fragmentation in Linux and why even though we have a spec, there's still a solid 30%+ of programs that don't follow it.

All authorities naturally have a scope. We don't all follow the style guides of the New York Times or the Chicago Manual of Style, although those are common to adopt in the United States because writing a style guide is hard and might as well pick one someone else did the work for. On the other hand, if you tell a UK person that they didn't follow a US style guide so they're arrogant, they'll quite rightly tell you you're arrogant and the standards of another country don't matter.

Sure, if you're writing new software, you should look around for the relevant specifications and consider picking one. If you're existing software, switching specifications is a breaking change, and you should consider what you get. You've said you find the XDG Base Directory Specification well-laid-out; but I find it lacking a declaration of objectives, justifications, and scope; those issues are non-starters for me, so I would chose the dotfile specification instead, unless I was writing something under the scope of the XDG.

[1] votes counted by separating out the tables, and grep -c '<tr>'; this is a poor way to run an election, but it's the data I have available, and the amount of effort I'm willing to expend
Important distinction, IMO. Title makes it sound a lot more ominous than the Air Force themselves do:

> "We are so proud of the entire Hack-A-Sat effort, and particularly the development of Moonlighter as the first and only hacking sandbox in space," Col. Neal Roach of Space Systems Command said in a statement. "Hack-A-Sat has raised public awareness on the importance of space cybersecurity and has helped to strengthen the industry, security and government partnership that we need to build more resilient space systems that will keep our nation and our world secure."
If the idea creates an adversarial dynamic between the two of you, you need to be talking to each other about that.

After that, does allocating money to back rent significantly impact runway?

Finally, talk to the lawyer about the legality of it. Delaware C-corps require lawyers in unusual situations. They are not like more casual organizations.

To me, if you aren't drawing salaries, salaries should come before back rent and back rent should not be used in lieu of a salary.

Good luck.
I fear this is the case...
> 6) Morality will degrade. Prostitution, drug use, nihilism, and degeneracy of every sort will explode.

> 7) America’s military will weaken dramatically as the quality of recruits plunges and we no longer have the money to properly maintain and supply our forces.

Tried and true right-wing media strategy: sucker people by talking about economic stress on the middle class (real issue), and gradually transition to moral hand-wringing and pumping the military-industrial complex (fake issues).

> 12) The government will institute a wealth tax. It will be sold as something to target the rich, but in practice, over time, they will be taking large amounts of money from people no one considers rich.

Interesting that they start by talking about how Campbell's soup is expensive and finish by talking about how the real threat is a wealth tax...
Copyright law doesn’t stop applying because your website is accessible over the internet. I think generative AI is cool but training an AI to do the thing you do using your words is pretty clearly not allowed under current copyright law, and not only that but it makes people who use AI look like bad people who are fine stealing other people’s work for their own enjoyment.
> 'Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?', why is that an issue?

I wouldn’t call it an issue, but maybe you would like individual elements to fetch their own data. Sure you can do the same thing with JS in the browser (calling fetch or XMLHttpRequest), but htmx lets one do it with attributes on tags.

The “replace the entire screen” business is a jab at React-like frameworks. Although they all claim to update only the DOM parts that change, it’s very easy for a codebase to [accidentally] force a full page redraw.
You could try some of the tools to debloat and reduce telemetry in Windows 11, like O&O ShutUp and BloatyNosy.

I'm running 11 on unsupported hardware that previously ran 10 fine, and so far no stability or performance issues.
With this Search Lab enabled Google just gives you the answer above all the results.

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The only difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is the location where the storm occurs. If a storm is above the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, or eastern North Pacific oceans, it's called a hurricane. If it hovers over the Northwest Pacific Ocean (usually East Asia), it's called a typhoon.
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Who's forcing you to stay in SV?

If it's making you so stressed out as you claim, then the obvious step, to me, would be a change of scenery.
Article starts off with "printing too much money" and doesn't address the quoted rant about housing prices.

Housing prices are the key to cost of living and have gotten really bad in so many places.

There's nothing that complicated about this: we should build more housing, and especially legalize denser, more environmentally friendly housing where there's a market fort it, rather than just do "cheap via sprawl".

