skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't "somehow" there are some legitimate reasons why.

When I send a client a final document (that's not intended to be edited) in a .PDF format you can almost guarantee that it will look the same to them as it did for me. When I send someone a Word document, I can't guarantee that it will look the same between different versions of Word, Mac Word, Pages, Google doc etc.

I'm not saying .PDF formats are perfect, but they're certainly more consistently presented to the end user.
> Most PhDs fit these category and yet they are miserable financially, physically, emotionally

Do you mean prior to, or after they graduate? Getting a PhD is a miserable slog, especially if your tuition fees are exorbitant, but if you are able to afford the unjustly steep mental and financial cost, it has been shown to lead to enjoyable and gainful employment on average [0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02696-6
I’m hungry now.
I guess it doesn't, or you could go back to the time where the early human lived expecting an astonishingly high number too, or even before the big bang if you wanted.
Electric motorcycle startup Spiro expands into Kenya
One of the diagrams under the bit about snapshotting has a typo reading "snapthot" and I immediately thought it was talking about instagram.

(I realize now after writing it that maybe snapchat should have occurred to me first, but I have never used it)
khao soi is my favourite.
I think early inheritance is in order in that sort of case. Couple million or whatever surely fixes the feelings against parents. And then you can live easy live with the girlfriend.
https://xeiaso.net/blog/
Nutrition labels in Europe specify amounts per 100 grams as well as amounts for a typical serving.
In some European countries there's a recent trend to attack people perceived as "the state", such as firefighters and paramedics in certain situations. Afaik, this is usually done by low income, uneducated people that good stone grudge and then lash out. You can indeed be happy that they don't have access to firearms.
On top of that, it takes equipment, hardware, personnel, infrastructure, power to deliver cable. The OP literally has no idea what they are talking about, and could use the same logic for electricity theft.
Playing devil's advocate here, but what if Oracle decides to sue you, a company with only a few thousands in revenue, for their multi-million dollar licensing fee?

I agree this is unlikely, but so is someone being born with as much litigiousness as Larry Ellison.
What are you talking about? Everything turned out pretty much exactly as it should, albeit with a silly amount of beaurocratic overhead (as should be expected for the legal system).

Not saying you shouldn’t get a lawyer, but I don’t see how you can claim she “overestimated her competency”
> Chakkrit Chuma, 30, who won the title

For an article about finding an official recipe, they fail to include the actual winning recipe.

The contest website is:

https://worldkaphrao.com/

The 3 best recipes / winners:

https://worldkaphrao.com/index.php/worldbasilchamp/
When they said he was the Henry Ford of this century, they really meant it.
How do such farms do with profit?
This makes sense kind of, though. If you haven't realized any of your gains, what are you paying the tax with?

This feels like if you're a normal person who happens to own a painting that becomes super desirable and worth millions. If you sell it then tax away, but otherwise it's literally just the same painting you've always had.
I would definitely classify an 8hr drive as "far"
Works the same in NYC. Cars are more careful because otherwise they’d hit cyclists, pedestrians, scooters and skateboarders.

Can’t say the same about other US cities.
Can you recommend libraries that would be really fast on something like Raspberry pi zero machine? Perhaps you can recommend some low-level books from those 90s?
I have a similar setup, though with Linux. From my experience I can recommend taking a look at restic (https://restic.readthedocs.io/). It does encrypted and deduplicated snapshots to local and remote repositories. There's a good selection of remote target options available, but you can also use it with rclone to use any weird remote. Just remember to keep a backup of your encryption key somewhere besides the machine you back up ;-)
Flipper zero was legit
Over 10k servers here, a couple dozen locations scattered around the globe. One full time operations person.

They go on site to geographically adjacent DCs and outside that just travel onsite for special projects.
I backed Oculus and I still joke about waiting for my cut of that sweet Facebook money. But I know that wasn't part of the deal I entered into and wouldn't want the courts to intervene.
To be fair, some level of “government-shopping” is also part of the design and purpose of the EU. But it’s harder for ordinary people to take advantage of it because the language barriers and culture differences are larger than in the US.

That’s not an impediment for corporations though. Ireland and Luxembourg have done very well attracting rich companies that can choose whose taxes to pay within the EU.
Hard requirement to be a US citizen? Visa-holder residents not allowed?
Well, they could begin the real work needed to improve Austin.
European cheap airlines have shown these prices are indeed sustainable for the last 20 years now?
This is not done by “low income, uneducated people". This is done by 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants from the middle east and africa.
Please be specific, otherwise these problems will never be resolved.
I come from a low income neighborhood but native parents, this was unheard of up until the 2000s.
Wine also runs on Windows, and not only through WSL. It is sometimes more compatible with old applications than Windows itself ;)
It's plausible; a $40k new gas-powered car in California would owe about $600 in annual registration fees in San Francisco.