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/us-housing... - "Supply skepticism and shortage denialism are pushing against the actual solution to the housing crisis: building enough homes."
You cannot redefine words to the opposite meaning. If you want to lump everything together then Linux is not your friend.

On Linux we separate stuff so you can for instance backup config without having to figure out for each of 100 applications where they have stored config in 100 heaps of mud.

And you are sidestepping the issue of control. With XDG you can easily and generically symlink your 100 balls of mud back with 3 lines of bash. That's because with XDG you have structure. The other way around you don´t. So don´t talk about `clean`.
...as if the US doesn't do the same every few years: SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, FOSTA-SESTA, KOSA
I also have dealt with sleep issues. A few notes in case anyone is the same and looking for ideas.

The thing that had the biggest effect for me is eliminating caffeine. It has a pretty long half life and I believe I metabolize it slower than the average person. Most sources say it is ok to consume it in the morning, but in my case even morning consumption was enough to significantly disrupt my sleep. When I got to the point that even a can of coke was stimulating, I observed a complete cessation of night time restlessness.

The other thing that helped reliably, although to a lesser degree, was getting ~15 minutes of natural sunlight in the morning. In terms of supplements, a combination of lemon balm (mildly increases gaba) and agmatine sulfate (mild nmda antagonism) occasionally helps. I try to use supplements as a last resort, as I try to fix the issues upstream.

I think this speaks to the complexity of our bodies, something you do in the morning can have a significant effect in how you feel at night. It is also wild how our culture normalizes things that go against the healthy functioning of our bodies. I know many people who only get sunlight walking to their car. The human body is amazingly complex, there is certainly much more for us to understand.
What do you think is a good list length? One can assume search results are practically infinite, so you have to make a decision of where to stop. What would your heuristic / algorithm be for determining the termination point?
The law was passed with the argument that it's unsafe to record "within eight feet of officers", with exceptions for those that are "a person who is the subject of police contact". The intent was to not provoke officers trying to do their job, like a third party going up to them at a traffic stop and getting up in their face. But the law could have made general provisions about such disruptive behavior instead of adding stipulations specifically to recording the officers.
We have collectively decided that entire worlds medical capabilities must go to like 3 or 5 winners of capitalism, and everyone else gets the placebo. Just like everything else.
I've long thought it was less OO that was problematic, and more the idea that you can make a taxonomy that covered your entire problem domain.

Worse, people seem to get caught up in the taxonomy for the sake of the taxonomy.
LLM's already summarize articles for you. This approach to me combines the downsides of individual articles and the downsides of LLMs. I guess Google likes it since you presumably might be finding these articles through Google search.
You can't eat a 60" tv or a car though. When it comes to surviving, the price of food (among others obviously) is what matters so I'd say it's fair to focus on that for the purpose of a writeup like this. Not saying this isn't cherry picked though.
I have calculated this would save between 50 and 150 human life-equivalents of time per year. You can see this calculation if you scroll to the bottom of the simulation page.
SeqDiffuSeq: Text Diffusion with Encoder-Decoder Transformers
I know those chips are all ball grid array or something, but how does one (or more, I suppose) of the contacts fail this way? Seems like if the package contracts and lifts, that the copper pad would come with it, rather than just a break in the solder. I'm not sure what I should be visualizing for a cold solder joint on surface mount...
Looks like oral exams are about to make a big return.
Hey, that's what I initially thought as well! Turns out 1D/2D barcode scanning is a surprisingly involved topic, with tons of research papers. It's a topic with both depth (like advanced recognition techniques for certain types of codes) and breadth (wide variety of code types).

As mentioned, there are several OSS competitors, mainly QuaggaJS and ZXing which is at the core of some wrappers like JsQRScanner or HTML5QRCode.
Initial AVX10.1 Support Merged into the GCC Compiler
> One complained to the AP about having to repeatedly rewrite their papers so it doesn't get flagged as being AI-generated. And that, we have to say, does suck.

I've had to rewrite the text of a help dialog so that my app didn't get flagged on VirusTotal. Feels kind of the same.
I wrote a service (Google Cloud Run as the backend, with Telegram bot as the frontend) to generate readable ePub from URLs and send directly to e-ink readers. It was originally wrote for reMarkable 2 (using reMarkable cloud), I recently added support for Kindle (by using the send-to-kindle emails). The code is at https://github.com/fishy/url2epub and I blogged about the recently added kindle support at https://b.yuxuan.org/url2epub-kindle.