Texas's electricity rates are about half of those in California, so 3 summer months' AC costs in Dallas could be notably less, especially for a small/single-person residence.

(And, Calfornia's gas costs about 40% more per gallon than in Texas, due to both taxes & other supply-limiting regulations - which one might reasonably consider an extra tax on having a car in California.)
Maybe check on it in another 10 years.
There's no such thing sadly, at least not for me. Been looking for a hobby for several years no, nothing sticks.
The only thing that I actually continuously enjoy throughout the years is helping other people. Guess there's a lot of truth in "There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving".
Things brings back some serious memories for me I'd forgotten as a now late 20 year old.

I used to think this was the gateway to Microsoft productivity looks. Just tell it the type of doc you wanted and you could make it.

Also brings back memories of Microsoft Encarta!
As another commenter pointed out, what you're probably looking for is general.el: https://github.com/noctuid/general.el
FreeBSD's Handbook on ZFS [0] and Aaron Toponce's articles [1] were what helped me the most when getting started with ZFS

[0] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/

[1] https://pthree.org/2012/04/17/install-zfs-on-debian-gnulinux...
> For databases (you really should at minimum do basic tuning like block size alignment),

One unexpected thing to check (and do check, because your mileage will vary) - the suggestion is usually to align record sizes, which in practice tends to mean reducing the record size on the ZFS filesystem holding the data. I don't doubt that this is at some level more efficient, but I can empirically tell you that it kills compression ratios. Now the funny knock-on effect is that it can - and again, I say can because it will vary by your workload - but it can actually result in worse throughput if you're bottlenecked on disk bandwidth, because compression lets you read/write data faster than the disk is physically capable of, so killing that compression can do bad things to your read/write bandwidth.
...why would we do that
We need a widely deployed operating system based on capability based security. Without this, we're forced to try to band-aid on things like virus scanners, trying to secure the "software supply chain" and the like.

The electrical grid doesn't make all of the power in the grid available to all outlets, everything has circuit breakers and other protections, which make it easier to just plug in a lamp without having to make sure its from a secure source, or have a qualified electrician review it before plugging it in.

Surely, we can make the world safe for people to just run code, can't we?
I wouldn't call those low skilled. But not developer paid.
This strategy is rare ex ante because it's irrational for most young people to follow.

Explore/exploit advises us to start out with a vast swath of interests, and then to home in ever deeper on whatever seems to provide the most bang for our buck -- the problem is, being inherently interesting is its own reward, and a terribly powerful attractor for the youth in particular. Just because you know that e.g. there are only maybe 50 IAM architects worth their salt in the entire Northern European area doesn't mean you can capitalize on it if you think AuthN and AuthZ are dull as dirt.

(Which I don't! But I'm also not willing, or even really sure of how to go about acquiring the necessary years of practice to get there. That's part of what the problem feels like on the ground!)

Nevertheless, I love getting into the weeds of boring niche topics. From a business perspective they're a pretty good deal once you start to get older and have dealt with the surfaces of some of them out of necessity.
It's not that crazy ;-) I actually emulated your approach for release testing. Except I was using qemu VMs.
But for personal projects there is some value in both just shipping it and going on a massive tangent to deeply learn something.

For all non trivial projects the line is somewhere in between and nothing is as black and white.
I just want to point out how good of a dude Andre Lamothe is. I got "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus" in 1994. We couldn't afford a computer though so I'd just read through it over and over through the summer of 94. I didn't understand C at all, so I just kinda reasoned my way through it.

Not great to learn that way. I finally got a computer in 1996 and had trouble getting the code examples setup... So I called Andre at this home! I was 15 at the time.

Back then, people generally had their number in the phone book so I somehow found the number for "Information" in San Francisco (Information was Google before google, for phone numbers basically. It had all the White Page information).

Anyway, I call up, and his girlfriend answered the phone. She seemed a little disgruntled (maybe just woke up) but I asked her if I could talk to Andre. He got on the phone and actually explained to me that I needed to link the libraries needed in the C++ GUI (I vaguely recall that the CD maybe came with one?)

After that he talked to me about a bunch of stuff about work ethic and programming philosphy. He had a super duper insane work ethic, writing all those 900 page books plus all the code and example games for that. And he was grinding them out pretty often, plus contributing a lot to other books, plus doing his own startup. 100 hours a week for years, and he's pretty smart so he works quick.

Anyway. I really took his advice to heart and when I got into the working world I took jobs very seriously and worked like a madman. In about 6 years I went from broke to basically having enough money to retire. And I really owe it all to him and that conversation we had that day. The lesson I took away from it wasn't to kill yourself working but that it's better to sacrifice some time upfront than have constant money issues. As a kid from a poor family this was huge in helping me get out of poverty. I never got a degree but really just his advice about hard work made it possible.

I got a chance to reconnect with him on Linkedin a couple years ago and share my story and he was really thrilled with how it went and took a lot of interest. He's continued on with all sorts of game programming startups and we kinda talked about it.

He could have easily done web development and made a killing doing his own startups but he was just so passionate about video games (keep in mind he was an adviser to Carmack). He led an army of people who went off to be game developers, though he said most pivoted to other things.

Andre was quite literally one of the most influential people in my life and I owe him a lot, and to this day I can't believe he'd take time out of his insanely busy schedule to help some kid all the way across the country, for no real gain to himself.
Far closer than for most of the US population, east of the Mississippi! And, less than a day's drive. People should get out more.
> But if you welcome it, it's not unsolicited

It's still unsolicited, just welcomed.
Im thinking LinkedIn cold outreach would be your safe and easy bet. Start with a niche, say crowdfunding agencies or retail management agencies. These are examples from my world, and founders i know they all hire social media managers to create blog posts for them, do ghost linkedin writing etc. Then there are also big industry events like Retail Innovation Conference in Chicago, where many agencies exhibit, so you could find many of them in one place. Hope this helps. Good luck!
Apparently the "ceramics class" story that you see all over the place after it appeared in the book "Art and Fear" was a modification of this real story, retold in a closer-to-original form in "Atomic Habits."

The Art and Fear authors credit Uelsmann himself as the source of the story; whether I believe he really did it with actual students for a whole semester, on the other hand...

It's a little bit of a "just so" story in any form, though the lesson of repetition is fine regardless of its literal truth.
Ask HN: How do you encrypt your software for business customers?
Hi all,
we currently use the CodeMeter [1] USB hardware dongle to protect our software. This now worked for us when selling to domestic customers. We want now expand to the international marked and this would be a major headache sending pre-programmed USB keys across the globe and back. We develop a sewer management software, written in C++. Now my boss thinks real hardware encryption is the only way to stay save, but IMHO that a bit overkill. So my question to you are:

1. What kind of protection do you use for your business partners for software that does run on their pc?

2. Any experiences with alternatives to wibu?

3. Would you agree that having such a cumbersome onboarding process will hinder adaption?

4. Wibu also offers a software encryption, and we are thinking about this solution. Are there any FOSS projects that also offer security by obscurity?

[1] https://www.wibu.com
I backed two of the peak Kickstarter games, Broken age and rimworld, then I never played them.
Well that certainly piqued my interest. Found this too, though:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50631/did-abner...
The person holding the Glock?

Because a Glock doesn't have a safety lever. It's built into the trigger mechanism.
I have a Thai sister-in-law, and I've been to Thailand, so I'm embarrassed to admit I've never heard of this (of course I got sick in Thailand and couldn't stand to even look at the food, so that might have something to do with it).

I have to think there's some place in California where you can get holy basil. Amazingly enough, near me the Asian markets don't have galangal, but the Whole Foods does.
I might just be over-caffeinated, but I would accidentally chord that all the time. I am continually bouncing up and down text when I am noodling on an idea.
I recall they had some IBM PC counterfeit clones as well.

I remember the Laser 128 being an Apple II clone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_128

My family was too poor to afford an Apple II or IBM PC so we got the Commodore 64 for $199 and added things ala cart to it later to turn it into a full system with a floppy disk, modem, and printer.
My favorite part of your reply was the part where you said "There's no genuflecting" and then "You must genuflect at least a little."

I applied via email and mentioned that my team is one of the biggest users of the fanmade language Zig.
The climate SCIENTISTS have been making accurate predictions, but the climate DOOMERS have not. The Doomers claims (like that someone’s nephew can only ever hope to be a climate refugee and nothing else) are not represented by the scientific consensus.

And in fact, we’ll probably want train conductors if we’re going to improve public transportation to enable more density and electrified transport. That’s why Doomers are nearly as bad as the denialists: the unscientific vocal lack of hope means they’re not supporting the actual change we need. And sometimes they’ll shout down folks offering solutions.
Honestly the nvidia thing was always annoying because it seems like the linux devs are more aggressive about licensing with an actual full-on Open Source project than the very much closed-source nvidia drivers. They even both use the same approach of having a GPL wrapper to talk to the non-GPL code AFAIK:\
If I remember correctly, the main argument against web sql was that it really was just SQLite disguised as a web standard. I.e. there was a single implementation which defined the spec: SQLite. Every browser implementation relied on it.