I'm open to suggestions on what other e-ink platforms to add, as long as they have a reasonable cloud API. I'm also looking for a good e-ink platform to move to personally, as it becomes apparent that reMarkable really doesn't want third parties to use their proprietary cloud "API".
That's actually not the main reason at all. It's so more ads can be inserted.

The classic example is mega-long intros for recipes. But if you look into it, the primary reason is to be able to include 10 ads on a page instead of 2.
You realize whose blog you're reading right? Maybe you aren't the target audience.
https://totalwebtool.com
Working on a Chrome plugin to go along with the main website for a convenient way to scan while on a webpage.
File sharing and soon remote execution over the internet cross OS. Private and no servers.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
Try the IPvFoo extension.
That's the marketplace of ideas, baby.
I'm not sure that fully explains it here. I see more relevant search results below the "People also watched" section (just checked now). Further down, there is also "For you" and "Previously watched" which have videos of no discernible relevance to the query and these are also followed by again more relevant search results.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing all the technical details. Sure could help in real life situations
The point the article is making about the BLS statistics is they do not represent the ground truth of inflation, and indirectly how it impacts different economic classes, due to both difficulty in capturing real inflation AND there are ways to game it. There are reasons for BLS to come with reduced official inflation, same as other countries. The real inflation rate as experienced by the poor and middle class is normally higher then what BLS claims.
> learning disability

I mean, maybe. I read a lot of books and just found this one not very actionable.
> many people don't believe he did the world a service, and is in fact a traitor.

I'm not sure what to respond. Ok, why do people believe that, label him this - what are their arguments? I think the point here is how authorities act, and what they are allowed to get away with. PRISM, apparently, is something they are allowed to get away way. Where are the "traitors" spying on Americans? Or are those all unquestionably "heros"?

> he's living in a Russian apartment

True, because he managed to escape, and probably is looking over his shoulder a lot in the meanwhile.

On the other hand, if he ended up in US custody, we might know very little until "found dead in his cell", which would no doubt be yet another unaccountable accident.
It's my suspicion, at least. In fact I have two of those drives, bought at the same time, and both died in the same sudden way with no more than two weeks between.
Yes, and like https://blog.minhazav.dev/QR-and-barcode-scanner-using-html-... it is based on ZXing.
Aisearch.vip

I have given up on it because it belongs to a market that requires being a large, well-known entity (search). So I just use it for myself since I find it extremely helpful, but I am always happy when random users give me tips ans suggestions on how to improve it further. It's not 100% done and it's capped at one free search per day because again, I am not trying to grow it
What? I've been running Debian for more than a decade by now.

Through multiple releases without re-install. Moved from PC to PC to PC. Not ideal, but it works.

Different desktop environments. File management, web surfing, playing movies using dozens audio/video codecs, gaming (also some native Windows ones), electronics / programmable logic design (Xilinx ISE) & more, all on the same system no VM stuff.

And you can't rename a single file?
Bitcoin-Touting Bukele’s Bond Rally Draws JPMorgan, Eaton Vance
Solder joints seem to be a major failure. That'd be mostly fatigue (thermal cycling) and the occasional case of tin whiskers.
Generally, looking at the margin better predicts real world behavior. If you add one employee, how much extra revenue would you expect to gain? A reasonable salary = (extra revenue - HR/overhead expenses - the minimum profit the company needs to justify the trouble of adding one employee). If the last term was zero, then there would be no reason for the company to exist, and so it wouldn't exist and neither would the job.

But in reality, hiring managers are probably setting this internal rate on what the job market is showing along with how badly they need to fill a position in their particular case.
I understand and sympathize. Here is my suggestions on what you could do next:

1. Whoever churns, ask them manually on WHY. Offer them a discount if price is the issue. If it's functionality, then start capturing that information.
You goal would be to reduce churn of existing customers so you are not bleeding cash.

2. In Parallel, you need to market the app. I don't know much about Shopify's app ecosystem but there must have a way to get listed on their directory or no ? Perhaps find someone who runs a different shopify app (not a competitor) and approach them for guidance. People like to help usually.

If you want general marketing ideas, I am happy to help. Reach out directly.
I wonder if this is any different than the PowerShell "Remove-AppxPackage" commands that already were able to uninstall many default apps. Maybe it's just a nice UI on top of the existing functionality.
Such a cool idea! Possibly even an app idea (with money made on referrals).
Taking this concept further one could model in RAML [0] to define both the types (flat or nested) and api definitions. It's based on YAML 1.2 with enough maturity to provide capabilities such as union types, extensions, includes, user-defined facets, etc.

The AMF project [1] can be used to parse and transform to/from RAML, OpenAPI, GraphQL, and json schema. Code generation to languages of choice can be bolted on from there.

I'm using this approach to define canonical data models. Subsequent code generation scaffolds internal application integration apis, master data management (MDM) entities, and SQL/OLAP artifacts for ETL / BI purposes.

This approach keeps overall end-to-end data architecture consistent, in sync, and versioned under source control. Additionally, flat types as required by relational systems are re-used and composed into nested complex types more appropriate for apis. Metadata is layered on as needed to refine the models for system-specific needs, for example to add user-facing field groups, descriptions, and formats for BI datasets, sensitivity levels and other data security controls, business rule definitions for MDM, etc.

[0] https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec/blob/master/versions/r...
[1] https://a.ml/docs/
Search engines have a big difference which is that they usually direct you to the original website.
> We're certainly setting a record at destroying this planet.

In the grand scheme of things, I'm tempted to say: if that's the price to pay to expand beyond it, then so what? It's not like it's the only planet in the Universe.
Yes I would say that is very similar. Many sites saw their revenue crater, based on data they themselves had created.
Good, then you should set your filter appropriately.

Depending on the effectiveness of the product, you may trust it for certain articles but not others. Certain sources but not others.
Fatigue cracking from thermal expansion, and also perhaps residual stress and creep deformation. Definitely in the "mechanical engineering" realm.
> Typically, the antiwork subreddit at Reddit is just what it sounds like. A bunch of lazy people complaining that they have to work instead of being rewarded for existing

Back when I was on there regularly I got more the vibe of low income people being tired of the system not working for them which is something I empathized with.
Welp... I wondered when Google would start encouraging me to put my work profile into Firefox, I guess today is the day.
Exactly. It's already easy enough to scan an article in 15 seconds to get the overall gist. But scanning through a YouTube transcript, in the tiny box, without any punctuation, without paragraphs, without sections, takes forever.
Sounds like the worst possible setup if you want to avoid a catastrophic loss due to fire.
> few nuclear power plants, electricity should be ridiculously cheap

Nuclear has never managed to be cheap. The really big nuclear buildouts always had a national security subsidy: either for energy security (France), or for nuclear weapons (US, UK, USSR, China, and also France). This is partly why non-weaponizable reactor designs never became popular either.

> They obviously don't like that, which is why they keep pushing for hydrogen to keep people dependent.

This isn't quite it. Energy production is always going to be dominated by capital owners because it's a capital-intensive business. Doubly so for renewables. No, the real reason fossil fuel companies keep pushing for hydrogen is so they can sell hydrogen produced from natural gas as "green", after they've dumped the inconvenient carbon atoms into the atmosphere.

The medium term real, important uses for renewable hydrogen are (1) Haber process (3H2 + N2 -> 2HN3) and (2) steel production by reducing (removing oxygen from) raw iron ores.

Edit: btw, I think the underlying paper is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cey2.411
It seems fairly straightforward to just ask verbal questions?

For example, if the position is mostly coding C then just get them to explain how some X interacts with some Y and how that interacts with some Z. Maybe with a copy of of K&R and get them to point to page so and so.

Do that a few times, maybe use a whiteboard, and I think any experienced C developer will be able to tell who's faking it and who really understands within 2 or 3 iterations.

Even if there are no experienced folks in the company, then it will take longer but, after an hour or two it'd be pretty difficult for anyone to fake a solid understanding of hundreds of pages of K&R.
RMS is always right and decades ahead (about software freedoms issues): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
https://archive.ph/a4SPY