In retrospect, with the chrome monoculture we have today, this seems like a silly argument but at the time it was a legitimate concern.
WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) based Aircraft Detection and Tracking

Is there any serious background study of this? I only ever heard of it in regards to MH370, and as such i would very much doubt it works as described
Religion is what one makes of it. One thing that gave me an immense amount of respect for Thomas Jefferson was learning about his religious views. [1] In a nutshell, he took from religion what made sense to him, while also being aware of the tendency for later iterations to be politicized in various ways or for things to go from mundane to mythical over repeated tellings.

He even created the 'Jefferson Bible' [2] which was made by quite literally cutting and pasting various sections of the Bible, across multiple translations, into his own version which made sense to him. The reason this gave me immense respect for him is that this was done at a time when, at least in our version of what the past was like, dutiful obedience to religious orthodoxy was still critical. And he simply disregarded such norms and said and did what made sense to him. That takes amazing strength of character.

In any case the point I make is that trying to find some truth in an 'orthodoxy' that is about as orthodox as a puddle of muddied water is nonsensical. What we have left of religion are pieces that have been bent, contorted, and spun over millennia.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Thomas_Jeff...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
Almost no one actually does this, and most sane gun owners think those people are attention whores at the very best, dangerous nuts at worst.

This is a phenomenon I've head described as "nutpicking." Take the absolute worst of a demographic and then go "why are you all like THAT?"

Claiming US gun culture is all about going to the mall open-carrying a semiauto rifle is on the same level as claiming gay men all prance around in assless chaps and leather. No, they don't, and it shouldn't be any mystery why claiming that is so offends people.
Just about any time an employee handles a card there's a risk of that. Waitstaff who pick your card up off the table and disappear with it for several minutes, the employee you hand the card to at a drive thru window, even employees who swipe it right in front of you could probably pass the numbers in front of a camera long enough to go back through the footage later and read off what they need.

The card readers we're supposed to navigate ourselves aren't perfect either, but it's much better when the card never leaves your hand. Honestly though I pretty much expect my card number will get stolen at some point. As long as I can keep an eye on my statements and my bank doesn't give me much hassle about reversing fraudulent charges when I see them it's not a huge deal.
> For example, one of our teams had the requirement "Allow end users to programmatically configure widget xyz". Now, widget xyz has a janky design and a table with 50 columns associated with it.

> So what did this team do? They took that internal table definition, made a CRUD api that exposes the whole thing, and moved on.

> Tell me, how do you fix something like that like that?

That's genius! You can now use your metrics from that API to determine how the users are actually using it to provide more value.

Are they hooking into something they shouldn't? Well then they are missing a feature and that is an opportunity for you to build that feature for them.
To truly grok what you're getting into, I'd recommend watching Kevlin Henney's talk about concurrency[1]. The key quote

"when you introduce concurrency into a non-concurrent environment what you do is you change the laws of physics of your program, you change the nature of time"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6ICEVVRiw
It's kind of mind boggling how things have changed from doing your own bit blitting to having Unreal Engine doing all the hard work and you just coding up the game logic.

Crazy
Uh, I think my friend ordered one locally and (because that was the last one in stock) another one for his parents from AliExpress.

I didn't do the replacement, but it seems reasonably simple - the cylindrical sensor unit has a cable with a 4 pin connector and is clipped in place.

The new one doesn't look exactly like the old one and had different makings. I hope this means it now doesn't randomly fail.
If you don't mind glossy screens and crappy keyboards and lack of ports, М1 Airs are your best bet if you are after cheap and good battery life: haven't tried it yet with Asahi Linux, simply because I do my Linux stuff on X1 Carbons (though they are getting worse by the generation).
Over here we have a yearly 'Open Bedrijvendag' (Open company day) event. It is very successful and draws big crowds every time. You can e.g. have a tour of the clean room chip production facilities at IMEC.
https://www.openbedrijvendag.be/
This seems like an oversimplification of the issue. The people I know who oppose development are all older residents who have lived in the area for decades and want to preserve their way of life. They’re already house rich to the point that it’s difficult for them to move somewhere else (due to Prop 13 in CA their taxes would skyrocket). On the other hand the younger newer homeowners I know are all pro development.
Unifix Drum Machine
The patent office is going to change it so if a generic neural network put to a task learns the same technique as a human patent, the patent fails the ordinarily skilled in the art test.
A very long time ago I had internet (but not cable tv service) with Comcast. It was generally mediocre reliability, but it's the only option we had. At some point, the service just up and went out entirely.

For approximately two months, we had absolutely zero internet service, while Comcast continued to collect our monthly fees. We kept calling, and they kept sending out tech after tech. I don't recall what the final tech fixed, but they complained that all of the previous techs should have spotted the issue. We never got reimbursed for those two months of non-service, but we did magically start getting cable tv after the final tech visit. We figured it was their gesture of kindness for the Comcast hell we'd been through.